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As wires flood into the White House congratulating him for last night's Fireside Chat declaring the present crisis "an emergency as serious as war itself," President Roosevelt continued today with his plans for all-out material aid to Great Britain. The President followed up on his broadcast pledge for further aid to Britain by inviting Arthur B. Purvis, head of the British purchasing mission in the US to a luncheon meeting at the White House this afternoon. The President noted today that the telegrams received by his office are running 100 to 1 in favor of the program laid out in his speech last night.
In Brooklyn, response to the President's remarks is equally favorable. A street-corner canvass conducted by the Eagle this morning found only one criticism of Mr. Roosevelt's program, with Dr. Homer D. Lindgren of 160 Columbia Heights expressing the belief that the President "failed to hit the nail on the head by neglecting to appoint a one-man administrator to handle defense." Otherwise, Brooklyn sentiment was universally positive. Certified public accountant Harry Abramowitz of 305 Linden Boulevard declared that he thought the speech "expressed the opinion of more than 95 percent of the people in the country," while Italian-American citizen Thomas Torillo of 127 Palmetto Street, a member of the American Labor Party, called the speech "wonderful. About time he came out and told the people what's what. He should have done it a long time ago."
The speech's local impact can be gauged by a drop estimated at fifty percent in ticket sales at Brooklyn motion picture houses, despite the fact that poor weather would ordinarily have boosted the number of moviegoers. One local taxicab driver told the Eagle he parked his cab at the busiest part of the night just so he could tune in on the President's broadcast.
Axis response to the speech, however, warned that steps proposed by the President, if implemented, would amount to "undeclared war." Virginio Gayda, prominent Fascist editor, wrote in today's edition of Il Giornale d'Italia that "the speech only confirmed the passage of the United States from neutrality to non-aggression to a state of war." Berlin, by contrast, was silent on the speech, with no note of the address taken in the official Nazi press. It is believed, however, by reliable German sources, that response may come in the form of a speech by Hitler himself.
London saw the fiercest night raid of the war so far last night, with smashed and blackened ruins strewn thruout the heart of the British capital. Scores of landmarks were damaged or destroyed, including the Guildhall and the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry in the Guildhall yard, a building designed by Sir Christopher Wren and where Dick Whittington worshipped.
A 40-year-old former U. S. Deputy Marshal fell from the roof of his estranged wife's apartment building in Flatbush early this morning. Police say Isadore Messer is in critical condition at Kings County Hospital after he fell from the roof of the six-story building at 301 Sterling Street, landing atop an adjacent rooftop four stories below. Detectives found a loaded revolver on the roof of 301 Sterling, along with a twenty-foot length of rope and a piece of radio aerial wire looped around the building's chimney, and believe that Messer used the rope to lower himself down the side of the building to gain entry to his wife's apartment thru a window. The rope snapped under his weight, dropping him onto the roof of 289 Sterling Street. Messer told police he wanted to visit his wife, from whom he has been estranged for some time, but found her door locked.
The president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Brooklyn religious organization, is being sued for a share of the profits from a Cleveland radio station by a former partner in that commercial enterprise. Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford of 124 Columbia Heights is named as defendant in the suit filed today in Brooklyn Supreme Court by Anton Koerber of Washington DC, who had represented the religious organization in the nation's capital. Mr. Koerber charged that he and Judge Rutherford formed a partnership in 1928 to purchase for $10,000 radio station WHK in Cleveland, which they operated for the next six years on a commercial basis, and that Rutherford deliberately concealed his involvement in the partnership -- using one M. Arnold Howlett as his "dummy" in the Cleveland operation in order to ensure that his religious followers were unaware of his involvement in the commercial enterprise. Mr. Howlett subsequently served on the board of directors of the National Association of Broadcasters, and is named as a co-defendant in the lawsuit filed by Koerber, who charges that when the station was sold in 1934for $250,000, Rutherford and Howlett conspired to cheat him out of his share of the profit. Judge Rutherford, serving as attorney for Mr. Howeltt, filed a statement in response to the suit, calling Mr. Koerber's charges "a mass of verbiage and superfluous allegations."
Two men and three women were arrested in Jamaica, Queens today as the first effect of a city-wide anti-vice crusade proclaimed last week by District Attorney William O'Dwyer. Defendents Anthony Santos, age 33, and 34-year-old Domingos Almeida of 106-26 159th Street were charged with operating a house of prostitution at that address. One of the three women charged in the case was taken to Kings County Hospital for treatment.
