The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

(I have no practical experience in demolition work other than helping to tear down a chicken coop once, but I think that even I would know enough not to work in a building full of ammonia coils without first making sure that the coils were no longer pressurized.)

Survivors of the passenger steamer Caribou, sunk in Cabot Strait between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia on Wednesday, described yesterday how the U-Boat responsible for torpedoing the vessel surfaced as survivors bobbed helplessly in the water and "plowed ruthlessly" thru the women and children struggling to stay afloat in the icy waters. Canadian naval rescue vessels picked up 101 survivors, and the bodies of 36 persons killed in the attack. One hundred and one persons remain missing. Captain Benjamin Tarvenor went down with his ship, but before the prow of the Caribou sunk below the surface, he attempted to ram the attacking submarine, but the U-Boat escaped by plunging below the waves. It resurfaced suddenly, knocking the occupants of a lifeboat and two rafts into the water, and cruised cruelly thru the debris and struggling victims. Only one of the fifteen children aboard the steamer survived. "If anything were needed to prove the hideousness of Nazi warfare," declared Canadian Navy Minister Angus MacDonald, "surely this is it."

Damage estimated in the millions of dollars was left behind today in the receding waters of a three-state flood caused by nearly seven inches of rainfall over the past four days. Portions of Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia were beswept by surging flood waters, as well as Washington D. C., where the Potomac River flood crest reached a height of 17.6 feet -- a new record in an area where flood stage is considered to be seven feet. President Roosevelt made a personal inspection of the flooded sections of the nation's capital today, and directed that "neither effort nor money should be spared" to protect the city.

House and Senate conferees last night reached full agreement on history's biggest revenue bill, expected to cost taxpayers an additional $9,600,000,000 per year. An accord was reached between the two bodies after it was agreed to restore a levy on freight which adds another $98,000,000 for the Treasury. The measure will go to the House for a vote as soon as the final report can be printed, probably on Tuesday, followed by action in the Senate immediately after. "This is a good bill," stated Senate Finance Committee Chairman Walter F. George (D-Georgia.)

A fifth slacks-wearing glamour girl faces an appearance in Children's Court on charges that she participated in a burglary at the Stapleton, Staten Island home of Mrs. Walter Fisher on September 29th. Fifteen-year-old Carmella Camaratta of 211 E. 110th Street in Manhattan was implicated by testimony from the other girls now in custody for the burglary, but denied any involvement until, after interrogation at the St. George police station, she confessed.

Bigots have been warned in Brooklyn-Queens Weekend Court by Magistrate J. Roland Sala that he intends to dish out maximum penalties for any and all crimes brought before him that carry implications of racial or religious prejudice. Magistrate Sala gave his warning in hearing the case of 23-year-old James Scofield, brought in on a charge of malicious mischief after kicking in the glass on a sidewalk showcase at 565 Gates Avenue. "It only belongs to a Jew," sneered the defendant when brought before the magistrate, "and he's no good anyway." Magistrate Sala ordered Scofield held for hearing on Wednesday, and promised that if he finds Scofield guilty on the charge, he can expect "a straight six months in jail."

(And once again -- where have we actually seen that these two are "jitterbugs?")

Nineteen-year-old Edward Ryan of 369 12th Street yesterday became the 54th man to be sent to the Army by Kings County Judge Louis Goldstien. Ryan pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful entry and was placed on probation pending his release from the New York State Vocational Institution at Coxsackie, and Judge Goldstien promised to lift his probation in exchange for his enlistment.

The recent closing of the Trommer's restaurant by the brewery that operated it reminds Old Timer Cecil Johnson that half a century ago there were many, many breweries in Brooklyn, especially in Williamsburg. Obermeyer & Liebmann, Eppig's Germania, Brown & Butler, Dominion Dry, Claus Lipsius, Aetna Lager, Budweiser -- no relation to the St. Louis product of the same name --, Burger, Malcolm, Frese Lager, High Ground, India Wharf, Dananberg & Coles Extra Weiner, Feigenspan, and the still-famous Rheingold and Schaefer, were all familiar labels to beer drinkers of olden times.

The Eagle formally endorses Attorney General John Bennett for Governor, declaring that his election will "keep alive the liberal tradition in New York State." The Eagle Editorialist, in outlining the endorsement, sniffs that "a vote for Alfange is a completely wasted vote," which will only make more likely the election of a Republican governor.

Mayor LaGuardia promised yesterday that he will take steps to brighten the surroundings in offices of the city Marriage License Bureau, after a national magazine published criticism of the "dismal, dreary surroundings" that prevail in such offices nationwide. The mayor averred that he couldn't "hang up dainty little white bows" in every Bureau office, but promised that something will be done to provide a cheerier atmosphere for newlyweds.

(College football? Yawn. I hate this time of year.)

The oddsmakers favor the Washington Redskins over the Football Dodgers today at Ebbets Field, in the first of two scheduled meetings of the clubs this season. The Dodgers are definite underdogs following their defeat last week by the Pittsburgh Steelers, as Washington scored a decisive win over the Cleveland Rams. The Dodgers will be further hobbled by an ankle injury suffered by left tackle Bruiser Kinard, who is in the starting lineup today, but is not expected to be able to play the full game.

Tommy Holmes sums up the Dodger collapse of 1942 by pointing to late-season sagging by the entire outfield. Pete Reiser's collapse following his collision with that St. Louis outfield wall was the most notable, with his batting average dropping 33 points between the accident and the end of the season. But the season also held no favors for Joe Medwick or Dixie Walker -- while Medwick flashed briefly with a 28-game hitting streak, his average for the season dropped from .318 in 1941 to .300 this year, and his power production was a complete bust -- Ducky poled only four home runs this season compared to 18 in the pennant-winning '41 campaign. As for Walker, he too was beset by a stream of injuries, which dropped his average from a crisp .311 to a mere .290. And the infield wasn't much better, with the decline of Dolph Camilli a major factor in the team's overall fade. Both his average and his power dropped, with an average of .251 and 26 home runs comparing unfavorably to his Most Valuable Player totals of .285 and 34. Camilli is still the finest defensive first baseman in the league -- but Johnny Mize of the Giants surpassed him this year with the bat. Billy Herman did all right for a man of 34, but Arky Vaughan, brought in to replace Cookie Lavagetto at third, never got hot. Only Pee Wee Reese managed to improve over his 1941 season.

(He doesn't look very draftable himself.)

Screen actresses Claire Windsor and Judith Allen will open at the Flatbush Theatre this Thursday in a new production of the vintage bedroom farce "Getting Gertie's Garter." The play, by A. L. Woods and Avery Hopwood, was once considered shocking. It remains to be seen, in these days of Broadway striptease, how times have changed.

Judy Garland will perform her first grown-up role opposite Gene Kelly and George Murphy in "For Me and My Gal," opening Wednesday at Manhattan's Astor Theatre.

(THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR WORK)

("Can't I wear a tie? I look like a bullfrog without a tie." "No, sir. Premier Stalin does not care for neckties. We can't have a diplomatic incident." "An ascot then. A scarf." "No sir, I'm sorry. The protocol is quite clear." "Very well. But I warn you, young man, I shall keep my chin lowered the entire evening.")

(WHAT? AXEL!! HERE??? Hope you can swim, kid.)

Mr. Bushmiller is a surprisingly cynical man.

(Ahhh, Angel, eternal doyenne of Page Four. How we've missed you. And Great Falling Busts of Beethoven! Never mind the dead guy, somebody cheeck on the cats!)

(Yeah, 1918 was a bad year for the king business, but it was burgeoning era for phony counts.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"A curly haired Norwegian fighting the Nazis." Well, so much for typecasting.

The last gasp of the days of all-male colleges. My own experience in stage work was always that there were ten women going out for parts for every man willing to try out.

