Home Front. In Des Moines, Kenneth Sonderleiter, proprietor of a lunch stand and a zoo, unable to get materials to build a winter house for his two lions, announced that his menus would soon offer lionburgers. In Manhattan, OPA went into action against a coal dealer whose fuel, added to any fire, managed to put it out. In Chicago, members of the Restaurant Association hopefully adopted a new plan to keep their waitresses happy—offered to send them through music school. In San Diego, OPA ordered rent reductions by a woman who had rented as living quarters her home, her old garage, her new garage, a tent on her lawn, a bed under a canopy in her back yard.
Good-Natured Cop. In Manhattan Traffic Patrolman Thomas P. Glennen prepared to retire, having served 27 years and issued six summonses.
Foresight. In Lamar, Colo., Carl Moore stepped into an insurance office, got a policy on his new car, stepped out, found the car had been stolen.
The Strenuous Life. In Ligonier, Pa., a pig bit a rope dangling from a barn, tugged, swung a scaffold out from under Painter John Graham. He pitched forward, grabbed a knothole, dropped his brush on the pig, which let go. This let the scaffold swing back under Graham, who settled aboard and relaxed.
Champ. In Shelby, Mont., Louis Hillebrand's false teeth dropped into a conveyor at a refinery, two days later bobbed up in another part of the factory savagely clenching a beet.
Prop. In Chicago, Mrs. Josephine Skrodenis won a divorce when she complained that her husband, a murder-story fan, took up most of her evenings making her lie on the floor as the "corpse" while he tried to reconstruct the crime.
For Services Rendered. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Marjorie Craycroft sued Attorney Don Kitzmiller, complained that after collecting $6,290.32 for her mother, he had kept $6,100 for fees and expenses.
Loot. In Millbury, Mass., Police Chief Fred H. Vulter announced that thieves had pried out eight manhole covers weighing 220 lb. apiece.
Lucky Private. In Pocatello, Idaho, the sole survivor of a plane crash was Private John J. Lucky.
Homework. In Topeka, Kans., Dog-catcher Arland Smith, asked by Washburn University biologists for some fleas, hunted and hunted in his dog pound, found not a one, went home and searched his own dog, got 20.