Probation. In London, it was revealed that the late Financier Albert Ixiibin's 26-year-old daughter Valerie will have to wait until she is 50 before she gets her $56,000 inheritance, because Rubin's will stated: "No woman is capable of handling her own money until she is 50."

Prescience. In San Francisco, a stranger gained admittance to the home of Mrs. Dorothy Cecchini by flashing a badge inscribed "Detective" and remarking, "I understand your home is going to be burglarized," then produced a revolver, took Mrs. Cecchini's $1,000 ring and $150, left her tied up in a closet.

In Love & War. In Peterborough, Ont., after two youths were arrested for stealing Lawyer Arthur Fair's car, they requested that Fair act as their counsel.

De Facto. In Danville, ILL., Mrs. Hazel Franklin Lewis, seeking a-refund of income taxes, filed a brief in federal court without the aid of counsel, arguing that since an amendment is denned as a change for the better and not for the worse, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which gives Congress power to collect taxes, is unconstitutional.

Bad Aime. In Barcelona, Spain, friends of Circus Acrobat Luis Raluys. who for ten years had been fired from a cannon by his wife, made public his explanation for his retirement: "Her aim has gotten so bad I've been in the hospital 17 times. The last time she fired me I landed in the lions' cage. Ive had enough."

The Way with Women. In Milwaukee, Vagrant Meredith P. Lowe. 35, held on $100 bail after he admitted romancing 300 women and obtaining money from 30 to 40 of them, denied any specific success formula: "I really don't try to swindle them; women are lonesome, and I just treat 'em nice, make 'em feel like real people, and tell them I like them and they'd make a wonderful wife."

Postfab. In Tokyo, Businessman Kiyoshi Muraki complained to police that since the last time he had looked, a week before, a 20-man crew of "real-estate thieves" had dismantled and carried away the two-story, ten-room frame building he was intending to remodel.

Polarity. In Nipigon, Ont., Corporal Ted Broughton of the Provincial Police was wakened by the sound of breaking glass, saw an arm thrust through the broken front-door panel of his home, yanked in and arrested Robert Stevens, 31, for breaking and entering. In Castaic, Calif., Frank Joseph Nemcek, 23, serving a one-year term for robbery, escaped from the jail, walked out to the highway, had the misfortune to hitch a ride from Deputy Sheriff Walter M. Doughty, who was on his way to work at the jail.

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