The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-08
Nv WILLIAM GLOVER
AP Features Writer

were pretty sad, dreary set OF
2e5 davs - but you had your
share of dippy, whacky, ludi-
crous, funny and plain silly mo-
ments. Perk up, pop, and re-
member how:
Concerning LOVE: a young man
in Portland, Ore. got angry at MS
girl. bit a chunk from beer glass
and then put his neck on street
car rail. The cops made him pay
fo,. tho glass. Three hundred
Newark. N. j., school children staged
a free-for-all in which IL cops got
scratched after two lads decided TO
fight it out over a winsome lass OF
12. i. Pvt. Marvin Rubin, Brook
lyn. N. Y, telephoned Beatrice
Brown 140 times in succession be-
fore she finally accepted his pro-
posal
ANIMALS livened things up:
william Rreutzzer's COW at Hays,
Kas. gave birth to quintuplets.
A fox terrier fell 800 feet from cliff
at Medford, Ore. got up and walked
away unhurt. Mrs. William e
Rosenbach's cat awakened the fam
ilv when their home in Chicago
caught fire, but the watchdog had
to be rescued. At Beaufort, N. u,
the Department of Interior and the
NAVY recorded the conversation OF
fishes found the toadfish to be the
biggest prattler. !, An Idaho sheep
rancher said the WPB suggested he
change his lambing season to save
on canvas needed for lalnbing sheds.
The MILITARY came up with odd
ones The Army bought 75,0Oo
pairs of dice as morale builders.
An Army transport that was
abandoned over the Florida coast
when it developed trouble, turned
around and flew 1000 miles by itself
into Mexico. Fl. Hollywood actresses
in a survey said they preferred en-
listed men to officers for dates
and sergeants above all
In the realm of POLITICS: One
vote was cast on election day at
Stockton, Mo, as six necessary Of
ficials sat around. The Progress
sive Party at Bridgeport, Conn, ran
a classified newspaper ad, seeking
candidates for municipal office.
Mark Woods, a candidate for the
state legislature at Water Valley,
Miss, advertised recommending the
election Of his opponent. The
custodian asked the New Jersey
legislature what to do about the
Fourth Criminal Judicial District
Court, after its personnel was COM
pletely taken by military inductions
and political shifts.
The WOMEN, bless EN-, did
plenty; Mrs. Dennis Mullane, Staten
Island, NJ Y, garnered 301 ,464 pen
MES when the announcer on net
work radio program suggested list
eners send her a penny each because
she missed question. -. At Co.
lumbus, O., Mrs. Clara Whitehead.
80, found she had twin sister she
had never known about. Movie
starlet Julie Bishop insured her hips
for $25,0 900 against gaining four
inches during her seven-year con-
tract. . The War Manpower Com
mission made Veronica Lake stop
wearing her peeka-boo hairdo for
the duration, because it set a poor
style for war workers.
The MALE of the species was up
and at em, also: Alex Smith, Kan
sas City Waterman, fractured both
arms when he fell into a 30-foot-
deep hole he was hired to guard.
A Scotchman mailed his l943 Christ
mas cards en- April to beat postal
rate increase in Canada. 4. Barber
Pat Branigan, Logansport, Ind, de-
cided to charge ST for shaves, ex-
planning Il just don't like to shave
people
The shirt which the late John
Barrymore wore in Hamlet" sold
for 81 at an auction. j. Crooner
Frank Sinatra's shorts brought ST.
900 at New York war bond sale
and from Potsdam, Germany, in
world that everyone else thought
was getting smaller all the time,
Geodetic Institute scientists an
nounced North and South America
were drifting away from Europe and
Africa at the rate of about one foot
year
Now, IA, what have you got up
your sleeve?