The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

("Number one statesman?" yelps Bo. "But that doesn't outrank Number One Hero Dog! Does it?")

The first-degree murder trial of the zoot suit killers of a Williamsburg mathematics teacher will begin on November 16th in Kings County Court. The start of the trial of sixteen-year-old Neil Simonelli and 19 year old Joseph Annunziata for the murder of Erwin Goodman at the William J. Gaynor Junior High School, 233 Graham Avenue, on October 2nd was announced today by Judge John J. Fitzgerald. Simonelli and Annunziata, former students of Mr. Goodman at the school, are accused of shooting him in reprisal for a previous incident in which he reprimanded the youths for smoking in a school restroom. The boys were dressed in zoot suits at the time of the killing. A motion for a blue-ribbon jury submitted by Assistant District Attorney James A. McGough was granted. The court has appointed former Kings County District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan and former Assistant District Attorney Henry G. Anderson to represent Simonelli, and they have requested that the youth undergo a psychiatric examination before the trial. Judge Fitzgerald reserved a decision on that request.

American forces on Guadalcanal were on the alert today for further Japanese "feeler " attacks which may be mere feints intended to screen the start of a widespread offensive elsewhere. They repulsed a second attack by an enemy force against the western flank of the American defense lines on October 21st, but the Navy did not reveal further details.

Supporters of Thomas E. Dewey, Republican candidate for Governor, are predicting a GOP victory in the city, traditional Democratic stronghold, after Mr. Dewey successfully carried his campaign into Queens today with a pledge to work, if elected, for a plan of legislative reapportionment. Dewey's drive into Ridgewood and Jamaica last night was greeted with such enthusiasm that party leaders predicted an upset victory over Attorney General John Bennett, despite President Roosevelt's re-endorsement of the Democratic candidate.

Liquor stores thruout Brooklyn today are reporting a rush of business which threatens to clear shelves of nearly all types of liquor before a new 50 cent per quart tax takes effect on November 1st. Although extra sales clerks have been added at the larger stores, and many of the smaller stores are jammed with customers, most retailers appear certain that "the real rush" will come next Thursday and last till Saturday. Most wholesalers are already rationing deliveries, and retailers have expressed concern as to what will happen when present stocks are exhausted. At the liquor department of Loeser's Department Store, the day's sales were triple the usual rate of $400 a day, and a store spokesman reported that stocks are already running low. The tax increase will also increase the price of most individual drinks served across the bar by five cents, with the exception of beer, where the increase amounts to less than half a cent per glass.

A claim that left-wing members of the American Labor Party are distributing circulars charging that Democratic gubernatorial nominee John Bennett and Alfred Lama, Democratic assembly candidate in the 23rd A. D. are "the favorite candidates of the Christian Front and defeatists" was made in Brownsville last night by former Assemblyman Albert Martin Cohen. Speaking at a political rally at P. S. 156, Mr. Cohen read from a throw-away flyer making such statements, and from a second circular charging that Lama is aligned with the "clique who sold Brownsville down the river at the Farleycratic convention where the Christian Front got the go-ahead signal for the Hooliganism now sweeping Brooklyn and the Bronx."

(Doc isn't promoting the booklets as heavily as he used to. The paper shortage must be hitting hard.)

The Eage Editorialist again insists that Dean Alfange must drop out of the Gubernatorial race, following President Roosevelt's telegram reiterating his support for Attorney General John Bennett, and repudiating a "whispering campaign" claiming that the President's support of Bennett is not sincere. "New Yorkers who want a liberal governor," insists the EE, "a governor with experience in Albany, and one who would cooperate fully with the President on all war issues, should vote for Bennett."

(The wee lad is quoting his price for going away. He is not making implications about his sister. RIGHT, KID? THAT *IS* WHAT YOU"RE SAYING, RIGHT?)

The former manager of the restaurant in the New York State Building at Flushing Meadow Park will serve 2 1/2 to 5 years in Sing Sing after being convicted on attempted grand larceny charges. Francisco Jeni of Corona was found guilty of misappropriating a total of $169 in restaurant funds last September, and was sentenced to prison as a second offender.

National observance of a sabbath in memorial to the victims of the Lidice massacre will be held by members of all religious faiths on a date to be announced, according to former Ambassador to the Soviet Union Joseph Davies, chairman of the Lidice Lives Committee. The sabbath will memorialize the murdered or exiled residents of the Czechoslovakian village, where hundreds were slaughtered by Nazis in June. Among the bodies to participate in the sabbath will be member organizations the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the World Council of Churches of Christ, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, and the Free Synagogue. The event will, according to Ambassador Davies, emphazise the "inhumanity and anti-religious philosophy of those who uphold the 'master race' teaching."

(Beating the Football Giants four straight? I suppose that counts for something. Sigh.)

("I ast Ma if she'd come oveh an' watch Leonoreh while I wen' down an' rolled a game," huffs Sally, "an' ya know what she said? It's her league night! I ASK YA!" "Poor Fitz," murmurs Joe. "What?" "Nut'n.")

(That Canada Lee will never play Bigger Thomas on film is one of the twentieth century's great cultural losses.)

(I'm surprised, given wartime priorities, that they were able to get the magnesium flares for her sunray.)

(Gee, what a catch.)

("Municipal Trailer Camp?" Does the FHA know about this?)

(AND I DON'T EVEN USE A STUNT DOG!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Van Lingle Mungo says "I guess I got off lucky, huh?"

Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before....

"I didn't live to be ten without knowin' when t'keep my trap shut!"

Haven't you figured out yet that if you don't deliberately leave an inspector a small thing to find they'll make up something bigger to find?

"What do you mean you can't legally do a phone tap? Do you see a telephone? Is a juke box a telephone? Now get busy!"

I've had enough of this. Bring on the DL and show this amateur what it's really all about.

The "Army-Navy Game" is gonna be really dull this year.

That's OK, Prince Burpus is really just a doorman at a Hungarian restaurant.

Trick or trick!

I'll never get tired of seeing Goofy's neck pop up like that.

 

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("I ast Ma if she'd come oveh an' watch Leonoreh while I wen' down an' rolled a game," huffs Sally, "an' ya know what she said? It's her league night! I ASK YA!" "Poor Fitz," murmurs Joe. "What?" "Nut'n.")
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I assume Ma bowls at Freddie Fitzsimmons' Lanes?

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("Municipal Trailer Camp?" Does the FHA know about this?)
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This new writer's disdain for Irwin is odd because he can make Irwin whomever (within reason) he wants him to be, but instead, he seems to have decided to be spiteful toward Irwin. There's something odd psychologically going on here.

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(AND I DON'T EVEN USE A STUNT DOG!)

"A stunt dog - what would you need a stunt dog for! So far you haven't done anything but embarrass the canine race with your limited olfactory skills, 'I'm confused, I caught a whiff of garlic.' Dog up and do your job! Did I mention that you can't even smell a submarine, but I still sunk one and captured its entire crew, singlehandedly."

"How would you know you can't smell a submarine, you were running away from it the entire time Annie was sinking it."
"Shut up!"

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I've had enough of this. Bring on the DL and show this amateur what it's really all about.
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Odd to hear Rouge talking like Clemenza from "The Godfather."

If Rouge really wants to make this happen, she should put on her best Valley Stream attire and slip under the covers of Terry's bed after midnight. Enemy, shmenemy, it'll happen.

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The "Army-Navy Game" is gonna be really dull this year.
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"Hey, coach, what if we put some bars across the front of this thing to protect our faces."
"One more word out of you and I'll make you play without it, you baby"

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That's OK, Prince Burpus is really just a doorman at a Hungarian restaurant.
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"The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen."

 

[LizzieMaine]

("If t'em Wright Bros. was really patriotic," huffs Joe, "t'ey'd donate 'at plane f'scrap." "Nah," replies Sally, presenting a spoonful of beets to a noncompliant Leonora. "Y'evveh see a pitcheh a' t'at plane? All sticks an' muslin. Y'might get a few bedsheets out'v it, but't'at's it." "'At was on'y t'oity-nine yeeahs ago," marvels Joe. "An' now, lookit, 'RAF Smashes At It'ly T'oid Time in T'ree Days.' We come a long way, huh?" Sally pauses and gazes at her daughter. "Have we?")

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt indicated tonight that the United States may eventually conscript women for war jobs. The President's wife, who arrived in London yesterday as the guest of King George and Queen Elizabeth, told a press conference that she has heard "only praise" for the work done by women in factories thus far. The press conference capped a busy day for Mrs. Roosevelt, who lunched with British women war workers at Buckingham Palace before going with them on a tour of blitzed areas of the British capital. Her trip thru the bomb-ravaged East End was supposed to be a secret, but nonetheless she found her route lined by enthusiastic women and children. The children climbed onto the running boards of the Royal Car, forcing the procession to stop until police could restore order.

A note of cautious optimism appeared in the Soviet press tonight as Red Army lines held firm all along the Stalingrad front. Indications were that the Nazis will be forced to dig in somewhere on the blizzard-swept steppes or fall back westward, lifting the siege on the city. Reports from the front indicated no material change in the Stalingrad sector or in the Caucasus, and belief is developing that the Red Army has beaten off the worst that Adolf Hitler can offer this year.

Hope for the rescue of Captain E. V. "Eddie" Rickenbacker, World War I air ace and president of Eastern Air Lines, was pinned on the possibility that he may be afloat on a life raft with which his plane was equipped when it was presumably forced down in the Pacific southwest of Oahu on Wednesday. Army and Navy personnel aboard planes and surface craft carrying on the search kept sharp lookouts for such a yellow raft, which is part of the emergency equipment of all military planes in the Pacific sector. Searchers were aided by a full moon and unusually favorable weather conditions for this time of year. It was believed that Rickenbacker could stay afloat on a life raft for more than a month, a feat already accomplished by several Navy pilots forced down at sea.

American Labor Party leaders lashed out yesterday against so-called "protest votes" for Thomas E. Dewey against Democratic gubernatorial nominee John Bennett, with ALP secretary Alex Rose issuing a statement aimed squarely at disgruntled Democrats who have indicated they may cast their ballots for the Republican candidate out of displeasure at Bennett's nomination by their own party. "We agree with President Roosevelt," stated Rose, "that there should be no more protest vote," and he went on to predict that the President's comment last week will shift more of those "protest voters" to ALP candidate Dean Alfange. Rose also noted that Mayor LaGuardia will deliver three speeches and a broadcast next week in support of Alfange's candidacy. Rose acknowledged the President's endorsement of Bennett, but contended that his statements in support of the Attorney General should be interpreted as the President acting "in the spirit of party regularity" by endorsing the Democratic nominee.

