The Era -- Day By Day

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St Paul, MN. Hell's apoppin, and the DA has his work cut out.

 

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(Really Scarlet? Skirts are shorter in 1941, but they're not THAT short.)...

Locked in a closet? Kryptonite I get, but being locked in a closet kills your superhero street cred.

...[ (I wonder if the Major ever got back that watch that got stolen at the World's Fair? Maybe he figured after that it was cheaper to collect ties.)...

I think, as the kid of Depression-Era parents, I have a fair amount of thriftiness, but King Christian should just commission a warmer coat.

...[ Never mind Page Four today, whoever laid out Page Three is sick sick sick.....

Until your comment, I just assumed this was Page Four as it read very much that way. Did they do a Page Four too today?

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A RARE SOUTH AMERICAN POISON! Don't you two clods ever read mystery novels?....

You knew it was going to be serious when Dick went for the trenchcoat in panel six.

...[ I bet these two are a lotta laughs at parties....

It's highly unlikely seven-foot-tall Punjab goes anywhere unnoticed.

And a SPECIAL BONUS from today's News -- the Mungo Boycott is over! I bet his check bounced.


And remember, the glass contains water.

Finally, the Daily News acting like the Daily News and providing a very detailed and enjoyable full(ish) account.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Here's today's actual Page Four...

This is one of those pages you use to wrap up some old dishes you're putting away in the attic, and then twenty years later you find those dishes and unwrap this page and you sit on the attic floor reading it and say to yourself "Jeez, I wonder how that turned out?"

 

[LizzieMaine]

Patrons of a Bay Ridge tavern drawn into the street this morning by screams of agony found the body of a man stabbed to death, just a block and a half from the home of District Attorney William O'Dwyer. Police tentatively identified the man, from papers found on his body, as 50-year-old Thomas Smith of 314 79th Street, employed as a bartender at the Miller Bar and Grill, 5th Avenue and 90th Street. The man was killed with a long-handled knife that penetrated an overcoat, a suit coat, a vest, a shirt, and an undershirt, according to authorities, around 10:30 this morning in front of a bar at 7901 3rd Avenue. Police closed the bar and took all patrons present, along with owners Philip Smythe and Hugh Bagley, to the Fort Hamilton precinct for questioning.

Charlie "The Bug" Workman, prominent Brooklyn hood who is wanted in Newark on an indictment charging him with the murder of Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Fliegenheimer, appeared in Bay Ridge Court today before Magistrate Vincent J. Sweeney as a fugitive from justice. In need of a shave, and wearing a shabby blue sweater, Workman did not appear to be the fearsome figure police made him out to be during the brief proceedings. Six detectives surrounded the defendant as Magistrate Sweeney ordered him held without bail at the Raymond Street Jail pending a further hearing on April 29th.

It is entirely up to Mayor LaGuardia whether Brooklyn gets a new prison to replace the Raymond Street Jail. So stated State Assembly Minority Leader Irwin Steingut today following testimony before a Kings County Grand Jury investigation the jail situation in the borough. "Of course I favor tearing down and replacing that Bastille," declared Steingut as he emerged from the jury room. "Who doesn't?" The Minority Leader stated that the clearest route toward accomplishing that purpose is thru passage of the Beckinella-Kirnan Bill now before the legislature's Ways and Means Committee, which would permit the use of surplus relief funds for the project, and that he believes that the bill will be approved by that Committee if the Mayor so requests.

A California Republican in the House of Representatives today proposed a bill that would define labor strikes in the defense industry as treason. Representative Leland E. Ford introduced the measure calling for the death penalty against strikers should any such work stoppage lead to "fatalities."

(So much going on here, let's just look at the whole page. Martin Manulis will have a so-so career as an actor, but he will go on to become one of the most important producer-directors of the Golden Age of Live Television, best known for his work on "Playhouse 90." And just to prove he's not just a highbrow, he will also produce the wonderful TV sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." But all that lies in the future for this smiling young lad. And Miss Hayward, well, speak of the devil and she will appear -- I just saw her the other night in a pretty searing film performance, and now here she is again. And I'm certainly glad that Maestro Toscanini could tear himself away from his television set and the wrestling matches from Jamaica long enough to get back up on the podium. And Cagney as Cohan? Nah, I can't see that at all.)

