Miscellany: Recruits

In Lostant, Ill., having applied for U. S. citizenship, Siamese Twins Lucio and Simplicio Godino, 27, Filipinos, were notified by the U. S. Immigration Bureau that they could not be given naturalization papers unless they served three years in the U. S. Army.

Toothbrushes

In Brooklyn, as firemen fought into a blaze in the office of Dentist Irving Winter, ten gross of toothbrushes with composition handles exploded, injuring seven firemen, two of them seriously.

Poison

In Fair Lawn, N. J., when someone stole the little white pig on which John Clauss conducts his experiments in pig medicine, Clauss advertised that the pig had just been inoculated with a poisonous serum, added. "I just want the people who took my white pig to know that my other pig is filled with poisonous serum too."

Survivor

In Baltimore, Md., railroad men unlocked a refrigerator car that had been locked eleven days before in California, found Glenn Boldan, 14, who had run away from his home in Motley, Minn. Half-frozen, exhausted and starving, Glenn Boldan had survived by chewing on his shoetops, his cap and the seeds of several cotton bolls he had bought for souvenirs in California, by sucking on ice he pulled through a chink in the refrigerator.

Unloved

In Paterson, N. J., returned home after a runaway trip to Manhattan, Max Wilemchik, 14, told newshawks, "I lost my dog from the garage after I locked the door myself. The pup was smart. Still, he couldn't unfasten the door himself. I figured it all out and it seemed to me that mom and pop gave the pup away, because he tracked mud into the delicatessen. You know how that made me feel. If they didn't like my dog they didn't like me. I'm going to look for my dog. I think I know where he is. If he isn't, well, I don't know what I'll do, but this isn't all washed up yet, bet your boots on that."

Chase

In Toledo's Baltimore & Ohio railroad yards. Locomotive Engineer E. A. Black saw Jesus Luna nagging a small boy to buy narcotics, chased Luna on foot and lost him, ran back to his locomotive, chased Luna with the locomotive, caught him.

Anti

In Manhattan, as on preceding birthdays (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934), newshawks sought out beautiful, little white-whiskered Dr. Charles Giffen Pease on his 81st birthday. Dr. Pease obliged: "My friends, I can tell a poison addict at a glance. I go into the park to walk. I pick out the children who are receiving cocoa, a drink as noxious as the poisonous alcohol. How can I tell? By the degeneracy of the skin, and the tissue around the eyes. It is unfailing. 'Madam,' I say, 'your child is receiving cocoa.' 'Yes,' she replies, 'our physician advised it.' 'Madam,' I say, 'when you administer cocoa to your child, you are giving the dear little one a poisonous drug.' . . . Oh, if the human race would but live right, what a beautiful people the human race would be."