The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

"Hah!" says Joe. "I thought you said goils f'm Flatbush was refined!" "Whaya mean?" retorts Sally. "T'em goils is f'm Crown Heights! Sez rate t'ere! G'wanwityez!" "Yahhhh," jeers Joe. "Same diff'nce, same 'zackt diff'nce!" "Well anyways," says Sally, "t'em goils di'n go ta Erasmus. Prolly wenta Goil's Commoicial, ya know? Can't trus' t'em Commoicial goils fa nutt'n."

 

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As we talked about yesterday in the "Bachelor Living" thread, my first few apartments in the '80s had refrigerators similar to this one:

Yes, some Clark Gable, but I'm also picking up a little bit of Thomas Dewey in Smilin' Jack. Also, what, no cool aviator outfit for Smilin' Jack - he looks like he walked out of the pages of "Esquire" and into his airplane.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Jack didn't start out with that moustache -- he grew it early in the run of the strip to look like popular air-racing personality Roscoe Turner:

Jack does sometimes wear flying togs, but otherwise he's as much a clotheshorse as Harold Teen.

Mr. Dewey has always reminded me of Moe Pep, from the Pep Boys auto parts stores. Jack's lip adornment isn't quite as flossy as Mr. Turner's, but it also lacks the substance of that worn by Mr. Dewey, who sort of makes me think that he uses the same moustache-grooming products as Andy Gump. Be careful of exploding cigars!

That Tribune book page is really something. Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Martin Dies. One of these things is not like the others.

 

[LizzieMaine]

French Premier Marshal Henri Petain is en route to Paris from Vichy where he is expected to sign a new agreement with Germany that will supersede the existing armistice between the two nations. Petain's trip is generally interpreted in informed quarters that the conference this week between Vice Premier Pierre Laval and German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler succeeded in achieving a "German compromise" concerning France's role in "Europe's new order."

British Vice Air Marshal C. H. B. Blount burned to death today when his plane crashed into a tree during takeoff. Blount had commanded the RAF division in service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, and was regarded as one of the ablest flyers in Britain.

Former Governor Alfred E. Smith last night denounced the New Deal and a third term for President Roosevelt before a cheering throng of rebellious Democrats at the Academy of Music. Today, Smith sat in his office at the Empire State Building drafting another speech in his freshly-launched campaign to convert his former friend and ally into an ex-President. In his Brooklyn address last night, the former Governor heaped scorn and ridicule upon the President, accusing him of being the "primary apostle" for stirring up "class strife and intolerance among the American people." The dramatic high point of the speech came when Mr. Smith ripped off his glasses, waved his arms, and asked "what has happened to this country that a lovely lady like Mrs. Willkie cannot be in a crusade with her husband to save this country without being splattered with eggs and having her clothing destroyed?"

Meanwhile, the Republican presidential nominee charged that reelection of the President will create "one of the greatest panics in history." Responding to the President's speech last night in Philadelphia, Mr. Willkie, speaking from his private campaign train in Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, asserted that "unless the President fulfills his 1940 campaign pledges better than he fulfilled his 1932 pledges, our boys will soon be sailing in transports" to take part in a foreign war.

The President himself never mentioned Mr. Willkie at all in his Philadelphia campaign speech, declaring that "it is for peace that I have labored, and it is for peace that I shall labor all the days of my life." The Chief Executive, speaking at Convention Hall, charged that the Republican Party has made repeated false statements about him during the campaign, statements reflecting "certain techniques of propaganda created and developed in dictator countries."

Isidore "I Paid Plenty" Juffre was on the witness stand today in Brooklyn Supreme Court to testify in the trial of Sam Gasberg, charged with kidnapping and torturing Juffre and Isaac Wapinsky in league with gangster Joe Adonis. Juffre described the August 1, 1932 incident as growing out of a confidence game he, Gasberg, and Wapinsky had plotted, with wealthy Manhattan Beach resident Meyer Shapiro the intended victim. The plot eventually netted $10,000, which after expenses left each man with $1600 profit. Juffre was subsequently summoned to a meeting with Adonis concerning "a new piece of work," but when he arrived at the gang lord's home near Prospect Park, he saw men with guns and ice picks waiting for him. A rope was twisted around his head and neck while the gangsters demanded to know "where's the $30,000?" Juffre testified that one of the men was Albert Anastasio, reputed high official of the Brooklyn Murder For Hire gang.