(Wars may rage and the world may burn, but the Dodgers will always be in Brooklyn and Horn & Hardart will always sell spaghetti by the pound.)

(Lichty doesn't go in for this type of stuff very often, but when he does, he goes all in. And even his racial caricatures are bald.)

("Eagle?" says Joe blankly. "What Eagle?")

A Dodger fan in Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad, in the British West Indies, wrote to station WOR the other day wondering if it would be possible for her to pick up the Brooklyn broadcasts in that remote outpost, and requested that the station consider placing the games on shortwave to make long-haul reception better. That's not in the cards, unfortunately, but the WOR engineering department advised the writer that with a strong receiver and a good aerial pointed north she might be able to pick up the signal.

As if Gertrude Berg didn't have enough to do as producer-writer-str of "The Goldbergs," heard weekdays over CBS, she will this week take over the script duties for another Columbia serial, "Kate Hopkins -- Angel of Mercy."

(Jeez, Tillie -- give somebody else a chance!)

("Marry you?" says Hedy. "Don't be ridiculous. I couldn't afford the insurance premiums.")

(Little known fact -- Mr. Orwell came up with the idea for the daily "Two Minute Hate" from reading the Bungles.)

(Yup, Ted is Future Harold Teen CONFIRMED. Only not quite as intelligent.)

(Way to string out the suspense, Marsh. But the fact that Irwin appears to be, literally, "sweating bullets" is a nice touch.)

 

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Susan Heyward, such small script, from Brooklyn, hmm. Gorgeous woman.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Maine makes its Page Four debut at long last. Stick around, folks, there's plenty more where this came from.

H. Teen walks into the Automat and buys a slice of Lemon Meringue Pie. And then he goes over again and buys a slice of Chocolate Cream Pie. And then he sits there wondering which one he should eat.

Kids Today. This "Old Timer" is pretty clearly Roger Peckinpaugh, now managing the Indians, and if this is the attitude he is bringing with him, it'll be another interesting season in Cleveland.

See, what I don't get is this -- Warbucks has a mystical giant and a cold-blooded assassin as his top assistants. So why does he even need these rent-a-cops?

Mr. Caniff has clearly been reading up on Deutsche Realpolitik.

There's got to be an easier way.

If Uncle Bim = Scrooge McDuck, Andy Gump = Donald Duck.

Nobody likes you Wilmer.

Tsk. Lillums clearly has mixed feelings about her situation. Where's the horns, glasses, and goatee?

Those movie-theatre giveaways will get you every time.

 

[Harp]

The Black Sox Scandal still lives here on Chicago's south side. This weekend I hope to find Bookie's still open,
and will dive inside its baseball stacks looking for anything I can find on this dark chapter.

 

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("Eagle?" says Joe blankly. "What Eagle?")...

Joe smartly understands that, sometimes, marriage is about nothing more than making it to the next day.

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("Marry you?" says Hedy. "Don't be ridiculous. I couldn't afford the insurance premiums.")..

Sparky rejoins:, "Well, yes, that's an issue, but did I mention that Doc used his super-strength-making cosmic ray on my entire body, every single part? Hmm?"

... (Little known fact -- Mr. Orwell came up with the idea for the daily "Two Minute Hate" from reading the Bungles.)...

"Oh, Peggy darling, please don't grind your heels into the floor galloping through this house as if..."

Jo, in anger, can turn a phrase with the best of them.

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(Yup, Ted is Future Harold Teen CONFIRMED. Only not quite as intelligent.)...

Yup on Ted, but Sue has handled this entire situation pretty poorly too.

But good on "Dale Allen" for ramping up nicely in the last panel what was becoming a tired storyline. I see a catfight tomorrow, it's not a time to look away.

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H. Teen walks into the Automat and buys a slice of Lemon Meringue Pie. And then he goes over again and buys a slice of Chocolate Cream Pie. And then he sits there wondering which one he should eat....

And the metaphor-for-the-day award goes to @LizzieMaine. I'm sure the lewder elements of it are only in my mind.

... See, what I don't get is this -- Warbucks has a mystical giant and a cold-blooded assassin as his top assistants. So why does he even need these rent-a-cops?...

Ehh, for show, and they're deductible.

... If Uncle Bim = Scrooge McDuck, Andy Gump = Donald Duck.....

