Stoic

In Wilmington, Del., Melvin Train, garage hand, induced friends in 1921 to invest money in a business enterprise of his brother-in-law, lost their money when his brother-in-law absconded, vowed to remain silent until all losses were made good. Last week he paid off the last creditor, spoke for the first time in eleven years.

Snub

In Dallas, Mrs. Banks Upshaw won a $100 prize for a tomato-can bird house submitted in a national contest, put the bird house in her yard, waited a year for a tenant, never got one.

Pigs

In Gardena, Calif., a Federal Prohibition agent drove past a house, saw a pig stagger out of a ditch, attack an automobile tire, saw another pig try to climb over a fence, decided the pigs were drunk, stopped, investigated, found a still, arrested Dominic Caprini.

Flook

In Milwaukee, the court dismissed a charge of disorderly conduct against Charles Flook, 33, when Dr. E. J. Craite testified that Flook was sane, that he had branded the name "Rose" on his forehead in the sincere hope of restoring himself to his estranged wife.

Nifty

In Chicago, Marion Harrison, Negro, 19, stood on an elevated railway platform, held up male passengers with his corncob pipe, forced them to remove their clothes, acquired an Easter wardrobe. He put it on, went out to lunch, returned to the platform, held up another passenger to secure his necktie, was arrested, chortled to detectives: "I got a nifty outfit!"

Onlookers

In St. Louis, the Pine Lawn fire department answered a summons to a blaze on Glen Avenue, discovered the fire to be in a garage owned by a man who had declined to subscribe $1.25 a year to the fire department, silently watched the building burn to the ground.

Charm

In Ashland, Wis., Mrs. Dorothy Beauregard, an Indian of the Bad River Reservation, deserted her eleven children as a result of a love charm exercised over her by Indian Bobidosh Cederroot. John J. Teepee and 23 other Indians filed a petition with Judge G. N. Risjord asking clemency for Mrs. Beauregard, stating that she loved her husband & eleven children, that she was not responsible for deserting them, that the love charm was infallible, that it had been procured from a medicine man, that real Indian medicine men had "almost supernatural powers." Judge Risjord gave Mrs. Beauregard & Mr. Cederroot a year each.

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