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NEW for the HOME

Sun Naps won’t lead to lobster complexions if you use this gadget which shuts off lamp automatically. Good for pressure cookers and other appliances. Paragon Electric Co., Two Rivers, Wisc.

Fireproof Shade made of unfilled cotton cloth with vinyl plastic coating. Conventional window shade, left, blazes while coated one, right, resists flame. Stewart Hartshorn Co., New York.
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Can you only be granted a Darwin award in the year you died? Because this guy surely deserves one.

Makes World’s Most Foolish Bet
TO a Philadelphian goes the prize for making the world’s most foolish bet. He laid a wager with companions that he could chew up a big Fourth of July torpedo. While trying to win the bet, however, the explosion tore his cheeks loose, drove the roof of his mouth into his nose, killing him.

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END OF ANOTHER NAZI DREAM . . .
THIS WAS GERMANY’S FLIVVER
“PEOPLE’S CAR” PROMISED BY HITLER IS ERSATZ JEEP

BACK in the thirties, when Germany’s war preparations were weighing heavily on her people, Nazi leaders dangled before the public a vision of a wonderful “poor man’s car” soon to pour from the factories. It was to be an automotive marvel, light, fast, roomy, and inexpensive; and it would reward Germans for the low wages, long hours, and shortages.
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