The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-27
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WHEN WAS a little boy our
Nom used to say. "Son, always take
bath on Saturday night &.
whether you need it or not"
And that Is the excuse for this
colyum.
We was standing under the show
or singing 1T Amt Gonna
Rain No More" when bwang d.
we slipped on a bar of soap q.
and fell smack on our non-paying
end.
Right then and there we thought
their must be a plot to our accident
so bright and early Sunday
morning we went to the office and
dug into our files to see who
else had an accident this year.
Comes the second chapter.
AS a slap-happy jitterbugger, Pfc.
Ernest Oliver, of McCook. Neb.,
often had been sent by a hot tune.
But never as literally as the eve
ming he spun in super maneuver
grabbed for his pretty jiving
partners hand missed :.
and plunged through the second
story window OF the dance hall.
AS 2-year-old Margaret Morton,
of Groton, Conn, lay sleeping in
her home one October night, a Navy
plane plowed through her bedroom
and whiSked the blanket off her
bed without touching her The plane
zoomed through the other wall Of
the house and eventually crashed
into a SchoolhouSe. 1t. w. j. Nc
Carthy, of Toledo, o., pilot of the
fighter plane, was injured only
slightly. The blanket undam-
aged was found in the wreck
age Of the plane
Nine persons riding cozily in an
automobile driven by Mrs. Adeline
CLASSIFY, of Winslow, Ariz., were in
jured slightly when the car crashed
into the rear of bus. Mrs. CLASSIFY
readily explained the accident. 1T
failed TO see the bus in time to
stop" she said, abecause was nurs-
ing my baby"
When Pfc. Charles Smith came
home TO Claudell, Kan. to recuper-
afa Prrx,, xx.O,.,,dc raooixyoI ", fhroo
South Pacific invasions, ne figured
he would get some rest from dodg-
ing shrapnel. But as he watched a
power lawnmower at work in his
front yard, the darn thing picked
up an old spoon and hurled it with
such power and accuracy that it
penetrated the calf of Private
Smiths leg and had to be removed
by an operation. Its the same
wherever you CO." Private Smith
remarked glumly at the hospital.
Pvt. Harley Paul Collins, of Kan
sas City, Kan, knows exactly how
Private Smith felt. For Private Col
Inns, home on furlough, was show
ing his wife how the boys make
BOBBY traps over there. He hooked
up a shell a board a nail
and a piece of wire. Then he trip
ped and the homemade con-
traption went off and shot him in
the leg.
At least three persons in the
Unitd States now take seriously the
expression, I'D break my neck to
do that" One is Gregory Stingel
IL OF Chicago, no put his football
jersey on backwards in his haste
to dress for game tugged
fiercely to get it off and broke
his neck. Anne Haldeman, 10, of
Doylestown, Pa, snapped a verta-
brae in her neck while skipping
rope. And Mrs. Pauline Strother, of
Indianapolis, topped them both by
dislocating a vertebrae in her neck
while vigorously brushing her teeth!
All recovered.
Closely akin to the breakers
was Mrs. James Gallagher. of West
Hazelton, Pa, who arose so hurried
ly to shut off an insistent alarm
clock that she dislocated her spine
The driver of an auto in Chicago
wondered why people were pointing
and yelling at him one day last
August. He stopped the car and
found, of all things, bewildered
4-year-old boy-Timothy Ochall by
name-on the front bumper. The
car had struck Jimmy and carried
him two full blocks. Tim got bump
on the head, a few bruises and a
flattering amount of attention.
Then there was the Strange Case
of the Disappearing Woman. 1t
happened in Los Angeles as Mrs
Daniel Reese gossiped of this and
Of that with three neighbors. In the
middle of a sentence whooSh!
Mrs. Reese disappeared. Firemen
came on the run, extricated her
from o forgotten excavation IL feet
deep. Mrs. ReeSse's fence-side
weight Is 325 pounds.
II men bite dogs to make news,
why shouldn't horse smack an
auto? That's what two Norwich,
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