"I'll bet if I went down to the [stock] market with my ten grand, I'd be a millionaire in a month."

Yes, that's how it works.

 

[ChiTownScion]

And in the Daily News...

Maine makes its Page Four debut at long last. Stick around, folks, there's plenty more where this came from."

You'd think that a physician could show a bit more finesse than garden variety blunt trauma. Indicates a crime of passion rather than deliberative premeditation, but who knows?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Workers made the first crack on the hulking structure of the Fulton Street L this morning, taking down a stairway at Driggs Avenue and Broadway to begin the long-awaited demolition of the Black Spider. The stairways to the station platforms are to be removed first to guard against trespassing and vandalism by youths as the work continues. Those stairways have been blocked by wooden barricades since the L ended operations last spring, but those barricades have proven to be insufficient to prevent trespassing. A ceremony to formally mark the start of demolition work on the main portion of the L structure will be held in the near future.

Brooklyn detectives today announced partial identification of a suspect in a twin murder in February outside a Williamsburg dress factory, stating that they have eyewitness testimony that the killings of 39-year-old Peter Marsellino and his sister-in-law Mrs. Josephine Mineo were committed by 28-year-old Carlo Barone, alias Joseph LaSais, who was arrested in the Long Island town of Maspeth yesterday along with 26-year-old Leonard Alonge on charges of automobile theft and violation of the Sullivan Law. Barone was questioned by District Attorney William O'Dwyer about the Marsellino-Mineo killings, and it was determined that Barone and Marsellino were "acquaintances who had engaged in a venture of sorts." Barone had complained last November that two men had tried to kill him by firing shots in his direction, and detectives said today that Barone believed Marsellino was behind that incident.

The part-owner of a Bay Ridge bar and grill is being held for the fatal stabbing of Thomas Smith, unemployed bartender found dead on the sidewalk yesterday morning outside the establishment at 314 79th Street. 48-year-old Hugh Bagley of 8215 Fort Hamilton Parkway was arrested on a charge of homicide after extensive questioning yesterday by detectives, and will be arraigned on Friday. Bagley was implicated in the killing, according to police, by several bar patrons who stated that they saw the two men engaged in a quarrel before Smith was found stabbed outside the bar.

Germany and Italy have demanded the release of the crews of 28 Italian and 2 German ships seized by the United States Government, and the release of the ships as well. A formal note of diplomatic protest was delivered to the State Department today by the German and Italian embassies, arguing that the seizure of the vessels and their crews is a violation of the treaty of friendship and commerce signed by the United States and Germany after the last war, and as a complete abrogation of international law governing such matters. It is expected that the United States will deny the demand outright or simply ignore it.

"Bloody Harlan County" in Kentucky today saw its first violence in a new round of strikes by coal miners after Appalachian bituminous coal operators failed to reach an agreement with the United Mine Workers of America CIO for a new contract. At least three clashes were reported as the UMWA threw picket lines around the mines, and one strikebreaker was shot and critically wounded. Two sheriff's deputies attempting to subdue pickets with clubs were themselves beaten by their own weapons after strikers wrestled the clubs out of their hands.

A fifteen-year-old schoolboy who started fires to cover up his burglary of expensive microscopes is under arrest in connection with blazes last week at PS 85 in Bushwick. Charles Kamps of 1101 Halsey Street told police that he broke into the school early on the morning of March 24th, and escaped with the microscopes, which he intended to resell. But wracked by fears that he'd left fingerprints behind, he returned to the school an hour later and touched off several fires intended to obliterate that evidence. Those fires spread rapidly thru three floors of the building, rendering it unusable and forcing a unexpected day off for a thousand neighborhood pupils.

(Hey, Mrs. Healy -- your husband is a dirty hack lawyer who defends mobsters and you should divorce him immediately if you know what's good for you. Even the dog agrees.)

(Wait, they play potsy at NYU? Intercollegiate or intramural?)

(Doesn't do much of a job at all taking off makeup, if you ask me.)

(Yeah, well, you'll never make the potsy team with a cigarette in your hand.)

(The glove fell out of Mr. Waner's back pocket, where it used to be customary to store them when one's team was not in the field. They can't do that anymore. And jeez, Camilli, I know you think you should be getting more money out of MacPhail, but at least try to look enthusiastic.)

