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And speaking of the past not being past --
In 1939 today's a lazy autumn Sunday, unless you have to work. And when you get home, pick that big fat Sunday Eagle off the stoop and take a look --
822 are confirmed dead in the sinking of the British battleship Royal Oak, according to Nazi sources the fifth British warship sunk in a six-week sea war. 370 members of the vessel's crew of nearly 1200 are confirmed as having been rescued, according to the British Admiralty. The announcement accompanies a denial that the HMS Hood was also hit by submarine attacks. British authorities continue to withhold the specific location where the Royal Oak went down.
Meanwhile, the British front line on the ground seems a "rural retreat" according to AP correspondent Drew Middleton, who is on that front line with the Tommies. Middleton describes a crude blockhouse built in a farm pasture, equipped with a periscope, as the Allied headquarters, manned by a grumbling garrison of Irish and British forces. No guns chatter, no shells fly, but a cow munches contentedly in the grass.
Berlin reports indicate heavy anti-aircraft gunfire was heard this morning suggesting Allied planes were attempting to target the German capital. But there was no air raid alarm sounded, and no bombs fell.
The Soviet Union and Turkey are expected to sign an agreement allowing Russia certain naval access to the Black Sea
and the Dardanelles. Specific terms of the deal have not been announced, but the agreement is expected to be less extensive than originally expected.
A former member of the Communist Party claims that Soviet agents in the US have "liquidated" certain persons who have left the organization. Robert C. Pitcoff, who worked for four years with the Soviet trading agency Amtorg claimed in testimony before the Dies Committee that two of his fellow employees, whom he named only as Ruthenberg and Kosoff, "disappeared" before their return to Russia.
Minnesota Senator Lundeen, a member of the Farmer-Labor Party, today suggested that the United States seize British possessions in the Carribbean as payment for outstanding war debts. Lundeen's proposal brought a barrage of opposition during Senate debate over the repeal of the arms embargo.
A test pilot was killed yesterday in the crash of an experimental high-speed monoplane on Long Island. Pilot Harry Huslman died when the plane, built by the Seversky Aircraft Corporation, went down near East Farmingdale. It is believed that either the motor cut out during descent, or the plane overshot the runway. The aircraft went down with such force that it plowed over more than 200 feet of trees and brush near the aircraft factory.
Sally Rand's bubble has burst, with the noted fan-and-bubble dancer filing a bankruptcy petition today listing assets of $8067 against debts of $54,631. Miss Rand's most recent enterprise was the Gay Paree attraction at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, but she was also in evidence with her "Nude Ranch" at the San Francisco fair earlier this season. Miss Rand faces a lawsuit from New York impresario Billy Rose, who contends that the "Nude Ranch" was his idea.
In college football yesterday, the big Army-Columbia game proved something of a fizzle, as the teams played to a tie at Baker Field. The most exciting game of the day was probably the Notre Dame victory over Southern Methodist, 20-19.
Whether you're sixteen or sixty, put your feet in our hands! Natural Bridge shoes for women on sale, $5 and $5.50, at Abraham & Straus' Basement!
10,000 Polish-Americans cheered Mayor LaGuardia and Governor Lehman during Polish Day observances at the World's Fair, as the dignitaries vowed that "Poland will rise again!""
In other Fair news, General Motors president Alfred Sloan confirmed that the popular Futurama attraction will continue at the Fair in 1940. Nearly 5,000,000 visitors toured the GM Pavillion this year for a ride thru the World Of 1960.
New York City's death rate scored its lowest total ever during 1938. Big declines in infant mortality were noted in Brooklyn, especially in the Williamsburg-Greenpoint district, where the figure came in at 47 deaths per 1000 live births, down from 67 per 1000 in 1937.
THIS Can't Happen To Your Husband if you use Pilgrim Laundry. "This" being his transformation into a terrifying chimera with the head and face of a snarling bulldog, pulling desperately with useless human hands at his suddenly too-small shirt collar. That's what you get for patronizing The Laundry Of Doctor Moreau.
Today marks formal dedication ceremonies for the new North Beach Airport, built by the city and the WPA near Flushing Bay at a total cost of $43,218,000. The new airport was built on landfill consisting of more than 17 million cubic yards of garbage.
