The Era -- Day By Day

[Harp]

Looking over yesterday's Feiler divorce proceeding post game recap with 200 inchoate assaults,
countersuit contest, recordings, so forth ad infinitum, my sympathies for the learned judge.
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Meanwhile back at the Gulag: Monocle-the-maniac-hun-Prussian-Junker seems fit to be tied.
Burma, hardly a short stop in the brains department brings a lot to the table.
And, undoubtedly to bed.

 

[Fading Fast]

[
(Today will not be a good day to talk to Assistant Attorney General John Harlan Amen.)...

No kidding, that is a big defeat.

... (As of this fall, it will be eighteen years since J. Hartford Oakdale left then-teenage Peggy Bungle at the altar. And yet Jo's loathing of the man continues to blaze with an unquenchable fire. You've got to admire her dedication to her core principles.)...

"Dying-duck look," I get it from context, but that is a new one to me.

... (Ahhhh, shoulda paid the little extra for the Goodyear Blowout-Proof Lifeguards!)

The Skull did not read the first rule in the Fedora Lounge Rulebook for Killing a TV, Movie or Comic-Strip Enemy: "Always kill your enemy as fast as you can and, then, check carefully to make sure he or she is dead."

"People, this is a perfect example of what we've talked about in the training sessions. You'll notice that Mr. Skull did not check the bodies in the car and just assumed that Dan Dunn is dead. That is a blatant violation of rule number one and will get you into trouble every single time. I don't want to see any of you making this mistake in your own comic strips."

... I realize that they need to get in the contest blurb somewhere, but c'mon! This is the dullest Page Four ever. And I bet Miss Elsinor Belk has spent her entire life saying "WITH AN S! Thanks, Mom."...

It is the dullest Page Four ever. I've noted it before, but it really feels as if there are two (or more) editors for Page Four. One seems to like the salacious stories, another loves true crime and, perhaps, a third leans toward politics and other boring stuff. Today, we'd say Page Four has a branding issue as it's sending its customers a mixed message about what it is.

...
"Joe D." Speaking on behalf of Dom and Vince?...?

It is funny that 1941's audience seems to have the same passion about this plot twist that 2021's Fedora Lounge readers feel based on our posts.

... Seriously? Where's Nick when you need him?...

"Lizzie, I'm ready to come back anytime."

...
Yeah, this is gonna be swell...

Yup, I've worked for a few of his type.

 

[Harp]

Lana, luminous pearl exquisite rose sweet wonderful young lady ruby beyond price, please awaken.
________

And Skull's guys didn't neither spread no dust around for them full nelson buildings take-downs, no waysz.

 

[ChiTownScion]

I smell a not too thinly disguised jab at organized labor by Mr. Gray over the next hill. Hope that I'm wrong.

 

[Harp]

^^^Daddy BigBucksWarbucks meets town riff raff. All biz n' politics are local.

Madigan resigned his seat in the Illinois House and quit as head honcho Illinois Democrat Party.

Feds are closing in.

And the kid Mike chose to replace him in the House two days ago has had to resign. Ethical concerns.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Party lines came down in the State Assembly today over rival bills intended to expedite the leasing of buses necessary for the removal of the Fulton Street L, with Democratic Minority Leader Irwin Steingut and Assemblyman Robert Crews, both of Brooklyn, meeting today to issue a joint statement in support of Mr. Steingut's original bill. The two measures differed on administrative matters, but worked toward the same goal, and today the two assemblymen agreed to combine efforts to secure passage of Mr. Steingut's bill since it was the first to be submitted. "For a great number of years, we have both been fighting for the removal of the Fulton Street L which has retarded the progress of Brooklyn," declared the two. "We are both thankful that the long fight to remove this eyesore, which has met so many obstacles, has finally reached a successful conclusion." It is expected the Steingut bill may be reported out of committee today, but a formal vote of endorsement by the City Council is required before it may go to the full Assembly. That endorsement is expected to emerge from a special Council session tomorrow.

Britain responded to Adolf Hitler's threat of "unlimited submarine warfare" by pounding the German U-Boat base at Brest last night in one of the heaviest bombing attacks of the war. It was the 41st RAF raid on the Nazi submarine port at Brest since the Germans established it there.

There will be no peace for the United States if Britain falls to Hitler. So stated Senator James E. Murray (D-Montana) in a statement of support for H. R. 1776, the Administration's Lease-Lend bill for aid to Britain, in the U. S. Senate today. "There can be no peace for our country if Hitler wins," declared the Senator, "because his system is at war with ours -- and we will eventually clash."

