Show Leaving x l 4 ft r A S e z 4 S 1 4 GEORGE WASSON ASSON F. F VI Police Police Murder Murder Fire April Fool Most Gags So Old They Have Whiskers Safety Depart- Depart Kept Busy Firemen Will Joke April Pooh Fool I It was open season Wednesday on simpletons ns dolts zanies and plain ordinary fools in addition to others gullible enough to fall victim to the he pranks of the race facetiously in- in cUned ned And from reports of tricks and jokes lokes successfully and nd mirthfully worked all over oyer Salt Lake It would seem the crop of fools is still as foolIsh foolish fool fool- ish sh and ample as it was when April i Pools Fools day was wa-s first observed in m England several centuries ago I JOKES OLD Jokes which brought chuckles when Cleopatra vamped Anthony Anthony- pranks ranks which were old when Paris eloped with Helen all to ensnare their quota of sh sheepish citizens citizens citi citi- zens ens and entertain faithful observers of ot f Aprils April's opening day Not even th the police pollee escaped being Imposed upon After answering numerous false telephone alarms alarms telephone reports of murders murders mur mur- ders suicides burglaries and other nonexistent crimes Detectives crimes Detectives Bert Seager Ross Hunsaker and William Heninger got a up hurry-up call to a avenue home Just another joke muttered the trio rio as they reluctantly answered the I call aIl It was But the joke was on them Continued on Page Pace Fourteen I I POLICE MU MURDER OER H tl fOOl Continued from Page Pae Nine Nie It was wa a real rea burglary and while they were en route roure to the place the te prowler in ke keeping keening ping with wih the spirit of ofte the te day decided to leave le e The detectives promise to make mke the Intruder look lok foolish folL when they tey catch hun him declaring its it's no Joking matter FIREMEN'S JOKES False Fal alarms usually so r numerous on April Fools Fools' Fool day were not so s many may Wednesday and and the te fire fre department celebrated celebrate by playing its is annual anul Joke on by passers by in front of headquarters station staton on First South street Several bright new nickels shone hone Invitingly from the te muddy sidewalk lk In front of or the station all aU day Many yielding to temptation d despite pit the date dat stopped stooped and ad vainly tried trie to pick the All Ml Al hurried awa away from there quick quick- Quck- Quck ly lr spurred on by the guffaws from I the blue firemen Hrmel who gleefully gleefully glee glee- fuI fully witnessed c each such incident from Crom the second floor for rond-for windows above e the street streeL street The nickels their would would-be would would-b possessors possessors posses posses- sors ors learned leane with wih regret were pors p- p soldered sol aol rl- rl dered to nails nals in wooden blocks in front of the station staton |