The Old Timers don't get much of a page this week, crowded out by airport dedication and war news. Old Timer James Dempsey of 978 St. Johns Place remembers the days when the land out near the Kings County Hospital, past Malbone Street, was filled with squatters and billygoats.
A big map graphic shows why the Baltic region is of such vital concern to Germany and the Soviet Union, pointing out essential naval access and supply routes which have become points of contention since the start of the war.
The Eagle editorial writer congratulates the city's latest Parole Commissioner, retired baseball star Lou Gehrig, expecting that his inspirational deeds on the diamond and the quality of his character will be of great help to youngsters who have fallen afoul of the law.
Complete Dignified Funerals from $150 to $250 from Walter B. Cooke's Brooklyn Funeral Homes, with three locations in the borough to serve you.
The Social pages include several announcements for "card parties" sponsored by various neighborhood women's clubs. "Card Party" was a common euphemism for "Bingo Game," designed to keep the sponsors out of trouble with the police. It's one thing to raid a run-down old theatre in Red Hook, but the Ladies of Bay Ridge must keep their skirts spotless.
Dr. Brady says -- something about not knowing about what appetite is. Maybe you could ask one of your many fat girlfriends.
In this week's Trend section, a rather dull discussion of David Lloyd George's career and his sudden decision to insert himself into the debate over Hitler's peace proposals. Pep it up, fellas, I usually look forward to some snide attitude from this section. Well, here's a discussion of the return of the corset in fall fashion, showing women at work wearing nothing but heavily boned undergarments. Jeez, you guys, grow up.
In Los Angeles, identical twins ended up in court after a brawl, but the court couldn't tell which one started the fighting. Tom Trimble is accused of enraging his brother Arthur by calling him "fish face," and violence ensued.
Be in Manhattan tomorrow night at the Music Box Theatre for the opening of Kaufman and Hart's hilarious new play "The Man Who Came To Dinner," with Monty Woolley heading the cast.
Brooklyn's latest Bright Young Woman? That's Sylvia Fine, comedy writer behind the success of "The Straw Hat Revue." Three years ago she was an obscure music teacher, and now look at her. She grew up in Flatbush in a musical family, but was always the funniest of the bunch.
Keep an eye out next spring for baseball's rising young star Harold Reese, who helped the Louisville Colonels beat the Rochester Red Wings in this year's Little World Series. They call him "Pee Wee," and he's destined to replace Durocher at shortstop for the Dodgers in 1940.
Fall baseball continues at Dexter Park today as the Bushwicks take on a team of Minor League All Stars in an exhibition doubleheader. Yankee farmhands Marius Russo and Phil Rizzuto are expected to star for the All Stars.
Get a McDermott Custom Built Home in Valley Stream, just $5990. Hey, that's right out near the Drive In Theatre. Wonder if you can see the screen from there.
The A&P grocery chain is celebrating its 80th Anniversary this week, as huge supermarkets are gradually taking over for the company's familiar red-fronted neighborhood stores.
Ah, here's more Old Timers stuff, as E. Coulman out in Ridgewood remembers the Blizzard of '88 and playing inkwell pranks on his classmates at PS 24.
A special pull-out section commemorates the opening of the 40th annual National Auto Show at the Grand Central Palace. The 1940 cars are bigger, better, wider, faster than ever, with tip-toe shifting and Hydra-Matic drives and Weather Eye temperature control and all manner of other new doodads.
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And finally, the funnies. Here's Red Ryder looking for his missing horse, little realizing a sinister man in a red shirt riding that horse is going around killing innocent ranchers and robbing trains. Uh-oh, Little Beaver.
Big Chief Wahoo takes his niece to school and sits in for a string of old vaudeville jokes with the teacher. The Great Gusto is clearly proving a bad influence.
Jane Arden Girl Reporter and Jim have the eavesdropper in custody, and Jim punches him in the face to shut him up when the steward comes nosing around.
Leona Stockpool assigns Bill Biff to be her bouncer for the big party she's throwing, but she doesn't tell him it's one of those fashionable "Hard Times" parties where everyone comes dressed like a bum. So Bill throws out all the guests.
George Bungle, trudging home after yet another run on the treadmill of frustration that is his life, gets distracted by a duck on a pond, and ends up taking a dunk.
And Aunt Jean tells us that Mildred Spatz will get to take a trip to Washington DC with her uncle if she keeps up an average of at least 75 in school. Aim high, kid.