"Boche?" WELL THAT SOUNDS PERFECTLY INNOCENT

Well, now that you mention it, they are a bit piratical looking at that.

Juniper shoulda swiped this guy's moustache instead, it's much more ferocious.

Yeah, well, whattaya gonna do about it?

Didn't we see Cagney and Bette Davis in something like this once?

"There are a lot more interesting things to do than fight." "What?" Gawdluvya, Judy.

Meat rationing is gonna be really hard on some people.

Even in 1942 it's a rare chump who'd trust a six year old with a hundred dollars in cash.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Oh, and...

Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before...

 

[Fading Fast]

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A fifth slacks-wearing glamour girl faces an appearance in Children's Court on charges that she participated in a burglary at the Stapleton, Staten Island home of Mrs. Walter Fisher on September 29th. Fifteen-year-old Carmella Camaratta of 211 E. 110th Street in Manhattan was implicated by testimony from the other girls now in custody for the burglary, but denied any involvement until, after interrogation at the St. George police station, she confessed.
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Based on her being named by the other girls, she might well be guilty, but a confession by a teenage girl to an experienced policemen who interrogated her 1940s style means nothing other than the policeman could bully whatever he wanted out of her. I bet he could have gotten her to confess to any unsolved crime on the books, "hey, I found the girl who killed that guy and stuffed his body in the service bay of the gas station."

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The recent closing of the Trommer's restaurant by the brewery that operated it reminds Old Timer Cecil Johnson that half a century ago there were many, many breweries in Brooklyn, especially in Williamsburg. Obermeyer & Liebmann, Eppig's Germania, Brown & Butler, Dominion Dry, Claus Lipsius, Aetna Lager, Budweiser -- no relation to the St. Louis product of the same name --, Burger, Malcolm, Frese Lager, High Ground, India Wharf, Dananberg & Coles Extra Weiner, Feigenspan, and the still-famous Rheingold and Schaefer, were all familiar labels to beer drinkers of olden times.
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Whatever you think of the microbrew revolution of the past few decades, it did reverse the trend of the beer market consolidating into only a few big brand names. Today, the beer aisle is a blizzard of small brands.

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("Can't I wear a tie? I look like a bullfrog without a tie." "No, sir. Premier Stalin does not care for neckties. We can't have a diplomatic incident." "An ascot then. A scarf." "No sir, I'm sorry. The protocol is quite clear." "Very well. But I warn you, young man, I shall keep my chin lowered the entire evening.")
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To be fair, Churchill loved his stupid jumpsuits.

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(Ahhh, Angel, eternal doyenne of Page Four. How we've missed you. And Great Falling Busts of Beethoven! Never mind the dead guy, somebody cheeck on the cats!)
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I was surprised when Angel even came up again as she seemed like a one-and-done character, but it will be good to have her in the mix again. Clearly, Doctor "I'm too good for her" is going to fall hard and boy will Miss Page be jealous.

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"Boche?" WELL THAT SOUNDS PERFECTLY INNOCENT
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In the 1949 movie "My Dream is Yours" Doris Day plays a girl in one of those types of playing rooms. She gets discovered when she takes a request and then sings the song herself, which is heard by a talent scout/agent.

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Didn't we see Cagney and Bette Davis in something like this once?
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Spot on Lizzie, it was "The Bride Came C.O.D." It looks as if Mosley wanted Gable and Lake cast in the leads.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Another jewel robbery! ROUND UP ALL SLACK WEARERS!)

Japan extended Axis cruelty to war prisoners today, with the Tokio radio broadcasting a "hysterical announcement" threatening "severe punishment" for American aviators shot down while bombing Japanese-controlled territory. The announcement, rebroadcast over the Berlin radio, implied that the punishment would be death. It is believed that the threat reflects the heavy pounding Japanese ships and ground forces are taking in the Aleutians and Solomons from American planes. It also seemed to reflect the fear that the April 18th raid on Tokio led by Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle will soon be repeated.

Allied bombers of General Douglas MacArthur's command, continuing to pound Japanese shipping concentrations in the northern Solomons, have scored probable hits on three enemy cruisers, a communique announced today. Flying Fortresses made their most determined attempt to aid American forces facing the new Japanese threat on Guadalcanal Island by raiding the enemy shipping off Buin, in southern Bougainville, for several hours yesterday.

Dispatches from Vichy indicated today that the reported arrival of United States forces in Liberia, on the west coast of Africa, is seen as "a source of provocation" by the Vichy Government and as a "menace" to the west and equatorial French African colonies -- especially Dakar, which is still loyal to Vichy. There is no official confirmation from Washington that Americans have landed in Liberia.

German air raiders bombed and strafed about 20 East Anglian towns, and put London on daylight alert three times today in the greatest enemy air activity in months. At least eight persons were injured in the raids, with two reported killed. Two raiders were shot down.

(Well, at least he didn't have to wrestle a horse.)

Every oil-heated building in the United States, with the exception of hospitals, will be forced to struggle thru the winter with a one-third cut in its allotment of fuel, according to completed fuel-oil rationing plans announced today by Joel Dean, Deputy Director of the fuel rationing division of the Office of Price Administration. Buildings with heating systems that could have been converted to burn coal but were not will receive no oil at all. Mr. Dean also noted that the Federal Government will pay no heed to an edict by the New York City Department of Health specifying that 65 degrees is the minimum safe temperature for oil-heated homes and office buildings, and it is recommended that residents and workers will have to supply themselves with "long woolen underwear." It is also noted that rooms in homes and office buildings that are not actually used will not be supplied with heat.

New York City's first official "Meatless Tuesday" is tomorrow, and in his weekly radio broadcast over WNYC yesterday, Mayor LaGuardia promised that the "wholesale cooperation" of hotels and restaurants will get the campaign off to a flying start. The Mayor stated that he has been informed by the Government that coupons for the official rationing of meat will not be ready until after the first of the year, and "if we permit ten weeks to pass before we start rationing, the amount originally intended to be rationed must be reduced." The Mayor called on residents to reduce the consumption of meat by persons over the age of 12 to no more than two and a half pounds weekly, one and a half pounds for children over six, and three-quarters of a pound for children under six. Under the Mayor's edict, beginning tomorrow no restaurant or hotel will be permitted to serve cuts of beef, veal, pork, mutton or lamb on Tuesdays. Poultry, fish, liver, hearts, kidneys, sweetbreads, tongue, tripe, pig's feet, oxtail, shanks, and scrapple may continue to be served. Operators of delicatessen stores have been requested not to sell on Tuesdays any items not allowed to be sold by hotels or restaurants. Operators of hamburger and hot-dog stands, who have protested the edict, have been asked to simply "do their best" to find substitute foods to serve.

("Workers at Bohack's and the A&P were requested to report to work today wearing clean shorts. Just in case.")

The pastor of the Flatbush Unitarian Church in his sermon yesterday condemned the appearance of "war stamp Christmas cards" as a "vulgarization of the spirit of the season." The Rev. Karl M. Chworowsky described eight types of such cards that have recently appeared in stores, each showing a caricature of an Axis leader and a message in verse over the slogan "Season's Greetings -- Let's Stamp Out The Axis." Each card includes inside a compartment for the insertion of a gift of war stamps. The cards have been endorsed by the Treasury Department, but Rev. Choworowsky condemned them as being "in decidedly bad taste" and "out of place on a day when all of our services in every detail of our festival traditions emphasize peace and goodwill."

("Yiddish -- a pretty nearly universal language." Zeyer gut!)

Reader Frank Thoma writes in to complain that the removal of the obsolete trolley tracks along Washington Street from Front to Sands is taking far too long. The WPA, he notes, began work on the project nine weeks ago, and it'll be another five weeks at least before the tracks are gone and the street is repaved. "While we need all the scrap metal we can," he complains, "the scrap obtained from these three blocks will cost the taxpayers a good many thousands of dollars and will cost the business people on this street an unknown amount of money and inconvenience. Is there any reason this work cannot be done in a reasonable amount of time?"

