The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

Scene of the crime -- 233-239 W. 42nd Street, Manhattan. 239 is the storefront to the immediate left of the Selwyn Theatre.

I can't make out exactly what that store is -- but Times Square being Times Square I can't imagine there weren't plenty of people roaming around no matter what time of the morning it was. The burglar gained entry by smashing the front door, which, you'd think, would have attracted attention from more than just a passing cop. The late editions of the Daily News will likely have juicier details.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Pope Pius XII issued a special encyclical today on the question of labor -- a document specifically addressed to the bishops of the United States -- in which the pontiff endorsed both the idea of labor unions and of associations of employers in a call for the application of the "Christian Spirit" in solving conflicts between capital and labor. The Pope also called for a living wage for workers, and for greater employment in the US, stating that for the country to solve the problem of unemployment would "bring great honor to the American people." The encyclical marked the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in America.

Demands by the German government for sea and air bases in the Netherlands will be rejected, according to the London press, which today is full of speculation over the ultimate fate of the Dutch nation. The Hague government says there has been no such ultimatum from Berlin, even as Dutch troops continue to mass along the border.

German chancellor Adolf Hitler today attended the funerals of seven persons killed in the bombing at a Munich beer hall where he had just completed a speech. Delivering the funeral orations, Nazi Party deputy leader Rudolph Hess declared that the instigators of the attempted assassination of the Fueher have "finally taught the German people to hate."

Police and Federal agents are investigating what may be the first instance of sabotage of American-built airplanes destined for Europe after a barge carrying two British-bound bombers keeled over at a Staten Island pier. The planes, disassembled and packed in crates, had been towed to Pier 12 in Stapleton, in the Free Port Trade Zone, from Floyd Bennett Field, and were to be shipped to England as soon as transportation could be arranged.

President Roosevelt declared in his Armistice Day speech that the world needs to seek a "better peace," one which will lead to the end of hate and "purposeless ambitions."

Brooklyn marked the 21st anniversary of the Armistice with ceremonies at Borough Hall and the playing of taps at 11 AM. The ceremonies followed a parade of veterans' organizations and civic groups.

A 70-year-old widower died today trying to rescue his dog from a burning house. George Smith, who lived with his dog Brownie at 250 S. 4th Street, was trapped when flames cut off his exit from his third-floor apartment, and he tried to lead his dog to a ladder on the roof before flames cut off that route as well. Firefighters found the bodies of Smith, the dog, and two cats after extinguishing the fire.

A man with only one leg was one of two people rescued from a fire at 116 Baltic Street. 53-year-old Alfonso Rodriguez and 40-year-old Jose Antelo were helped down from a fire escape by two passing longshoremen before firemen arrived. Fireman Carlisle Scholl of Engine Company 203 was hospitalized for smoke inhalation after he collapsed fighting the fire.

As jury selection continues for the bail-bond fraud trial of Abraham Frosch, a woman denied a seat on that jury declares that "women make better jurors." Mrs. Elizabeth Gallin of Flatbush declared with distaste that "this is still a man's world" after she was dismissed by Justice Francis D. McCurn. Mrs. Gallin has served on juries in the past, and says "considering some of the men I served with, I would say that women are intellectually superior as jurors to men."

The big game today is NYU vs. Missouri at Yankee Stadium, with more than 40,000 expected to attend.

City Council Majority Leader John Cashmore now leads with 16,898 first-choice votes as tabulation of Brooklyn's ballots for the Council race continues. Cashmore stands first, with Democrats Walter Hart and Joseph Sharkey second and third with 600 districts counted. Genevieve Earle of the City Fusion Party is fourth. Communist Party candidate Peter V. Caccione, ruled off the ballot by technicality, has gathered more than 7600 votes in a write-in campaign.

The pastor of the Bond Street Church, looking around for a flag to hang as a decoration, was surprised when he noticed that the banner he brought out had only 38 stars. Dr. Mark Wayne Williams is wondering if any patriotic organization around the borough would be interested in the 50-year-old flag.

Mayor LaGuardia is promoting New York as a location for motion pictures, with the hope that the entire Hollywood industry will eventually move to the city. The Mayor conferred yesterday with unions representing the various trades involved in picturemaking, and declared that the World's Fair site would make a good location for studio work.

An inmate at the Long Island City prison who tried to smuggle hacksaw blades into his cell faces a charge of attempted escape. 33-year-old Morris Moskowitz of the Bronx, already serving time for second-degree grand larceny, had the blades hidden in holes in his shoes.

Yankee star Joe DiMaggio and his fiancee, actress-singer Dorothy Arnold, took out a marriage license in San Francisco yesterday, and plan to be married a week from tomorrow.

A 47-year-old broker from Queens is recovering from injuries suffered when a man "crazed by marijuana" attacked him with an axe. Emery L. Bryan of Roslyn was on his way to Pennsylvania Station aboard an IRT subway train when 44-year-old Leon Jasper of 168 Lenox Avenue in Manhattan withdrew an axe from beneath his overcoat and struck him with it. Police say Jasper was incoherent when first questioned, but later stated that he had been smoking marijuana cigarettes and believed that two men with revolvers were following him.

