The Era -- Day By Day

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The suicide Monday in Waterloo, Indiana of a leading advocate of the Hitler program in the United States has cast new light on the continued activities of the supposedly-defunct German-American Bund. It was learned today that a Manhattan Federal grand jury has been secretly investigating those activities, centering around 42-year old George Froboese Jr, editor of a Bund newspaper in Milwaukee, and close associate of the jailed former Bund leader Fritz Kuhn. Froboese laid his head on a railroad track outside Waterloo on Monday night and was decapitated by a train. In his pocket was found a subpoena to appear before the Grand Jury. Froboese, a naturalized U. S. citizen, is reported to have accompanied Kuhn on a visit to Hitler himself in 1936, where they presented the Nazi fuehrer with a large cash gift and a "golden scroll" listing hundreds of Bund members.
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"Froboese laid his head on a railroad track outside Waterloo on Monday night and was decapitated by a train."

Jesus. Wasn't there a handgun lying around or a gas oven he could've stuck his head in or something?

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Critics of the City Council bill restricting the public wearing of shorts and bathing suits today denounced the bill as meaningless and impractical, but its chief advocate, Councilman William N. Conrad of Queens, insists that it will be successful in keeping the streets free of persons in scanty attire. Should it receive the Mayor's signature, the bill would impose a $10 fine, 10 days in jail, or both, on any person over the age of twelve who appears on any public street wearing a bathing suit, halter, shorts, sun suit, or play suit without a wrap concealing the wearer's body from the shoulders to a point midway between the hips and knees. Although the bill contains a clause exempting streets within 200 feet of a public part, including Coney Island and Jacob Riis Beaches, the situation is confused by an existing Parks Department regulation specifically barring bathing suits from the Coney Island Boardwalk.
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Wait till the City Council discovers how people are dressing in bowling alleys.

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("It's my lunch. Here, want a cheese sandwich? I got Limburger...")
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As you noted yesterday, Lizzie, is it too much to ask that they run these strips in proper order. How'd we end up here?

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(Stop smirking, Irwin. You ought to know by now how this is going to end up.)

HATE SEX! HATE SEX! HATE SEX!

"That's it, I quit. One insane screaming child is my limit. No teacher should have to endure this."

And in the Daily News...

"Let us prey..."
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We'd need to know, in detail, probate law in NYS in 1942 to have a strong opinion on the legality of the claims against Mrs. Paton's will, but I'd bet the sympathies of the jury are against the Reverend, but that the law leans his way. My pure guess is the sympathies will win out.

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"Bohemia style?" You mean long braids, peasant blouses, and lederhosen, but with zippers?
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What a confusing and poorly written article. Was the editor out to lunch? Although, you have to give the News credit for the prurient "Zipper Girl" tag.

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"Oh, and call your lawyer."
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The suit's the dead giveaway.

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Page Four! Page Four! Page Four!
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"Learn you..." is an expression that's disappearing, but my Dad and his friends used it, not ironically, all the time when I was growing up. "That'll learn ya" was a frequently used variation.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Yeah, sure, Madeline made her own bed and now it's time to lie in it, but the "low IQ" thing is just a cheap shot. Not worthy of you, Eagle. Leave that stuff to the News.)

The Japanese invasion fleet smashed in the Coral Sea battle consisted of 70 to 100 ships, according to pilots of land-based bombers who participated. When those bombers had finished their work, besides the fifteen ships sunk, twenty were shambling wrecks, and the others were scattering in all directions in an effort to escape the devastation of the American planes. The bombers pounded the Japanese ships for four days and nights, returning to their bases only long enough to refuel and take on fresh bomb loads.

The New York State Republican Party met today to dedicate the party to all out support for the war effort, and to endorse a broad post-war program of international cooperation. Party leaders today are expected to formally ratify a resolution presented by 1940 GOP presidential nominee Wendell Willkie repudiating the party's prewar policy of isolationism, as adopted by the Republican National Committee in Chicago on April 20th. While party rules bar the committee from endorsing candidates, the general consensus among those attending the meeting is that District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey is the front-runner for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, and that he will be nominated "by acclamation" to be the party's candidate in this fall's election.

("See," says Sally, "t'is is why, if ya wanna bump somebody off, ya ot'notta make ya own trunk. Ya go instead t' Seahs'n Roebuck's, 'cause how t'ey gonna trace t'at? I ask ya!" "Um," ums Joe. "Y'ain' t'inkin' a' bumpin' nobody off, awrya?" "Oh, no," demurs Sally. "Nobody in p'ticuleh. Jus' a -- academic question." "Academic?" wonders Joe. "Ain'nat like -- school? Like somebody y'went t'school wit'?" "Hey," says Sally. "How 'bout t'em Dodgehs?")

