The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

There are some real winners on this list. Elizabeth Dilling, until the advent of Robert Welch America's most obsessive red-baiter, was even more obsessed with the intricacies of Eleanor Roosevelt's sex life. Pelley, holder of demented racial-religious beliefs, was a precursor to the modern "Christian Identity" movement. George Sylvester Viereck had a connection in Rep. Hamilton Fish's office who used his franking stamp to send out Nazi propaganda. Gerald Winrod was well-known even in his own time as "the Jayhawk Nazi." James True, Washington pseudo-journalist, was the inventor and marketer of a pocket-sized bludgeon he called "the k**e killer." And the publication "New York Enquirer" is none other than the direct ancestor of today's "National Enquirer."

Edythe Farrell, just twenty-eight years old, is one of the most -- interesting -- characters we will meet in 1942. In editing the Police Gazette, favorite prurient reading matter in small-town barbershops everywhere, she kept a copy of Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia Sexualis" in her desk for ready reference. And Olga Baranoff there, "The Russian Beauty," is one who probably got a photo in Miss Farrell's sheet.

"Well, that's OK then, as long as you're not one of these Lew Ayers characters."

"Certain politicians?"

"Dear Helen Worth..."

A lot of grand old houses were subdivided into apartments under the FHA's Homes For Defense program. But the FHA didn't say anything about romance.

Everybody's recycling these days. I distinctly remember King gave us this same gag in 1940.

"Meet cute."

Well, from this angle, that's quite an asset.

Awwwww, you're no fun.

 

[Fading Fast]

(This is one of those days when you just throw the paper on the table, sigh, and go take a long walk. There's a lot of awful here, but rather than address it all, I'll just point out that Eugene Talmadge is the man with whom the 20th century stereotype of the personally dissolute, morally depraved, utterly corrupt, loathsomely racist Southern politician reached its peak.)
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The lost diamonds appearing on the beach could be riffed on in several of our comicstrips. Tracy, Dunn or Smilin' Jack could all do something with it, but I could also see Caniff weaving it into an interesting Burma (and/or Captain Blaze) revival storyline.

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(Ahhhhhh, there was a time when Tommy Manville proposing again would be real headline stuff, but now he gets one line in a second-tier column. Just goes to show what happens when you overstay your welcome.)
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Cohn thought more of "Crossroads" than I did as I thought it was a run-of-the-mill story that you still enjoyed because of Powell and Lamarr.

One assumes Mr. Welles' had downed a few of those highballs before he started using them as hand grenades.

Funny to see Lt Col Jack Warner in print. It's hard to picture that man taking orders from anyone. "Yeah, good luck with that." - Bette Davis.

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A 37-year-old Manhattan woman admitted yesterday in Coney Island Court that she kicked a policeman, but denied that she is a spy. Mrs. Margaret Gomez told Magistrate John F. X. Masterson that she was not "harassing" two British sailors on the Boardwalk early yesterday, she was merely trying to make conversation with them out of homesickness for her native England. A nearby American sailor, witnessing the incident, summoned a policeman who accused Mrs. Gomez of trying to obtain war information from the two British sailors. The patrolman told Magistrate Masterson that Mrs. Gomez kicked him in the shins and then punched him in the stomach. She is being held on $200 bail pending sentence on a disorderly conduct charge next week.
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If there wasn't any alcohol involved in this incident, it should be investigated as a potential spy situation. This one, too, could be easily riffed into a "Dan Dunn" or "Dick Tracy" plot.

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"Certain politicians?"
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Holy cow, did he just break her thumb?

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"Meet cute."
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Clearly the cute-nurse-in-uniform fetish is universal.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Technocracy, when boiled down to its essence, advocates that society should be ruled by an elite class of engineers. The movement achieved a certain notoriety in its day -- although actual members of an elite class of engineers seemed at that time to be outnumbered by readers of science-fiction pulps.)

A lengthy battle over the draft status of Ralph Ingersoll, editor of the Manhattan newspaper PM, has ended with Ingersoll's voluntary enlistment for immediate service. The 41-year-old editor had made no attempt to secure a deferment for himself, but his employer, PM publisher Marshall Field had requested that Ingersoll be exempted as indispensable to the newspaper. His local draft board classified Ingersoll I-A, which the editor then charged was an action taken not out of a legitimate consideration of his case, but as an act of political reprisal against his advertising-free newspaper's liberal editorial policy. Ingersoll had told no one at PM of his decision to enlist, not even Field, and while he was on his way to Governor's Island for initial Army processing, the newspaper was scrambling this morning to get out tonight's edition without a managing editor.

Hour-long blackout tests last night plunged Nassau and Suffolk Counties into darkness as 82,000 air raid wardens and auxiliaries participated in what was deemed Long Island's most successful drill yet. When notification arrived from Albany Civilian Defense Headquarters at 9:30 PM, sirens blared and church bells rang out the air raid signal, pedestrians were ordered off all streets, cars were halted, and all unshielded traffic and street lights turned off. A few injuries were reported in the darkness, and two persons were hospitalized after falling off the rear platforms of Long Island Rail Road trains in the darkness at Massapequa and Hicksville.

