Miscellany, Feb. 24, 1958

Clearinghouse. In Milwaukee, John R. Helinski, 36, explained to cops that he had taken his father's $130 railroad retirement check and forged it so he could repay his father the money he had stolen from him.

Where Was Moses? On Norfolk Island, Commonwealth of Australia, the choir and congregation of St. Barnabas Chapel were left in darkness as the newly installed generating plant conked out during the singing of "Lead, Kindly Light."

Hat Trick. In Richmond, Joseph Linisus Hall, 35, settled for 20 years on an armed-robbery rap, complained bitterly that someone had stolen...

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