("Oh the suppers in the Army, they really are a crime! They feed us smelly dog food, dished up a second time! Oh I don't want no moooooore of Ar-m-y life...")

(Mr. Jim Mulvey is no wide-eyed naif. He has been movie producer Samuel Goldwyn's New York representative for nearly twenty years, and he is well acquainted with the shark-like ways of show business. But under the unflinching gaze of W. Branch Rickey, Mr. Mulvey ain't got a chance.)

The Bushwicks closed out their 1942 season at Dexter Park yesterday by splitting a doubleheader against a Minor League All Star team. Dodger farmhand Bob Chipman, who spent this summer with the Montreal Royals earned the All Stars' win in the second game, after the Bushwicks prevailed in the opener.

Bronx battler Jacob LaMotta makes his Brooklyn boxing debut in an eight-round match against Wild Bill McDowell at the Broadway Arena tomorrow night. LaMotta chased Sugar Ray Robinson around the ring for ten rounds at the Garden a month ago before losing in a decision to the undefeated welterweight contender.

(Well then, this should be very interesting.)

(Angel Varden sure is getting a lot of work all of a sudden.)

(And please welcome our special guest today, Johnny the Bellhop -- who reminds you that PHILIP MORRIS IS LESS IRRITATING!)

("NOT REALLY -- I KNOW THEY"RE IN THE GARBAGE CANS. BUT I GOTTA PLAY UP THE SUSPENSE! PRETTY GOOD, HUH?")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Jeezuz.

And away we go...

Try not to get the parachutes too bloody, the salvage drive can use the silk.

YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD HELP PROPAGANDA POSTERS FEATURING AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE HERO DOG

Never mind the cops, you better worry about Petrillo!

Captain Cornpone here is presumably no relation to the still-missing April Kane. Ah de-cleah!

AND WE ALL THOUGHT OLD BIMBO WAS JUST A HAPPY GO LUCKY BILLIONAIRE GOOFBALL

Loose lips!

If debit cards existed in 1942, comic strip marriages would be very different.

Geeeeee, I wonder if Lillums will be in town for the wedding...

 

[Fading Fast]

(Another jewel robbery! ROUND UP ALL SLACK WEARERS!)
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We've talked about it before, the 1930s'/40s had a robust jewel robbery business that has all but gone away today. Is it because of better home safes / home securities system or better policing or a better ability to identify stolen gems, as something must have changed. If cyber crime hadn't become a thing, there'd have been massive unemployment in the criminal trade.

Japan extended Axis cruelty to war prisoners today, with the Tokio radio broadcasting a "hysterical announcement" threatening "severe punishment" for American aviators shot down while bombing Japanese-controlled territory. The announcement, rebroadcast over the Berlin radio, implied that the punishment would be death. It is believed that the threat reflects the heavy pounding Japanese ships and ground forces are taking in the Aleutians and Solomons from American planes. It also seemed to reflect the fear that the April 18th raid on Tokio led by Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle will soon be repeated.
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So much for the Geneva Convention.

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(Well then, this should be very interesting.)
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Isn't there space a few nights a week for Miss Varden in the Hollywood Canteen so her publicist could say she's doing her part?

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("NOT REALLY -- I KNOW THEY"RE IN THE GARBAGE CANS. BUT I GOTTA PLAY UP THE SUSPENSE! PRETTY GOOD, HUH?")

"Ham."

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YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD HELP PROPAGANDA POSTERS FEATURING AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE HERO DOG
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"I agree and, as America's true number one hero dog, I'll gladly be the face of the campaign and do my part for the war effort, in addition to having already singlehandedly sunk an enemy submarine and captured the entire crew."

"Now you've capture the crew too!"
"Shut up!"
"Also, you eat meat every singly day and put up a fuss if there isn't enough."
"Shut up again!"

 

[LizzieMaine]

("Whassis?" queries Joe. "Issa sof'berlt egg," sighs Sally. "I t'ought you was gonna make fried chicken." "T'chicken," huffs Sally, "had ot'teh ideas. B'sides, whatta I know f'm fryin' chicken? I'm f'm Flatbush. Who in Flatbush cooks fried chicken?" "C'n I have ano'teh egg at leas?" "Don' push yeh luck. I hadda stan' on line at Bohack's f'haffa'noueh t'get haffa dozen eggs. An' t'ree off'm was broken! One f'you, one'f'me, an' one f'Leonoreh." "Well whassat Stella's eatin'?" "At's whas'leffa t'chicken." "Wawr is hell, ya know t'at?" "Do I eveh? I ask ya." "Hey, t'is egg tastes....um, fine, t'is egg tastes fine.")

"Radical deterioration of weather conditions" around Stalingrad is sharply restricting Nazi military operations, according to dispatches, and the city's fate may depend on the Red Army's ability to keep supplies and reinforcements moving across the icy Volga River. Temperatures are dropping sharply as the Russian winter sets in, and frigid wind and rain are sweeping across the open steppes leading to the battered industrial center. Front-line reports indicated that the Nazi Luftwaffe has been forced to ground many units due to the impossibility of carrying out missions in the severe weather, affording the weary Stalingrad defenders a respite from the constant level and dive-bombing they have undergone over the 57 days of the siege. The full arrival of winter can be counted on to bring raging blizzards and sub-zero temperatures to
the Stalingrad sector.

Fighting French forces asserted today that underground operations in France have pledged to conduct "open warfare" against the Vichy regime if Chief of Government Pierre Laval persists in his attempt to draft skilled French labor for German war factories. A Fighting French spokesman stated that his movement is hoping to avoid "premature revolt in France," but the actions of the Laval Government may force the issue, with strikes, riots, and demonstrations all likely to occur unless the labor draft is halted. According to an agreement with Germany, Laval still must recruit another 133,000 skilled French workers to fulfill his quota.

Usually reliable sources reported today that at least six prominent German generals have been removed from their positions in the latest purge of the Nazi military by Adolf Hitler. The Fuehrer's closest military advisor, Gen. Alfred Jodl is named as one of the generals dismissed or forced to resign, along with Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, commander of the armies on the Stalingrad and Caucasian fronts, Gen. Franz Halder, chief of staff for the German High Command, and Field Marshal Wilhelm List, who had only recently been mentioned as von Bock's likely successor. The names of the other two generals were not disclosed. Confirmation of Jodl's removal would be sensational, since he has served as Hitler's personal chief of staff as well as chief of operations for the High Command. Informed sources had believed Jodl to be first in line for Halder's post. Jodl is also known to be a fanatic Nazi.

(Can I at least get seconds on the macaroni and cheese?)

A Queens woman awaits sentence after being convicted in Special Sessions Court of bookmaking. Forty-three-year-old Mrs. Isabel Bower was found guilty of accepting bets on horse races at the stationery store she operates at 249-09 Northern Boulevard in Little Neck. She was held on $500 bail pending sentence on October 29th.

Twenty four fuehrers, gauleiters, and assorted lesser fry of the German-American Bund sang the Horst Wessel Song as the jury deliberated their fate last night in Manhattan Federal Court, but the singing came to an abrupt halt when they were found guilt of conspiring to evade the draft. The home-grown Nazis face prison sentences of five years each, and fines of $10,000 per man. Even stiffer punishment is expected for the Bund's national fuehrer, Gerhardt Wilhelm Kunze, and Dr. Otto Willumelt of Chicago, who have confessed to being Nazi spies.

