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Police expect an arrest later today in the case of a young Bay Ridge woman whose charred body was discovered early today in a clump of weeds on a lonely section of Dyker Beach. The body of Frieda Olsen of 255 46th Street had been soaked in gasoline and set ablaze, after her head was crushed by an unknown assailant. Two young boys wandering on the beach this morning discovered the body in an area known as a local "Lovers' Lane" about 150 feet west of Cropsey Avenue. The boys notified police, who determined that Miss Olsen had been dead for "several hours." The body was dressed in the burned remnants of clothing, with the exception of the underwear, which was found several yards away, along with the young woman's purse. A large egg-shaped stone stained with blood was found nearby, and is believed to have been the murder weapon. Miss Olsen was employed as a waitress in the children's ward at Norwegian Hospital, and was the sole support of her parents, who reported her missing Monday night.
In Mexico City, a "beautiful Brooklyn blonde" is being questioned in connection with the attempted pickax assassination of exiled Bolshevik Leon Trotsky, who is fighting for his life today in a Mexican hospital. Doctors there are seeking to fly in a brain specialist from New York or Los Angeles to assist in Trotsky's care, as authorities question members of his entourage, including 30-year-old Sylvia Ageloff of 50 Livingston Street in Brooklyn Heights. Miss Ageloff identified herself as "a great admirer of Trotsky," and threatened to kill herself if he dies. She told police that she met Trotsky thru her sister, who formerly worked as his secretary. Trotsky was attacked as he worked at his desk in his home at Coyacan, by a "trusted associate" whom authorities believe may have been an agent of the Russian secret police.
Meanwhile, Miss Ageloff's friends and family in Brooklyn have no comment on her involvement in the Trotsky affair. She is the daughter of prominent real estate operator Samuel Ageloff, who lives in a swank apartment house at 70 Remsen Street, and who was unavailable for comment today. At Miss Ageloff's Livingston Street apartment, a woman speaking broken English answered the door and refused to comment on the case. The voice of a man could be heard in the background, evidently talking on the telephone and stating that there was "no news yet." A young woman working at Ageloff's real estate office stated that she did not know Sylvia, but the other Ageloff sisters, Hilda and Ruth, occasionally worked in the office. The young woman could not confirm statements that Ruth Ageloff had worked for Trotsky. A review of the Eagle's files for 1931 found an article mentioning that Ruth Ageloff had traveled to Russia that year to study new methods of progressive education introduced in that country, and that she had an interview with the widow of Lenin during this visit.
The chairman of the National Democratic Committee today produced a quotation from a 1935 speech by Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie in which it is claimed that Willkie praised disgraced utilities executive Samuel Insull, just as Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes stated that he did in his radio speech this week. Willkie issued a public denial of that claim following Ickes' broadcast, but Committee chairman Edward J. Flynn today pointed to a talk delivered in Brooklyn before the Economic Club on January 21, 1935, in which Willkie referred to Insull as "our forceful, dynamic, attractive figure." Flynn accused Willkie of a "convenient loss of memory" in his denial of the comment.
(Sheffield, Borden, or Renken's?)
A new style of subway seat designed not to snag women's hosiery has been introduced on an experimental basis on a single car running on the IND. The seat is made of a spongy plastic material that cannot fray into pointed slivers like the familiar woven rattan seats presently used thruout the subway system, and is also said to be stainless. The new seats may be installed thruout the subway if the trial proves satisfactory.
"Maryeta" writes to Helen Worth to complain about men and their reluctance to make appointments in advance. "Do you really think a woman should expect a man to call, and when he doesn't, to sit there alone all evening?" She also complains that men will call her and expect her to drop everything at hand to go out with them, even when she has obligations at home. She calls that selfish, but Helen suggests taking a flexible view of the situation, noting that "business women know how often plans must be set aside for sudden demands."
(A hokey Universal Western is the "A" picture here, and the distinguished indie drama is the B. Guess they know what sells!)
Ralph W. Meriana of Bay Ridge knows shoes. He ought to, as chairman of the Shoes For Refugees Committee, and as America's most noted collector of footwear. Mr. Meriana has been fascinated by shoes all his life, and shares his home with hundreds of pairs of shoes of all kinds and all styles dating back as far as the 17th Century. But he says the most fascinating thing about shoes today is what they say about the person who wears them -- he says he can size up the character of anyone by a single glance at their feet. A man wearing unkempt shoes is a malcontent, a maladjusted individual who has never found his place in the world. A woman wearing overelaborate fussy shoes is a self-conscious scatterbrain who will place her feet in intentional poses when seated. But well-polished, well-maintained shoes are the mark of a self-confident person whether the shoes are old or new.
The Eagle Editorialist reflects on the recent talk that the Dodgers may be for sale with a reminder that the future of the ball club is a vital matter to the entire borough. The Dodgers are the greatest advertisement Brooklyn has, carrying the name of the borough all over the country, emphasizing that its not merely a subdivision of New York City but a live community all its own. The fighting spirit of the Dodgers calls attention to that same spirit in Brooklyn itself, and the best thing that could possibly happen to the team would be for it to be purchased by local investors who would ensure that the club remains under Brooklyn ownership.