Hats made of plastic are the coming thing in womens' headwear.

The Raymond Street Jail, unfit for human habitation, has a new chaplain. (That'll help.)

The Dodgers and Giants are finding the Southern Association fertile soil for an impressive rookie crop, with both clubs having shelled out $30,000 to draft young outfielders with lots of potential. The Giants have Johnny Rucker, a fleet-footed youth, who is, just to rub it in, the nephew of Nap Rucker, one of Brooklyn's great pitching heroes of the 1910s. The Dodgers, in turn, have picked up Charlie Gilbert, son of former "Miracle Braves" outfielder Larry Gilbert, who is touted as one of the better defensive prospects in the Southern circuit. Both players will report to their new organizations in the spring.

The Dodgers have optioned eight farmhands to the Montreal Royals of the International League for next season, including shortstop Pete Reiser, who played last year at Elmira in the Eastern League.

Babe Ruth will open a baseball school in Palalatka, Florida next year.

Bucky Walters, star pitcher of the Reds and the National League's Most Valuable Player for 1939, expects to win 30 games in 1940.

The football Dodgers are ready to slap back at the Washington Redskins tomorrow, still stinging from a 41-13 defeat by the Washington club last month. Coach Potsy Clark is expected to unveil a new short-punt formation for tomorrow's game.

The Ladies Division of the Brooklyn Eagle Bowling League is ready to start rolling.

The annual Red Cross Roll Call will be broadcast tonight, with speeches by President Roosevelt, Burns and Allen, Amos 'n' Andy, Jean Hersholt, and Edgar Bergen, with Bob Hope as master of ceremonies, at 10pm over WABC, WEAF,
WOR, and WMCA.

The week's television schedule includes Dodger football from Ebbets Field, and both boxing and wrestling from Ridgewood Grove. A Sunday night variety show will feature The Reviewers, Desi Arnaz, and the American Actors' Company production of "Happy Journey," by Thornton Wilder.

Herbert Cohn says "The Roaring Twenties" is a vivid picture of "the true disaster" that unfolded in America after the last war. Of course, he notes, "it's too early to tell if the current decade is really much brighter."

George exercises his usual finesse in trying to figure out the situation with the diamonds, yelling for everybody to be quiet because "that nosy donkey neighbor" can hear every word of it.

Leona insists that The Handsomest Man In All Europe should stay at the house, and of course, he accepts. And of course he's wearing an ascot and has a long cigarette holder, and bows deeply from the waist. Don't you think you're overdoing this, Fritz?

Well, now, I guess Dan Dunn is a better detective than I thought he was. HE FOUND THE GUN! And he does the only thing to do under the circs -- he tries to climb up the fireplace chimney. Oh, please, let's have J. B. Dook decide to take off the evening chill with a cozy little fire.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And from today's Daily News, here is more detail on that cop who got stabbed fourteen times by a burglar.

"beaten into submission by taxicab drivers armed with tire irons and wrenches."

It was a gentler time.

 

[David Conwill]

Boy, Sanguno looks pretty rough for 25. Of course, the article indicates he's been in trouble with the law since at least age 16.

 

[3fingers]

Boy, Sanguno looks pretty rough for 25. Of course, the article indicates he's been in trouble with the law since at least age 16.

It's not the years, it's the miles. And how rough and twisty the road has been.

 

[David Conwill]

And how rough and twisty the road has been.

Not to mention the cabbies with tire irons and wrenches, I suppose.

 

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...The pastor of the Bond Street Church, looking around for a flag to hang as a decoration, was surprised when he noticed that the banner he brought out had only 38 stars. Dr. Mark Wayne Williams is wondering if any patriotic organization around the borough would be interested in the 50-year-old flag....

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...Mayor LaGuardia is promoting New York as a location for motion pictures, with the hope that the entire Hollywood industry will eventually move to the city. The Mayor conferred yesterday with unions representing the various trades involved in picturemaking, and declared that the World's Fair site would make a good location for studio work.....

Obviously, Hollywood did not move back east, but today, NYC, which is a difficult city to do things it (it just is), is insanely friendly to TV and movie studios that want to film here. It not only brings in a lot of revenue, the resulting shows and movies are incredible advertising for the the city itself - not only for tourist, but for attracting long-term residents. No more than a few days ever go by before I find myself walking past a movie or TV shoot.

And from today's Daily News, here is more detail on that cop who got stabbed fourteen times by a burglar.

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"beaten into submission by taxicab drivers armed with tire irons and wrenches."

It was a gentler time.

Okay, so he was caught by "bystanders" as it seemed hard to believe the policeman stabbed 14 times made the arrest.

Boy, Sanguno looks pretty rough for 25. Of course, the article indicates he's been in trouble with the law since at least age 16.

