The Era -- Day By Day

[LizzieMaine]

"Mary Worth's Family -- The Motion Picture."

Apple Mary Worth -- May Robson
Bill Biff -- Jimmy Gleason
Leona Stockpool -- Rosemary Lane
Sue Wrenn -- Priscilla Lane
Ted -- Dick Powell
Prince Frederic, The Handsomest Man in all Europe -- Warren William
Murdock the Butler -- Basil Rathbone
The Korjian Consul -- Mischa Auer
Dad Stockpool -- Edward Arnold

 

[Fading Fast]

"Mary Worth's Family -- The Motion Picture."

Apple Mary Worth -- May Robson
Bill Biff -- Jimmy Gleason
Leona Stockpool -- Rosemary Lane
Sue Wrenn -- Priscilla Lane
Ted -- Dick Powell
Prince Frederic, The Handsomest Man in all Europe -- Warren William
Murdock the Butler -- Basil Rathbone
The Korjian Consul -- Mischa Auer
Dad Stockpool -- Edward Arnold

I'm not familiar enough with some of the characters to make a call - but I love Warren Williams as Prince Frederic and Rathbone as the butler.

I'd propose Jean Muir as Leona as she basically played a Leona in "And One Was Beautiful" pitch perfectly.

May Robson would be an excellent Mary Worth; reading the strip though, I had Marie Dressler or Alison Skipworth in mind, but again, Robson would be perfect too.

Powell would make an excellent Ted as would Dennis Morgan (but he might be too young based on the rest of our casting).

Priscilla Lane might be too pretty for Sue, but (1) Hollywood, at that time, always cast too pretty and (2) I'm on board with any movie with Priscilla Lane in it, so I guess Hollywood knew what it was doing.

 

[LizzieMaine]

British naval forces are reported to be "on the watch" for the German pocket battleship Graf Spee, currently bottled up in the neutral port of Montevideo. The British have dispatched the cruisers Ajax and Achilles to patrol the waters outside Montevideo to ensure the German ship does not escape. The Graf Spee was forced into Montevideo after a fourteen-hour attack by British ships that left the German vessel pocked with damage and thirty-nine of her crew dead.

The League of Nations voted today to expel the Soviet Union over its invasion of Finland, with Finland, Yugoslavia, Greece, and China abstaining from the vote. Those nations voting to expel were Bolivia, Britain, the Dominican Republic, Belgium, France, Egypt, and South Africa.

Meanwhile, Finnish troops retreating from the blazing border city of Salmajaervi fought a delaying action today in the face of a Russian advance across northern Finland. Norwegian troops watched from their side of the border, with fires visible from Norwegian soil.

A two-alarm fire early-morning at an old-law tenement on Bartlett Street claimed the lives of a mother and her seven-year-old child. Mrs. Ramonia Malave and her son Edward burned to death near a window in their top floor apartment. Firemen concluded that Mrs. Malave was trying to get the window open when she fell to the flames. The blaze broke out on the third floor of the four-story building, blocking escape via stairways. The other tenants of the building, including Mrs. Malave's mother and sister, escaped thru windows and down the fire escapes. Investigators are unsure of the cause of the fire, but a portable heater may have been involved.

The wan 53-year-old wife of accused bail-bond racketeer Max Lippe took the stand in his defense today in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Mrs. Bertha Lipschutz testified that the properties her husband used as security in posting bail bonds for clients were bought and paid for by him, and that she contributed not a cent to her husband's activities. On cross-examination Mrs. Lipschutz admitted that she had used the deed to one of her husband's properties in posting bond for an accused hot-fur racketeer. Max Lippe, whose legal name is Lipschutz, faces eighteen counts of perjury in connection with his bail bond operation.

A department manager at the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been promoted to Rear Admiral. Captain Charles Alfred Dunn has been in command of the Yard's industrial department for the past five years.