The Communist Party has been ruled off the ballot in the State of New York following a campaign by the American Legion charging that insufficent valid petition signatures had been gathered in support of the candidacy of Earl Browder and James Ford for President and Vice President. Party officials announced they will file an immediate appeal of the ruling.

(How can ice cream be "streamlined?")

(AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW)

Prominent Republican supporters of the President will conduct a series of radio talks over station WOR under the auspices of the Committee of Regular Republicans For The Reelection of President Roosevelt. Tomorrow night at 10:45 PM, Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania will speak, on Tuesday night at 10 PM, columnist Dorothy Thompson will speak, with her talk also carried over the full Mutual network, and on October 31st at 10:45 pm, playwright Robert Sherwood will be the speaker.

(There is no truth to the rumor that "Comin' Round The Mountain" was originally titled "Attack Of The Second Bananas.")

(Meat pies for Halloween is a tradition that somehow got lost along the way.)

(Someday all this will move to television.)

The final reckoning of World Series money has taken place, with each full second place share netting the Dodgers $974.87 apiece, an increase of about a hundred dollars per share over the third-place money for 1939.

Meanwhile, the Flock is officially done with Clearwater, Florida, with the Dodger office announcing that 1941's Spring Training will take place in Havana, Cuba. The new international camp brings complications for the ball club under the conscription law, with each man requiring a special permit allowing them to leave the United States. The front office anticipates no difficulties in obtaining the necessary paperwork before training camp opens in February.

Dodger manager Leo Durocher will leave his St. Louis home tomorrow for an extended vacation in Utah. He'll meet up there with several of the Brooklyn players, including Herman Franks, Curt Davis, and Cookie Lavagetto for an elk-and-deer hunting expedition, with Franks, an experienced woodsman, serving as guide. The trip will wrap up by November 15th, when Durocher is due to visit the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for his annual physical examination. Joe Medwick is also due to meet with the Mayo Brothers at that time.

Stockholders of Loft, Inc, candy manufacturers, and the Pepsi Cola Company, Inc. will vote on November 22nd on a plan to merge Loft into the soft-drink firm. Application would then be made to list Pepsi Cola in place of Loft on the New York Stock Exchange.

(Sparky may be but a young man, but he is already an astute observer of the political scene.)

(George isn't confused by the figures being thrown around, he's confused because he's used to always being the craziest one in the room.)

(Yeah, better take Dennie along -- or you'll end up tied to a chair in somebody's cellar.)

(Mr. Marsh explores expressionism.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Pity he couldn't make it to America, there's bound to be a Rumanian restaurant that needs a new doorman.

I wonder what goes into a 25 cent cocktail?

If I were writing a political novel set in 1940 and I needed a good name for a colorful Irish party operative, I'd be very upset that "Tommy The Cork Corcoran" was already taken.

DAMMIT SAM STOP TALKING IN RIDDLES

Yeah, at least let Raven get dressed first.

Junior really needs to cut back on his sugar intake.

Somewhere, Arthur Miller is reading "Gasoline Alley" and thinking, "yeah, I can do something with this."

"Psst, Andy. You could turn sideways and squeeze right thru those bars."

You never get anywhere in life if you don't take the initiative.

Look, at least try to hold onto some of it until you get home. You want poor old Pop Jenks should go broke?

 

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(How can ice cream be "streamlined?")...

You're focusing on the wrong thing; they said the new flavor was chocolate marshmallow. Now, out of my way, I have to get to the store.

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(Someday all this will move to television.)...

Pre-pandemic, this exact scene, only in 2020 clothing, was still playing out everyday all across NYC.