(More Bungle relatives, no doubt. Poor Uncle Zip can't get a break.)
Republican Presidential nominee Wendell Willkie may be presented to the voters of Brooklyn in a massive rally at Ebbets Field. County Republican Chairman John R. Crews says that negotiations are underway to rent the ballpark for such an event, with accommodations planned for up to 50,000 persons in the seats and on the field. Mr. Crews adds that plans are also being made for a second large rally at the World's Fair, to be held in conjunction with a proposed "Willkie Day."
The Dodgers arrived in St. Louis in a laughing and lighthearted mood, but apparently forgot to pack their bats -- dropping a doubleheader to the Cardinals yesterday at Sportsman's Park. Pete Coscarart and Dolph Camilli homered in the second game, but the Dodgers could log only nine other hits over the two games, none of them of much consequence as the Cards won both, 3-0 and 4-3. Tommy Holmes bitterly comments that the day's performance just proves what Dodger fans have suspected all along -- this is not a pennant-winning club. They'll do fine for long stretches, but then find a way to "fold up like a four-dollar camera."
Joe Medwick looked pitiful yesterday, and took a serious razzing from the St. Louis crowd. Given the boos he left behind in Brooklyn, this has not been a good week for Ducky.
Meanwhile, the Reds beat the Giants in Cincinnati, regaining a 5 1/2 game lead over Brooklyn in the National League race.
Pee Wee Reese did not go to St. Louis with the Dodgers. Instead, the injured rookie star has gone home to Louisville to begin resting up for 1941. Meanwhile, Dodger batboy Jackie Bodner took Pee Wee's seat on the plane flight from Brooklyn, with the players chipping in to bring him along on the road trip.
Leading movie makeup man and beauty consultant Richard Willis is on the air twice a week over WOR with a unique new program in which he corrects the beauty flaws of a woman chosen from the studio audience. Broadcast from the WOR Studio on the grounds of the World's Fair, the feature allows Willis to give constructive advice on any number of beauty problems, from buck teeth to double chins, along with practical tips on the use and application of cosmetics. The program, which also features Pegeen Fitzgerald as fashion adviser, is heard Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:45 pm. Willis, a former vaudevillian, turned to the makeup business at Warner Bros. old Vitaphone studio in Flatbush before setting up as an independant consultant. While with Warners, he touched up such famous faces as Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, and Charlie McCarthy.
(If he intends to make a regular thing of this superhero business, Sparky needs to be a little more circumspect about the source of his powers. All any opponent needs to do is figure out a way to shield him from his Cosmic Rays, and he's just some skinny geek in white sneakers and Davega pants.)
(I was wondering about the eye too -- how can you hit that, when that nose is such an obvious target.)
(You know, if that Christian Front affair hadn't happened, comic strip writers wouldn't know what to do.)
(Adolph? Not Camilli, I hope.)
In Mexico City, a "beautiful Brooklyn blonde" is being questioned in connection with the attempted pickax assassination of exiled Bolshevik Leon Trotsky, who is fighting for his life today in a Mexican hospital. Doctors there are seeking to fly in a brain specialist from New York or Los Angeles to assist in Trotsky's care, as authorities question members of his entourage, including 30-year-old Sylvia Ageloff of 50 Livingston Street in Brooklyn Heights. Miss Ageloff identified herself as "a great admirer of Trotsky," and threatened to kill herself if he dies. She told police that she met Trotsky thru her sister, who formerly worked as his secretary. Trotsky was attacked as he worked at his desk in his home at Coyacan, by a "trusted associate" whom authorities believe may have been an agent of the Russian secret police.
Meanwhile, Miss Ageloff's friends and family in Brooklyn have no comment on her involvement in the Trotsky affair. She is the daughter of prominent real estate operator Samuel Ageloff, who lives in a swank apartment house at 70 Remsen Street, and who was unavailable for comment today. At Miss Ageloff's Livingston Street apartment, a woman speaking broken English answered the door and refused to comment on the case. The voice of a man could be heard in the background, evidently talking on the telephone and stating that there was "no news yet." A young woman working at Ageloff's real estate office stated that she did not know Sylvia, but the other Ageloff sisters, Hilda and Ruth, occasionally worked in the office. The young woman could not confirm statements that Ruth Ageloff had worked for Trotsky. A review of the Eagle's files for 1931 found an article mentioning that Ruth Ageloff had traveled to Russia that year to study new methods of progressive education introduced in that country, and that she had an interview with the widow of Lenin during this visit.
The chairman of the National Democratic Committee today produced a quotation from a 1935 speech by Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie in which it is claimed that Willkie praised disgraced utilities executive Samuel Insull, just as Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes stated that he did in his radio speech this week. Willkie issued a public denial of that claim following Ickes' broadcast, but Committee chairman Edward J. Flynn today pointed to a talk delivered in Brooklyn before the Economic Club on January 21, 1935, in which Willkie referred to Insull as "our forceful, dynamic, attractive figure." Flynn accused Willkie of a "convenient loss of memory" in his denial of the comment.