A woman claiming that she was "artificially impregnated" while a patient at Wyckoff Heights Hospital is at the center of one of the most bizarre lawusits ever filed in the borough. Mrs. Dorothy Cascio, age 34, of 309 Jefferson Street in Bushwick, is suing the hospital for $500,000 in damages, charging that on March 15, 1939, when she was a patient in the hospital undergoing treatment for an internal ailment, a doctor and an internist, identified in the suit as Drs. John Doe and Richard Roe, injected her with a hypodermic needle causing her to become pregnant. As a result of the child's birth, Mrs. Cascio states in the suit, she and her husband Charles have separated. In addition to paying damages, the suit demands that the hospital provide to Mrs. Cascio the names of the doctor and the internist responsible for her treatment. Hospital Superintendant Louis Schenkweiler declined to comment on the matter, while attorneys for the hospital filed a general denial of the charges, claiming further that liability is disclaimed because the hospital is a charitable institution.

("Vigorous protests." Larry would allow no less.)

1097 Japanese and Thai diplomats and nationals who had been interned in the United States as enemy aliens are en route to their homelands aboard a Swedish motorship, in exchange for approximately 1500 American citizens who had been held in Japan. The Swedish vessel Gripsholm sailed from New York last night for Rio di Janerio, where it will take on another 400 Japanese, before continuing on to Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa, where the prisoner exchange will take place under the supervision of the neutral Portuguese government. Among those aboard the ship are Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura and "peace envoy'' Saburo Kurusu, who were calling on Secretary of State Cordell Hull at the moment of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

(There is much to be said for the back and abdominal support, especially when you're past a certain age. But not in the summer, hon. Not in the summer.)

The Eagle Editorialist doles out a tongue-lashing to gasoline-wasting motorists who are "unconscionable idiots" as well as "fifth, sixth, or even seventieth-columnists." Pleasure drivers, drivers who use cars for shopping trips that could just as easily be accomplished by train, and others who seem unable to understand the importance of "patriotic self-denial" deserve to be called "gasolationists" for all the harm they are doing to their fellow citizens, and to those risking their lives to bring fuel to the East Coast.

(#metoo1942.)

"Oldtimer" writes in to complain about the "cheap, dirty flags" hanging listlessly in front of many of Brooklyn's public buildings, and recommends that someone in authority ought to go out and buy some large new flags for the "dilapidated downtown area." "Take me back to the Brooklyn of the Good Old Days," he sniffs.

The proprietor of Flynn's Cabaret, a noted gathering place for Brooklyn baseball fans, players, and writers, died last night of a heart attack at the age of 47. Daniel Flynn, whose establishment at 1055 Washington Avenue is within sight of Ebbets Field, had just returned from the Dodger-Cardinal game when he was stricken.

A 49 year old longshoreman from Bath Beach faces theft charges after shoplifting a woman's bathing suit and a girdle from a downtown shop. Benjamin Silverstein of 258 Bay 13th Street was charged with stealing the garments by store detective Anna Bonser of May's Store, 510 Fulton Street. Silverstein declined to explain himself in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, remaining silent when Magistrate Charles E. Ramsgate asked him if he intended to enter a beauty contest.

(Ducky better wear his helmet. Remember what happened the last time he got into it with the Cardinals. Oh, and note Camilli (no. 4) right in the middle of it. Nice example to set for the kids, Pop!)

(Ah! I was just thinking we haven't seen Sybil Dardanella lately!)

(Mary never used to glower like that. This new artist scares me.)

("Pretty good, huh? It'll be the toy hit of the season!")

(I wonder how much they had to pay Marlene Dietrich to get her do this.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Madeline's sentencing must've happened after the News closed its last edition for the day. Oh well it's not like they don't have other stuff to talk about.

Proverbs 23:4-5.

YOU TELL 'EM!

Nah, it's overmodulated. Gimme another take.

Given the gas situation, you're better off without the tractor.

"And for the 1196th consecutive time, our Chump Of The Week Award goes to..."

*sob* Damn you, Caniff...

"They have guards at the bank, don't they Beezie? Guards with guns. I've never seen a gun up close, you know. I'd sure like to see one. Maybe you could..."

Y'know, fella, if you spent half the time working that you spend thinking up snappy dialogue, you'd be a very wealthy man.

And there's no "Neighbors" today. Hope Mr. Clark didn't fall off the roof.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Interesting that Harold Gray became so much of a flag waver once war was declared, having had almost a religious zeal in opposition to everything regarding FDR and the New Deal prior to the war.

I get it that once we were at war, partisan loyalties were shelved "for the duration," but as an artist he could have taken a much more detached perspective, as so many other cartoonists did. But again, wartime situations present so many potential topics and themes on a silver platter to any writer or artist.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I still can't get over Dr. Zee and his "we'll go communist in a capitalist way" line. The Harold Gray of 1937 would have poked his eyes out with his own pen before he'd have a "good guy" character say that.

