The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Ew.

Yeah, blitzer here.

"Laffy." Well, it works for The Joker.

"They'll cheer for anybody." Oh Mr. Gray, you're too cynical. And why isn't Smitty in the Junior Commandos?

I never thought of Moon as a man of faith. Maybe that's how he's staying out of the Army. And we get a glimpse today of George Clark's Sunday feature, not quite in the same style as "The Neighbors," but enough for there to be a family resemblance.

It;s too late, you HAVE become Mother Hubbard! Who would have thought Mr. Edson would take us down a path of complex psychological drama? And the Ben Gay ad is notable because "Peter Pain" will go on to become one of the longest-running Sunday-comics ad characters of all time, plaguing readers well into the 1960s.

You're a dead man, Mr. Jones.

No wonder we never see Harold anymore. He's signed up to do toothpaste ads.

Life is so uncomplicated when you're eight.

Pretty good for a kid whose formal education ended at twelve.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

I understand this strip continued well into the future and I wonder if Terrence ever left China.

 

[LizzieMaine]

SPOILER ALERT

"Terry" will run into the early months of 1973, by which time Air Force Colonel Lee will still be operating in the Pacific sector. Commander Ryan of Naval Intelligence will still show up there from time to time as well.

Mr. Caniff, however, will leave the strip at the end of 1946 when his contract with the Daily News syndicate expires. He'll go on to create "Steve Canyon," a similar type of military-adventure strip, for the Field syndicate, and this will run until 1985. He'll never draw Terry again, except maybe once, in 1983. Surely our regular readers here will recognize these phantoms...

"Terry" the strip will be taken over as of January 1, 1947 by George Wunder, formerly an Associated Press staff artist, who will never have the sucesss with it that Caniff did, but will keep it going into the 70s.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Thanks Ms Elizabeth. Terrence is an impressive character and his story after the war should ideally see
him back home USA for college, fun, and romance; so I wonder what direction Mr Caniff will send Terrence then.
I love spoilers.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And for those puzzling over the mystery silhouettes they appear to be, from right to left, Captain Blaze, the Dragon Lady, Terry himself, a character we haven't yet met but will next year, Pat Ryan, Dr. Ping, Hu Shee, Burma, Connie, Big Stoop, and Chopstick Joe. And, I like to think, hovering just out of frame, the ghost of Raven Sherman...

 

[LizzieMaine]

("Heh!" hehs Alice. "T'ez a chance f' Joe right t'eh -- Leonoreh's awready a juvenile d'linquent!" "Noitz t'you" snaps Sally. "She ain' neit'eh!" "Well," shrugs Alice, "din'nat noisse at t'plant say she couldn' stay at t' noiss'ry no moeh 'cause she hit t'at ot'eh kid oveh t'head wit'tat stuffed panda?" "I took 'eh outta t'at place f'ra own good," growls Sally. "T'ey was c'ruptin' 'eh inneh. She come home t'utteh night an' she said 'go Yankees!' We ain' havin' none'a T'AT!" "Oh," ohs Alice. "But t'ot'eh day, din' I see you..." "YOU DIN' SEE NUT"N" snaps Sally. "Oh," ohs Alice.)

American troops have completed an almost bloodless occupation of Kolomangara Island, ending a three-month land, sea, and air battle for control of the central Solomons, it was revealed today. A communique from General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters announced that Americans landed on Kolomangara last Wednesday, and seized the abandoned Japanese base at Vila. By Saturday they had occupied all main positions on the island. Only a few Japanese troops remained to contest the landing, and the communique stated that large amounts of abandoned equipment and wrecked planes were left behind. A dispatch from the headquarters of Admiral William F. Halsey added that more than half the Japanese garrison escaped before the landings.

Reports reaching Spain suggest today that Premier Dr. Antonio de Olivera Salazar of Portugal may be on the verge of announcing that his nation will abandon its neutrality and offer the use of its bases worldwide to the Allies. Unconfirmed reports received in Madrid stated that a number of Allied ships have already arrived in the Portuguese Azores. The use of such bases would allow the Allies to increase anti-submarine airplane patrols along the convoy routes from the United States and Britain to the Mediterranean and to India by way of South Africa. Salazar is expected to announce that Portugal is now "a non belligerent adherent of the Allies" in a speech scheduled today before a special session of the Portuguese parliament.