A Manhattan Traffic Court magistrate is accused of forcing a man into pleading guilty to fourteen counts of illegal parking by threatening to tell tales about his wife. Harry I. Greenspan and his wife Gertrude are suing Magistrate Anthony P. Burke for false arrest and malicious prosecution to the tune of $200,000 in damages. Greenspan insisted that he pleaded guilty to the charges only after Magistrate Burke took him into his chambers and threatened to reveal the results of a "prison examination" of Mrs. Greenspan.

War toys are unpopular this holiday season. The big Brooklyn department stores are "soft pedaling" toy soldiers, toy guns, and other military-oriented toys in favor of a "Peace On Earth" spirit. Donations to the WPA's toy drive for underprivileged children in the borough have not collected a single war-themed toy out of more than 70,000.

A Queens man is being held on $200 bail for "annoying" a woman at a movie. Harry Wolff of 92 Hooper Street is accused of annoying Mrs. Lydia Williams of Woodhaven during a show at a theatre in Jamacia. Appearing in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, Wolff claimed he was merely reaching down to pick up the overcoat that had slipped off his knee when Mrs. Williams struck him in the face and chased him out of the theatre.

The San Francisco World's Fair will reopen in 1940 after all, with officials of the Golden Gate International Exposition having secured agreements from creditors to hold off demands until the receipts from next year are in.

For Christmas -- Remember all your friends who appreciate really FINE beer! Give them Ruppert's Old Knickerbocker -- the new beer with the old-time lip-smacking flavor! At neighborhood stores in neat cartons of 24 cans or bottles!

CUT YOUR FOOD COSTS WITHOUT CUTTING CORNERS FOR QUALITY -- At your A&P Self Service Super Market! 5 Stores in One! Extra-Fancy Milk Fed Fowl! 19 cents/lb! Boneless Chuck Pot Roast 25 cents/lb! Fresh Spanish mackerel 13 cents/lb! Order your Christmas turkey today!

Leona Lane, concert-singing member of the Lane family of movie fame will join sisters Rosemary, Lola, and Priscilla for a quartet performance on next week's Lux Radio Theatre.

A new series of detective films from MGM starring Walter Pidgeon as "Nick Carter, Master Detective" begins this week at Loew's Criterion. Herbert Cohn went into the City to to see the initial entry, and says that old Nick has a bit of Buck Rogers in him in his new screen incarnation, with an emphasis on super-scientific crimefighting devices and a "stratospheric rocket plane."

At the RKO Albee, see Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff in "Tower of London" -- BLOOD ORGIES OF MAD MONSTERS! A great family show, bring Grandma and the kids.

Brooklyn is the borough of beautiful girls, says Harry Conover, head of the modeling agency that bears his name. Conover says many of the fresh faces you see on magazine covers and in advertisements are Brooklyn born and bred. (In Bensonhurst, Sally Punchclock tosses back an untrimmed strand of hair, wipes a spot of soot off her face, and sticks her tongue out at Joe, who's slumped in a kitchen chair snoring, with his suspenders hanging down and his feet in the stove.)

Kenny Washington, "great Negro halfback" from UCLA is the top gridiron ground-gainer for 1939. Washington gained 828 yards rushing and 537 passing for a total of 1365, edging out runner-up Tommy Harmon of Michigan by 9 yards.

Edgar Bergen celebrates this week the third anniversary of his first radio broadcast. When Bergen finished that appearance in December 1936 on Rudy Vallee's variety hour, and Vallee invited him back, Bergen panicked, wondering where he'd get a new script for a second appearance. He doesn't worry about that anymore.

George pulls a soot-covered, grime-bearded fat fellow out of his chimney, and this creature claims to be S. Claus himself, in person -- rehearsing for Christmas, he had a little problem. George rolls his eyes -- until he thinks he hears sleigh bells.

Calling it now -- Ted is proposing to Sue, even as we speak.

Dan is trying to land by instruments, and you know who calibrated them. Good thing the airport will have an ambulance handy.

