Mrs. Kohlbecker

In Jersey City, 67-year-old Mrs. Annie Kohlbecker sagged in her bed, overcome by a stroke. Six policemen came, struggled two and one-half hours to get her down one flight of stairs to an ambulance. She had not left her apartment since the day she arrived in a van 15 years before. Her weight: 450 lb.

Gimcrack

In Akron, O., Marvin Shearer, 70, surveyed with pride a timepiece he had completed after ten years. Big as a horse-van, more ornate than a cathedral altar, the monstrous gimcrack every hour tells the time in 27 different cities, plays a pipe organ, sings, talks. At the hour of Lincoln's funeral it intones the Gettysburg address. For the memory of President Garfield it plays "Gates Ajar," for President McKinley "Lead Kindly Light." An incidental ornament is a toy electric train.

65

In Los Angeles, Dr. John Klutho, 65, lay down in a box, touched a mechanism which fired a bullet into his head. He left this farewell :

"To Grandma--I apologize. "To my sisters--I am sorry. "To the Rest of the World--Nerts."

Biter

In Doylestown, Wis., John McMann and Russell McMann were arrested for burglarizing the general store. When the sheriff carefully fitted a piece of cheese in John McMann's mouth, found the tooth marks matched a bite taken during the burglary, John McMann confessed.

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