Electrocution

In Colon, Panama, Austin Maeder, 20, fireman on the U. S. submarine S-12, was electrocuted & killed on duty. Circuit: empty lamp socket, sweating back, wrench in hand, engine.

Criminals

In Bloomsburg, Pa., John Harrington Jr., 9. and his sister Lillian, 7 climbed into Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Co. through a 6-in. washroom window, picked up two sacks of Sunday School collections, climbed out again. Margaret Harrington, 14, to whom they offered $2, gave them away. Last month they had been arrested, released in their father's custody, for filching from concession stands.

Gaolers

In Freehold, N. J., Isaac Woolley, pre-election Republican warden of the Monmouth County jail, was released on $1,500 bail for nonfeasance in office and maintaining a disorderly house in jail, his wife Blanche Woolley on the same bail for having drawn $840 jail matron salary for doing nothing. Cause: complaints of two woman prisoners that they had been forced to function as prostitutes in jail.

Technology

In Cambridge, Mass., the committee of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology dormitory dance charged admission on a scale of 1-c- per pound of girl, plus 10-c- for a brunette, 15-c- for a blonde, 20-c- for a redhead. Top charge: $1.88 for a 173-lb. blonde.

Fire

In Greenwich, Conn., when Mrs. Lillie S. Jeretski's house caught fire from an overheated furnace flue, firemen came in their new $15,000 truck, skidded & wrecked it against a stone pillar, ran on anyway, pumped water out of a small lake to fight the fire in vain. Next day there was no house, no fire engine, no lake.

Medicine

In Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, banking on the superstition that to eat of human flesh cures all ills, a Korean whose wife had neuralgia cut a half-pound slice of flesh off his thigh, cut the slice in three parts, cooked one part, fed it to his wife telling her it was rabbit. His wife improved; he went to the Government Hospital with an infected thigh.

Babe

To Mrs. Vesta Church Neel, 40, wife of a Pound, Va. farmer, was born last week a son who weighed 25 lb., soon died.

Upstairs

In Manhattan, police found on the tenth floor of an abandoned slaughterhouse a hobo "jungle" where twelve Negroes and three Mexicans had gone into winter quarters. Negro Paul ("The Boss"), dining on mulligan stew made from scraps scavenged from meat markets, had not been downstairs in four months.

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