Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-12-26 | Page 2 | Flashes

FLASHES Privates Private's Dream Comes True Christmas Gift Saves Life Boys Pass Up Vacation Lack Key to Situation ST. ST PAUL Dec 26 The P The shoe sho will be on the other foot January 3 when N. N W. W Elsberg takes office a as state highway commissioner He will vill be so to speak top sergeant then hen and the man who spoiled a 3 Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day for him in 1918 by assigning him himo to o K P. P duty at Camp Meade will be beust just a corporaL The latter is Loyal Loya P. P Zimmerman a n minor o ohe of the he highway department In 1918 1911 Zimmerman was a top sergeant and i iwas it was his duty to detail Elsberg one Sunday for a speck of mud that had hac been een detected on his tunic He painfully recalls that he made him ilm spend the day scrubbing garbage garbage garbage gar gar- bage cans THUMB NIPPED NEW YORK Dec 26 28 IP The W-The The Christmas gift that Miss Selma Siegel got saved her life A policeman policeman police police- man fired tired at a man suspected of stealing an automobile and the bullet bul bul- let ct struck a brand new handbag which Miss Siegel was carrying over her heart A compact in the bag ag deflected the bullet so that it t merely nipped Miss Siegel's thumb COLUMBUS mUS 0 O. Dec 26 Four P teen boys in a Columbus Junior high school waived Christ Christ- mas inns v vacations a cat Ion 5 Burn With They're a averaging v e era r a g Ing Creative more than eight hours Fever a day in the sc school ool manual t training r a I n 1 n g shops Their teacher Walter A. A Cope In in- he wasn't as dumbfounded as some ome of his pupils' pupils parents appeared The uThe boy with a lined dined mind soon catches the thc creative fever ever he explained Most of them would spend all their school periods here if it wed we'd let cm em Cant Can't Halt Blaze DODSON Mo Dec 26 P For R-For For want vant of a key the drug store barber barbershop barbershop shop hop and billiards hall burned last night Firemen early to the scene found both hydrants property of anice an ance anice ice ce c company locked and the night watchman at the plant couldn't find the he key SILVER ILVER STRIKE HOLLYWOOD Dec Dee 26 ff W ln In the he past week Paramount movie studio has recovered 1300 pounds of f silver from the emulsion with which films are treated The solution tion ion consists largely of ot silver nl- nl rate and Paramount mines four times a year the result being about worth of silver annually Itis It Itis Its is s sold to jewelers tableware manufacturers manu manu- and sometimes to government government government govern govern- ment mints It Wasn't a Cat CatLOS CatLOS CatLOS LOS ANGELES Dec 26 IF-A IF P A Acas cats at's wail so moved C. C Le I that hat he opened the door to his back porch but jorch but it wasn't a cat It was wasa a robber who took from 50 a valuable ring and several other ar ar- tides Ucles and escaped