Leo Durocher says he wouldn't trade Pete Reiser "for any other man in baseball." And that should, forthwith, put an end to any of this gossip that's going on suggesting that Pistol Pete might be headed for the Polo Grounds in exchange for Harry Danning. Leo has no intention of letting Pete go, and least of all to the Giants. Durocher considers Reiser the greatest prospect he's ever seen, and with his defensive abilities in center field developing with leaps and bounds alongside his already potent bat and his streak-like baserunning skills, he's determined to keep the Pistol in a Dodger uniform.

Meanwhile, MacPhail continues to snipe back and forth with Bill Terry, declaring yesterday that Memphis Bill must be getting a bad case of indigestion given the Giants' poor play this spring. The Red Headed One says it's Terry who's trying to foist Danning off on the Dodgers, and that Brooklyn could have had the big catcher in exchange for Babe Phelps and a pitcher, but MacPhail thinks that would be a poor deal and offered Terry Pete Coscarart instead.

(Sally's face grows red and a small vein becomes visible on the side of her forehead at the thought of Petey in a Giants uniform. Joe zips up his jacket in a hurry and hastens off to night school without a parting word.)

Expect Cookie Lavagetto to replace Stan Hack of the Cubs as the number one third baseman in the league for 1941. Hustling Harry suffered last year from a diseased appendix, but having parted company with that complaint in a Cincinnati hospital last August, the long-limbed 27-year-old Oakland boy is now back at 100 percent capacity, and he expects to top his fine 1939 season in 1941. If, that is, he does not receive the anticipated call from Uncle before the season is over.

Ty Cobb wants to meet Babe Ruth -- on the golf links. The 55-year-old Georgia Peach issued a challenge yesterday for the 46-year-old Bambino to meet him on any course anywhere in the country to benefit Bundles For Britain or any charity the Babe may care to designate. "I've been hankering to take a shot at Babe," declared Cobb, who shoots in the range of 78 to 82, "ever since I started playing golf."

(Why is Hedy's arm so short in Panel Two? Do Spark's powers somehow repeal the Laws of Perspective?)

(I hope Mr. Schroth has a lock on his door.)

(Fortunately for Charlie he's already had four drinks and can't hear a word anybody says.)

(Pssst, Kay -- that new waterproof mascara they have now is great stuff.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Yep, like I said yesterday, there's more to come...

Is this *really* "what the boys like?"

"Now if you'll excuse me," says Oscar, "I really must get this crown back to the pawnshop before 10 o'clock."

"We were otherwise occupied, great Sahib," states Punjab in a low, even voice. "Indeed, sir," adds the Asp. "We were at the far end of the plant, attempting to recruit players for the Munitions League potsy team." "I excelled in college," adds Punjab, with a self-conscious smile.

Maybe The Face figured she could get a better show over at the Bungles'.

Nazis in general tend to be a sick bunch, but Herr Kiel takes the cake.

I bet Granny's a Nazi too.

Nah, Chigs goes in for face to face malice. This is more Wilmer's speed.

I did the same thing once to keep people from stealing the tape dispenser out of my desk drawer. It worked, too.

Oh, by all means Lena. BY ALL MEANS.

 

[Harp]

And in the Daily News...

Maine makes its Page Four debut at long last. Stick around, folks, there's plenty more where this came from."

You'd think that a physician could show a bit more finesse than garden variety blunt trauma. Indicates a crime of passion rather than deliberative premeditation, but who knows?

The Oklahoma City DA once declined to charge a physician with Murder One on the pretext that during the assault
his deceased wife was rendered unconscious and did not suffer pain. Incredulous.

 

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...Brooklyn detectives today announced partial identification of a suspect in a twin murder in February outside a Williamsburg dress factory, stating that they have eyewitness testimony that the killings of 39-year-old Peter Marsellino and his sister-in-law Mrs. Josephine Mineo were committed by 28-year-old Carlo Barone, alias Joseph LaSais, who was arrested in the Long Island town of Maspeth yesterday along with 26-year-old Leonard Alonge on charges of automobile theft and violation of the Sullivan Law. Barone was questioned by District Attorney William O'Dwyer about the Marsellino-Mineo killings, and it was determined that Barone and Marsellino were "acquaintances who had engaged in a venture of sorts." Barone had complained last November that two men had tried to kill him by firing shots in his direction, and detectives said today that Barone believed Marsellino was behind that incident....

