5 Detective Novels Magazine Cover — page 11: what you’re looking at

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JUST FOR LAUGHS & IN CHATTANOOGA, a thief snatched the purse of Miss Joan Nash on a city street, but had to do a strip tease to escape. Miss Nash grabbed him by the coat and screamed. He eluded her grasp by slipping out of his coat. Then she grabbed him by his trousers. Pants-less but panting, he went scooting down the street. @ VISITING ROME, French Police Chief Georges Mongredien became so interested in the display of some red-hot bathing beauties that his pocket was picked of a large sum of money while he stared. e ~ IN OAKLAND, CALIF., an ex-convict confessed to a robbery, explaining he wanted to return to San Quentin prison “‘to escape the high cost of living.” @ _ IN SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA, two at- tractive hostesses of the Happy Cabaret quar- reled over a boy friend and challenged each other to a duel. It was an affair of honor, con- ducted with beer bottles as weapons, and they fought until one girl was conked out cold and taken to the hospital. ® DEPUTY SHERIFFS -at - Amarillo, ‘Pex., turned down the request of a prisoner in jail. He wanted his soup warmed twice. e IN FRANKFURT, GERMANY, Police Chief Willi Klapproth, after having spent the year before studying U. S. police methods over here, was arrested on charges of brib- ery, perjury and accepting kickbacks. THE INSTALLATION of television is credited with cutting down the number of prison escapes at Raleigh, N. C. 4 a ) ) 4 / ‘ * — Ny, g LE \ é LOS ANGELES POLICE have been look- ing for a burglar with a powerful yen for fish—or a lot of mosquito trouble. He broke into the City Health department’s pest con- trol division and made off with 1000 Gam- busia Affinis, mosquito-eating fish. IT HAS COME TO LIGHT it’s against the law to carry a skeleton into a tenement house. AT THE DEDICATION of the new Pen- nington Gap, Va., jail, the first workman on the building over-celebrated—and became its first inmate. @ IN MIAMI, a thief stole 272 watches from a salesman’s car, but the crook is apt to be disappointed. Not a one will tell time. They’re all dummies, without inside works. AT GRAND PRAIRIE, TEX., Police Commissioner John Daugherty sat down to his lunch in a cafe and started crying. The horrified waitress wanted to know if the food was that bad. It turned out, though, that the trouble was that a tear-gas bomb the Com- mish had been carrying was leaking. ALL A CITIZEN of Grand Rapids, Mich., had to do to refute a charge that he’d bitten a policeman was to open his mouth to the judge. The defendant was toothless. B. E. BALDWIN, Richmond, Va., com- plained to police that an intruder who broke into his home not only drank up all the beer in his icebox, but took a nap in his bed. comiclooolkks (C(O)