Today in History

[Fletch]

James Houlik, the concert saxophonist, who's given recitals in Armenia and made sax settings of that country's folk melodies, likes to say he is "ABC = Armenian By Choice." Skeet, it sounds as tho you are, too.

 

[LizzieMaine]

April 29, 1937

AIR CONCERN AND MERRILL FACE U. S. CRASH PENALTY

(Special To The News)

Washington, D. C., April 28 -- Pilot error and improper dispatching -- the "human factor" in both cases -- were given major blame today for the crash of the Eastern Air Lines skyliner in which Pilot Henry T. "Dick" Merrill, his co-pilot, and one passenger were injured last December 19 near Port Jervis, N. Y.

In reporting the findings in its investigation of the crackup, the Bureau of Air Commerce also listed as a contributory cause the static conditions that rendered radio range reception unintelligible. But in spite of the loss of beam reception, the pilot should have avoided the crash by proper use of his two-way radio, the report stated.

The findings of the bureau board in placing responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the pilot and operating personnel would indicate that drastic disciplinary action is contemplated. Possibility of his grounding, and perhaps suspension of his Scheduled Air Transport rating faced Merrill. If grounded, the veteran airman who made one round-trip over the Atlantic would see his hopes wrecked for his contemplated "coronation flight."


BURLESQUE DOOM HINTED AS CLERGY ASSAIL STRIP TEASE

By Julia McCarthy

The doom of burlesque in 17 New York theatres where strip-teasers display their "art" was indicated yesterdat at a hearing before License Commissioner Paul Moss. Theatre owners sat in glum silence as a parade of witnesses representing Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish organizations demanded that Moss refuse to renew the licenses of all such playhouses. The licenses expire at midnight Friday.

Moss himself dropped a broad hint as to his course of action when he read the rules he established for burlesque houses last year, rules which banned "vulgar, obscene, or indecent acts," and held theatre owners accountable.

He read into the record scores of letters and heard more than a dozen witnesses, all condemning burlesque. Again and again he asked theatre owners if they had any defense to make, but they remained silent in the back row, chewing their cigars.

Even an old-timer of the burlesque business protested against the shows of today. Billy Watson, whose "Beef Trust" was a byword in the old days of burlesque, wrote to Moss:

"Filth does not last. A little ginger, yes. If you cut out the strip-teases, you will make the theatres a place where a man can take his wife and children. When Gypsy Rose Lee, Ann Corio, and some of the others worked for me, they didn't do the strip-tease, and the audiences still liked them."


WALLY AND EDWARD MAY MARRY DAY OF KING'S CORONATION

(By Associated Press)

London, April 28 -- Wallis Warfield Simpson may be married to the Duke of Windsor on Coronation Day, May 12, while Edward's successor is being crowned in Westminster Abbey.

The Southern Daily Echo of Southampton said today it had learned "exclusively from most reliable sources" that a Coronation Day wedding was being considered by the Duke and the woman for whom he renounced the throne. The Duke threatened last week to throw a shadow on the coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth, it was reported, unless the book "Coronation Commentary," bitterly criticizing him and Mrs. Simpson, was promptly withdrawn from publication.

The former King's friends, however, denied the wedding would take place on May 12, calling such a possibility "fantastic."


FREE WIFE WHO WHIPPED MATE IN CAFE TRYST

Spring being what it is, for "sentimental reasons" charges of disorderly conduct were withdrawn yesterday against Mrs. Tuppie Seymour, who achieved a certain fame by dog-whipping her husband in a fashionable restaurant.

The charges were withdrawn in Jefferson Market Court, where Mrs. Seymour, 37, of 75 E. 55th Street, was arraigned with her sisters, Mrs. Edith McNab, 55, of 320 E. 57th Street, and Mrs. Robert Adams, 47, of 435 Park Avenue. The elder sisters stood grimly by as Mrs. Seymour flogged her husband William R. Seymour Saturday night after finding him with a blonde in La Rue's at 45 E. 58th Street.

"The case has been closed for sentimental reasons," said Sanford H. Cohen, counsel for Peter Ogiletti, manager of the restaurant. "It might have interfered with the relations of husband and wife and caused friction."

Said Mrs. Adams, "Finis la guerre. Everything is lovely at home."


VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Apology Demanded

Bronx: You are most narrow minded, Annoyed Wadleighite, criticizing all our Roosevelt High girls because a few of them cut up in the subway. Our rating as ladies has always been of the very best at good old Roosevelt High, and if you are any kind of lady you will apologize for those harsh words. You Wadleigh girls aren't all perfect, my good woman. -- ROOSEVELTIAN

 

[LizzieMaine]

April 30, 1938

ROOSEVELT URGES CONGRESS TO BREAK GREAT MONOPOLIES

By John O'Donnell and Doris Fleeson

Washington, D. C., April 29 -- President Roosevelt today summoned Congress to do battle with "a concentration of private power without equal in history" which is threatening the democratic liberties of America.

The President asked immedate appropriation of $500,000 for a comprehensive study of the monopoly problem by the Federal Trade Commission, the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other government agencies.

So that the fight may commence at once under existing statutes -- faulty thought they are -- the President said he would submit a special request for $200,000 for the Justice Department to be used specifically to enforce present laws.

The President cited statistics to prove that corporate assets, income, and profits from corporations, and national income were concentrated in the hands of a few. Then he outlined seven specific problems requiring Congressional attention. They were:

1. Improvement of present anti-trust procedure.
2. Scrutiny of mergers and interlocking relationships.
3. Scrutiny of financial controls involving investment trusts and bank holding corporations.
4. Trade associations.
5. Present laws.
6. Tax correctives.
7. Creation of a bureau of industrial economics.

"This is not the beginning of an ill-considered trust-busting activity which lacks proper consideration for economic results," said the President trenchantly, and with a sarcastic flick at the Republican Roosevelt who preceded him, Trust-Buster T. R.

"It is a program to preserve private enterprise for profit by keeping it free enough to be able to utilize all our resources of capital and labor at a profit. It is a program whose basic purpose is to stop the progress of collectivism in business and turn business back to the democratic competitive order."


110 PLANES IN CHINA BATTLE STREW DEATH

By United Press

Hankow, April 29 -- In the greatest aerial battle in Far East history, hundreds of Chinese were killed and scores more reported buried alive as Japanese naval planes celebrated the 37th birthday of Emperor Hirohito with a great bombing raid on the big Hangyang military arsenal.

Chinese planes met the attackers in a huge aerial dogfight during which many ships were shot down before the Japanese retired. At least 110 planes were involved in the battle.

A great circular area about one mile in diameter around the arsenal -- adjacent to the provisional capital of Nationalist China -- was devastated, and a strip of crowded city blocks half a mile wide from the Yangtse River front to the arsenal virtually leveled. A reporter at the scene estimated that hundreds of persons were buried in the ruins of houses and buildings.


EX-AID TRIED TO PUT DREAM-BOOK ON SIMONE'S CUFF

Special To The News

Los Angeles, Cal. April 29 -- Grinning all over her freckled face, Simone Simon told a crowded court today how her former secretary, attractive Sandra Martin, started dabbling in psycho-analysis last April and tried to charge it to her.

The peppery French movie star was testifying at a preliminary hearing on charges that Miss Martin had something to do with the mysterious disappearance of $23,000 from Miss Simon's bank account, She also testified about some of her monthly pay checks to Miss Martin, which apparently had been raised from $87.50 to amounts ranging from $187.50 to $387.50.

Giggling with embarassment when she failed to understand questions, and dropping "zis'es" and "zat's" all over the place, Miss Simon asserted that a book was delivered to her home "on April 9, when Miss Martin was leaving my employ."

"This book came to the house addressed to me with a five dollar charge slip. I asked her what it was and she said 'the book belongs to me, give it to me please.'"

"I asked her how it happened to be charged to my account and she said she didn't know, it must've been a mistake."

Judge Condes asked Simone what the book was, and she grinned broadly as she answered, "Explanations of Dreams, by Freud."


CIGARET PRICE GOING UP SUNDAY

Popular brands of cigarets will sell generally at 15 cents a package, two for 28 cents, when the city's stamp tax on them replaces the sales tax. Each package of twenty must bear a one-cent special stamp, boosting the price from the current figures of 14 cents and two for 27. The revenue will go for relief.