(Wong's Garden says "HMPH.")
(Smile, Gary, it's almost over.)
The Eagle Editorialist congratulates the President for his outstanding speech last night, "one of the ablest and most effective of his career," and declares that his views so ably expressed clearly reflect those of "the vast majority of the American people." "The worn-out catchwords of 'isolation' and 'intervention' are virtually meaningless in this new world crisis," the EE contends. "What is required is the sort of decisive action that will best meet American needs."
Thomas Francis Nevins, MD, writes in to condemn all the sob-sister stuff about dogs accused of biting people, and points out that the recent death of a Brooklyn man from rabies points to what he sees as the need for far more restrictive dog licensing laws. Ideally, he would like to see dogs banned from the city entirely, and restricted only to suburban and rural locations where these "poor dumb beasts" would not be restricted to an "urban hothouse existence."
(My uncle was once hit by an oncoming train at a crossing, while driving an oil truck. Miraculously, both he and the truck survived -- and he didn't learn a thing from the incident.)
"The Grapes of Wrath" has been named the top picture of 1940 by the New York Society of Film Critics, with Charles Chaplin earning honors as Best Actor and Katharine Hepburn honored as Best Actress. John Ford, who helmed the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's bestselling novel, was named Best Director.
(Why do all hockey photos look exactly alike?)
The biggest crowd to see a hockey game at Madison Square Garden this season packed the house last night to see the Rangers come from behind for a 3-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. The turnstiles logged 15,562 fans last night, and coach Frank Boucher says his boys "always put out better when the house is full. Enthusiasm is contagious!"
All those jokes about Yankee pitcher Lefty "Goofy" Gomez being a good fit for the Daffy Dodgers are getting tiresome. The Dodgers haven't been the "Daffiness Boys" of old for many years now, and Sports Editor Jimmy Wood says it's time all the "goofy Brooklyn" jokes just stopped. He himself spearheaded a drive a few years back to get all the worn-out Brooklyn jokes off the radio, and he thinks maybe it's time to bring back that campaign.
(As Doc turned, ever so hesitantly back to his infernal machine, he felt a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. "What if they figure it out?" raced the thought thru his fevered mind. "What if these guys finally figure out that I have no idea what I'm doing, that I'm just making it all up as I go along? WHAT THEN?")
("Oh what low nonsense! What about the law of conservation of matter?")
("Wait, I know you! You're that man we just got rid of, that Leach! You just drew that moustache on with a fountain pen!")
("That's wonderful, old chum! Did you know the Canadian Air Force is taking American pilots?")
In Brooklyn, response to the President's remarks is equally favorable. A street-corner canvass conducted by the Eagle this morning found only one criticism of Mr. Roosevelt's program, with Dr. Homer D. Lindgren of 160 Columbia Heights expressing the belief that the President "failed to hit the nail on the head by neglecting to appoint a one-man administrator to handle defense." Otherwise, Brooklyn sentiment was universally positive. Certified public accountant Harry Abramowitz of 305 Linden Boulevard declared that he thought the speech "expressed the opinion of more than 95 percent of the people in the country," while Italian-American citizen Thomas Torillo of 127 Palmetto Street, a member of the American Labor Party, called the speech "wonderful. About time he came out and told the people what's what. He should have done it a long time ago."
The speech's local impact can be gauged by a drop estimated at fifty percent in ticket sales at Brooklyn motion picture houses, despite the fact that poor weather would ordinarily have boosted the number of moviegoers. One local taxicab driver told the Eagle he parked his cab at the busiest part of the night just so he could tune in on the President's broadcast.
Axis response to the speech, however, warned that steps proposed by the President, if implemented, would amount to "undeclared war." Virginio Gayda, prominent Fascist editor, wrote in today's edition of Il Giornale d'Italia that "the speech only confirmed the passage of the United States from neutrality to non-aggression to a state of war." Berlin, by contrast, was silent on the speech, with no note of the address taken in the official Nazi press. It is believed, however, by reliable German sources, that response may come in the form of a speech by Hitler himself.
