Monday, Jun. 20, 1932
Head
"TIME brings all things."
In Knoxville, Tenn. four Negroes were arraigned on a charge of having taken the head out of a murdered man's grave, planning to pray to it three hours daily for six days for directions how to find buried treasure. Said Arthur Bolden: "Somehows I felt I had to git that head and talk to it."
Wet
In Oklahoma City, Prohibition Agents Alter Acord and Mel West went to raid a suspected house, found it was outside their jurisdiction. A storm came up. Ten inches of rain fell on Oklahoma. The North Canadian River overflowed its banks. The suspected house floated a quarter-mile, settled inside Agents Acord & West's jurisdiction. They boarded it, seized 700 bottles of beer.
Sprayed
In Philadelphia, two men appeared at a subway change booth, told Night Cashier Bessie Liddell they had come "from the office" to spray the booth against mosquitoes. One of the men divided the booth with a sheet so that she would not get sprayed. When Bessie Liddell peeped around the sheet, the two men and seven bags containing the day's receipts of $700 were gone.
Wedding
In Hollister, Calif., Jim Dale, 58, poultry-raiser of Petaluma, exhibited seven women to 5,000 wedding guests. They clapped loudest for Mrs. Emma Johnson, a 52-year-old San Jose widow, so he married her. Best man was California's Governor James Rolph Jr. The six losers were bridesmaids.
Jiggle
In Bolivar, N. Y. 400 quarts of nitroglycerin exploded, shook the countryside. American Glycerine Co. waited nervously for reports of damage done. None came until Mrs. A. D. Peckham sued for damages because the blast had jiggled the eggs on which her 30 canaries were setting, ruined the hatch.
Love
Honeymooning in Baraboo, Wis., were Mr. & Mrs. M. E. Love of Joy, Ill.
Spike
In Winnipeg, Man., to save other waders from a big spike he had stepped on while wading, John Makai tossed the spike over his shoulder toward the shore, hit and killed his brother Stephen.
Groggy
In Hamilton, Ont. for two days every time police found groggy Fred Kime lying around town they picked him up and hustled him along. Finally they took him to the hospital. He died. Examined, his body showed a broken neck, 14 fractured ribs, punctured lungs, head injuries. He had been hit by a train.
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