16 INDICTED IN GIANT REEFER COMBINE HERE

A gigantic marijuana syndicate composed of Midwest farmers who grew the narcotic weed and city distributors who have dumped $500,000 worth of "reefers" in New York since last Oct. 1, was smashed yesterday with the indictment of sixteen suspects, all of Mexican or Puerto Rican extraction, and two of them women. The roundup of the ring members by federal police caused racketeer-financed planters in Minnesota and Iowa to abandon a harvested crop of marijuana hemp estimated at between 12,000 and 15,000 tons -- enough to drug the entire population of the United States, according to U. S. attorney Lamar Hardy.

The banned weed was shipped into New York during the last six months at a rate of about 100 pounds, enough for 100,000 to 150,000 cigarets, every three weeks. The reefers sold from 10 to 50 cents each.


THE CORRECT THING
By Elinor Ames

Elinor Ames will answer questions on Etiquette sent to her by readers of The News. State question plainly and send stamped addressed envelope.

Hostess Takes Nap

What's your opinion of a lady who invites friends to her home, then falls asleep while the guests are playing bridge? This happened at my sister's home. I refused to visit her again. She says I'm not being a good sport. -- ANGRY

Answer: Granted that it is not good form to fall asleep while one has guests -- but don't you think your sister might be excused? After all, she most likely felt that since you were her sister, you would understand. She was wrong. But you mustn't be so childish about it.


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[LizzieMaine]

May 1, 1945

RUSSIANS CAPTURE REICHSTAG

By Robert Musel

London, April 30 (U. P.) -- The Red army's victory flag flies high over Berlin. Premier Stalin announced tonight in a May Day order proclaiming the capture of the main part of the ruined capital as Russian troops overran the Reichstag, Interior Ministry, and main Post Office.

Nearly 1,000,000 Germans have been killed in the last four months of battles climaxed with the struggle in the flaming heart of Berlin, where the Russians are mowing down "death battalions" of fanatic women and SS remnants, Stalin said.

Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's forces struck in the geographical center of the city with the capture of the post office and Interior Ministry buildings on Potsdamer Platz, one half mile south of Unter den Linden.

Driving within similar distance north of the famous avenue where the Germans were making their last stand, other Russian units swept across the River Spree and captured the hulk of the Reichstag, Germany's Parliament building. The Nazis set fire to the Reichstag on February 27, 1933 and blamed it on the Communists to pave the way for their springboard to power in the next day's elections.

As the battle went into its final hours among the burning government buildings along the Unter den Linden and in the blackened Tiergarten to the rest, Hamburg Radio admitted that Berlin might fall "at any hour."


DUCE STRUNG BY HEELS, CALLED REICH A TRAITOR

By James E. Roper

Milan, April 29 (Delayed) (U. P.) -- The body of Benito Mussolini, battered and disheveled from the indignities heaped upon it by an enraged populace was sprawled today on the concrete floor of a morgue in this city, where he conceived the doctrine of Fascism and where he came 26 years later to the end of his tyrant's career.

Beside him is the body of his 25 year old mistress, Claretta Petacci, and those of other Fascists of his retinue who fell before the bullets of Italian partisan firing squads Saturday near Lake Como.

The bodies were brought here in a moving van, dunmped in a public square, and throughout Sunday displayed before a frenzied mob that showered verbal and physical abuse upon them even to the door of the morgue. Before being removed, the corpses of Mussolini, his mistress, and four others were strung up by the heels from the rafters of a nearby gasoline station, where they hung for several hours while the mob heaped abuse upon them.

Ricardo Lombardi, partisan-appointed prefect of Milan Province, said no funeral plans had been made for Mussolini, but it was possible that he may be buried today.

Mussolini died believing that his Axis partner Germany had betrayed him. Lombardi said that Il Duce so stated when he approached the Liberation Committee a few days ago to inquire about their terms of surrender. They told him that unconditional surrender was the only possible terms. He withdrew and fled, apparently trying to get to Switzerland. The newspaper Il Popolo quoted Mussolini as saying at this conference, "The Germans have treated us as servants and very harshly for too too many years. Now we've had enough."

CURFEW NOTES RING SOUR, RELIEF DEMANDED TODAY

By David Charnay and James Desmond

The curfew situation has gone from bad to worse in the two months and five days since midnight closing was imposed on the nation, and the worst sufferers are service men, a survey by The News disclosed yesterday.

For the men in uniform are the first to be driven to the streets at midnight. And once on the streets, their evening only half spent, they become the prey of prostitutes, conniving clerks in rundown hotels, and assorted petty racketeers out to make a dishonest buck.

There are plenty of dishonest bucks being made. And despite the midnight curfew, whether the national midnight closing, the LaGuardia 1 A. M., or the somewhat elastic closing in bars outside the midtown zone, you can still get a drink anytime you have the price.

PARASITES FLOURISHING

The survey further showed:

1. Streetwalkers soliciting in virtually every block in the midtown area

2. Speakeasies flourishing and many licensed bars in outlying areas chiseling on the curfew by operating behind darkened windows

3. Neighborhood movies facing summer shutdowns because lengthening days limit their effective operating time.

4. Many of the bigger night clubs reporting losses of $200 to $2000 a week, in similar plight for similar reasons.

For all these reasons, War Mobilizer Fred M. Vinson will be asked to relax the curfew until at least 2 A. M. when he meets today with entertainment industry leaders in Washington.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Bensonhurst Retort

Brooklyn: If that Columbia St. dame who writes the Voice over the lovely pseudonym of Bilgewater Bessie would keep her big trap shut about us Bensonhurst gals, she'd really get some place. You find more ill-mannered dames on Columbia St. than in all Bensonhurst. We'd rather smell like garlic and herring and have our fellows love us for what we are than for what we're made up to be. Pussonally, I wouldn't be seen associating with trash from Columbia St. -- NICE CITIZEN

Says We're Afraid

Brooklyn: Jerky News editorial writers, I see that because the senate rejected a proposal to stop drafting men over 31, you are again starting to worry about your sons or something and are agitating to lower the draft age to 17. It seems that when YOU are about to be gored you start to squawk like the Nazi b------s you are. -- A MOTHER

 

[AmateisGal]

Wow. I wonder if such a picture would appear in today's newspapers?

 

[LizzieMaine]

May 2, 1937

CITY SHUTS BURLESQUE THEATRES

Burlesque rang down the curtain in New York City yesterday. In fourteen theatres, the doors were slammed, the lights were darkened, and the chorines were dismissed after the matinee performance. Commissioner Paul Moss of the department of licenses refused to renew their permits. Policemen went out to every citadel of strip-tease and broke the news at 3:30 P.M.

About 2,000 girls, stagehands, electricians, and musicians were thrown out of work, at least temporarily, by Moss's edict. They took it stoically. The bad news came in the middle of the afternoon performances, but the shows went through to their end. The audience filed out, for the most part unaware that they had heard a swan song.

Patrick Cardinal Hayes, whose outspoken denunciation of burlesque was in large measure responsible for the doom of this type of entertainment, received the news with joy. "May God bless our Commissioner of Licenses!" he exclaimed.

Mayor LaGuardia said dryly, "This is the beginning of the end of incorporated filth."

Commissioner Moss, in a formal statement refusing to renew the licenses said: "I am satisfied that the type of performances, the language used, the display of nudity are coarse, vulgar, and lewd, and are a disgrace to the City of New York.

Some theatres made a vain effort to obtain an injunction from Supreme Court Justice Julius Miller, but he refused to act. Unofficially, it was said that if any theatres tried to operate in defiance of police, there would be raids and arrests.


30,000 IN TAME MAY DAY PARADE CHANT RED HYMN

Waving the red banners of Communism, striding to the blare of the "Internationale," about 30,000 of the left-wing forces of labor paraded to Union Square yesterday. It was the most orderly May Day demonstrations in the history of the city. The number in line was far under that expected.

Under a warm sun, Union Square from 10 A. M. to dusk was a moving sea of red, flecked frequently with the Soviet aegis -- the hammer and sickle -- borne by hundreds of the paraders. Attired in carnival dress, bearing radical legends, waving blood-red flags, marched thousands of children. Like the grownups, many of whom were dressed in the uniforms of their trade, the children were in high spirits, laughing and singing.

Heading the marchers were four mounted policemen. Leading the initial demonstrators, several thousand members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, was Paul White of the Seamen's Union as Grand Marshal.

White was hatless. A bright red tie blazed across his shirt. Behind him came three girls in crimson dresses, an American flag flapping above them.