More than 1100 persons have committed to donate blood following the Dodgers' Red Cross Blood Donor Night at Ebbets Field on Wednesday. Immediately after the ceremonies on the field, 371 persons listening in over the radio from as far away as central New Jersey telephoned the Brooklyn Red Cross to make their donor pledges.

(Oops.)

The publisher of the New York Enquirer will be examined by a Government physician today to determine when he can be moved from a hospital to stand trial on Federal charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy. William Griffin of Manhattan is accused of using his newspaper to "break down the morale of soldiers, sailors, and Marines" thru the publication of Nazi propaganda. In a five page statement released in response to those charges, Griffin admitted knowing Nazi propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, who is now serving two to six years in prison for failing to disclose his full connections to the Hitler government when registering as a foreign agent, but he asserted that his dealings with Viereck occured before the war, when, Griffin claims, he was "trying to find some way to help stop persecution of Jews and Catholics in Germany." Griffin is presently undergoing treatment for heart disease at St. Clare's Hospital in Manhattan.

(If this isn't a heartwarming children's book, it certainly should be.)

(And lay off the organ music!!)

(In the country of the bald, the one-haired man is king.)

Two youths who carved their initials in a tree in Astoria have been sentenced to read Joyce Kilmer's poem "Trees." Magistrate Jenkin B. Hockert in Long Island City Court fined defendants Michael DiCarlis and Michael Squiccerina $5 each, but suspended the fines on the promise that the boys would go to a library and read Kilmer's poem. "A tree is a thing of beauty," remonstrated Magistrate Hockert. "People move from the city to the country so they can live among trees."

(Reiser stealing home? Ho hum. *Vaughan* stealing home? "Something New Has Been Added!")

(PAT RYAN???? Oh boy, I can't wait for Mary to meet the DL.)

(One thing we've learned from this strip is that uniformed messenger boys are extraordinarily corrupt.)

("DON'T HIT ME DAN! You never USETA hit me!!")

(To be fair, though, when Sibyl married amnesiac George so long ago, she was far less aggressive about it. Jo, on the other hand...)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"Harem Scarem?" "Jive Bomber?" Somebody had an extra cup of coffee today.

The Gaiety used to be a burly house. Now it's an "adult film" theatre. That's not what Butch had in mind.

"Funny, she's got Pat's eyes."

"Awwww, gee, I'm just out of the hospital from the LAST time I helped him!"

Hey fatty, what's YOUR status?

That's pretty good, but it should be more like "awwwwwwwwk!"

"Yeah, it's a haystack. BUT DON'T GET ANY IDEAS!"

"Took me a while to figure that out, though. Hey, want to buy a hundred and ninety-nine pounds of chipped beef?"

Watch out, he's got on his mob-enforcer shirt and everything.

Too many clients who didn't pay their bills? Oh, wait...

 

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A lengthy battle over the draft status of Ralph Ingersoll, editor of the Manhattan newspaper PM, has ended with Ingersoll's voluntary enlistment for immediate service. The 41-year-old editor had made no attempt to secure a deferment for himself, but his employer, PM publisher Marshall Field had requested that Ingersoll be exempted as indispensable to the newspaper. His local draft board classified Ingersoll I-A, which the editor then charged was an action taken not out of a legitimate consideration of his case, but as an act of political reprisal against his advertising-free newspaper's liberal editorial policy. Ingersoll had told no one at PM of his decision to enlist, not even Field, and while he was on his way to Governor's Island for initial Army processing, the newspaper was scrambling this morning to get out tonight's edition without a managing editor.
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The publisher of the New York Enquirer will be examined by a Government physician today to determine when he can be moved from a hospital to stand trial on Federal charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy. William Griffin of Manhattan is accused of using his newspaper to "break down the morale of soldiers, sailors, and Marines" thru the publication of Nazi propaganda. In a five page statement released in response to those charges, Griffin admitted knowing Nazi propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, who is now serving two to six years in prison for failing to disclose his full connections to the Hitler government when registering as a foreign agent, but he asserted that his dealings with Viereck occured before the war, when, Griffin claims, he was "trying to find some way to help stop persecution of Jews and Catholics in Germany." Griffin is presently undergoing treatment for heart disease at St. Clare's Hospital in Manhattan.
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It's an active news day for editors and publishers, but in the role of news makers not reporters.

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Two youths who carved their initials in a tree in Astoria have been sentenced to read Joyce Kilmer's poem "Trees." Magistrate Jenkin B. Hockert in Long Island City Court fined defendants Michael DiCarlis and Michael Squiccerina $5 each, but suspended the fines on the promise that the boys would go to a library and read Kilmer's poem. "A tree is a thing of beauty," remonstrated Magistrate Hockert. "People move from the city to the country so they can live among trees."
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This needed a 500-word report on the poem to be submitted to the court to have any teeth. A Magistrate should know that.

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(Reiser stealing home? Ho hum. *Vaughan* stealing home? "Something New Has Been Added!")
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One of the most exciting "happens in a flash" plays in baseball that, as noted, should never happen, but it does. When you're watching it at home, if the cameramen and announcers don't catch it ahead of time, it almost looks like somebody crashed into home plate by accident.