The establishment of "dry zones" around Army camps and Navy bases, proposed in a rider to the bill extending conscription to 18 and 19 year olds, would hurt the morale of the entire Army, according to Senator Robert M. Lafollette (Progressive-Wisconsin), who declared that if 18 and 19 year olds are old enough for military service, "we've got to treat them as if they are old enough to exercise discretion and judgement." Lafollette called the proposal to ban the sale of alcoholic beverages in military zones "an extraneous issue that should not be dragged into consideration of a matter of such vital import to the war effort."

(MEATLESS but not EATLESS!)

A 25-year-old Flatbush man who claimed his status as a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses entitled him to exemption from the draft as a minister of the gospel will go to prison for his beliefs. William Tiumacki of 1272 Flatbush Avenue was sentenced to three years by Judge Robert Inch after a jury in Brooklyn Federal Court ruled that he had violated the Selective Service Act by refusing to report to a labor camp for alternative service as a conscientious objector. "I must say, as did Peter the Apostle," stated Tiumacki in a lengthy prepared statement following his sentencing, "I must obey God as ruler rather than man."

(Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before...)

The Eagle Editorialist urges Brooklyn to cooperate cheerfully with the Mayor's Meatless Tuesday edict. "Millions of people in the world," he observes, "have never eaten as much meat in a week as we Americans eat in a day," and points out that "the beef, pork, or mutton that we do not eat today will provide a meal for a fighting man in our own armies, or the armies of our Allies."

Reader A. H. Whitehead declares that there's no need to be tearing down perfectly usable buildings for scrap metal, and adds that "when it comes to salvaging scrap by tearing down our fences, the start should be made by demolishing the large fence around Gracie Mansion, the Mayor's home."

(BOTH WAYS!)

Famed operatic diva Lotte Lehman today shed the label of "enemy alien" by changing her classification under the Alien Registration Act from German to Austrian, and stating that her registration as a German citizen in 1940 was "a mistake." Authorities made the change after examining satisfactory evidence proving Miss Lehman's Austrian citizenship. The opera star was the first resident alien to change her status after the Justice Department announced that those who had "mistakenly registered as Germans, Italians, or Japanese" would be given an opportunity to correct their error.

(Point of order: given that Mr. Rickey is under contract to St. Louis until the end of the year, and given that Commissioner Landis hates Mr. Rickey like poison and delights in interfering in his affairs wherever and whenever possible, how is it that he's being allowed to openly dicker with one club while still under contract with another? Hmm?)

Young Stan Musial, a key factor in the Cardinals' World Championship drive in 1942, will spend the winter working as a grocery clerk in his hometown Donora, Pennsylvania. The store is owned by his wife's parents. Musial says "the customer is always right, just as the umpire always has his way right or wrong."

Another accolade for Dodger broadcaster Red Barber -- the U. S. Treasury Department was so impressed with his on-air appeals for war bonds during Dodger broadcasts over WHN in 1942 that they are specifically recommending him as an example for other sports broadcasters to follow in making their own pitches for bonds and stamps.

(She's so selfless.)

(Ott and Marlys? Really?)

(WE'VE GOT HIM NOW! MAKING UNAUTHORIZED LONG DISTANCE CALLS!)

(SURRENDER NOW OR PREPARE TO BE LICKED!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Ah, I was wondering when we'd hear again from "The Pitcher and the Dice Girl."

Y'know, the Battle Page just doesn't seem all that exciting without SCREAMING CAPS GUY.

They haven't got a chance.

"Maybe Junior and I shouldn't go in." Frizz, you're so wholesome.

"There are a lot of years ahead." Yeah, Walt, you'll find that out.

War is Heck.

"What would Pat do? Hmmm. I can't see much point in THAT."

Hahahahahahahahaha!

Well, at least he learned one thing from Senga...

I don't think I've ever bought an umbrella in my life, yet I have six of them. I have no idea how that happened.

 

[Fading Fast]

("Whassis?" queries Joe. "Issa sof'boilt egg," sighs Sally. "I t'ought you was gonna make fried chicken." "T'chicken," huffs Sally, "had ot'teh ideas. B'sides, whatta I know f'm fryin' chicken? I'm f'm Flatbush. Who in Flatbush cooks fried chicken?" "C'n I have ano'teh egg at leas?" "Don' push yeh luck. I hadda stan' on line at Bohack's f'haffa'noueh t'get haffa dozen eggs. An' t'ree off'm was broken! One f'you, one'f'me, an' one f'Leonoreh." "Well whassat Stella's eatin'?" "At's whas'leffa t'chicken." "Wawr is hell, ya know t'at?" "Do I eveh? I ask ya." "Hey, t'is egg tastes....um, fine, t'is egg tastes fine.")
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The royals hunting sounds so out of touch with the country at war.

May Robson pops up in a surprisingly large number of movies in the 1930s. Her talent shines through on what had to be a strange medium for her to transition to so late in her career.

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"Radical deterioration of weather conditions" around Stalingrad is sharply restricting Nazi military operations, according to dispatches, and the city's fate may depend on the Red Army's ability to keep supplies and reinforcements moving across the icy Volga River. Temperatures are dropping sharply as the Russian winter sets in, and frigid wind and rain are sweeping across the open steppes leading to the battered industrial center. Front-line reports indicated that the Nazi Luftwaffe has been forced to ground many units due to the impossibility of carrying out missions in the severe weather, affording the weary Stalingrad defenders a respite from the constant level and dive-bombing they have undergone over the 57 days of the siege. The full arrival of winter can be counted on to bring raging blizzards and sub-zero temperatures to
the Stalingrad sector.
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Dear Lord that sounds awful. What a miserable winter they are in for.

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A Queens woman awaits sentence after being convicted in Special Sessions Court of bookmaking. Forty-three-year-old Mrs. Isabel Bower was found guilty of accepting bets on horse races at the stationery store she operates at 249-09 Northern Boulevard in Little Neck. She was held on $500 bail pending sentence on October 29th.
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Apparently, even the stationary stores got in on the act. Were there any honest small businesses in Brooklyn in 1942? Also, this is not the first time where we've seen that bookmaking was a profession open to women.

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A 25-year-old Flatbush man who claimed his status as a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses entitled him to exemption from the draft as a minister of the gospel will go to prison for his beliefs. William Tiumacki of 1272 Flatbush Avenue was sentenced to three years by Judge Robert Inch after a jury in Brooklyn Federal Court ruled that he had violated the Selective Service Act by refusing to report to a labor camp for alternative service as a conscientious objector. "I must say, as did Peter the Apostle," stated Tiumacki in a lengthy prepared statement following his sentencing, "I must obey God as ruler rather than man."
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He'll be out at just about the time the war is ending and he'll have spent the war in a safer place than had he been drafted.

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(SURRENDER NOW OR PREPARE TO BE LICKED!)

Lizzie, did you mean to place this quip here under "Bo" or under "Invisible Scarlett?"

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"What would Pat do? Hmmm. I can't see much point in THAT."
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The point of THAT is simply doing THAT, it is an ends to itself. And Pat and James Bond seem to be able to use it to change a woman's allegiance. Also, you're a teenage boy, you'll think so much clearer afterwards that you'll probably come up with a brilliant plan to stop the building of the landing field.

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Hahahahahahahahaha!
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Kudos, Bim.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("Awright now," says Joe. "Now weeah tawkin'. Maybe he c'n bring alowng t'at guy Kurowski t'play t'oid base. An'nat kid Musical inna outfeel." "I got some s'gesstions f'trades," agrees Sally. "I hope t'ey don' change t' phone numbeh.")