I agree, but the pic was also taken right after he was beaten with tire irons and wrenches - I'm surprised he doesn't look worse.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And to think all this time I thought Doiby Dickles, wrench-swinging cab-driver sidekick of the Green Lantern, was a ridiculous comedy-relief caricature.

 

[Fading Fast]

Scene of the crime -- 233-239 W. 42nd Street, Manhattan. 239 is the storefront to the immediate left of the Selwyn Theatre.

I can't make out exactly what that store is -- but Times Square being Times Square I can't imagine there weren't plenty of people roaming around no matter what time of the morning it was. The burglar gained entry by smashing the front door, which, you'd think, would have attracted attention from more than just a passing cop. The late editions of the Daily News will likely have juicier details.

This pic got me to thinking about Times Square. Sure it looks seedy in '39 and I'm sure there was a lot of shady dealing going on - drugs, stolen goods, prostitution, and God knows what else not good - but it was fully alive and, probably, also offered a lot of interesting legitimate things that were hard to get elsewhere as a large volume of people allows for niche stores to pop up. In the '70s, a friend of mine came in regularly for sheet music, etc., as she said there was nowhere else in the world to find some of the obscure things sold there.

And as a kid in the '70s, Times Square was life on some sort of dangerous steroid with everything going on in various small pocket of it - many of those things you didn't fully understand or fully know what they were. Drugs, prostitution (with a full slate of offerings for every price point and, er, predilection), stolen goods ("jewelry" and electronics were the big two that I remember), tickets for every event on earth (I'm sure many were also stolen or fakes) - were hawked directly on the streets, out of vans or trucks or "in the back" of some "front" store.

There were also video arcades, X-rated shows/movies/stores/God knows what, legit movie theaters showing every release in the last two years, as well as, every obscure this or that film or documentary, plus some revivals, some seriously seedy bars, some seriously cool bars, tourist trinket carts/stores, wig stores (no idea why), all sorts of odd food places (many "immigrant" operations), curiously, a Navy-Marine (maybe other services to) recruiting center and so many other things I'm forgetting.

And above it all was the famous phantasmagoria of advertising plugging, pretty much, mainstream American brands (many with "wholesome" images) right above the muck of the actual street dealing. It was like stepping into an alternative universe where the rules were suspended and some crazy agora of human disfunction and rawness existed in 24 hours of natural and man-made light.

Then, in the '90s, it was cleaned up. Now, gone are most of the bad things - porn, sex-for-sale, drugs, stolen goods, hawked tickets, etc., (a tiny fraction is still there in the crevices) - replaced by chain stores that have turned Time Square into one big generic mall with famous advertising overhead and the worst graft being people dressed as cartoon characters trying to steal ten or twenty dollars for a forced picture - yawn.

I get it - those bad things before were really bad things and if there are less of them, then that's good, especially for those who are no longer victims. But it's hard not to feel a bit deflated - a bit as if the humanity has been sucked out of Time Square and replaced with cultural vacuity.

I learned a lot from Time Square in the '70s - a lot of real, raw ugly things - but it helped me become a more aware and, maybe, better person. Perhaps, the internet provides all that education to kids today - I don't know - but life was on display in Times Square in the '70s for a kid from New Jersey in a unique way.

Sure we are better it's gone, but I'm glad I saw it, not as entertainment, but as an education I'd never, ever get in a classroom. It's helped me throughout my life.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Whenever I'm in New York, I always come back to the same question -- exactly what kind of person comes to Times Square to eat at Applebees?

 

[Fading Fast]

Whenever I'm in New York, I always come back to the same question -- exactly what kind of person comes to Times Square to eat at Applebees?

You can't swing a dead cat in this city without hitting at least one decent pizza place with good slices, yet Domino's exists. In/around my neighborhood, which has, easily, ten-plus good pizza places (I'm using a ten or so square block area) - all meaningfully better than Domino's - has a Domino's.

And my neighborhood has no tourist attractions, so it's all locals or workers who come in for the day. I've looked and the cost is the same (or within shooting distance and some of the slice places are cheaper than Domino's). I just don't get it, but clearly some people simply like Domino's better than the NY slices that I think are better. As my dad would say, that's what makes a horse race.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The other day I was thinking about New York pizza -- and started noodling around in the Daily News archives to see how far back the mentions went. And I uncovered a truly horrifying fact: the very first recipe for pizza that this paper -- the living, breathing epitome of New York -- ever published was this one, from August 28, 1942:

English muffins. Miss Rosemary Vesta of Brooklyn, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Fading Fast]

The other day I was thinking about New York pizza -- and started noodling around in the Daily News archives to see how far back the mentions went. And I uncovered a truly horrifying fact: the very first recipe for pizza that this paper -- the living, breathing epitome of New York -- ever published was this one, from August 28, 1942:

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English muffins. Miss Rosemary Vesta of Brooklyn, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

I'm a kid who grew up in a frugal household in NJ in the '70s. For sure, we went to pizza places and brought pizza home, but we'd also put Ragu tomato sauce and packaged cheese on an English muffin, throw it in the toaster oven and call it diner.

