Trip

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gallagher sat in the back seat of their car while Mr. Gallagher's sister drove them from Boston to New York. Near New Haven, Mrs. Gallagher was pleased to see her husband relax, close his eyes, decided not to wake him. Not until she reached New York (73 mi.) did she realize that he was dead.

Resemblance

In East St. Louis, Ill. Harry Radel was watching a motion picture when a stranger rose up near him, struck him on the head with a club. Said the stranger to the police: "That fellow looked like Hoover."

Ghost

In Damian, Rumania, villagers haunted by the "ghost" of Mrs. Stephen Safta, suicide, exhumed her body, cut out her heart, burned it, scattered the ashes.

Liar

In Birmingham, Ala., Miss Iva Cook noted that no Alabaman was a member of Wisconsin's famed Liars' Club, wrote a letter to the club president explaining that Alabama contains no liars. By return mail Miss Cook received from the Liars' Club an honorary life membership.

Mixed

When Marinette. Wis. CWA workers were laying the foundations of a new school building, they kept warm by moving their concrete mixer right into the cellar. Last week they had finished the cellar, leaving no exit for their mixer.

Maneuvers

Near Lansdale, Pa., Bell Telephone Co. workers dug a hole in the property jointly owned by Miss Sarah Buzby, 70, and her sister Kate, 81. Next morning the Bell men returned with a telephone pole, made ready to sink it in the hole. Miss Sarah & Miss Kate objected. The Bell men laid down the pole, began to explain. Miss Sarah & Miss Kate sat on the pole. Stymied, the Bell men fetched a second pole, sank it while Miss Sarah & Miss Kate guarded the first. Miss Sarah sawed the second pole through in two hours, apologized to the helplessly watching Bell men: "I can't saw the way I used to."

Co-operation

In Bridgeport, Conn., Mrs. Charlotte M. Shanley was granted a divorce when she testified that her husband spent a half hour begging her to commit suicide, offered to turn on the gas.

Vows

In Oakland, Calif. Marjorie Wetherell decided not to marry her fiance, Charles Rufus Baker. To save her embarrassment Fiance Baker suggested that she go ahead with the wedding and he would appear to jilt her by not showing up. Last week she was suing him. Reason: he had broken his promise, married her at the wedding.

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