("Gee, if I get t'em jools, I'll hafta share 'em wit' Ma. Or maybe she'll take alluvum an' I won' get none. Maybe I shudda jus' hocked 'em right t'en an' t'ere. I cudda hidda money in my room, she nevva goes inn'eah, she'd nevva know. *Sigh* I wisht I'd jus' keppon wawrkin, nevva ev'n pickedum up...")

At Echo Lakes, New Jersey, two fourteen-year-old boys armed with a hoard of rifles and shotguns held off local and state police last night in a three-hour confrontation at a barricaded four-room bungalow. The youths, armed with five rifles and two shotguns, fired at least a hundred shots at police before they were routed from the bungalow with tear gas bombs. Emmet Jones and William Hunter, both of Paterson, were arrested on the scene and charged with juvenile delinquency. Police found additional weapons inside the bungalow, including an assortment of knives, an Army bayonet, and about 500 rounds of ammunition. It is believed the two youths are connected to a series of burglaries at summer camps around Echo Lake.

A 54-year-old widow who starved to death this week in an Old Law tenement in East New York has a 21-year-old son in the Army, and authorities are trying to locate the young man to advise him of his mother's death. Mrs. Mary Reid died yesterday of cardiac failure related to starvation, and her 16 year old son Sylvester, who is also starving, cannot remember the post to which his older brother Harold was assigned. Harold joined the Army last year after failing to find a civilian job, and was last known to have been assigned to the 1st Division, 16th Infantry, Company B. Sylvester quit school last year to join the National Youth Administration, thru which he managed to secure only part time employment.

An amateur boxer is in custody on charges of attacking a woman in a brutal assault around midnight near the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park. Twenty-two year old John Bednarz of 203 19th Street was picked up by a radio patrolman shortly after the attack on 43-year-old Miss Alice Hillman of 665 Vanderbilt Avenue, who told police he seized her from behind, threw her to the ground several times, flung her against a park bench, and stole her pocketbook containing $30. The pocketbook was found intact in bushes, where Bednarz flung it as he fled, but the suspect could not explain two women's compacts he had in his pocket, neither of which belonged to Miss Hillman. Miss Hillman was treated this morning for scalp lacerations at Jewish Hospital. Bednarz will be arraigned today in Brooklyn Felony Court.

"How get experience? How grow?" I hope this was bad editing and not an extremely faulty attempt at dialect.

(It's a lot, lot easier to do this in a 1940s car than it is in a 2010s car.)

(Oh my. Any right-thinking person would crawl across the Brooklyn Bridge on their bare knees to see this show. The movie, is, of course, a masterpiece, and Tony Pastor has a pretty swell band. And what I wouldn't give for a chance to hear Ella Logan live -- the finest jazz singer Scotland ever produced, och aye. The only weak spot on the bill is Mr. Blue, who, if he is "the All American Half-Wit," somehow always ends up displaying the wrong half. But hey, a good chance to go out for a candy bar.)

(The only time I actually ran away, it was raining, so my best friend and I hid under her parents' bed for six hours. It didn't really accomplish much.)

("I seenim foist!" yells Grace. "Ya dint neitha! I seenim foist!" counters Mae. "Ya too old fah 'im!" growls Grace. "T'em cloe's ya go on is olda'n me!" grumbles Mae.")

Van Mungo looked good in his first game outing of the spring, throwing two effective innings for Red Corriden's Gray Team in an intrasquad game at La Tropical Stadium yesterday. Mungo appeared to have his old speed back, with the 30-year-old reclaimed righthander allowing one run and two very scratchy hits. Corriden says he watched Van closely for any change in facial expression that might have indicated pain in his shoulder, and saw none. Red's conclusion is that Mungo's arm is in good shape -- but how much endurance he'll have is another question to be settled. No one knows if the rebuilt arm will hold up for a full nine innings, and that's a question that won't really be answered for another month or so.

Chuck Dressen's White team won the game 9-4. Kirby Higbe looked good in his first mound outing in a Dodger uniform, but both sides displayed extremely ragged and sloppy fielding. Old Poison Paul Waner slapped the first pitch he saw from Hig down the right field line for a triple and appeared exceedingly pleased with himself.

The matter of Owen vs. MacPhail may be inching toward a resolution, with no agreement between the Dodger president and Bill Terry on a possible trade that would send the recalcitrant backstop to the Polo Grounds in exchange for Harry Danning. Owen remains at his home in Missouri, but recent telephone negotiations have him asking for $10,000 plus $1500 in incentive bonuses, and Larry willing to give him $8500 along with $1000 in incentive bonuses. Owen made $6500 with the Cardinals last year.