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(PAT RYAN???? Oh boy, I can't wait for Mary to meet the DL.)
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Even better, wait until Pat meets Leona ⇨ fighting ⇨ flirt fighting ⇨ you know what ⇨ Leona's marriage on the rocks ⇨ reconciliation for the good of his career ⇨ (nine months later) the Governor and his wife have a baby that oddly has curly hair despite neither parent having curls.

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The Gaiety used to be a burly house. Now it's an "adult film" theatre. That's not what Butch had in mind.
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Boring movie, but seeing Hedy (plenty) naked in a movie, at a time when that wasn't common, had to pack them in.

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"Awwww, gee, I'm just out of the hospital from the LAST time I helped him...

"Really, you want to complain? There are plenty of kids in orphanages who would be glad to do this for me. Maybe you'd like to switch places."

Detective of the Year maybe, but I think Father of the Year is out.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Vichy: "I'm shocked -- SHOCKED -- to discover that Nazis are NAZIS.")

This country's overall output of planes, tanks, guns, and munitions for the United Nations' fighting men during the month of June was nearly three times that of last November, final month before the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the war. In a special War Production Board report, Production Chief Donald L. Nelson stated that "production is going well," but warned that "too much boasting about production progress is altogether premature -- the biggest part of the job is yet ahead."

Benito Mussolini in person flew to Libya following the Axis capture of Tobruk on June 21, in hopes of leading Italian troops in a victory march into Alexandria, it was reported today by the Rome radio, but he returned home once the Axis drive was halted. In the broadcast quoting the official Stefani news agency, it was reported that Mussolini presided over high command conferences on July 29th before returning to Italy the following day.

United States airmen made devastating raids on targets on Crete and in North Africa during the first week of sustained fighting in the Battle of Egypt, it was announced today as British Imperial forces held Axis attackers on the defensive all along the 35-mile desert front. British fliers, lashing out over land and sea were revealed to have wrecked more than 29 Axis planes, blasted tanks and armored cars, and left a merchant ship sinking, all within the past 24 hours.

In Philadelphia, Federal agents announced today that they are holding five men in connection with the nationwide distribution of lewd magazines. Those arrested were identified as Morris Newman, proprietor of the Metropolitan Book Store, 1133 6th Avenue in Manhattan, Sam Levin, owner of the Back Number Magazine shop in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and three New York men identified as Newman's employees. Persons who received the magazines for distribution are being rounded up in other states on charges of illegal interstate transportation of obscene literature and violations of Federal bills of lading laws. Magazine titles handled by the operation were identified as "Model Parade," "Girl Beautiful," and "Spicy."

(Godspeed, Mr. Amen, and keep 'em flying!)

The now-former editor of the newspaper PM passed his Army physical yesterday, but it now appears that his formal induction will be delayed a week due to difficulties in obtaining his military record and discharge certificate from the First World War. Forty-one-year-old Ralph Ingersoll will re-enter the Army as a private, though he was discharged in 1935 from the Officers' Reserve Corps as a lieutenant. Marshall Field of Chicago, owner of PM, praised Ingersoll for his enlistment, and announced the promotion of managing editor John P. Lewis as Ingersoll's replacement.

There's no danger of an egg shortage anytime soon. U. S. hens are doing their bit for war production by laying a total of 6,000,000,000 eggs during the month of May, and continuing to lay at an estimated rate of 115,000 eggs a minute. Egg production across the country has increased 16 percent over 1941, and the individual egg production per hen is up 3 percent. A considerable percentage of egg production is being dried for shipment to meet civilian and military requirements overseas.

The Eagle Editorialist praises Secretary of State Cordell Hull for his recent warning that the protections of the Four Freedoms -- freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear, and freedom from want -- will be extended by the United Nations only to those persons willing to fight for them. With the war now at its darkest point as Germany continues to press back the Red Army, and Nazi u-boats winning the War of the Atlantic Seaboard, and Japan still holding all its conquests in southeast Asia, it seems an important message to all the world that these freedoms -- and the responsibilities that go with them -- must be earned.

The "Father of the American Cigarette" has died at the age of 90. Marcus Feder broke into the wholesale tobacco business in Titusville, Pennsylvania at the age of 17, and later moved to New York, where he worked as a salesman for the firm of Kinney & Company. It was while working for Kinney that Feder proposed a cigarette made of a blend of Turkish and domestic tobaccos, which he called "Sweet Caporal." Introduced in 1878, that brand swept the nation, but Feder himself left Kinney Bros. two years later to form his own tobacco jobbing company in Cleveland. Mr. Feder had been ill for several weeks before his death.

Old Timer Louis Ronalter remembers seeing his first movie show, back in the '90s, under the auspicies of a friend named Tom Kelly, a linotypist on the old Evening Mail who liked to tinker with machinery. He built what he grandly termed "a moving picture machine," and declared it would be the death of vaudeville. Mr. Kelly arranged to demonstrate his device to Mr. Apfel of the Golden Horn Casino and Brewery in Fort Hamilton, and the pictures moved all right -- they moved so fast they made your eyes hurt. Mr. Kelly acknowledged that his device was not all that it could be, and he returned to his workshop to make refinements -- which proved successful. Mr. Kelly then sold his patent to the Simplex Manufacturing Company of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and saw one of his machines successfully installed at the then-new Bay Ridge Theatre.

