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Show 1 ODDITIES IN ! THE NEWS ( Vniteu I'l-esK.) SALT LAKE CITY G-Men were asked today to aid in solving solv-ing the kidnaping of two month-old month-old kids value $2.50 each. The kids were the property of Mrs. John Plowgian who missed them from her goat pen Sunday morning. She believed the kidnaper kidnap-er would attempt to sell them to G-men igoat-men) and offered $5 j for their safe return. MARTINEZ, Calif. The Rev. Verdette Walters chose as the topic of his Easter Sunday sermon the Biblical story of the father who lost a well-beloved son and inquired: "If there is a God, why did he do this to me " Today members of his Congregational Congre-gational church learned that a lew hours before he delivered the sermon, his 3-year-old son. -Craig, bad died. ALTRUAS, Calif. (U.R) -Sheldon (Bull) Harden, fullback of the Alturas high school football team, today entered his name on the growing list of "funny feeders." Friends reported he swallowed 600 grasshoppers. LOS ANGELES (II.I!) - Pat Mc-Keignan, Mc-Keignan, a pi-inter, thought his wife was drawing on her imagination imagina-tion when she awakened him with a warning a burglar, was in their room. He shushed her. "Aw, go to sleep," he grumbled. McKeighan was turning o v e r for another snatch of sleep, when a burglar popped out of the closet. "Thought she was kidding you, eh?" the intruder jeered, bolting from the outside door, "Next time I you'll believe the little woman." I He fled with McKeighan's wal-I wal-I let containing $12 and a ring. LONDON (U.R) Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has been leaving his umbrella at home and carrying a cane for two days. The skies have been bright, meteorologically meteorol-ogically if not politically. ROCHESTER, Ind., (U.R) Mrs. J. L. See found a dirt-encrusted object while she was helping her husband dig post holes on their farm. She identified it as the wedding ring she lost 30 years ago. BOSTON (U.E) Conscientious gum-chewing by children was recommended by Prof. Wilbert L. Pronovost of State University of Iowa. Exercise of the jaw through gum-chewing, the voice authority said, would make the muscles flexible and tend to eliminate "slovenliness and carelessness of speech." |