But having said that, I don't think he was really as rigid as his reputation lets him on to be -- he's always struck me as more of a small-p populist at heart than a certified "That Man"-hating Wall Street Reactionary. Look, for example, at what a preening blowhard he often makes Warbucks out to be, only to end up cringing in fear while Punjab does what needs to be done.

 

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(Yeah, sure, Madeline made her own bed and now it's time to lie in it, but the "low IQ" thing is just a cheap shot. Not worthy of you, Eagle. Leave that stuff to the News.)
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It really seems like Madeline didn't get the death penalty because she is a woman.

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("See," says Sally, "t'is is why, if ya wanna bump somebody off, ya ot'notta make ya own trunk. Ya go instead t' Seahs'n Roebuck's, 'cause how t'ey gonna trace t'at? I ask ya!" "Um," ums Joe. "Y'ain' t'inkin' a' bumpin' nobody off, awrya?" "Oh, no," demurs Sally. "Nobody in p'ticuleh. Jus' a -- academic question." "Academic?" wonders Joe. "Ain'nat like -- school? Like somebody y'went t'school wit'?" "Hey," says Sally. "How 'bout t'em Dodgehs?")...

Kermit, care to comment?

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A woman claiming that she was "artificially impregnated" while a patient at Wyckoff Heights Hospital is at the center of one of the most bizarre lawusits ever filed in the borough. Mrs. Dorothy Cascio, age 34, of 309 Jefferson Street in Bushwick, is suing the hospital for $500,000 in damages, charging that on March 15, 1939, when she was a patient in the hospital undergoing treatment for an internal ailment, a doctor and an internist, identified in the suit as Drs. John Doe and Richard Roe, injected her with a hypodermic needle causing her to become pregnant. As a result of the child's birth, Mrs. Cascio states in the suit, she and her husband Charles have separated. In addition to paying damages, the suit demands that the hospital provide to Mrs. Cascio the names of the doctor and the internist responsible for her treatment. Hospital Superintendant Louis Schenkweiler declined to comment on the matter, while attorneys for the hospital filed a general denial of the charges, claiming further that liability is disclaimed because the hospital is a charitable institution.
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Honestly, dear, I'd never cheat on you. Let me tell you what really happened.

Kermit?

The proprietor of Flynn's Cabaret, a noted gathering place for Brooklyn baseball fans, players, and writers, died last night of a heart attack at the age of 47. Daniel Flynn, whose establishment at 1055 Washington Avenue is within sight of Ebbets Field, had just returned from the Dodger-Cardinal game when he was stricken.
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Way too young, but seems a fitting end for Mr. Flynn.

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A 49 year old longshoreman from Bath Beach faces theft charges after shoplifting a woman's bathing suit and a girdle from a downtown shop. Benjamin Silverstein of 258 Bay 13th Street was charged with stealing the garments by store detective Anna Bonser of May's Store, 510 Fulton Street. Silverstein declined to explain himself in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, remaining silent when Magistrate Charles E. Ramsgate asked him if he intended to enter a beauty contest.
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He'd better invent a good story before showing up at work on Monday as I have a feeling his fellow longshoremen will more than pick up where the Magistrate left off. Maybe, he was concerned about his wife's back and abdominal support and just got the bathing suit for her since he was already in the store.

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(Mary never used to glower like that. This new artist scares me.)
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This new artist is the comicstrip equivalent of when a new actor is hired to play a well-known character on a long-running show - it's jarring and hard to accept. Neither Mary nor Leona feel right to me. It's almost like they ar being played by new actors.

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"And for the 1196th consecutive time, our Chump Of The Week Award goes to..."
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The suit was such an obvious tell.

 

[LizzieMaine]

("There has been a heavy run on stations since the Office of Price Administration increased the value of ration units from three to six gallons." Well what did you THINK would happen???)

The House Ways and Means Committee will decide today whether taxes on 1943 income will be collected on a pay-as-you-go basis thru payroll deductions. The panel seems more inclined toward that method than at any time since the proposal was first advanced by the Treasury. A last minute Treasury modification of the plan would ease the burden of paying two income taxes at the same time, contributing to a more receptive attitude on the committee's part. The Treasury at first requested authority to order employers to withhold ten percent of each employee's taxable income beginning January 1, 1943, with the taxpayer also liable for payment in full by March 15th of their entire 1942 tax liability. The modified proposal would reduce the net withholding for 1943 to five percent, with another five percent to be credited to payment of 1942 taxes.

Six men who were aboard a B-26 bomber forced down in the Coral Sea spent two and a half hours in the water surrounded by sixty to seventy sharks before native canoes arrived to rescue them. The six survivors of the crash were brought to safety, and as they were being led away, they noticed the native rescue party fighting among themselves to salvage the remains of their rubber life raft.

