Modern Living. In Vienna, after touring Europe for a year inside a big glass bottle, Stunt Man Rudolf Schmied climbed out, told reporters that he had lost 60 lbs., but "there is little difference between life inside and outside the bottle."

Home Place. In Salem, Ore., released after serving a term for auto theft, Joseph Trapp was arrested as he drove by the state prison "to see what the pen looks like from the outside," admitted that he had stolen the car, explained: "I would have been arrested for vagrancy anyhow."

The Linguist. In Detroit, charged with begging, Fred Johnson handed notes to police explaining that he was a deaf mute, but when the judge irritably asked him if he could talk, he proudly replied: "I can speak English, Spanish, German and a little French," got 60 days in jail.

Busted. In Los Angeles, seeking a divorce, Mrs. Winifred Barnet testified that her husband Leonard came home after six weeks of marriage, announced that, because he had found a new love, she had been demoted to "housekeeper."

Double Jeopardy. In Quebec, a month after her husband was locked up for threatening her with an ax, Mrs. Armand Beland asked a city judge to send him home, added: "Would it be possible to have the ax back? The St. Vincent de Paul Society has given us some wood and we have no ax to split it . . ."

Day's Work. In St. Charles, Mo., Orval Bohlander and Ruth Pence were sentenced to 60 days in jail after they admitted that they had stolen some $30 worth of merchandise from four stores in one morning, returned the same afternoon to get cash refunds for their loot.

Missing. In San Antonio, this item appeared in the Light: "$10 REWARD [for] anyone giving name and address of party that removed three-room frame house and barn in rear of 113 North Pecos Street . . ."

Old Haunts. In Albuquerque, after serving a sentence for robbing the National Carloading Co., Fred S. Olds was released from prison, next day was arrested, charged with breaking into the National Carloading Co.

Nepenthe. In Detroit, John Vlaikov, 64, arrested for drunkenness, explained that he seldom drank, but had gone out on a spree after his wife Theresa, 70, came home and announced that she had just bought 35 hats and 40 dresses.

The Competition. In Glendale, Calif., arrested after committing 17 robberies, Bernie Howe explained: "A guy said he pulled 104 jobs, so I started out to beat his record . . ."

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