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British bombers pounded German targets today in reprisal for massive Nazi air raids on the industrial suburbs of London. RAF planes bombed locations in Munich, Weimar, and Leipzig, with German news sources reporting that "moderate damage" resulted and that two civilians were killed. German sourced denied British reports that the Munich railroad station was struck.
German bombers today began the seventh consecutive day of air assaults on Britain, with incendiary bombs reportedly dropped on a southeast coastal town this morning, and further reports of Nazi planes advancing up the Thames toward the heart of London. It is reported, however, that today's attack was "not as fierce" as those of recent days.
A "total blockade" of Britain has been announced by the German government, with warnings to all neutral shipping to avoid British territory. All neutrals with the exception of Argentina and the United States were served with formal notice of the blockade by German authorities.
The new Federal Food Stamp program was introduced to Brooklyn last night in a special presentation at the Academy of Music, featuring original sketches written by and starring Mayor LaGuardia. An audience of 2200 Brooklyn grocers and members of the general public as the Mayor was joined by Secretary of Agriculture and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace in demonstrating how the new program will operate at the retail level, and how it will benefit the more than 23,000 families now on relief in the borough. The sketches, in which the Mayor appeared successively in the guises of a neighborhood grocer and a butcher, were introduced to the theme song "Yes, We Have No Bananas," and portrayed various incidents of customers skeptical of the stamp program being shown how it will work and how it will benefit not just the recipents but also farmers who will have a reliable way to distribute surplus products. When one customer tried to illegally redeem his stamps for cash, Grocer LaGuardia sternly rebuked him. "Nobody will know?" he sputtered. "There isn't anything that little guy down at City Hall doesn't know!"
Queens detectives and police-laboratory experts are examining a bullet-riddled rowboat found afloat in Jamaica Bay. Two 38-caliber slugs were found embedded in the wood of the boat, with a third slug found flattened out on the floor near the bow. The mystery was deepened when a Long Island newspaper reported receiving a telephone call yesterday from an anonymous person claiming to have found two bodies in a rowboat. The caller began to describe the purported victims, but then abruptly hung up. The boat is believed to be the same rowboat rented about a week ago from the operator of a fishing dock on Hough Place in Arverne by an unidentified man and woman who were accompanied by a child. The boat was never returned.
A former New York gangster is in custody in Los Angeles charged with the murder of a Hollywood mobster with connections to the Brooklyn Murder-for-Hire gang. Benjamin "Buggsy" Siegal, once prominent in Broadway underworld circles, is charged in the slaying last November of Henry Greenberg, west coast gangster who "knew too much" about the activities of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Police are seeking Hollywood sporting figure Henry "Champ" Segal, and fight promoter Frankie Carbo as well, in connection with the Greenberg killing.
("EAGLE, GETCHA EAGLE!" Or, buy up all the comics and pulps and stuff them unread in your attic, and eighty years from now your grandkids will be able to buy a nice house.)
("Howzis guy Evans so chummy wit' jool thiefs?" wonders Joe. "I don' blame th' guy for not hangin' 'roun' wit' Whalen," adds Sally. "Whatta fat pill. Hope he gotta free drink at leas'.")
A 33-year-old panhandler who posed as a cripple in order to elicit sympathy from donors has drawn a 30 day sentence in the workhouse on a vagrancy charge. William Leffler of 317 Ellery Street admitted to Magistrate Charles Solomon in Coney Island Court that he found he could get more handouts by contorting himself to look crippled.
Reader G. P. Macmillan of Brooklyn writes in to denounce Col. Charles A. Lindbergh for relaying the views of none other than Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in his latest speech. "Was it for this that he was decorated by Goering?"
(Somewhere a meteorologist with a full and luxuriant head of curls scowls at his newspaper.)
("Here ya go, pal, we chipped in an' got ya this swell gun. Um, an' I jus' wanna say, I never meant nuttin' by them "fat" cracks I made. I'm ya pal, y'unnerstan'? Ya pal. Good ol' Fa... Good ol' Freddie, I'm ya pal, ain't I?")
The fans turned out in capacity numbers at Ebbets Field last night to honor Fred Fitzsimmons, but Casey Stengel and his Boston Bees spoiled the party, thumping the Dodgers down to defeat in the last night game of the season by a score of 4-1. Johnny Hudson proved the weak link for the Flock, playing at shortstop in place of the injured Pee Wee Reese and making three errors, although his defenders were quick to point out that none of his errors actually allowed a Boston run. Leo Durocher, who had earlier stated that he would be taking Reese's place in the lineup was "not quite ready to play" last night, but hopes to be ready within "a few days."
The Dodgers and Bees will take today off to recuperate from last night's game before playing a doubleheader tomorrow.
With Pee Wee Reese unable to make his attempt at breaking the speed record for circling the bases due to his injured heel, it fell to Cookie Lavagetto to make the run in his place. Cookie clocked in at a snappy 13.4 seconds in his circuit of the sacks -- fast, but not fast enough to eclipse the 13.3 second record set by Evar Swanson of the Reds in 1929.