Yugoslav forces reported a battle of mounting scale today is raging between partisan forces and Germans around the Adriatic seaport of Susak, and that the Nazi troops are being forced to give ground in some sectors. A communique broadcast from partisan headquarters claimed that patriot fighters were on the offensive along the railway line from the coast to Zagreb, and that a German garrison has been surrounded in the town of Ogulin, 35 miles southeast of Susak.

Thomas A. Aurelio, official nominee of both the Democratic and the Republican parties for the Supreme Court bench in the Manhattan-Bronx district will not be permitted to broadcast campaign talks over municipal radio station WNYC. Mayor LaGuardia, in announcing the schedule of political time assignments for the final weeks leading up to the November election, stated that Aurelio is being denied use of the station "because a candidate nominated by both major parties is assured of election, and needs no broadcasting time." The mayor's order also excludes from the station six other candidates nominated by both parties. Aurelio recently resigned his magistrateship after removal proceedings were brought against him by the Bar Association on the grounds that his dual-party nomination was achieved at the instance of notorious racketeer Frank Costello.

(Because wouldn't Columbus have appreciated a good warm coat?)

(Just as 1942 was the Year of Gypsy Rose Lee, 1943 has shaped up as the Year of William Bendix.)

("Of course, she scarcely has the time to practice, what with her shift at Sullivan Drydock!")

Funeral services were held yesterday for Rabbi Hirsch Manischewitz, vice president of the B. Manischewitz Baking Company, one of the nation's largest manufacturers of matzoh. Rabbi Manischewitz died of a heart attack Friday night during Yom Kippur services at Ohav Zedek Synagogue in Manhattan. Rabbi Manischewitz was a trustee of the synagogue, the president of the Federation of Palestine Jews, vice president of the Mizrachi Organization, an executive member of the Yeshiva Organization, and represented more than 30 organizations of higher Jewish learning in both Palestine and Europe. More than 2000 attended his funeral services, prior to his burial at Riverside Cemetery in Rochelle Park, New Jersey.

("WHY COULDN'T THEY DRAFT RUSSO IN 1941!" -- Fitz's Knee.)

(Piracy is like any other occupation these days -- nothing left but old men and 4-Fs.)

(He seems right at home with peep holes.)

(FISH IN A BARREL)

(Only thing worse than a criminal robot is a criminal robot who doesn't know the basic rules of gun safety.)

("AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE HERO DOG WOULD NEVER GO IN FOR SUCH AN UNPATRIOTIC SCHEME. Do you think they'll have roast beef?")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Poor Little Rich Girl.

Butch has no need for Pepto-Magnin.

"Of course you realize this means war!"

For now.

Sorry, pal -- all jobs are frozen for the duration.

Can't trust anybody these days.

There's such a thing as spreading too much happiness.

"Why, did you know it's almost fifty years old!"

The war is really getting to Shadow.

It's a wonder anybody in this house needs an alarm clock.

 

[Trenchfriend]

@LizzieMaine

Tirpitz torpedoed.
Oops, they mistook powerful ground mines with torpedoes.

But the fun fact is, that if the X-Craft operation would have been fully successfull and all mines would have explode, with Tirpitz not moved a little to the side, the 50.000 tons monster would have broken in half.
But anyways, Tirpitz was heavily damaged, so heavily, that it was non-operational.

These ground mines were pure devil.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Brenda Marshall is a lass I remember from the Sea Hawks and Errol Flynn was her sea going suitor.
It's Spanish Armada era with Flynn a privateer who is captured off Panama but escapes his galley slave oar
in the English Channel. Brenda babes is a lady wait for Elizabeth, and there's this pet monkey Flynn gives
the Queen. And she's preggers now. I just saw Razor's Edge, a postie flick with Gene Tierney in a tight black
strapless she wore to perfection. Slimjim stick with nice decolletage but she's all Legs diamondesque.
A favourite femme fatale figure with cascading hair like Niagra Falls.

But the best story is that electrician whose side job is doing the smash and grab in darkness.
Quite the bounder that lad sure.