The residents of London's poorest districts anticipate giving America's First Lady some "right straight talk" about the war when she visits the city's bomb-ravaged East End during her upcoming tour of the city. Although most residents of the underprivileged area of the Lambeth Walk admitted they "don't read the newspapers much," they indicated that they have heard of Mrs. Roosevelt's interest in social problems. "I'm no reader 'cuz I'm no scholar," 67-year-old John Ford said to a United Press correspondent. "But I heered she's comin' an' blimey, weel 'have a turnout if she shows up 'ere, matey, that we will. And perhaps that ain't 'arf it! The old ones will tell 'er about things 'ere, that they will. But it ain't bad, mate, considerin' 'ow we came thru the bombings an' hall."

American bombers delivered another heavy punch at the battered Japanese garrisons on Kiska Island on Sunday, Army Headquarters at the Alaska Defense Command reported today. Twelve tons of bombs peppered the main camp area and the adjacent beaches, while two direct hits were scored on a cargo ship. The raid was led by Capt. Lynn R. Moore, who reported large fires in the camp area after the attack.

Germany has given the Vichy Government until November 15th to produce its quota of skilled French laborers for use in German industrial plants, with another extension of the deadline until November 30th said to be possible. That second extension will be granted only if Germany is convinced that Vichy is making "a sincere effort" to recruit the quota of 150,000 workers. The call for French workers to support the Nazi war machine has led to mass abandonment of jobs, strikes, and efforts by workers to hide out in remote forests and rural regions. German authorities have warned Chief of Government Pierre Laval that it will forcibly draft French workers by sending armed patrols into factories to herd men into freight cars for the trip to Germany.

Ceiling prices on all types of nylon hosiery will go into effect tomorrow to reduce the "fantastic prices" now being charged in "virtually all stores in the country." Price Administrator Leon Henderson, in announcing the new regulations, said that prices have reached "inflated levels" thru price gouging by retailers and black market operators, with some grades selling for as much as $1 per pair above the levels set in the new price ceiling. Under the new rules, a pair of circular-knit nylon stockings may sell for no more than 55 cents, while a pair of first quality all-nylon hose of 57 gauge and higher may sell for no more than $2.50 per pair. Prices were correspondingly set for "irregular" and "second quality" grades. "I call attention also to the fact," said Mr. Henderson, "that an overcharge is ground for the shopper to bring civil suit to recover from the seller three times the amount of the overcharge, or $50, whichever is greater, plus court costs and lawyer fees." Mr. Henderson noted that while nylon is presently being used in war materials, sufficient stocks of nylon hosiery remain with wholesalers and retailers to supply the holiday trade.

Virtually all non-war-related construction has been ordered halted by War Production Board Chairman Donald L. Nelson, who has given orders to revoke all priorities to a large part of present non-military construction work, and will mount a review of all current military projects to determine which may be curtailed. About $16,000,000,000 worth of projects contemplated for 1943 are likely to be affected by the order.

(Now those chess players in the park, on the other hand, they're the guys you gotta watch out for.)

The coming of cold weather may mean a decline in the amount of fuel oil shipped to the Eastern Seaboard, warned Mayor LaGuardia in a letter to his colleagues on the Committee of Atlantic State Mayors. The Mayor cited continuing transportation concerns for oil deliveries and the extension of gasoline rationing to other parts of the country as factors which may curtail the movement of fuel oil shipments, and pointed out that the winter closing of navigation on the Great Lakes and the New York State Canal and the declining number number of tank cars available for rail shipments will also contribute to the prospect of shortages as the heating season draws on. The Mayor urged that the Committee work to encourage "the earliest possible completion" of planned pipelines to carry oil from Indiana and Illinois to the Atlantic coast, along with pushing for continued progress in constructing and adapting equipment for carrying oil via inland waterways. The Mayor also urged that petroleum refiners be urged to prioritize the refining and distribution of heating oil even if that means a necessary reduction in the gasoline supply.

(Actually, given the opportunity, this is exactly the sort of thing I would have done at that age.)

Suggestions that parking lots at race tracks be closed to the public and that horse racing itself be placed on a "rationing basis" are contained in a letter by Magistrate Nicholas H. Pinto to Herbert Bayard Swope, chairman of the New York State Racing Commission. The letter was written in response to a query by Swope as to the veracity of a quote attributed to the Magistrate arguing that "persons who go to race tracks these days ought to be put in concentration camps." Magistrate Pinto told reporters in Flatbush Court last week that he had written to Mr. Swope, and failing to receive a reply, agreed to make his letter public. In that letter, the Magistrate pointed out that more than 40,000 persons attended the races at Aqueduct Raceway on Labor Day, and more than $2,000,000 was "gambled away that day" at a time when the Government is trying to raise money for the war thru bond sales. The Magistrate reiterated his argument that persons who waste their money in such a way are "unpatriotic, they are not helping the war effort, and I suppose they could be the first to complain if anything happens to this country." The Magistrate declared the use of rationed gasoline and tires to attend racetracks "a public scandal," and while not calling for a complete ban on horse racing, he suggested in the letter that "twice a week" would be a sufficient schedule for wartime operation. Mr. Swope replied today that he has not received a letter from Magistrate Pinto, but said that "soon he will be hard put to it for means of keeping his name in the paper."

(PUT ON A SWEATER. SLEEP WITH YOUR CLOTHES ON. IT'S NOT SO BAD ONCE YOU GET USED TO IT.)

The Eagle Editorialist, "as a leading advocate of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel," expresses regrets at the wartime suspension of work on the Brooklyn side of project, but acknowledges the necessity of such a move. "We have no patience with criticism of the Government for stopping work on the Brooklyn end," he declares. "There is no question of discrimination against Brooklyn. Incidents such as this are taking place all over the country."

Reader Harry Koeppel disagrees with that sentiment, though -- he insists that the order is just another example of how "Brooklyn always gets the tail end of any improvement. The Brooklyn Public Library took twenty years to complete. Brooklyn is always the first in population, the highest in taxes, and the last to get anything."

(YOU CAN'T DO BUSINESS WITH HITLER)

(Somehow I just can't see Leo in the Navy, every day having to wear a plain black tie.)

Bronx battler Jacob LaMotta made Wild Bill McDowell of Texas look even wilder last night before dispatching him on a technical knockout in the fifth round at Broadway Arena. It was LaMotta's first Brooklyn fight.

The City Council yesterday killed a proposal from Brooklyn Councilman Anthony DiGiovanna to restore trolley service in Bushwick while eliminating the bus routes to Putnam and Gates Avenues. Councilman DiGiovana told his colleagues that members of the 28th Ward Taxpayers Association are "complaining bitterly" about the poor service given by the buses and want the trolleys back.

The original manuscript of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "The Murder of Lidice," dramatized in a powerful presentation over WEAF, has been sold for $1000 to the National Broadcasting Company itself, which will add the manuscript to its archives. The auction was held immediately following the broadcast in NBC's Studio 8-H.

(I wouldn't worry anyway, we know she goes more for the small-town newspaper editor type.)

(I swear this is a movie plot, but I can't remember from where. Anyway, if it isn't yet, it will be.)

(It is the sad fate of every short-legged corpulent gentleman in the comics to get conked on the head. Isn't that right, Irwin?)

("I HAD to sign a lease! You know how hard it is to get a room these days?")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"Meat substitutes?" AT A HOT DOG STAND? WELL I NEVER!

I can personally vouch for this. I used to have my first Coke of the day at 3:30 AM.

"None of this, you goldbrick! UP AND AT 'EM!"

I know somebody who's going to get a big Christmas bonus.

EVERYBODY's got an underground lair. EVERYBODY.

"We sure get the freaks in this place."

Mr. Clark spends a lot of time sketching in my back yard.

"HU SHEE?" "Quick, yellow-haired Terry, we have little time!" "Um, you mean escaping, right?" "You haven't changed a bit, have you?"

The oatmeal's good though.

No cartoonist is happily married.

