| Show People Keep on Getting Hurt War or Not Li In Ingenious Sometimes Humorous Ways I Reaper Strips Farmer I Soldier Ogling ing Girl I Falls in Coal Coal- Hole Coal Hole Iole I I The comic note creeps in now and then even in the grim catalogue pf of the years year's accidents A few ludicrous examples from the files of the National Safety Council indicate indicate indi indi- cate what vaudeville-like vaudeville mishaps mishaps mishaps mis mis- haps can happen Residents of Cocoanut Grove Fla were mildly surprised one day when their morning mail was delivered b by bya a mailman who of all aU things wasn't wearing any pants It wasn't the heat the postman ex ex- Hed He'd merely fallen off oft his bicycle and landed in an anth anthill And he added with simple pride even when the United States postal service service servo ice gets ants in its pants the mall mail must go through I Dr W W. A. A Franklin stood before his junior high school class in Ponca City Okla akin to demonstrate the safe sate safeway safeway wa way to handle matches First remove remove remove re re- re- re move the match he was saying then close the container As he flipped open the container to demonstrate demonstrate demonstrate dem dem- all aU the matches caught fire Dr Franklin bandaged his burned hand Then with exemplary fidelIty fidelity fidelity fidel fidel- ity he closed his lecture with this observation That students is what happens when one one becomes momentarily careless As Private Ernest M. M Scofield of ot I Denver Colo huddled in a foxhole in the Solomons dodging enemy shot and shell sheIl a stray bullet dislodged a cocoanut from a tree limb over over- head hend The cocoanut landed on Private Scofield broke his left leg and he became the army's first cocoanut casualty Residents of Dayton Ohio were startled one fine day this summer to see a small electrically-driven electrically in invalids invalid's invalids invalid's invalids invalid's in- in valid's chair scoot through a red traffic light and crash into a huge ton six trailer truck When Ben Myers the unperturbed and uninjured uninjured uninjured pilot of ot the chair had been extricated from the wreckage he explained explained explained ex ex- he was on his way fishing and bubbling over with high spirits had failed to observe the light Sympathetic Sympathetic Sympathetic Sym Sym- pathetic onlookers helped him pick pickup pickup pickup up and reassemble a n large and wriggling wriggling wriggling wrig wrig- gling supply of crawfish crickets and grasshoppers and he went hilariously hi hilariously hilariously hi- hi on his way Blitz Welding During army maneuvers in Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- a bolt boIt of lightning struck the zipper of a sleeping bag neatly welded welded welded weld weld- ed It all the way around and sealed up a soldier who happened to be inside The soldier understandably perplexed howled for tor help then pleaded for tor anonymity In Chicago Colton was testifying in the case of a driver who inadvertently had piloted his auto into Mr parlor through the wall of the house The incident had happened ten days be be- fore tore And where Is the car now asked the court Mr appeared surprised Why your honor its it's still in our parlor he replied It doesn't bother us u l S SL iN much Foreseeing however that Mrs might wish to rearrange rearrange rearrange re re- re- re arrange the parlor furniture some someday someday someday day the court ordered the car re re- re- re moved D. D M. M Schultz of the army air forces ran into trouble while flying flying fly fly- ing over Portland Ore are and bailed out Obligingly he landed on the roof of the U U. U S. S Veterans' Veterans hospital where it was no trouble at all for hospital attendants to pop out and treat him for minor injuries Then there was the case of ot Sergt D D. D P P. P Smith an aerial gunner of the Australian Air forces who was visiting visiting visiting visit visit- ing ing the Chicago Service Mens Men's Center Cen Cen- ter He decided to try his hand at bowling He did all right too for fora a novice except that he neglected to remove his fingers from the bowling bowling bowling bowl bowl- ing ball He accompanied the ball ballon on a short flight and made a crash landing with more embarrassment than pain In Detroit a city-bred city horse e named Davie blase in the heaviest auto traffic ran away and wrecked his