I made plenty of those for myself when my parents weren't home. If I was lucky, my mom would buy me Stouffer's French Bread frozen pizza for those nights, but quite often it was the whatever bread we had, Ragu, American cheese and the toaster oven.

 

[Farace]

The other day I was thinking about New York pizza -- and started noodling around in the Daily News archives to see how far back the mentions went. And I uncovered a truly horrifying fact: the very first recipe for pizza that this paper -- the living, breathing epitome of New York -- ever published was this one, from August 28, 1942:

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English muffins. Miss Rosemary Vesta of Brooklyn, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

I still do this from time to time, but I never confuse it with real apizza. I grew up on New Haven apizza; my ex-wife was a Manhattan native and we used to argue over where the best pizza lived. But I come from a long line of pizza snobs--my great-grandmother arrived here from Italy in 1916 and used to send my grandfather out in the streets of New Haven to sell pies to the Yalies even before Frank Pepe opened his legendary pizzeria.

 

[tonyb]

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The body of a newborn baby girl was found in a brown paper bundle in Prospect Park this morning. The body was wrapped in a bed sheet, with a silk stocking stuffed in its mouth. Police believe the child was born, and killed, last night.

Former Alderman Charles Hart is assured of a seat on the City Council as tabulation of paper ballots continues. Hart now leads the slate of Brooklyn candidates with 8273 votes, with Mrs. Genevieve Earle second at 7435 votes.

In Kingsport, Tennessee, a baby born with two heads is said to be recovering well from surgery to remove one of the heads. The second head was said to have been attached at the base of the normal head. The child was born to a family of tenant farmers on October 17th.

Both sides in the removal hearing for Kings County Judge George W. Martin will summarize their cases next week, with a final vote by the State Senate on whether Martin will keep or lose his office expected on Thursday.

Five student groups at Brooklyn College have issued pre-Armistice Day peace statements, with the largest of the groups, representing the United Students Peace Committee, condemning the European War and the Dies Committee, demanding an immediate boycott and embargo of Japan, and opposing any establishment of an ROTC program on campus.

The introduction next week of two-quart paper milk containers by Sheffield Farms and Borden will be permitted only on a trial basis according to City Market Commissioner William Fellowes Morgan Jr. Morgan notes that regulations on the filling to true measure that apply to glass bottles do not apply to paper cartons, but the experiment will be allowed as long as customers receive the promised three cents per half gallon in savings.

Looks like all those coats that didn't sell in the Election Day sale at the various department stores are now Armistice Day Sale bargains. Take your pick of Martin's, Oppenheim-Collins, Loeser's, or Lane Bryant, they're all in on it.

Meanwhile, TOYLAND is now open at Loeser's, just in time for the holiday rush. Looks like the big licensed merchandise toy craze this year will be Pinocchio, in honor of the upcoming Disney film. And don't miss the famous Loeser's 40 Foot Christmas Tree, already ablaze with lights outside the Fulton Street entrance. And even though Santa hasn't had his Thanksgiving dinner yet, he's also on hand to meet the kiddies. Ho, ho, ho.

So -- when is an ad not an ad?

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There is no story accompanying this photo -- and there is no ADV'T slug line. And since the new cartons, as we have seen, don't actually hit the doorsteps until next week, it cannot be said that Mrs. Brooklyn Housewife has had any chance to form any opinion on the matter other than what she's read in the paper. And note also the "every other day" bit -- you're not going to be getting a daily delivery anymore, Mrs. B. H., and that means at least a few of your neighbors who work for Borden's or Sheffield will likely be losing their jobs. The term "fake news" hasn't been coined yet, but somewhere George Seldes is looking at his copy of the Eagle and is saying HAH!

A reader under the name of "Heights Citizen" writes in to speak up in behalf of Bob The Spitz, the other Brooklyn dog besides Brownie who is sitting on death row pending an appeal of his case. It appears that H. C. knows Bob personally and vouches for his character, pointing out that he is a cripple, and it is unfair to be keeping him isolated in a cage away from his beloved mistress.

Herbert Cohn went into The City yesterday to see the premiere of "Ninotchka" at the Music Hall, and he loves it: "a personal triumph (for Garbo) and a masterstroke for Ernst Lubitsch."

At the Patio, it's Hedy Lamaar in "Lady of the Tropics," paired with Edward G. Robinson in "Blackmail." Now that's a couple I'd like to see in a picture together.

Hy Gardner reports that it looks like Rudy Vallee is picking up where he left off with Dorothy Lamour. (Does J. Edgar know?)

The New York Americans got off to a bad start in the National Hockey League campaign, falling to the undefeated Montreal Canadiens, 2-0.

Five brothers with baseball talent have roused Dodger attention as the team's nationwide tryout campaign continues out west. Three of the "Martensen boys" are under contract already, and two others may also be signed.

Injured Football Dodgers kicker Ralph Kercheval, hit in the head during last week's game against Pittsburgh will be used sparingly when the Flock takes on Washington this Sunday at Ebbets Field.