("Natural finger dexterity, absolutely. Patience? Well, getcha croppa chestnut brown hair slightly streaked wit' gray outta my face so I c'n get backta woik!")

Old Timer J. P. P. writes in to remind readers of the Spirit of 1917-18, and to recall that the meatless and wheatless days of the last war "weren't so bad" when the meat you were going without was horse meat. "The heatless days were another story."

All civilian sales of new vacuum cleaners are now prohibited, under an order issued yesterday by the War Production Board. Existing stocks of the machines have been frozen until at least January 1st to give the WPB time to determine if sufficient cleaners are available to meet military requirements. The sale of used vacuum cleaners is not affected by the order.

(Something tells me that, a year from now, an outfielder who shot himself in the foot will be a commodity of great value to any ball club.)

Erasmus Hall kept up its unbeaten streak in schoolboy football yesterday, disposing of New Dorp High School 6-0 at Erasmus Field. It was the fourth consecutive win for the Buff and Blue this season, and extends to ten straight wins a streak begun last season.

(Funny, he doesn't look like a Rural Philosopher and Teller of Tall Tales...)

The Youth Theatre's production of "Let Freedom Sing," recently closed on Broadway, reopens on Thursday night at the Flatbush Theatre. Mitzi Green, former child terror of the movies, heads the cast in this topical musical-comedy revue. It's an old-home-week of sorts for the Youth Theatre, which began producing shows in various Brooklyn lofts several years ago before seeking a wider field.

The Majestic Theatre on Fulton Street will reopen on Tuesday under new management, and with a new first-run motion picture policy, bringing to six the number of Brooklyn's first-run picture houses. First attraction under the new policy will be "Moscow Strikes Back," produced by Republic Pictures, a magnificant compilation of straight-from-the-war-front footage displaying the courage of Soviet fighters against the Nazi onslaught, narrated by Edward G. Robinson. The Majestic, formerly owned by the Shubert Brothers and home to many outstanding stage attractions, is now owned by Leon Siritsky and Sons, formerly of Paris, with Howard F. Kinsey, manager for 25 years under the former ownership, remaining in his familiar post.

(HORSE DYEING! YOU BARBARIANS!)

("OI! GINR'L! DOUSE THIM BOOTS, SARR! THE BLOODY JERRIES C'N SEE 'EM SHININ' A MILE OOT!")

(THAT BIG CREATURE-LIKE WOMAN!)

(Don't you get carsick when you read in the back seat?)

(Hey, let's see that whale! And "DID IT EVER STRIKE YOU, IRWIN..." Yeah, well, speaking of strike...)

(Mr. Hix is already planning his winter surfing vacation.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And just a reminder...

("...and the Dodgers?" I ASK YA!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News....

It doesn't take a whole lot of thinking, given the state of psychosurgery in 1942, to guess as to what they're planning to do, and for Babs' sake I hope they don't go thru with it.

I always enjoyed looking over the wanted posters, and it saddens me much that they're no longer there.

Frizz says "well, I'm not a member of AFRA, but I can give it a try..."

All well and good, Punchy -- but why don't YOU enlist?

Next time, try Flexichrome.

If Joy is on board that submarine I'll scream.

You do have to admire the ingenuity.

Ooooh, wait'll Pop finds out you're working for THE COMPETITION. And incidentally, Harold graduated three years ado and you're still only a junior??? Why am I not surprised?

True fact: the modern concept of Halloween as a kiddie-focused holiday originated in the early 20th Century as a deliberate attempt by authority figures to break the prior image of the night as a time for young men to go on rampages of reckless drunken destruction. So -- Poppy -- What DID you do?

I hope Bim and Millie turn out to be more attentive, responsible parents to their son than Andy and Min did for theirs.

 

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("OI! GINR'L! DOUSE THIM BOOTS, SARR! THE BLOODY JERRIES C'N SEE 'EM SHININ' A MILE OOT!")
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Trying to golf in the snow is stupid.

Stalin was trying to prevent assassination attempts.

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(Don't you get carsick when you read in the back seat?)
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HItchcock used a variation on this joke at the end of "Rear Window."

And in the Daily News....

It doesn't take a whole lot of thinking, given the state of psychosurgery in 1942, to guess as to what they're planning to do, and for Babs' sake I hope they don't go thru with it.
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It became sadly clear, especially once the suicides started, that this story was not going to have a good ending, as you note, in 1942.

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Frizz says "well, I'm not a member of AFRA, but I can give it a try..."
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She really should be drawing a salary at this point.

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If Joy is on board that submarine I'll scream.
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"Sandy, look, a Nazi submarine, go do your thing....Why did you wet yourself and runaway?"
"Shut up!"

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You do have to admire the ingenuity.
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No kidding, Caniff is at the top of his game right now.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("One cuppa cawfee a day!" percolates Joe. "How we sposta winna wawr onnat!" "Drink tea," sighs Sally, stirring a bowl of Pablum for Leonora. "I spose I could drink more Coca-Cola," Joe continues. "Buttat's gonna be ration't nex'! An' b'sides, I bet it tastes awrful heated up." "Drink tea," sighs Sally, bending down to wipe up the blob of Pablum Leonora just dropped on the floor. "I wish Solly was heeeh," exhales Joe. "He'd know howta get cawfee. But -- sigh -- I s'pose I'll just hafta drink tea," "We ain' got no tea," sighs Sally, dodging another blob of Pablum. "Doncha know t'eahs a wawr on?")