 

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...A Manhattan Traffic Court magistrate is accused of forcing a man into pleading guilty to fourteen counts of illegal parking by threatening to tell tales about his wife. Harry I. Greenspan and his wife Gertrude are suing Magistrate Anthony P. Burke for false arrest and malicious prosecution to the tune of $200,000 in damages. Greenspan insisted that he pleaded guilty to the charges only after Magistrate Burke took him into his chambers and threatened to reveal the results of a "prison examination" of Mrs. Greenspan.....

Something more is going on here - no?

...Leona Lane, concert-singing member of the Lane family of movie fame will join sisters Rosemary, Lola, and Priscilla for a quartet performance on next week's Lux Radio Theatre.....

And you can catch three of the Lane girls on TCM when it plays "Daughters Courageous" as it does from time to time. In it, you'll see super-cute Priscilla Lane of light and goodness even warm the heart of uber-bad boy with a constant chip on his shoulder John Garfield. An interesting movie pairing that surprisingly works.

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Calling it now -- Ted is proposing to Sue, even as we speak.....

Mary's hard to figure - just when you think she's going to be tough she goes soft and sometimes vice versa. I'm with you on your call on Ted as that will wind Leona up just that much more.

...Dan is trying to land by instruments, and you know who calibrated them. Good thing the airport will have an ambulance handy.

Yup

 

[3fingers]

Something more is going on here - no?

A Queens man is being held on $200 bail for "annoying" a woman at a movie.

And something more here here as well?

 

[Fading Fast]

And something more here here as well?

Agreed. The man "annoying" a woman in the theater event pops up now and again in the movies of that era. It plays a crucial part of the plot in the 1958 movie "Separate Tables."

 

[LizzieMaine]

And once again I am really impressed by Dale Connor's artwork. Notice the finely nuanced expression on Mary's face in the second panel -- she's annoyed with Bill's wisecrack, but she's also got this look of utter pleading in her eyes that tells you that she's really worried about Leona here. Dale is really the factor that makes a difference between this strip being hokey, manipulative melodrama and a story that that involves characters you end up caring about. She really is one of the finest newspaper strip artists of 1939.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Meanwhile, in the Daily News....

April Kane enjoys a pleasant cup of tea with the delightful Miss Cheery Blaze...

Dick Tracy makes friends with little Binnie Viller while her evil dad -- works on his Tootsietoy collection?

And Harold Teen finds that losing his "Honey Lamb" to the odious Mr. McClusky is interfering with his work...

 

[LizzieMaine]

Finland is sending out peace feelers to the Soviet Union, with Foreign Minister Valno Tanner, in a radio broadcast addressed to Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, offering to suspend hostilities and return to the negotiating table on the basis of respecting the Finnish right to self-determination. The offer comes as Moscow radio reports that Soviet troops have broken thru the Mannerheim Line on the Korellian Isthmus. Meanwhile, the Helsinki government has ordered all army reservists mobilized for combat duty.

British and German warplanes clashed today in one of the fiercest air battles of the war so far, as British bombers raided a Nazi seaplane base along the German North Sea coast. The British air attack scuttled a German freighter at the cost of ten RAF planes.

A possible move by Governor Herbert H. Lehman to name a Bronx judge to the 2nd Judicial District vacancy on the State Court of Appeals bench is causing an outcry in Brooklyn, with a front-page Eagle editorial demanding that the district in question, which represents over 1/3 of the state's entire population, be represented by a Brooklyn judge -- as it has been for the past thirty-six years.

A minor figure in the Lindbergh Kidnapping Case was shot and killed today in his apartment in White Plains. 36-year-old Ernest Brennan, formerly known as Ernest Brinkert, was reportedly shot by 43-year-old James Johnston of Bedford Village, a fellow house-painter, following an argument. Johnston was arraigned this afternoon on a murder charge, and is being held without bail. Brennan, then Brinkert, was an acquaintance of Violet Sharpe, Lindbergh housemaid, who committed suicide shortly after the abduction of the Lindbergh Baby, and was questioned by police in connection with the investigation of her death.