New York's Minute Men and Women today launched the second half of their ten-day campaign to raise $2,000,000 in War Bond pledges, with the danger that the drive will fall hundreds of thousands of dollars short of the quota. Brooklyn continues to hold the lead in the pledge campaign, despite increased competition from other boroughs. A proposed Congressional plan to limit incomes to $25,000 per year for the duration of the war has encouraged several wealthy persons in the city to pledge $2500 in War Bond purchases, for an even ten percent of that ceiling. The average pledge comes to $176 per year, or ten percent of the average worker's income of $1760 per year. But one Brooklyn family, with an income of only $70 a month, has pledged 27 percent to bond purchases. Today at 2:30 pm, famed dancer Bill Robinson will lead an interracial bond rally in Fort Greene Park, with other Broadway figures and leaders of the Minute Men also expected to take part.

("And don't get me started on the metric system!")

(And then there's the way he keeps the scale steady with his thumb.)

The citywide scrap rubber drive has now reached 303 tons collected, with Boy Scouts going house to house to pick up whatever materials may yet be lying around. "Put out the welcome mat for the Scouts," declares city salvage chairman Clarence H. Low. "And then give them the mat."

("Hah!" hahs Joe. "'At Reiseh! Steals home so off'n, t'ey otta giv'm a key!" "Hey," heys Sally. "'At's a pretty good line." "Yeh," yehs Joe. "I'm sendin' it in ta Jerry Colonna." Incidentially, I have an actual Ladies' Day ticket to this game hanging on my refrigerator door. Sorry I missed it.)

("Juke Girl" with Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan is nothing whatsoever like the title and the cast would lead you to expect.)

(Plot twist: she's Jo.)

(Well, that's anticlimactic. I was hoping for something more Machiavellian.)

("But--but won't the planes be all full of water?" "Yeah, I was afraid you'd notice that.")

(I dunno, I always thought Dan's one of those guy's you have to really know well to dislike.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

Good night, Madeline.

Well, it serves you right for hanging out with glassblowers in the first place.

"That's funny, kid. Wanna stop growing right now?"

She couldn't do it, and she knows she couldn't do it.

"Throw it!" *CRASH* "Damn these glass-based blanks!"

***snifffff***

And yes, that is, in fact an authentic Bible quote.

"Just put the money right in the hat there. That's it!"

Lotta religion in the comics today.

Priming the pump.

 

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("There has been a heavy run on stations since the Office of Price Administration increased the value of ration units from three to six gallons." Well what did you THINK would happen???)
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Yup, it's Econ 101

Ration by price, ration by quantity or let the market set the price. Control by edict one variable and several other variables change.

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The citywide scrap rubber drive has now reached 303 tons collected, with Boy Scouts going house to house to pick up whatever materials may yet be lying around. "Put out the welcome mat for the Scouts," declares city salvage chairman Clarence H. Low. "And then give them the mat."
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Edit add in brackets: "The citywide scrap rubber drive has now reached 303 tons collected, with Boy Scouts [and a group of young girls lead by a curly haired red head] going house to house to pick up whatever materials may yet be lying around."

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("But--but won't the planes be all full of water?" "Yeah, I was afraid you'd notice that.")
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We'll have to ask Dingy to invent a waterproof plane. That would be right up his alley.

And in the Daily News...

Good night, Madeline.
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I don't know what happened to Madeline, but there is no such thing as "life in prison" as it can always be, and often has been, reversed in the future when others are in decisioning positions in the justice system. Five, ten, twenty years from now, those in charge often decide to undo a "life in prison" sentence. Madeline might see life outside of prison again in her life (or not). We know her two accomplices will not.

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Well, it serves you right for hanging out with glassblowers in the first place.
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I think we've heard enough these past several days to say that Mrs. Beard has a healthy appetite for titillation, at minimum.

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She couldn't do it, and she knows she couldn't do it.
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Somebody has to rescue these two. There are enough characters in the "Terry and the Pirates" arsenal that one of them has to get the job done. My choice would be for Hu Shee, but I guess Pat will be the one.

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Lotta religion in the comics today.
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Growing up in NJ in the '70s, most of my generation were indifferent to religion, but our parents and grandparents were not (oddly, no one in my immediate family was religious even a tiny bit) and the culture at large still reflected a pretty religious country. It's been one of the biggest cultural changes I've witnessed.

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Priming the pump.

How small is Covina, "...on certain days there are thousands and thousands of dollars in the vault." Yes, it's a bank, so it has thousands and thousands of dollars in the vault. Even in the 1940s that's not a large amount for a small bank. Also proving this kid is an idiot, he's got a hot girl interested in him and he's into the stupid chocolate cake. He won't be taking over the bank from dad some day.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Oh that Butch. Can't resist a fire.)