Massed British anti-tank guns and forces of the Eighth Army on the Egyptian battle front drove off counter-attacking German tanks today, forcing the Panzers to fall back from the battlefield leaving many machines afire. British guns laid down a barrage this morning as German tank forces, supported by infantry attempted to counter-attack at one point along the gap, driven into the Alamein by the Eighth Army. That point was held by British and Australian forces as the artillery dealt with the Germans. British tanks then came forward to engage the enemy and drove them back. The battle commenced as the eerie sound of bagpipes playing "Highland Laddie" echoed out across the desert in the pre-dawn moonlight.

Allied planes operating from the southwestern Pacific area in support of American forces in the Solomon Islands have delivered another heavy blow to Japanese shipping in Rabaul Harbor, bringing their bag there to 100,000 tons, according to a communique released from the headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur. Flying Fortresses swept northward toward Rabaul on New Britain Island yesterday in their third raid in successive nights. They dropped 17 tons of heavy explosives on the harbor, definitely sinking a Japanese gunboat and seriously damaging three medium cargo ships.

A daylight raid on Milan by a large force of Lancashire bombers on Saturday took the Italians by such surprise that people on the ground "appeared dazed," according to pilots, including two Americans, who participated in the attack. The planes flew low over France en route to their target, sometimes as low as 40 or 50 feet from the ground, in order to avoid anti-aircraft fire, and Frenchmen seeing the planes passed waved to the pilots and cheered them on, as the pilots replied by flashing the V-for-Victory sign.

Young men who are now deferred from military service due to their having vital jobs in airplane factories, shipyards, and other vital war plants, can expect eventually to be taken into the armed forces. So stated Selective Service director Gen. Louis B. Hershey in testimony before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Older men of the type the Army believes would not make good soldiers will have to take their places on the production lines, stated Gen. Hershey. The General also noted that the Works Progress Administration is now in the process of reclassifying its 375,000 employees in order to provide another 50,000 workers for war industries.

(Keep 'Em Sailin'!)

A Long Island oyster processing concern has been charged with violation of Federal regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of religion. The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League filed the complaint on behalf of Isidor Rosenstock of Manhattan, who stated that he was denied employment by the company after being sent there by the United States Employment Service, following an interview in which the company manager told him that the firm does not hire Jews. It is further charged that the manager wrote "religion" as the reason for rejecting Mr. Rosenstock on the card supplied by the employment agency. Anti-Nazi League chairman Prof. James H. Sheldon called the incident "a direct violation of our war policy as enunciated by President Roosevelt."

An 18 year old Williamsburg man was shot and killed by police early this morning after he tried to flee patrolmen attempting to question him about the mugging by "one of three white men" of 40 year old Wasil Pinkovich of 240 McKibbon Street. William Kuckman of 18 Moore Street first brandished a penknife at the patrolmen who approached him, along with two other men, around 3 AM near the corner of Varet Street and Graham Avenue, and after one of the officers knocked the knife from his hand with his nightstick, Kuckman fled. After he refused an order to halt, the patrolmen fired several warning shots, one of which struck Kuckman in the head. The other two men were questioned about the "mugging" incident and released. An examination of Kuckman's record revealed that he had been arrested twice before, once in 1937 for attempted rape and again in 1938 for unlawful entry.

(You know what's REALLY irritating? SOME KID YELLING IN MY EAR ABOUT CIGARETTES!)

National Doughnut Week begins today, celebrating the little fried cakes which have cheered Americans for many years -- especially doughboys, who will well remember the comforting taste of the doughnuts served by the Salvation Army during the First World War. The association between doughboy and doughnut is believed to have begun in the French village of Montiers-sur-Saulx, where two local S. A. lasses figured a bit of "American cooking" might serve as a fine substitute for home and sunshine. The modern doughnut isn't just a tasty treat for eating and dunking, it is rich in the energy units required for a good day's work.

("After all, it's the only coat you can get nowadays with a belt in the back!")

Reader George Durst writes from Jamaica that instead of wasting gas and tires driving around to give speeches, political candidates might show their real patriotism by using the subways, bus lines, and trolleys for their campaign travels. "It might also be a good idea for them to meet the common voters who use these transit lines!"

Detectives in Manhattan organized a dragnet today to search for the thief who stole secret plans, $1200 in cash, and $700 in bonds from a parked car near 49th Street and 7th Avenue early today. The car belonged to a war worker, Henry E. Powderly, an electrical engineer employed at a war plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He left the papers, cash, and bonds, on the front seat as he went into an all-night restaurant, and when he returned he found that a thief had broken into the car by means of the ventilation window and stolen his papers and money.

(I don't see how Rickey thinks he can get $75,000 given the wage ceiling, so this is all hot air. And the Browns? Unfortunately for the hapless Mr. Donald L. Barnes, he couldn't raise $75,000 if he hocked the team, the ballpark, the uniforms, and two bags of broken bats.)

(Ooomph? Look, leave Sheridan out of this.)

(Miss Tess Trueheart wandered disconsolately down the street when she spotted a young couple approaching. How the rage burned in her chest. How dare they be HAPPY. Her fingers tightened around the tiny automatic in her purse. A gift from "Dick," she ruminated ruefully as she felt the cold metal in her palm.)

("I SMELL SPIRIT GUM! OFF WITH THAT NOVELTY MOUSTACHE!" "OW! OW! OW!" "Oh, sorry, it's Irwin again with those damn smelly cigars!")