FAMILY BAN ON WINDSOR, WALLY RITE

By Nancy Randolph

London, May 1 -- There's a strong possiblity that a man's mercurial temper and a woman's hurt pride may yet upset the coronation applecart. These unpredictable qualities may explode into the marriage of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield Simpson before the present week is over.

Goaded by temper and pride, the former King and the Baltimore belle may marry next Tuesday, since it's a foregone conclusion Mrs. Simpson's decree nisi will be made final when it comes up in the British courts on Monday. There is nothing in British law to prevent the marriage on the day the divorce becomes absolute.

This possibility has kept London drawing rooms buzzing in the past twenty four hours. For, under the coronation hubbub, the citizens are preoccupied with the Windsor/Simpson status. Banquo's ghost rules the scene. The British aristocracy is scared stiff that the marriage of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson will take away from the main show. It will crab the performance of the chief actors in the coronation if it is solemnized before May 12.

The latest development to inflame the tempers of both is the the certainty that no member of the royal family is to be present at the wedding no matter when it is performed. They had hoped that the Duke of Kent would attend. Both are said to bee infuriated by this added slight and are ready to bolt at the drop of a hat. Those who know the Duke and Wallis Simpson best shake their heads warily and say the outcome depends on these two uncertain tempers.


GYPSY ROSE LEE IN COLOROTO

The girl who tossed her scanties into Broadway's $6.60 seats will toss off nothing but a couple of songs and dances in the movies. She'll wear a long, tight-fitting gown in the films, the movie moguls announce. And sooooooo, today we present Miss Gypsy on the front page of the Coloroto section in something a little betwixt and between.

Miss Lee is much in the public prints today because it was she who first popularized the strip-tease act. In fact she popularized it so successfully it has become extremely unpopular with District Attorney William F. X. Gehogan and civic reformers. Three managers of Brooklyn strip places, two assistant managers, and eleven teasers are now under charges of giving indecent performances. Miss Lee contends that her manner of strip-teasing is an art, not burlesque. Anyway, she has stripped off the strip-tease, and is now all dressed up for the movies.

She weighs 132 pounds -- stripped. Is five feet nine and one half inches tall. Has a pleasant husky voice. Or weren't you listening?

 

[LizzieMaine]

May 3, 1938

TWO G-MEN SHOT, HUNTED MAN SLAIN

Special to The News

Danville, Ill., May 2 -- A suspect in a $5.45 bank robbery was killed and his young son, a G-Man, and a deputy sheriff were wounded today in a fierce gun battle that climaxed a raid on a riverbank hideout about twenty-five miles northwest of here.

The supposed robber was Joe Earlywine, who had been sought for questioning about a series of bank robberies in Illinois and Indiana. In bed when the officers arrived, he opened fire without warning as two federal agents entered his home.

G-Man William Ramsey, of Peoria, Ill., fell with bullet wounds in his abdomen and both arms. His partner, W. A. Stammuth, was slightly wounded in his shoulder.

Nine In House

The thunder of blazing guns rocked the little farm home, as Earlywine's wife and seven children crouched in corners. A random bullet found one of the children, Virgil, 7, shortly before his father's gun was silenced.

When the battle ended, Earlywine's body was brought to a morgue here. The two wounded officers and the boy were taken to hospitals. Agent Ramsey, in critical condition, received a blood transfusion. The posse that went to the Earlywine home was composed of the two federal agents, sheriff Harry C. George, and several deputy sheriffs, city policemen, and state policemen.

Agent Ramsey had been working on the case here for two weeks, having entered the matter through the Government's insurance of bank deposits. Earlywine was suspected of participating in robberies in Vermillion and Champaign counties in Illinois and in the $5.45 robbery of the State Bank at Lapel, Ind.


COPS SAVE MAN, 65, FROM BROOKLYN MOB

A man of 65 was rescued by police from a mob of some 200 Brooklynites, mostly women, at 4:30 yesterday afternoon and held on a charge of impairing the morals of a minor.

A woman, who trailed the prisoner and a 9-year-old girl, saw them enter a rooming house at 148 Sterling Place and called the police. They broke into the room and found the girl locked in a closet.

By the time police emerged with the man, a mob had gathered and fought furiously in an attempt to take him from the officers.

At the Bergen Street Station, he described himself as Joseph Papillion, war veteran, native of Canada, and a WPA worker.

Under recent legislation induced by a wave of crimes against minors, the charge on which he is held is a felony. Papillion will be arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court this morning.

The girl was not harmed, physicians reported.

The woman who called the police said she had suspected Papillion because "he looked like" a man who had annoyed her 7-year-old daughter two months ago.


NO WAR PACT, DUCE DECIDES TO TELL HITLER

By United Press

Rome, May 2 -- Premier Mussolini, staging a $20,000,000 spectacle for Fuehrer Hitler's arrival in Rome Tuesday evening, will reject any suggestion by his Nazi guest that they strengthen their entente with a military alliance, Fascist chieftains said tonight.

Italian leaders said unofficially that Il Duce intended to have a heart-to-heart talk with Hitler regarding the future of the Rome-Berlin axis and seek a means of repairing the cracks which have appeared in it as a result of Hitler's annexation of Austria.


SIMONE'S FLAME HAD GOLDEN KEY TO STAR'S HOME

Special to The News

Los Angeles, May 2 -- A handsome Hollywood gallant, whose name she smilingly refused to pronounce, carried in his pockets for several months two golden keys to the West Los Angeles mansion of Simone Simon, exotic French motion picture actress, she admitted on the witness stand today.

The golden keys were graven with the monogram of the favored young man, as were a pair of solid gold-backed hair brushes which Miss Simon said she bought for him at a cost of $295.

Nor were these the only tender tokens of her esteem, the star admitted under questioning by William Sampson, attorney for Sandra Martin, her former secretary, whom the actress accuses of robbing her of $11,010.

There were also a dressing gown of heavily brocaded Shantung silk for which she paid $150, and a pair of silken pajamas which the admired one returned. "They didn't fit," Miss Simon explained with a demure smile.

The testimony of the star's lavish and intimate gifts was the highlight of Miss Martin's preliminary hearing before Municipal Judge Newcomb Condee. As she left the courtroom she was surrounded by reporters who attempted to have her identify the man whose name she guarded in court.

Smiling happily over what she assumed to be a secret, Miss Simon parried all questions with "Wouldn't you like to know!"


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GIANTS TOP DODGERS, 7-4; RIPPLE 'BEANED'

By Harry Forbes

Jimmy Ripple was accidentally hit on the head by a pitched ball, thrown by Buck Marrow in the eighth, as the Giants ran their victory string to eleven straight yesterday by trimming the Dodgers 7 to 4. Jimmy dropped to the ground holding his head, and was carried to the clubhouse on a stretcher as 12,088 Polo Grounds fans sat in tense silence. The ball struck Ripple on the right side of the head, just above his ear. He tried to duck but failed to get away in time. Dr. C. R. Palmer, club physician, announced after an examination that the ball had struck Ripple on the top of the head as he was falling away from the pitch. He said the player was O. K.., and could go west with the team. Twice in previous innings, Jimmy had to drop to the ground to get away from close ones.

Aside from the accident, the game was a joy for the Giants, who have now beaten the Dodgers six consecutive times. The homerun brigade slashed out in earnest, with Ripple himself connecting for the first in the sixth, his fourth of the year. Ott followed with a single off Fred Fitzsimmons, and Hank Leiber hit his fourth circuit clout of the year to clinch the game for Slim Melton, who now has won all four of his starts to lead the league.


VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Calls Us British Tools

Manhattan: England always fooled the United States, and always will as long as men like you News editors continue to exist. You are not good citizens; you are enemies trying to fool the U. S. A. into the hands of England. -- A FRIEND

 

[Spitfire]

May 4th 1945
My country was liberated after 5 years of nazi rule.

To this day we still celeberate it by lightening candels in the windows around 8 oclock at night. When the message came over BBC.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Wow. I wonder if such a picture would appear in today's newspapers?

Definitely. As the old newspaper / TV news motto goes - if it bleeds, it leads. Photos like that sell a lot of papers, or bring a lot of viewers to television stations to see their news reports.

 

[LizzieMaine]

May 4, 1937

DUKE RACES TO WALLY, STEALS KING'S 'SHOW'

'Hurry' She Phones as Decree Is Granted

By Associated Press

Salzburg, Austria, May 3 -- The Duke of Windsor, all smiles and happier than at any time since he gave up the throne of the British Empire, sped tonight aboard an express train to the arms of "the woman I love." Six hundred miles away in the Chateau de Cande at Monts, France, awaited Wallis Warfield Simpson, happy too, for a British divorce court had removed the last legal barrier to their marriage.

