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The British steamer Theseus was radioing a distress signal stating that the ship was under attack by a submarine today off the coast of Ireland. The 6527-ton passenger liner, based on its position, may be in a convoy of ships bound for Canada, and may be carrying refugee children.
A German airplane bombed and machine-gunned a southeastern English coastal town this afternoon, with stores and houses specifically attacked. Fires are burning in the town and some casualties are reported. It is stated that British fighters chased off the attacking plane.
Forty-three people were killed today near Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio when a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was struck head-on by a self-propelled shuttle car. Railroad officials say the crew aboard the gasoline-powered work car, known as a "doodle bug" failed to shunt off to a siding as ordered to await the passage of the oncoming freight train. There were forty-three persons aboard a passenger coach attached to the train, along with an engineer and two crew members. The latter three jumped to safety just before the crash, but all those in the passenger coach died when the shuttle car exploded on collision.
A writ of habeas corpus has been granted for accused Murder For Hire gunman Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss, who will appear in court tomorrow to press a claim that he has been illegally denied the right to be examined by his own psychiatrists to determine whether or not he is sane. Strauss's legal counsel claims that he is insane, but state-approved psychiatrists state that their findings show that he is competent to stand trial. Assistant District Attorney Solomon A. Klein claims that Strauss is faking insanity, and that his cultivation of a bushy beard and moustache since his arrest is an attempt to create the appearance of being demented. Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein is Strauss's co-defendant in the coming trial for the murder of Irving "Puggy" Feinstein, but Goldstein has not grown a beard. Assistant DA Klein is seeking a court order to have Strauss forcibly shaven, and to keep him shaven thruout his trial. Strauss's attorney counters that removal of the whiskers would be a violation of Strauss's constitutional rights.
Police are seeking a mysterious red-headed woman who has been working a racket on children in Bay Ridge, Park Slope, and the better sections of South Brooklyn. Police say the woman, said to be about thirty years old, well-dressed, and "attractive," approaches children who are carrying utility bills and money for their payment, and strikes up conversations with them. If the child is a boy, the woman engages in a detailed discussion of the Dodgers, and if the child is a girl, the woman discusses popular movie actresses. Either way, the woman ends up offering the child an envelope to carry their money and thru sleight-of-hand substitutes the money-filled envelope for an empty one.
The Dodgers are trailing the Pirates 7-1 this afternoon in the top of the sixth inning first game of a doubleheader at Ebbets Field. Whit Wyatt started for Brooklyn against Ken Heintzelman for the Pirates. Among those in attendance today are thirty blind persons on an outing sponsored by the New York Association for the Blind.
Two young men collapsed at the Montgomery Street gate at Ebbets Field this afternoon from heat prostration while waiting to get in to today's twinbill -- even though the temperature was only 71 degrees. Cool breezes have dropped temperatures over the city, ending a deadly heat wave that lasted thirteen stifling days.
Flatbush residents have the choice of not one but two Tom Dyers in the race for the State Assembly this fall. Democratic incumbent Thomas A. Dyer of the 21st Assembly District faces a challenge from Communist Party nominee Thomas F. Dyer. Middle initials will be prominently featured on the ballot and in campaign literature.
(It seems that "Sparky Watts" is the first comic strip to directly parody the 1940 craze for superheroes that's flared up in the wake of Superman. It better be worth the hype.)
The chairman of the board of the Texas Company today defended his relationship with Dr. Gerhard Alois Westrick, Adolf Hitler's personal envoy to American businessmen, as simply "good business." Colonel Torkild Reiber declared there was nothing untoward about the fact that Westrick and his wife have been living secretly on the estate of a Texaco executive in Scarsdale for nearly four months, and denies that there are any political connections between the company and the Nazi government. Dr. Westrick has received many visitors in Scarsdale over the past four months, many of them executives of American oil companies who have been given a glowing picture of the profits that await them in doing business with a friendly Nazi Germany once Great Britain has been conquered
The new Brooklyn telephone directory is out, and includes an attractive "civic page" entitled "Brooklyn -- New York City's Greatest Borough." Scenes depicted on the page include photos of the Brooklyn Museum, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch, and a night game at Ebbets Field. The directory includes approximately 294,000 listings, up by about a thousand from last year.
The movie version of "The Boys From Syracuse," George Abbot's musical stage adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors," makes for so-so screen entertainment, says Herbert Cohn. The picutre, now showing at the Times Square Paramount loses much of the bawdiness from the stage show, and severely underplays the Rodgers-and-Hart musical score, with the many hit songs from the play given only perfunctory performances by a cast that includes Allan Jones, Joe Penner, Martha Raye, Alan Mobray, Charlie Butterworth, Rosemary Lane, and Irene Hervey. It's not a bad picture but it could have been better with more Abbot, more Rodgers, and more Hart.
(Nobody loves an insurance salesman but his mother. And not even her.)
