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Show 1 FLASHES I Of Life HARRISONBURG, Va., Jan. 29 Ono of the clty'i 17-year-old fir tmcki (tailed in front of a junk yard. The CKy Council .other truck wai Couldnt Stall called to tow It After That back to the fire atation and also tailed. The city council took the hint and purchased two new machine!. ma-chine!. . STEEL DETECTOR ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 2 tff New York etate Installed mechanical "steel detectors" In prisons after a test In which a guard pretended he was trying to smuggle a gun past the device. A bell rang and a light flashed Attendants "frisked" him and found the gun but the bell kept on ringing. ring-ing. That puxzled everybody until they found the "suspect" was wearing wear-ing steel arch-supports In his shoes. HUNTINGTON, W. Vs.. Jan. 29 UPi Harry Wright, negro flood refugee, ref-ugee, said his home was gone, but thm flnnH vaiiIH Flood WUI boom his busl- Boom Buslnesa ness. For Negro "It's house cleaning," he confided. con-fided. "I'm going to have more work than I can handle alone when that old river goes down." see THEY'D DIE HAPPY ' LOS ANGELES. Jan. 29 UPl Three hundred WPA workers on a fire-break project In the Santa Monica Mon-ica mountains staged a "stand up" strike. They refused to take their seats In transport trucks because tarpaulins had been taken off the trucks. "We are just saving you from carbon monoxide," the foreman explained. ex-plained. "We'll take the gas and keep warm," chorused the men, heading for the project an hour late. OKLAHOMA CITY. Jan. 29 UP) A man who said he was an illicit il-licit whisky ped-Police) ped-Police) Called ler appealed to On to Assist police. He said Whisky Banner be had been robbed of his car and a pus nf auAi-TSri. Ilnnnra while, male- ing a delivery. Police promised to look for the robber. e e e MEANEST THIEF CHICAGO, Jan. 29 W Mrs. Evangeline Fancy, principal of an elementary school, has a candidate for the "meanest thief" title. She said someone had stolen $75 In pennies pen-nies and other small change contributed con-tributed by pupils and teachers for relief of flood refugees. e e e WAUPUN. Wis, Jan. 29 CP The nation's flood victims have the sympathy of inmates of the state prison her and Prison InmatM soon will have jBeUevo Others proof of it. The Are Wors Off prisoners are raia- lng a relief fund. Said Warden Oscar Lee, who s- a I maximum limit of M cents for con-itrlbutions: con-itrlbutions: "And they call my boys bad!" e e e DRIVER WELL SHOD I PEORIA, 111, Jan. 29 Alfred I Hudson, 19. exhibited something new In motorist's footwear when he I was arrested for speeding. He stepped from his car wearing ice skates. |