(UNDER .700??? "WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!!!")

Tommy Holmes reports that it is a "red hot rumor" in St. Louis that Cardinal general manager Branch Rickey will resign from that position at the end of this season. It is reported that Rickey and Cardinal owner Sam Breadon have "quarreled violently" over Rickey's policies on dealing and selling players.

(Yeah, never mind this political stuff -- what ever happened with that Yankee thing? Wasn't it supposed to be a done deal?)

(Three weeks later, Poke dies in agony from a raging tetanus infection.)

("Most famous dandy?" "HMPH!" says Hermann.)

(I have an air raid warden's manual right on my shelf, and I'm pretty sure this trick isn't in it.)

(Setting me up for a good Scottish joke, and then not having a good Scottish joke? LAME. And it's not just Dan who's picking on poor Irwin, it's EVERYBODY.)

(Poor George. He was actually enjoying himself there for a moment.)

(Why don't we see sports bets like this anymore?)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

""When we've joined up perhaps there'll be -- a new recruit or two or three -- for that's what teamwork can do -- in One Big Union for Two!"

"It does bring the war home to complacent people." Watch it, Hill.

Just a minute there, "Anson" -- let's see your ration book.

"Mr. *Isaacs??*" Pretty ecumenical service the Padre runs here.

"The Hardy Boys?" Never heard of 'em.

That Dexedrine wears off fast.

"OK, I've done my bit. All yours, Warden."

Avery discovers farm subsidies.

The genetics in the Smart family must be remarkable.

Preparedness counts.

 

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In Philadelphia, Federal agents announced today that they are holding five men in connection with the nationwide distribution of lewd magazines. Those arrested were identified as Morris Newman, proprietor of the Metropolitan Book Store, 1133 6th Avenue in Manhattan, Sam Levin, owner of the Back Number Magazine shop in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and three New York men identified as Newman's employees. Persons who received the magazines for distribution are being rounded up in other states on charges of illegal interstate transportation of obscene literature and violations of Federal bills of lading laws. Magazine titles handled by the operation were identified as "Model Parade," "Girl Beautiful," and "Spicy."
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Part of the insanely confusing plot of "The Big Sleep" involves a bookstore trafficking in obscene material. But in that movie, that is only the second-most-interesting thing that happens in a bookstore.

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There's no danger of an egg shortage anytime soon. U. S. hens are doing their bit for war production by laying a total of 6,000,000,000 eggs during the month of May, and continuing to lay at an estimated rate of 115,000 eggs a minute. Egg production across the country has increased 16 percent over 1941, and the individual egg production per hen is up 3 percent. A considerable percentage of egg production is being dried for shipment to meet civilian and military requirements overseas.
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The country thanks you for your contribution to the war effort.

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The "Father of the American Cigarette" has died at the age of 90. Marcus Feder broke into the wholesale tobacco business in Titusville, Pennsylvania at the age of 17, and later moved to New York, where he worked as a salesman for the firm of Kinney & Company. It was while working for Kinney that Feder proposed a cigarette made of a blend of Turkish and domestic tobaccos, which he called "Sweet Caporal." Introduced in 1878, that brand swept the nation, but Feder himself left Kinney Bros. two years later to form his own tobacco jobbing company in Cleveland. Mr. Feder had been ill for several weeks before his death.
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Historical irony demands we ask what his illness was.

At least Alfred Noble left us the Peace Prize.

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(Why don't we see sports bets like this anymore?)

It's hard to believe those Louis-Schmeling bouts didn't equal or surpass those Dempsey gates. That's really surprising.

And in the Daily News...

""When we've joined up perhaps there'll be -- a new recruit or two or three -- for that's what teamwork can do -- in One Big Union for Two!"
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Somebody reminded Page Four of its purpose.

Whatever your politics, it's rude to tweak your father like that in the Press when a simple "no comment" would do.

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The genetics in the Smart family must be remarkable.
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If Ed is just going to tell the same joke every Sunday, I vote we go back to the who-gets-a-date-with-Susie-Q storyline.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And we have a couple of bonuses today. First, from the Daily News this item of interest...

"Campinella." Sigh.

And then, from the Brooklyn Eagle just this past week, a reminiscence of dear old Fitz, whose broad shadow still falls over the borough he learned to love...

https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2022/07/22/fat-freddie/

 

[Fading Fast]

And we have a couple of bonuses today. First, from the Daily News this item of interest...

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"Campinella." Sigh.

And then, from the Brooklyn Eagle just this past week, a reminiscence of dear old Fitz, whose broad shadow still falls over the borough he learned to love...

https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2022/07/22/fat-freddie/

Love the Fitz article. Thank you for posting it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(As Sally sits in the kitchen listening to the plink-plink-plink of water landing in a soup kettle on the floor, she spares a thought for Joe, who left for work last night scoffing at the thought of a raincoat.)

Informed observers in London today expressed the belief that the Government is taking steps to discourage public clamor for the opening of a second front in Europe. Newspapers, which had been near-unanimous in their demand for an Allied military drive to ease Nazi pressure on Russia, were suddenly silent today on the issue, other than to suggest that such an effort would be "hardly useful." Although editorial calls for a second front seemed throttled, most papers gave prominent coverage to a rally in Trafalgar Square, during which an editor from the banned London Daily Worker asked a crowd of 60,000 persons if they were ready for the sacrifices a second front would require, and received in reply "a great echoing yes."