Old-time vaudevillian Thomas Heath, of the famous blackface team of McIntyre and Heath, was worth only $300 when he died two years ago. So reveal documents filed today in Surrogate's Court in Riverhead. Heath died in August 1938 at the age of 83, and his estate has been in dispute since then, with the depleted state of his finances having been affected by his longtime habit of handing out cash to destitute show-business friends and by heavy and unpaid medical expenses related to his final illness. Among the unpaid bills was a charge of $648.43 for Heath's funeral. The retired comedian died a year to the day after his partner James McIntyre. The bulk of Heath's estate consisted of clothing and a few personal effects to be distributed among his nieces and nephews.
The Dodgers and Pirates close out their series at Ebbets Field today with a doubleheader, and the Flock is not at all unhappy to see the end of July, a month in which they played disappointing .500 ball, with a record of 16 wins and 16 losses. They begin August seven and a half games behind the league-leading Reds, and are in desperate need of improvement. One possible source of such improvement is rookie Pete Reiser, who is considered one of the top prospects in the game. When he lined out to Lloyd Waner as a pinch hitter the night before last, the ball coming off his bat sounded like a rifle shot -- and the entire crowd sat up and took notice. Tommy Holmes says "this boy is the greatest natural hitter I have ever seen come to the Dodgers as a rookie." Reiser has yet to get his first major league hit -- but when he does, it won't be his last.
Following today's doubleheader, a team of Dodger Rookies will travel to Sterling Oval for an exhibition game against the Brooklyn Royal Giants. Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons and coach Ben Tincup will run the rookie squad for the contest, scheduled to begin at 9 pm.
You know Molly Goldberg, of "The Goldbergs," longtime radio serial success about the lives of a Jewish family, but do you know Gertrude Berg -- who earns $5000 a week writing, producing, directing and portraying Molly? Mrs. Berg is the highest paid woman writer in radio, and gets up every day at 6 am to begin the process of putting together another "Goldbergs" episode, adding to the four million words she has written since she started the program in 1929. She was a Flatbush housewife then, wife of sugar-industry chemist Lewis Berg, but had always had an interest in writing, and based "The Goldbergs" on the lives of her own young family and on stories told around the family table while she was growing up. Mrs. Berg is a stickler for realism in her broadcasts -- when you hear Molly make a telephone call, she's handling a real telephone. And when you hear her fry an egg, Mrs. Berg is actually frying an egg on a hot plate near the microphone. Mrs. Berg is also known for writing out every one of her scripts by hand -- "A typewriter?" she asks sheepishly. "I never learned to use one."
(Never mind this foolishness, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ELEPHANT?)
(Ahhh yes, you thought we'd forgotten about that "autograph" John signed. Very clever.)
(Dan can be a real dick, and I don't mean Tracy.)
A German airplane bombed and machine-gunned a southeastern English coastal town this afternoon, with stores and houses specifically attacked. Fires are burning in the town and some casualties are reported. It is stated that British fighters chased off the attacking plane.
Forty-three people were killed today near Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio when a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was struck head-on by a self-propelled shuttle car. Railroad officials say the crew aboard the gasoline-powered work car, known as a "doodle bug" failed to shunt off to a siding as ordered to await the passage of the oncoming freight train. There were forty-three persons aboard a passenger coach attached to the train, along with an engineer and two crew members. The latter three jumped to safety just before the crash, but all those in the passenger coach died when the shuttle car exploded on collision.
A writ of habeas corpus has been granted for accused Murder For Hire gunman Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss, who will appear in court tomorrow to press a claim that he has been illegally denied the right to be examined by his own psychiatrists to determine whether or not he is sane. Strauss's legal counsel claims that he is insane, but state-approved psychiatrists state that their findings show that he is competent to stand trial. Assistant District Attorney Solomon A. Klein claims that Strauss is faking insanity, and that his cultivation of a bushy beard and moustache since his arrest is an attempt to create the appearance of being demented. Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein is Strauss's co-defendant in the coming trial for the murder of Irving "Puggy" Feinstein, but Goldstein has not grown a beard. Assistant DA Klein is seeking a court order to have Strauss forcibly shaven, and to keep him shaven thruout his trial. Strauss's attorney counters that removal of the whiskers would be a violation of Strauss's constitutional rights.
Police are seeking a mysterious red-headed woman who has been working a racket on children in Bay Ridge, Park Slope, and the better sections of South Brooklyn. Police say the woman, said to be about thirty years old, well-dressed, and "attractive," approaches children who are carrying utility bills and money for their payment, and strikes up conversations with them. If the child is a boy, the woman engages in a detailed discussion of the Dodgers, and if the child is a girl, the woman discusses popular movie actresses. Either way, the woman ends up offering the child an envelope to carry their money and thru sleight-of-hand substitutes the money-filled envelope for an empty one.
The Dodgers are trailing the Pirates 7-1 this afternoon in the top of the sixth inning first game of a doubleheader at Ebbets Field. Whit Wyatt started for Brooklyn against Ken Heintzelman for the Pirates. Among those in attendance today are thirty blind persons on an outing sponsored by the New York Association for the Blind.