Nice to see the followup on this one.

...A fifteen-year-old schoolboy who started fires to cover up his burglary of expensive microscopes is under arrest in connection with blazes last week at PS 85 in Bushwick. Charles Kamps of 1101 Halsey Street told police that he broke into the school early on the morning of March 24th, and escaped with the microscopes, which he intended to resell. But wracked by fears that he'd left fingerprints behind, he returned to the school an hour later and touched off several fires intended to obliterate that evidence. Those fires spread rapidly thru three floors of the building, rendering it unusable and forcing a unexpected day off for a thousand neighborhood pupils....

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(Doesn't do much of a job at all taking off makeup, if you ask me.)...

She and hubby, the King of Hollywood, don't make enough that they need to have her hawking soap? Maybe Clark was taking notes for when he'd be selling "Beautee soap" after the war.

... View attachment 323330 (The glove fell out of Mr. Waner's back pocket, where it used to be customary to store them when one's team was not in the field. They can't do that anymore. And jeez, Camilli, I know you think you should be getting more money out of MacPhail, but at least try to look enthusiastic.)...

They'd even go up to bat with their glove in their back pocket? Must have been awkward when sliding, no?

...(Sally's face grows red and a small vein becomes visible on the side of her forehead at the thought of Petey in a Giants uniform. Joe zips up his jacket in a hurry and hastens off to night school without a parting word.)...

As noted, sometimes, marriage is about nothing more than making it to the next day.

... (Fortunately for Charlie he's already had four drinks and can't hear a word anybody says.)...

"He's fat, but lots of fun."

"Really? Well, I hope you brought some cash as you'll be picking up the bill tonight toots."

Separately, because of the other day, now I only see Betty Page when I see Pat.

... Yep, like I said yesterday, there's more to come.......

Pretty dramatic stuff in the abortion doctor's case.

Had to look it up because I was confused as heck: It's Charles R Schwab who founded the eponymous brokerage firm not Charles M Schwab. Stupid middle initial.

A...
Is this *really* "what the boys like?"....

Well, it's hard to send her in a box from Schrafft's:

Jane Russel "services the troops" in "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" (comments here: #27489)

... Maybe The Face figured she could get a better show over at the Bungles'.....

No question, Jo's barely controlled rage is much more entertaining than this.

... Nazis in general tend to be a sick bunch, but Herr Kiel takes the cake....

Usually, I agree with you Lizzie, but so far, Kiel can't hold a candle to Dr. Mengele and some of those other sadistic bastards.

Now, once Burma has those brass knuckles and is taking a swing, nothing says she can't aim for Kiel.

...[ Oh, by all means Lena. BY ALL MEANS.

Stealing from Lizzie: tick...tick...tick

 

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^^^Gotzta check out Jane. Never saw this.

Long time ago, I moved downtown Chicago on N. Lasalle and apartment safari included Betty Page's former apt
building, wondered if the apart shown might have been hers. Leased down the street for three years at another
site until the bldg. went condo and buy or leave noticed. I left. When Betty Page the movie was shot starring
Dita Tease the block was cordoned off and 1950s cars brought for some outside the building scene.
Still haven't seen that flick either.

 

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^^^Gotzta check out Jane. Never saw this.

Long time ago, I moved downtown Chicago on N. Lasalle and apartment safari included Betty Page's former apt
building, wondered if the apart shown might have been hers. Leased down the street for three years at another
site until the bldg. went condo and buy or leave noticed. I left. When Betty Page the movie was shot starring
Dita Tease the block was cordoned off and 1950s cars brought for some outside the building scene.
Still haven't seen that flick either.

Cool stuff re BP. She's one of those, "if she didn't exist, somebody would have to invent her" people.

Since I know you are a reader, I encourage you to read "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" first and, then, see the movie. The book is better, comments here: #8207.

 

[Harp]

Cool stuff re BP. She's one of those, "if she didn't exist, somebody would have to invent her" people.

Since I know you are a reader, I encourage you to read "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" first and, then, see the movie. The book is better, comments here: #8207.

Better than Jane Russel? Huie wrote The Americanization of Emily.
Just remembered.

