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Finland reports over 600 Soviet troops drowned when Finnish forces repelled landing attempts on the Arctic front. The Finns report that they blasted mountainsides facing the water, causing gigantic avalanches that swept into the sea, swamping Russian landing craft. Advancing Russian tanks were destroyed by holes cut in the ice.
In Moscow tonight, the Soviet government announced the start of a naval blockade of Finland. The announcement draws an end to a grace period in which Russian forces permitted merchant ships operating in Finnish waters to leave without interference.
Other Latin American states have joined with Argentina in demanding the ouster of the Soviet Union from the League of Nations. The League Council discusses Russia's status today in closed session in Geneva.
German fliers with fully-loaded bomb racks returned to their bases today because they could find no targets in the North Sea after the evacuation of British vessels from those waters. The official German news agency claims that the number of vessels sunk by Germany during the naval phase of the war is "far greater than enemy propaganda will admit."
The German Consul will mount his own investigation into the murder of his secretary. Dr. Hans Borchers plans to begin an official German inquiry into the slaying of Dr. Walter Engelberg as soon as the New York Police Department turns over to him the Flatbush house where Engelberg was hammered to death last week.
Meanwhile, police continue their attempts to locate and question the prime suspect in the killing, 23-year-old prizefighter Ernie Haas. Detectives questioned the manager of the Roxy Athletic Club in Manhattan, where Haas was known to work out, and learned that Haas may have recently telephoned the club. The boxer was last seen at the club on Tuesday, a day after Engelberg was last seen alive, and the day before Engelberg's body was discovered. A confidential source tells the Eagle that a "break" in the case is expected shortly.
Brooklyn residents and a hospital along the approach path to the new LaGuardia Field at North Beach are complaining about airplane noise, and are demanding government action to remedy the problem. Airplanes approaching the field follow a single radio navigational beam that follows a path over central Brooklyn, and Swedish Hospital, beneath that path, reports that the roar of aircraft engines is causing significant problems for its patients. Hospital administrators plan to file a formal complaint thru the Hospital Council of Brooklyn. Parents are also complaining that the roar of engines interrupts their childrens' sleep, especially between 7 and 11 pm. Airport officials say there is nothing they can do because the approach paths are regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration, and any adjustments would have to come thru that source.
Representatives of New York high school students are petitioning the state government in Albany to require sex education classes at the junior high and high school level in all public schools. The fourth annual Hi-Y Assembly in the state capital passed the resolution, along with a resolution opposing a state plan to raise the drinking age for alcoholic beverages to age 21.
A thousand Fascist students in Rome stormed the Soviet Embassy today and were repelled by police with fixed bayonets. The marchers chanted "Down With Communism" and "Long Live Finland" as they marched on the building.
(And don't forget, it makes a great Christmas gift!)
A coalition of leaders from prominent Brooklyn women's clubs will mount a crusade against race hatred, kicking off at a luncheon of the Brooklyn Womens' Division of the American Jewish Congress. Over 500 clubwomen will participate in the campaign against "divisive racist policies and Nazi propaganda."
Just Imagine! You Can Own A Home Of Your Own in Flatbush for just $2550! One family, six rooms, oil heat! (Wait, this isn't Engelberg's house, is it? No address except that of the broker, Mr. Paley of 1502 Flatbush Ave., is given in the ad.)
It's just 153 days until the World's Fair reopens for its 1940 season, and the Amusement Area will be "gayer than ever," although it "won't cover quite as much area." The parachute jump will be dismantled and moved from the Amusement Area for reconstruction near the Aviation Building. Workers are busy now in the Soviet Pavillion, loading the contents for shipment, in preparation for the dismantling of the entire building for shipment back to Russia. Meanwhile, publicists are hard at work drumming up interest in next year's Fair outside of New York, and it's expected that "those from the hinterlands" will attend next year in far greater numbers than they did in 1939.
A half-hour condensation of the Kern-Hammerstein Broadway hit "Very Warm For May" will be aired by NBC with the original stage cast, this afternoon at 3:30 over WJZ.
The Eagle editorialist says that "Hitler is the most colossal blunderer of his time -- one who invited destruction by goading Britain and France into war and then, to make certain his own doom, invited his traditional enemy to take up a parking space on his threshhold."
The Eagle also opposes treating canaries with male sex hormones to cause them to become rough, aggressive baritones. "If we want tough, loud-mouthed birds," the editorialist says, "we can always get parrots."
Deaths from pneumonia are expected to drop up to 7 percent over the next year due to the introduction of sulfapyradine treatment.
3600 Men's Shirts -- $1.69 at Loeser's!
PRICE'S -- Famous For 1/2 Southern Fried Chicken, 50 cents. (Does that mean the rooster was from Birmingham and the hen was from Flatbush? I don't understand.)