Two young men collapsed at the Montgomery Street gate at Ebbets Field this afternoon from heat prostration while waiting to get in to today's twinbill -- even though the temperature was only 71 degrees. Cool breezes have dropped temperatures over the city, ending a deadly heat wave that lasted thirteen stifling days.
Flatbush residents have the choice of not one but two Tom Dyers in the race for the State Assembly this fall. Democratic incumbent Thomas A. Dyer of the 21st Assembly District faces a challenge from Communist Party nominee Thomas F. Dyer. Middle initials will be prominently featured on the ballot and in campaign literature.
(It seems that "Sparky Watts" is the first comic strip to directly parody the 1940 craze for superheroes that's flared up in the wake of Superman. It better be worth the hype.)
The chairman of the board of the Texas Company today defended his relationship with Dr. Gerhard Alois Westrick, Adolf Hitler's personal envoy to American businessmen, as simply "good business." Colonel Torkild Reiber declared there was nothing untoward about the fact that Westrick and his wife have been living secretly on the estate of a Texaco executive in Scarsdale for nearly four months, and denies that there are any political connections between the company and the Nazi government. Dr. Westrick has received many visitors in Scarsdale over the past four months, many of them executives of American oil companies who have been given a glowing picture of the profits that await them in doing business with a friendly Nazi Germany once Great Britain has been conquered
The new Brooklyn telephone directory is out, and includes an attractive "civic page" entitled "Brooklyn -- New York City's Greatest Borough." Scenes depicted on the page include photos of the Brooklyn Museum, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch, and a night game at Ebbets Field. The directory includes approximately 294,000 listings, up by about a thousand from last year.
The movie version of "The Boys From Syracuse," George Abbot's musical stage adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors," makes for so-so screen entertainment, says Herbert Cohn. The picutre, now showing at the Times Square Paramount loses much of the bawdiness from the stage show, and severely underplays the Rodgers-and-Hart musical score, with the many hit songs from the play given only perfunctory performances by a cast that includes Allan Jones, Joe Penner, Martha Raye, Alan Mobray, Charlie Butterworth, Rosemary Lane, and Irene Hervey. It's not a bad picture but it could have been better with more Abbot, more Rodgers, and more Hart.
(Nobody loves an insurance salesman but his mother. And not even her.)
Old-time vaudevillian Thomas Heath, of the famous blackface team of McIntyre and Heath, was worth only $300 when he died two years ago. So reveal documents filed today in Surrogate's Court in Riverhead. Heath died in August 1938 at the age of 83, and his estate has been in dispute since then, with the depleted state of his finances having been affected by his longtime habit of handing out cash to destitute show-business friends and by heavy and unpaid medical expenses related to his final illness. Among the unpaid bills was a charge of $648.43 for Heath's funeral. The retired comedian died a year to the day after his partner James McIntyre. The bulk of Heath's estate consisted of clothing and a few personal effects to be distributed among his nieces and nephews.
The Dodgers and Pirates close out their series at Ebbets Field today with a doubleheader, and the Flock is not at all unhappy to see the end of July, a month in which they played disappointing .500 ball, with a record of 16 wins and 16 losses. They begin August seven and a half games behind the league-leading Reds, and are in desperate need of improvement. One possible source of such improvement is rookie Pete Reiser, who is considered one of the top prospects in the game. When he lined out to Lloyd Waner as a pinch hitter the night before last, the ball coming off his bat sounded like a rifle shot -- and the entire crowd sat up and took notice. Tommy Holmes says "this boy is the greatest natural hitter I have ever seen come to the Dodgers as a rookie." Reiser has yet to get his first major league hit -- but when he does, it won't be his last.
Following today's doubleheader, a team of Dodger Rookies will travel to Sterling Oval for an exhibition game against the Brooklyn Royal Giants. Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons and coach Ben Tincup will run the rookie squad for the contest, scheduled to begin at 9 pm.
You know Molly Goldberg, of "The Goldbergs," longtime radio serial success about the lives of a Jewish family, but do you know Gertrude Berg -- who earns $5000 a week writing, producing, directing and portraying Molly? Mrs. Berg is the highest paid woman writer in radio, and gets up every day at 6 am to begin the process of putting together another "Goldbergs" episode, adding to the four million words she has written since she started the program in 1929. She was a Flatbush housewife then, wife of sugar-industry chemist Lewis Berg, but had always had an interest in writing, and based "The Goldbergs" on the lives of her own young family and on stories told around the family table while she was growing up. Mrs. Berg is a stickler for realism in her broadcasts -- when you hear Molly make a telephone call, she's handling a real telephone. And when you hear her fry an egg, Mrs. Berg is actually frying an egg on a hot plate near the microphone. Mrs. Berg is also known for writing out every one of her scripts by hand -- "A typewriter?" she asks sheepishly. "I never learned to use one."