Rumors have Hank Greenberg headed for the Washington Senators -- but the Tiger first baseman says all he knows about it is what he reads in the papers.

Brooklyn's own Glenda Farrell is Kate Smith's guest tonight on WABC at 8pm.

As the Bungles and their pushy upstairs neighbors fight passive-aggressively over the diamonds, Uncle Boohoo butts in to remind everybody who actually found them.

The Handsomest Man in all Europe encounters Miss Leona on horseback, and kisses her hand like all good phony counts do.

Dan Dunn is frantically searching the cabin for the gun -- I told you to look in the stove, you meathead -- when the cabin's owner walks in. Yes, it's none other than John Barrymore Dook in person!

Makes me thankful for the more recent “safe haven” laws in many jurisdictions allowing people to leave infants at firehouses, police stations, and hospitals without fear of being charged with a crime.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The government of The Netherlands is taking strong issue with reports that the country is making serious preparations for war. The Dutch government, in an effort to emphasize its neutrality, is dismissing published statements from abroad hinting that it is massing troops along its borders, stating that "our information without exception is contrary to alarming rumors being published about our country, especially in the British press." Dutch officials further state that "there is no indication that Germany has aggressive tensions against the Netherlands."

An odd-jobs repairman is the focus of investigation by German authorites in connection with the bombing last week of the Munich beer hall where Chancellor Adolf Hitler had just completed a speech. The as-yet unidentified workman had been doing repairs in the hall since August.

Finland's fpreign minister denies that his nation is taking an "uncompromising" stand in its negotiations with the Soviet Union, talks which have apparently reached an impasse. The statement comes as reports of massing Finnish troops along the border near Leningrad have drawn criticism in the Soviet press. Foreign observers have expressed the belief that Soviet troops massed along the same border exceed the number of Finnish force by as much as three or four times.

Island inhabitants off the coast of Norway report hearing the sounds of loud gunfire in the North Sea, heralding the likely start of a major naval battle.

Women will have a vital role to play in the war, according to Britain's Queen Elizabeth. In an Armistice Day address, the Queen urged the women of Britain to "face the petty irritations of wartime life with the same fortitude as you face its dangers."

Queens Democrat James Burke has been assured of a seat on the new City Council with 75,000 first-place votes as ballot counting continues. Burke is the first councilman to be elected on the first count since the Proportional Representation system was adopted in 1937. In Brooklyn, Cashmore, Sharkey, Earle, and Hart are the top four candidates.

A plan submitted by the Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation for bus lines to replace suspended rail service for Queens residents along the Atlantic Avenue line will go before the Board of Estimate this week. The plan is intended to supplant the illegal operation along the routes by sightseeing buses that has sprung up since the Atlantic Avenue line was shut down earlier this month for modification.

A 36-year-old Bergenfield, New Jersey woman is charged with three counts attempted murder after trying to asphyxiate her children with gas. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown walked into the Bergenfield police station yesterday and told officers she had left her children sleeping in the house with the all the gas jets turned on, and that she intended to take her own life after the children were dead. Police shut off the gas and rescued the children, who were uninjured. Mrs. Brown, who had just been released from a hospital, was separated from her husband.

Notre Dame is undefeated no longer, with Iowa pulling off a surprising victory against the Irish, 7-6. Dartmouth, likewise, saw its perfect record for the season terminated when it lost to Princeton, 9-7.

Radio commentator Lowell Thomas has been silenced by a streptococci infection of the throat. The broadcaster will be confined to his bed for a week.

A 68-year-old woman was run down and killed while crossing 16th Avenye today. Mrs. Lizzie Beck of 1625 49th Street was just a block away from her home when she was hit by a car driven by 37-year-old Frank Lowery of 135 Sands Street.

G-men and police are guarding the Staten Island pier where two crated bomber planes destined for England were tipped into the water when the barge carrying them keeled over. Although it is possible the barge sank by accident, authorities have not yet ruled out sabotage.

Seven persons, including two young women, have been arrested in Maspeth on charges of running policy slips. More than 90 betting slips containing about 6500 sets of numbers were in their possession at the time of their arrest.

There isn't much chance of Hollywood's movie industry pulling up stakes and moving to New York. So say industry leaders in response to Mayor LaGuardia's invitation for an eastern move. The main complaint about New York as a picture-making spot is that the city is too noisy. Directors also say that the sunlight in New York isn't bright enough, and that California offers a greater variety of natural settings.

Next year's Democratic Convention could be held in Philadelphia. City officials and party leaders are said to be negotiating price. Philadelphia is also negotiating to host the 1940 Republican Convention.

ACCORDION -- and 32 private lessons! $45 complete! Pay $1.25 weekly! New York Band Instrument Company, 25 Flatbush Avenue Opposite Fox Theatre.

EXHILARATING group of best coats your money can buy! $59.95 at Abraham & Straus!

