JUDICIARY: Judge Crap

"Snake eyes [two aces] and you get 14 days. Roll anything else and you get what you make," solemnly intoned Judge Charles W. Woodward of Rockville, Md. last week. Before him were Stewart Brent, Frank Butler, Frank Peters, Negroes convicted of crapshooting. He made them shoot crap again.

Down went Stewart and the Franks over the dice. They prayed: "Come, Little Joe! [four]"

But Stewart rolled Big Dick (ten), Frank Butler a Natural (seven), Frank Peters a Miss Hicks (six). What the crap decided, the Judge confirmed.

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