buggy when he met a terrifying sight sight another another horse At Hammonton N. N J. J a speeding train hit a truck driven by Jules Press Mr Press left the truck and flew fiew high into the air So did four blankets The blankets landed on the road rond bed Mr Press landed on the blankets No No-no No no pillow In Mankato Sask a steer in a cattle car poked an inquisitive horn through the cars car's slats caught up a switch lamp hanging outside the car carand carand carand and roguishly baffled the engineer by swinging red and green signals all the way to Moose Jaw Herbert L L. L Carpenter a subway rider In Brooklyn N. N Y appeared before belore the mayor with a plan to eliminate subway rushes of which Mr Carpenter had grown weary Later the same day he was trampled trampled trampled tram tram- pled in a subway rush and had to go goto goto goto to a hospital for treatment In South Bend Ind Miss Ruth McGrady slipped fell broke her right wrist stood up slipped fell broke her left wrist Private Louis Henriquez fell tell 14 feet down a hole coal as he was strolling along in Denver Colo Afterwards Afterwards Afterwards Aft Aft- dug up and refreshed with witha a bath Private H. H explained She smiled as we passed Mrs Blanche Heck of Centerville Iowa had not ordered her winter coaL coall She was a little surprised when a loaded coal truck entered her home pushed the bed on which she was lying through the wall into the next room and left lefther lefther lefther her against a hot stove uninjured James was taking a horseback ride In Sask one day when a passing freight train frightened his horse The horse dashed against the train thoughtfully tossed Mr A I onto a passing flat fiat car backed away away and fell dead Loyal comic strip fans were goggle eyed one day when Connie of Terry and the Pirates drove a car up and over an opening bridge Of course it could only happen in the funnies they told themselves But Buta a year old Milwaukee Wis youth did It In real life He drove up the rising leaf of the Sixth street bridge made a graceful foot 18 arc over the gap then on the slanting slanting slant slant- ing span on the other side The car was damaged but the driver was unhurt It is described in the Bible that the lilies of ot the field toil not neither do they spin But Rancher Walter of Wilbur Wash is no lily For as he toiled on his ranch the spinning rod of his reaper caught his overalls overalls' and spun him into the air nir When he landed he was clad casually in shoes and eye glasses Canned And little Erlan three of ot Kulm N. N D D. crawled into a large cream can in his back yard He had no trouble getting in but his parents were able to get him out only after an operation on the bottom bot bot- tom tom tom-of of the cream can In Omaha Neb the dog Bozo got his foot and tail caught in a hay mower Farmer Berigan jumped over a fence tence to help Bozo cut himself himsel on one knee and hit himself himself in In the eye with the other knee His daughter Pat ran out of the house slipped sUpped and sprained her wrist Mrs Irs B. B startled as she was canning vegetables jumped and cut cuther cuther cuther her finger Champ another Berigan eI eIdo do dog jumped over the barn door to see what was going on and broke his foot The learned later that a n cousin in Keokuk was unInjured uninjured uninjured that day For Old When Phillips high school defeated defeat defeat- ed Amundsen high in a hard fought football game in Chicago not a player play play- er on either team was hurt But as Phillips scored a touchdown an enthusIastic enthusiastic enthusiastic en en- substitute on the bench r. r oat I yanked Coach Lou arm so violently that the coach's left lef shoulder was dislocated Staff Sergt Leroy Post of Evanston Evanston Evanston Evans Evans- ton Ill survived 37 bombing missions missions mis mise in the New Guinea area He helped sink three Jap transports and shoot down at least six Jap planes For this he was awarded the Distinguished Distinguished Distinguished Dis Dis- Flying Cross and the oak oakleaf oakleaf oakleaf leaf cluster Then he was removed from the danger zone to become an instructor in an armament shop in Salt Lake City A few lew days later his arm was caught In a n machine and the bone was fractured And in Pocatello Idaho the sole survivor of a plane crash was Private Private Private vate John J J. 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