Tots Never Whine At Far Rockaway Cripples Home -- They Play, Study, Almost Like Normal Children. (sigh)

Kids at the Wave Crest Convalescent Home of the Brooklyn Children's Aid Society were visited by a live burro, and were given rides about the yard. The burro, which spent the summer at the World's Fair, is said to be very attached to children.

MORE DATES FOR YOU when you get rid of the hair on your face! Visit Mrs. J. T. Salman, Brooklyn's oldest electrologist, at 28 Court Street. Call TRiangle 5-5560 for a gratis consultation.

Ike The Waiter, a forty year veteran at Gage & Tollner's, misses the days when people lingered over their meals. Forty years ago, he says, it was common for diners to arrive at 6 and still be eating at 8. Today, people sit down, eat in a hurry, and are done in half an hour. But Ike -- whose real name is William Randolph Gatskill -- says kids today are all right. He says the average 20 year old fellow today knows far more about good food and how to eat it than his parents ever did.

Edna Mae Oliver stars with Orson Welles tonight in the Campbell Playhouse presentation of "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd," 8pm on WABC.

A follower of Father Coughlin who called President Roosevelt a "Jew" guilty of "treason" from the platform of a high school in Rhode Island is under fire today from a member of that state's Supreme Court. Justice Francis B. Condon was on the platform with Frank Moran of Boston, an organizer for Coughlin's "Christian Front" movement, and denounced his remarks. Also on the platform was Father Edward Lodge Curran of Brooklyn, head of the International Catholic Truth Society.

The Eagle editorialist objects to a new advertising trend -- the insertion of perfume samples into newspapers, causing the entire paper to carry a scent, which forces pressmen to come up with explanations for angry wives.

Vice President John Garner says he's in the Presidential race to win. A candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1940, the Vice President has said he doesn't expect President Roosevelt to seek a third term.

The war is now a comic strip:

Jim "Barney" Lafferty liked what "A Guy Named Joe" had to say about the good old days in Flatbush on a recent Old Timer's Page, and adds his own memories of how Culleeny the Farmer used to holler when the kids would steal his carrots and turnips, and how the biggest spiders he ever saw lived in the Paerdegat Woods, and how Hermie Greenwald used to go around lighting the gas lamps with matches.

It's the annual Rug Clearance Sale at Loeser's!

The Trend cover boy this week is Yale football coach Mal Stevens, who is also an assistant clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. That must come in handy.

A grocery-store cat in Blythe, Georgia has learned how to turn on an electric fan, basking in the breezes at will, and annoying the boss.

Frances Farmer will star in the Group Theatre's production of "Thunder Rock," opening this week at the Alvin Theatre.

At the Parkland, the new Yiddish drama "Mein Shtetel Yass" is paired with "Orphans Of Divorce."

With its 2532nd performance this coming Saturday night, "Tobacco Road" takes over as the longest-running show in the history of Broadway, breaking the old record held by "Abie's irish Rose."

Chico Marx is a comedian with a unique problem -- he doesn't know when his gags are funny. The Marx Brothers' latest film "At The Circus" opens next Thursday at the Capitol. (Don't worry, Chico. I don't know when the gags in that picture are funny either.)

The football Dodgers must win today against Washington if they have any hope of staying in the NFL Eastern Division race.

The Brooklyn Jewels open their American Basketball League season tonight at Arcadia Hall, hosting the Washington Brewers.

And in the funnies, Red Ryder is about to be strung up when Little Beaver shoots a flaming arrow, setting the scaffold on fire. Ace Hanlon must've soaked the wood in coal oil to get it to burn like that.

The evil henchmen of the ship's captain try to drug Jane Arden and Jim, but they're too smart -- they make their prisoner Pedro eat the food first. Ha ha ha ha.

George Bungle tries to shovel snow and suffers a variety of humiliating injuries. And then Jo congratulates him on what a good job he did.

And Aunt Jean must be having a bad day because she chides the Junior Eagles for using blue ink instead of black for their submissions, for using ruled paper instead of plain, and she really lets poor Betty Fitzgibbons have it: "Your stories are too long." Jeez, what turned the "Happy Timer" into the "Snappy Timer?"

 

[Fading Fast]

...Radio commentator Lowell Thomas has been silenced by a streptococci infection of the throat. The broadcaster will be confined to his bed for a week....

Shame antibiotics weren't in use yet.

...Seven persons, including two young women, have been arrested in Maspeth on charges of running policy slips. More than 90 betting slips containing about 6500 sets of numbers were in their possession at the time of their arrest....

My first summer job on Wall Street was clerking on the floor of the NYSE where the head clerk was also a "runner" for a gambling operation (yup), he took bets all day long on slips of paper and kept them in one pocket; whereas, the legit trade slips were kept in several other pockets (open orders, filled, good till cancel, etc.).

He was a great guy and he ran both businesses very well (he was very popular as, no surprise, many people on the floor of the exchange love betting on sporting events too), but one day late, he realized he had blended the slips and needed to quickly sort out hundred of slips before they went up to the office.

