Wedlock. In Detroit, Mrs. Madge J. Williams won a divorce on the charge that her jealous husband bought a padlock soon after they were married, locked her in their bedroom every day before going to work.

Prize Crop. In Los Angeles, County Park Superintendent J. R. Wimmer proudly pointed out the luxuriant ornamental plants around the County Agricultural Building. Commented visiting Horticulturist A. J. Barton: "That's a fine crop of marijuana, my friend."

Pots. In London, The New Statesman and Nation quoted the Admiralty Stores List:

Pots, Chamber, plain.

Pots, Chamber, with Admiralty monogram in blue, for hospital use.

Pots, Chamber, fluted with royal cypher in gold, for Flag Officers only.

Pots, Chamber, round, rubber, lunatic.

Norn de Guerre. In Jerusalem, Rudolf Messerschmidt, 70, asked government per mission to change his name to Rudolf Spitfire.

They're There. In East Africa, jolly British Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, flying low over Kenya Colony's game lands, rubbed his eyes, took another peek at the herd of pink elephants below. The elephants, explained a knowing aide, had been rolling in reddish clay and they were indeed pink.

Hardy Perennial. Somewhere on the 2,000-mile road from Florida to Halifax, World War I Veteran Wilford Wright was making his annual health trip -- by tricycle, as usual.

Divine Guidance. In Seattle, The Stethoscope, a naval-hospital newspaper, offered a prize to anyone at the hospital who could identify Betty Grable's legs from a selection of leg-art photos. The winner: the chaplain.

Private Cain. In New York, 32-year-old Hitchhiker William J. Cain was stopped by a State Trooper, asked to show his draft card. When it was not forth coming, questions were asked, and the trooper found that Cain had been arrested eleven times in 31 months by the New Haven police, who had never discovered that he had been absent from his Army base without leave since three months before Pearl Harbor.

Wolfers. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Lieut. George Benstock, back from a tour of duty in Canada's northland, told of a wolf trapper who lost two front teeth of his store set, substituted two wolves' teeth stuck in with glue.

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