 

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Better than Jane Russel? Huie wrote The Americanization of Emily.
Just remembered.

I have never seen Jane Russel more aligned with a character nor more comfortable in a role than she is in TROMS, but still, the book is better as the movie has to elide too much of what is really going on.

I really enjoyed both the book and movie version of "The Americanization of Emily." I believe the main character is the same in both TROMS and TAOE, but it's not really a sequel situation, just the carryover of a character.

 

[Harp]

Huie was quite the prolific Second World War veteran author-he penned marketable scripts and stayed
the hell away from the boring overlong tedious war novel along the James Jones mold. Another Ross MacDonald
recovery specialist scribe. I'll take a look at TRMS.

 

[LizzieMaine]

For the first time in its thirty-five-year history, a plant of the Ford Motor Company has been shut down by a strike, as members of the CIO United Auto Workers threw up a cordon of pickets around the company's River Rouge factory in Dearborn, Michigan. Negro strikebreakers armed with clubs and crowbars clashed with pickets this morning with thirty men reported injured in the fighting before Dearborn police separated the two groups. An estimated 85,000 production workers were idled by the strike at the largest single industrial facility in the world. Michigan Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner has ordered all available members of the Michigan State Police to the plant "to preserve law and order" while U. S. Federal mediator James F. Dewey was summoned from his sickbed in Pennsylvania in an attempt to resolve the strike, which comes as the culmination of years of effort by the UAW to organize the plant. Ford remains the only U. S. automaker not to recognize the union.

(You won't read it in the press, but those "Negro strikebreakers" were in fact selected and armed by Ford's chief of security Harry Bennett and encouraged to attack the pickets -- with the specific goal of fomenting a race riot, and thus discrediting the union in the eyes of the public. Most of the strikebreakers will end up abandoning Bennett's plan and joining the picket lines instead. But you won't read it in the press.)

In "Bloody Harlan County," four men were shot and killed today and at least five otherws wounded as CIO United Mine Workers pickets clashed with strikebreakers outside the Crummies Mine in Harlan, Kentucky. A CIO-UMW organizer and two "Negro union members" were among those killed, and all of the wounded men were reported to be union members. A crowd of between 400 and 500 "excited Harlan residents" swarmed outside the hospital where the wounded men were taken. Meanwhile, representatives of Appalachian bituminous coal companies and union leaders met at the Hotel Roosevelt in Manhattan today to attempt a negotiated end to the strike, which revolves around wage and hour issues.

The United States has refused a demand from Germany and Italy that it yield up 30 of their ships seized in American harbors, and release the crews of those vessels from Federal custody. A formal reply to the Axis demand is being prepared by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and is expected to be delivered to the German and Italian embassies "soon."

The U. S. Navy today began its occupation of Floyd Bennett Field with the arrival of two twin-motored Consolidated Flying Boats from Norfolk, Va., which alighted in the waters off Jamaica Bay near the airport. The planes delivered a small contingent of Navy enlisted men who will take up residence in newly-constructed barracks on the airfield. It is believed that the full purchase of the airfield by the Navy, for conversion to a full-fledged Naval Air base, is imminent.

The defense attorney for accused Murder-For-Hire killer Harry "Happy" Maione today charged that the State's "big five" witnesses have changed sworn testimony in order to "eliminate contradictions" in their stories. Attorney Sydney Rosenthal, in his summation argument to the jury in Kings County Court this afternoon, charged that Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, in particular, has perjured himself in his testimony against Maione and Frank "The Dasher" Abbadando, and that Reles is "a reformed murderer who no longer kills because he has cops watching him."

The March Kings County Grand Jury today submitted an 11th hour appeal to Mayor LaGuardia to swing behind the pending Beckinella Bill to free up $5,000,000 in surplus relief funds for the construction of a new Brooklyn jail, replacing the filthy and obsolete Raymond Street Jail. The Grand Jury plea called on the Mayor as "a great humanitarian" to back the Beckinella Bill as "a matter of human necessity."

A departmental trial for Patrolwoman Mary A. Shanley, demoted from the rank of First Grade Detective to the uniformed force for firing a shot inside the Spanish Rail Bar and Grill
in Jackson Heights during an argument with a patron last week, will be held next week. Patrolwoman Shanley was served with papers today advising her to report for trial on April 10th.