Fred Allen will drop his "People You Didn't Expect To Meet" feature effective this week, meaning New York City Water Waste Watchman Robert J. Divinney will not appear as originally scheduled. In place of the segment, heard on Allen's show since 1938, the comedian will present "The Average Man's Round Table," with randomly selected members of the studio audience invited onstage to discuss a question of the day with Allen. The new format will give the comic expanded opportunity for his ad-lib conversations, which often end up going places Allen never imagined they would. In the industry, the spot is known as "Watch Allen Talk His Way Around This One."

(Actually, these two kinda deserve each other.)

(And just like that, whatever Oakdale was planning to pull shifts to Plan B. Because he's always got a Plan B.)

(Allen Saunders, the "Allen" of "Dale Allen," has four children. And it's pretty obvious he's got some issues with that.)

(The Skull may be a terrifying and sinister criminal mastermind, but that doesn't mean he can't casually relax on his desk with his leg up like that.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

And just like that, Page Four is Page Four again. And you don't often see "The Neighbors" go for topical material, but this one's a pip. How did George Clark get a look at my bathroom?

Wait, didn't he just freeze to death horribly as the infected stump of his newly-amputated arm left a trail of blood in the ice and snow? Oh, KroNe, you said. Never mind.

Look, let's just get the Fulton Street L down first, OK, and then we can worry about the rest of this crap. Besides, Bedford Avenue is ten times worse.

Something tells me Punjab and the Asp will be along any time now.

Hmmm. Wheels within wheels.

Tracy knows he could catch heat, so he's already buttering up the media.

"Hey, that's not a bad idea at all!"

I give the whole setup two weeks, tops, before it blows.

Mush is going to handle this himself, and if Moon gets knocked around a bit in the process, well, wouldn't that just be too bad.

Hey, remember all that two-timing stuff you two pulled on each other in high school? If you listen close you can hear the gentle clucking of chickens coming home to roost.

 

[Fading Fast]

...At Echo Lakes, New Jersey, two fourteen-year-old boys armed with a hoard of rifles and shotguns held off local and state police last night in a three-hour confrontation at a barricaded four-room bungalow. The youths, armed with five rifles and two shotguns, fired at least a hundred shots at police before they were routed from the bungalow with tear gas bombs. Emmet Jones and William Hunter, both of Paterson, were arrested on the scene and charged with juvenile delinquency. Police found additional weapons inside the bungalow, including an assortment of knives, an Army bayonet, and about 500 rounds of ammunition. It is believed the two youths are connected to a series of burglaries at summer camps around Echo Lake....

Holy Cow - that's a Hollywood-style gunfight.

... (And just like that, whatever Oakdale was planning to pull shifts to Plan B. Because he's always got a Plan B.)...

This is pretty crazy stuff even for the Bungles. The only "answer" that brings it back to earth is if all that's been happening has been a hallucination of George's. Otherwise, the disappearing stuff is in "Twilight Zone" land.

...
And just like that, Page Four is Page Four again. And you don't often see "The Neighbors" go for topical material, but this one's a pip. How did George Clark get a look at my bathroom?....

Yes, this is what we turn to Page Four to read. It seems as if the tawdry-sex editor and the true-crime one agreed to split the page today.

...Look, let's just get the Fulton Street L down first, OK, and then we can worry about the rest of this crap. Besides, Bedford Avenue is ten times worse.....

... I give the whole setup two weeks, tops, before it blows......

As the kids say, IRL, there is no way this new boss would put up with Wilber's BS.

.. Hey, remember all that two-timing stuff you two pulled on each other in high school? If you listen close you can hear the gentle clucking of chickens coming home to roost.

I'm glad to see that Harold, at least in theory in his own mind, has decided on Lana, but who know what this idiot will do under pressure.

 

[Harp]

Skull's guys didn't neither spread no dust for thems full nelsons no wayze, n' nows didn't no led spredsz.
No shave ana haircuttarze ona dat Tommy, no wayze ana no hang afta ta bee stingz sures.
Skullze guys ain't no Yankeesz murdarz row. Ainte even playin ball herez. Geeze.