Allied patrols have clashed with Japanese forces 30 miles from the new enemy invasion base on the north New Guinea coast, it was confirmed today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's command headquarters in Australia. The communique noted that Allied air attacks have cut off the new invasion base from its mother fleet, and threaten to "smash it completely."

Mohandas K. Gandhi warned today that India will resist all aggression from the East with "all its might," and declared that the Japanese had been "gravely misinformed" if they believed that the All India Congress is pressing its demand for independence from Britain solely because of the imminence of a Japanese attack. Gandhi stressed that his organization's demand to Britain is accompanied by a full willingness to allow the Allies to retain their forces in India, and to convince the Japanese that they will have no opportunity to "move in" on a nation vacated by the British. "If you cherish any such idea," warned Gandhi, "we will resist you with all our might."

German executioners have shot or hung at least 250,000 Poles, and an additional 25,000 have died in Nazi concentration camps, it was asserted today by the Polish Government in Exile. Vice President Stanislaw Mikolajczek further revealed that a "village of death" has been established by the Nazis outside Warsaw, where 12,000 to 15,000 Polish political and intellectual leaders have been executed. The village, named Palmiry, is located on the edge of a forest where German troops carry out mass executions, burying the victims in mass graves. At least 200,000 Jews have been killed by the Nazis in Poland since 1939, with another 138,000 native Poles killed since last year.

A 26-year-old employee of the Board of Economic Welfare in Washington DC was sent home from work today after she appeared wearing a large sign declaring "Christ Came To Save Sinners." Miss Christine Hawthorne, a member of the Pentecostal faith, was ordered to leave the office by her supervisor after she declared that she had donned the sign in response to the "constant profanity" that she claimed prevails in the office. Miss Hawthorne will not be permitted to return to work unless she leaves the sign at home.

(Kids Today.)

Two Brooklyn firms have agreed to turn over to the Government a total of $173,000,000 in excess profits from defense contracts, while their profits under those contracts remain under Federal investigation. The Sperry Gyroscope Company and the Bendix Aviation Company have also agreed to renegotiate those existing contracts to reduce prices charged to the Government for equipment manufactured for military use. The Sperry offer, made in April according to a Government report, "appears to be voluntary," but it is also noted that the offer was made after a two-month audit by Federal investigators of the company's books. A report by the House Committee on Naval Affairs concluded that, while most contractors are not "profiting unduly" from the war, "a small minority have taken advantage of the war effort to enrich themselves at public expense."

Eight participants in a Brownsville crap game violated the blackout last night to continue their game. The young men were brought before Magistrate Thomas Cullen in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court by Patrolman Joseph Doctor, who came upon them shooting dice in an alley on Sutter Street by the light of three candles. The eight pleaded guilty to charges of disorderly conduct, and drew suspended sentences.

(Macaroni-and-cheese latkes? All right then.)

(Mr. Schroth has a lot on his mind today.)

Reader A. J. M. writes in to declare that there is just no excuse for children to be playing ball in the streets, what with all the fine baseball diamonds and public parks available for their use. "The boys who play ball in the street are too lazy to use them, and their mothers coddle them," A. J. M. fumes. "The mothers who let these boys play in the streets would let out an awful howl if they were run over, but how can they expect anything else? It is like letting children play on a railroad track!"

("Request denied. And I'm holding this book for further review.")

(MUNGO IS ON THE GIANTS NOW?????? Oh, and gawblessya, Parrott! You finally got Campanella's name right.)

The Bushwicks cleaned up on the Philadelphia Stars yesterday, sweeping a doubleheader from the Negro National Leaguers, 2-1 in a 16-inning marathon, and 1-0 in a seven-inning nightcap. Bill Sahlin threw a one-hitter in the second game. with Stars manager Goose Curry getting the only safety.

(Sure, Pat, "Dan Truman" it is. *wink*)

(Aren't you due to get your face maintained soon? Better check the service sticker.)

(Yeah, Irwin, RUB IT IN GOOD!)

(Nobody else can put quite so much into a simple HA!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

If there's one thing cops in 1942 should know, it's that you never go to a secret underground lair without backup.

In other words, everybody who's around New York at the moment and available -- with the very prominent exceptions of Bobby Clark and Gypsy Rose Lee. Now is that nice?

Don't make any plans for tonight, Doc -- you may have company.

And after that, send 'em over to my place.

"And besides, you insensitive ass, can't you see I have to be careful with fingers???"

"Terry! How you've -- grown!"

Snipe!! She'll take care of that hired man.

At least it'll save rubber.

"Did you ever hear of Evelyn Nesbit and Harry K. Thaw?"

The endless cycle of life.

 

[Fading Fast]

(As Sally sits in the kitchen listening to the plink-plink-plink of water landing in a soup kettle on the floor, she spares a thought for Joe, who left for work last night scoffing at the thought of a raincoat.)
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If true, there is one heck of a story behind the dog who travel 500 miles.