...Stockholders of Loft, Inc, candy manufacturers, and the Pepsi Cola Company, Inc. will vote on November 22nd on a plan to merge Loft into the soft-drink firm. Application would then be made to list Pepsi Cola in place of Loft on the New York Stock Exchange...

Lofts was still around in the '70s and '80s, but even as a kid, you could tell the brand was tired.

... (Yeah, better take Dennie along -- or you'll end up tied to a chair in somebody's cellar.)...

Nice to see Mary with some fight back in her. Now that we've got the story, I vote for Mary going to the police to have Leach arrested for blackmail and letting the chips fall where they may for her no-good son. That said, I'll bet Leach doesn't have anything on the son anyway.

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(Mr. Marsh explores expressionism.)

Very operatic too, the only real way to understand Dan Dunn.

Also, just noting, the five minutes of advanced warning Dan was able to give wouldn't have made a squat of difference to the success of the attack.

... Pity he couldn't make it to America, there's bound to be a Rumanian restaurant that needs a new doorman....

That Klempa admitted that Mrs. Rubin was pleading for her life when she stabbed her is chilling.

... DAMMIT SAM STOP TALKING IN RIDDLES...

As we've noted before, Annie is always outgunned in her verbal battles with Sam, but give her credit, the kid does not quit. Peg is a singer, so there's always a chance that she could hit it big quickly, especially, in comic-strip land.

... Look, at least try to hold onto some of it until you get home. You want poor old Pop Jenks should go broke?

Like most of us, I've seen this happen IRL and it's painful to watch as you know where it is going, but you can't stop the person.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Italian planes have for the first time joined in with German raiders in the bombing of England, according to reports from the German High Command. The Italians started from bases in occupied territories, according to a German communique, which added "through well-aimed bombs they scored great successes against port facilities in the east of the British Isles."

Meanwhile, Britain's air power continued to blast at the foundations of German war power, with strikes against Berlin, Hamburg, and a dozen other German war production centers. A German broadcast monitored by NBC in New York stated that the number killed in Berlin and Hamburg was "extremely high," and it was claimed that "indiscriminate bombing of the civilian population" by British planes was increasing.

President Roosevelt stated today that he intends to serve out a full four year term if he is re-elected this year. The question answered by the President at a White House press conference today was promoted by rumors that the President would retire in favor of Vice President Henry Wallace if the present national emergency abates before the expiration of his third term in 1945. The President emphasized in denying that rumor that his objective for a third term would be "to make work for every young man and woman a living fact."

Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, aboard his private train en route to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, today insisted that President Roosevelt declare whether he intends to seek a fourth or fifth term in the White House if he is elected to a third. Appearing last night in Jamestown, New York, the Republican nominee suggested that if "experience" qualifies Mr. Roosevelt for a third term, then he should be even more qualified for additional terms in the future. Meanwhile, Willkie supporters in Brooklyn today renewed their challenge for the President to debate their candidate in person on the stage of the Academy of Music either on October 30th or November 2nd. Members of the Brooklyn Committee of Democrats for Willkie issued the challenge in the form of a telegram to the President this morning, promising that Mr. Willkie would rearrange his personal schedule in any way necessary to appear with the President in such an event.

The Brooklyn Eagle will announce its endorsement for President in Sunday's edition. The paper has heretofore refrained from taking an editorial stand in the Presidential race to ensure that both sides have adequate time to state their case before the American people.

A floor-laying concern and three individuals will face fines of up to $160,000 each and jail sentences totalling 152 years after being convicted of illegally padding contracts with the WPA for work in nine Brooklyn schools. The firm of J. Greenbaum and Sons, 360 Ralph Avenue, along with a company vice president, the son of a district official in the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and an accomplice of that individual, were all indicted on charges that they engaged WPA workers to do the floor-laying in the schools, and billed the WPA for the full cost due under a union agreement -- but paid the workers less than the stipulated union wage. The scheme cheated the workers and the Government out of "many thousands of dollars."