 

[LizzieMaine]

A Brooklyn Navy Yard guard is being held on a charge of first-degree manslaughter after a wild drinking party at the mansion of a Long Island socialite ended in the shooting death of a 34-year-old equestrian master. Thomas Gallagher of 44 Beverley Road, in Brooklyn's Kensington section, was arrested by Nassau County police following the shooting of John Gormley, proprietor of a riding academy at Lake Success, and a riding companion of Grover Whalen, during the drinking party at the $30,000 mansion of Mrs. Mary Gerken in the fashionable Russell Gardens section of Great Neck. Mrs. Gerken, who was reported to have been huddled in a bedroom with Gallagher at the time of the shooting, is being held for questioning in connection with the incident. Her husband, Mr. Edward Gerken, retired automobile dealer said to be "away on vacation," is said to be a relative of Edward A. Ridley, eccentric millionaire who was shot to death in his dark and dungeon-like real-estate office in 1933, a crime which remains unsolved.

Gallagher told police during questioning overnight that Gormley had broken down the locked door of the bedroom, and that he shot the man in self defense. Gallagher formerly operated a gasoline filling station in Great Neck, and was married only a few months ago. He has a permit to carry a gun. How he happened to know Mrs. Gerken and how he happened to be at the drinking party has not been disclosed.

(Take THAT, Daily News Page Four!)

(Well, yeah, he could, but knowing Sparky he'd probably find a way to screw it up. How 'bout we just get Bungle to send it into the Fourth Dimension?)

The Eagle has been "authoritatively informed" that the necessary votes have been pledged by the City Council's Public Service Committee for approval of a necessary Home Rule resolution which would, in turn, clear the way for approval in the State Assembly of the Steingut Bill. The Council meets today in special session to consider the required action, which if given will in effect clear the way for the leasing of buses necessary before the Fulton Street L can be razed.

East and West African troops of the British Empire have taken the capital city of Italian Somaliland, advancing 210 miles in three days, pushing Italian troops ahead of them, before arriving at Mogadiscio last night.

The rape and robbery yesterday of a 23-year-old Newark housewife may have been committed by the same man responsible for the murder of Mrs. John Papas, Bronx housewife, earlier this month. Mrs. Emil Barone told police that she was attacked by a young man who called at her apartment posing as a friend of her husband, and assaulted her when she invited him in, a crime nearly identical to that leading to the death of Mrs. Papas on February 4th. Police believe that either the same man is responsible for both crimes, or the assault on Mrs. Barone was committed by a man inspired by reading newspaper accounts of the Papas case.

(Yeah, but it is it "irradiated?" Or don't they do that to baked hams? If we have to go all the way out to Ozone Park, I think we're entitled to know.)

(There was a time when communities and their newspapers had a real practical and emotional bond. I miss those days.)

(The dangling shoe is a nice detail.)

Mr. J. Whitlow Wyatt arrived in Havana yesterday after an excused absence of a week, spent getting into shape at in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Mr. Wyatt has a bit less hair on the top of his head than he did last season, but more to the concern of Mr. Durocher and company is the condition of Wyatt's knee. The big righthander went 15-14 last season after a season-ending knee injury in 1939 caused much fear and concern among the Brooklyn brass. As soon as Whit ambled onto the field yesterday, Leo put him thru a new drill designed to get pitchers "off the mound muy pronto" as the locals say. Coach Red Corriden slaps grounders at a rapid pace back at the mound and forces the hurler to scramble to cleanly field them. If there's any kind of knee problem, this excercise will quickly reveal it -- and the good news is, Whitlow was stepping like a colt, high and fast and accurate. This drill was followed by a session of shagging fungoes in the outfield, and once again, Wyatt seemed to be moving quick and without evidence of pain. The pitcher is promising to have the best season of his career in 1941, and Durocher intends to hold him to that.

Pitcher Hugh Mulcahy of the Phillies is the first major league player to receive his draft notice. Mulcahy will report to the Army on March 15th after his efforts to seek an exemption fell short. Meanwhile, it appears that Hank Greenberg, Tiger star, is a near-certainty to be taken by the Army around the first of July, with the 1940 American League Most Valuable Player having been placed in Class 1 by his local draft board. The slugger had sought a six-month deferrment allowing him to play the entire 1941 season, but that request was rejected.

(And yet we still haven't gotten "The Great Dictator." Phooey.)

(Well, you might not like him Hedy, but he'd go over big like that at a drinking party in Great Neck.)

(Note how Hartford slips his oily hand around Peggy's shoulder in panel four. THE BOLD FAKER.)

(Yeah, that's right -- wasn't Ted just another sappy Cafe Society playboy when we first met him? Explains why he's such a swell dad.)