(Sheffield, Borden, or Renken's?)
A new style of subway seat designed not to snag women's hosiery has been introduced on an experimental basis on a single car running on the IND. The seat is made of a spongy plastic material that cannot fray into pointed slivers like the familiar woven rattan seats presently used thruout the subway system, and is also said to be stainless. The new seats may be installed thruout the subway if the trial proves satisfactory.
"Maryeta" writes to Helen Worth to complain about men and their reluctance to make appointments in advance. "Do you really think a woman should expect a man to call, and when he doesn't, to sit there alone all evening?" She also complains that men will call her and expect her to drop everything at hand to go out with them, even when she has obligations at home. She calls that selfish, but Helen suggests taking a flexible view of the situation, noting that "business women know how often plans must be set aside for sudden demands."
(A hokey Universal Western is the "A" picture here, and the distinguished indie drama is the B. Guess they know what sells!)
Ralph W. Meriana of Bay Ridge knows shoes. He ought to, as chairman of the Shoes For Refugees Committee, and as America's most noted collector of footwear. Mr. Meriana has been fascinated by shoes all his life, and shares his home with hundreds of pairs of shoes of all kinds and all styles dating back as far as the 17th Century. But he says the most fascinating thing about shoes today is what they say about the person who wears them -- he says he can size up the character of anyone by a single glance at their feet. A man wearing unkempt shoes is a malcontent, a maladjusted individual who has never found his place in the world. A woman wearing overelaborate fussy shoes is a self-conscious scatterbrain who will place her feet in intentional poses when seated. But well-polished, well-maintained shoes are the mark of a self-confident person whether the shoes are old or new.
The Eagle Editorialist reflects on the recent talk that the Dodgers may be for sale with a reminder that the future of the ball club is a vital matter to the entire borough. The Dodgers are the greatest advertisement Brooklyn has, carrying the name of the borough all over the country, emphasizing that its not merely a subdivision of New York City but a live community all its own. The fighting spirit of the Dodgers calls attention to that same spirit in Brooklyn itself, and the best thing that could possibly happen to the team would be for it to be purchased by local investors who would ensure that the club remains under Brooklyn ownership.
(More Bungle relatives, no doubt. Poor Uncle Zip can't get a break.)
Republican Presidential nominee Wendell Willkie may be presented to the voters of Brooklyn in a massive rally at Ebbets Field. County Republican Chairman John R. Crews says that negotiations are underway to rent the ballpark for such an event, with accommodations planned for up to 50,000 persons in the seats and on the field. Mr. Crews adds that plans are also being made for a second large rally at the World's Fair, to be held in conjunction with a proposed "Willkie Day."
The Dodgers arrived in St. Louis in a laughing and lighthearted mood, but apparently forgot to pack their bats -- dropping a doubleheader to the Cardinals yesterday at Sportsman's Park. Pete Coscarart and Dolph Camilli homered in the second game, but the Dodgers could log only nine other hits over the two games, none of them of much consequence as the Cards won both, 3-0 and 4-3. Tommy Holmes bitterly comments that the day's performance just proves what Dodger fans have suspected all along -- this is not a pennant-winning club. They'll do fine for long stretches, but then find a way to "fold up like a four-dollar camera."
Joe Medwick looked pitiful yesterday, and took a serious razzing from the St. Louis crowd. Given the boos he left behind in Brooklyn, this has not been a good week for Ducky.
Meanwhile, the Reds beat the Giants in Cincinnati, regaining a 5 1/2 game lead over Brooklyn in the National League race.
Pee Wee Reese did not go to St. Louis with the Dodgers. Instead, the injured rookie star has gone home to Louisville to begin resting up for 1941. Meanwhile, Dodger batboy Jackie Bodner took Pee Wee's seat on the plane flight from Brooklyn, with the players chipping in to bring him along on the road trip.
Leading movie makeup man and beauty consultant Richard Willis is on the air twice a week over WOR with a unique new program in which he corrects the beauty flaws of a woman chosen from the studio audience. Broadcast from the WOR Studio on the grounds of the World's Fair, the feature allows Willis to give constructive advice on any number of beauty problems, from buck teeth to double chins, along with practical tips on the use and application of cosmetics. The program, which also features Pegeen Fitzgerald as fashion adviser, is heard Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:45 pm. Willis, a former vaudevillian, turned to the makeup business at Warner Bros. old Vitaphone studio in Flatbush before setting up as an independant consultant. While with Warners, he touched up such famous faces as Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, and Charlie McCarthy.
(If he intends to make a regular thing of this superhero business, Sparky needs to be a little more circumspect about the source of his powers. All any opponent needs to do is figure out a way to shield him from his Cosmic Rays, and he's just some skinny geek in white sneakers and Davega pants.)
(I was wondering about the eye too -- how can you hit that, when that nose is such an obvious target.)