A truck containing $23,800 worth of wines and liquors was hijacked in New Jersey this morning by three armed men. The abandoned truck was recovered near the town of Hasbrouck Heights, with only 150 cases out of a load of 700 cases still intact. Police were questioning the driver, who claims the three gunmen forced him from the truck, tied him up, and left him in the woods.

The fate of accused bail-bond racketeer Max Lippe, described the prosecution as a "smug, sleek self-satisfied type of person," is in the hands of a blue ribbon jury in Brooklyn Supreme Court today. Lippe faces 18 counts of perjury in connection with fraudulent bail bonds.

A former Brooklyn man now living in Los Angeles returned to his home town to visit the tomb he built for his parents -- only to find strangers' remains in the tomb, another name over the door, and his parents' remains shifted to other graves.
Nunzio Dispenzia has filed suit against the St. John's Cemetery Corporation, claiming they sold the $10,000 tomb in 1933 to the family of the late Morris DeFina of Manhattan for $1900 without his authority, and moved his parents to "ordinary $150 plots." Mr. Dispenzia is seeking to have his parents exhumed to determine if the cemetery also appropriated the expensive copper and silver coffins in which his parents were entombed. Examination of the deed transferring title to the tomb to the DeFina family has found it to be fraudulent.

DOG -- LOST. Black and white smooth-hair terrier. Reward. SHore Road 8-4182.

DOG -- FOUND. Black with white markings. Terrier. SHore Road 5-5511.

An appeal by Brooklyn College students seeking to allow Communist Party secretary Earl Browder to speak on campus has been denied by the college's Faculty Council. The faculty voted 59-6 against allowing Browder to appear. The Communist leader had been scheduled to speak last week before the Faculty Council cancelled the event, but students were permitted to hear Daily Worker editor Clarence Hathaway in his place.

Ouch.

The payroll at the Brooklyn Navy Yard now exceeds that attained at the height of the World War. 11,000 civilians are now employed at the Yard for a total annual payroll of more than $22,000,000. 800 of those civilian workers are employed thru the WPA, with the rest skilled shipbuilders. The Yard is now operating at top-speed on a round-the-clock schedule, with construction of the battleships Iowa and North Carolina well underway.

A plan by Parks Commissioner Robert Moses to "streamline" Coney Island has received preliminary support from the Board of Estimate, with approval given to a basic map spelling out what the Commissioner hopes to do. The $3,000,000 project would widen the beach and straighten the boardwalk.

FULL SIZE BICYCLES -- Columbia Built -- Regularly $39.00 now $19.88. No Money Down -- No Interest to Pay -- at DAVEGA.

The Park Department will use 20 WPA gardeners to set 25,000 tulip bulbs in the sunken Brooklyn Bridge Plaza. The bulbs are part of a recent shipment presented by the Netherlands Government as a gift to the city, and must be set before the ground freezes.

SEARS-BROOKLYN! THE CHRISTMAS THRIFT STORE! Kodak 35mm Candid Camera -- f:5.6 with Kodex shutter -- $13.05 -- Easy Terms! (I have this camera, and I like it very much. Very fine, simple piece of workmanship.)

A 44th Street man who lost his arm in a subway accident two years ago will be paid damages of $60,000 by the IRT. Francis G. Cross fell off an overcrowded IRT platform at Grand Central Station on November 16, 1937, hit the tracks, and was run over by an oncoming train. Cross, a linotype operator, was no longer able to work at his trade following the accident.

A 25-year-old Flushing man who lured a 12-year-old girl to a cellar by posing as a policeman has been convicted of abduction and of impairing the morals of a minor. Victor J. Belmont will be sentenced on January 12th. It was charged that Belmont appeared at a public school representing himself as a police officer, and took the girl out of school. She broke away from him in the basement of an apartment building, and later identified him from police rogues-gallery photos.