Trend cover boy this week is that jolly and jocular fun-maker Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, first Irishman ever to represent the US at the Court of St. James. The Ambassador, like all Irishmen, favors a large family, and has nine vigorous children, with eight in the US and one, Rosemary, teaching kindergarten in England. Mr. Kennedy assures us that he has no Presidential ambitions whatever.
A 24-year-old Charleston, West Virginia man is all right with the Lord after following a Biblical injunction to chop off his right hand. Elbert Snyder said the Lord Himself had called the scripture to his attention after he had "misused church literature," so he went out to the back yard, grabbed an axe, and rid himself of the offending appendage, "which had attempted to blacken his whole body." (If you can't handle the Song of Solomon, put the Bible back on the shelf.)
Actor Will Geer will take over the role of Jeeter Lester in the eternally-running "Tobacco Road," starting with tomorrow's performance. Mr. Geer is the fifth Jeeter since the play opened in 1933. The actor has done everything from showboats to Shakespeare to a film in Soviet Russia.
Who will play in the Rose Bowl is still in doubt after USC and UCLA played to a 0-0 tie yesterday before 103,000 fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum. No refunds were demanded.
Leo Durocher isn't too upset over the lack of significant trade activity for the Dodgers at the now-concluded Winter Meetings. Lippy notes that Brooklyn has the "youngest team in the league," and that can't help but make a difference in the coming season.
The Giants and Packers decide the National Football League championship today. The game is being played in Milwaukee, so there will be no television coverage. The game will be heard on radio at 2:15 over WOR.
Old Greenpoint boy John T. Blanchard remembers "John The Motorman," who never could quite get the hang of the newfangled electric trolleys. Bring back the horsecar!
Red Ryder is still atop Mankiller the Wild Horse, and the owner of the ranch promises to grubstake him to compete in the big rodeo. Meanwhile the cowboy who didn't get the job runs into Ace Hanlon and tells him all about this redheaded upstart and his little Indian sidekick.
Speaking of Little Indian Sidekicks, the Great Gusto is trying to hold onto his role in "Big Chief Wahoo," but the Chief gets all the funny lines in today's strip. Sorry, Gusto, it's been nice knowing you.
Jane Arden shoves the ticking bomb into the bathroom sink, but it goes off -- and Jane lands in such a way as to expose a large portion of her thigh. Good, clean wholesome fun.
Mary Worth shows her little granddaughter Sunny how to make a dollhouse and furniture out of paper, only to see the whole business sucked up a vacuum cleaner. Maybe somebody should have tried that with Leona.
I can't tell you how much I identify with George Bungle these days...
And Irwin proves he doesn't have sense enough to get in out of the rain.
In Moscow tonight, the Soviet government announced the start of a naval blockade of Finland. The announcement draws an end to a grace period in which Russian forces permitted merchant ships operating in Finnish waters to leave without interference.
Other Latin American states have joined with Argentina in demanding the ouster of the Soviet Union from the League of Nations. The League Council discusses Russia's status today in closed session in Geneva.
German fliers with fully-loaded bomb racks returned to their bases today because they could find no targets in the North Sea after the evacuation of British vessels from those waters. The official German news agency claims that the number of vessels sunk by Germany during the naval phase of the war is "far greater than enemy propaganda will admit."
The German Consul will mount his own investigation into the murder of his secretary. Dr. Hans Borchers plans to begin an official German inquiry into the slaying of Dr. Walter Engelberg as soon as the New York Police Department turns over to him the Flatbush house where Engelberg was hammered to death last week.
Meanwhile, police continue their attempts to locate and question the prime suspect in the killing, 23-year-old prizefighter Ernie Haas. Detectives questioned the manager of the Roxy Athletic Club in Manhattan, where Haas was known to work out, and learned that Haas may have recently telephoned the club. The boxer was last seen at the club on Tuesday, a day after Engelberg was last seen alive, and the day before Engelberg's body was discovered. A confidential source tells the Eagle that a "break" in the case is expected shortly.
Brooklyn residents and a hospital along the approach path to the new LaGuardia Field at North Beach are complaining about airplane noise, and are demanding government action to remedy the problem. Airplanes approaching the field follow a single radio navigational beam that follows a path over central Brooklyn, and Swedish Hospital, beneath that path, reports that the roar of aircraft engines is causing significant problems for its patients. Hospital administrators plan to file a formal complaint thru the Hospital Council of Brooklyn. Parents are also complaining that the roar of engines interrupts their childrens' sleep, especially between 7 and 11 pm. Airport officials say there is nothing they can do because the approach paths are regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration, and any adjustments would have to come thru that source.
Representatives of New York high school students are petitioning the state government in Albany to require sex education classes at the junior high and high school level in all public schools. The fourth annual Hi-Y Assembly in the state capital passed the resolution, along with a resolution opposing a state plan to raise the drinking age for alcoholic beverages to age 21.