Terrence is in like Flynn but Caniff needs cut the lad some slack, slip the chain what and let the lad be a tad bee. Stinger and honey I'll say. Lad's earned his deflower with his commission.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("Hey Sal," inquires Alice, seeing Sally absorbed during the ride home in a slick magazine instead of her usual early edition of the Eagle. "Whassat ya read'n? Whassa name'a t'at? 'Madam Oisle?'" "It's 'Mad'ma'selle,' corrects Sally. "It's a magazine." "I c'n see t'at," nods Alice. "But how come ya read'n at? Ain' no funnies in it, izzeh?" "I can't stan' t' read t' newspapeh no moeh," sighs Sally. "T' wawr news, t'at's one t'ing, but we'eh wawkin' past'a newsstan' inna station'neh, an' I see t'at headline on'neh 'bout t'at pooeh woman in Queens'seh, an' sump'n jus' snapped. I jus' can' take it no moeh. T'woil' has gone stawrk ravin' crazy. I can' take it no moeh. So I bought t'is magazine instead. Cawst a quawrteh, but it's woit' it. See t'at onna coveh t'eh? Says 'T' magazine f' smawrt young women.' T'at's me." "I guess," shrugs Alice. "Y'awr pretty smawrt." "I am," agrees Sally. "But -- um --" hesitates Alice. "Ya really ain' awlat, you know..." "IT'S A GREAT MAGAZINE!" thunders Sally. "Now shuttup an' lemme read!" "Y'ain't, t'ough..." mumbles Alice.)

British midget submarines which torpedoed the German super-battleship Tirpetz in a Norwegian fjord last month probably knocked it out of the war for three months to a year, well-informed sources stated today. Allied warships and planes may be able to complete destruction of the battleship, considered one of the most formidable in the world, if and when it attempts to limp 300 miles southward to Narvik or 400 miles father to Trondheim for repairs. The damaging of the Tirpitz was expected in some quarters to result in an early diversion of further American and British warships to the Pacific theatre at a time when Allied offensive blows against the Japanese are mounting steadily.

American Liberator bombers struck deep into the Japanese-held East Indies again to bomb and burn the big enemy oil port at Macassar in the Celebes, a communique announced today. Ranging 1000 miles over the Japanese network of island bases northwest of Australia, Liberators hit Macassar just after dusk on Saturday to blast docks, warehouses, and oil tanks with 25 tons of explosives. Great fires leaping thru the port were visible to air crews 90 miles away on the homeward flight. All Liberators taking part in the raid returned safely to their base.

The free Zagreb radio reported today that partisan forces under the command of Gen. Josip (Tito) Brozovitch have captured the central part of that city, capital of Croatia, and seat of the Nazi puppet government headed by Ante Pavelic. A communique broadcast today reported without elaboration that units of the Croat partisan 13th Corps has occupied western Zagreb, and the last fortified position formerly held by Pavelic's Ustachi troops, the town of Zumberak. The railway from Zagreb to Belgrade, former capital of Yugoslavia, was cut near Pljesivica, the communique stated. Complete occupation of Zagreb would give the partisans their biggest victory of the war, and climax an offensive started last month, shortly after the surrender of Italy to the Allies.

("Huh," huhs Joe. "Getta loada t'at. Ten kids she got." "Thaat'd droive any woooman t'croime," sighs Ma. "What?" "Nooth'n.")

The War Labor Board has ordered a tightening of regulations under which workers may change jobs, in an effort to further cut waste and ensure the flow of labor into areas where it is needed most. Under the new regulations, taking effect this Friday, no worker in an essential industry may shift to any non-essential job without direct permission in writing from the United States Employment Service, and any worker who does leave a job in an essential industry without a Statement of Availabilty from the WLB may not be hired for any other employment for sixty days. Persons working in any of the 149 occupations listed as critical by the WLB cannot under any circumstances be hired for any other job without written authorization from the WLB or an agency delegated by the War Manpower Commission. The adjustments are designed, according to WLB regional director Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, to "eliminate wasteful labor turnover, reduce unnecessary labor migration, provide for the orderly transfer of of workers, direct the flow of scarce labor to where it is needed most in the interest of the war effort, and to obtain the greatest utilization of the labor resources available in this area."

(You haven't been in Brooklyn long, have ya hon?)

Wounded servicemen at the St. Albans Naval Hospital and at Halloran General Hospital on Staten Island will be entertained by television beginning on October 25th, as the National Broadcasting Company begins a special series of sports telecasts from Madison Square Garden. The programs, to be shown over NBC's television station WNBT, will be viewed on television sets donated by NBC officials, who are giving up their personal sets for the sake of the wounded men. The WNBT telecasts, to be hosted by commentator George Putnam, will include fights, track meets, basketball and hockey games, and the rodeo, and will be picked up for rebroadcast by television stations in Schenectady and Philadelphia.

The president of the Young Women's Christian Association in a letter to President Roosevelt demanded today that racial segregation be immediately abolished in the Armed Forces of the United States. "Segregation of Negroes," declared YWCA president Mrs. Henry A. Ingraham of Brooklyn, "is a veritable badge of second-class citizenship when it comes from the Federal Government. We believe that great good would come if you would speak out strongly and clearly against segregation."