(SWELL ACTING HUH? WONDER IF'LL GET AN OSCAR! DO THEY GIVE OSCARS IN THE COMICS? MAYBE I'LL GET ANOTHER MEDAL! AND A COOKIE TOO! THAT'LL BE SWELL!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

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Hmph. She's no Madeline Webb. PS: I am not a jail matron.

Easier said...

"Oh yeah? Well, ask yuh teacher to figger this: how many ten pound rocks does it take t' sink a hunnert an' eight pound NAZI SABOTEUR in th' RIVER?"

Bimbo's been waiting ALL NIGHT to say that.

Are you trying to tell us something, kid?

That war bond quota logo is among a variety of public service announcements appearing on all mail vehicles in 1942. Advertise, advertise, advertise!

"Fortunately, leeches aren't rationed."

"AND DON'T CALL ME PRUNE FACE!"

"Oh, Harold, this came in the mail for you while you were out. Looks official."

I'll never forget the time my grandmother bounced half a pound of raw hamburger off my grandfather's head because he shut off his hearing aid while she was talking.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Oh, and...

Happy New Year!

 

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...The battle commenced as the eerie sound of bagpipes playing "Highland Laddie" echoed out across the desert in the pre-dawn moonlight.
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That's cool.

...After he refused an order to halt, the patrolmen fired several warning shots, one of which struck Kuckman in the head. ...

Somebody needs more training in what a "warning shot" actually is.

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Detectives in Manhattan organized a dragnet today to search for the thief who stole secret plans, $1200 in cash, and $700 in bonds from a parked car near 49th Street and 7th Avenue early today. The car belonged to a war worker, Henry E. Powderly, an electrical engineer employed at a war plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He left the papers, cash, and bonds, on the front seat as he went into an all-night restaurant, and when he returned he found that a thief had broken into the car by means of the ventilation window and stolen his papers and money.
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If the "secret plans" are related to the war, somebody should be in for disciplinary action. If not, then it sounds like the start of a "Dan Dunn" or "Dick Tracy" plot.

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(SWELL ACTING HUH? WONDER IF'LL GET AN OSCAR! DO THEY GIVE OSCARS IN THE COMICS? MAYBE I'LL GET ANOTHER MEDAL! AND A COOKIE TOO! THAT'LL BE SWELL!)

"If he chews up any more of the scenery, he'll have no room left for the cookie."

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Easier said...
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In related news, officials at Pearl Harbor today report a quarantining of half the troops stationed on the island.

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That war bond quota logo is among a variety of public service announcements appearing on all mail vehicles in 1942. Advertise, advertise, advertise!
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Wouldn't Nina be giving him her letters for Skeezix, so shouldn't he already know she's writing to Skeezix regularly? It just seems odd that he said that about hoping she wrote regularly.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("What's 'de-fal-ca-tions?'," queries Joe. "Ain'nat sump'n y'do inna bat'room?" "It means," observes Sally, "when some big shot is flush wit' cash he got no right t'be flush wit'." "Ah," replies Joe. "I bet'tee was SMOKIN' inneah too." )

The Red Army, embarking on another big counter-offensive, reports killing another 7000 Germans and Rumanians, destroying another 160 tanks, and states that it has driven the enemy back beyond a ridge of hills that surrounds the southern approaches to Stalingrad. Soviet dispatches further report that the Red Army has recaptured a second village in the Don-Volga corridor, and sent the Germans on "a fast retreat" toward new positions, with forces under the command of Marshal Timoshenko driving the Nazis out of the town street by street, killing 600 Germans in the process. In Stalingrad itself, defenders of the beseiged city killed another thousand storm troopers and blew up six tanks.

The Long Island Railroad earned nearly a million dollars more over the first eight months of 1942 than it did over the same period last year, with an increase in earnings of $967,786 cited in figures brought out today before a commission studying the L I R R's pending request for across-the-board commuter fare increases. The figures, intending to prove that increases sought by the L I R R and nine other intrastate railroads are not justified, were presented during a hearing at the Hotel St. George today by Public Service Commission rate expert George E. Goldthwaite, who further noted that, over the first seven months of 1942, the L I R R has earned "a clear profit" of $7,000,000.

Money is rolling in from out of state contributors to fund the election campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Thomas E. Dewey. A financial statement by the Dewey campaign, released today by the New York City Board of Elections shows that funds are pouring into the Dewey coffers from out-of-state businessmen from the middle west, the south, and the west -- the largest of which was a $1000 donation from the president of the Champlin Refining Company of Enid, Oklahoma. Figures indicate that the Dewey campaign so far has raised $56,059 and has spent $55,482.

The second Meatless Tuesday will be marked today in Brooklyn by the closure of one of the borough's best-known restaurants. Feltman's, of Coney Island, will close today, and each Tuesday thereafter, for the duration. The restaurant's menu is built around hot dogs and hamburgers, meat products for which there are as yet no adequate substitutes. A sign in the window of the establishment at Surf Avenue and W. 10th Street reads "We Are Doing Our Bit By Not Selling A Bit."

Curtailment of newspaper operations "will be an absolute necessity," warned War Production Board Chairman Donald L. Nelson today. Speaking before the first meeting of the WPB Newspaper Industry Advisory Council, the chairman warned publishers to expect reduction in the supply of available newsprint paper, as well as shortages of zinc required for the production of printing plates, copper, stiching wire, printers' ink, and other necessary supplies to be diverted to military use. But even in view of necessary reduction in page count and other adjustments that will be required, Mr. Nelson stressed the vital importance of the printed word to democracy in wartime, and emphasized that newspapers, themselves, must continue to operate to the best of their ability under the coming restrictions.

