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Alone on his ranch 75 mi. from San Diego, Calif. Chainstoreman James Cash Penney was seized with acute appendicitis. By chance one Fred Steves was trying out an airplane overhead. Mr. Penney rushed into one of his fields, waved his arms wildly. Down came Fred Steves, hurried Mr. Penney to the hospital.
Mrs, Karl Bickel, wife of the president of United Press, going ashore from Chain-publisher Frank Ernest Gannett's yacht Widgeon at Summerville, N. Y. (on Lake Ontario) after a holiday cruise, stepped into dark space, plumped into the water. Alert Publisher Gannett, 54, dived after her, brought her to the surface.
The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia refused to suspend sentence on Albert Bacon Fall, Harding-time Secretary of the Interior, convicted of accepting a bribe while in office, sentenced to a fine of $100,000 and a year in jail. But Judge Thomas J. Bailey recommended, in view of an Army medical report that Mr. Fall was suffering from chronic tuberculosis, chronic pleurisy, heart trouble and arthritis, that counsel apply to have the sentence changed to a year-&-a-day. That would give the U. S. Attorney-General power to select for ailing Convict Fall a jail outside the hot District of Columbia. Convict Fall gladly agreed.
*A Rocky Mountain girl for whom the King was rumored to have paid $3,000. Prince Willie's wanderings were said to have been induced by the King's refusal to pay $3,500 for a princess from Chicago.