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Reader A. J. M. writes in to declare that there is just no excuse for children to be playing ball in the streets, what with all the fine baseball diamonds and public parks available for their use. "The boys who play ball in the street are too lazy to use them, and their mothers coddle them," A. J. M. fumes. "The mothers who let these boys play in the streets would let out an awful howl if they were run over, but how can they expect anything else? It is like letting children play on a railroad track!"
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One of the iconic images of city life in the '30s-'50s is kids playing stickball in the streets.

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Don't make any plans for tonight, Doc -- you may have company.
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Malpractice sure has changed since 1942.

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Snipe!! She'll take care of that hired man.
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Getting back to her office job after a week of farm work will feel like the real vacation.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(And all Brooklyn shifts into full pennant race mode. Reiser is playing again -- less than a week after nearly killing himself against that damn wall. Where have we seen THIS before? And 32,000 show up on a Tuesday afternoon? I bet tomorrow we get a story from the War Production Board where Mr. Nelson issues a warning against "rampant absenteeism.")

In Washington tomorrow, the U. S. Supreme Court convenes an unprecedented special session tomorrow to consider writs of habeas corpus for seven of the eight German saboteurs now on trial before a military commission. The 11th-hour appeal by counsel on behalf of the prisoners in effect constitutes a challenge to President Roosevelt's right, as expressed in a proclamation, to order those prisoners tried before a military tribunal, thus denying them access to the civil courts. The Court will first have to decide whether it has the authority to even hear the prisoners' petition, and then, only if that decision is affirmative, would it consider the merits of the habeas corpus appeal. The one prisoner not included in the appeal is George John Dasch, who landed from a German submarine at Amagansett, L. I., and who is believed to have turned Government witness against his fellow defendants.

Trial of twenty-eight German American Bund leaders on charges of conspiracy to evade the Selective Service Act was set today to begin on August 18th in Manhattan Federal Court. Of the twenty-two Bundists arraigned today, nineteen told Judge Francis G. Caffey that they had no funds to pay for legal counsel. One Bund leader, Carl Frederick Berg of Minneapolis, stated that his sole assets consisted of a small house, an automobile and $40 in War Savings Stamps.

Government physicians are today examining electrocardiograms taken from William Griffin, publisher of the New York Enquirer, who has argued that his heart condition should preclude him from standing trial on charges of conspiring to impair the morale of the Armed Forces thru matter published in his paper. If the review of his medical files concludes that the publisher is fit to stand trial, he will be arraigned in Manhattan Federal Court.

A Bushwick couple faces charges of disorderly conduct and assault, and a Queens patrolman is nursing a bloody nose, following a street-corner fracas on the border between Brooklyn and Queens. Patrolman Alphonse T. Spano was on duty at the Queens corner of Wyckoff and Myrtle Avenues around 2:25 this morning, when across the street on the Brooklyn side, Thomas and Gertrude Henerhan of 1024 Putnam Avenue engaged in a loud and vociferous argument. When Patrolman Spano attempted to quiet them, Mrs. Henerhan replied "we're married -- mind your own business," and clouted him in the face with her handbag.

(Hey, if you couldn't get into the ballgame, this will be almost as good. And Grover Whalen's gonna be there!! Maybe he and Alice Marble can do a duet!)

Rumors of impending wartime shortages of womens' cosmetic preparations are said to be unfounded, although the War Production Board has placed certain restrictions on the manufacture of face powder, lipstick, skin creams, and similar products. The major changes will affect the way in which cosmetics are packaged, with the usual metal lipstick cases replaced by cardboard or wood, and it is expected there will be a considerable reduction in the various sizes of containers in which beauty preparations are sold. The new WPB restrictions limit manufacturers to only three sizes per product for creams and powders, and four sizes for perfumes. It is expected the small 10-cent sizes of most cosmetic items will be eliminated under the new regulations.

("Does a boy get to be a Dodger by reading Aristotle?" No, more like Kafka.)

("Artist's Conception.")

(Yeah, but those cardboard lipstick cases are a real trial.)

New Selective Service directives received this week by New York City Selective Service Director Col. Arthur McDermott will mean certain married men with dependents may soon be facing induction. Under the new directives, six categories of men with dependents will be established, with inductions to be determined in the following order: Single men, not in war industry, with dependents; single men in war industry with dependents; married men not in war industry without children; married men not in war industry with children; and last of all married men in war industry with children.

(Joe looks at Sally, and Sally looks at Joe, and they both look at Leonora, who looks at Stella the Cat, who closes her eyes and goes back to sleep.)

A Manhattan man convicted of wheeling a dead body thru the Lower East Side in a baby carriage without a permit will serve a year in prison. John Bubak of 92 Ridge Street told Magistrate Edgar Bromburger that he and his associate, John O'Brien, were not body-snatchers, rather, "the stiff" was a "noisy old man" who had spent the afternoon "swilling from a bottle" behind a Ridge Street saloon. Bubak stated that the proprietress of the saloon offered him $2 to get the man to leave, but when he and O'Brien went around the back of the establishment, they found the man had died. They loaded the corpse into an abandoned baby carriage they found nearby and were planning on dumping it under the Williamsburg Bridge when they were stopped and arrested. O'Brien was sentenced to a year's probation in the custody of his sister for his role in the incident. As he was led away to begin his sentence, Bubak was heard to complain "I never got the $2."