Brooklyn women are bristling at a proposed bill that would draft women between the ages of 21 and 35 into the Armed Forces. "When you tell a woman she's *got* to do something," declared one housewife, "you can be pretty sure it's then that she won't want to do it." Another objection was voiced by Mrs. Edith Barbieri of 104 Concord Street, a drill press operator at the Sperry Gyroscope Company, who noted that the only women who would be available to be drafted would likely be young mothers. "Most of the single girls," noted Mrs. Barbieri, "have already joined the service or entered war work." But Mrs. Eugenia Traks of 305 Water Street declared that, while she is not "eager" to join the Armed Forces, she is willing to do her part. Mrs. Traks stated that she would prefer to join the Marines, since her husband is already a Marine fighting somewhere in the Pacific.

("Despite it all, Portia is still Facing Life!")

In St. Paul, Minnesota, the first wife of a bigamist sought clemency for her imprisoned husband. Mrs. Carol B. Baker told a judge yesterday that she sometimes stepped on her husband's face while wearing high-heeled shoes, and suggested that this may have inspired him to leave her and marry Ruth Hussman. Mrs. Baker asked the State Pardon Board to grant her husband early release from his five-year sentence for bigamy.

(It's gonna be a long, long winter.)

Dodger outfielder Luis Olmo, back home in Puerto Rico, has been signed to spend the winter months managing the Santurce Crabbers of the Puerto Rican Winter League. Olmo says he will not be a playing manager, nor will he follow the example of Leo Durocher in firing up his players. "He's too dynamic for my people," says Olmo. "He'd scare them to death."

WICK BRAINS! WICK BRAINS! WICK BRAINS!

"Now just a minute, Granny. WHAT'S MY CUT?"

GOOD THING THERE'S A HARD NOSED INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER ON THE JOB OR THIS NEVER WOULD HAVE COME TO LIGHT

Why does Phil Fumble have his picture on the front page of the paper? Did he shoot Fritzi? Did Fritzi shoot him?

"THINKING" you're lame?

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News..

Segregated schools are illegal in the State of New York. But that's only half the battle.

Yee Haw.

The in is always easier than the out.

"But do you have to copy all the pictures too?"

"CMON SANDY! WE"RE GOIN' INTO ACTION! Sandy?"

Um, it isn't like you can jump off and wait for the next boat...

Just in case Jimmy Jemail gets drafted.

War is hell.

Hallucinations are always the first sign.

Well, at least it isn't more Dottie.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And finally...

And just like that, we say good bye to Baseball 1943. 20 weeks till pitchers and catchers report to whatever gawdforsaken hellspot they find for Spring Training.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Stanley Mocarsky is a resident alien and subject the draft I presume. The trial judge was quite imaginative at
sentencing. If Mocarsky is naturalized and all I doubt the judge lordship can be so unconstrained precedent here. Yet his comment fits the square.
And that base ball man's wife is movie star beautiful.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("Hmph!" hmphs Ma. "Imagine involvin' yarr daaghter in soomthin' loike that!" "Oh, I dunno," suggests Joe. "I c'n t'ink of a few gals who'd prob'ly be real good at it if t'ey got a chance. Maybe help take t'load off, say, a bookie awr a numbehs bankeh if t'ey'd been sick lately a' sump'n." "Hmph," hmphs Ma. "Leonora, daarlin, poot down those darrty nick'ls.")

The Germans have virtually completed their evacuation of Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, after firing and dynamiting the city's principal buildings and kidnapping its inhabitants for slave labor. Converging Russian forces were reported to be tightening their grip on the immediate approaches to Kiev west of the Dnieper, while pounding German defenses from Trukhanov Island in the river some 300 yards from the city waterfront. A frontline dispatch to the Soviet newspaper Isvestia reported that Kiev is deserted, except for German policemen "standing like scarecrows" at street intersections. Fires in the city, third largest in the Soviet Union, are visible for miles along the opposite bank of the Dnieper, while huge palls of smoke hang over the powerhouse and the dock areas, as well as over the famous Perschersky Lavra, Russia's most ancient monastery.

Japanese troops have been smashed back with heavy losses in an attempt to regain their base at Finshchhafen and stem the advance of Australian ground troops driving on Mandang in northeastern New Guinea, a communique disclosed today. More than 400 Japanese were killed in a day-long battle northwest of Finschhafen on Sunday when the Japanese launched three long counterstrikes against the Australians who captured the port on October 2nd.

