LizzieMaine
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Betel-chewing men of Sulu have joined the Moro tribesmen of Mindanao and the Igorots of Luzon on the roll of honor for the Battle of the Philippines. The War Department's latest communique reported that Sulu units have penetrated to the heart of Zamboanga, Japanese-occupied port of Mindanao, where they have destroyed important military installations. Although the War Department made no mention of how the Sulus came to Zamboanga, it is presumed that they arrived by stealth in the curious outrigger pirate ships which they made famous in the days before the Americans arrived in the Phillippines. The Sulus, who are Mohammedans and a fierce and fanatical sea-faring people, are known for their habit of chewing betel nuts as we do gum, a practice which dyes their teeth black.
Soviet forces killed another 3000 Germans and demolished 22 blockhouses on the Leningrad front, in the past 48 hours of fierce fighting. Reports from Moscow state that the enemy has been cleared from large areas in the Vyazma district, and that Soviet artillery is blasting surrounded Nazis from all sides in the Starya Russa section south of Leningrad.
Brooklyn druggists are struggling with the new War Department edict requiring that no product put up in collapsible metal tubes may be sold unless the purchaser turns in an old tube. Druggist Marvin Ricklin of 10 Myrtle Avenue was typical of the pharmacists worried about how the new regulation will affect their businesses. "Do people carry around empty tubes?" he asks. As Mr. Ricklin spoke, a sailor approached the counter and asked for three tubes of shaving cream, but as he was unable to furnish the empty tubes to exchange, the druggist was forced to turn him away. "I would like to sell to him," Mr. Ricklin shrugged, "but there is a $10,000 fine. Maybe it turns out a test case, and there goes my day's profit."
Former Kings County Register Peter J. McGuinness, well-known Sage of Greenpoint, may not be out of work much longer if the State Legislature acts to approve a new state tax position for the borough. McGuinness lost his job as a result of a city referendum abolishing the elected offices of sheriff and county register and replacing them with civil-service appointments. The bill, supported by Tammany Hall, would establish a new office of Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, with authority to collect recording taxes in all five boroughs of the city. McGuinness, who has been holding court on the sidewalk outside Borough Hall since he was dispossessed of his office at the first of the year, has been advised that he is in line for that job if the bill passes.
(Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before...)
("Junior Miss" is an early avatar of the teen-girl-humor craze that will swamp wartime popular culture.)
(Remember that book -- "WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT!")
(Sour grapes, Mr. Parrott? And congratulations to Pee Wee and Dottie, who will enjoy a long and very happy marriage.)
("Do you have any flying experience?" "Well, it's like this...")
(Invisble dogs? Little bearded men in tutus? And now NAPOLEON? Look, far be it from me to point out that this is a clear case of the DTs, but...)
("Something New Has Been Added!")
(Never ever argue with a cop.)
(See the dancing flames, Dan! Stimulating, aren't they?)