 

[Fading Fast]

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(Now those chess players in the park, on the other hand, they're the guys you gotta watch out for.)
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Absolute positions / zero tolerance on laws like gambling, drinking and even prostitution always become the theater of the absurd. Knowing when to look the other way is a necessary and good part of law enforcement.

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The City Council yesterday killed a proposal from Brooklyn Councilman Anthony DiGiovanna to restore trolley service in Bushwick while eliminating the bus routes to Putnam and Gates Avenues. Councilman DiGiovana told his colleagues that members of the 28th Ward Taxpayers Association are "complaining bitterly" about the poor service given by the buses and want the trolleys back.
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Are the tracks even still there or were they torn up for scrap? If that latter, this is a dead issue until after the war.

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The original manuscript of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "The Murder of Lidice," dramatized in a powerful presentation over WEAF, has been sold for $1000 to the National Broadcasting Company itself, which will add the manuscript to its archives. The auction was held immediately following the broadcast in NBC's Studio 8-H.
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We don't talk about it much, but poets/poetry was a much larger part of the mainstream culture back then than today where it's all but disappeared. I'll bet you Joe and Sally know who Edna St. Vincent Millay is.

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(I swear this is a movie plot, but I can't remember from where. Anyway, if it isn't yet, it will be.)
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So much for experts or people you trust. William Buckley Jr. felt the same about Harvard professors and who should govern.

And in the Daily News...


"Meat substitutes?" AT A HOT DOG STAND? WELL I NEVER!
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Snarky Gallaghers survived and is still serving gargantuan sized pieces of meat to this day. On its website (here: https://gallaghersnysteakhouse.com/timeline.php), if you scroll through the "Timeline," they quote the exact language from the letter in the article. It's a neat connect from 2022 to 1942.

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I can personally vouch for this. I used to have my first Coke of the day at 3:30 AM.
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Until I cut way back on my soda consumption (under the theory that water is more healthy, who knows?), I used to drink Coke for breakfast often. Breakfast for four years of college was, quite often, a can of coke and a large Drake's coffee cake, both from a vending machine.

This ad is dripping with company fear that loyal Coke drinkers will get out of the habit owing to the shortages.

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"HU SHEE?" "Quick, yellow-haired Terry, we have little time!" "Um, you mean escaping, right?" "You haven't changed a bit, have you?"
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"Fine, I will get right to the rescue, but when this is over, we're doing what I want to do, no questions asked or no rescue now - understood!?"
[In a timorous tone] "Yes, Hu Shee."
"Good, now, give me your hand, don't make a sound and try to keep up."

 

[LizzieMaine]

("I'm a midwestern gangster sought in a nationwide manhunt! I know! I'll hide out in Brooklyn! THEY DON'T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT GANGSTERS THERE! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!")

Britain will draft 18 year olds for military service under a proclamation signed today in London by King George VI. Minister of Labor and National Service Ernest Bevin stressed in announcing the action taken in the House of Commons that 18 year olds will not be required to serve abroad. Young men who turned 18 between July 1st and September 30th of this year will be required to register for the British draft on November 7th, and Mr. Bevin indicated that "many of them may expect to join the services in December." The Minister declined to go into detail in describing the reasons for the action, but noted that "the state has now been reached when in the opinion of the Government, the calling-up can no longer be postponed."

When Mrs. Roosevelt visits Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King and Queen, she will be "put up" in accommodations damaged by a Nazi bomb in 1940, will eat meals governed by wartime rationing, and will have the services of one lady-in-waiting and several footmen dressed in blackout uniforms rather than the customary scarlet coats. Immediately upon returning to the Palace from Balmoral Castle yesterday, Queen Elizabeth instructed the Royal Housekeeper to "tidy up" the first floor guest suite, only recently redecorated after the bomb damage. Because of the war there will be no elaborate functions for the First Lady, who is expected to stay at the palace for two days. Mrs. Roosevelt is expected to meet with members of the diplomatic corps and other representatives of the United Nations, but the full program of activities for her visit will be arranged by the Queen. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are expected to come to London from the country to meet Mrs. Roosevelt and perhaps have lunch with her.

Marshal Henri Philippe Petain was reported today to have refused to broadcast an appeal to French skilled workers to volunteer for labor service in German war factories, as unrest against the mobilization of French labor for the Nazi war effort continues to disrupt many railroad operations. It is predicted, according to the London Daily Sketch, that Chief of Government Pierre Laval is expected to be summoned to Berlin within 48 hours for conferences with Adolf Hitler, as Nazi forces are expected to occupy a section of Vichy territory between Lyon and Limoges "within a few days or weeks." Meanwhile, French industrialists otherwise sympathetic to Fascism are said to be taking sides with the workers in defiance of the German labor drive. The proprietors of the Michelin rubber works, supporters of the Petain regime and long identified with the French Fascist movement, are reported to have denied access to their factories to Vichy government officials who had come to recruit workers for Germany. At the Dunlop tire works, it is reported that a Government propagandist was "thrown off the platform" when he attempted to address the workers.

Civilian clothing will soon be "greatly simplified" by order of the War Production Board, according to a statement today by WPB Chairman Donald L. Nelson, but he hastened to add that there are no plans to put American civilians "in set uniforms." The WPB chief indicated that tightening restrictions on the allowed styles for civilian wear will free up "considerable manpower and materials" for the war effort.

The testimony today of War Manpower Commission chairman Paul V. McNutt pointed today to an impending Presidential recommendation for a new law authorizing the Government to assign any civilian worker to any job deemed necessary to the war effort. Mr. McNutt was the first to testify today as the Senate Military Affairs Committee began an investigation into the nation's civilian manpower problems. The gist of Mr. McNutt's testimony was that a compulsory manpower law is "inevitable," and it is up to President Roosevelt to decide when that time has come.

(There's A New World Coming...)

Military authorities at Camp Upton are holding an Army sergeant major for the alleged theft of pay envelopes containing a total of $1500 set aside for aviation cadets of the First Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment at Santa Maria, California. Sergeant Major Wallace Kelton ended a transcontinental automobile tour with his arrest by local and state police at Huntington, Long Island. Kelton told police he had purchased the car he was driving with a portion of the stolen money, and that he spent other portions of it during stops in Denver, Chicago, and New York City, but was unable to account for how he spent the entire sum in less than a month. Kelton, who had two young women with him at the time of his arrest, and who was still in uniform, told police he had no particular reason for stealing the money other than that he was bored with Army discipline and wanted to have a good time.

Fifty tons a day of New York scrap will be fed into the furnaces of the Bethelhem Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh. The firm has agreed to purchase the scrap directly from the city, bypassing scrap dealers entirely, at the difference between the ceiling price of $15.33 per ton and the cost of transportation and milling. Under this arrangement the metal is expected to be loaded into freight cars and shipped out of the city at a rate of 100 tons a day, clearing yard space for the collection of more scrap, and eliminating the possibility that it might lie in the yards for six months while scrap dealers pick it over. "The main thing," says Mayor LaGuardia, "is to get the scrap metal to the mills. We'll watch the progress for a few days after we get started and will then announce a program for the collection of the remaining household scrap, if there is any left in the city."

(All the Judymania hype aside, "For Me and My Gal" is best understood as MGM's answer to "Yankee Doodle Dandy," in expectation that a nostalgia craze for pre-WWI hat-and-cane vaudeville tropes will sweep the nation. Somewhere, the proprietors of Swain's Rats and Cats must be planning a new tour.)

(Get ready for the next Meatless Tuesday!)

In Rockland, Maine there is a 22 year old car that has never had any new parts and has only had its cylinder head off once. And that car has never in all those years been driven by anyone except its one and only owner, Mr. Joshua N. Southard, prominent in civic affairs and an executive of a local bank.

Two years of occupation, declares the Eagle Editorialist, have proven that France is still France. Despite having "its traitors, its appeasers, its collaborationists, and its weak and supine elements," the French nation itself "is not reconciled to Nazi enslavement."