(Only in the Dunniverse is a "Secret Operative" so widely known that he rates banner headlines by name any time something happens to him. And probably buried down on the bottom of the page it says "Fat Guy Messed Up Too." Oh, and that's yet another uniquely unflattering hairstyle on poor, desperate Kay.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Poor Mrs. Gerken. This won't go over well with the Great Neck Wednesday Afternoon Ladies Literary Luncheon League. It won't go over well AT ALL.

"June Blossom?" "Valentin Edouard Blacque?" The line between real life and a John O'Hara short story can be exceedingly thin.

"Aw, we was just kiddin'! Can't a fella have any fun?"

"I'm serious. I made my billions in the last war. This one's on the house."

Well, I thought "The Gumps" would take the flu-epidemic and run with it, but looks like Mr. Gould has his own ideas about that.

If this means Terry's going to run into Moe Berg, I'm all for it.

It's clearly Walter Winchell. "What goose-faced knob-head has been riding the Main Stem and dipping his beak in the gigglewater?"

You think so, Chigs? YOU REALLY THINK SO?

At last, the Dan Dunns of the Criminal Underworld. YELL A LITTLE LOUDER BOYS.

"In For A Penny, In For A Pound."

 

[Harp]

Good luck Terry with the new gig.

Moe---hit .249 neighborhood at Princeton, subsequent knee injury crippled pro plate performance.
And of course he always had a rifle arm. He toured Japan with Ruth, coached, and spied on the side.
Berg really a versatile player.

 

[Fading Fast]

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A Brooklyn Navy Yard guard is being held on a charge of first-degree manslaughter after a wild drinking party at the mansion of a Long Island socialite ended in the shooting death of a 34-year-old equestrian master. Thomas Gallagher of 44 Beverley Road, in Brooklyn's Kensington section, was arrested by Nassau County police following the shooting of John Gormley, proprietor of a riding academy at Lake Success, and a riding companion of Grover Whalen, during the drinking party at the $30,000 mansion of Mrs. Mary Gerken in the fashionable Russell Gardens section of Great Neck. Mrs. Gerken, who was reported to have been huddled in a bedroom with Gallagher at the time of the shooting, is being held for questioning in connection with the incident. Her husband, Mr. Edward Gerken, retired automobile dealer said to be "away on vacation," is said to be a relative of Edward A. Ridley, eccentric millionaire who was shot to death in his dark and dungeon-like real-estate office in 1933, a crime which remains unsolved.

Gallagher told police during questioning overnight that Gormley had broken down the locked door of the bedroom, and that he shot the man in self defense. Gallagher formerly operated a gasoline filling station in Great Neck, and was married only a few months ago. He has a permit to carry a gun. How he happened to know Mrs. Gerken and how he happened to be at the drinking party has not been disclosed.

(Take THAT, Daily News Page Four!)...

Seriously, and this story is just getting started.

...
(Well, yeah, he could, but knowing Sparky he'd probably find a way to screw it up. How 'bout we just get Bungle to send it into the Fourth Dimension?)...

Or they could put The Gumps in charge of demolition and, somehow, they'd end up building onto the existing L.

...The rape and robbery yesterday of a 23-year-old Newark housewife may have been committed by the same man responsible for the murder of Mrs. John Papas, Bronx housewife, earlier this month. Mrs. Emil Barone told police that she was attacked by a young man who called at her apartment posing as a friend of her husband, and assaulted her when she invited him in, a crime nearly identical to that leading to the death of Mrs. Papas on February 4th. Police believe that either the same man is responsible for both crimes, or the assault on Mrs. Barone was committed by a man inspired by reading newspaper accounts of the Papas case....

Frightening, but a good connect and might help the police solve it.

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(There was a time when communities and their newspapers had a real practical and emotional bond. I miss those days.)...

So do I. The town I grew up in, in the '70s, had two local papers (one very local and one covered a larger area) and people were very passionate about which one was "better."

... (Note how Hartford slips his oily hand around Peggy's shoulder in panel four. THE BOLD FAKER.)...

Did you notice how George keeps changing places with Hartford in each panel: in panel one and three, he's to Hartford's right and in panel two and four, he's to Hartford's left. Is that part of George's new power to move things? If so, kudos to Tuthill for subtlety; if not, it's kinda sloppy.

...[ (Yeah, that's right -- wasn't Ted just another sappy Cafe Society playboy when we first met him? Explains why he's such a swell dad.)...

Challenge, even back then, there were several ways to monetize "locked-up" long-term investments (for a fee).

... (Only in the Dunniverse is a "Secret Operative" so widely known that he rates banner headlines by name any time something happens to him. And probably buried down on the bottom of the page it says "Fat Guy Messed Up Too." Oh, and that's yet another uniquely unflattering hairstyle on poor, desperate Kay.)

