Americana

P:The Elizabeth, N.J. Public Library asked city police to find a woman who had borrowed five books on juvenile delinquency in May 1946, now owed (at 1-c- a day a book) $32.36 in fines.

P: Daniel Griskus, a former bus driver, was offered the job of supervisor of garbage disposal in Waterbury, Conn., refused to accept unless the title was changed to "Superintendent of Used Food Collection." The city agreed.

P: In Miami Beach, where bookmaking is an industry, Police Chief P. R. Short dutifully made token arrests of three bookies, released them on $500 bond, and explained carefully: "We don't intend to bother the bookies. They don't bother us."

P: Unbeaten in two years of competition with such universities as Princeton, Harvard and Boston, the Norfolk, Mass. Prison Colony debating team lost an argument to Brown. Subject: universal military training.

P: Philadelphia Architect Robert Montgomery Brown, who found that his friends were drinking up $2,400 worth of his liquor a year, decided to ask guests to sign chits for their drinks, receive monthly accounts payable in return drinks. Said Brown: "It equalizes the drinking and discourages guzzlers."

P: Mrs. Vera Conard, president of the Women's Club of America, called on U.S. women to crusade for a woman President of the U.S. Among her nominations: the Duchess of Windsor, Clare Boothe Luce, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Replied Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, former president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs: "Women voters would not support a woman. . . . Women don't like to see other women get ahead."

P: The Santa Fe Railroad began daily service with its sleekest, fastest "gin rummy haven," the Super Chief. The train's new cars have radios and running ice water in every bedroom.

P: The Prudential Insurance Co., whose advertisements boast that it "has the strength of Gibraltar," received a 1 1/2-ton chunk of The Rock itself, to be set in the corner stone of its new West Coast offices.

P: The U.S. Army began disinterment of U.S. war dead buried in Great Britain.

P: Having passed for 45 years as a white man, Wall Street Lawyer T. John McKee went to court to prove that he was the only surviving grandchild of the late Col. John McKee, Negro Civil War veteran and real-estate operator, who died in Philadelphia in 1902 and left an estate now worth $800,000.

P: In Moscow, a 33-year-old Clairton, Pa. girl named Annabella Bucar announced that she had been secretly married to a Russian singer, quit her job in the U.S. Embassy to become a Soviet housewife. Back in the U.S. her father, an Austrian immigrant, immediately disowned her.

P: In a Manhattan bar & grill, 20-year-old Josephine Ostoloco, who had been playing Civilization ("Bongo, Bongo, Bongo") for an hour on the jukebox, started to insert another quarter. Filipe Torres, 30, protested. Miss Ostoloco persisted. Torres shot her twice and fled.

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