"A Citizen" writes in to denounce the buses on the Gates and Putnam-Halsey lines in Bushwick, and adds his voice to the many calling for the return of the trolleys. "A large amount of money was spent for a delegation of men to tour the country and make an intelligent and practical selection for a suitable bus for our needs, but in my opinion both the committee's time and the public's money were completely wasted. The ones they chose are the poorest to be found anywhere."

("If you want my advice, from now on tell your husband he's sleeping in the kitchen!")

Mayor LaGuardia today declared he will not give up the fight to secure more broadcasting time for municipal radio station WNYC, despite a ruling yesterday restricting the station's time to avoid interference with the signal of WCCO in Minneapolis, which shares the 830 kilocycle frequency. The Columbia Broadcasting System, operators of the Minneapolis station, declared that efficient service to the large market served by WCCO would be disrupted by allowing WNYC to broadcast after sunset. The Mayor did not indicate what he intends to do to protest the FCC ruling.

(Double talk? You ain't heard nothin' yet.)

Fully half the contestants in the tournament to be held in Manhattan this weekend to determine the amateur chess championship of America are from Brooklyn or Long Island. Prominent among the contestants of Bernard Winkler of Flatbush, Columbia Class of 1941, and an Army Reserve lieutentant presently studying medicine. He played at first board for Columbia in intercollegiate chess, and also in the United States Chess Federation preliminaries in 1939.

(MEN ARE SUCH CHEESE. Does that mean they stop up your digestion and...oh wait, she said GEESE.)

("Izzat so? Look, lady, is this a long story? Because we're on kind of a timetable here...")

(Ahhhhh, so you're a SPECIAL operative now. The chief of the Secret Operatives found out all about that business with you and Kay and Harrington and threw you out, isn't that so? And Wolf just laughed and said "WUF!")

(Garlic and onions? NO GERMAN SPIES HERE! WAIT! I THINK I SMELL CABBAGE!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Miss LaRose can expect to hear from any number of Broadway agents. But the harmonica player is strictly small time.

Now is that nice?

Maybe the War Labor Board will draft you some new help.

"And to make matters worse, she wants me to peel her potatoes. I wonder what that means?"

We're not going home to bed, are we?

Deep dive into Gump lore! The cone-haired woman next to Tilda is Henrietta Zander Carr, widow of Bim's arch enemy Townsend Zander. Next to her is her husband Tom Carr, a former business associate of Andy's who once was engaged to the late Mary Gold, whose death in 1929 set off a wave of nationwide grief matched only by that more recently shown in the case of Raven Sherman. Mrs. Carr, when she was the Widow Zander, was engaged for a time to Bim himself -- and when he got cold feet, she sued him for breach of promise, in a storyline that was, for a while, a bigger scandal than Teapot Dome. Now if a man with a pointy nose and a Van Dyke beard shows up, well, that's Zander himself -- and if he kidnaps Ferdinand, well, we'll have us a story...

"Why bring that up?"

What, you can't lip read? I bet Dan Dunn can lip read!

Kayo's growing up fast.

You wouldn't DARE.

 

[Fading Fast]

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Civilian clothing will soon be "greatly simplified" by order of the War Production Board, according to a statement today by WPB Chairman Donald L. Nelson, but he hastened to add that there are no plans to put American civilians "in set uniforms." The WPB chief indicated that tightening restrictions on the allowed styles for civilian wear will free up "considerable manpower and materials" for the war effort.
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It looks like we're going to be losing more than just cuffs and the two-trousers suit.

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Military authorities at Camp Upton are holding an Army sergeant major for the alleged theft of pay envelopes containing a total of $1500 set aside for aviation cadets of the First Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment at Santa Maria, California. Sergeant Major Wallace Kelton ended a transcontinental automobile tour with his arrest by local and state police at Huntington, Long Island. Kelton told police he had purchased the car he was driving with a portion of the stolen money, and that he spent other portions of it during stops in Denver, Chicago, and New York City, but was unable to account for how he spent the entire sum in less than a month. Kelton, who had two young women with him at the time of his arrest, and who was still in uniform, told police he had no particular reason for stealing the money other than that he was bored with Army discipline and wanted to have a good time.
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"...had two young women with him..."

Well, we know it isn't Terry in his pilfered sergeant's uniform.

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(Get ready for the next Meatless Tuesday!)
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Wonder if Gallaghers is working on something similar.

Considering that chicken is allowed, I'm surprised there's such a fuss over "meatless" Tuesday.

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In Rockland, Maine there is a 22 year old car that has never had any new parts and has only had its cylinder head off once. And that car has never in all those years been driven by anyone except its one and only owner, Mr. Joshua N. Southard, prominent in civic affairs and an executive of a local bank.
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One, challenge! and, two, doesn't this belong in Sunday's "Strange as it Seems" column?

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"A Citizen" writes in to denounce the buses on the Gates and Putnam-Halsey lines in Bushwick, and adds his voice to the many calling for the return of the trolleys. "A large amount of money was spent for a delegation of men to tour the country and make an intelligent and practical selection for a suitable bus for our needs, but in my opinion both the committee's time and the public's money were completely wasted. The ones they chose are the poorest to be found anywhere."
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Again, are the trolley tracks still down or were they torn up for scrap?

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("Izzat so? Look, lady, is this a long story? Because we're on kind of a timetable here...")
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"Would the judge please instruct the witness to answer with a simple yes or no only?"

And in the Daily News...

Miss LaRose can expect to hear from any number of Broadway agents. But the harmonica player is strictly small time.
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You'd think a retired toy manufacturer would have enough money so that his wife wouldn't have to strip for a living, but I guess if we look at the marriage in its totality, that was the point of it, for him anyway. But credit to Miss Rose LaRose (dear Lord) for not complaining about having to strip for a living, but only for having to strip for her harmonica-playing husband. This story is only believable because it's true. Meanwhile, Gypsy Rose Lee is thinking, one, that's a cheap play on my stage name, and, two, Miss LaRose should try her hand at writing.

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Now is that nice?
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He does kinda invite that sort of criticism.

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Deep dive into Gump lore! The cone-haired woman next to Tilda is Henrietta Zander Carr, widow of Bim's arch enemy Townsend Zander. Next to her is her husband Tom Carr, a former business associate of Andy's who once was engaged to the late Mary Gold, whose death in 1929 set off a wave of nationwide grief matched only by that more recently shown in the case of Raven Sherman. Mrs. Carr, when she was the Widow Zander, was engaged for a time to Bim himself -- and when he got cold feet, she sued him for breach of promise, in a storyline that was, for a while, a bigger scandal than Teapot Dome. Now if a man with a pointy nose and a Van Dyke beard shows up, well, that's Zander himself -- and if he kidnaps Ferdinand, well, we'll have us a story...
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Awesome background information, thank you, Lizzie.

I'm so glad Hortense got dunked.

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"Why bring that up?"
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Terry's leaving a trail of sexually frustrated women across China.

 

[LizzieMaine]

As of October 1942, the Gates Avenue tracks are still in place, so there's no excuse there. I just took a long drive along Gates Ave via Google, up until the point where the cameramobile got trapped under the Jamacia Line L structure, and didn't see any evidence of tracks coming up from under the pavement, so they do get removed at some point. But not in 1942.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Before you tear down the Hotel de Raymondie, let's fill it up with tinhorn lawyers.)

A rider sponsored by Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel (D-Texas) to the pending bill extending the draft to 18 and 19 year olds would abolish, for the duration of the war, the requirement that persons working more than 40 hours per week be paid time and a half. The provision to abolish paid overtime would also nullify existing contracts between employers and workers in so far as they call for more than straight-time pay for hours worked beyond forty per week. Prior to O'Daniel's proposal, Chairman Robert D. Reynolds (D-N. C.) of the Senate Military Affairs Committee advocated abolition of the 40 hour work week as a solution to the nation's manpower shortage, proposing instead that workers be required to work 56 to 57 hours per week for the duration.