Communist Party presidential candidate Earl Browder today charged before the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee that his removal from the ballot in New York State was politically engineered to ensure that Communist votes in New York go to the Democratic ticket. The Communist Party was ruled off the ballot in New York this week following allegations by the American Legion that it had failed to adequately comply with petition-signature requirements in the state.

(Never mind the ridiculous contest, it's time already for our Second Annual Era Day By Day Cheap Thanksgiving Dinner Competition! And it's Loft first on the board at 55 cents. Who's next? Childs? H&H? The Pierrepont? Eddie at the Midwood? Howard Johnson's? Let the gravy flow and the competition begin!)

Draftees chosen for military service under the conscription law will have five days to wrap up their personal affairs before they are required to report for induction. New rules signed into law by the President today also mandate that men will be not be assigned to specific camps until it is certain that adequate facilities are available to house them on those bases.

(And for that matter, where would the Dodgers land their plane? Mr. MacPhail, you better get involved here before it's too late!)

Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas brought his campaign to Brooklyn last night, calling on the United States to solve its own problems -- including and especially "ending its own race discrimination, before embarking on this so-called war of liberation which in reality is the old imperialistic war." Citing acts of racial discrimination he has witnessed while campaigning, especially in the South, Mr. Thomas said "I am not speaking disparagingly but truthfully when I say that America has to solve its own racial problem first."

(What, no licensed characters? How is poor Mr. Disney going to meet his payroll?)

(No no no. It's Henry Tremblechin and Caspar Milquetoast. If you're going to use comic-strip pushovers to shame your would-be customers, at least get their names right.)

The Andrews Sisters, always popular with Brooklyn vaudeville audiences, are headlining again at the Flatbush Theatre this week, with the usual crowd of platter-loving jitterbugs and swing hounds out in force to see them, with Joe Venuti, master of the jazz fiddle, leading the accompanying band. It's an entertaining enough show, but not up to the standard of other recent Flatbush bills. Comedian Steve Evans is not funny, and his imitations are especially not good. When he tries to roar like the MGM lion, he sounds exactly the same as his imitation of Popeye. The Three Sparks do a tap routine that's at least competent, and Kay Starr is a good singer we hope to hear more of, but there's not much else of interest.

(Harold and Shadow -- The Early Years.)

Attendance for today's special Mayor's Proclamation promotion at the World's Fair was suppressed by bad weather, with just 88,700 persons passing the gates as of 2 PM today. The fine weather yesterday set a new weekday record with 200,519 paying guests. The Fair has just two days left to run before it closes forever.

Coach Jock Sutherland is warning his Football Dodgers to take the Eagles seriously, as the Brooklyn gridders prepare to face the Philadelphia club tomorrow at Shibe Park. While he acknowledges that the game next week back in Brooklyn against the Giants is probably going to be a more exciting contest, that's no excuse for soft-pedaling tomorrow's game. Sutherland will send his boys out tomorrow minus tackle Bruiser Kinkaid, whose gashed hand has become infected, an injury that will positively keep him out of the lineup for another week.

Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers was overwhelmingly approved as the collective bargaining agent for emplyoyees of the Leviton Manufacturing Company in Greenpoint, where workers have been on strike since August. The election conducted under the supervision of the National Labor Relations Board certified the IBEW by a margin of 18 to 1.

(Yet another of Sparky's amazing super powers -- super-cynicism!)

(Deposit that check NOW and don't look back.)

(A CORRUPT SIGN PAINTER! Well, that's something new.)

("Mr. Marsh, the boy is here to pick up this week's strips. They need to be at the engraver by 5." "Just a minute, I'm not done yet!" "Sir, they really need to go NOW." "One more plane, just let me draw one more plane!")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"Your honor, the courts have held that a man is drunk only when he is falling on his face." Yeah, I'm going to have to see a citation on that.

Just once before the campaign is over, I'd like to see this page printed entirely in lower-case type.

Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before.

Got anybody particular in mind?

Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick....