So, there I was, after the market closed, sitting on the floor of the exchange in the corner of our booth with the head clerk and all the slips spread out in a giant pile in front of us where we had to go one by one and separate out, not only the gambling slips, but all the legit ones into their respective piles as well.

It was harrowing as, by exchange rules, we had to get the legit slips organized and up to the office for processing shortly after the close and, obviously, couldn't have any of the gambling slips in there (plus, those had to get to the bookie operation). Absolutely crazy, but it seemed almost normal when you're doing it.

...There isn't much chance of Hollywood's movie industry pulling up stakes and moving to New York. So say industry leaders in response to Mayor LaGuardia's invitation for an eastern move. The main complaint about New York as a picture-making spot is that the city is too noisy. Directors also say that the sunlight in New York isn't bright enough, and that California offers a greater variety of natural settings....

I'm sure most FL members know that the movie industry started the east (in and around NYC) and moved west for all the reasons ⇧ that it wouldn't move back east.

...EXHILARATING group of best coats your money can buy! $59.95 at Abraham & Straus!....

Based on an inflation calculator that's ~$1100 today - not an inexpensive coat.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And from today's Sunday News, whatever happened to public civility?

In Bensonhurst, Joe Punchclock turns to Sally and says "Hey! Izzat s'posed ta be a dig at the Dodgers? Howya like that?" And Sally says to Joe, "Gee, that was a swell pitcha. Clark Gable! Hey, Joe, howcome you gotta sit there like that with your suspenders hangin' down an' yer feet in the stove? I bet Clark Gable don't sit around like that. Ahhhh! Clark Gable!"

 

[David Conwill]

A 68-year-old woman was run down and killed...

Yikes. Makes it sound like the guy in the car chased her for a bit!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Four broken windows were the extent of the damage today as Nazi planes bombed the Shetland Islands. The British Admiralty reports the attacks were driven off by anti-aircraft fire. Some of the bombs dropped fell into the sea, and those that did hit land missed structures.

In France, Nazi reconnaissance planes reportedly penetrated as far as Paris before turning back in the face of anti-aircraft fire. Air raid precautions were in effect in Paris for over an hour. The planes crossed Belgian territory on their way to France.

Finland has definitely broken off negotiations with the Soviet Union. So states Foreign Minister J. E. Erkko, indicating the termination of talks is the result of anti-Finnish statements in the Soviet press. The Finnish government is reported to be confident that Soviet troops would not dare to mount an invasion to secure the naval bases and border revisions they had sought thru negotiation.

The Netherlands is fully prepared for any eventuality, state reports from the Hague. Current mobilization of Dutch troops is seen as a guarantee that the nation's neutrality will be respected. The Dutch government has been criticized in the German press for its decision to respect the British blockade.

Polish refugees arriving in New York offer tales of horror as they relate the stories of how they escaped from the German bombardment of Warsaw. Among the passengers on the liner Scanyork are Mrs. Alexandria Garcia -- a stowaway -- and her fifteen-year-old daughter Mercedes, and Spanish dancer Dolores Laurell, who told reports she had fled Warsaw barefoot, and ran for five days and nights thru the woods before reaching safety. A Brooklyn-born artist, Mrs. Loretta Kurdelska Rosch, fled her studio in Warsaw under German fire after losing more than 300 paintings when her studio was bombed.

Love telegrams from German-American Bund leader Fritz Kuhn to his girlfriend were read aloud in court this morning as Kuhn's trial on grand larceny and forgery charges continued in Manhattan General Sessions Court. Spectators snickered as Kuhn's "love and kisses" messages to Mrs. Florence Camp were read into the record. Kuhn is accused of embezzling $5641.14 from the Bund treasury "for his own amorous purposes."

Borough Hall was thrown into a turmoil this morning when a 1500-gallon water tank on the roof ruptured, dumping a cascade of water down all seven floors of the building, and forcing an evacuation. The sound of the tank rupturing confused occupants of the building, who feared a bomb had gone off, sending scores of people rushing down stairs and into the street. The water put both of the building's elevators out of commission, and caused considerable damage to ceilings and office furniture.

Accused bail-bond fraudster Abraham Frosch has had his $40,000 bail revoked, and will remain jailed pending his trial. The 24-year-old Georgia Avenue man faces 184 counts of forgery and perjury in connection with the writing of bail bonds. Jury selection for his trial continues today in Brooklyn Supreme Court, with testimony expected to begin on Friday.

Two pickpockets with long police records were arrested last night during a lecture at a synagogue at 400 Stone Avenue. 48-year-old Nathan Green of 28 Grafton Street and 50-year-old Samuel Gold of 240 S. 8th Street were taken into custody when two detectives in the congregation saw them about to pick the pockets of the men seated next to them. The two suspects deny the charges, saying they only wanted to hear the lecture. Green has been arrested 20 times since 1910, and Gold 42 times since 1913, and both suspects have done time at Sing Sing.