(Roulston's? Well, yeah, you'd expect something like this. BUT THEY WON'T GET AWAY WITH IT AT BOHACK'S!)

The War Production Board today issued rulings specifically intended to sound the death knell for the zoot suit. The new orders, now covering garments made of cotton, rayon, and other non-woolen materials, as well as wool itself, ban "reet pleats," "drape shapes," and "stuff cuffs," along with balloon-legged pants, vented, gussetted, or belted coats, and all other complicated details seen as wasteful of fabric.

("I mean, it's not like we were playing gin!")

Three men were arrested today in connection with the 1941 murder of Patrolman Leon Fox during a Coney Island payroll holdup. Charged with homicide were auto mechanic Sidney "Jake" Rudlich, asbestos sprayer Joseph "The Tiger" Indavino, and trucker's helper Morris "Mickey" Malinsky, who are accused of participating in the robbery of David Dolinsky, manager of a Loew's theatre, who was en route to a night depository of the Brooklyn Trust Company on Surf Avenue when he was set upon by four men. During the struggle over the payroll, Dolinsky was shot by the fourth man in the group, identified now by police as Abe "The Killer" Beitler, who committed suicide in a Manhattan hotel room last October rather than face questioning by detectives over his role in the slaying. Rudich and Indavino have denied complicity in the holdup, but police say Malinsky has admitted his role.

("Lawrng way f'm t' Boss'et Roof, ain'cha bud?")

("And how he loved blowing up tin cans with his little cherry bombs!")

(CONGRATULATIONS. WHY AREN'T YOU IN THE ARMY?)

(WHIPPING YOU INTO SHAPE, THAT'S WHAT)

("Aw forget it, let's flip a coin.")

("Who me? A lovable ol' character looks like silent screen favorite Chester Conklin? Nah, you must want the guy down the street looks like Mack Swain.")

(DID IT ALL IN ONE TAKE TOO!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Sour cream? Yuck.

A review of the rosters of the Albany Travelers/Albany Cardinals of the Class D Georgia-Florida League, an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals, between 1935 and 1942 reveals that no player named Walter Brady, or any recognizable variation of that name, ever played for that club. SO WHO YOU TRYIN' TO KID, BATBOY?

REMEDIAL MATH DRILLS START TOMORROW.

"CONGRATULATE ME BIMBO! MEET YOUR NEW PAPA IN LAW!"

"Not only that, daughter, I'm enlisting! If I was good enough to fight for Teddy, I'm good enough to fight for Franklin!"

You tried to elope and botched it and got called a rattle-brained hepcat. Then you ran away to New York and got fleeced by Senga. Then you got engaged to two women at the same time, and nobody ended up happy. I SHOULD HOPE IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT THIS TIME.

"Quick, find me half a pound of gristle."

Funny, they don't look Rosicrucian.

WOW YOU'VE THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING

How can she breathe with that jacket on?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Oh, and...

T'ain't whatcha say, it's the way that'cha say it.

 

[Fading Fast]

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("What's 'de-fal-ca-tions?'," queries Joe. "Ain'nat sump'n y'do inna bat'room?" "It means," observes Sally, "when some big shot is flush wit' cash he got no right t'be flush wit'." "Ah," replies Joe. "I bet'tee was SMOKIN' inneah too." )
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I like to think I have a pretty good vocabulary but, while I got its meaning from context, I'm with Joe, as I wasn't familiar with defalcate either.

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("I mean, it's not like we were playing gin!")
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Is running down a card game of five women in an apartment and making one arrest a really good use of the city's law-enforcement and judicial resources?

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Three men were arrested today in connection with the 1941 murder of Patrolman Leon Fox during a Coney Island payroll holdup. Charged with homicide were auto mechanic Sidney "Jake" Rudlich, asbestos sprayer Joseph "The Tiger" Indavino, and trucker's helper Morris "Mickey" Malinsky, who are accused of participating in the robbery of David Dolinsky, manager of a Loew's theatre, who was en route to a night depository of the Brooklyn Trust Company on Surf Avenue when he was set upon by four men. During the struggle over the payroll, Dolinsky was shot by the fourth man in the group, identified now by police as Abe "The Killer" Beitler, who committed suicide in a Manhattan hotel room last October rather than face questioning by detectives over his role in the slaying. Rudich and Indavino have denied complicity in the holdup, but police say Malinsky has admitted his role.
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If Indavino slips out of the law's grasp this time, fear not, the asbestos will eventually get him.

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("Lawrng way f'm t' Boss'et Roof, ain'cha bud?")
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I'm all for looking the other way with all this small-time gambling, but it seems that Butch and team would have more of an impact spending time on the waterfront than arresting women playing cards in an apartment.

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(WHIPPING YOU INTO SHAPE, THAT'S WHAT)
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Veronica Lake pulled her hair off of her face when she played a nurse in "So Proudly We Hail."

And the original peekaboo girl in all her flowing blonde-tresses glory.

And in the Daily News...

Sour cream? Yuck.
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Apparently, Anthony Amalfitano isn't aware that banks have these things called checks. I assume that his daughter has a darn good plan because I can't imagine what her homecoming would be like.

