Miscellany: Exchange

In Cawnpore, India, a fanatic Hindu carpenter prostrated himself at the feet of the Goddess of the Kali Temple, cut off his tongue, offered it in exchange for wisdom.

Falls

In Wantagh, N. Y., jobless Painter Louis Seltman escaped injury when a falling Army weather observation plane, abandoned by its pilot, crashed into his house. Next month a dead limb from a tree fell on Louis Seltman’s head, killed him.

Grounds

In Decatur, Ind., Mrs. Ed Newport, married six weeks, sued for a divorce on the grounds that her husband had so far refused to take a bath.

Feast

In the State of Washington, loyal Democrats of Thurston and Mason Counties disputed over which should be host for the local Roosevelt Victory Dinner, finally agreed to feast on a ferryboat anchored between both counties in the middle of Puget Sound.

Elizabeths

In New Rochelle, N. Y., brought to light after the discovery of Detroit’s “twin” red-haired Pauline Taylors (TIME, March 1) were Brunette Elizabeth (“Betsy”) Anderson, 17, and Elizabeth (“Betty”) Anderson, 17. Born the same day, both weigh the same, went to school together, stand the same height, swim, ride horseback, play tennis and badminton. Rated the same I. Q., they are unrelated. Betsy plans to write, Betty to paint.

Maniac

In Crockett, Calif., David Locke was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail for chaining his nine-year-old daughter to a bed, flaying her with a belt and hurling knife at her because she was “a virtual maniac.”

Suitors

In Newton, Mass., District Judge Harry C. Fabien upheld the police by enjoining five citizens from letting their dogs trespass on the property of Realtor Edmond M. Pulin. His 3-lb. toy Chihuahua bitch, explained Realtor Pulin, was the lure which drew the five trespassers—an English bull, a German shepherd, two collies, a Great Dane.