Pappas

In Chicago, Ill., Mr. & Mrs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas were listening to a radio-broadcast account of a holdup. Said John Pappas: "Say, no stickup guys could stick me up." Just then entered three well-armed thugs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas nervously put up their hands. Mrs. Ruth Pappas, with upraised arm, edged toward a shelf, seized a pistol, fired. One thug fell dead. A second howled, dived under a bed, popped up on the other side, leaped from the window. The third grabbed his fallen confederate, fled.

Arms

In Brooklyn, N. Y., Policeman Jacob Rosenthal pursued five youthful automobile thieves, fired a shot into the back window of their automobile. It swerved to a curb, stopped. Two lads alighted, ran off. In the back seat Policeman Rosenthal found Dominic Imperato and Joseph Mazzola wriggling, struggling, gripped by the death-locked arms of Joseph Romano.

Speaker

In Rochester, N. Y. last week Senor Jose W. Kelly, onetime Mexican labor attache, was knocked down by an automobile, rushed to a hospital suffering from loss of his ability to speak English. In Spanish puzzled Senor Kelly explained that until run over he could speak English well. In 1908 he was graduated from Cornell University where he spoke English in all his classes. Rochester doctors could not explain.

Cook

In Los Angeles, Calif., Llleieusszuieusszei Harizzissteizzii Williminiddssteizzi, Siamese cook, was arrested for vagrancy. Proudly he translated his name: "Great Mountains Wonderful Strength Lion of the Sea."

Rocker

In Kokomo, Ind., Mrs. Mary Norman, rocking nervously, jiggled herself out of the rocking chair, fractured both arms, both legs.

Doc

In Chicago, "Old Doc" Robert Martin, itinerant Negro patent medicine seller, was urging his nostrum upon a Mrs. Eliza Murphy. Said he: "Madam, it is the greatest discovery since radium. ... It will make a new woman of you. ... I can recommend it because I take it myself. . . . Look at me: the picture of health!" He gasped, reeled, fell dead.

Dandy

In Baltimore, Md., Capt. John M. Dandy, onetime daredevil member of the British Royal Air Force, went to a cinema, witnessed an airplane thriller, recalled his own War exploits, went outside the theatre, shot himself dead.

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