Monday, Nov. 16, 1936
"TIME brings all things."
Worker
In Tyler, Tex., a brawny oil-field worker walked into the Gladewater Cafe, demanded fried chicken. Informed that no chicken was to be had, he spied a caged canary, ordered it fried "with plenty of gravy," paid $25 for his meal.
Sailor
In Boston, yearning to join the Navy, Justin Francis O'Leary, 16, set out for Annapolis, Md., bought an enlisted man's uniform, joined the Naval Academy midshipmen as they returned from a football game. Soon he was arrested for failing to salute officers, was brigged, questioned, sent home.
Noses, Ears
In London's Medical Exhibition at the new Horticultural Hall were displayed flesh-colored artificial noses and ears of an adhesive, rubber-like substance durable for two months, invented for disfigured victims of automobile accidents. The detachable ears can be washed with the rest of the face, the detachable noses can be blown, powdered.
Racket
In Oakland, Calif., Darrell Gene Hobbs, 4, was found "lost" by five policemen, offered to tell his name if each contributed a penny. To find his age and his father's name they were tricked into throwing in two more rounds of pennies, later discovered Racketeer Hobbs had collected similarly from solicitous firemen.
Host
In Chicago, after a lively party, departing guests playfully locked Host Robert Cheators in a second-story room. When Cheaters raised a window to call for help, he lost his balance, fell to his death.
Family
In Prauzi, Latvia, Sawley Ivanov, 64, father of 31, appealed to police to protect him from his children when they threatened to thrash him if he married a fourth time.
Hippie
In Atlantic City, N. J., Mrs. Frank Hippie won a divorce after witnesses testified her husband had traded her wedding ring for three pints of liquor.
Cheer
In Washington, the U. S. Treasury announced that the voluntarily liquidated First National Bank of What Cheer, Iowa would pay depositors their full $50,000.
Ceremonies
On Pearl Island, Toba Harbor, Japan, Pearl Tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto celebrated a memorial service for hundreds of millions of "souls" departed from "martyred" oysters, then rehearsed his own funeral service.
Nude
In Havana, police raided a hotel, found pretty Senorita Librada Aida Aspuru lying naked on a bed in a darkened room, were informed she had been living there four years, her board and lodging paid for by Senor Jose Gregorio Silva. Protested she: "I didn't know anything about this World, and I don't want to know anything about it. I want to live alone, to be let alone, and to live in darkness." Said Senor Silva, confirming her story: "She has been suffering an hysteria of sadness. ... I am doing a charitable act."
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