Tenth Commandment. In Little Rock, Ark., Collector of Internal Revenue Horace E. Thompson straightened out the case of a bachelor who had been claiming his neighbor's wife & children as tax exemptions.

Corpus Delicti. In Sydney, Australia, police charged Andrew See with assault, declared they had found the evidence in his raincoat pocket: his father-in-law's left ear.

Table of Contents. In Simcoe, Ont., police arrested Anthony Spellay as a vagrant, searched him, found in his pockets : 4 flashlights, 4 screwdrivers, 10 teaspoons, 5 pkgs. of tobacco, 4 Ibs. of cooked ham, 1 bag of candy, 3 wrenches, 2 extension cords, 1rear-view mirror, i tube of sealing compound,1 steel tape, i windshield wiper, 1 gearshift knob, 1 pr. of ladies' gloves, 1 skirt, 1 brassiere.

Private Enterprise. In Fort Myers, Fla., Walter N. Ash explained why he had stolen a $2 steak: he was going into the restaurant business.

Book Worm. In Mineola, N.Y., Mrs. Philip Shannon Jr. got temporary alimony and custody of the children when she testified that her husband had made her read Karl Marx.

Fast Friends. In Toronto, the University of Toronto newspaper reported a local shocker: the parents of a teen-age girl, eavesdropping on daughter's goodnight to her beau, came a-running downstairs when they heard her scream, discovered that the young lovers had got their dental braces tangled.

Quadrangle. In Minneapolis, Stanley H. Mueller and his mother took their complaint to divorce court: Stanley's pretty Dutch war bride of an hour had run off with father.

Sticks & Stones ... In Ottawa, Ill., a judge enjoined Henry Factly Jr. from trying to evict his aged mother by 1 ) putting an electric fence across the drive to shock her, 2) hiding iron pipes in the grass to trip-her, 3 ) digging up her flower garden, 4) giving a bull a rock-filled milk can to butt so that "terrific noises would result."

Blind Devotion. In London, the Admiralty studied a request for a naval commission from a man who wrote: "My father was a seaman who fell overboard and drowned, and I would like to follow in his footsteps."

Pay Dirt. In Donihue, Chile, householders found skulls and bones embedded in their walls, discovered that the local brick factory had been getting its clay from the cemetery.

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