Injury

In Youngstown, Ohio, Charles Westlake sat in a cinema theatre, wriggled, suddenly was shot in the back by his own gun which slipped from his pocket.

Loss

In Plymouth. Mass., Postmaster William Goodwin opened a postage-due envelope in his office, found a $450 check, returned it to the sender. The Duxbury addressee had refused to accept the letter because one cent was due.

Spanking

In Titonka, Iowa, Mrs. Will Schutjer turned Daughter Patty, 4, over her knee. As her mother's hand fell, Patty held a can opener behind her. Mrs. Schutjer's hand was punctured.

Definition

To an Abilene, Tex., naturalization examiner who asked what Congress is, a Mexican would-be-citizen replied: ''She is place where lotsa fellow get together and talk. Somebody say something she is bad and somebody say something she is good."

Dill-Pickle

In West Chester, Pa., there were no injuries in the collision of cars driven by Donald Dill and James Pickle.

Hotfoot

In Macomb, Ill., a freshman at Western Illinois State Teachers College gave the "hot foot"* to sleeping Red Henderson, No. 1 place-kicker on the college football team. Place-kicker Henderson awoke abruptly, took to crutches, was forced to forego place-kicking for several weeks because of a badly blistered foot.

Metamorphosis

In Washington, Macy Cohen and David Goldberg, have long operated the Japanese Gift Shop. When an advertisement of their best number, a tea set, failed to produce a single sale, they changed the name of their place of business to the Chinese Bazaar.

Fast

In Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Lawyer George Dabrovitch fasted 20 days in order to write a dissertation on how long man can live without food, died of starvation before he could get his dissertation written.

Offense

In Dundalk, Irish Free State, Julia Clark of Glasgow, Scotland, was sentenced to one month in jail and deportation, for violating Section 18 of the 1935 criminal code (de Valera's vice law) which forbids "any act ... offending modesty or causing scandal or injuring the morals of the community." Her offense: Kissing her sweetheart in public.

*A process by which a match wedged in the toe of the victim's shoe is lighted.

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