("Look, at least we didn't use any Antique Belgian Paving Blocks!")

(It Takes A Village To Buy The Meat.)

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover himself writes in to praise the Eagle for "the affirmative steps" the paper is taking to address the issue of juvenile delinquency. "I am very anxious for the FBI to cooperate," he declares, "in every program initiated to meet the terrible trend of child delinquency today, and the consideration you have given to this problem is not only a real contribution to society, but is a great aid to law enforcement as well during this when we are shouldering the tremendous responsibilities brought on by the war."

(Nice to see Mr. Lichty keeping On Trend.)

("I hope t'ey don' sen' Reiseh inta combat," laughs Alice. "He'll crash right inta t' Maginot Line." "Heh," snickers Sally. "T'at was a pretty good one, huh?" chuckles Alice. "Siddy said t'at one to me las' night. He's a reg'leh Bob Hope. C'ept f't'nose. An' he ain' got so much haieh. An' he ain' so tawl." "He can't sing, neiteh," adds Sally. "No," concedes Alice. "But he tries.")

(Ah, to be the downstairs neighbors...)

(I have in fact picked a lock with a hairpin. It was the lock on my desk, after I lost the key, and I was astonished to find that it actually worked.)

("Well, sir, you being a complete idiot doesn't make my job any easier...")

(What, you didn't try posting flyers on telephone poles? "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS ROBOT?")

(The Dog From Marketing.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"The past isn't dead -- it isn't even past."

"AND, I come out of a dolphin's mouth! Yeah!"

A match made in heaven.

Too much campaign spending?

Careful, son -- don't write a check you can't cash.

ARRRRRR

Just what kind of a canteen are we running here?

"I thought she was, she didn't get home till three ---OW!"

Oh, I'm sure there's a good explanation.

HEY BUB WHY AREN'T YOU IN THE ARMY?

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

Terrence is a regular Jack the lad beneath that Irvin jacket what.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("Hey Sal," marvels Alice. "Getta loada t'is one. Some gal sen''neh kid by messengeh to 'eh husban' inna Navy." "I don' wanna heeh'rit," dismisses Sally. "I tol' ya, I'm offa t'papeh." "Whatcha read'neah," inquries Alice with a glance at the magazine in Sally's lap. "T''at 'Madam Oisle" again?" "Nah," replies Sally. "It'ss'is ot'eh t'ing I seen onna newsstan' inna station t'eh. 'T' New Masses.'" "R'ligious stuff, huh?" nods Alice. "You don' go t'choich." "No, no," continues Sally. "It's one'a ya p'litical magazines. Got all kindsa talk 'bout afteh t'wawr, n'awlat." "I t'ought you was offa read'n 'bouta wawr," counters Alice. "T'is is diff'nt," insists Sally. "T'is is t'inkin' 'bout what t'woil' is gonna be like when it's awl oveh, an' how people like us, y'know, t' common woikin' people, eh' gonna get t' have moeh'va say in runnin' t'ings. Y'know? "I dunno," shrugs Alice. "Soun's like t'at'd be a lotta woik. I kinda like me days off, ya know?" "Ahhhh," snorts Sally, "you jus' ain' class conscious." "Hey Sal," queries Alice. "If a messengeh delivehs a baby, would a quawrteh be enough of a tip? Or wouldja hafta give'im haffa buck?")

Premier Marshal Pietro Bagdolio said today that he will soon have an Italian Army fighting alongside the Americans and British in the campaign to drive the Germans from Italy. The Italian navy and air force will also fight for the Allies in Italy, Bagdolio told newspaper correspondents only a few minutes after he broadcast Italy's declaration of war against Germany to the Italian people from the grounds of the ancient castle where he has established his headquarters. "They are ready to fight," explained Bagdolio of the forces at his command. "That is why we declared war."

Residents of Queens today opened their hearts and pocketbooks to the four motherless children living at 144-08 Liberty Avenue in South Jamacia, following the murder of their mother, Mrs. Marie Pearson. Her accused slayer, 51-year-old Jamacia landscape gardener Provinziaro Ferrera remains under interrogation by police, who are holding him on a charge of homicide. He is to be arraigned today in Ridgewood Felony Court. Police say he showed no emotion when he stood beside Mrs. Pearson's brutalized body at the Queens General Hospital morgue and declared his innocence. Meanwhile, cash gifts continue to arrive at the Pearson home, and officials of the Henry J. Kaiser company, for whom the childrens' father is employed at a Portland, Oregon shipyard, have offered to pay the childrens' fare so that they may join their father out west. The oldest daughter, 18-year-old Evelyn Pearson, indicated that she has not yet decided whether to accept that offer.

