Coup. Near Matamoros, Mexico, customs inspectors found contraband needles in a truckload of hay.
Up Eire. In Boston, Bart Butler, president of the Central Council of Irish County Clubs, made plans to protest to Congress that imitation shillelaghs are being exported to the U.S. by the Japanese.
Spirits. In Birmingham. Ala., cops got a tip and rushed to a local cemetery, dug into an odd-looking grave, exhumed a 55-gallon moonshine still, uncovered its fuel supply in the adjacent plot.
Insult. In Butte, Mont., Dennis Lambert sued Tavern Owner W. B. Booth for $16,500, charged that Booth flew into a violent rage and beat...