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Powerful German submarines and battleships today swept the Atlantic for new victims and in defiant challenge of the British Navy, a day after announcing that Nazi raiders had destroyed at least 33 cargo-laden ships in the North Atlantic. The Nazi communique claimed that among the cargo ships sent to the bottom were the first vessels carrying Lend-Lease shipments to Britain from America. But in Britain, naval officials are discounting the German reports as an attempt by the Nazis to "lure the British fleet out of its home waters."
Chancellor Adolf Hitler today issued an ultimatum to Yugoslavia demanding that nation join the Axis within two days -- and urged "the speediest reconstruction of the Yugoslav cabinet" to accomplish that purpose. Meanwhile, envoys from the United States, Britain, and Russia all appealed today to the Yugoslav government to reject the ultimatum, but it is generally conceded that these will amount to futile efforts.
"Probably greater than any crime committed by any of its inmates," declared Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer yesterday, "is the crime against the people of Brooklyn committed and maintained by the city itself in the form of the loathsome Raymond Street Jail." With the statement, Mr. O'Dwyer added his voice to the rising call to rid Brooklyn of one of the most inhuman institutions in the world. "Confining human beings in that pesthole may result in the loss of health, or even death," continued the District Attorney. "Even in the most cruel pages of penal history there is every evidence that the health of prisoners was guarded in one way or another, except in rare instances."
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the Board of Education's resolution to purge Communists and Communist sympathizers from the public school system, warning that "the pliable minds of the younger pupils offer the most fertile field for the work of these saboteurs of American democracy."
A campaign to draft Mayor LaGuardia for a third term in office has begun under the auspices of the City Fusion Party. Fusion chairman Ben Howe told an audience at the Hotel Capitol in Manhattan that "the city needs a War Mayor as much as the nation needed a War President."
In Wilmington, Delaware a new record for the flogging of prison inmates was set this week by New Castle Workhouse Warden Elwood Harry Wilson, who applied a total of 240 strokes to the naked backs of six Wilmington men convicted on robbery charges. Each man was required to receive 40 lashes from a cat-o-nine-tails before beginning their five year prison sentences. The previous record of lashes applied in a single session was 200 strokes.
("Nothing to see here, nothing to see here at all...")
("Well," says Joe, "Nex' week I fin' out if I gott'at job inna skimmin' depa'tm'nt. Atsanutta five beans a week!" And Sally sighs and looks over at the kitchen counter where sits a coffee can a quarter-full of pennies.)
Reader Franklin J. Anderson writes in to say that the only way to preserve freedom and liberty in America is to require that all political parties be officially registered by the government, and required to submit full membership rolls, all financial records, personal dossiers on all party officials, minutes of all party meetings, and complete copies of all literature issued.
Old-Timer Debbie O'Shaughnessy wants to hear from her old friends from Carlton Avenue, especially Maggie DeVoy from Sacred Heart. "Remember how we hitchhiked rides on Keenan's Pork Wagon?"
The fate of Toto the Ape, wife of the famed Gargantua, remains a matter for resolution in Federal Court, with U. S. officials charging that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus deliberately understated Toto's value for tax purposes in order to evade import duties. The circus placed a dollar value of $1000 on the gorilla, but the Government contends that records show the ape was actually purchased at a price of $8700. Circus president John Ringling North, in posting bond for Toto's release from Federal custody, declared "we will fight this case to the end of the earth."
The last surviving horse auction in New York City takes place at 331 Rutledge Street in Williamsburg every Friday afternoon, where buyers may purchase anything from a Shetland pony to an enormous worn-out animal that once hauled a brewery wagon. Many buyers are looking for pacers, trotters, or saddle horses for out of town customers, but most of the equines go to small-time peddlers who still use horsepower to haul their goods around the city. The auction once moved as many as five hundred horses a week, but the decreasing demand for horses in the city has reduced that number to around one hundred.
(Sally clenches her teeth, walks calmly to the kitchen window, raises it with a quick, sharp motion, and drops the newspaper down three stories to the alley below. In the distance, a cat yelps with surprise as the neatly-folded paper slaps against the cold garbage-dappled cobblestones. Sally then jerks the window closed, strides briskly to her chair, sits down, folds her arms on the table in front of her, lowers her head, and begins to sob.)
(Isn't there anybody for TREND to highlight besides old men in uniforms? It's high time Barrymore did something crazy.)
(The State of the Theatre, Spring 1941. The idea of seeing Richard Wright himself as Bigger Thomas, as directed by Orson Welles, absolutely boggles the mind. As does the idea that "Hellzapoppin'" can actually manage to do two performances in a day. My heart sincerely goes out to the cast.)
Brooklyn will finally get its chance to see Charlie Chaplin's first all-talkie as "The Great Dictator" opens next Thursday at Loew's Metropolitan. It's the first popular-price screening for the political comedy after a nearly six-month Broadway run.