Each hour brought him closer to the dark-eyed, American-born woman. Tomorrow another chapter will be written in the world-stirring romance, for the Duke will see her for the first time since he stepped down from the throne last Dec. 10.

The Duke ended twenty-two long weeks of exile in Austria, restless and impatient to go to her side. They talked by telephone within a few minutes after the British tribunal said she was free. "Hurry up!" she told him. He did.

Loaded down with edelweiss, suitcases, and smiles, he boarded his private car on the Airburg express at 4:45 P. M. (10:45 A. M., Eastern Standard Time.) In his arms he carried two packages for Mrs. Simpson, one crammed with edelweiss, the mountain flower, the other a dirndl, the Austrian name for the colorful costume worn by the peasant women. Seventeen suitcases were scattered about the Duke's car.

Silent On Plane

The former King Edward VIII, who told the world last December in a dramatic farewell broadcast that he could not go on "without the woman I love, as usual kept his counsel about his immediate plans.

Persons close to him, however, said he and his future bride intend to reside in southern Austria after a few weeks.

The past months have been trying ones for the Duke, although he has sought diversion in many ways -- through mountain climbing, sightseeing, skiing, golfing, shopping, learning German, and motoring. He never visited a night club, although on previous visits to Austria he showed a fondness for them.

Money matters bothered him, and his brother the Duke of Kent, and his sister, came with others to talk over finances. He was reported to have made certain promises in return for several concessions, among them that members of the British Royal Family attend the approaching wedding.

LONDON TALKS ROMANCE, 'FORGETS' CORONATION

By United Press

London, May 3 -- Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson and the Duke of Windsor "stole the show" amid the carnival setting of London's Coronation plumage tonight as newspaper extras splashed bold headlines of the American-born divorcee's twenty-five-second divorce decree.

The Duke, separated from "the woman I love" for five months learned of today's final court action and tonight was on his way to rejoin her at the Chateau de Cande near Monts, France. There, in the sixteenth-century setting of the chateau's library, with a peasant mayor officiating, they probably will be married during the week of May 24.

Mrs. Simpson, wearing a new Schiaparelli creation of tailored black wool sent from Paris, and watched by a guard of French secret police, awaited him in the chateau's sylvan setting.

The billion-dollar plans for the Coronation nine days hence -- the coronation that was to have been Edward's until he sacrificed his throne for love -- were swept from the public's mind. Millions of coronation visitors from overseas stood in the gaily-decorated streets reading and talking eagerly of the lightning-quick court action that left Mrs. Simpson free to marry Edward, and become the Duchess of Windsor, sixth-ranking lady of the British Empire.

Many British aristocrats were indignant at the reappearance of the photographs of the principals of the "world's greatest romance" on the front pages of their newspapers at a time when London is thronged with visitors and every effort is being made to give King George VI full benefit of the spotlight.

BASQUE AMAZONS HURL ITALIAN TROOPS IN SEA

By United Press

Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, May 3 -- Brawny bare-footed Basque fisherwomen today tossed Italian soldiers into the sea by the dozens in a guerilla raid on Rebel positions in Bermeo, near Bilbao on the Biscay coast. The Basque women, long famous as the "Amazons of Northern Spain," joined their husbands in a surprise attack on the coastal town, twelve miles north of Bilbao. They fought savagely hand-to-hand in the cobblestone streets.

The women, many of whom were without weapons, clawed at Gen. Emilio Mola's terrified Rebels with bare hands. They seized the Italians, hoisted them over their shoulders, and dumped then into the bay. Others, screaming in their strange Eskudari tongue, drove Italians from houses where they had sought refuge from the Amazon horde. Many rebels were thrown from open windows. Their broken bodies lay in the street.


BOYCOTT THREAT TO HOLLYWOOD

By United Press

Hollywood, May 3 -- A thousand pickets marched around the world's greatest motion picture studios today as leaders of eleven technical unions threatened to invoke a nationwide labor boycott of the studio's products.

Ten billion dollars worth of personality, meanwhile, controlled the balance wheel of the spreading strike that threatens to paralyze the entire vast industry.

The personality is represented by the powerful Screen Actors' Guild, which represents some of the highest paid stars in pictures. The guild has threatened to walk out in sympathy with the 6,000 workers already on strike, and in furtherance of their own demands for recognition and standardization of pay for minor part players.

The move would immediately convert the present strike, the first serious labor war in motion picture history, into a stunning blow to Hollywood's $235,000,000 studio layout.

The Actors Guild includes such names as Joan Crawford, Elissa Landi, Franchot Tone, Lee Tracy, Robert Montgomery, Adolphe Menjou, James Cagney, Frederic March, Leslie Howard, Olivia DeHavilland, Francis Lederer, and others.

Meanwhile, strike leaders said an appeal would be made to the American Federation of Labor to institute a nation-wide boycott. Charles E. Lessing, leader of the strike, said that if producers refuse to recognize the unions -- chief demand of the strikers -- theatres throughout the country may be boycotted and picketed.


CLEAN-UP OFFER OWNER'S BID TO SAVE BURLESQUE

Lily-white burlesque, presenting bedtime stories modeled on the Hans Andersen pattern, rather than blonde beauties with G-strings, was conjured up yesterday in an effort to save the staggering entertainment from collapse.

In the role of a Broadway Paul Revere, Isadore Herk, owner of the Gaiety Theatre in Times Square, galloped into Supreme Court and made a dramatic effort to put lingerie on drawing-room phrases on the shows stigmatized by the strip-tease.

The eleventh-hour compromise offer was made as four houses, among those closed when Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss refused renewal of permits, argued for a new lease on life through loopholes of the law.

Herk, with the moralistic gesture of a white-ribboner, withdrew the Gaiety's fight for a writ of mandamus. But the three other theatres -- Eltinge, Irving Place, and People's -- battled on, determined to fight it out on the legal line even if the controversy has to be carried to the highest courts. "I've had a vision," said Herk, though not confessing whether he had been gazing in a crystal ball, "and I know what can be done."

Counsel for both sides were ordered to submit briefs by 4 P. M. today. But that question was considered a mere formality. The question ultimately will go to a jury, it seemed certain. The prospect was unappealing to Assistant Corporation Counsel Charles C. Weinstein. "We might get the Bald-Headed Row type of jury, " he objected. "They'd love it."

Weinstein argued vehemently for dismissal of the writ. "Burlesque is getting more and more indecent," he said. "You already have Inspector Frank J. Donovan's report on the Eltinge, and it's the filthiest thing ever put before this court or any court. If the people of this city could see it, they would storm those theatres and tear them to the ground."


VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Annie Says We're Unfit

Manhattan: I thoroughly disapprove the indecent pictures The News printed in connection with the triple murder at Easter, and also that picture of Gypsy Rose Lee in the May 2nd issue. Your paper is not fit for decent people to read. --- PETTICOAT ANNIE

 

[LizzieMaine]

May 5, 1938

SHOWMEN IN REVOLT, LIST TOP FILM STARS AS BOX OFFICE FLOPS

By Frank Ryhlick

A red-bordered advertisement in the Hollywood Reporter, trade paper of the motion picture industry, delivered a blow to film stars yesterday as stunning as if the heavens had fallen. The advertisement, paid for by the Independent Theatre Owners of New York, announced that the independent picture exhibitors were "tired" of losing money on films featuring such cinema kings and queens as --

Greta Garbo, whose salary is $8,500 a week; Mae West, who receives an average of $300,000 a picture; Joan Crawford, who is paid $200,000 for forty weeks work a year; Katharine Hepburn, whose compensation is $100,000 a picture; Kay Francis, who receives $5,500 a week; Marlene Dietrich, $200,000 a picture; and Edward Arnold, $2,000 a week.

Compensation per picture is based on eight weeks' work. Overtime is extra. For her part in "Knight Without Armor," Dietrich was paid $400,000.

Stressing the fact that the rebellion of the exhibitors was launched against the star system, and not against the individuals involved, Harry Brandt, president of the Independents' association, announced that the organization was ready "to settle the issue in court," if anyone wanted to carry it there.

Of Garbo and the others names, the advertisement asserted that their "artistic ability is unquestioned, but their box office draw is nil." Brandt said the independents did not object to high salaries -- "no matter how fabulous" -- for stars who are rising, or who remain at their zenith.

