--- description: Haste In Atlanta, Ga., Negro Willie Boston shuffled into a municipal hospital with a two-hour-old baby in her arms, demanded to know if it was "all right." Assured it was, she admitted she... title: Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1936 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1936 by [TIME](/author/time/) Jul 27, 1936 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jul 27, 1936 4:00 AM CUT Haste In Atlanta, Ga., Negro Willie Boston shuffled into a municipal hospital with a two-hour-old baby in her arms, demanded to know if it was “all right.” Assured it was, she admitted she was the babe’s mother, trudged off with it to resume her housework. Trapper In San Francisco, Hyman Gorwitz, father of eight, irked when neighborhood moppets overran his backyard, buried heavy steel wolftraps there, baited them with counterfeit dimes. Before Trapper Gorwitz could catch anything, adult neighbors scaled his fence, dug up two of his traps, had him jailed for would-be assault on their children. “I’m the easiest fellow there can be if I’m treated right,” insisted Hyman Gorwitz. Nose In Detroit, John Drotar, onetime trolley motorman, cut off the end of his wife’s nose. Explained Husband Drotar: “She was putting her nose into my business so I sliced it off.” Noise In Hempstead, N. Y., Burglar Emil Gross heard a noise, leaped into a bed, yanked the covers over his head, was caught by police snoring ostentatiously between Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Dayton, whom he had intended to rob. Buttons In Columbus, Ohio, with the thermometer at 101°, patrolmen leaned intently over their cruiser radios, heard an announcement: “Calling all cars . . . calling all cars. . . . All policemen in radio cruisers may unbutton their coats. That’s all.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6891604/miscellany-jul-27-1936/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6891604/miscellany-jul-27-1936/"},"headline":"Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1936","datePublished":"1936-07-27T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-19T20:02:10.852Z","description":"Haste In Atlanta, Ga., Negro Willie Boston shuffled into a municipal hospital with a two-hour-old baby in her arms, demanded to know if it was \"all right.\" Assured it was, she admitted she...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6891604/miscellany-jul-27-1936/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6891604/miscellany-jul-27-1936/","name":"Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1936"}}]}] ```