Didn't Dan Dunn do a shady parking-lot story involving kid dupes? Or was that an actual real-world shady parking lot story involving kid dupes? And those are obviously not noise-cancelling earphones.

Note than Bim can't even be bothered to listen to what his lawyer has to say about any of this. HE'S A BUSY MAN.

Told ya those slippers were gonna get you in trouble. Maybe you should try wearing cleats.

Apple polisher. Where's Godiva when we need her?

Get yourself too slicked up there kid, and people will think you're a gangster. Which would be an interesting twist for the story to take. (Meanwhile, the careful attention to realistic detail in panel two makes Minstrel Shoeshine there even more egregious.)

 

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....[ (Never mind the ridiculous contest, it's time already for our Second Annual Era Day By Day Cheap Thanksgiving Dinner Competition! And it's Loft first on the board at 55 cents. Who's next? Childs? H&H? The Pierrepont? Eddie at the Midwood? Howard Johnson's? Let the gravy flow and the competition begin!)...

I would prefer not to know the number of chocolate cherry cordials I have consumed in my life.

From memory, H&H came in first or second last year in the inaugural Annual Era Day By Day Cheap Thanksgiving Dinner Competition. Does anyone clearly remember who won it? As the only self-service establishment, H&H has a clear cost advantage.

And, yes, Loft's contest becomes no clearer despite the numerous times I've read its explanation.

... (And for that matter, where would the Dodgers land their plane? Mr. MacPhail, you better get involved here before it's too late!)...

And they say how you word a question in a survey can bias the outcome.

... (What, no licensed characters? How is poor Mr. Disney going to meet his payroll?)...

What's a "peanut girl" costume (checks notes), oh, "peasant girl," never mind, carry on.

At least half of those costumes would not make it past today's cultural police.

... (No no no. It's Henry Tremblechin and Caspar Milquetoast. If you're going to use comic-strip pushovers to shame your would-be customers, at least get their names right.)...

Somebody in the Eagle's marketing department should be getting a little extra in his or her Christmas bonus envelope for landing the Bond account this year.

After forty plus years of seeing the big Bond store in Times Square in photos and film clips, it's interesting to see how it marketed itself as the Times Square store's location and size said it had to be a mass-market effort.

... Sutherland will send his boys out tomorrow minus tackle Bruiser Kinkaid, whose gashed hand has become infected, an injury that will positively keep him out of the lineup for another week....

In a pre-widely-used antibiotic era, this is no small concern.

... (A CORRUPT SIGN PAINTER! Well, that's something new.)..

Cutting and pasting yesterday's comment: Nice to see Mary with some fight back in her. Now that we've got the story, I vote for Mary going to the police to have Leach arrested for blackmail and letting the chips fall where they may for her no-good son. That said, I'll bet Leach doesn't have anything on the son anyway.

And in the Daily News...

[ "Your honor, the courts have held that a man is drunk only when he is falling on his face." Yeah, I'm going to have to see a citation on that....

The Sleeping Beauty story is heartbreaking; this woman needs real help that I'm thinking 1940s psychiatry doesn't have to offer.

From what I've read, Mrs. Brooks deserves way more than $125/wk for what she went through.

Interesting about LaGuardia's summer offices - was that just to escape the heat? Seems odd for a populace mayor as what does it say to all the workers sweltering away in the city who don't have "summer" offices to escape to.

... Didn't Dan Dunn do a shady parking-lot story involving kid dupes? Or was that an actual real-world shady parking lot story involving kid dupes? And those are obviously not noise-cancelling earphones....

I remember a used-car ring or are you thinking of something else?

 

[ChiTownScion]

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Get yourself too slicked up there kid, and people will think you're a gangster. Which would be an interesting twist for the story to take. (Meanwhile, the careful attention to realistic detail in panel two makes Minstrel Shoeshine there even more egregious.)