Opera.

Also, at some point, Kay's got to get the message and move on.

... Poor Mrs. Gerken. This won't go over well with the Great Neck Wednesday Afternoon Ladies Literary Luncheon League. It won't go over well AT ALL....

That League is all in a tizzy right now feigning shock and remorse, but happy as heck in truth as this beats the usually boring luncheon conversation.

The nickel is a bit much. Back then, it was worth a little less than a dollar is today. When you find a dollar on the ground today, you look around to see if it is obvious who just dropped it and give it to them; if no one is around, it's yours. To do more is to fetishize your "honesty" for public display.

...
"June Blossom?" "Valentin Edouard Blacque?" The line between real life and a John O'Hara short story can be exceedingly thin....

And her full name is "Junior Blossom." That can't be her birth name, but it appears that it is. How did that conversation go between her mother and father at the time?

And this story has so much going for it right down to her $1-a-year-man father being accused of fraud. Was this in a supplement to Page Four?

... If this means Terry's going to run into Moe Berg, I'm all for it....

Or Alice Marble and be the proof we need for her story.

But let's ask the question that's on everyone's mind: what's happening to Hu Shee?

... "In For A Penny, In For A Pound."

This idiot does not deserve Lana.

 

[Harp]

Harold is about to be schooled methinks. A life long lesson he should realize some profit from.

Hu Shee methinks is waiting in the wings. Too fetchingly lovely to be simply lost in an air attack.
Bucky now, quarterback sneaker, no problemo, begone knave.

 

[LizzieMaine]

June Blossom "relaxed in the rams of Willis Duncan."

We didn't need that detail.

 

[Fading Fast]

June Blossom "relaxed in the rams of Willis Duncan."

We didn't need that detail.

No we did not.

But 444 E 57th St., where all that relaxing took place, is still there and it's a quite-nice Sutton Place address at that:

 

[Harp]

No we did not.

We, no, but....

Marital complaint charge, as other sundry subjects found under the Sun, are fairly detailed rule summary
memorandum of alleged allegations for court record. Criminal conversation or extramarital relations with
a woman married to another. Cuckoldry by any other term is classified under horns with accurate
detail, specifics.

In military lingo, code named S.A.L.U.T.E.: Size, activity, location, unit, time, and equipment.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ten people were killed and six others, including famed flyer Eddie Rickenbacker, were injured early today in the crash of an Eastern Air Lines sleeper plane in a pine thicket fifteen miles east of Atlanta, Georgia. The fourteen-passenger plane carrying thirteen passengers and a crew of three from New York to Atlanta was torn to pieces as it caromed off a wooded knoll shortly after 1 AM, but the wreck was not reported until six hours later, after one of the injured passengers had managed to summon help. Six men and a woman, all passengers on the flight, managed to pull themselves out of the wreckage unaided, but it took nearly an hour to free Rickenbacker, World War aviator and president of Eastern Air Lines, who was conscious but appeared to have suffered a badly-crushed back. Among those still unaccounted for are U. S. Representative William D. Byron (D-Maryland), H. A. Littledale of New York, an assistant managing editor of the New York Times, and Mrs. Clara Littledale, editor of Parents' Magazine.

Eastern Air Lines officials say the plane came in at an altitude of about 4000 feet over Stone Mountain as it approached Atlanta, dropping to 1800 feet as it approached the airport, and reported that it was "on the beam." But with weather conditions over the airfield lowering the ceiling to 300 feet, it was decided to bring in the plane by radio triangulation -- and the plane was not heard from again after it began that procedure.

Officials of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Lackawanna, N. Y. appealed to the Erie County sheriff for protection, claiming "out of control violence" from striking workers representing the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, CIO. Local police in Lackawanna report only minor acts of violence at plant entrances as the company attempts to bring strikebreakers across the picket lines. Shortly after 11 PM last night, strikebreakers attempted to force their way across the picket line in vehicles, but their windshields were broken by bricks thrown by strikers. A 38-year-old strikebreaker was treated for minor injuries when he was knocked down by a car driven by a picket. The company claims that local police and Lackawanna town officials are working in league with the CIO to prevent efforts to keep the plant operating on National Defense work.

(It really is a startling resemblance. Hey kid, when you're done there, I think there's a truckload of artichokes you need to stop.)

With the City Council having taken the necessary Home Rule action to endorse passage of the Steingut Bill, the State Assembly's Public Service Committee is expected today to report out legislation intended to clear the way for the leasing of buses necessary to the removal of the Fulton Street L, bringing the passage of the bill one step closer to completion.