In 1939 today's a lazy autumn Sunday, unless you have to work. And when you get home, pick that big fat Sunday Eagle off the stoop and take a look --
822 are confirmed dead in the sinking of the British battleship Royal Oak, according to Nazi sources the fifth British warship sunk in a six-week sea war. 370 members of the vessel's crew of nearly 1200 are confirmed as having been rescued, according to the British Admiralty. The announcement accompanies a denial that the HMS Hood was also hit by submarine attacks. British authorities continue to withhold the specific location where the Royal Oak went down.
Meanwhile, the British front line on the ground seems a "rural retreat" according to AP correspondent Drew Middleton, who is on that front line with the Tommies. Middleton describes a crude blockhouse built in a farm pasture, equipped with a periscope, as the Allied headquarters, manned by a grumbling garrison of Irish and British forces. No guns chatter, no shells fly, but a cow munches contentedly in the grass.
Berlin reports indicate heavy anti-aircraft gunfire was heard this morning suggesting Allied planes were attempting to target the German capital. But there was no air raid alarm sounded, and no bombs fell.
The Soviet Union and Turkey are expected to sign an agreement allowing Russia certain naval access to the Black Sea
and the Dardanelles. Specific terms of the deal have not been announced, but the agreement is expected to be less extensive than originally expected.
A former member of the Communist Party claims that Soviet agents in the US have "liquidated" certain persons who have left the organization. Robert C. Pitcoff, who worked for four years with the Soviet trading agency Amtorg claimed in testimony before the Dies Committee that two of his fellow employees, whom he named only as Ruthenberg and Kosoff, "disappeared" before their return to Russia.
Minnesota Senator Lundeen, a member of the Farmer-Labor Party, today suggested that the United States seize British possessions in the Carribbean as payment for outstanding war debts. Lundeen's proposal brought a barrage of opposition during Senate debate over the repeal of the arms embargo.
A test pilot was killed yesterday in the crash of an experimental high-speed monoplane on Long Island. Pilot Harry Huslman died when the plane, built by the Seversky Aircraft Corporation, went down near East Farmingdale. It is believed that either the motor cut out during descent, or the plane overshot the runway. The aircraft went down with such force that it plowed over more than 200 feet of trees and brush near the aircraft factory.
Sally Rand's bubble has burst, with the noted fan-and-bubble dancer filing a bankruptcy petition today listing assets of $8067 against debts of $54,631. Miss Rand's most recent enterprise was the Gay Paree attraction at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, but she was also in evidence with her "Nude Ranch" at the San Francisco fair earlier this season. Miss Rand faces a lawsuit from New York impresario Billy Rose, who contends that the "Nude Ranch" was his idea.
In college football yesterday, the big Army-Columbia game proved something of a fizzle, as the teams played to a tie at Baker Field. The most exciting game of the day was probably the Notre Dame victory over Southern Methodist, 20-19.
Whether you're sixteen or sixty, put your feet in our hands! Natural Bridge shoes for women on sale, $5 and $5.50, at Abraham & Straus' Basement!
10,000 Polish-Americans cheered Mayor LaGuardia and Governor Lehman during Polish Day observances at the World's Fair, as the dignitaries vowed that "Poland will rise again!""
In other Fair news, General Motors president Alfred Sloan confirmed that the popular Futurama attraction will continue at the Fair in 1940. Nearly 5,000,000 visitors toured the GM Pavillion this year for a ride thru the World Of 1960.
New York City's death rate scored its lowest total ever during 1938. Big declines in infant mortality were noted in Brooklyn, especially in the Williamsburg-Greenpoint district, where the figure came in at 47 deaths per 1000 live births, down from 67 per 1000 in 1937.
THIS Can't Happen To Your Husband if you use Pilgrim Laundry. "This" being his transformation into a terrifying chimera with the head and face of a snarling bulldog, pulling desperately with useless human hands at his suddenly too-small shirt collar. That's what you get for patronizing The Laundry Of Doctor Moreau.
Today marks formal dedication ceremonies for the new North Beach Airport, built by the city and the WPA near Flushing Bay at a total cost of $43,218,000. The new airport was built on landfill consisting of more than 17 million cubic yards of garbage.