A fleet of hundreds of RAF fighters raked 130 miles of the French invasion coast from the dockyards of Le Havre to the gun emplacements of Calais, following a strong night raid of Germany and Holland by long-range planes that flew thru a North Sea storm to reach their targets. An Air Ministry spokesman stated that more than 300 planes in addition to large squadrons of Boston bombers participated in the day's attacks, carrying out simultaneous sweeps of the Bologne, Calais, and Dunkirk areas.

Enemy nationals -- German, Italian, and Japanese -- who were shipped out in exchange for Americans interned abroad were assessed for $102,240 in Federal income taxes before sailing aboard the diplomatic liner Gripsholm. The U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 2nd District, Captain William J. Pedrick, appeared at the dock yesterday shortly before the liner's departure to demand due payments from the internees, who included Japanese Ambassador Nomura and so-called peace envoy Saburo Kurusu. Although outsiders were barred from the ship, it is reported that the arrival of the tax collector "dampened the usual bon voyage atmosphere" aboard the vessel.

The council of war underway "someplace in the United States" between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill "will decide the entire future of the war in the Pacific," it was predicted by military observers in Melbourne, Australia. It was suggested that even if the leaders of the US and Great Britain do not take up the Pacific situation directly, decisions made by them concerning the future conduct of the war in Europe will naturally affect the progress of the Japanese campaign. It is believed in informed quarters that the sea war, following the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea, has reached a crossroads, and that a direct offensive against Japan must begin "within a few months," unless the plan is to remain on the defensive in the Pacific until Germany is "disposed of."

("Micrafillum," notes Joe. "'At's gonna be kinda rough on Solly, he don' see too good."
"Nah," replies Sally. "He'll be fine. T'ey giv'm lotsa carrots inna Awrmy.")

The courage and the valor of the Red Army and the Soviet people were praised by Mayor LaGuardia today as he opened the Russian War Relief drive in a speech on the steps of City Hall. Handing over his personal $50 contribution, the Mayor observed that "few people realize the contribution Russia is making for the safety of Americans." The Mayor also greeted a group of Soviet sailors as he signed a scroll designating this week as Russian War Relief Week. A rousing rally in Madison Square Garden tomorrow night will launch the climax of the drive to raise $6,000,000 to purchase medical supplies and surgical instruments for the millions of wounded Russians. The rally tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and will feature such varied personalities as Mayor LaGuardia, Bishop William T. Manning, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, presidential advisor Harry Hopkins, and concert singer Paul Robeson.

Old Timer J. T. Whitelaw Sr. writes in to recall the infamous "ink room" at P. S. 28, where incorrigibles were often sent to work out their penance. One sinner in particular took his revenge by using his beanblower to squirt ink all over the walls and ceiling, while at the same time marking his own face with a peculiar mottled coloring, not realizing that the ink was of the indelible variety. "He was quite a hero," upon arriving back in class the next day, and even stern Miss Folger could not hold back a smile at the sight of his speckled visage.

(C'mon now, you give us Medwick with his shirt off, but you don't give us the full view???)

Just how old is Coonskin Curt Davis? The record book tells us that he was born in Greenfield, Missouri on September 7, 1906. Which means he would have been 34 in 1940, when the first draft registration required men up to the age of 36 to register. But Curt didn't have to register -- which means he's at least two years older than his official record claims, and may even be older than that. "What difference does a pitcher's age make?" Davis snorts. "I bet he hasn't registered yet," laughs Kirby Higbe. "So far they've only registered men up to 65."

Get your copy of the all-new 1942 Dodgers Victory Book, featuring Baseball's Most Famous Team in 100 pictures and 20 stories in 64 pages, including autographs of every player and complete records. The book is available for 25 cents at newsstands or by mail to W&H Baseball Publishing Company, 16 Court Street, Brooklyn.

(Sure, he's got a nice tone -- but can he swing??)

The man who two years ago had the audacity to stand on a Broadway stage and declare that he had recruited his company from showboat players -- "I bred my cast upon the waters!" -- is back this week with a new revue. Ed Wynn's latest music-and-comedy extravaganza "Laugh Town Laugh!" opens Tuesday at the Alvin Theatre, and Wynn will be joined a cast headed by such varied personalities as "Gypsy Grenade" Carmen Armya, radio and concert star Jane Froman, and Mexican ventriloquist Senor Wences, whose "dummy" is merely his own hand, decorated with makeup, a wig, and a dangling stuffed body.

(All right, Ryder -- which side are you on?)

(Poor Butch. A swell car like that and no gas.)

("Great Jupiter?" What happened, you break up with Scott?)

(Sunny will go far in life. And if Marsh's final Sunday page turns out to be Dan beating Irwin to a pulp, I can't say as I'd blame him at all.)