Underworld figure Frank Costello denied under oath before a Manhattan Grand Jury yesterday that he had any "ulterior motive" in promoting former Magistrate Thomas Aurelio for the Democratic nomination for a Supreme Court judgeship in the coming election. Attorney George Wolf, speaking for Costello, told reporters that his client's support of Aurelio was "entirely of a legitimate nature and was not prompted by any improper, dishonest, or ulterior motive."

Ginger Rogers rates as America's highest paid film star, according to figures covering the tax year of 1941, just released today by the U. S. Treasury Department. Miss Rogers earned a total of $335,000 for that year, topping such rival high earners as Bing Crosby, James Cagney, and Clark Gable, none of whom crashed the top ten in 1941. For the fifth consecutive year, America's top wage earner was MGM executive Louis B. Mayer, whose income totalled $949,765, an increase of $245,340 from his 1940 earnings.

("This occured when she was a 17-year-old school girl." OF COURSE IT DID.)

Brooklyn's own Rise Stevens, star of the Metropolitan Opera and movies besides, actually turned down offers from both the Met and Hollywood early in her singing career because she didn't feel she was ready. Miss Stevens won the first Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air competition in 1936, but declined the contract offered to her to join the company at that time, and also rejected an offer from a Hollywood talent scout to get her into pictures. Instead she spent the next two years in Europe, studying under continental opera masters in order to sharpen her skills before returning to America in 1938. Since her rise to prominence in the opera world she has spent many hours performing at Army camps and considers performing for the troops one of her favorite things, alongside her cashmere sweaters, her gingham rabbit, her red dancing shoes, and her copies of the collected works of Oscar Wilde. She's married to a serviceman -- Staff Sergeant Walter Szourvy, with whom she hopes to spend Thanksgiving this year.

("Mrs. Casey is a very foine woman," declares Uncle Frank, dabbing a spot of margarine from his necktie with the edge of his napkin. "That was a very foine luncheon, and I was very pleased to give harr me endarrsement." "You warr pleased, waar ye," scowls Ma. "Waal, not THAT pleased," backtracks Uncle Frank. "Pleased in -- ah -- more of a general way, ye understand." "I do," frowns Ma. "Oi suppose she sarrved ye real butter instead'a oleo." "Well," stammers Uncle Frank, "ye know how politics waaarks.." "Oi do," nods Ma, "Oi do indeed.")

Over four thousand employees of the Sperry Gyroscope Company in Brooklyn and Queens will gather at the Manhattan Center on Saturday night for the annual Fall Dance sponsored by Local 450 of the CIO United Electrical Workers Union. Bob Allen, formerly with Hal Kemp, will conduct his famous orchestra for the occasion, and the union's own orchestra under the direction of Al Descov will also perform.

The Eagle Editorialist is unsurprised by the declaration of war by Italy against its former ally Germany, noting that all of Italy's present problems can be traced to its ill-fated alliance with the Nazis and specifically to the "stab in the back" against France which brought Italy into the war. "Even within the ranks of the Axis," observes the EE, "she was treated with arrogance, like a slave rather than a partner."

("Hmph," hmphs Joe. "When'ney DO take me, I ain' gonna look like T'AT!")

The war will end in 1945, predicted astrologer Isidor Obio before the Brooklyn Rotary Club this week. Among his other prognostications: after the war ends in the spring of 1945, Russia will take its place as the greatest country in the world, with France exerting domination over Italy, and Britain shifting the Crown to Canada. The United States will write a new Declaration of Independance for the entire world. DeGaulle will lead a march on Paris. And, within fourteen years, capital and labor will merge thruout the world. Asked if President Roosevelt will run for a fourth term, Obio shrugged but predicted that "within the next two, three, or four years, President Roosevelt will be the leader of the entire world." Obio further stated that "Russia is not what people think it is," and promised that the rise of Russia to world primacy will lead to a new world religion that was not only predicted by Nostradamus, it is "the will of God."

(The Football Dodgers. Sigh. 0 and 3. ARE THEY STILL IN THE LEAGUE?)

Freddie Fitzsimmons, beloved Dodger knuckleballer now managing the Phillies, is back in town for the winter to oversee doings at his Empire Boulevard bowling academy. He was spotted enjoying a soccer game last Sunday at the Metropolitan Oval.