Meanwhile, the most controversial element of the bill was eliminated yesterday when the Senate sent back to committee the so-called Lee prohibition amendment, which would have banned the sale of alcoholic beverages around all military bases and camps in the United States. The vote to reject that amendment was 49 to 25.

Senator Hiram Johnson (R-California) today charged during debate over the bill that drafting 18 and 19 year olds would "liquidate an entire generation, and leave no one after the war to send this great republic on its way again." Senator Johnson noted that youths of that age are willing for "fight at the drop of the hat," and do anything older soldiers or the public tell them to do, "which is why we should throw our protective mantle around them to see that they do not do so."

A Queens man has apparently been listed by Japan as having been captured during a raid by American planes on Tokio last spring. A list of four captured fliers broadcast over the Tokio radio included the name of George Barr, who is believed to be 25-year-old Lt. George Barr, 211-49 94th Road, of Queens Village, who was known to have been a navigator during an American air raid over the Japanese capital on April 18th. Mrs. Charles H. Townes, Lt. Barr's foster mother, stated today that she has heard nothing from him since before that raid, but noted that his salary has continued to arrive and, per his written instructions last winter, she continues to invest that pay in War Bonds.

The Red Army stormed out and captured another snowy hill on the steppes above Leningrad today, as fierce Soviet counterattacks at points within the city forced the Germans on the defensive. Meanwhile, German resistance outside Stalingrad remains fierce, but Marshal Timoshenko's drive into the Nazi left flank picked up momentum, crushing all resistance in its path as the gallant defenders of the city entered the 60th day of one of the greatest battles in history. Frontline dispatches indicated that cold, heavy rains, mud, and unprecedented losses are forcing the Germans to slacken their attacks against the northwestern section of Stalingrad, giving the Russians the local initiative.

(The Mayor's War Car is now an AIR RAID CAR.)

A Flatbush man is in serious condition at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan after having been stabbed twice in the abdomen at a party celebrating his upcoming induction into the Army. 21-year-old John Ludke of 600 E. 22nd Street, an employee of the Optical Film Company in Manhattan, went out to a bar on 8th Avenue with friends after work to toast his impending departure for the Army, but the gathering soon turned into a free-for-all fracas after one of Ludke's friends told a sailor that he would soon be joining the Navy, and the sailor, after looking him over, retorted "a fine Navy we'll have if they take people like you in it." Heated words followed, and the fight soon spilled into the street outside the drinking establishment. The sailor who made the offensive remark was not involved in the fracas, and all participants fled the scene at the sight of the police, leaving Ludke, the guest of honor, lying on the sidewalk.


Fifty Maspeth residents are seeking court relief in their suit against a defense plant that, they claim, keeps them awake at night with its noise. The suit against the Merril Brothers Company, which manufactures equipment for the Navy, was heard today in Long Island City Court, and led Attorney Emile Zola Weinberg, representing the Brooklyn office of the War Production Board to point out out that the men on Guadalcanal are probably losing sleep too. Magistrate D. Joseph D'Andrea ordered a committee appointed to study the situation.

German war prisoners in a POW camp in Ottawa, Canada were subdued with fire hoses and bayonets after they rioted in protest of being shackled. The men were placed in irons by their Canadian captors in reprisal for action taken by Adolf Hitler in violation of the Geneva Convention ordering British war prisoners similarly bound.

("Hey!" says Charles "Peanuts" Bohn. "Anybody know how I can get in touch with Rose LaRose?")

(Mmm, Norwegian fish pudding.)

(Twenty-one year old Bill Mauldin says "gee, I wish I could draw like that.")

In Huntington, Long Island, a forty-two year old electric automobile has been added to the scrap metal pile. The ancient vehicle, with leather mudguards and a leather license plate, was found on the grounds of the Dr. Walter B. James estate at Cold Spring Harbor.

(Finally somebody points out Rickey's contract with the Cardinals. That gives us another two months of this.)

When Amos 'n' Andy go on the air tonight at 7pm over WABC the occasion will mark their 4000th episode. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll have, in presenting the stories of their famous characters over the past fourteen years, broadcast more than 190,000,000 words.

(That's what you think.)

(NIck Gatt! You -- here??)

("Did I mention I'm a big fan of Mark Twain? I love Mark Twain, don't you? Everybody loves Mark Twain.")

(JUST KEEPING UP THE SUSPENSE FOLKS)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

A tall brunette? Maybe from the "Star & Garter" cast? Naaaaaaah, it couldn't be. Where would she find the time?

Having Al Smith, the very leader of the anti-New Deal wing of the Democratic Party, endorsing Mr. Bennett on this particular page at this particular moment makes Mr. Alfange very very happy.

The night holds a thousand horrors.

PRUNE FACE!

Virtue remains unassailed.

"All right then, but you're the one who'll tell them that on Christmas morning."

Oh, you poor child.

And that's how we know there aren't many philosophy majors in the Army.

Don't push your luck, kid.

Willie's knees must be completely shot.

 

[Fading Fast]

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A Flatbush man is in serious condition at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan after having been stabbed twice in the abdomen at a party celebrating his upcoming induction into the Army. 21-year-old John Ludke of 600 E. 22nd Street, an employee of the Optical Film Company in Manhattan, went out to a bar on 8th Avenue with friends after work to toast his impending departure for the Army, but the gathering soon turned into a free-for-all fracas after one of Ludke's friends told a sailor that he would soon be joining the Navy, and the sailor, after looking him over, retorted "a fine Navy we'll have if they take people like you in it." Heated words followed, and the fight soon spilled into the street outside the drinking establishment. The sailor who made the offensive remark was not involved in the fracas, and all participants fled the scene at the sight of the police, leaving Ludke, the guest of honor, lying on the sidewalk.
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Fifty Maspeth residents are seeking court relief in their suit against a defense plant that, they claim, keeps them awake at night with its noise. The suit against the Merril Brothers Company, which manufactures equipment for the Navy, was heard today in Long Island City Court, and led Attorney Emile Zola Weinberg, representing the Brooklyn office of the War Production Board to point out out that the men on Guadalcanal are probably losing sleep too. Magistrate D. Joseph D'Andrea ordered a committee appointed to study the situation.
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If the city didn't shut down a noise-making organ at a baseball park, what chance is there it will shut down a defense plant during wartime? (See Kermit GIF above.)

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In Huntington, Long Island, a forty-two year old electric automobile has been added to the scrap metal pile. The ancient vehicle, with leather mudguards and a leather license plate, was found on the grounds of the Dr. Walter B. James estate at Cold Spring Harbor.
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The technology is very old; the problem way back then, as today, is the limitations of the battery.

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(NIck Gatt! You -- here??)
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"Huh? What about marriage? Never mind that. Look, do you guys want to buy any gas rationing tickets or not? Also, if you need tires, no questions asked, I'm your man. Sugar? Sure, I got sugar."

And in the Daily News...

A tall brunette? Maybe from the "Star & Garter" cast? Naaaaaaah, it couldn't be. Where would she find the time?
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Page Four strays from time to time, especially with a war on, but it always returns to its roots.

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Virtue remains unassailed.
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The loophole you should be looking for, Kid, is right in the book, it's called "hate sex." Now get busy.

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Oh, you poor child.
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You are so right, Lizzie. Having met many trust fund kids at all stages of their lives in my line of work, and while many turn out fine, it is amazing how many don't. I'm as guilty as the next guy in thinking "of course, I'd have turned out fine had I been one," but the evidence argues the odds would have been against me or any of us.