Chicken Is Now The Nation's Meal Bird. No longer a special-occasion treat, chicken is the meat of many uses -- in pies, in casseroles, in stews, roasted or fried!

"Well-Wisher" wants to start a residential hotel for middle-aged self-supporting single women like herself, and writes to Helen Worth for advice on how to do it. Helen thinks it's a swell idea, and suggests speaking to clergy, since their congregations are made up mostly of middle-aged single women.

The ashes of murdered Nazi consular secretary Dr. Walter Engelberg will be sent to his mother in Hamburg, Germany. Meanwhile, police continue their search for boxer Ernie Haas, prime suspect in the slaying, with a dozen detectives chosen for their ability to read and speak the German language, working on the case.

The Eagle editorialist praises the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers for negotiating a clause in its new contract with the city requiring that at least one worker out of every ten hired be over the age of fifty-five, but considers it a sad reflection on modern society, with its emphasis on mass output and low price, that such a requirement must be written into a contract at all. Whatever happened to the value of experience?

Look for variations on European folk dances as the next big ballroom craze. Jitterbugs will find them interesting, and so will the old folks, as new versions of the schottische, the rye waltz, and the polka sweep the nation's dancer.

The Flatbush Theatre features an "all-sepia" vaudeville bill this week headed by Lucky Millender and his Orchestra, Buck and Bubbles, the Cotton Club Tramp Band, and other outstanding "Negro acts." On the screen, the western drama "Heritage of the Desert," along with a newsreel and a cartoon.

GONE WITH THE WIND will not be shown anywhere, except at advanced prices, at least until 1941. There is an eight-week waiting list for reserved seat tickets at the Astor. No reserved seats will be sold at the Capitol, with first-come-first-serve seating for three shows daily beginning December 19th. Prices start at 75 cents for matinees, up to a $2.20 top for evening performances.

The New York Rangers will try to get up some momentum with three games over the next four days. The Blueshirts are in fourth place in the National Hockey League with a record of 4-3-6 after a 2-2 tie against Detroit last night.

Ol' Pete himself, Grover Cleveland Alexander, pitching hero of the 1910s and 20s, is looking for a job, any job. Alexander roamed the corridors at the recent winter meetings in Cincinnati without landing a coaching or scouting spot. Now 52-years old and running out of money, Alexander has been out of baseball since his last tour with the bearded House of David barnstorming team several years ago. His last job was as a hotel greeter in a "small midwestern city."

Jo thinks George is batty for letting a dirty, grimy, smelly old man he found in the chimney take a bath in their nice clean tub, but George is beginning to believe...

Called it. Leona prefers to learn lessons the hard way. And what's with Sue's eyesight, anyway? Does love conquer all, including chronic myopia?

Dan is flying in clouds so thick they look like dense scribbles of india ink. He's down to 300 feet and can't see the ground yet. Or maybe he's upside down. Who knows?

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

If this isn't the best idea for a board game ever, it's pretty darn close. WANT.

You know who Cheery Blaze ought to meet? Prince Frederic.

Assassination attempts against Dick Tracy rarely end well. Just sayin', Stooge.

 

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...A former Brooklyn man now living in Los Angeles returned to his home town to visit the tomb he built for his parents -- only to find strangers' remains in the tomb, another name over the door, and his parents' remains shifted to other graves.
Nunzio Dispenzia has filed suit against the St. John's Cemetery Corporation, claiming they sold the $10,000 tomb in 1933 to the family of the late Morris DeFina of Manhattan for $1900 without his authority, and moved his parents to "ordinary $150 plots." Mr. Dispenzia is seeking to have his parents exhumed to determine if the cemetery also appropriated the expensive copper and silver coffins in which his parents were entombed. Examination of the deed transferring title to the tomb to the DeFina family has found it to be fraudulent.....

That's not a story you read everyday.