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A review of the rosters of the Albany Travelers/Albany Cardinals of the Class D Georgia-Florida League, an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals, between 1935 and 1942 reveals that no player named Walter Brady, or any recognizable variation of that name, ever played for that club. SO WHO YOU TRYIN' TO KID, BATBOY?
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Nice bit of Sleuthing, Lizzie, the fact-checkers at the News should be embarrassed.

And where exactly did Rickey's $1,000,000 figure come from?

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You tried to elope and botched it and got called a rattle-brained hepcat. Then you ran away to New York and got fleeced by Senga. Then you got engaged to two women at the same time, and nobody ended up happy. I SHOULD HOPE IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT THIS TIME.
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He's racked up quite the little record. The double engagement was particularly stupid. Meanwhile, Senga's worried that if they implement this new VD policy, she'll lose all her customers.


Lizzie, no "Terry and the Pirates" or "Dick Tracy" today?

 

[LizzieMaine]

The News threw me a curveball by sticking Terry and Tracy after Moon Mullins, deep in the sports section, which they NEVER DO. I hate when the layout people play games. Post edited to bring it to completion.

I'm trying to figure out that million dollar figure too. Here's what I've got so far --

Camilli -- from Phillies, $40,000 cash.

Reese -- from Red Sox (purchased entire Louisville A. A. franchise to get him), $40,000

Walker -- from Tigers, waiver price, $7500

Reiser -- from Cardinals farm system, $500

Medwick/Davis -- from Cardinals, $125,000

Owen -- from Cardinals, $65,000

Higbe -- from Phillies, $100,000

Herman -- from Cubs, $65,000

Cullenbine -- free agent signing, $25,000. (Pity how that worked out.)

That comes to $468,000 for major deals between 1938 and 1941. There were a lot of nickel and dime transactions involving minor players, and most of the above acquisitions also involved various lesser players as throw-ins, but I don't think you could add up the value of all of these and get $532,000. Maybe you could add in the $200,000 Larry spent to renovate Ebbets Field in 1938, and $75,000 for the lighting system, and then you get $743,000. But it's still a stretch,

Imagine getting Pete Reiser for $500. No wonder Branch Rickey hates Larry.

 

[Fading Fast]

The News threw me a curveball by sticking Terry and Tracy after Moon Mullins, deep in the sports section, which they NEVER DO. I hate when the layout people play games. Post edited to bring it to completion.

I'm trying to figure out that million dollar figure too. Here's what I've got so far --

Camilli -- from Phillies, $40,000 cash.

Reese -- from Red Sox (purchased entire Louisville A. A. franchise to get him), $40,000

Walker -- from Tigers, waiver price, $7500

Reiser -- from Cardinals farm system, $500

Medwick/Davis -- from Cardinals, $125,000

Owen -- from Cardinals, $65,000

Higbe -- from Phillies, $100,000

Herman -- from Cubs, $65,000

Cullenbine -- free agent signing, $25,000. (Pity how that worked out.)

That comes to $468,000 for major deals between 1938 and 1941. There were a lot of nickel and dime transactions involving minor players, and most of the above acquisitions also involved various lesser players as throw-ins, but I don't think you could add up the value of all of these and get $532,000. Maybe you could add in the $200,000 Larry spent to renovate Ebbets Field in 1938, and $75,000 for the lighting system, and then you get $743,000. But it's still a stretch,

Imagine getting Pete Reiser for $500. No wonder Branch Rickey hates Larry.

Thank you, Lizzie, for doing the math and research as, instinctually, based on what we've read over the past few years, that $1,000,000 figure seems crazy even if you, unfairly, stuff all the capital improvement expenses into one year. The only way you can get there is if MacPhail defalcated with several hundred thousand dollars.


Funny, until I hit refresh on the page, there were no "TT&P" or "Dick Tracy" strips visible on my screen. That is really weird. I'm sure I screwed up, but I did scroll up and down a few times looking for them.

As to Tracy:

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How can she breathe with that jacket on?

Our little Miss Juke Box girl just hinted that she's got some real freak to get on with the Copper. Good for Gould for slipping that past the censors, but ewh.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Situation Hopeless But Not Serious when Shadow Smart is the voice of reason in the room. Especially regarding relationships with women.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(That sugar fine amounts to $51.70 a pound for those keeping score at home. Such prices! I ask ya!)

Red Army forces under the command of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko today crashed thru another strongly fortified point northwest of Stalingrad, killing another 500 Germans and brought relief forces that much closer to the besieged city. In Stalingrad itself, house-to-house fighting saw the Nazi forces gain two more streets in the northern part of the city, at the cost of 1000 men and five tanks. The Germans also redoubled their efforts to drive thru a workers' settlement in the factory districts north of the city toward the Volga. In the past 24 hours they have left at least 1900 men dead on the blood-sodden approaches to that area.

Gold braid and brass hats are thwarting First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in her efforts to see the British people at war. A United Press report by London Daily Mirror reporter Hilde Marchant stated today that government officials, Ministry of Information watchdogs, and officials of the American Embassy are preventing Mrs. Roosevelt from approaching the British public any closer than "a ten foot range." During a visit to an Auxiliary Territorial Service camp near London, Mrs. Roosevelt asked the ATS women if they were comfortable in their camp. She was accompanied by the camp commanding officer and a group of red-tabbed staff officers, so what else could they say but "yes?" Mrs. Roosevelt has been kept busy with official parades, military exercises, and conversations with dignitaries, and while she has been shown "the little people of London who saved their own city," she has not been given the opportunity to talk with them.

The editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association today called for the compulsory registration of pregnant women, especially those working in war industries. In a speech to the automotive and machine section of the National Saftey Congress in Chicago, Dr. Morris Fishbein declared that such registration is necessary to protect expectant mothers working in war plants, and to "ensure an adequate birth rate in relation to war deaths."

An unexpected four-minute blackout in Bay Ridge late last night was the result of the testing of a new air raid siren at the South Brooklyn Army Base. The siren howled an alert around 11 last night, sending approximately 1500 air raid wardens scattering to their posts over an area of two or three square miles. Street lights along 4th Avenue were put out, and lights in homes and businesses went dark. One warden, 57-year-old Ben Levine of 902 44th Street, was knocked down by a car while directing traffic at the corner of 44th Street and 9th Avenue. He was taken to Israel Zion Hospital with a broken pelvis.

Wages for executives of the super-corporations, glamorous movie stars, and neighborhood shopgirls were all frozen effective today, as the War Labor Board and the Treasury Department took over the enormous task of controlling the wages and salaries of virtually every working American. The rules were placed before the public by Economic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes, who declared that they are so all-inclusive that they come "damn near getting everybody." Salaries below $5000 a year were frozen at the highest effective rate paid between January 1st and September 15th of this year, with increases or reductions forbidden. Salaries above $5000 a year are prevented from rising, but reductions are expressly permitted. The new regulations eliminate at a stroke the fabulous salaries of corporate leaders and entertainment celebrities, with an all-encompassing cap of $25,000 per year.

(Where's Mr. Amen when we need him???)

The Bronx today has its second case of a young girl absconding from home with the family savings. Police reported that 12-year-old Mary Perez disappeared from her home at 1017 Intervale Avenue carrying a suitcase and $1000 in cash her uncle, William Medina, had been saving to bring his two children here from Puerto Rico. The girl is said to have left a message for her mother, stating that she intended to kill herself "because she had been punished."

Meanwhile, the family of 15-year-old Rose Amalfitano of 286 E. 149th Street, who disappeared with two other girls earlier this week, received a letter from the missing girl stating that she will send back the $7500 in cash she took from a family closet, but she did not say anything in the letter about coming home.

("Gimme a pencil," says Sally. "Huh?" huhs Joe. "Neveh min' nonna t'at," snaps back Sally, slapping a paper tablet down on the kitchen table. "Just gimme a pencil.")

Installation of voting machines at the 1240 polling places in Brooklyn is underway today, an unusually early start for that process due to the absence this year of the usual delays due to squabbles over ballot positions and designations. Trouble-shooters will be on hand Election Day in order to repair any machines that go out of order after polling begins at 6 AM. Two trucks will be kept loaded at all times with two machines each to replace any machines which fail and cannot be fixed.

(War Is Hell.)

Christmas toys this year will be made of paper and plywood and rags and yarn, with wartime priorities taking metal, rubber, and most plastics out of the toy stores. Electric trains will be limited to prewar stocks, wheel goods such as bicycles and scooters will be at only 15 percent of the former supply, and scientific toys such as chemistry sets and microscopes will be all but unobtainable. Doll departments will be dominated by the old-fashioned cotton rag type, since metal scarcities have made it impossible to manufacture the molds needed to make the plastic and composition types. Metal and plastic components of many board games have also been eliminated in favor of wooden or composition replacements.

"Old Brooklyn Resident" writes in to "long for the day when the Gates Avenue trolley is restored. The buses are a failure. They are always crowded, those seated are annoyed by packages always striking their hats, in some seats there is no room for your feet, they are uncomfortable to ride in. We avoid riding in them wherever possible."

(SEE? NICE AND ROOMY!)

(So -- Larry is gone, Rickey is still playing footsie over a contract -- so exactly who is in charge at Montague Street right now? Who is making player decisions? Who is pondering trades? Who is planning for 1943? Jim Mulvey? John McDonald? Hilda Chester? WE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW.)

Pitcher Johnny Beazley, Cardinal World Series star now enlisted in the U. S. Navy, has applied for duty in the physical fitness department of that service. In his application, he gave "The New York Yankees" as a reference.

Gloria Parker, Flatbush orchestra leader, is planning something new for radio -- a program made up entirely of women: band, vocalists, comics, and announcer.

("My husband sent me to Reno when he heard about Tom." LIVE AND LEARN KID)

(Another unmarried marriage counselor.)

("Yeah! It was great when you broke up that bicycle ring! And that time you fought Little Face! And that little fella riding the St. Bernard!" "That's the other guy. In the Daily News." "Oh. Hey, I really miss Sparky Watts. Ever hear anything from him?")

(AM I ACTING HERE OR WHAT? I WISH WE HAD VIOLIN MUSIC. COMICS SHOULD HAVE VIOLIN MUSIC.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"Now, a bath towel around one's midriff is not the customary attire for teas." Hmph, clearly you need to get out more.

Well, at least in Albany, Mr. Dewey will seem taller.

There are so many things wrong with Panel 3 I hardly know where to start.

"No, she always calls me 'Timoshenko.'"

And what school do you go to, Colonel?

"Duc de Fromage." Kid knows a big cheese when he sees it.

"But -- please, no more stories about what you used to do on Halloween."

That lowered draft age can't come soon enough.

WAAAH--wa-wa-wa-WA-WAHHHHH

Clearly no counselor at this school.