("Oh don't start wringing your hands and screaming!")

("One statement wrapped in cellophane?" Well, he probably had enough cash down there to pay it.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

C'mon now, don't you think the Homer Lapp story deserves at least as much space as Lowell Limpus?

Reminds me, I have a roll of film in my camera that's at least ten years old. Better get it developed while I still can.

True fact: that thread cut from the grooves on a recording blank is called "swarf." And it's extremely, extremely flammable. Have a cigarette, Dick?

Don't be so modest, kid. You're as much a real colonel as Warbucks is a real general.

Poor Plushie, would it have killed Moon to jump just a little higher?

I bet Zack Mosely gets fan mail from Madeline Webb.

No pain, no brain. Or something like that.

Aim for the gut, and twist.

Ed Wynn says "Hey! I can use that!"

"But first, let's get some pink lemonade! I love pink lemonade, don't you?"

 

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("Micrafillum," notes Joe. "'At's gonna be kinda rough on Solly, he don' see too good."
"Nah," replies Sally. "He'll be fine. T'ey giv'm lotsa carrots inna Awrmy.")
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I've read about this before, but it's not something that comes up often, despite it being a pretty big deal. I've never seen anything about it in a movie. The servicemen, you would think, would grumble about not getting the actual letter that was touched by their girlfriend, wife, etc.

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(Poor Butch. A swell car like that and no gas.)
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The last time his fancy car was mentioned in these Day by Days, I spent over a half hour searching the web for a pic to no avail, but I bet there is one out there somewhere and, probably, even some film footage.

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("One statement wrapped in cellophane?" Well, he probably had enough cash down there to pay it.)

Mickey Owen sighs, puts down the paper opened to the "Strange as It Seems" page and thinks "if only..."

And in the Daily News...

C'mon now, don't you think the Homer Lapp story deserves at least as much space as Lowell Limpus?
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But for a one-paragraph article and with just a little imagination, there are two very good double entendres in there.

 

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True fact: that thread cut from the grooves on a recording blank is called "swarf." And it's extremely, extremely flammable. Have a cigarette, Dick?
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Realism check: haven't you ever dropped a needle in your house, at your feet, heard it hit and still spent ten minutes trying to find it, yet Tracy, in no time, finds several in a field of weeds when he didn't even know he was looking for needles. Plus he found the track with the spikes removed and bolts loosened in, what, thirty seconds. He's a one man crash investigation team.

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Aim for the gut, and twist.
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"Pat, Hu Shee, Dude, uh, April, you out there?"

"April, Mom, really?"

"You got a better Idea?"

"April!"

 

[PrivateEye]

I don't know what happened to Madeline, but there is no such thing as "life in prison" as it can always be, and often has been, reversed in the future when others are in decisioning positions in the justice system. Five, ten, twenty years from now, those in charge often decide to undo a "life in prison" sentence. Madeline might see life outside of prison again in her life (or not). We know her two accomplices will not.

For what it's worth, she served 25 years, and her sentence was commuted in 1967.

 

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For what it's worth, she served 25 years, and her sentence was commuted in 1967.

Perfect example of there being no such thing as "life in prison."

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Bringing the war home. And Magistrate Pinto ought to go to work writing slogans for the OWI.)

Parliament and public, angry and anxious, today demanded an explanation from Prime Minister Winston Churchill of "the grave and humiliating disaster" in Libya, called the worst experienced by British forces since Singapore. It was considered quite apparent in London that whatever news Mr. Churchill brings when he returns from America could not offset what has happened in Tobruk, where the Germans now claim to have taken 25,000 Imperial prisoners. Britain had been led to believe that its forces at Tobruk were "impregnable," and that British armies in Northern Africa had parity with the Nazi forces in terms of men, planes, tanks, and material. Criticism of the Churchill government in the London press was unequivocal, with Labour newspaper The Daily Herald expressing the hope that "the western Second Front, when it comes, will be organized with a vastly better appreciation of the enemy's capacity than we have shown in Libya."

Germany today published the names of two Czech patriots as the purported assassins of Rudolph "the Hangman" Heydrich, number two Gestapo man. The German reports broadcast over the Prague radio claim that the two, identified as 29-year-old Jan Gubis, and 30-year-old Joseph Gabeik, both corporals in the Czechoslovak army, were shot to death by Gestapo agents in a Prague church last week. The reports claimed that the two men were dropped by parachute from a British plane over Pilsen last December, with explicit instructions to kill Heydrich, and that they were tracked down with the help of "Czech parachutists who surrendered voluntarily."

("Lots of things wrong with this country," Mr. Louis has also said, "but Hitler won't fix 'em.")