...An appeal by Brooklyn College students seeking to allow Communist Party secretary Earl Browder to speak on campus has been denied by the college's Faculty Council. The faculty voted 59-6 against allowing Browder to appear. The Communist leader had been scheduled to speak last week before the Faculty Council cancelled the event, but students were permitted to hear Daily Worker editor Clarence Hathaway in his place....

And to this day, colleges - sometimes the students, sometimes the faculty, sometimes both - are still banning / trying to ban some speakers / groups based on their politics.

...The ashes of murdered Nazi consular secretary Dr. Walter Engelberg will be sent to his mother in Hamburg, Germany. Meanwhile, police continue their search for boxer Ernie Haas, prime suspect in the slaying, with a dozen detectives chosen for their ability to read and speak the German language, working on the case....

Big Ernie is either wily as heck or he's getting help to have eluded the police this long.

...GONE WITH THE WIND will not be shown anywhere, except at advanced prices, at least until 1941. There is an eight-week waiting list for reserved seat tickets at the Astor. No reserved seats will be sold at the Capitol, with first-come-first-serve seating for three shows daily beginning December 19th. Prices start at 75 cents for matinees, up to a $2.20 top for evening performances....

This is part of the explanation of why (I've read it many times over the years) that GWTW is the largest grossing movie of all time in inflation-adjusted terms.

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Called it. Leona prefers to learn lessons the hard way. And what's with Sue's eyesight, anyway? Does love conquer all, including chronic myopia?....

Great call on your part - kudos. As to the glasses, my guess is she took them off for the "big" event as it really seems like it was considered a negative/not sexy for women to wear glasses back then.

So does Mary stop Leona's elopement?

 

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...You know who Cheery Blaze ought to meet? Prince Frederic.
...

Cheery is a few levels meaner and, probably, smarter than Prince Frederic. It's like how the spies from "The Americans" wouldn't last five minutes up against James Spader's character from "The Black List." In their own world, "The Americans" are impressive, competent spies - in Spader's world he'd have them for lunch. Cheery would chew up and spit out Prince Frederic in no time.

 

[3fingers]

That's not a story you read everyday.

Some years ago there was a cemetery owner from my home county who was convicted and sent to prison for stealing prepaid funeral plan money and selling the same plots to multiple people among other things. I no longer recall the final outcome of how or whether the families involved were taken care of since I don't live there and only read news reports, but my wife's family is in the funeral home business and the comment I got from her uncle was that it happens more often than you would think.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
Looks like someone got, um, stiffed.

 

[David Conwill]

A Queens man is being held on $200 bail for "annoying" a woman at a movie. Harry Wolff of 92 Hooper Street is accused of annoying Mrs. Lydia Williams of Woodhaven during a show at a theatre in Jamacia. Appearing in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, Wolff claimed he was merely reaching down to pick up the overcoat that had slipped off his knee when Mrs. Williams struck him in the face and chased him out of the theatre.

He wasn't a youth pastor, was he?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Workers are reported to be trapped in a burning factory in Williamsburg as the Eagle goes to press. The three-alarm blaze in the factory of Wolf Greenspan & Sons, basket manufacturers, at 686 Grand Street is reported to be spreading rapidly, fed by the large amount of wicker stored in the building.

A score or more Brooklyn police officers, including high officials of the department, will be named in a sealed presentment to be handed up today in Brooklyn Supreme Court charging them with laxity, incompetence, and corruption in connection with the bail-bond, fur, and abortion rackets in the borough. The presentment is the result of more than a year of investigation by the special probe headed by Assistant Attorney General John Amen. The document is expected to remain sealed, according to the Amen office, and no further details are expected to be made public at this time.

Meanwhile, the Citizens' Committee on the Control of Crime, pressure group that uncovered police corruption last year leading to the Amen investigation, is praising the "not inconsiderable cleansing" that has occured within Brooklyn's law enforcement mechanism over the past year. Committee chairman Harry T. Guggenheim warns there is still work to be done, especially in the lines of industrial racketeering.

