Hot Stuff. In Salt Lake City, the Utah Building & Construction Congress decided that the city's two worst fire hazards were the central fire station and the public safety building.

Not Guilty. In Little Rock, Ark., Herbert Aaron was freed of a forgery charge when the judge discovered that Aaron had never learned to write.

Inflationary. In London, a coroner found that the late Sidney Corrall, acquisitive but non compos mentis, had swallowed and kept all to himself 201 pennies, florins, shillings, halfpennies, sixpences, half crowns, and threepenny bits.

Case History. In Brooklyn, N.Y., same day he presented the mayor with a plan to eliminate subway rushes, Herbert L. Carpenter was trampled in a subway rush, taken to the hospital.

New Era. In Sandlake, N.Y., the Association for Mutual Protection Against Horse Thieves welcomed seven new members.

Rigid Requirements. In Sacramento, the U.S. Employment Service got a request for six laborers who would fit the six pairs of size nine rubber boots which the prospective employer still had.

Mileage. In Sumter, S.C., Lieuts. George C. and Van Cleve Warren, brothers, were married to Martha Miles and Martha Miles, no kin.

Rationale. In the Omaha World-Herald appeared a classified ad offering a Model-A Ford for information concerning the whereabouts of a lost purse containing ration books. In the Delaware (Ohio) Gazette appeared an ad offering to trade a pair of plug horses ("plenty lousy") for chewing tobacco ("because I am scared they will soon ration chewing tobacco").

Hail & Farewell. In Chelsea, Mass., Ragpicker Thomas Masco found $1,450 in an old mattress, went on a toot, died.

Housekeeping. In Seeley Lake, Mont., the L. A. Otters watched a grouse fly into the house through a closed window, fly out through another. In Centerville, Iowa, a loaded coal truck entered the house of Mrs. Blanche Heck, pushed her, abed, through the wall into the next room, left her against a hot stove, uninjured. In Hammonton, N.J., a train wrecked a truck driven by Jules Press, who flew into the air accompanied by four blankets, on which he landed, slightly bruised.

Privation in the Northwest. In Oregon, liquor rationing reduced every citizen's weekly consumption to a pint of gin, two quarts of whiskey and one and one-fifth gallons of rum or brandy.

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