Democratic leaders in three assembly districts will today meet to consider the choice of a candidate to replace State Senator Joseph A. Esquirol, who has withdrawn his candidacy for re-election in the wake of charges filed against him by an Extraordinary Grand Jury demanding his disbarment as an attorney. The Party's choice is believed to be between Flatbush assemblyman Thomas A. Dyer and Samuel Greenberg, vice presidentt of the Flatbush Democratic Club, and president of Temple Beth Emeth.

("Lessee now," calculates Joe, "12 ounces times two equals 24 ounces, an' times 3 equals t'oity-six ounces, an'nat don' come out even. So lessee, foueh times twelve is foehty-eight, annat don' come out even, so..." "Ya gotta buy t'ree a'tem bot'ls," interrupts Sally. "T'ree times t'oity-two equals nine'y six, divided by twelve equals eight. Eight twelve-ounce bot'ls is t'same as t'ree'a t' big ones." "But I on'y eveh buy six atta time," protests Joe. "But if t'ey wan' me t'buy eight, well, I'm happy do what I can f't'wawr effet.")

(41 theatres for the Gehrig picture, that's fine -- but how many in Brooklyn?)

("But it soun's better'n Flynn's!")

Federal authorities have stepped into the ticket situation at Ebbets Field, with a Bronx speculator arrested yesterday outside the ballpark by an agent of the Internal Revenue Office on a charge of selling a ticket at a price above face value without the required counterstamp listing the Federal tax. Agent Thomas J. McSorley brought the 63-year-old defendant Joseph Davascio before Magistrate Nicholas Pinto in Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, accusing Davascio of selling the unmarked ticket to Sam Kane of Washington, DC before yesterday's game between the Dodgers and the Cardinals. After learning that McSorley intended to bring Davascio before a Federal judge today, the defendant was paroled into the custody of his attorney pending that appearance.

(1942 baseball is running baseball, and if you ask me that's the best kind of baseball. And Bobby Riggs is MARRIED? Oh, that poor woman.)

Is Babe Ruth in line for an officer's commission in the Morale Division of the Army? Military officials are silent on the rumors now circulating. The Babe did not serve in the First World War, but he did enlist in 1924 with the 104th Field Artillery Unit of the New York National Guard.

(Yep, it's Sibyl. Won't Jo be happy!)

(I must say, the RAF's leave policies are very accommodating.)

(Comic Strip Engineering.)

(Dan's the only man here with a chin, but he's got enough to go around for everyone.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

The shepherd surrounds himself with willing sheep.

"Good luck," says Jinx. "And watch out for grabby photographers!"

"But, colonel, I think you need security clearance to.." "JUST GET IT!"

War Is Hell.

The kitten has claws.

"Yeah, let me finish this soda first. Mmmmmm. refreshing!"

In other words, you're both going into the infantry.

Better make sure it doesn't bounce.

Says the ficklest kid in town. At least Shadow sticks in one place.

VIntage things you don't see anymore: an uncle and his grown nephew sitting like that. Although, to be fair, I suspect this is the only place you'd see it even then.

 

[Fading Fast]

...

Germany today published the names of two Czech patriots as the purported assassins of Rudolph "the Hangman" Heydrich, number two Gestapo man. The German reports broadcast over the Prague radio claim that the two, identified as 29-year-old Jan Gubis, and 30-year-old Joseph Gabeik, both corporals in the Czechoslovak army, were shot to death by Gestapo agents in a Prague church last week. The reports claimed that the two men were dropped by parachute from a British plane over Pilsen last December, with explicit instructions to kill Heydrich, and that they were tracked down with the help of "Czech parachutists who surrendered voluntarily."
...

They paid with their lives, but kudos to both men for successfully accomplishing what had to seem like an incredibly long-shot mission.

"You're going to parachute us into where and want us to do what!? No seriously, what is the mission?"

...

("Lessee now," calculates Joe, "12 ounces times two equals 24 ounces, an' times 3 equals t'oity-six ounces, an'nat don' come out even. So lessee, foueh times twelve is foehty-eight, annat don' come out even, so..." "Ya gotta buy t'ree a'tem bot'ls," interrupts Sally. "T'ree times t'oity-two equals nine'y six, divided by twelve equals eight. Eight twelve-ounce bot'ls is t'same as t'ree'a t' big ones." "But I on'y eveh buy six atta time," protests Joe. "But if t'ey wan' me t'buy eight, well, I'm happy do what I can f't'wawr effet.")
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And in the Daily News...

The shepherd surrounds himself with willing sheep.
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No kidding, having "a congregation composed largely of elderly to middle-aged woman" showing support is probably not really helping. I wonder why their husbands didn't come with them, Darlington is their reverend too?

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The kitten has claws.
...

We saw that she has some grit when she punched the Dragon Lady in the face and, now, she's also got the "mama bear protecting her baby" thing at work. Still, unarmed, she's going to need help soon.