I found out that Harold's illustrator, Carl Ed (pronounced, "Eed") was a longtime resident of Evanston, Illinois, a fairly progressive community and home of a major university (Northwestern). Your observation raises the issue: were such illustrations the only way in which people of color were portrayed in comic strips eighty years ago, or were there less stereotypical efforts? There's a lot of literature out there about portrayals in animated films, but as to the daily and Sunday newspaper funnies, not so much.

 

[LizzieMaine]

That was it -- that dopey car-stripping story that went on forever. Incidentially, I don't think we've seen Kay and Babs since then. Are they still running up a bill in that hotel, against a diminishing hope that Dan will ever return?

I think the deal with the Summer City Hall was that it was out in Flushing near the Fair, so that Hizzoner could immediately swoop down upon the scene if anybody tried to run slot machines or a girlie show.

I think H&H won , but somebody else was surprisingly close -- have to look it up.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I found out that Harold's illustrator, Carl Ed (pronounced, "Eed") was a longtime resident of Evanston, Illinois, a fairly progressive community and home of a major university (Northwestern). Your observation raises the issue: were such illustrations the only way in which people of color were portrayed in comic strips eighty years ago, or were there less stereotypical efforts? There's a lot of literature out there about portrayals in animated films, but as to the daily and Sunday newspaper funnies, not so much.

If you look at "learn cartooning at home" courses of the 1910s-30s, you see that particular sort of big-lipped doodle as one of the standard figures students were taught to draw, so I think most cartoonists had just absorbed the figure as part of the standard visual language of the comics. A lot of figures in the funnies seem to come from a similar root -- you can see similarities in the way George Bungle and Andy Gump are drawn, for example, or Min Gump and Jo Bungle. All the cartoonists put their own stamps on the figures, but they all seem to come from common archetypes.

That being said, you can make the argument that most cartoonists of the time weren't thinking "I'll be racist today" when they drew black characters this way -- they were simply following along with the accepted visual language of their profession without giving it any thought. That nobody did seem to give it any thought is where the racism comes in -- it was institutional more than individual.

But there were occasions where you could see the artist trying to find another approach. Ed himself sometimes seems to be trying to moderate the standard design -- avoiding the solid-black skin in favor of shading, more realistic proportions of the body, etc -- although today's certainly looks like a step backward.

I think the only cartoonist we've seen so far who makes a real effort not to use this visual trope is Dale Connor of Mary Worth. The only black character we've seen in that strip was a railroad redcap, but he wasn't drawn to look like a minstrel. It'll be interesting to see if she does that again.

I'll also cite Frank King. He drew Rachel, Walt's housekeeper, in the stereotypical "Mammy" style thruout the 20s and 30s, but when she turns up again during the war years, the character will be completely redesigned to look like a reasonably realistic middle-aged Black woman.

The last time I can remember the minstrel-like figure being used unironically in a regular syndicated strip was in a "Dennis The Menace" panel in the early 1970s. It's really astounding that such a thing could last so long, but it shows how deeply ingrained it really was.

 

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That was it -- that dopey car-stripping story that went on forever. Incidentially, I don't think we've seen Kay and Babs since then. Are they still running up a bill in that hotel, against a diminishing hope that Dan will ever return?

I think the deal with the Summer City Hall was that it was out in Flushing near the Fair, so that Hizzoner could immediately swoop down upon the scene if anybody tried to run slot machines or a girlie show.

I think H&H won , but somebody else was surprisingly close -- have to look it up.

I have a vague memory of a late shooter - not one of our regular restaurant advertisers - that gave H&H a run for its money, but I, too, think H&H prevailed.

Until you just mentioned them, I had forgotten all about Kay and Babs. I'm afraid that will happen to April in T&TP.

Last night, I was watching part of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and, at one point, they visit the Fair and get stuck on the parachute ride midway down. While stuck there, they got rained one. It was fun to see scenes from the Fair.

Dan Dunn does not solve his cases quickly. I think we saw that earlier this week when one feisty dress-store-owner accomplished in a morning what it took Dan and Irwin weeks to do. It's all opera in Dan Dunn world.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And for reference here's last year's Thanksgiving winner --

Second prize went to Wong's Garden on Nevins Street, offering a "Chinese Thanksgiving Special" at 75 cents.

