Miscellany: Rats, Cat

In Mid-Pacific, the tanker Java Arrow picked up 14 men from the helpless and drifting Japanese steamer Taishin Maru No. 3; flashed the message ashore: "Men uneat last 20 days, no water last five. Caught rats, made soup. Later caught no more rats; crew ate cat."

Joke

In Brooklyn last month John Seles, butcher, was held up and robbed of $40 in his small store. Last week, Taximan John Kirschner entered the store, stood behind Butcher Seles, cried, "Hands up! Get into the ice box!" Butcher Seles whirled, drove his cleaver through...

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