Pigs Is Pigs

In Pearl River, La., Station Agent R. H. Alexander accepted 288 crated rabbits ordered by a Texas oilman to populate a swamp on a 10,000-acre preserve. They were delivered, but next day came 120 more which the addressee refused. Awaiting instructions for their disposal, Station Agent Alexander got 204 more bunnies.

Furiously he and his daughter labored to feed the living, bury the dead, nurse newborn. Came 170 more and Station Agent Alexander turned them all loose in the swamp. Next day he heard that 1,000 squirrels, 1,000 raccoons, 1,000 opossums were on their way to him.

Expenses

In Omaha, Bolus J. Bolus, unsuccessful candidate for municipal judge, filed his campaign expense account with the Election Commission. Item: "Ten cents for aspirin the day after election."

Solo

In Flint, Mich., Factory Worker William Zarogny, 26, climbed into an airplane for a flying lesson before his instructor had got aboard, opened the throttle by accident, zoomed downfield toward a crowd of children. Clutching the stick, he roared aloft. While firemen, police and an ambulance assembled, he made several bungling attempts to land, then made a neat three-point landing before them all.

Asleep

In Chicago, Theodore Weber was fined $1 and costs for his faulty judgment in choosing to go to sleep on the tracks of the North Western Railroad, stalling two suburban trains until a policeman could be found to rouse him.

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