A 51-year-old Manhattan man stands a good chance of earning the title of "Meanest Man in New York City" after allegedly swindling a blind man who operates a cigar and newspaper stand in the Central Courts Building out of $5. Dennis Sheehan of 41 W. 48th Street attended the trial of cardsharking racketeer Hyman Caplin earlier this month as a spectator, and during a courtroom recess stopped by the stand operated in the building's lobby by John Rovengo and asked him to cash a $5 check. Rovengo, a friendly man well liked by all who have business in the courthouse, readily agreed -- but found, when attempting to deposit the check, that it was actually a worthless slip of paper. Police arrested Sheehan at his home, and a review of his record found that in 1937 he had cheated a taxicab driver out of $10. In 1922, he served a term in the Atlanta Federal Prison for impersonating an immigration officer.

Balkan diplomats heard today that Soviet Russia has raised formal objections to the passage of German troops across Bulgarian soil, and that Yugoslavia is now preparing to defend itself against a possible Nazi incursion of its territory.

(Here's a Frank Capra movie just waiting to happen.)

("Yep," says Sally. "Ruby Stevens. She din' graduate, t'ough. If she hadda graduated, she'da knowed enough notta marry 'at pill Frank Fay." "All'ey do at 'Rasmus is ma'ch aroun' an' holla, seems ta me," grumbles Joe. "Woise'nnat Brooklyn Collitch.")

With spring training well underway for Our Dodgers, the question of radio broadcast sponsorship appears finally to have been resolved -- without the contribution of any Brooklyn manufacturer. "Brooklyn is out of the picture this year," stated Eugene Thomas, sales manager of station WOR, who noted that eight local firms that had expressed an interest in picking up a half share of the broadcast time, but were unable to find the necessary sum in their advertising budgets to cover the expense. However, an informed source tells the Eagle that General Mills of Minneapolis, Minnesota, which had covered a one-third share of the Dodger sponsorship in 1939 and 1940 has agreed to take a half share in 1941, teaming with Lever Brothers Company, soap manufacturers of Cambridge, Massaschussets. If this agreement is confirmed it means that Red Barber and Al Helfer, who are under personal contract to the cereal firm, will return to the Dodger microphone in 1941.

A settlement of the conflict between the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and the radio networks may be several weeks away, and is rumored that any agreement will require the intervention of the Federal Government to resolve differences yet remaining in the wake of ASCAP's acceptance of a Federal anti-trust consent decree. It is rumored that the National Association of Broadcasters is willing to offer ASCAP a flat fee of $2,500,000 for the use of its music on the air, but this sum is barely half of what radio paid the Association in 1940. Some NAB members are calling for an armistice, which would allow ASCAP music to return to the air while negotiations continue, but ASCAP is said not to be at all amenable to that suggestion.

(This is way too bland. At least put a half a teaspoon of mustard powder in with the cheese.)

(Lichty applied for that editorial cartoonist job over at PM, and this was one of his samples.)

The Dodgers begin their spring exhibition season tomorrow, and their opponents, Les Gigantes, have already arrived in Havana for the festivities. Tomorrow's game marks the first exhibition game the Flock has ever played in the month of February, and will be the first of three against the Terrymen. Manager Durocher is relieved that both Babe Phelps and Mickey Owen are now reported to be on their way to camp, with the Blimp having overcome, at least for the moment, whatever fears had kept him away. Owen is still not signed, but it is expected that he will finally come to terms once Larry MacPhail has a chance to back him into a corner and jab him in the chest a few times with a pointing finger.

Higbe will start for the Dodgers tomorrow, going three innings. Bill Swift will do the middle three, and Curt Davis will wrap up. The rest of the lineup goes like this -- Reese SS, Waner RF, Reiser CF, Medwick LF, Camilli 1B, Lavagetto 3B, Coscarart 2B, and Franks C. Except for Owen or Phelps in the catching slot, the smart money predicts that this will be the same lineup you'll see at Ebbets Field on April 15th.

(Mr. Cohn hits it exactly right here. What makes this picture work so well is that it's HENRY FONDA who's the chump. It wouldn't be the same at all with an actor known for comic roles.)

(Non-GMO eggs are the only way to go.)

(When George finally does wake up from this, he's going to be terribly disappointed.)

(Oh, PLEASE DO.)

(You know, it's kind of refreshing to see a woman in the comics with no -- cares -- left to give. Yeah, the dog will take care of the kid. Whatever.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

This has been a depressing week for ex-showgirls.