What may be a decisive battle in the Russo-Finnish war may be developing today in a ruined nickel town on the Finnish-Norwegian frontier. Soviet troops are reported to be making a strong push south of Salmajaervi with mechanized troops after driving the Finns out of the town. Finnish forces dynamited Salmajaervi's buildings to slow the advance before retreating.

Allied naval forces are massing to block any breakout attempt by the crew of the Graf Spee, with the German pocket battleship still bottled up in the neutral port of Montevideo. British ships are steaming back and forth on patrol just outside Uruguayan coastal waters, and have been joined by a French warship. German sailors were spotted welding steel plates over holes in the Graf Spee's hull, leading to the expectation that the vessel will soon make an attempt to punch thru the Allied blockade.

3500 unregenerated Confederates gave the rebel yell as "Gone With The Wind" had its world premiere in Atlanta last night. Guests of honor were four Confederate Army veterans who had fought in the actual Battle of Atlanta, who occupied choice seats in the front row for the three and a half-hour screening.

A murder-suicide brought an abrupt end to a company Christmas party in Manhattan today. 28-year-old Mrs. Margaret Quinn, comptometer operator for Sinclair & Valentine, printing and lithographic ink suppliers, was shot and killed during the party by the company's cashier, 32-year-old Daniel Kenney, who then turned the gun upon himself. A photo of Kenney was found in Mrs. Quinn's furnished room. Co-workers described her as a quiet, unassuming woman who had a seven year old son living with relatives in Elmhurst, and stated that they didn't even know she had recently gotten married.

Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd is back in custody after her latest escape from an insane asylum in Arizona, and she says she has a story to tell about a friend who helped her dispose of the bodies of the two women she killed eight years ago. Mrs. Judd claims this unnamed friend hired a doctor to dissect one of the bodies and pack the pieces into trunks, which she then shipped to Los Angeles. In a twelve-page letter turned over to Arizona police, Mrs. Judd claims she killed the two women because they had threatened to tell her husband she was "stepping out with another man."

"HEYYYYYYY ROSIEEEEEEEEE! GET IN HEAH AN' TAKEYA MED-I-CINNNNNNE! I AIN'T TELLLLLIN' YA AGIN!"

"I'M COMMMMMMMMIN' MA! JUS' ANOTHAH MINNUTE!"

"YOU GIT IN HEAAAAAH RIGHT NOW! YA GONNA TAKE THIS MED-I-CINE RIGHT NOW! I AIN'T HAVIN' YA COMIN' DOWN AGIN WIT' DA CROUP!"

The possibility of an "atomic blast" that could level a skyscraper was outlined today in a lecture at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dr. Merle Tuve and his associates revealed a process by which over 200,000,000 electron-volts of energy could be released from a single atom of uranium. Dr. Tuve told his colleagues that the process was first discovered in Germany and has since been duplicated around the world. If such a process could be controlled, it could eliminate the need for coal, oil, and water as sources of heat and energy.

Orson Welles and his wife have "agreed to disagree." The radio and stage "boy wonder" and his wife, the former Virginia Nicholson of Chicago, have filed for divorce on grounds of incompatibility after just less than five years of marriage.

The annual Brooklyn Horse Show takes place today at the Teevan Riding Academy near Prospect Park, with over four hundred entries competing.

George D. writes to Helen Worth, asking her to encourage Christmas shoppers to avoid the usual orgies of face-slapping and hair-pulling at store counters and to try and revive the long-lost art of "decent manners." Helen is all for it, noting how sad it is at this time of year to get on the subway and "not see a smile in a mile."

The German General Consul of New York has hired his own private detectives to investigate the murder of his secretary. Dr. Hans Borchers, chief representative of the Nazi Government in the city, has promised to "keep after" the New York Police Department until the slaying of Dr. Walter Engelberg is solved. City police have so far been unsuccessful in locating boxer Ernie Haas, prime suspect in the murder.