The Old Timers don't get much of a page this week, crowded out by airport dedication and war news. Old Timer James Dempsey of 978 St. Johns Place remembers the days when the land out near the Kings County Hospital, past Malbone Street, was filled with squatters and billygoats.
A big map graphic shows why the Baltic region is of such vital concern to Germany and the Soviet Union, pointing out essential naval access and supply routes which have become points of contention since the start of the war.
The Eagle editorial writer congratulates the city's latest Parole Commissioner, retired baseball star Lou Gehrig, expecting that his inspirational deeds on the diamond and the quality of his character will be of great help to youngsters who have fallen afoul of the law.
Complete Dignified Funerals from $150 to $250 from Walter B. Cooke's Brooklyn Funeral Homes, with three locations in the borough to serve you.
The Social pages include several announcements for "card parties" sponsored by various neighborhood women's clubs. "Card Party" was a common euphemism for "Bingo Game," designed to keep the sponsors out of trouble with the police. It's one thing to raid a run-down old theatre in Red Hook, but the Ladies of Bay Ridge must keep their skirts spotless.
Dr. Brady says -- something about not knowing about what appetite is. Maybe you could ask one of your many fat girlfriends.
In this week's Trend section, a rather dull discussion of David Lloyd George's career and his sudden decision to insert himself into the debate over Hitler's peace proposals. Pep it up, fellas, I usually look forward to some snide attitude from this section. Well, here's a discussion of the return of the corset in fall fashion, showing women at work wearing nothing but heavily boned undergarments. Jeez, you guys, grow up.
In Los Angeles, identical twins ended up in court after a brawl, but the court couldn't tell which one started the fighting. Tom Trimble is accused of enraging his brother Arthur by calling him "fish face," and violence ensued.
Be in Manhattan tomorrow night at the Music Box Theatre for the opening of Kaufman and Hart's hilarious new play "The Man Who Came To Dinner," with Monty Woolley heading the cast.
Brooklyn's latest Bright Young Woman? That's Sylvia Fine, comedy writer behind the success of "The Straw Hat Revue." Three years ago she was an obscure music teacher, and now look at her. She grew up in Flatbush in a musical family, but was always the funniest of the bunch.
Keep an eye out next spring for baseball's rising young star Harold Reese, who helped the Louisville Colonels beat the Rochester Red Wings in this year's Little World Series. They call him "Pee Wee," and he's destined to replace Durocher at shortstop for the Dodgers in 1940.
Fall baseball continues at Dexter Park today as the Bushwicks take on a team of Minor League All Stars in an exhibition doubleheader. Yankee farmhands Marius Russo and Phil Rizzuto are expected to star for the All Stars.
Get a McDermott Custom Built Home in Valley Stream, just $5990. Hey, that's right out near the Drive In Theatre. Wonder if you can see the screen from there.
The A&P grocery chain is celebrating its 80th Anniversary this week, as huge supermarkets are gradually taking over for the company's familiar red-fronted neighborhood stores.
Ah, here's more Old Timers stuff, as E. Coulman out in Ridgewood remembers the Blizzard of '88 and playing inkwell pranks on his classmates at PS 24.
A special pull-out section commemorates the opening of the 40th annual National Auto Show at the Grand Central Palace. The 1940 cars are bigger, better, wider, faster than ever, with tip-toe shifting and Hydra-Matic drives and Weather Eye temperature control and all manner of other new doodads.
|
And finally, the funnies. Here's Red Ryder looking for his missing horse, little realizing a sinister man in a red shirt riding that horse is going around killing innocent ranchers and robbing trains. Uh-oh, Little Beaver.
Big Chief Wahoo takes his niece to school and sits in for a string of old vaudeville jokes with the teacher. The Great Gusto is clearly proving a bad influence.
Jane Arden Girl Reporter and Jim have the eavesdropper in custody, and Jim punches him in the face to shut him up when the steward comes nosing around.
Leona Stockpool assigns Bill Biff to be her bouncer for the big party she's throwing, but she doesn't tell him it's one of those fashionable "Hard Times" parties where everyone comes dressed like a bum. So Bill throws out all the guests.
George Bungle, trudging home after yet another run on the treadmill of frustration that is his life, gets distracted by a duck on a pond, and ends up taking a dunk.
And Aunt Jean tells us that Mildred Spatz will get to take a trip to Washington DC with her uncle if she keeps up an average of at least 75 in school. Aim high, kid.
