Americana

P: Mississippi's legislature shelved a bill requiring radio stations to play Dixie at the start and finish of each day's broadcast.

P: Paul Lamonica, a 27-year-old butcher of Ozone Park, N.Y., sued the Long Island Rail Road for $2,000, charging that he had been made permanently "nervous" by 83-hours of "false imprisonment" in a Long Island train on the night of New York's record 25.8-inch snowfall.

P:In Carmel, Calif., the Russian Inn changed its name to Ocean Inn "for business reasons."

P: Merchants in Douglas, Ga. (pop. 10,000), irked by a spate of fund-raising drives, announced that they would observe a "Leave Us Alone Week."

P: The FBI reported that U.S. crime decreased slightly in 1947--the first decrease since before World War II. But the year's total of "serious" crimes was still a whopper: 1,665,110 (including 7,760 murders).

P: In Fairbanks, Alaska, whiskey prices went back to normal after a month-long price war during which a fifth sold for as little as 25-c-.

P: Manhattan's Bowery Comeback Association, dedicated to turning bums into good citizens, tried its hand at helping vagrant women by offering them 1) a free beauty treatment, 2) a new wardrobe, 3) room rent for four weeks and 4) $60 in cash. There were no takers.

P: Hollywood Actress-Ruth Brooks, offered a $25,000 house in a divorce settlement from her dentist husband, insisted instead on taking a four-horse racing stable.

P: Detroit police learned from Raymond W. Scott, a movie usher, why he had falsely reported that a time bomb was in the theater: for six weeks he had been looking at the same Lana Turner movie.

P:Two Atlanta packing-plant employees, Norman Plumley, 20, a wienie worker, and Doris Mae Wilson, 22, an egg packer, met while walking out on strike. Love bloomed; eleven days later, while a juke box played I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me, they were married on the picket line by a blind preacher.

P: Republican National Convention officials discovered that the Louis-Walcott heavyweight fight was scheduled for the evening of June 23--the third night of the convention--considered calling a recess for the evening, decided against it.

P: After 75 years of marriage, Mrs. Joseph Forstadt of New York gave her formula for success as a wife: "Just keep your mouth shut."

P: The Post Office Department announced that some time this year it will issue a 3-c- stamp commemorating "100 years of progress by women in America."

P: In Toombs County, Ga., a herd of hogs was fattened up on three carloads of fruitcake--Army surplus, declared unfit for human consumption.

P: Citizens of St. Louis were beginning to worry over having the lowest-paid major police force in the nation. Half of their 1,750 disgusted cops were in debt, others were quitting. As the Missouri State Legislature dragged its feet on a pay-raise bill, the crime, rate rose 58% over 1947. Said one $220-a-month patrolman's son: "I don't wanta be a cop; I wanta be a gangster. They make more money."

P: Band Leader Lionel Hampton announced the names of the selections he would play at a Carnegie Hall concert: Be-Bop, Re-Bop, Oo-Bop, Zoo-Bop, Ee-Oo-Bop and The Crystal Suite.

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