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Better make sure it doesn't bounce.
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Never thought it would happen, but I have to admit, I agree with Mama.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(Better get used to it, folks -- the shortages, the rationing, the inconveniences are all going to get worse before they get better.)

(Gawdblessya, Fitz. We all knew he'd be out there in the first wave.)

Another one-week postponement for the implementation of permanent gasoline rationing on the East Coast was caused by a shifting of administrative responsibility for car-sharing plans from one government agency to another, it was learned today. The Office of Civilian Defense has been assigned the responsibility of using its 10,000 local defense councils to educate motorists on the proper procedures for pooling their automobiles to get the most out of the available fuel. Officials had acknowledged that plans for car-pooling were so tentative that it would be unfair to implement coupon-book rationing on July 15th as originally planned, and the decision was made to shift that date ahead to July 22nd. In the mean time, motorists who will have exhausted their original ration cards before that additional week will be entitled to one additional ration unit, to be marked by the punching out of the "Buy War Bonds" insignia appearing on the front of the ration card. That punch will be good for three gallons for A-card holders, four gallons for B-1 cards, five gallons for B-2 cards, and six gallons for B-3 cards.

The RAF, maintaining its round-the-clock bombardment of Nazi targets, last night again pounded the German naval base at Emden, followed by daylight raids on the French invasion coast. The raid on Emden by approximately 250 to 300 heavy bombers took less than an hour, according to Air Ministry reports.

A Nigerian chieftain has offered to send his three sons, armed with bows and arrows, to Berlin to "stalk and hunt Hitler like any other jungle beast." "I have many sons," declared the chief to the British commander in the Nigerian zone of British West Africa, "and I can easily spare three of them to put an end to the man who is causing so much trouble in the world."

A former "high official" in the office of former Queens borough president George U. Harvey is the target of a Federal investigation by U. S. Attorney Harold M. Kennedy, who charges that the man received large sums of money in connection with the Queens paving contract racket. An application was made today by Mr. Kennedy's office for permission to inspect the minutes of the September 1940 Amen Grand Jury for evidence concerning the decision to use "a certain type of paving brick" in the construction of the new General Court Building in Jamaica in 1939. It is alleged by Mr. Kennedy that the decision to use this type of brick was the result of bribes paid to the staff member in then-Borough President Harvey's office.

Mrs. Anna H. Paton, aged 77, "frilled her hair with ribbons, perfumed herself, and acted like a young girl" when expecting a visit from "her lover," the Reverend Dr. Henry Darlington, a maid testified today at the trial instituted by three relatives seeking to break the will of the late Irvington-on-Hudson resident. Josephine Haw, chambermaid in the Paton home since 1938, further testified that Dr. Darlington was a regular visitor, appearing at the Paton home nearly every day for lunch, tea, or dinner, and that she had seen the clergyman and her employer sitting close together on a sofa, with "his arm draped around her in a friendly manner." Miss Haw further added that the late Mrs. Paton "loved the men in general. She hated the women. She was a man's woman."

("T' Dykeh?" grumbles Joe. "I hate t' Dykeh. Awlways smells like kerosene." "Ahhh," sighs Sally, "at's f'mmat spray t'ey use t'kill t'bedbugs outa t'seats. Mildred Hummick downa block, she's a ushehrette. She says e'vy night t'ey sprays t'jernt. We c'd go upta t'Albee, it don' smell." "Awlaway downtown t'see a movie 'bout a Yankee?" sneers Joe. "Arouna corneh, 'at's OK. But I got me principles.")

(America's Biggest Small Town.)

("You sure you can't get a B card?")

("Petey's jus' waitin'," smirks Sally, "f't secon' half. You wait'n see.")

When the Dodgers open their homestand tonight at Ebbets Field, Miss Gladys Goodding's performance on the electric organ will throttled down several decibels, in settlement of a complaint by a Lefferts Avenue man who had argued that the music disturbed his rest. In exchange for the ball club agreeing to turn down the sound, the complainant has agreed to drop his lawsuit against the team.

(Jo sits around all day waiting for openings like this.)

(Have you really thought all of this through?)

(Really? I don't remember you at all. Maybe we've all got amnesia.)

(I'll say. Forest berries, with no ice cream!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"LaGuaridan Solution" is a phrase? Of course it is.

"The relationship was not sexual, was it?" Well, somebody had to ask.

That's the problem with being in command, all the paperwork.

"And by the way, why do you need to take dice to a wardens' meeting?"

Maybe they know your husband.

I dunno, Standard's train wreck record is pretty impressive. And it's just a rock crusher slowed down!

Just be sure to take the wrapper off the PIE before you eat it!

HOLD INDUSTRIALIST IN NIGHT CLUB BRAWL

Who's the fathead now?

Shoulda thought of this years ago.