London saw the fiercest night raid of the war so far last night, with smashed and blackened ruins strewn thruout the heart of the British capital. Scores of landmarks were damaged or destroyed, including the Guildhall and the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry in the Guildhall yard, a building designed by Sir Christopher Wren and where Dick Whittington worshipped.
A 40-year-old former U. S. Deputy Marshal fell from the roof of his estranged wife's apartment building in Flatbush early this morning. Police say Isadore Messer is in critical condition at Kings County Hospital after he fell from the roof of the six-story building at 301 Sterling Street, landing atop an adjacent rooftop four stories below. Detectives found a loaded revolver on the roof of 301 Sterling, along with a twenty-foot length of rope and a piece of radio aerial wire looped around the building's chimney, and believe that Messer used the rope to lower himself down the side of the building to gain entry to his wife's apartment thru a window. The rope snapped under his weight, dropping him onto the roof of 289 Sterling Street. Messer told police he wanted to visit his wife, from whom he has been estranged for some time, but found her door locked.
The president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Brooklyn religious organization, is being sued for a share of the profits from a Cleveland radio station by a former partner in that commercial enterprise. Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford of 124 Columbia Heights is named as defendant in the suit filed today in Brooklyn Supreme Court by Anton Koerber of Washington DC, who had represented the religious organization in the nation's capital. Mr. Koerber charged that he and Judge Rutherford formed a partnership in 1928 to purchase for $10,000 radio station WHK in Cleveland, which they operated for the next six years on a commercial basis, and that Rutherford deliberately concealed his involvement in the partnership -- using one M. Arnold Howlett as his "dummy" in the Cleveland operation in order to ensure that his religious followers were unaware of his involvement in the commercial enterprise. Mr. Howlett subsequently served on the board of directors of the National Association of Broadcasters, and is named as a co-defendant in the lawsuit filed by Koerber, who charges that when the station was sold in 1934for $250,000, Rutherford and Howlett conspired to cheat him out of his share of the profit. Judge Rutherford, serving as attorney for Mr. Howeltt, filed a statement in response to the suit, calling Mr. Koerber's charges "a mass of verbiage and superfluous allegations."
Two men and three women were arrested in Jamaica, Queens today as the first effect of a city-wide anti-vice crusade proclaimed last week by District Attorney William O'Dwyer. Defendents Anthony Santos, age 33, and 34-year-old Domingos Almeida of 106-26 159th Street were charged with operating a house of prostitution at that address. One of the three women charged in the case was taken to Kings County Hospital for treatment.
(Wong's Garden says "HMPH.")
The Eagle Editorialist congratulates the President for his outstanding speech last night, "one of the ablest and most effective of his career," and declares that his views so ably expressed clearly reflect those of "the vast majority of the American people." "The worn-out catchwords of 'isolation' and 'intervention' are virtually meaningless in this new world crisis," the EE contends. "What is required is the sort of decisive action that will best meet American needs."
Thomas Francis Nevins, MD, writes in to condemn all the sob-sister stuff about dogs accused of biting people, and points out that the recent death of a Brooklyn man from rabies points to what he sees as the need for far more restrictive dog licensing laws. Ideally, he would like to see dogs banned from the city entirely, and restricted only to suburban and rural locations where these "poor dumb beasts" would not be restricted to an "urban hothouse existence."
(My uncle was once hit by an oncoming train at a crossing, while driving an oil truck. Miraculously, both he and the truck survived -- and he didn't learn a thing from the incident.)
"The Grapes of Wrath" has been named the top picture of 1940 by the New York Society of Film Critics, with Charles Chaplin earning honors as Best Actor and Katharine Hepburn honored as Best Actress. John Ford, who helmed the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's bestselling novel, was named Best Director.
The biggest crowd to see a hockey game at Madison Square Garden this season packed the house last night to see the Rangers come from behind for a 3-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. The turnstiles logged 15,562 fans last night, and coach Frank Boucher says his boys "always put out better when the house is full. Enthusiasm is contagious!"
All those jokes about Yankee pitcher Lefty "Goofy" Gomez being a good fit for the Daffy Dodgers are getting tiresome. The Dodgers haven't been the "Daffiness Boys" of old for many years now, and Sports Editor Jimmy Wood says it's time all the "goofy Brooklyn" jokes just stopped. He himself spearheaded a drive a few years back to get all the worn-out Brooklyn jokes off the radio, and he thinks maybe it's time to bring back that campaign.