(Oh yeah? I have *several* suits, but somehow they all shrunk hanging in the closet.)

Fifteen men who walked into a Williamsburg barber shop and walked out again showing no evidence of having received a haircut or a shave were enough to raise suspicions for a plainclothes patrolman, who entered the shop himself to discover a back room where 30-year-old Raymond Auriemma was seated at a table with a telephone, a scratch sheet, and a stack of fourteen betting slips on horse races. Patrolman Charles Cordera of the Borough Headquarters Squad brought in Auriemma on a charge of bookmaking, and the "barber" is being held on $500 bail for a hearing in Special Sessions Court.

(Och, aye. But no haggis?)

(Sheffield Farms will only survive fifteen years or so into its second century before being entirely subsumed by its corporate owner, the National Dairy Products Corporation -- later to become Kraftco, later to be merged with General Foods and then consumed by Philip Morris, before being spun off and engulfed by a Mexican cookie-baking company which will spit out a vestigal Kraft Foods Group which will then be absorbed into H. J. Heinz. The final appearance of the proud Sheffield name will be on a discount-priced brand of Kraft margarine in the '80s. But old Sheffield processing plants and horse stables remain interesting architectural curiosities all over New York City.)

The Kaufman-and-Hart Broadway hit "The Man Who Came To Dinner" is coming to the movies courtesy of Warner Brothers, which will adapt for the screen the story of acidulous radio personality Sheridan Whiteside, who bears no resemblance at all to Alexander Woollcott, with a script by Julius and Philip Epstein. Cary Grant has been signed to play the title role filled by Monty Wooley on the stage. The production will go before the cameras at Warners' Burbank studio within the month.

(The Lichtys are fighting again, and Mr. Lichty lost.)

As the Dodgers "A" team backtracks across Texas today to meet the Fort Worth Cats, the talk most often heard in Brooklyn circles is of young Ed Head, and how the 21-year-old fastballer may yet grab that coveted number-five spot in Leo Durocher's projected starting rotation when the regular season begins. Head threw seven very impressive innings in Shreveport yesterday, as the Flock slapped down the local Sports of the Texas League by a score of 9 to 3. Catcher Mickey Owen says Head made only one bad pitch all day -- and that was the one sent flying over the left field fence by a second-string Shreveport catcher named Tom Jordan. "Otherwise," says Owen, Head's fastball was "as live as a basket full of snakes."

Pete Coscarart had a fine day yesterday, going two for 3 with a run batted in and performed flawlessly in the field, as Durocher kept himself out of the lineup.

(Sally hums cheerfully as she serves the brisket.)

Enforced abstention from alcoholic beverages didn't seem to do Big Hugh Casey much good last year, with the pudgy pitcher racking up a disappointing 11-8 record for the 1940 campaign, so that particular clause has been stricken from his contract for 1941. It was Larry MacPhail's idea that Hughie was getting too fat from beer to reach the full potential indicated by his fine 1939 season, so he forced the righthander to ride the camel all thru 1940. But now, Hugh has his beer as he pleases, and though he tips the scale at 210 pounds his sidearm fastball looks as zippy as it was two years ago, and his curves are breaking nicely.

(Doesn't take much to distract the kid, does it?)

("Why, it's almost as funny as that time Dick Tracy forgot to buy the Chief a new suitcase!")

("Can This Marriage Be Saved?")

(Poor, poor Wolf. Not only is Dan gone, but he doesn't even get to eat the Skull's face.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

All of Dotty's friends will now plan a jail-themed party that will be oh, just a scream!

"Dammit!" growls Hugh Casey. "DAMMIT!"

Boy, Jemail really gets around, doesn't he?

And they say Harold Gray has no sense of humor.

"Everything will probably be all right now," as Snipe thinks about what she'll say at that job interview she's got tomorrow.

"But you still have to take back this stupid chaise lounge. Seriously, who puts a chaise lounge in the middle of the living room?"

And Fading gets the prediction prize for the day. But did Burma *mean* to hit Kiel, or was she aiming for Terry and he ducked?

And that's why you should always keep a tire iron right by your front door.

Yeah, you had twenty years to take care of him, and look how he turned out.

Poor Emmy. Violated the first rule of Effective Boardinghouse Management -- never marry the customers.