A former employee of the State Department of Corrections charges she was forced out of her job for speaking out about corruption in the Kings County Court. Agnes C. Sullivan of 223 E. 22nd Street says she was "disciplined" out of her position for political reasons, but State Corrections Commissioner James Lyons dismissed her claims, calliing her an "excitable and emotional woman." Miss Sullivan had been transferred out of Brooklyn and sent to Utica on three weeks notice, with Department officials claiming the move was made because she "lacked tact," but she maintains that she was targeted over a report she had written documenting the presence of untrained political appointees causing severe problems in the probation department. Miss Sullivan subsequently resigned from the Department after being denied three weeks' leave to care for her sick mother.

Hearings are underway in Washington to set a minimum wage for workers in the garment trades, with recommendations ranging from 32 1/2 to 40 cents an hour, meaning pay raises likely for more than 200,000 workers. The result of the hearings is expected to produce a system less complicated than that which formerly governed the industry under the NRA. The US garment industry produced over $2.7 billion worth of goods in 1937.

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20 boys were welcomed into manhood in a mass Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Hotel St. George under the auspices of the Pride of Judea Children's Home. More than 1100 persons attended the ceremony and the $50-a-couple fundraising dance that followed.

A strike by 1800 employees of the United Parcel Service has been resolved thru the intervention of the State Mediation Board. The delivery drivers had walked off the job to protest the suspension of 20-year-old John Fargos, a conveyor-belt boy. UPS officials say the boy was disciplined for "fooling around." The question of Fargos' suspension will be taken up by an arbiter assigned by the Mediation Board as a condition of the settlement.

While Hollywood lacked enthusiasm for Mayor LaGuardia's call for a mass move back to New York, a new film production company is expected to take up residence in the old Astoria studios. Writer Ben Hecht and producer-comedian George Jessel have formed "New York Pictures," with its first project to be the filming of Hecht's story "Before I Die." The Mayor is proposing the construction of an all-new $25,000,000 "Cinema City" near the World's Fair, but the Hecht-Jessel proposal stops short of endorsing that idea.

Brooklyn's oldest corset fitter has retired after 55 years on the job. Miss Annie Furlong has been a fixture at Newman's Department Store since 1884, and has seen fashions come and go, but the essence of her job has remained the same. Miss Furlong remembers the days when a corset really was a corset, with laces and bones and hooks up the front, and speaks disdainfully of the modern light-weight garments which many women just don't like.

"Breathe in, honey."

The Eagle editorialist laments the sloppy dress habits of today's lawyers, and remembers the days when a lawyer *looked* like a lawyer, with his frock coat and high silk hat and cane. (Hey, you and Miss Annie Furlong ought to go out to supper sometime. You'd probably get along swell.)

Gunfire erupted early this morning at a Glendale beer garden, with police opening fire on three men attempting to stick up the establishment. The three men, one of the armed, entered the beer garden of Charles Petring at 62-04 Cooper Avenue around 2 am. The holdup men fled in a car. No arrests have been made.

A sixty-one-year-old Brooklyn man employed as an inspector for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company has died of stab wounds following an incident at Grand Central Station last week. Charles F. Newkirk of 1357 St. Marks Avenue was attacked by John W. Reimers of 300 W. 160th Street in Manhattan while working in his office at the station. Reimers was reportedly a former IRT ticket taker who blamed the loss of his job on Newkirk. The charge against Reimers has been changed from felonious assault to homicide.

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The Football Dodgers are smarting from the pummeling they took from the Washington Redskins yesterday, with the Flock ground underfoot 42-0. The loss leaves Brooklyn 4-4 with one tie and two games left to play. The Redskins will face the Giants at the Polo Grounds on December 3rd in a game which will likely decide the NFL Eastern Division title.

The New York Rangers lost their home opener at Madison Square Garden, shut out 2-0 by the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Despite rumors that had him headed to Cincinnati, young Dominic DiMaggio, Joe's kid brother and the Most Valuable Player in the Pacific Coast League for 1939, will go to the Boston Red Sox in 1940, with Boston general manager Eddie Collins announcing that the 20-year-old .361-hitting outfielder has been purchased from the San Francisco Seals, along with one other player, in a straight cash transaction. No purchase price was named.

Wallace Beery recreates his most famous screen role tonight in "The Champ," on the Lux Radio Theatre, tonight at 9pm on WABC.

As the Bungles and those awful people from upstairs continue to bicker over the diamonds, Potato-Nose Homer makes the mistake of slighting Uncle Booboo, who inflicts him with a "squitch." A squitch is a curse, and something tells me it might also involve a punch in the face.

Leona is all aflutter over The Handsomest Man In All Europe, and orders Mary Worth and Cousin Sue to take their meal elsewhere this evening. Meanwhile Murdock the Butler and THMIAE exchange meaningful words, with Murdock warning of rough stuff if Handsome doesn't follow thru on his end of the deal.

Dan Dunn managed to get out of the chimney without being roasted alive (phooey) and is now in his Flying Crime Lab Plane finding out the the gun he found might not match the bullet that killed that random guy way back when this storyline started. You can tell he's working hard because he took off his coat and rolled up his sleeves.