Don't tell anyone, but radio announcer Andre Baruch's real, full name is "Andre Bernard Jean Jacques Rousseau Octavius III Baruch de la Pardo." Small wonder his singing wife still goes by a simple "Bea Wain."

(SOOCH BOOMS! SOOCH BOOMS! SOOCH BOOMS!)

(Yeah, but good luck getting a cab at this time of night.)

(So it's that kind of office, is it??)

("Gimme a hand, willya?")

(AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE HERO DOG WOULD NEVER FAKE A LIMP. But as long as he's got one...)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

THIS ISN'T NEWS

Sidney Krause, building superintendant, Brooklyn: "Eh."

Whatta pal, whatta pal, whatta pal!

I look forward to seeing how Mr. Gray intends to tie his two stories together. Spike wins the election and immediately "audits" the Gooneyville treasury? THAT'D MAKE ANNIE MAD.

No, I think Tilda has the right idea.

"Arrrr, I'm meetin' with our chief. He's a fat Britisher with a red beard. Calls himself 'Cap'n Blaze!'"

Yeah, Taffy, you can talk. A lieutenant ranks an FO.

Harold might not be in the service yet, but at least his sister joined the Junior Commandos.

Don't be so sanguine about it, kid -- you're gonna have to share your bureau drawer.

"Besides, she used up our sugar ration for the month. You can either eat it or crumble it into your coffee."

 

[LizzieMaine]

("I tol' ya, Miss's P, t'at's good coal," insists Krause the super as Sally holds up a suspicious-looking lump. "It don' look like coal t'me," retorts Sally. "Lookattit! It's awl blue!" "It's Blue Coal," declares Krause. "I know it's blue," nods Sally. "But coal ain't blue! Coal's black! 'Black as coal!' Not 'blue as coal!' Whatcha tryin' ta pull heeh?" "No, no." stammers Krause, "Look. It's t' brand of coal. 'Blue Coal.' You know, like onnat radio show 'bout t'Shadow. T'ey paint t'coal blue, t'at's all." "Well," frowns Sally, "whattat'ey do T'AT fawr?" "So y'll know," explains Krause, 't'at it's Blue Coal!" "I c'n SEE it's blue coal!" snorts Sally. "How come t'ey gotta PAINT IT BLUE? What'sa pernt?" "Well," shrugs Krause, "it's -- um -- coal -- an' -- uh -- it's blue." "Heh," chortles Alice, leaning against the basement wall. "Jus' like Abbot 'n Costelleh!")

Tightened control over manpower, including the roundup of more than 100,000 draft delinquents became effective today. Selective Service was sifting the supply of draft-age registrants to make more men available to the armed forces by ordering the immediate induction, effective November 1st, of all draft-age men who have failed to abide by draft regulations, such as failing to report for physical examinations or failing to complete and return questionnaires within ten days. Another Selective Service program just being initiated, which contemplates obtaining prior to induction the physical and health records of registrants has a twofold purpose -- first, to prevent induction of those known to have poor physical or mental stamina which might not show up in an induction examination, and second, to make sure of the induction of those whose previous records show no cause for rejection.

The new controls for workers, meanwhile, result from a revised policy announced in August by War Manpower Commission chairman Paul V. McNutt, and will be accomplished by revised area and regional employment stabilization programs that took effect at midnight. These plans are elastic in the intensity of control they exercise over the hiring of workers, but do not permit practices below certain minimum standards set by McNutt.

The seething Balkans loomed as a new major front for the harassed German High Command today as Berlin acknowledged that its number-one troubleshooter, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, has been shifted from Italy to lead the campaign against Yugoslavia's patriot armies. The Nazi situation in the Balkans was complicated further by reports that factional guerilla forces in Yugoslavia were about to unite against the Germans and that Russian planes are now ferrying in supplies to the partisans. Those reports broadcast over the Berlin radio stated that Yugoslav guerilla units were "heavily armed and equipped with countless lorries, tanks, armed reconnaissance cars and airplanes."

The possibility of a new Finnish effort to withdraw from the war was seen today in the statement by a Finnish legislator before the Diet that "it may be necessary for Finland to separate" from Nazi Germany. The Helsinki radio reported that Prof. Vaino Volonmaa, president of the Diet's foreign affairs committee, hinted at the peace bid in a speech before the legislative body yesterday.

("Well you wouldn't want a judge running around with UNINFLUENTIAL underworld characters! Would you??")

