Show On the Lighter Side I Split Girdle Gets Idahoan I I COEUR DALENE Ida Oct 25 UP UP-A UP A rotund farmers farmer's wife wiCe who indignantly testified she split t her girdle when a Railway Express dolly truck forced her to fall from a train platform was awarded a judgment of Wednesday night by a federal court jury The court ordered the Railway y Express Agency to pay the damages damages damages dam dam- ages to Mrs 1 Ida M. M Grossman Crossman 54 Bonners Ferry Ida Mrs 1 Crossman Grossman who informed the jury she weighed OO pounds had asked damages amounting to for bodily injuries and property damages AS lIE HE SHOULD MINNEAPOLIS l Oct Ocl 25 UP UPA UPA A A bandit was holding Mrs l Zatha Olsen 38 year old old ear waitress and restaurant proprietor at gunpoint in the backroom of her establishment when a customer walked in The bandit ordered Mrs 1 Olsen to wait on the lie customer and she thought she saw her chance As she placed Clyde Brooks' Brooks coffee in front of him she winked coyly and looked significantly significantly significantly towards the back room Brooks looked at her blankly paid his check and walked out leaving the robber a clear field Im a married man he explained explained explained ex ex- afterwards I was ryas thinking thinking thinking think think- ing about my wife SHOOTING BLANKS OAKLAND Cal Oct 25 UP An An Oakland liquor store proprietress proprietress proprietress pro pro- decided Thursday she either has to improve her marksmanship marksmanship marksmanship marks marks- manship or find a new business Wednesday morning Mrs 1 Mil Mil- l liron ron 41 fired three shots at the fleeing automobile of bandits I who robbed her store of 76 76 W and she missed But it wasn't the first time Her store has been raided by holdup men five times in the thelast thelast thelast last four years and her accuracy with her 38 revolver doesn't I seem to improve In 1949 she fired five shots point blank at a robber and in 1950 she fired three bullets at a fleeing bandit bandit and and she hasn't drawn blood once BULKY METER LOOT CONCORD N. N H H- a Oct 25 u 1 City Treasurer Wallace Vallace Jones has more money than he knows what to do with Police dumped pennies and nickels on Jones' Jones desk Wednesday one Wednesday one weeks week's collection collection collection tion from parking meters To hold it Jones had to use every wastebasket in city hall Now until he counts it and banks it nobody in city hall has a place to put waste paper |