Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1951

Demand & Supply. In Korea, the 2nd Division's 38th Regiment requisitioned a portable generator and two typewriters, later received a candle and two pencils.

Purple Heartbeats. In Scranton, Pa., the Times announced that "Edgar Clarkson and Anna Mae Thomas will be wounded in Lenoxville Methodist Church at 3 p.m."

Stranger In the House. In Norborne, Mo., Alex Stroud, 58, returning home unexpectedly after serving a two-year jail sentence for chicken-stealing, got a rifle bullet in the shoulder from his son, who mistook him for a burglar.

The Night Watch. In Philadelphia, Morgan J. Lewis,...

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