The Brooklyn Eagle will team with Loew's Kings Theatre in throwing a Christmas party for 4000 Brooklyn orphans. The kids will see the latest Marx Brothers picture, "At The Circus" in a special show on Saturday December 23rd, with toys and prizes provided by local merchants.

Long Island U. and City College should come out on top as the college basketball season opens tonight at Madison Square Garden. L. I. U.'s Blackbirds will face Oregon, while the City College Beavers take on Oklahoma A&M.

The Pride of Brownsville, Al Davis, laid out Tippy Larken of Garfield, New Jersey in the fourth round of a scheduled ten-round bout last night at the Garden.

Peter Lorre stars in Arch Oboler's play "Nobody Died," tonight at 8pm over WEAF.

Highlight of next week's television schedule is a sixty-minute condensation of the stage hit "Stage Door" with members of the original Broadway cast. The play will be telecast by W2XBS tomorrow night at 8:30 pm.

Is Santa AFL or CIO?

Step lively there, Bill. You know how Mary gets when she goes on a rampage.

And in the most anti-climactic of all anti-climaxes, Dan safely lands the plane. I hope back in the woods, Dook has Irwin trussed up like a Christmas turkey, or I'm going to be very disappointed with this story.

 

[David Conwill]

George D. writes to Helen Worth, asking her to encourage Christmas shoppers to avoid the usual orgies of face-slapping and hair-pulling at store counters and to try and revive the long-lost art of "decent manners." Helen is all for it, noting how sad it is at this time of year to get on the subway and "not see a smile in a mile."

Funny how common decency and good manners were ubiquitous in the past but have never been in the present, no matter what era that present happens to be.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I think it's because those who remember the "good old days" invariably remember them from the perspective of a child, who was constantly being told to sit down, be quiet, stop picking their nose, and get their elbows off the table, and who had only limited exposure to the loud, nose-picking, elbow-sitting, face-slapping, hair-pulling habits of their elders. When you grow up it rarely occurs to you to think that the adults of your parents' day were just as obnoxious and hypocritical in their behavior as your own generation.

 

[Fading Fast]

...A score or more Brooklyn police officers, including high officials of the department, will be named in a sealed presentment to be handed up today in Brooklyn Supreme Court charging them with laxity, incompetence, and corruption in connection with the bail-bond, fur, and abortion rackets in the borough. The presentment is the result of more than a year of investigation by the special probe headed by Assistant Attorney General John Amen. The document is expected to remain sealed, according to the Amen office, and no further details are expected to be made public at this time.

Meanwhile, the Citizens' Committee on the Control of Crime, pressure group that uncovered police corruption last year leading to the Amen investigation, is praising the "not inconsiderable cleansing" that has occured within Brooklyn's law enforcement mechanism over the past year. Committee chairman Harry T. Guggenheim warns there is still work to be done, especially in the lines of industrial racketeering.....

The charges in the document touch on a bunch of stories we've been following and argues that the Citizens' Committee on the Control of Crime has its work cut out for it. The sealed natured of the document does not encourage one to believe the guilty will be punished and corruption eliminated.

...Orson Welles and his wife have "agreed to disagree." The radio and stage "boy wonder" and his wife, the former Virginia Nicholson of Chicago, have filed for divorce on grounds of incompatibility after just less than five years of marriage.....

Well, he had to clear the table to make room for wife number two in a few years - Rita Hayworth.

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Step lively there, Bill. You know how Mary gets when she goes on a rampage.

And in the most anti-climactic of all anti-climaxes, Dan safely lands the plane. I hope back in the woods, Dook has Irwin trussed up like a Christmas turkey, or I'm going to be very disappointed with this story.

Bill isn't subtle, but it's probably what the Prince deserves.

Kermit is happy Dan landed safely, but, as you noted, it's very much anticlimactic.

 

[David Conwill]

I got so confused between Dan Dunn and Dick Tracy, I couldn't figure out how guys were waiting to ambush him when he was still in the air relying on Irwin's instrument calibrations.