God

In Los Angeles, when Samuel Whitaker was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, he flung up his arms, cried: "If I am guilty of this horrible crime, may God strike me dead before I get to my cell." Before he reached his cell at San Quentin Prison, Samuel Whitaker suffered a heart attack, fell dead.

Hope

In Birmingham, Ala., Walter George's mother assured police that her fugitive son was innocent of the hit-&-run killing of an old Negro. "I hope to die if my son killed that Negro," cried Mrs. George. Two days later she died. Caught, Son Walter confessed his crime.

Names

In Richmond, Radio Patrolmen Herman Bock and Andrew Beer arrested a Negro for stealing four cases of whiskey from Charles Bender.

Advance

In Dicksteon, Tenn., explaining that he felt "a good drunk coming on," a town tippler deposited $7.50 with Judge Robert S. Clement as advance payment of his prospective fine.

Parkers

In Cleveland, Police Captain Chester Burnett began a traffic law enforcement drive by tagging 50 motorists who had parked illegally in front of his precinct station.

Counterfeiter

In Coiba Island, Panama, penitentiary guards for the second time caught Convict Herman Kahn counterfeiting U. S. $1 and $10 bills in his cell.

Grounds

In Calcutta, India, Kausallya Kurmi, 17, sued her husband Likhichand Kurmi, 10, for divorce, charging nonsupport.

Substitute

In Milwaukee, Wis., Mrs. Sarah Sanders sued Edward Sanders for divorce on the ground that "while he never actually struck me he would go around slamming his fist against doors and saying: 'I wish it was you.'

Bird

In Brooksville, Fla., Mrs. Jesse Callahan asserted that her pet hen "Happy Ann" will warble long or short tunes, loudly or softly, as directed.

Joke

In Atlanta, "Ajax," a quarter-ton stone lion marking an apartment driveway entrance, mysteriously disappeared, three nights later reappeared at its post with its nose daubed red, a sign hung around its neck: "Boy! What a party! And was I drunk!"

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