Note that you have to pay extra for dessert at H&H, and pie is ten cents a slice, so most people will be paying 65 cents. This year's deal at Loft includes a dessert at 55 cents, so the Automat boys are going to have to step things up to repeat in 1940.

 

[LizzieMaine]

A showdown fight for the nation's millions of labor votes is underway in the Presidential campaign with the announcement by CIO leader John L. Lewis that he gives his "unqualified support" to Republican candidate Wendell Willkie. In a nationwide broadcast from his office in Washington, Mr. Lewis declared his view that "re-election of President Roosevelt for a third term would be a national evil of the first magnitude." Speaking from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the Republican candidate accepted the Lewis endorsement, calling the CIO chief "a valiant defender of labor who puts his country above all." But the endorsement of Willkie has caused a split at the lower levels of the CIO, with leaders of many individual unions within the organization wiring President Roosevelt last night with expressions of support disavowing the Lewis statement. Unions of the American Federation of Labor joined in those expressions of support for the President, with Daniel J. Tobin, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and leader of the National Democratic Labor Bureau declaring that Lewis, by coming out for Willkie, had aligned himself with those who have "tried to crucify him and crucify me."

Mr. Willkie will make his second visit to Brooklyn tonight, with addresses at Brooklyn Technical High School and Dewey Junior High School. The Republican candidate will preface his Brooklyn stops with a hasty visit to the World's Fair on its next-to-the-last day. The candidate's busy schedule has forced the cancellation of a broadcast planned for tonight over the NBC Blue network. Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. will speak instead over that network on behalf of Mr. Willkie.

With the Selective Service lottery taking place next week, a full list of draft numbers in the sequence drawn will be published in the Eagle on Tuesday and Wednesday. Men registered for the draft may determine their place on the national draft rolls by comparing this list with the number assigned to them by their local draft board.

The huge Canadian Pacific liner that carried King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on their journey to the United States in 1939 has been destroyed by German bombs, according to reports from the D. N. B. official German news agency. The "Empress of Britain," fourth largest vessel flying the British flag, reportedly foundered after air bombardment in the blockade area north of Ireland.

King George sent a message today to Premier Marshal Petain of France assuring him that his nation will share in the fruits of victory when Britain defeats the Axis. The King's message followed a statement by Prime Minister Winston Churchill directed to the French people: "If you cannot help us, do not hinder us."

The World's Fair begins its closing weekend today, with 1500 extra police on duty to guard against vandalism as crowds bid farewell to the $155,000,000 World Of Tomorrow. If weather is at all cooperative, it is expected that strong attendance over the last two days of the Fair will swell total attendance over the two seasons of the event to more than 45,000,000 persons. At present approximately 3300 persons are employed at the Fair and 2300 of them will lose their jobs as of Monday morning, with the rest to follow as exhibitors close their books and complete inventories.

A total of 813 newspapers have endorsed Wendell Willkie as the campaign season rushes to its finish, against just 289 supporting President Roosevelt. The Eagle will announce its endorsement tomorrow.

(The Zazuzaz Girl? Name another word with four Z's in it.)

Followers of Father Coughlin in Brooklyn marked the birthday of the former radio cleric with the third annual dance in his honor, held by the American's Citizens' Committee at the Columbus Club. All proceeds from the event will be sent to Father Coughlin as a birthday gift. "While I greet you for extending honor to me," said the Detroit priest in a statement to the party, "I am sensible enough to recognize that you are extending it only because I espouse the principles of Christ to the best of my ability."

The Eagle Editorialist advises you, if you have been putting off plans for a final visit to the World's Fair, to put them off no longer. This weekend marks your final chance to the big show, and it's doubtful that anyone who's been feels like they didn't get their money's worth. But if you do feel that way, here's your last chance to make it up.

