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German sources acknowledge that flames are visible from forty miles away following smashing British raids on the great northern shipping port of Hamburg and industrial sites along the Ruhr. British naval attacks were also confirmed against German positions at Boulogne. The German DNB news agency stated that an attempted British assault on Cherbourg was driven off.
Meanwhile, tightly packed formations of German warplanes patrolled above the oil fields of Rumania today, with at least sixty-eight planes, some of them Rumanian, confirmed over the capital city of Bucharest. It is anticipated that Rumania and Great Britain will break off diplomatic relations within a matter of hours.
The demand for a new Supreme Court building broadened today into a call for a full redevelopment of Downtown Brooklyn, creating a civic center suitable for the city's largest and most populous borough. With an appropriation of $50,000 for preliminary studies, it is anticipated that a committee of civic and business leaders will develop a plan which, when implemented, will give Brooklyn her rightful place within the important communities of the nation.
("Ainnat swell?" says Joe. "Wonnaif'eyevehgonnadosumpin' 'bouttem holes innapavement oveheah on Stillwell Aveneh." "I hoidaboudda acciden' 't'otha day," says Sally. "Li'l goil anna puppy felldownaoneat'em holes, they haddacallacopstapullumout.")
Borough President John Cashmore today declared that Brooklyn labor unions are united in support for plans to build a new super-drydock on the borough's waterfront. A six-man committee of labor leaders today met with Mr. Cashmore at his office to endorse his campaign to convince naval authorities to construct the new $10,000,000 facility here.
Verdicts totalling $55,000 were awarded today to two Brooklyn families in a lawsuit growing out of an accident at Bushville, New York in 1938 in which one woman was killed and another seriously injured by falling hay bales knocked off a truck. Mrs. Sadie Hausman Laskey, a mah-jong and bridge instructor, was killed in the accident when a speeding beer delivery truck swerved in front of a truck piled with hay bails, causing that truck to overturn and sending hay bales flying thru the air. One of them killed Mrs. Laskey instantly, and another injured her friend, Mrs. Sadye Kasdin of 643 Hawthorne Street. The operator of the hay truck and the Endicott Beverage Company, owner of the beer truck, along with the drivers of both vehicles, were named as defendants in the lawsuit.
(What? I have no idea. "Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue in Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two?" "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet?" "Chases Dirt?" What kind of a dopey contest is this?)
A former $27 a week cashier for the Literary Guild, mail-order book club, is suing her ex-employer for defamation of character stemming from unfounded charges that she embezzled $80,000 from the company. Mrs. Katherine Cuccaro of Dumond, New Jersey was acquitted on charges of grand larceny and forgery last summer, and charges in her lawsuit that Guild officials falsely accused her of the crime in order to cover up for the guilt of an unnamed person. A former Guild bookkeeper was convicted of third-degree forgery in connection with the case and is now serving a two-to-four year sentence in Sing Sing Prison. Mrs. Cuccaro alleges that the convicted bookkeeper received $10,000 of the total amount stolen, with the balance kept by the employee she accuses Guild officials of shielding.
A spokesman for the Russell Sage Foundation declared last night in a meeting sponsored by the Brooklyn Good Neighbor Committee that there is no need for immigrants to totally abandon their native culture in order to become "good Americans." Speaker Allen Eaton told the rally at Long Island University that the real danger in insisting on full cultural assimilation of immigrants is that "we may lose some of the cultural contributions they may give to American life. Our Immigrant citizens are not a different lot that constitutes a special menace or a special problem -- they are a normal part of our vast and varied population with the same aspirations and the same problems as the rest of us."
The waters surrounding New York City will be entirely free of pollution within the next ten years -- providing current plans for the construction of new treatment plants are brought to realization. So declared Seth G. Hess, chief engineer and executive secretary of the State Sanitation Commission, in a speech to members of the Brooklyn Engineers Club. There are presently 70 waste treatment plants in operation from Bear Mountain to Long Island, with seventeen of them built in just the past year. "In 1920," Mr. Hess observed, "pollution was so severe that it absorbed all the oxygen in the East and Harlem Rivers, causing odors and other nuisances." But, he noted, the construction of modern treatment facilities has brought such an improvement that shad fishing is once again an important resource.
Alice Marble excels at tennis, but she's interested in all sports -- as you'll learn when you tune in to her new radio program over WNEW. Every Friday night at 7:45 Miss Marble will offer her predictions for the weekend in college football, and will, on occasion join in to offer play-by-play accounts of games broadcast over the station. "I admit I'll be sticking my neck out," says Miss Marble. "But I have to admit I know football."
(Don't be so catty, toots. Don't you know she's an expert on hair restoration techniques?)
The big game on the local college football scene will be up at the Polo Grounds tomorrow when the Manhattan Jaspers face Boston University. BU hasn't played a game in New York in sixteen years, and is unbeaten on the season so far. Also worth noting, Columbia will meet Dartmouth. On the national stage, the marquee contest will be Notre Dame versus Georgia Tech.
In schoolboy football, a crowd of 35,000 is anticipated at Ebbets Field for a big doubleheader tomorrow afternoon, as two of the most storied rivalries on the local gridiron come to the fore. The first game will pit Brooklyn Tech against Manual Training, with the nightcap sending out Erasmus Hall against James Madison to determine Flatbush bragging rights. The latter game will be the very first game in the history of New York City high school football to be booked under the lights.
(Hey, now, I've *been* to the New Yorker, and I don't remember any ice rink. The lobby was kind of chilly though.)
(You just blew your chance at an endorsement tie-in with Sheffield Farms.)
