Fire

In Manhattan, Engine Company 23's Assistant Fire Chief Joseph O'Hanlon was driving to a two-alarm fire when his car broke into flames.

Fog

In London, fog was so thick that Charlton soccer eleven's Goalkeeper Bartram stayed at his post long after the other players left the field.

Pie

In Camden, Del., Farmer James Harris lost the silver platter he won as first prize in the pie-baking contest of the Peninsula Horticultural Society when Mrs. Hynson Cohee sent word to the contest committee that she had sold Harris the pie for 30-c-, and that she wanted her pie tin back.

Late

On Chicago's Michigan Avenue, Robert Zwikel was caught making an illegal turn. While Officer Robert Fall wrote a summons, Driver Zwikel closed the car's windows, locked its doors, refused to come out. Officer Fall called a tow truck, which hauled Zwikel & car to headquarters. There Detective Walter Storms broke a window with his pistol butt. Warned Driver Zwikel as they jailed him: "You'll make my wife angry. I was supposed to meet her an hour ago."

Boast

In Oak Park, 111. shoe Storekeeper Sam Ragalie boasted to a customer that he had just saved $150 from gunmen by keeping it in a shoebox, not in his till. Few minutes later the customer returned with a pistol, demanded and was given the shoebox.

Landlord

In Manhattan. Jacob Berman, 52, a native of Minsk, Russia, had for three months given shelter, firewood, candles to two tenants in his condemned three-room flat, at rental of 5-c- per day. When he developed a sore foot and was unable to go out for wood, they refused to pay rent. Final compromise: the tenants agreed to bring their landlord food, firewood, candles in return for free lodging.

Squeak

In Providence, R. I. Taxi Driver Morris Widergren, driven to distraction by a body-squeak in his car, inspected it thoroughly, found a cat.

Death

In Darwin, North Australia, Filipino Ignale Iglasius, 80, who had slept in a coffin every night for 30 years "to get used to it," died in a hospital bed.

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