Miscellany: Beer

In Baltimore, Emil ("Feets") Cella, 35, who likes to eat hard crabs with the shells on, claimed a world's beer-drinking record: one-half gallon in 16 seconds, thereby besting his previous (1935) record of 17 2/10 seconds.

Victim

In Savannah, Ga., Negro Charlie Williams, listed by the Tuskegee Institute as a lynching victim, was found working in a fertilizer factory. Said he: "I heard I was lynched but didn't pay any attention to it."

Balance

In Shreveport, La., while Winifred Parker, 18, was taking instruction in artificial respiration, her small niece lost her balance in shallows of a pool 25 feet away, drowned.

Appeal

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