The held-over Kings County Grand Jury investigating conditions in Bedford-Stuyvesant pressed its inquiry today after hearing testimony from Mayor LaGuardia and Police Commissioner Valentine, but Acting District Attorney Thomas Craddock remained silent, despite a suggestion by the mayor that Craddock might make some comment. Many complaints of "hoodlumism" in the "largely Negro" neighborhood have been received, but none have mentioned racial disturbances.

What does the well-dressed woman war worker wear at Todd Shipyards? Rejected Army pants, for one thing, according to Todd personnel manager Mildred Justice. The Army has furnished trousers in both wool and cotton for the use of Todd's workers, along with shirts that have failed Army inspections. Completing the ensemble are heavy, high-topped work boots, coats with leather sleeves, plastic breast covers, plastic safety helmets, hairnets, and goggles.

("SPPPPPPPPPT!" erupts Leonora, gazing down at the newspaper spread out on the counter before her father. "Whassat now?" chuckles Joe. "BEETS!" spurts the child, her dark eyes blazing. "Beets?" queries Joe, scanning the newspaper. "Oh. Oh yeh. Beets." "BEETS!" repeats Leonora. "SPPPPPPPPPRT!" "Amazin'," marvels Ma. "Joost like harr moother." "Nah," shrugs Joe. "Sal don't mind beets." "I wasn' taaalkin," frowns Ma, "aboot the beets.")

L. D. M. writes in to Helen Worth concerned about her eleven year old son who has, for the past eight or ten months, been expressing a strong romantic interest in a little girl from the neighborhood, and is at her home "every spare minute." The boy constantly talks about this girl, and is "outspoken" in his feelings for her. His father calls this "damned nonsense," and is often very harsh with the boy over it. L. D. M. is trying to remain sympathetic to her son, but "is worn out" from trying to defend him to his father. What to do? Helen urges her to do everything she can to bring other interests into the boy's life -- hobbies, sports, clubs, other friends. "Is he a Cub Scout?" she suggests. "If not, why not?"

Gypsy Rose Lee's new play "The Naked Genius" will open at the Plymouth Theatre next Thursday -- in spite of the fact that Miss Lee and director George S. Kaufman both wish it wouldn't. Producer Michael Todd is insisting on opening the show on Broadway as scheduled, despite protests from the author and director that, based on its Pittsburgh tryout, the production should close before it reaches New York. But whatever the creative concerns with the play, Todd is convinced, based on the box office returns from the trial run, that it will do sellout business whether or not Miss Lee or Mr. Kaufman like the production.

(Supply and Demand.)

Sale of the Blue Network to its new owners was compelted today by the transfer of 1000 shares of capital stock by the Radio Corporation of America to American Broadcasting Company, Incorporated. Price of the transaction was quoted at $8,000,000 cash, paid by American Broadcasting president Edward J. Noble. The sale is in compliance with a 1941 Federal Communications Commission order requiring RCA to divest itself of one of its two networks.

("Leo Durocher? Is he still in the league??")

Former Phillies manager Bucky Harris, deposed last summer in the move that led to Freddie Fitzsimmons leaving Brooklyn for the Quaker City, has found a new job in old surroundings -- he's back with the Buffalo Bisons of the International League, where he was playing second base when Clark Griffith discovered him for the Washington Senators back in 1919. Bucky will manage the Bisons in 1944. Thus is one potential successor to Leo Durocher as head of the Dodgers eliminated from the picture.

(SWIT LAMBIE DOMPLING! SWIT LAMBIE DOMPLING! SWIT LAMBIE DOMPLING!)

("Oh. Well, close enough.")

(You have no idea HOW smart.)

("Hmmm. It seems to have enough empty space inside to fit a full-grown man, so I'd guess the answer would have to be OF COURSE IT DID."

(AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE HERO DOG NEVER TAKES ANYTHING HE DOESN'T DESERVE. Wait, is that lox? I hate lox.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"I'll fight a suit of this kind to the bitter end to avoid...oooh, penicillin!"

"Unlike cerrrrrrtain lowbrow tabloids, WE still have classifieds..."

"Wait, that's it? No drums? In the movies there's always drums!"

Oh, so thaaaaaaat's what it's called. I always just called it the pointy, sticky thing.

INVENTOR OF WHITE NOISE!

Fools! You have unleashed forces you can scarcely comprehend!

"Yeaaaaah, I'd love to, but I really need to stay in tonight and polish my gun."

WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT!

"But we were so CAREFUL!"

A relationship built on deception can never survive.