Americana

P: A September hurricane moaned in from Cuba, slammed huge seas against the Miami shore, and buzz-sawed on across Florida, killing five people and leaving a $25 million trail of damaged property.

P: Wyoming's State Aeronautics Commission asked for a law making it a misdemeanor to fly an airplane while drunk.

P: In Oklahoma City, Mrs. Clara Pyatt, who lived in a tent with her two children, started to build a shack with tag ends of used lumber. A dozen taxi drivers, some of them on strike, heard of her plight, built her a three-room bungalow in three days.

P: William Ray, an 80-year-old barber of Lowell, Ohio (pop. 1,000), was still using the same wooden chair and the same leather soap bowl with which he started barbering 58 years ago, and still charging the same prices: haircut 15-c-, shave 10-c-.

P: In baseball-batty Cleveland, one Joe Earley, a 34-year-old factory guard, chided the Indians for dedicating "nights" to several players, suggested that the club hold a "Good Old Joe Earley Night." The ball club took him up on it, scheduled the "night" for this week, decided to give Joe Earley a car (1914 model), horse, cow and chickens.

P: The University of Tennessee dedicated its enlarged football stadium. Among other improvements: a room in which disorderly drunks will be held by the police until the game is over.

P: Said the Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S.J., editor of the Catholic magazine, the Queen's Work: "People in love are the worst possible ones to pick mates objectively." His formula for successful marriage: "The four Ms--mind, money, manners and meals."

P: The United States Marine Band went to Grand Rapids, Mich., to play at the five-day annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Of the 43 surviving Union veterans of the Civil War, only six were on hand to hear the band this year. The oldest was 107; the youngest, 99.

P: Some 2,000 delegates of the Women's Christian Temperance Union--most of them more than 70 years old--attended its convention in Portland, Ore., clucked in horror as plump, 65-year-old Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its perennial president, reported: "This is a time of overpowering, universal and revolting drunkenness among women of all ages, weights and social positions . . . Among the 3,750,000 chronic alcoholics and problem drinkers in the U.S., more than 680,000 are women."

P: The Yale Club of New York, across Vanderbilt Avenue from Grand Central Station, dedicated a plaque proclaiming that "near this site" Capt. Nathan Hale (Yale 1773) was hanged by the British in 1776. Previously the marker had been affixed to a slaughterhouse (seven blocks away), now about to be razed for a United Nations building.

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