Show Amazing Ways to Do Amazing Things Shown in Record of 1942 Accidents In the topsy year of unchanged Unusual i usual A roundup by the National Safety Council Chicago Ill m. of dizzy mis mis- mishaps mishaps mishaps haps for the year reveals that war or no war a lot of people found time timeto to do amazing things in amazing ways For instance Saleslady Bessie Swank S of Bridgeton N. N J. J tried valiantly to fit a small girdle on a plump customer She tugged so hard she was taken to the hospital with a severe ere back injury The customer took the girdle Eugene B. B B Grabbe of Denver has never been a circus trapeze per per- performer performer performer former but he could be Washing windows on the seventh floor of the theU U U. S. S National Bank building he be started to fall fali as the buckle on his safety belt gave way Grabbe hurled himself himsel backward with such force 1942 one bit of Americana re- re kept on happening as that he floated through the air with the greatest of ease cleared a 16 foot space and landed on his feet atop an adjacent story four building He broke both legs but considered himself him him- himsel himself self sel lucky Joe Konecny of Great Bend Kan had stored his car In a garage at Little Rock Ark to make an auto trip with a friend As he and his friend were driving along near Mountain Home Ark their car col col- collided collided col- col on head-on with another machine Both cars were wrecked When Konecny Ko Ko- Konecny crawled from the wreckage and looked at the other car he saw that it was his own It had been stolen from the Little Rock garage Joe got legal revenge Wrong Girl Wallace D. D Smith of Louis- Louis Louisville vUle ville Ky was flying an air air- airplane airplane airplane plane at a n low altitude when he be besaw saw a girl irl he thought he knew He ne waved at her She waved back Pleased but distracted Pilot Smith flew v his plane into a tree top an electric light wire and another tree top where he ended his trip He Be shinnied down hurried to the girl to as as- assure assure sure her he wasn't hurt She wasn't the girl he had thought she was but a total stranger He lie was distracted again |