Page Four runneth over. This doesn't quite sound like the "wild drinking party" it was described as yesterday. Good thing they've all had a chance to "get their stories straight."

Just waiting for the internet to be invented.

Note how Daddy's blank, expressionless eyes make it easy to read whatever you want to read into his emotions here. Mr. Gray's writing is certainly open to criticism, but he clearly knew exactly what he was doing with his art.

If Hu Shee really is out there anywhere, now would be a good time for her to show up.

Mask up, boys.

I'd give a lot to know exactly how she described Andy.

I'd expect Wilmer's nose to be a bit browner than it is here, but I guess he's only just getting started.

Once again, the smartest guy in the room.

Start packing, kid.

 

[Fading Fast]

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A 51-year-old Manhattan man stands a good chance of earning the title of "Meanest Man in New York City" after allegedly swindling a blind man who operates a cigar and newspaper stand in the Central Courts Building out of $5. Dennis Sheehan of 41 W. 48th Street attended the trial of cardsharking racketeer Hyman Caplin earlier this month as a spectator, and during a courtroom recess stopped by the stand operated in the building's lobby by John Rovengo and asked him to cash a $5 check. Rovengo, a friendly man well liked by all who have business in the courthouse, readily agreed -- but found, when attempting to deposit the check, that it was actually a worthless slip of paper. Police arrested Sheehan at his home, and a review of his record found that in 1937 he had cheated a taxicab driver out of $10. In 1922, he served a term in the Atlanta Federal Prison for impersonating an immigration officer....

I've mentioned this before, but I've known (as a customer) a few blind newsstand guys in the city - back in the '80s-'00s - one in the heart of the financial district and, amazingly, they were almost never cheated.

It was quite a thing to see as thousands (yes thousands) of people streamed by every day and bought papers, gum, etc., from the Wall Street area stand and all on the honor system. People would take what they needed, make change from either a bowl on one of the paper stacks or from a cigar box at his stand's window and shout a quick hello - it really was something.

...With spring training well underway for Our Dodgers, the question of radio broadcast sponsorship appears finally to have been resolved -- without the contribution of any Brooklyn manufacturer. "Brooklyn is out of the picture this year," stated Eugene Thomas, sales manager of station WOR, who noted that eight local firms that had expressed an interest in picking up a half share of the broadcast time, but were unable to find the necessary sum in their advertising budgets to cover the expense. However, an informed source tells the Eagle that General Mills of Minneapolis, Minnesota, which had covered a one-third share of the Dodger sponsorship in 1939 and 1940 has agreed to take a half share in 1941, teaming with Lever Brothers Company, soap manufacturers of Cambridge, Massaschussets. If this agreement is confirmed it means that Red Barber and Al Helfer, who are under personal contract to the cereal firm, will return to the Dodger microphone in 1941....

This is good, but a shame a few local firms couldn't have stepped up. I'm sure they thought about selling "quarter shares," etc., but the money must just not have been there.

... (Oh, PLEASE DO.)...

I miss Leona.

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(You know, it's kind of refreshing to see a woman in the comics with no -- cares -- left to give. Yeah, the dog will take care of the kid. Whatever.)

It's on par with the way Tracy neglects Junior.

... Page Four runneth over. This doesn't quite sound like the "wild drinking party" it was described as yesterday. Good thing they've all had a chance to "get their stories straight."...

Being 1941, this thing will be at trial by the summer versus today when it would take two years.

My first on-the-books employer was Stern Brothers, pretty much just "Stern's" by then, but still, the old name would pop up from time to time on stationary or in legal stuff, etc. and, of course, older customers liked to call it by the old name.

Fun fact, Bloomingdales was original named Bloomingdale Brothers Great East Side Bazaar, shortened to Bloomingdale Brothers and, then, just Bloomingdale's. This older store annex and sign still exists right across the street from the famous department store at 59th Street:

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If Hu Shee really is out there anywhere, now would be a good time for her to show up.....

Of course she's still out there. I don't want to live in a world without Hu Shee (did I just say that out loud?).

... Mask up, boys.....

I've seen enough movies to know that nothing good happens to you in a steam cabinet as that's where your enemies usually lock you in and turn the heat up. Might even need to add a section to the Fedora Lounge Comic Strip Rulebook on it.

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I'd expect Wilmer's nose to be a bit browner than it is here, but I guess he's only just getting started.....

If Mr. Chigger sees right through Wilmer - and I think he will - then I'll be happy to revise my opinion of him way up.