A thousand Fascist students in Rome stormed the Soviet Embassy today and were repelled by police with fixed bayonets. The marchers chanted "Down With Communism" and "Long Live Finland" as they marched on the building.
(And don't forget, it makes a great Christmas gift!)
A coalition of leaders from prominent Brooklyn women's clubs will mount a crusade against race hatred, kicking off at a luncheon of the Brooklyn Womens' Division of the American Jewish Congress. Over 500 clubwomen will participate in the campaign against "divisive racist policies and Nazi propaganda."
Just Imagine! You Can Own A Home Of Your Own in Flatbush for just $2550! One family, six rooms, oil heat! (Wait, this isn't Engelberg's house, is it? No address except that of the broker, Mr. Paley of 1502 Flatbush Ave., is given in the ad.)
It's just 153 days until the World's Fair reopens for its 1940 season, and the Amusement Area will be "gayer than ever," although it "won't cover quite as much area." The parachute jump will be dismantled and moved from the Amusement Area for reconstruction near the Aviation Building. Workers are busy now in the Soviet Pavillion, loading the contents for shipment, in preparation for the dismantling of the entire building for shipment back to Russia. Meanwhile, publicists are hard at work drumming up interest in next year's Fair outside of New York, and it's expected that "those from the hinterlands" will attend next year in far greater numbers than they did in 1939.
A half-hour condensation of the Kern-Hammerstein Broadway hit "Very Warm For May" will be aired by NBC with the original stage cast, this afternoon at 3:30 over WJZ.
The Eagle editorialist says that "Hitler is the most colossal blunderer of his time -- one who invited destruction by goading Britain and France into war and then, to make certain his own doom, invited his traditional enemy to take up a parking space on his threshhold."
The Eagle also opposes treating canaries with male sex hormones to cause them to become rough, aggressive baritones. "If we want tough, loud-mouthed birds," the editorialist says, "we can always get parrots."
Deaths from pneumonia are expected to drop up to 7 percent over the next year due to the introduction of sulfapyradine treatment.
3600 Men's Shirts -- $1.69 at Loeser's!
PRICE'S -- Famous For 1/2 Southern Fried Chicken, 50 cents. (Does that mean the rooster was from Birmingham and the hen was from Flatbush? I don't understand.)
Trend cover boy this week is that jolly and jocular fun-maker Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, first Irishman ever to represent the US at the Court of St. James. The Ambassador, like all Irishmen, favors a large family, and has nine vigorous children, with eight in the US and one, Rosemary, teaching kindergarten in England. Mr. Kennedy assures us that he has no Presidential ambitions whatever.
A 24-year-old Charleston, West Virginia man is all right with the Lord after following a Biblical injunction to chop off his right hand. Elbert Snyder said the Lord Himself had called the scripture to his attention after he had "misused church literature," so he went out to the back yard, grabbed an axe, and rid himself of the offending appendage, "which had attempted to blacken his whole body." (If you can't handle the Song of Solomon, put the Bible back on the shelf.)
Actor Will Geer will take over the role of Jeeter Lester in the eternally-running "Tobacco Road," starting with tomorrow's performance. Mr. Geer is the fifth Jeeter since the play opened in 1933. The actor has done everything from showboats to Shakespeare to a film in Soviet Russia.
Who will play in the Rose Bowl is still in doubt after USC and UCLA played to a 0-0 tie yesterday before 103,000 fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum. No refunds were demanded.
Leo Durocher isn't too upset over the lack of significant trade activity for the Dodgers at the now-concluded Winter Meetings. Lippy notes that Brooklyn has the "youngest team in the league," and that can't help but make a difference in the coming season.
The Giants and Packers decide the National Football League championship today. The game is being played in Milwaukee, so there will be no television coverage. The game will be heard on radio at 2:15 over WOR.
Old Greenpoint boy John T. Blanchard remembers "John The Motorman," who never could quite get the hang of the newfangled electric trolleys. Bring back the horsecar!
Red Ryder is still atop Mankiller the Wild Horse, and the owner of the ranch promises to grubstake him to compete in the big rodeo. Meanwhile the cowboy who didn't get the job runs into Ace Hanlon and tells him all about this redheaded upstart and his little Indian sidekick.
Speaking of Little Indian Sidekicks, the Great Gusto is trying to hold onto his role in "Big Chief Wahoo," but the Chief gets all the funny lines in today's strip. Sorry, Gusto, it's been nice knowing you.
Jane Arden shoves the ticking bomb into the bathroom sink, but it goes off -- and Jane lands in such a way as to expose a large portion of her thigh. Good, clean wholesome fun.
Mary Worth shows her little granddaughter Sunny how to make a dollhouse and furniture out of paper, only to see the whole business sucked up a vacuum cleaner. Maybe somebody should have tried that with Leona.
I can't tell you how much I identify with George Bungle these days...
And Irwin proves he doesn't have sense enough to get in out of the rain.