The Hollywood advertisement, inserted at a cost of $300, was headlined "Wake Up, Hollywood producers!" It read in part:

"Practically all of the major studios are burdened with stars -- whose public appeal is negligible -- receiving tremendous salaries necessitated by contractural obligations. Having these stars under contract, and paying them sizable sums weekly, the studios find themselves in the unhappy position of having to put these box office deterrents in expensive pictures in the hope that some return on the investment might be had.

"This condition is not only burdensome to the studios but is likewise no boon to exhibitors who, in the final analysis, suffer by the non-drawing power of these players. Garbo, for example, is a tremendous draw in Europe, which does not help theatre owners in the United States. Hepburn turned in excellent performances in 'Stage Door' and 'Bringing Up Baby,' but both pictures died.

"The combined salaries of these stars take millions out of the industry and millions out of the box office. We are not against the star system, mind you, but we don't think it should dominate the production of pictures."


'FRAME UP BY PRODUCERS!' STARS REPLY

Special to The News

Hollywood, May 4 -- "Frame up!" was the cry in Hollywood tonight as stunned motion picture actors and actresses recovered from the shock of a published charge that the Garbos, the Crawfords, the Hepburns -- most of the greats of the film capital -- had lost their box office appeal and should have their salaries slashed.

"This is an attempt to scare us into taking pay cuts," one actress told The News, pointing out that numerous contracts come up for renewal at this time of the year. The artful dodgers behind it all are the producers, the men who hire us and sign our checks."


DUCE SNUBS HITLER ARMS PACT; FAVORS FOUR-POWER ACCORD

By Stewart Brown, United Press Correspondent

Rome, May 4 -- Associates of Premier Benito Mussolini said tonight that the Italian dictator had rejected suggestions for a German-Italian military pact and thrown the weight of his influence behind Britain's scheme for a four power agreement among Germany, Italy, France and Britain for European peace.

These informants, who were in a position to know what happened in the momentous conferences between Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler today, described Mussolini as anxious to play the role of an "honest broker" in the current turbulent European political negotiations.

They believed he hopes to make good both his pledges to Hitler and to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and observe scrupulously the terms of the newly-signed Anglo-Italian agreement, as well as his earlier obligations to Germany.


HAUPTMANN BOY'S LEG BROKEN TWICE BY CAR

Manfried Hauptmann, 5-year old son of executed Bruno Richard Hauptmann, was injured yesterday when struck by an automobile at 11:15 A. M. in front of his home at 2977 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx.

Taken to Fordham Hospital, he was found to be suffering from fractures of the right leg below and above the knee. His cheeks and left ear were cut and bruised. The boy was at play when he darted across the street in the path of a car driven by Frank H. Moser of Hollywood Drive, Hastings-on-Hudson. R. F. Stevenson, who lives across the street at 2978, picked him up and hurried him to the hospital.

Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, widow of the Lindbergh Baby slayer, who uses her maiden name of Schoeffler, went to the hospital at once. She wanted to remove the boy to a private institution, but doctors prevailed upon her to let x-rays be taken.


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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Says It's A Myth

Manhattan: If the American press keeps referring to Great Britain and France as democratic peace-loving nations, those two scoundrelly countries might take to believing it, and may free India, Ireland, Australia, Egypt, and Syria, where they now hold people in subjugation by force of arms. -- HYPOCRISY HATER

 

[LizzieMaine]

May 6, 1937

DUKE, WALLY TO HONEYMOON AT 1936 AUSTRIAN RETREAT

By United Press

Monts, France, May 5 -- The Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson tonight announced formally that their honeymoon will be spent in a Carinthinan mountain castle at Wassoerleonburg, Austria, overlooking Jugoslavia.

Herman L. Rogers, spokesman for the world's most famous lovers, said that both the Duke and Mrs. Simpson -- eagerly discussing plans for their early marriage -- were anxious to take over the honeymoon castle at this location.

It was at Wasserleonburg, fifty miles south of Salzburg, that they spent a week together last September while Edward was King of England, seeking a way to make Mrs. Simpson his queen.

The wedding preparations, Rogers said, were proceeding satisfactorily.


DUCE'S BEAUTY CLAIMS COUNT SOUGHT A KISS

By United Press

Paris, May 5 -- Exotic Madeleine de Fontanges, confronting Count Charles Pineton de Chambrun today for the first time since she shot him in a lover's rage, testified that he tried to steal a kiss from her while she was Premier Benito Mussolini's mistress.

The 62-year-old Count, limping into court on a cane because of the hip wound which Mme. Fontanges inflicted, sputtered a protest.

His wife, the former Princess Murst, stared in amazement as the sultry-eyed adventuress looked the Count squarely in the eye and said, "Oh, but we were very friendly. You even tried to kiss me behind the ruins in the old Roman countryside."


LUXURY LINER CABINS BRANDED FIRE TRAPS

Washington D. C., May 5 -- Cabins on palatial liners such as the luxurious Queen Mary would be transformed into roaring furnaces in the event of a fire at sea, Capt. C. S. Joyce, U. S. N., Retired told the Senate Commerce Committee today.

He charged that the latest sea liners have large fire screen bulkheads, but the compartments are filled with combustible material. "While the wood is protected by sprinklers and alarms, each of these compartments is nothing but a furnace if you get it started -- and it is possible to get them started, as everyone knows," Joyce testified.


MOVIE STRIKERS REJECT OWNERS' PLAN FOR PEACE

Special to The News

Hollywood, May 5 -- This motion picture strike is getting on Hollywood's nerves. Stars are getting temperamental about it. Strikers are getting ugly. A dozen minor brawls flared in the picket lines today, and fits of anger and rage distorted the loveliest faces in the studio dressing rooms.

Screen lovelies who don't know and care less, that the Committee for Industrial Organization offered its aid to the strikers are raging today because they miss the girls who have been dressing their hair.

At R-K-O, Ginger Rogers hit the ceiling this afternoon when substitute stylists, even though assisted by Mel Burke, head makeup man, failed to get the right touch to her blonde locks. She grabbed the comb and yelled, "For Pete's sake, get away from me! I'll do it myself!"

The first arrests took place today. The police grabbed two men who attacked pickets at M-G-M studio early this morning as the 2 o'clock shift was going off duty.

Six thousand of the 40,000 people in Hollywood's movie industry are out. Charles E. Lessing, strike leader, said the CIO offer to send steel, automobile, and rubber workers into the picket lines had been accepted.

Prospect of a quick settlement of the strike faded tonight when William Lessing, spokesman for the striking Federated Motion Picture crafts, declared that he was not even interested in a peace proposal that film producers had accepted. The plan, suggested by the Los Angeles Labor Council, proposed that strikers return to work immediately pending negotiation of their demands.


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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

No Insult Intended

Manhattan: I think it was an insult to Pope Pius XI for you to print the face of Chancellor Hitler next to the Pope's picture in a recent News. Think it over, you lugs. -- ROGER

Says Dodgers are Done

Paterson, N. J. -- Well, after the recent Giant victories, where are all the loudmouth Brooklyn fans now? The trouble with the Dodgers is that they should be in the stovepipe league instead of trying to keep high class company with the Giants. -- JOHN DE KOYER

Queenie Almost Quashed

Brooklyn -- To the one responsible for throwing the other evening a large grapefruit from a high elevation, which grazed my face and landed at the feet of myself and companion, exploding like a shot and splashing us so that we both had to go home -- the shock making us tremble the entire evening -- that was a very rotten trick, and whoever was to blame I hope they will use the brains God gave them and avoid any such dirty tricks in the future. Thank you very much. -- Queenie

 

[LizzieMaine]

May 7, 1938

WAGE-HOUR BILL REVIVED BY PETITION

By Doris Fleeson

Washington, D. C., May 6 -- A gay, noisy and utterly unprecedented bandwagon rush carried the Wage-Hour bill to the House floor today and insured its passage on or about May 23, earliest date it can be brought to a vote.

Tonight the gloating sponsors of the bill stressed the record they had hung up -- 218 names affixed within two and a half hours to a petition to force the bill to the floor, with Southern Democrats jostling Republicans for the honor of signing.

Never before in House history had such a petition to force a pigeon-holed bill gone through with such speed, the previous record having been 100 names signed in one day.

"This impetus will carry the bill to success in the Senate," concluded Chairman Arthur Healey of the steering committee. "It proves the American people want the legislation!"


