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In Raleigh. N. C.. playful Leo Hamilton bit a cat's tail. Judge N. A. Sinclair sentenced him to 90 days.

Desire

In Chicago. Miss Mary Dodson, 74, author of books on suppressed desires, took $500 worth of canceled stamps to the post office, peddled them to stamp-buyers waiting in line, glued them on buyers' packages when they would not stick. Arrested, she gave bail in two new $1,000 bills from an $8,000 bank account.

Mailman

In Estori, Saghalien, Japan, hating to deliver mail over rough roads, a mailman saved up the mail for three years planning to deliver all at one trip. At last, bored, he burned it, threw away the ashes. Total loss: over 4,000 letters.

Disappearance

In Albany, two dairy company workers looked out the window at a touring car, saw it suddenly sink out of sight. A water main leak had undermined the road until a section 15 ft. by 10 ft. caved in, dropped the touring car into 30 ft. of water.

East

In San Francisco. Mrs. Hannah Berger was granted an interlocutory divorce from Herman Berger. Manhattan subway motorman. Grounds: Herman Berger had his hair 1) marcelled. 2) permanent-waved. Mrs. Berger went west.

Challenge

In Chicago, 13 skeptics formed the Anti-Superstition Society to spill salt, break mirrors, light three cigarets on a match, walk under ladders, boast without knocking on wood, cross black cats' paths, yawn without snapping fingers or covering mouth, get out of bed left foot first, sing before breakfast, shake hands across table, between Jan. 1 and Jan. 13 (a Friday).

Queen

In Tsukishima, Japan, handsome, smart Fumie Kasahara. 22, quit a job as music teacher to be "Queen of the Jobless." rallied the jobless to listen to her readings and lectures, was arrested on a charge of stealing a kimono. The jobless petitioned in mass for her release.

Texas

In Linden, Tex., to cure Sherman Clayton's 3-year-old daughter crippled with infantile paralysis, itinerant Apostolic Preacher Paul Oakley, 20, and Disciple Coy Oakley, 25, conducted healing rites. Rite: Strangling. Result: Death. Said Paul Oakley: "God is a healer through me. ... I thought it was God working through me, but after she was dead, God told me I was deceived; that it was the devil."

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