(George is an experienced time traveler who has interacted with actual space aliens and supernatural beings. You'd think he'd have a better class of friends.)
(Next: Dennie becomes a hard-boiled junior detective with Bill as his bumbling sidekick.)
(Are you SURE you want to put Irwin in a gun turret? What if he gets stuck?)
Meanwhile, tightly packed formations of German warplanes patrolled above the oil fields of Rumania today, with at least sixty-eight planes, some of them Rumanian, confirmed over the capital city of Bucharest. It is anticipated that Rumania and Great Britain will break off diplomatic relations within a matter of hours.
The demand for a new Supreme Court building broadened today into a call for a full redevelopment of Downtown Brooklyn, creating a civic center suitable for the city's largest and most populous borough. With an appropriation of $50,000 for preliminary studies, it is anticipated that a committee of civic and business leaders will develop a plan which, when implemented, will give Brooklyn her rightful place within the important communities of the nation.
("Ainnat swell?" says Joe. "Wonnaif'eyevehgonnadosumpin' 'bouttem holes innapavement oveheah on Stillwell Aveneh." "I hoidaboudda acciden' 't'otha day," says Sally. "Li'l goil anna puppy felldownaoneat'em holes, they haddacallacopstapullumout.")
Borough President John Cashmore today declared that Brooklyn labor unions are united in support for plans to build a new super-drydock on the borough's waterfront. A six-man committee of labor leaders today met with Mr. Cashmore at his office to endorse his campaign to convince naval authorities to construct the new $10,000,000 facility here.
Verdicts totalling $55,000 were awarded today to two Brooklyn families in a lawsuit growing out of an accident at Bushville, New York in 1938 in which one woman was killed and another seriously injured by falling hay bales knocked off a truck. Mrs. Sadie Hausman Laskey, a mah-jong and bridge instructor, was killed in the accident when a speeding beer delivery truck swerved in front of a truck piled with hay bails, causing that truck to overturn and sending hay bales flying thru the air. One of them killed Mrs. Laskey instantly, and another injured her friend, Mrs. Sadye Kasdin of 643 Hawthorne Street. The operator of the hay truck and the Endicott Beverage Company, owner of the beer truck, along with the drivers of both vehicles, were named as defendants in the lawsuit.
(What? I have no idea. "Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue in Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two?" "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet?" "Chases Dirt?" What kind of a dopey contest is this?)
A former $27 a week cashier for the Literary Guild, mail-order book club, is suing her ex-employer for defamation of character stemming from unfounded charges that she embezzled $80,000 from the company. Mrs. Katherine Cuccaro of Dumond, New Jersey was acquitted on charges of grand larceny and forgery last summer, and charges in her lawsuit that Guild officials falsely accused her of the crime in order to cover up for the guilt of an unnamed person. A former Guild bookkeeper was convicted of third-degree forgery in connection with the case and is now serving a two-to-four year sentence in Sing Sing Prison. Mrs. Cuccaro alleges that the convicted bookkeeper received $10,000 of the total amount stolen, with the balance kept by the employee she accuses Guild officials of shielding.
A spokesman for the Russell Sage Foundation declared last night in a meeting sponsored by the Brooklyn Good Neighbor Committee that there is no need for immigrants to totally abandon their native culture in order to become "good Americans." Speaker Allen Eaton told the rally at Long Island University that the real danger in insisting on full cultural assimilation of immigrants is that "we may lose some of the cultural contributions they may give to American life. Our Immigrant citizens are not a different lot that constitutes a special menace or a special problem -- they are a normal part of our vast and varied population with the same aspirations and the same problems as the rest of us."
The waters surrounding New York City will be entirely free of pollution within the next ten years -- providing current plans for the construction of new treatment plants are brought to realization. So declared Seth G. Hess, chief engineer and executive secretary of the State Sanitation Commission, in a speech to members of the Brooklyn Engineers Club. There are presently 70 waste treatment plants in operation from Bear Mountain to Long Island, with seventeen of them built in just the past year. "In 1920," Mr. Hess observed, "pollution was so severe that it absorbed all the oxygen in the East and Harlem Rivers, causing odors and other nuisances." But, he noted, the construction of modern treatment facilities has brought such an improvement that shad fishing is once again an important resource.
Alice Marble excels at tennis, but she's interested in all sports -- as you'll learn when you tune in to her new radio program over WNEW. Every Friday night at 7:45 Miss Marble will offer her predictions for the weekend in college football, and will, on occasion join in to offer play-by-play accounts of games broadcast over the station. "I admit I'll be sticking my neck out," says Miss Marble. "But I have to admit I know football."
(Don't be so catty, toots. Don't you know she's an expert on hair restoration techniques?)
The big game on the local college football scene will be up at the Polo Grounds tomorrow when the Manhattan Jaspers face Boston University. BU hasn't played a game in New York in sixteen years, and is unbeaten on the season so far. Also worth noting, Columbia will meet Dartmouth. On the national stage, the marquee contest will be Notre Dame versus Georgia Tech.
In schoolboy football, a crowd of 35,000 is anticipated at Ebbets Field for a big doubleheader tomorrow afternoon, as two of the most storied rivalries on the local gridiron come to the fore. The first game will pit Brooklyn Tech against Manual Training, with the nightcap sending out Erasmus Hall against James Madison to determine Flatbush bragging rights. The latter game will be the very first game in the history of New York City high school football to be booked under the lights.
(Hey, now, I've *been* to the New Yorker, and I don't remember any ice rink. The lobby was kind of chilly though.)
(Are you SURE you want to put Irwin in a gun turret? What if he gets stuck?)