JUNE ASKS LEFTY TO QUIT EDNA FOR HER; HE THINKS IT OVER

By Rosaleen Doherty and Warren Hall

That eminent horsehide twister, Yankee pitcher Vernon "Lefty" Gomez, has until next Monday to decide whether he will stop seeing Edna Torrence, the dancer. If he says yes to June O'Dea's attorneys on Monday, her separation suit will be dismissed and they'll be reconciled.

For four hours yesterday, Lefty and June and assorted counsel tried to straighten out the matrimonial woes of the family Gomez in the chambers of Supreme Court Justice Aaron J. Levy, before whom June's separation suit began on Thursday. But Edna's name kept entering the conversation and nothing happened.

Finally Lefty promised to think it over during the week-end and give June his answer on Monday.

When it was all over neither Judge nor attorneys would discuss the conference. "I had hoped for a reconciliation," Justice Levy told reporters. "If both Mr. and Mrs. Gomez were of ordinary temperament and if each were not in the limelight, the settlement might have been reached. But the difficulty lies in the fact that they see in magnified form things the average person might not notice."


FILIPINO GUARDSMAN THREATENED BY KLAN

Miami, Fla. May 6 (AP) -- Commander C. H. Abel of the U. S. Coast Guard demanded police protection today for two Filipino guardsmen threatened -- purportedly by the Ku Klux Klan -- because of their marriage to white women.

Saying the Filipinos, Francisko Rubia and Pedro Acoba, had good service records and were law abiding citizens, the commander of the cutter Mojave declared it was "up to local authorities to give them protection against the Klan or any other organization which attempts such illegal terroristic activities."

"If the local police cannot or will not afford them this protection," Cmdr. Abel added, "I will take steps to see that they get it.


LONDON, PARIS TO PUSH CZECH VIEWS ON NAZIS

London, May 6 (AP) - Great Britain and France decided today to make a quick effort to ease Czechoslovakia's minority trouble and get Europe away from the brink of possible war.

Informed sources said that without waiting for Adolf Hitler's return from his state visit to Italy, Sir Neville Henderson, British ambassador to Germany, would see Field Marshall Hermann Goering, acting chancellor, tomorrow in berlin on behalf of the democratic allies. Stripped of diplomatic niceties, the Anglo-French approach would include a warning that "rough handling" of the minority issue by Germany would precipitate a war.


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EYEBROWS ARE EYEBROWS TODAY -- NOT A THIN LINE

By Antoinette Donnelly

Just a word about eyebrows to you young women who still nurse the idea that they have to be plucked fine and shaped as an eyebrow that never grew. Keep on doing that and you're just another little back-year number!

I've seen many of the movie stars of recent months, and have talked with them, and not a single one of them is styling the eyebrows that way this year. Yes they keep them groomed and neat with no wild hairs about -- but eyebrows are let to grow in a decently full line without any of the silly "sideburns" running down the outer edges of the eye. Naturally, you don't want to look behind the times, do you? Remember, the eyebrow must never be ridiculous!

TODAY'S CHARM TIP

Under the same roof with other guests, the charming person feels some responsibility for the success of the occasion, doing her best to make things pleasant for all.

 

[JennyLou]

LizzieMaine- Thank you for posting these daily entries, I just love reading them.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And thanks, Jenny, for the kind words! Stay tuned -- lots more to come!

 

[LizzieMaine]

May 8, 1945

NAZIS SURRENDER TO ALL ALLIES; BIG 3 TO ANNOUNCE IT TODAY

By Alex Singleton

London, May 7 (AP) -- Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies today, completing the victory in the European phase of World War II -- the most devastating in history.

Prime Minister Churchill will proclaim the historic conquest at 9 A. M. (New York time) tomorrow from 10 Downing St., and simultaneous announcements are expected from President Truman in Washington and Premier Marshal Stalin in Moscow. Churchill will then report directly to Commons and ask for adjournment to Westminster Abbey for a service of thanksgiving.

The whereabouts of such war criminals as Himmler and Goering and even that of Hitler himself, although he has been been reported dead, were unknown or if they were known had not been officially announced.

Germany's formal capitulation came at 2:41 A. M. French time (8:41 P. M. Sunday New York time) in a red schoolhouse at Reims, headquarters of Gen. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allies of the west. The crowning triumph came just five years after Hitler invaded weak but proud Poland, and struck the spark that set the world afire.

Battles Still Rage

It marked the official end of the war in Europe, but it did not silence all the guns, for battles raged on in Czechoslovakia. There, Nazi Gen. Ferdinand Schoerner, who has been designated a war criminal, defied the orders of Grand Admiral Doenitz, successor to Hitler, to lay down arms.

The partisan-held Prague radio announced later in the day, however, that it had learned the Germans had capitulated, and that the surrender would be effective at midnight on May 9.


MILLIONS IN CITY CELEBRATE; PRAY OVER VICTORY NEWS

By Neal Patterson

New York City's millions celebrated the advent of Victory in Europe all yesterday and last night with a joy tempered only by the realization that it would not be announced officially until today.

There were indications that when the heads of the Allied governments announce the end of hostilities formally today, the observations that began at 9:35 A. M. yesterday would be extended another 24 hours.

Half a million crowded yesterday into Times Square yesterday and stopped all traffic for almost six hours until 4:35 P. M., while 500 police with little effort kept order.

Mayor LaGuardia went on the air over WNYC at 7:15 P. M. His tremulous voice reached Times Square over the station's public address system, and it acted as a partial curb.

"I want all the people of the city of New York who have thoughtlessly left their jobs to go home or to return to their jobs," the Mayor said, "and I want to beg of them again that, having taken time off, not to do it again. Just remain on your jobs as a tribute to the men who have won the war in Europe, and as a token of support to the men who are fighting and dying at this very moment in the Pacific.

The Mayor's efforts were supplemented by loudspeaker-equipped cars which repeated this message over and over: "This is not officially V. E. Day. An official announcement will not be made until tomorrow by President Truman."


5 P. M. AT CENTRAL PARK

After President Truman's scheduled announcement, New York City will formally observe V. E. Day at 5 P. M. today with special programs on the Central Park Mall and at Borough Hall in Brooklyn. Mayor LaGuardia and Grover Whalen will be among the speakers at the Mall observance, which will last until 10 P. M.

Immediate closing of the city's department stores will follow the President's proclamation, "unless we are asked to go on as usual," J. Howard Denny, president of Franklin-Simon and chairman of the Retail Dry Goods Association's executive committee said yesterday. The stores remained open yesterday.

The city's public and parochial schools will be open today and appropriate exercises will be held. Exchanges and banks will continue normal operations, as will post offices unless instructions to the contrary are received. All courts will open at 9 A. M.m and with the exception of Magistrate's and Night Courts, will adjourn for the day upon the victory announcement.

Bars will remain open.


V-E BEER KEG POURS 4 INTO CLINK

The beer was free at Oak and Catherine Streets at 4:30 P. M. yesterday. Mounted on a chair on the sidewalk, a five-gallon keg poured forth bubbling brew. Four bartenders served. And there was singing and shouting and foaming glasses lifted to V-E Day.

Along came patrolman Richard Cook. Cook took a look. No can do, gents -- take the keg inside. The four bartenders got abusive, Cook said. When a crowd collected, Cook yelled for help. Six radio cars and three squad cars arrived, and the quartet was jugged.

Beer Recaptured

One of the cops put the keg -- now half empty -- in a squad car and locked the door. But he left the keys in the lock. An onlooker opened the door, grabbed the keg, and was half a block away before the cops recaptured the beer -- after a few punches were thrown.


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[Foofoogal]

me too. I love reading these.

But the difficulty lies in the fact that they see in magnified form things the average person might not notice."

Nothing has changed it seems.
but this:

A man of 65 was rescued by police from a mob of some 200 Brooklynites, mostly women, at 4:30 yesterday afternoon and held on a charge of impairing the morals of a minor.

Amazing.

 

[LizzieMaine]

May 9, 1937

NAVY PROBES ZEP ENIGMA; DEATH TOLL REACHES 35

The ghastly enigma of the Zeppelin Hindenburg -- one moment a luxury airliner for 97 persons; the next a blackened tomb for 35 -- was officially probed for the first time by the United States Navy yesterday. For an hour, under an overcast sky, the members of a three-man board of inquiry prowled around and through the twisted skeleton of what was once the queen of the skies.

Then, grimly reticent as to what the first hand inspection might have developed, the Board recessed its hearings until 10 A. M. tomorrow. At that time a double barreled investigation by the United States Government will begin. Witnesses will shuttle between the Naval Inquiry, conducted by Capt. Gordon W. Haynes and a Department of Commerce investigation headed by Solicitor South Trimble Jr.

