Miscellany, Dec. 9, 1946

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Shooting Affair. In Rio de Janeiro, Teodoro Salim saw a woman walking with his fiancee, shot at her, was arrested, said he thought he was shooting his future mother-in-law.

Shucked. Near Elvira, Iowa, Farmer Donald Rawson tumbled into a corn-picking machine, got out alive but husked buff-bare.

Line Play. In Washington, Mrs. Anne McGinnis fell from a fourth-floor fire escape, landed on a clothesline which flipped her into a second-floor apartment, only slightly injured.

Bed Rock. In Ketchikan, Alaska, Mrs. Fred West awoke suddenly from a sound sleep, found that a construction blast had dropped a huge boulder on the pillow next her head.

Relativity. In Otterville, 111., Cousins Oscar and Bert Dabbs, whose mothers were sisters and whose fathers were cousins, became stepbrothers when Oscar's widowed mother got married to Bert's widower father.

Juggernaut. In San Diego, Dmitrios Gianules's empty car started rolling, knocked him unconscious, dragged him 66 feet, ran up an incline, careened back, hit him again.

Plus Signs. In Baltimore, Charles Henn Jr., forced to live in his parents' apartment with his wife, son, three brothers and a sister, learned that his wife would soon have quadruplets.

Burglar Alarm. In The Bronx, thieves hijacked Otto Meucci's truck in the night, drove it only a few minutes, quickly abandoned it when its horn short-circuited, arousing the neighborhood with its deafening blast.

Money to Burn. In the Bitter Root Mountains, Idaho, Bob Hart went on a mountain goat hunt, needed a fire to keep from freezing, could find no kindling, had to use $100 worth of uncashed checks.

Weatherbeaten. In Reedsport, Ore., Lifer John Tuel, who had broken out of the Salem State Penitentiary in the midst of an Oregon rainstorm, stumbled into jail ten days later, pleaded: "Lock me up. I just can't stand this weather."

Deep Dish. In Tuckahoe, N.Y., Mrs. Lathrop Barnaskey heard a crash in her cellar, found that a pastry truck had filled her coal bin with pies.

Return Address. In Midland, Pa., James Aeschbacher stole Ernest Albert's car, a few days later called for a blind date, found she was Albert's daughter.