The Sperry Gyroscope Company will be awarded the Army-Navy "E" pennant denoting excellence in war production. President R. E. Gillmor today notified workers at all of the company's plants that the pennant will fly above all Sperry factories, in recognition of "high achievement in the production of war equipment," and he thanked all the men and women of Sperry, on behalf of the country, for their efforts on behalf of victory.

(Hey, here's a promotion -- since it's an exhibition game and roster rules don't apply, if Mungo starts for the Giants, why not have Fitz start for the Dodgers? Imagine the possibilities when Id meets Superego!)

The Chicago American Giants are the next outstanding Negro aggregation due to invade Dexter Park, meeting the Bushwicks in a twilight game tomorrow night. The Giants feature James "Cool Papa" Bell, formerly a star with the Pittsburgh Crawfords, who joined the Chicago club this season after a successful three-year sojourn in the Mexican League.

(So with all the pieces in place on the board, let the moves begin...)

(Jeez, Red -- did you get a zoot suit with that hat?)

("Kraut Gobbler?")

(In for a penny, in for a pound.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News....

"Only after Alice had chased him from room to room of the house." Yeah, that's what they all say.

Just Can't Catch A Break Department.

"After all, remember what happened to that famous gangster. What was his name? That fat fellow?"

Knaves? Well of course, who else do you expect to meet around a golf course?

"Snip, meet Snipe."

"Sure, you'd be horribly burned and scarred for life, but you gotta admit it's a hell of a comeback!"

Quick, somebody guard the egg!

Foot, meet mouth.

Every man has his price.

Makes you feel bad about stiffing him on your tabs all these years, doesn't it?

 

[LizzieMaine]

And...

The plot thickens.

 

[Fading Fast]

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("Artist's Conception.")
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There are always exceptions and give me a break with that illustration of a well-built-out American one, but in WWII, given the choice of an American interment camp or POW camp, for that matter, or a Japanese internment or POW one, there is no choice.

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New Selective Service directives received this week by New York City Selective Service Director Col. Arthur McDermott will mean certain married men with dependents may soon be facing induction. Under the new directives, six categories of men with dependents will be established, with inductions to be determined in the following order: Single men, not in war industry, with dependents; single men in war industry with dependents; married men not in war industry without children; married men not in war industry with children; and last of all married men in war industry with children.

(Joe looks at Sally, and Sally looks at Joe, and they both look at Leonora, who looks at Stella the Cat, who closes her eyes and goes back to sleep.)
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He's got as many boxes checked as he could.

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A Manhattan man convicted of wheeling a dead body thru the Lower East Side in a baby carriage without a permit will serve a year in prison. John Bubak of 92 Ridge Street told Magistrate Edgar Bromburger that he and his associate, John O'Brien, were not body-snatchers, rather, "the stiff" was a "noisy old man" who had spent the afternoon "swilling from a bottle" behind a Ridge Street saloon. Bubak stated that the proprietress of the saloon offered him $2 to get the man to leave, but when he and O'Brien went around the back of the establishment, they found the man had died. They loaded the corpse into an abandoned baby carriage they found nearby and were planning on dumping it under the Williamsburg Bridge when they were stopped and arrested. O'Brien was sentenced to a year's probation in the custody of his sister for his role in the incident. As he was led away to begin his sentence, Bubak was heard to complain "I never got the $2."
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It's good to have the follow up and, apparently, good to have a sister when being sentenced. Now, what about that dead newlywed found in the grease pit? Anyone?

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"After all, remember what happened to that famous gangster. What was his name? That fat fellow?"
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"Aw, poppycock!" Annie at her best.

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Quick, somebody guard the egg!
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Even for Andy, this is incredibly stupid. And, yes, at all costs, protect Clarissa's egg.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("Awwww, poor Van." sighs Joe, not entirely ironically. "I awlways liked 'at guy. Whoda t'unka hidin' in a lawndry basket, anyways? T'at shows a cleveh mind." "Ahhhh, he had his moments," replies Sally. "But ya gotta wondeh how good he coulda been if he wasn' -- you know. Like he is." "Yeah," counters Joe. "But t'en he wouln'a been MUNGO, wouldee! It'd be like if Dizzy Dean went ta collitch!")

Allied patrols have driven the Japanese back from the Kodoka area in their first real clash with enemy forces advancing from the Buna-Gona invasion base in New Guinea. The Japanese, moving into the foothills of the Owen Stanley Mountains had reached a point near the native village of Oivi, when Allied troops specially trained in jungle fighting gave them their first setback since moving into the area.

Heavy bombing planes of the United States Army Air Corps and the Royal Air Force have made a punishing attack on Axis shipping in Suda Bay, Crete, more than 500 miles from their bases it was announced today. The big planes, believed to include four-motored American Consolidateds, flew over the Mediterranean at dusk to attack the big Axis base at the northwest corner of Crete.

Axis occupation authorities in Zagreb, Yugoslavia have executed 104 hostages and sent another 300 to concentration camps in reprisal for continuing guerilla attacks and widespread sabotage believed to have killed many Germans and Italians. Axis authorities ordered a curfew in Zagreb, with all persons warned to remain indoors between 11 PM and 5 AM under penalty of death. The Germans have threatened further reprisals, including "the razing of entire villages," if the attacks, in support of General Draja Mikhailovich's resistance campaign, do not immediately stop. In response, Yugoslav guerillas stormed into the Dalmatian town of Ugrugora after a fierce battle and captured large quantities of arms and war materials.