Those of the sixty-two from crew and passenger lists who can shed light on the explosion and blast which struck down the Hindenburg 300 feet above Lakehurst last Thursday will be asked to answer such questions as these:

Lightning or Backfire?

Was it lightning? The last words of Capt. Ernst Lehmann before the Hindenburg crashed were: "It's lightning! Jump!"

Was it a backfiring motor, igniting hydrogen exhausted from the gas bags? Kenneth W. Heinrich, a former Naval officer saw one of the rear motor intermittently backfiring as the Hindenburg came in over Keyport, twenty miles from Lakehurst.

Was it the fault of the ground crew? Did the civilians mingled in this crew with Navy men fail to hear an order to release a mooring rope? Did this hold the ship off center and permit the flaming exhausts to spit into a pool of hydrogen? This theory, advanced by several observers, is being given serious attention.

Was it a combination of static, which discharged a big spark when the mooring lines were dropped? Capt. Hugo Eckener, designer of the Hindenburg, has considered this theory.

Commander Dead

Or must the most heart-rending of aerial tragedies be dismissed as an act of God? This is the explanation of Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goering of Germany. It may conceivably be the answer to all inquiries.

Capt. Lehmann is dead with his ship. His words live on through his closest friend, Leonhardt Adelt, 56, a German journalist who collaborated on a book on dirigibles with Lehmann. Adelt was standing beside Lehmann when a flash of light signalled the Hindenburg's mortal stroke. "Flames shot from the rear of the ship," Adelt mumbled from his hospital bed. "Capt. Lehmann shouted 'It's lightning! Jump!' We broke a window and pushed my wife through. We jumped after her."

Germans On Way

The theory of sabotage, at first advanced by Dr. Eckener, was generally discounted. Dr. Goering's explanation -- an "act of God" -- was accepted as the official explanation of the German Government.

The German Government will write its own answer, however, through the finding of an official commission. That five man body, headed by Dr. Eckener, left Tempelhof Aerodrome in Berlin at midday yesterday and flew to Cherbourg to catch the liner Europa for the United States.


ITALY BOYCOTTS BRITISH CORONATION BY PRESS BAN

By Associated Press

Rome, May 8 -- Fascist Italy, angered by repeated jeers at the prowess of Italian fighters in Spain, virtually broke off press relations with Great Britain today. An official order banned from the new Fascist Empire, now just one year old, all but three British newspapers, and recalled all Italian correspondents from London.

Premier Mussolini issued the curt order because of "the attitude of nearly all the British press against Italy and Italy's armed forces," thus tacitly accepting responsibility for all the Italian "volunteers" now fighting in Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Rebel forces. It was said Il Ducem furiously indignant when the British press referred to the Italian defeat north of Madrit as a "second Caparetta" became even more so when London papers recently reported that Basque fishwives had thrown Italian soldiers out of the windows of their homes in Bermeo.

Coming at this time, the order amounts to a semi-official boycott of King George's coronation Wednesday. Photographs of the coronation are banned, and Italian newspapers will print only what terse factual information is distributed by the semi-official Stefani News Agency.


MILLION DOLLAR PICKET PLANNED IN FILM STRIKE

Special to The News

Hollywood, May 8 -- Movie stars with salaries ranging up to $10,000 a week each went in training today for picket line duty in the motion picture strike as reports from the Film Actor's Guild headquarters indicated an overwhelming sentiment in favor of joining the walkout started a week ago by studio technicians.

Aubrey Blair, secretary of the Guild, announced today that 90 per cent of the Guild members had voted in favor of joining the strike unless demands for union recognition and better pay for minor players are granted before Monday morning. The Guild constitution requires a 75 per cent vote of its 1,200 senior members to authorize a strike order.


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WAR ADMIRAL WINS DERBY BY 2 LENGTHS; POMPOON 2d

By Jack Miley and Al Copeland

Louisville, Ky., May 8 -- A little darkish brown horse which looked as if he had just stepped down from an oil painting of what races horses should be won the 63rd running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs today before a record crowd of 75,000 frenzied onlookers. His old man was in the racing business years ago -- you may remember him. His pop's name was Man O'War -- and he is still around these parts, leading a life of luxury over at the Fairway Farms in Lexington. Man O'War never ran in a Derby himself, by a queer quirk of fate, but today his second son was rewarded with that cravat of American Beauty roses.

War Admiral took such complete charge of this Derby that it was not even funny -- particularly to the other hourses -- as he swept home and paid $5.40. Pompoon ran a fairish second, a couple of lengths behind, but he tried hard -- which is all any of us could ask of him. Reaping Reward, the chocolate bar horse, was third. The time was 2:03 1-5, the second fastest in history.


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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Feels He's Betrayed

Manhattan: Ah, News, to think that you, who so liberally protested Prohibition and advocated common sense about organized vice, should do a complete about-face and favor suppression of America's greatest art, burlesque! The arguments you advanced in the other fights hold equally true for burlesque. No one is forced to go in to burlesque theatres; by the same token, those who do so should not be prevented by blue-nosed professional reformers -- LONG LIVE STRIP

Publicity Protested

Manhattan: If there is one thing that gives me a pain in the neck it's the way that you and your contemporaries are featuring the doings of Edward, the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallie Simpson. If President Roosevelt happened to be unmarried and threw up the job to marry some Englishwoman who for some reason was unacceptable to the American people, I think every decent American would hang his head in shame. The late Queen Victoria was known as Victoria the Good, the late King Edward VII as Edward the Peacemaker. The recent King Edward VIII should be known as Edward the Four-Flusher. -- VISITING BRITISH COLONIAL

 

[LizzieMaine]

May 11, 1937

MAYOR IN FIGHT AS 5c FARE CANDIDATE

The 5 cent subway fare -- rallying cry of many a political struggle -- became the paramount issue of the 1937 mayoralty campaign yesterday. Mayor LaGuardia chose it, determined to emerge a triumphant Wellington or a vanquished Napoleon. In a militant speech that beat the drums of war, the Mayor challenged the State Transit Commission to make its $321,000,000 subway unification program stick.

It was his answer, carried to the city's millions over 11 radio stations to scrapping of the $436,000,000 Seabury-Beale plan for co-ordination of all subway and elevated lines under city management. "If the commission is talking business and telling the truth," he said, this acquisition of the I. R. T. and B. M. T. properties can be done within a few days."

"But I will be generous," he added, declaring a truce for the nonce. "I will give them 100 days, up to Sept. 1, 1937. The Board of Estimate can act only on a bona fide, binding offer."

The Mayor accused the Transit Commission of being a Janus. In its public report, he said, it showed an alarm for the 5 cent fare, while privately it urged an increase in the fare.


ZEP 'STATIC FIRE' DOUBTED BY ROSENTHAL

By Fred Pasley and Sloan Taylor

The mystery of the Hindenburg's tragic end deepened yesterday when Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, America's foremost airship authority, virtually eliminated static as the cause of the blast that brought flaming death to thirty-five persons last Thursday.

Although he declined to say so in unequivocal terms, Rosendahl's testimony indicated that accumulation of static on the duralumin structural work or the faberic covering ordinarily would have been grounded when the landing crew siezed the handling guys. And that operation had been completed, he disclosed, before the first spurt of flame was seen on the top side of the stern.

As the first witness at the opening session of the Department of Commerce investigation at Lakehurst, N. J., Rosendahl created a stir in minimizing static as one of the most commonly-adopted theories advanced by experts for the catastrophe.


NEW COURT PLAN UP IN SENATE

Washington, D. C., May 10 (AP) -- Senator Burke (Democratic -- Neb.) told the Senate judiciary committee today that he would offer a new constitutional amendment proposal tomorrow, as a substitute for the Roosevelt court bill. Burke said his plan called for the compulsory retirement of Supreme Court justices at 75.


KING DANCES JIG IN CROWN, ERMINES

By United Press

London, May 10 -- King George VI, his ermine coronation robe tucked up around his waist like a washerwoman's apron, and his jeweled crown slightly askew, danced a jig tonight while Queen Elizabeth and the little Princesses shrieked with laughter. The clowning took place in the King's private apartment, while hundreds of guests in court dress were arriving for the state banquet that launched the coronation festivities.

Eleven-year-old Princess Elizabeth, heir presumptive to the throne, was so weak from laughter at her father's antics that she collapsed in a chair.


