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Police hunted thru the city today for a desperate thug, wounded in a gunfight with police last night in Brownsville, a battle that resulted also in the wounding of a middle-aged housewife. Thousands of men, women, and children flooded into the intersection of Chester Street and Dumont Avenue to witness the exchange of gunfire, after the bandit held up the Morris Beef Company butcher shop, at 319 Dumont Avenue around 7PM. The robber approached the counter clerk, Abe Klein, produced a gun, and demanded the contents of the cash drawer. As the bandit fled with $40 from the till, Klein immediately telephoned the police, and radio cars were at the scene within minutes. Patrolmen combed the neighborhood along with Klein, until they spotted the gunman in the crowd at the Chester Bar and Grill. Confrontation of the suspect led to a fist fight, and when the policemen were knocked to the floor, the robber fled into the street, with the officers opening fire as he escaped. The gunman returned fire, and was wounded in the exchange -- as was 50-year-old Mrs. Sophie Gottlieb of 308 Chester Street, who just happened to be passing the bar and grill as the gunfire erupted. Mrs. Gottlieb was hit in the chest, and was taken to Kings County Hospital for emergency treatment, as patrolmen continued their pursuit. A trail of blood on the street led to a building at 334 Chester Street and then out a rear exit to a vacant lot off Bristol Street and Lavonia Avenue. There, the trail was lost. Patrons at the bar told police they did not recognize the gunman as being from the neighborhood, and no one had seen him before.
President Roosevelt may follow his Federal seizure of the North American airplane factory in Inglewood, California with a similar action to take control of an Aluminum Company of America plant in Cleveland, where CIO die-casters went on strike yesterday, even as the Defense Mediation Board was attempting to resolve a dispute between the workers and the corporation. Congress, meanwhile, is said to be prepared to take action of its own to pass legislation removing all doubt as to the legality of the President's seizure of defense plants.
In Inglewood, a one-mile "no man's land" was established around the North American Aviation plant as workers trickled back to the factory after the plant was seized by the Army yesterday. CIO strikers resumed their picketing, but were kept outside the one-mile exclusion zone by a ring of bayonet-wielding troops backed up by machine-gun emplacements. About 3000 of the plant's 12,000 workers have returned to their benches after the seizure.
A former sailor working as a Navy counterspy in California is reported to have captured two Japanese spies, one of them a former valet to film star Charles Chaplin. 56-year-old Toriachi Kono of Los Angeles, Chaplin's one-time valet and chauffeur, approached Al D. Blake a year ago, asking if he'd be interested in earning "a little extra money" by supplying naval information to his associate, 39-year-old Japanese Imperial Navy commander Itaro Tatibana. Blake agreed to the scheme, and made two trips to Honolulu, Hawaii to gather information, with Tatibana paying all his expenses. Blake then turned Kono and Tatibana over to Naval Intelligence. Federal agents raided Tatibana's Los Angeles apartment, where they found quantities of "illicit material." Tatibana told investigators he was legitimately in the United States as a "student of American language and customs," but authorities say his real mission was to buy oil for the Japanese Government.
Parks Commissioner Robert Moses stated today that he will back away from the proposed relocation of the statue of General Grant from Bedford Avenue to Manhattan, because he doesn't want to get involved in what he termed "a petty local squabble." Mr. Moses made his statement in a letter to William J. Halloran of the Kings County Allied War Veterans Council, even as veterans' and civic groups were lining up their forces to back up Borough President John Cashmore's scheduled meeting today with the Municipal Arts Commission, in which Brooklyn opposition to the statue move was to be laid out. Mr. Moses did, however, renew his suggestion that it "would be a fine gesture" for the people of Brooklyn to donate the statue, a Bedford Avenue landmark for over forty years, for display in front of Grant's Tomb on Riverside Drive.
"Madcap Babs" Taylor is under double guard today at the Nassau County Jail as she awaits sentencing following her conviction for wrecking a police telephone booth last month. The 27 year old Roslyn Heights heiress was found guilty of malicious mischief after an hour and forty minutes of deliberation last night, and District Judge Norman Lent stated that he will order that Miss Taylor undergo a thorough psychiatric examination before he passes sentence. "If she is not a mental case," declared the judge, "then I shall deal with her accordingly." Miss Taylor also has a long record of traffic violations and confrontations with police, but only two, including a reckless driving conviction, were brought up during her trial.
(What a strange melange this picture is. Take a 1930s British stage comedy about a transatlantic romance, graft a wartime spy plot onto it, sprinkle with just a dusting of propaganda, and hope for the best. Maybe it's "KISSterically funny," maybe it isn't, but it's the only time you'll ever see Dame May Whitty and Billy Gilbert in the same film. And who says Berle is "America's Number 1 Comedian?" His mother?)
(Forget Helen Worth, they need Mary.)
(Bets on whether Pittsburgh Phil will toin yella are now being taken in the back room at Midnight Rose's.)
Mrs. A. M. writes in to Dr. Brady to ask if it's true that a little bit of whisky taken now and then is of medicinal benefit to the elderly. The good doctor declares that "for the decrepit and crabbed, difficult to live with, irritable and peevish, a lot of alcohol in any form is beneficial." He recommends whisky, brandy, rum, wine, beer or ale taken after lunch and supper every day, and if the old person in question is resistant to the idea of strong drink, the alcohol can be administered in the form of various "beef extracts" or "tonic supplements" which carry a significant alcohol content.
(I'd give a lot to know to know what Doc Brady's family life is like.)
(It's hell to be Gifted and Talented.)
(You can do better, toots.)
(Maybe it's time to try a new city.)