Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-10-26
FIuZm,
Of LIFE
(By the Associated Press)

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Franklin, Pa. - Wanted, old
socks, reads a Franklin sign. Red
Cross officials, making an appeal
for clothing, announced the dis
carded stockings are being made
into baby sweaters.
Baltimore - Dumping into a
tombstone, as she walked across
the new Cathedral cemetery,
eight-year-old Dorothy Sheets,
barely escaped death. The 300
pound monument fell over and
scraped her as it landed a foot
away.
independence, Kan. - Halfbaek
Paul Rogers of the high school
eleven believes he'd conserve m
ergy if he were a "five yards"
mccarthy rather than a "Red'
Grange. In two games Rogers
ran AZ, 62 and AZ yards over the
goal line, only to have the touch
downs nullified because of penal
ties.
Bandon, Ore.-A 60-year-old
parrot saved the lives of its own
ers, then died in a fire that de-
stroyed their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Way and
their daughter Catherine were
awakened by the birds cries. They
had barely time to escape with
their W lives, and old Polly, four
love birds and IL canaries per-
ished.
Rochester, Ind.-Three hunters
opened the duck season with a big
splash. Henry Smith and his sons,
John and Charlie, were out in a
ano A duck flew by. All turned
to shoot, and capsized the craft.
Their duck season ended, since
LitiT gums odlihs
Dodge City, Kan.-Fred G..
Bailey told f. j. Dondanville he
had a horse that could pull a 6-ton
sprinkling wagon around a race
track. Dondanville had $40 which
said the horse couldn't do it. Bail
ey, now $40 richer, explained he
wasn't worried about losing be-
cause the horse previously had
performed the feat.
Oklahoma City-Governor Muir
ray is watching the states PEN
MES as well as the dollars. The
Reconstruction Finance corpora
ton advanced $751;, 1872 to the
state.
'They beat us out of eight
cents,' said alfalfa Bill" II
> asked for $181,312O8."
Medford, Ore.-When Mrs. w.
r. Porter heard a suspicious noise
outside her tent in a c~ampground,
she loaded her gun, placed it
against the side of her bed, and,
satisfied she was well protected
against any prowler who might
attempt to steal from the tent,
she went to sleep. In the morn
ing the gun was gone but nothing
else was missing
Oklahoma City-Dancing Mas
ter L. E. Buttrick asked a divorce
from his partly deaf" wife, al
leging she injured his business by
walking backward in front of him
to read his lips as he instructed
girl pupils. He also asked an in
junction to bar Mrs. Buttrick from
his ballroom.
Pittsburgh - Edwin j. Crater
told an alderman he thought his
marriage wasn't binding because
his name was m~isspelled on the Ii
cense. So he married again and
now is in Jail on bigamy charges.
The name was "Carter" on the
first license and "Crater" on Sec
ond. Wife No. / made the charges.
Winnipeg, Mana bank man
ager chortled today over an I'M
expected $40 deposit. Two holdup
men, with guns concealed, walked
in and asked to have a $40 bill
changed. Just as they were about
to draw their weapons, the man
ager whisked out his revolver.
The men fled, with bullets Zip
ping around their ear They left
the $40 on the counter.
Pittsboro, Ind.-H. H. Harrell is
fast. He lost NO time getting out
of his stalled automobile just be-
fore a train smashed it. When a
crowd gathered, he quickly sold
the wreckage to one ~bystander for
Sd and the gasoline to another and
left the scene.
Philadelphia-Police had q sus-
pect in the theft of two diamond
brooches from a jewelry store but
they couldn't find the brooches. A
detective thought a lump in the
mans cheek looked unnatural and
ordered him to open his mouth.