(There's A New World Coming.)

The publisher of the New York Enquirer was arraigned today in Manhattan Federal Court and released on $1000 bail, on a charge of using his paper in a conspiracy to undermine the morale of the United States armed forces. William Griffin, who was cleared by medical authorities to stand trial, will be taken to Washington, where he will be face trial alongside 27 other persons also indicted as part of that conspiracy.

The arrest of 11 more enemy aliens, including the wife of one of the accused saboteurs now on trial before a military commission in Washignton, was announced today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI agents raided residences in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan yesterday, with the raids also netting five Japanese flags, several cameras and shortwave radio receiving sets, and various German and Italian propaganda publications. The only identity to be revealed among those arrested was that of Mrs. Maria Sichart Kirling, the wife of Edward John Kirling, reputed leader of the spy ring now on trial. Two Hungarians and a Rumanian were also reported to be among those arrested.

(It won't be 90 degrees forever.)

(Wake up, toots.)

("There is no ME in WAR!")

A Bronx man pleaded guilty in Federal Court yesterday to charges of distributing sugar without collecting ration coupons. 39-year-old Oscar Hausner, who until recently was a manufacturer of a soft drink, was charged with selling sugar from his business allotment without taking the required coupons in return, and thus becomes the first person in the Metropolitan area to be convicted of a sugar-rationing violation. Hausner had in his possession fifty rationing certificates, each entitling him to 10,000 pounds of sugar. Sentencing will be delayed because, authorities indicated, Hausner is wanted as a witness in the continuing investigation of sugar bootlegging in the city.

(A 33,212 gate on a Tuesday afternoon? "String out the pennant race a little longer, boys," says Larry.)

The sixteen-year-old son of Chicago White Sox owner Grace Comiskey has been banned from sitting on the bench during games, after he rushed onto the field Sunday to protest an umpire's call. Charles A. "Chuck" Comiskey III will no longer be permitted to sit in the dugout, with American League President William Harridge pointing out a league rule that bars any person not under contract to a club from its bench.

(Good one, Pat -- uh, Dan.)

(HEY YOU BIRDS, GET OFF THIS LINE! I CAN HEAR YOU BREATHING!)

(You're right to be uneasy -- IT'S NOT THE REAL DAN! Everything since Marsh left has been a clever impostor with a prosthetic chin!)

("Bloodhounds? Well, no, I mean, she never tried that with me...")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News....

"He's so broke his Exchange seat has a slipcover." I've been waiting years to use that gag.

And hey, GYPSY SHOWED UP FOR THE BIG SHOW LAST NIGHT! Keep 'em flying!

"A sable vest, sailor? Those are for officers, only! Enlisted men get mink!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Now, Mr. King. Stop swiping jokes from the Saturday Evening Post.

A good seller knows their market.

Buster Keaton did this gag better.

Theory: Miss Tucker is Burma's kid sister.

Sulphur, carbon, and iodine. Geez, I wish I'd paid more attention in Chemistry II.

Note how Moon strikes his match on that bowl of fruit without jostling a single grape. That's finesse.

"But I don't get why, running a successful business all these years, he was still broke. Oh, wait."

 

[Fading Fast]

("Awwww, poor Van." sighs Joe, not entirely ironically. "I awlways liked 'at guy. Whoda t'unka hidin' in a lawndry basket, anyways? T'at shows a cleveh mind." "Ahhhh, he had his moments," replies Sally. "But ya gotta wondeh how good he coulda been if he wasn' -- you know. Like he is." "Yeah," counters Joe. "But t'en he wouln'a been MUNGO, wouldee! It'd be like if Dizzy Dean went ta collitch!")
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I think we now have enough information to say the Al Raschid is nuts.

"...ta collitch!" Wonderful

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(It won't be 90 degrees forever.)
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So the word "investment" was already being bastardized by Madison Avenue as far back as 1942. Let's keep an eye out to see when politicians discovered, like today, that every spending bill is more palatable if sold as an "investment."

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(Wake up, toots.)
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Helen whistled right past that graveyard.

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A Bronx man pleaded guilty in Federal Court yesterday to charges of distributing sugar without collecting ration coupons. 39-year-old Oscar Hausner, who until recently was a manufacturer of a soft drink, was charged with selling sugar from his business allotment without taking the required coupons in return, and thus becomes the first person in the Metropolitan area to be convicted of a sugar-rationing violation. Hausner had in his possession fifty rationing certificates, each entitling him to 10,000 pounds of sugar. Sentencing will be delayed because, authorities indicated, Hausner is wanted as a witness in the continuing investigation of sugar bootlegging in the city.
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You'd think in 1942 in America, with a name like Oscar Hausner, you'd want to stay above suspicion.

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"But I don't get why, running a successful business all these years, he was still broke. Oh, wait."

While there are special circumstances in Pop's case, it is amazing how many lawyer quit or never even go into the law after law school. That's a lot of time, money and effort to put aside, but it happens quite often.