KENT BEST MAN AT DUKE-WALLY JUNE WEDDING

Monts, France, May 10 (UP) -- The former Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson and the Duke of Windsor will be married on June 1 or June 2, the United Press learned tonight. The dates were set after much discussion as to the ceremony, guests, and honeymoon plans. According to present plans it will be a civil ceremony conducted by Mayor Charles Mercer of Monts, advocate of larger families. Best information was that the Duke of Kent, Edward's brother, will be the best man. The Duchess of Kent will accompany her husband to the wedding.


BETTY RANDOLPH INDICTMENT ON $1,700,000 CLIP SEEN

By John Crosson

A Grand Jury which heard a gray-haired ex-stock broker describe himself as an unwilling $1,700,000 sugar daddy was expected to return an extortion indictment this morning against Betty "Get-A-Million" Randolph, said to be Broadway's No. 1 Gold-Digger.

Louis Van Lear Bamberger, who made millions in the stock market, told the jurors he had supported Betty in the style to which she had become accustomed at the rate of $100,000 a year for seventeen years.

During fourteen years of that time, he added, he didn't even get a glimpse of the strawberry-haired ex-Follies girl. Bamberger told Grand Jurors he had picked her up in the street in 1915, and said they remained friends until 1919. He didn't see her again until 1933, he said, when he was ill in a New York hotel under the care of two doctors and three nurses. Betty offered to help at that time, he said, but he rejected the offer.

Although he didn't see Betty during those fourteen years, Bamberger said, he heard from her often. He told the jury she phoned him constantly, threatening to have him waylaid and beaten unless he paid her money.

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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Swastika Unlucky?

Brooklyn: Everything in Germany since Hitler came to power is jinxed -- munitions factories, railroads, subways. The Hindenburg was especially jinxed because its tail had two swastikas. Even the word "jinx" ends in "X", which can easily be changed to two swastikas. -- AL SARFARTI


Armor-Plated Heart

Butler, N. J.: You poor saps who squeal in the Voice about your lost loves -- your biggest trouble is self-pity. You just enjoy feeling sorry for yourself. Now listen to some real heart-throbs: The first girl I married killed two children for me by neglect, then started to run around with other men. Did I break all up? No. I just got a divorce ad got married again -- and my second wife left me with five kids, telling me the day she left that she had been untrue to me for all eight years of our marriage. Did I break out in a rash? Nix. I found another girl, and have been married to her for eight years now, and can honestly say I've lived eight years of heaven on earth. -- L. KALLEN HAIRPIN

Says 'Twas No Cure

Manhattan: You won those two Pulitzer awards all right, News -- but you are still lousy. -- ANONYMOUS.

 

[LizzieMaine]

May 12, 1934

SECRET NORMA TRYST PUNISH JAIL GUARDS

CHATS WITH MURT

By Ethelda Bedford, Staff Writer, Boston Daily Record

Dedham Jail, May 11 -- A secret stolen maeeting took place between Norma and Murton Millin yesterday in Dedham Jail -- and lasted for three minutes before prison attendants tore them apart.

For three minutes, the young couple, jailed because of the machine-gun killing of Forbes McLeod and the Needham Trust robbery, held their heads close and exchanged quick lowered words.

As a result of those three minutes, during which Murton talked mostly, his eyes fastened to hers, his hands clamping her fingers on the iron grilling between them, Norma wept all night.

GUARDS GRILLED

The three minutes of laxity of the prison attendants led to Dist. Atty. Dewing having the uniforms of the men taken away. They were put through a grilling at Dedham courthouse where explanations were demanded.

These are the words attendants say passed between the couple:

"Kitten, don't go on the stand. I don't want you to do it. They can't make you talk about me -- don't do it."

"Murt, do you still love me?"

"It will no help you any to get up in court for me. Don't let 'em bluff you into it!"

"If you love me, Murt, everything will be okay!"

A valise filled with trousseau finery of the newlyweds had been sent to the jail by the district attorney through his aide, Harold S. Hanks.

Prison attendants were instructed to bring Norma into the prison rotunda to claim her share of the clothes. Then she was taken back to the women's section, at the far end of the corridor. Once the guard locked the door he turned to fetch Murton from the men's quarters at the opposite end.

MURT SEES NORMA

He brought Murt to the oblong table in the center of the jail rotunda, where the the valise lay open. Murton walked to the valise and while attendants made a list of ties, shirts, socks, and other articles, Murton looking on, Norma stood silently against the bars down the corridor, watching.

A lone piece of rose satin and yellow lace lingerie was left in the suitcase after Murton's wearables had been removed. Norma had had first chance to claim her part of the bag, which had been salvaged from their honeymoon suite in the Lincoln Hotel in New York, where authorities captured the Millens. But somehow she had not taken this one piece of silk lingerie.

Prison attendants were amused. Murton had not claimed it either. Murton said, "Well, where is my red necktie? I had one in here?"

Guards found his remark funny, as apparently he had calculated they would.

NORMA WEEPS

They started going through the pile of mauve, blue, and green ties. "The red tie," one suddenly recalled, turning to the other, "was the one he wore the day they caught him. Police threw that away. It was all stained from the fight."

So they did not see Murton stalk noiselessly across the jail floor, rush to the silent white-denim figure waiting behind the bars of the women's section. He and norma, though separated by the barred grill, stood close, their heads near, fingers clinging. But Murton's eyes did not smile, and some of his words sounded more like hisses.

Jail attendants, suddenly realizeing they had been outwitted by the prisoners, who through weeks behind the bars have never before aroused suspicion. The guards made a wild dash for Murton, caught him roughly by the arms and whirled him through the rotunda into his cell.

He sulked and refused supper. Norma tossed and cried violently during the night. Guards doubled their watch over the morose broody Murton, and when he changed from his prison garb to street clothes for trial, it was feared he might try to hang himself with one of his silken ties.

The meeting of the couple was preceded by a lengthy visit between Norma and her father, the Rev. Norman Brighton. Dr. Brighton found Norma nervous and upset, dreading the courtroom.

"Dad, I can't stand the idea of going into that courtroom. I believe people will hiss and boo me."

DAD CONSOLES

Norma wept on her father's shoulder in his effort to be consoling, he said: "Dear, everyone knows you are so young. You're only 19. You have made your mistake -- loving this man. Next time you will take older people's advice."

Norma, sobbing, said: "Dad, do you think there will be a next time?"


2 KIDNAPPERS VANISH WITH SCHOOL GIRL

Kennebunkport, Me., May 11 -- Ruth Dawson, 13, school girl, was snatched from the sidewalk in the heart of the business section here today by two men in a car bearing Massachusetts plates and spirited away at high speed along the road that leads to Portsmouth N. H. and Boston.

The bold daylight kidnaping was witnessed by Perley Emery and Miss Lillian Hooper, who were sitting in a parked car about 300 feet from the scene. Emery and Miss Hooper gave chase, but were soon outdistanced. The kidnap car was described by Emery as a Chevrolet coupe.

The kidnaped girl is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Dawson of Kennebunkport. Dawson is a photographer whose principal business is taking pictures of visitors in Maine summer resorts. He brought his family to Kennebunkport six months ago from Sanford, Me.


GLORIA TO SUE, HAS PICKED OUT FIFTH HUSBAND

Chicago, May 11 -- Gloria Swanson, film star, who admitted here today that she will soon bring suit for divorce against her Irish sportsman husband Michael Farmer, is reported to be headed for the altar a fifth time.

Miss Swanson has been seen frequently in the company of Herbert Marshall, English actor, whose marriage to Edna Best, well known on American and English stages, was one of Hollywood's idyllic unions. The Marshalls are still married, Miss Best being now in England.

Miss Swanson refused to comment on a reported romance with Marshall. She said, "I don't know whether Mrs. Marshall is going to give her husband a divorce or not. I wouldn't know about that, of course."


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LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Cooking

I think that every high school in the city should have cooking classes for boys. I took such a course for a year and am very glad of it. I am glad to be able to prepare my own meals without anyone's help. Besides, with girls of today taking so little interest in cooking, it is actually advisable for a young fellow to know the art. If he doesn't, he is taking a chance. -- FRED J.

Women

Some readers are apparently of the opinion that the majority of women, if they are not actually gold diggers themselves, condone the methods of gold diggers and alimony extortioners. I'd like to take this opportunity of saying that decent women, to protect the honor of their sex, are just as anxious to eliminate this grafting as men are. So there! -- MARION