(What sets Mr. Ryder apart from other western heroes of the day is that he seems to take such unbridled delight in sowing chaos among his foes. EEEEEEYOWOOOOO!)
(Is this "National Horse Week" or what?)
(Hey, Bill -- what happened to that girlfriend you had? I never knew he was such a dawg. And what kind of secret operative carries a badge that says SECRET OPERATIVE? Doesn't that kind of violate the whole SECRET part? Maybe you should get one that says "Chicken Inspector" or something.)
(Y'know, it's been well over a year now since George was last punched in the snoot by a phony swami. Where DOES the time go?)
(Fortunately, when Scarlet bought that hat, she kicked in the $1.50 extra for the optional MacPhail Skull Protector Insert.)
Chancellor Adolf Hitler today issued an ultimatum to Yugoslavia demanding that nation join the Axis within two days -- and urged "the speediest reconstruction of the Yugoslav cabinet" to accomplish that purpose. Meanwhile, envoys from the United States, Britain, and Russia all appealed today to the Yugoslav government to reject the ultimatum, but it is generally conceded that these will amount to futile efforts.
"Probably greater than any crime committed by any of its inmates," declared Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer yesterday, "is the crime against the people of Brooklyn committed and maintained by the city itself in the form of the loathsome Raymond Street Jail." With the statement, Mr. O'Dwyer added his voice to the rising call to rid Brooklyn of one of the most inhuman institutions in the world. "Confining human beings in that pesthole may result in the loss of health, or even death," continued the District Attorney. "Even in the most cruel pages of penal history there is every evidence that the health of prisoners was guarded in one way or another, except in rare instances."
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the Board of Education's resolution to purge Communists and Communist sympathizers from the public school system, warning that "the pliable minds of the younger pupils offer the most fertile field for the work of these saboteurs of American democracy."
A campaign to draft Mayor LaGuardia for a third term in office has begun under the auspices of the City Fusion Party. Fusion chairman Ben Howe told an audience at the Hotel Capitol in Manhattan that "the city needs a War Mayor as much as the nation needed a War President."
In Wilmington, Delaware a new record for the flogging of prison inmates was set this week by New Castle Workhouse Warden Elwood Harry Wilson, who applied a total of 240 strokes to the naked backs of six Wilmington men convicted on robbery charges. Each man was required to receive 40 lashes from a cat-o-nine-tails before beginning their five year prison sentences. The previous record of lashes applied in a single session was 200 strokes.
("Nothing to see here, nothing to see here at all...")
("Well," says Joe, "Nex' week I fin' out if I gott'at job inna skimmin' depa'tm'nt. Atsanutta five beans a week!" And Sally sighs and looks over at the kitchen counter where sits a coffee can a quarter-full of pennies.)
Reader Franklin J. Anderson writes in to say that the only way to preserve freedom and liberty in America is to require that all political parties be officially registered by the government, and required to submit full membership rolls, all financial records, personal dossiers on all party officials, minutes of all party meetings, and complete copies of all literature issued.
Old-Timer Debbie O'Shaughnessy wants to hear from her old friends from Carlton Avenue, especially Maggie DeVoy from Sacred Heart. "Remember how we hitchhiked rides on Keenan's Pork Wagon?"
The fate of Toto the Ape, wife of the famed Gargantua, remains a matter for resolution in Federal Court, with U. S. officials charging that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus deliberately understated Toto's value for tax purposes in order to evade import duties. The circus placed a dollar value of $1000 on the gorilla, but the Government contends that records show the ape was actually purchased at a price of $8700. Circus president John Ringling North, in posting bond for Toto's release from Federal custody, declared "we will fight this case to the end of the earth."
The last surviving horse auction in New York City takes place at 331 Rutledge Street in Williamsburg every Friday afternoon, where buyers may purchase anything from a Shetland pony to an enormous worn-out animal that once hauled a brewery wagon. Many buyers are looking for pacers, trotters, or saddle horses for out of town customers, but most of the equines go to small-time peddlers who still use horsepower to haul their goods around the city. The auction once moved as many as five hundred horses a week, but the decreasing demand for horses in the city has reduced that number to around one hundred.
(Sally clenches her teeth, walks calmly to the kitchen window, raises it with a quick, sharp motion, and drops the newspaper down three stories to the alley below. In the distance, a cat yelps with surprise as the neatly-folded paper slaps against the cold garbage-dappled cobblestones. Sally then jerks the window closed, strides briskly to her chair, sits down, folds her arms on the table in front of her, lowers her head, and begins to sob.)
(Isn't there anybody for TREND to highlight besides old men in uniforms? It's high time Barrymore did something crazy.)
Brooklyn will finally get its chance to see Charlie Chaplin's first all-talkie as "The Great Dictator" opens next Thursday at Loew's Metropolitan. It's the first popular-price screening for the political comedy after a nearly six-month Broadway run.
(Is this "National Horse Week" or what?)