(Never mind Superman -- Sparky is really Bugs Bunny.)
(Years from now, George will be hip-deep in some entirely unrelated enterprise, some Oakdale con game or something, and suddenly he'll look up and Original Tootsie will float gently down in front of him, her face in an enigmatic smirk.)
("Deepfake," 1940 style.)
(I dunno, is "Fazia" covered by the Neutrality Act?)
German bombers today began the seventh consecutive day of air assaults on Britain, with incendiary bombs reportedly dropped on a southeast coastal town this morning, and further reports of Nazi planes advancing up the Thames toward the heart of London. It is reported, however, that today's attack was "not as fierce" as those of recent days.
A "total blockade" of Britain has been announced by the German government, with warnings to all neutral shipping to avoid British territory. All neutrals with the exception of Argentina and the United States were served with formal notice of the blockade by German authorities.
The new Federal Food Stamp program was introduced to Brooklyn last night in a special presentation at the Academy of Music, featuring original sketches written by and starring Mayor LaGuardia. An audience of 2200 Brooklyn grocers and members of the general public as the Mayor was joined by Secretary of Agriculture and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace in demonstrating how the new program will operate at the retail level, and how it will benefit the more than 23,000 families now on relief in the borough. The sketches, in which the Mayor appeared successively in the guises of a neighborhood grocer and a butcher, were introduced to the theme song "Yes, We Have No Bananas," and portrayed various incidents of customers skeptical of the stamp program being shown how it will work and how it will benefit not just the recipents but also farmers who will have a reliable way to distribute surplus products. When one customer tried to illegally redeem his stamps for cash, Grocer LaGuardia sternly rebuked him. "Nobody will know?" he sputtered. "There isn't anything that little guy down at City Hall doesn't know!"
Queens detectives and police-laboratory experts are examining a bullet-riddled rowboat found afloat in Jamaica Bay. Two 38-caliber slugs were found embedded in the wood of the boat, with a third slug found flattened out on the floor near the bow. The mystery was deepened when a Long Island newspaper reported receiving a telephone call yesterday from an anonymous person claiming to have found two bodies in a rowboat. The caller began to describe the purported victims, but then abruptly hung up. The boat is believed to be the same rowboat rented about a week ago from the operator of a fishing dock on Hough Place in Arverne by an unidentified man and woman who were accompanied by a child. The boat was never returned.
A former New York gangster is in custody in Los Angeles charged with the murder of a Hollywood mobster with connections to the Brooklyn Murder-for-Hire gang. Benjamin "Buggsy" Siegal, once prominent in Broadway underworld circles, is charged in the slaying last November of Henry Greenberg, west coast gangster who "knew too much" about the activities of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Police are seeking Hollywood sporting figure Henry "Champ" Segal, and fight promoter Frankie Carbo as well, in connection with the Greenberg killing.
("EAGLE, GETCHA EAGLE!" Or, buy up all the comics and pulps and stuff them unread in your attic, and eighty years from now your grandkids will be able to buy a nice house.)
("Howzis guy Evans so chummy wit' jool thiefs?" wonders Joe. "I don' blame th' guy for not hangin' 'roun' wit' Whalen," adds Sally. "Whatta fat pill. Hope he gotta free drink at leas'.")
A 33-year-old panhandler who posed as a cripple in order to elicit sympathy from donors has drawn a 30 day sentence in the workhouse on a vagrancy charge. William Leffler of 317 Ellery Street admitted to Magistrate Charles Solomon in Coney Island Court that he found he could get more handouts by contorting himself to look crippled.
Reader G. P. Macmillan of Brooklyn writes in to denounce Col. Charles A. Lindbergh for relaying the views of none other than Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in his latest speech. "Was it for this that he was decorated by Goering?"
(Somewhere a meteorologist with a full and luxuriant head of curls scowls at his newspaper.)
The fans turned out in capacity numbers at Ebbets Field last night to honor Fred Fitzsimmons, but Casey Stengel and his Boston Bees spoiled the party, thumping the Dodgers down to defeat in the last night game of the season by a score of 4-1. Johnny Hudson proved the weak link for the Flock, playing at shortstop in place of the injured Pee Wee Reese and making three errors, although his defenders were quick to point out that none of his errors actually allowed a Boston run. Leo Durocher, who had earlier stated that he would be taking Reese's place in the lineup was "not quite ready to play" last night, but hopes to be ready within "a few days."
The Dodgers and Bees will take today off to recuperate from last night's game before playing a doubleheader tomorrow.
With Pee Wee Reese unable to make his attempt at breaking the speed record for circling the bases due to his injured heel, it fell to Cookie Lavagetto to make the run in his place. Cookie clocked in at a snappy 13.4 seconds in his circuit of the sacks -- fast, but not fast enough to eclipse the 13.3 second record set by Evar Swanson of the Reds in 1929.