The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-09-30
Brief, Newsy, Odd
Items Out of the Ordinary
From All the World.

After six and one-half years of
wandering, Junior, dog belonging
to Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Weinstein,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, found his way
home A stranger had whistled at
the dog in 1887 and had stolen him,
the Weinstein's said.
Seeking a divorce, Mrs. Mildred
Mcfarland, 20, told Superior Judge
Joseph Sabbath, Chicago, that
whenever her husband, Francis, 81,
wanted to make her angry, he would
press lighted cigarette against the
vaccination mark on her arm.
John Williams, of Mount Kisco,
N. Y, was driving his car when it
jumped a curb, struck and severed
a telephone pole, knocked down
several trees, overturned, then right
ed itself, and finally bounced up on
a porch. When onlookers arrived
they found Williams still in the dri-
ver's seat, gripping the wheel-un-
hurt
Now that Mastin T. Hickman, Luf-
kin, Texas, has had his first air.
plane ride, he's hoping for some
thing faster He's 102 years old
and took his first aerial trip as part
of birthday celebration. His COM
ment: when something faster is in
vented I hope I'm still alive so l
can ride in it."
Gladys Burch, Tulsa, Okla,
awakened by loud noise, found a
small hole in the wall close to her
head Her mattress was smolder-
ing, too. Police concluded that a
lightning bolt had SKINNED across
her bed and through the wall.
Gladys said she didn't feel any
shock until the police explained
what happened.
HAS the paint come YETI" man
inquired of Mrs. Shizuko Kannai,
Denver, Col, who said she'd ask her
husband. When she and her hus-
band come up from the basement
to talk to the man he had gone
with Mrs. Kannai's purse and $137.
John Hunt, cannery employee at
Dayton, Wash, had used his No 10
ration stamp so he was very care
full about his shoes. Entangled in
the plant machinery, he lost all his
clothing but not his footwear.
Last year Postmaster H. c. Rob-
erts, Rosalia, Wash, cut off the lit
tie toe on his left foot to get re-
lief from a corn. Recently another
corn showed up on Roberts other
small toe. He showed his nine toes
to doctor. Now there are eight.
It was too bad for four-foot, blue
nosed shark which ventured too far
in shore at Long Beach, N. j. An
unidentified soldier found it
grounded on sandbar, SO he grab
bed it by the tail and pulled it
ashore. A policeman finished it
off with three shots.
Lodge Grass, Mont, was cut short
when B. A. Zimmerman enlisted in
the Seabees. He was city council
man, school board member, garage
operator, oil company manager,
draft board clerk, and assistant fire
! chief.
The University of California Pan
Hellenic Council has recommended
that sorority houses adopt one of
industry's methods to combat a
more romantic type of absenteeism.
The Council has asked the Women's
Dormitory Association to install
time clocks in the houses and re-
quire goods to punch time cards
when they return from dates.
A judge in Santa Monica, Calf,
suspended a $40 fine for William
Chain, of Los Angeles, charged with
violating the dimout ordnance when
Chain explained he had lost his
false teeth and was driving with his
bright lights to find them on Santa
Monica street.
Angelina Gibaldi, Brooklyn, N.
Y, saved her precious nylon hose
and thereby called out ten pieces of
fire apparatus. In night court the
girl explained that she had stopped
over to tie a shoelace, lost her bal
ance and, to save her hose, grabbed
the nearest support-the handle of
fire-alarm box. She pleaded gull
ty to turning in a false alarm and