("Weottago," says Joe. "I hoid t'ey got Gargantua th' ape out t'ere now. Howmenny chances you gonna get ta see Gargantua th' ape? In poisson, I mean." "Yeah, we ottago attat," says Sally. "Maybe we go one las' time I c'n fine 'at hat I los' onna Parachute Jump las' yeah."

(The Lichtys are having trouble again.)

The National Football League race is boiling, as the Dodgers take on the Eagles under the bulbs at Philadelphia tonight, while up at the Polo Grounds, the Giants fight for their very lives against the Chicago Bears. The Washington Redskins retain a close lead in the Eastern Division race, and if they win and the Dodgers and Giants both lose, the Washington club will have to go into a terrific tailspin to lose the title. If Washington and the Giants both win and the Dodgers lose, there is little hope that Jock Sutherland's Flock will be able to recover.

Night baseball may be coming to Boston next season. Owner Tom Yawkey of the Red Sox is said to be leaning heavily in the direction of installing lights at Fenway Park for 1941. Neither Boston park presently has illumination.

It's been all quiet on the television front over the past few months, since NBC's W2XBS suspended operations in August pending the installation of new equipment to bring the station into compliance with the reallocation of frequencies required by the Federal Communications Commission. The station plans to resume operations this weekend on the new Channel 1, 50-56 megacycles, with the station's former channel in the 40 megacycle band having been reassigned to frequency modulation broadcasting. Before the closedown in August, NBC had taken criticism from the FCC over its promotion of television receiver sales before the medium itself has sufficiently developed to warrant such selling, and now, with operations ready to resume, it is expected that the company will keep its programming to a limited schedule of films, occasional studio telecasts, and the rare outside pickup. An article in this week's issue of Variety observes that there seems to be a general sense of stalling in television right now, brought about by war concerns, technical uncertainties over the potential emergence of color television, and the possibility of broadcasters forming an alliance with Hollywood for the production of programming.

(Keep this up, Ranson, and you'll GET THROWN OFF THE MAILING LIST! So there!)

Most of the Broadway cast of Al Jolson's current stage hit "Hold On To Your Hats" will take their show on the road for a performance at Camp Upton, National Defense training center in the pine barrens of Long Island. Jolson himself is not scheduled to appear, but Martha Raye and Bert "The Mad Russian" Gordon will headline the show.

(Make note -- this is, so far as I know, the very first "camp show" performance by name entertainers of the World War II era. Jolson will make many, many such appearances even if he doesn't show up for this one, but Martha Raye will be even more ubiquitous on the camp-show circuit, playing more such dates than any other actress of the Era.)

(Doc clearly rues the day he ever invented that infernal machine.)

(If ever there was a "take the money and run" situation, this would have to be it.)

(I suppose Bill has to take Sunny to preserve the illusion that he's "left for good," but seriously -- if he doesn't find somewhere safe to board her, I fear for the poor kid.)

(Um.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Elaine's publicist has been on her case lately. "If you're not on Page 4, you ain't anywhere!"

Hence the expression "egging him on."

(Leonard Bates, you may recall, is the NYU football star recently barred from appearing with his team at the University of Missouri. The CPUSA is perhaps the most active force in the US in 1940 seeking to "End Jim Crow In Sports," with Daily Worker sports editor Lester Rodney leading the campaign, but the News' sports editor Jimmy Powers is also noted for his opposition to segregation.)

Yeah, but you haven't sensed the trend. It's all about egg-throwing now.

Ya don't say.

OK, well, so now I'm confused. Is that some kind of birthmark on the side of Creepy Parking Lot Guy's face or is it some kind of device disguised as a birthmark or is it just that he has a rusty eyelid that makes a noise when he winks at Earphone Guy? IT'S INTRIGUING!

What, you don't use an icepick? What would "Pittsburgh Phil" back in Brooklyn think?

What a nest of intrigue this office is.

Well now! Grandpa here is a foxy old boy from Out West who is usually a pretty sharp thinker. Harold might get home with a few dollars in his pocket after all.

Looks like Mr. Willard finally saw "The Man Who Came To Dinner."