A Story With
Teeth In It
DETROIT — Through the cour
tesy of a citizen—name not re
vealed—Fireman Herbert Wendt
has his teeth back .
Wendt was driving a truck to a
fire with five other firemen riding
when he sneezed. At the same
time he struck a bump in the
pavement. His mouth flew open
and his upper plate flew out. It
bounced on the seat beside Wendt
and then bounced into the street.
Wendt could not stop—not with
a fire to put out. But he only re
cently got the plate and it fitted
well. Wandt looked back hopeful
ly. A man was crossing the street
on foot. Wendt waved to him and
pointed frantically at the teeth. He
saw the citizen pick up the plate.
An hour later, with the fire out,'
Wendt came back in search of hi
teeth. At the scene he found noth
ing—no teeth and no citizen. So he
went to a nearby police station.
Lieut Ralph Souder pulled an
upper plate out of a drawer.
“A man brought this in here a
little while ago,” he said. ‘‘He told
me a fireman lost it. Can you
identify this property?”
Wendt opened his mouth and j
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CHICAGO, (/P) — A 21-year-old
wife and her 66-year-old husband
are the parents of a 15-pound
baby girl, the largest child born
in the history of the Chicago ma
ternity center.
Mrs. Lucille Asmus, mother of
a three-year-old daughter, last
night gav'e birth to her second
child. A resident physician of the
maternity center who delivered
the child at the Asmus’ north side
home, said the mother and baby
were doing fine.” The father,
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—
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bother trying to figure the odds,
but the bridge foursome at this
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pointed. Lieut Souder looked at
the vacancy. He pushed the plate
across the desk.
“That’s good enough for me,” he
said.
They Can Get It for
You Wholesale!
MONTPELIER, Ohio—This city
of 4,000 population has become a
mecca for automobile dealers since
Michigan authorities have begun
investigating automobile title
transfers on Michigan used car
lots. Just south of the Michigan
border and only 140 miles by high
way from Detroit; Montpelier’s
weekly automobile auction—for
dealers only—has developed into
a spectacular show featured by
brick bidding and high prices.
An observer reports at least 150
cars sold in six hours on an aver
age day with most of the
fered for sale bearing
license plates.
Most of the bidding is being
done by dealers from Iowa, Ten
nessee and Texas. Observers are
impressed by the insistence of sell
ers on the highest possible prices,
many of them refusing to let cars
go at bid prices which do not
measure up to expectations. One
observer says he saw a bid of
$2,200 rejected as too low for a
1947 Chevrolet which cost $1,375.61
in Detroit.
Among prices reported paid are
the following:
A Studebaker Commander,
which sells new without accessor
ies, for $2,000, went for $2,610.
A Buick super convertible, cost
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mg about $2,591 new in Detroit,
brought $3,450.
A Ford super de luxe coupe,
which sells new' in Detroit for
$1,496.37, without accessories, was
knocked down for $2,100.00.
A Mercury, which would list
new in Detroit for $1,751.94,
brought $2,450.
A bid for $2,300 for a Plymouth
convertible was rejected by a
dealer who insisted on $2,375. A
bid of $2,125 for a Ford Tudor
was refused as $75 light.
All prices are dealer-to-dealer
prices, with the purchaser expect
ing to resell at a profit to their
customers back home.
“I’m not aiming to eat this car,”
remarks a dealer from Des Moines
Iowa, who paid $2,365 for a 1947
Chevrolet complete with radio and
accessories. “The market’s high
out my way.”
A dealer from Galveston, Tex.,
says he has picked up four cars so
far and “I mean to get me more.”
The auctioneer and two helpers
shouted the merits of offered cars
over loudspeakers and dropped all
pretense that any car with less
than 1,000 miles on it wras a “used
car.”
“This car still has the paper on
the door,” the auctioneer exclaim
ed in one instance to prove the
car’s newness. In other instances
he explained mileage figures as
due to “going from auction to
auction.”
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CHICAGO, (/P)—George Thom
as, maitre de soda fountain, has
designed a mounmental sundae.
He builds it of ice cream of six
different flavors, strawberries,
peaches, cherries, pineapple,
marshmallow, pecans, fudge and
bananas. The finished pyramid
measures 14 inches from base to
peak, costs $1, and may be shared
by several customers.
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