The Era -- Day By Day

[PrivateEye]

Passeau is pitching, so watch out for

Blackberry pie is hard to find, and severely underrated!

I doubt he wants to face the blowback again, but Caniff did kill off Raven. That said, it would be even worse this time as he'd be leaving a child motherless.

It might be the last TATP that I ever read if he does it. Hard to imagine a modern comic being so dark - if they even still exist?

 

[LizzieMaine]

It could be even darker. Suppose Normandie survives -- but the Invaders take Merrily?

 

[LizzieMaine]

(When you visit the offices of the Pinball Association, you go up a high flight of stairs and then fall down into a hole. Isn't that so, Senator?)

More than 150,000 Japanese troops today tightened a huge pincers upon the vital Chekiang-Kiangsi railroad in Eastern China, in a drive believed to be aimed at countering any Allied naval offensive against the Japanese sea route between Shanghai and Singapore. A Chinese communique tonight said that Chinese forces are clinging desperately to an 80-mile middle section of the railroad between Yingtun and Shangjao, but it was intimated that Shangjao itself may have fallen to a Japanese column of 100,000 driving into Kiangsi from Chekiang province.

Belgium today became the first small European nation to join the mutual aid bloc already consisting of the United States, Great Britian, the Soviet Union, and China. The Belgian ambassador has signed a master Lend-Lease agreement providing for American assistance during the war to the Belgian government-in-exile, and ensuring economic collaboration following the war.

A 38-year-old Flatbush man painting at the Hotel Pierre in Manhattan fell off his scaffold this morning but managed to slide to safety after grabbing the scaffold rope. Patrick J. Kinsella of 259 Newkirk Avenue was 21 floors above the street when he lost his balance and fell off the scaffold. He grabbed at the rope as he plunged downward and managed to hold on, sliding down three floors before coming to rest on an 18th floor terrace. His fall, however, acted as a counterweight, raising the scaffold, and his two fellow painters, up three floors. Kinsella was taken to City Hospital where he was treated for burns to his hands and a sprained back.

The Brooklyn Dodgers all signed up as Minute Men last night in ceremonies at Ebbets Field, and will join an army of 200,000 men and women in going door to door in the borough to secure pledges for the purchase of War Bonds. The entire roster of the ball club took the pledge under the supervision of Borough President John Cashmore.

("Good t'ing ya brutteh's inna Awrmy," comments Joe. "What?" replies Sally. "Nut'n.")

Two young boys were rescued by firemen from beneath a blazing bed in a burning Brooklyn Heights tenement last night. Four year olds Pablo Peterson and Ernest Marazzi were unconscious and critically burned when they were taken to Long Island College Hospital, a few blocks away from the Columbia Place tenement, and doctors indicated that their injuries were likely fatal. The boys's families shared a single three-room apartment in the building, and had been left in the care of the Marazzi boy's 16-year-old sister when their mothers went to work at their hospital jobs. Fire Marshal Thomas Brophy stated that the boys likely started the fire "playing with matches." The older sister, Vivian Marazzi attacked policemen who stopped her from rushing back into the burning building to rescue the boys, biting and kicking until she was taken away. Police Patrolman Michael Sherman of the Butler Street precinct was in a barber shop across the street from the tenement when the fire broke out, and rushed up a fire escape in time to rescue five other children from the burning building.

(C'mon, shell out. Let's go.)

Seaman Joseph Higgins, late of Brooklyn and currently of the Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia, writes to the Eagle Editorialist to appeal for help in fending off the ignorant gibes of "outlanders" who resent his Brooklyn pride, his Brooklyn language, and his Brooklyn baseball club. The EE advises Seaman Higgins to bear his burden with equanimity, noting that "one of the penalties for being at the top is becoming a target for the jealous ones below." So Seaman Higgins will just have to accept that, "in the strident accents of other towns, they will assail the music of the Brooklyn tongue," and that "never having known the pride of a pennant-winning ball team," they will mock his allegiance to the Dodgers, and that as "products of raw towns only lately sprung from the wilderness or the prairie," they will assail his natural sophistication. But he will rest assured in the knowledge that he comes from "the finest community in the land, whose greatness is in no wise lessened by the jealous carpings of those whom fate has placed in less favored places."

("You mean I don't get a howitzer? We'll see about that!")

(And whattaya bet it's actually MacPhail himself at the PA microphone making that announcement. "YEAH, YOU. I MEAN YOU!")

It's Ladies Night tonight at Dexter Park, when the Bushwicks host the Philadelphia Stars of the Negro National League. Last week in Philadelphia the Stars defeated the league-leading Baltimore Elite Giants 11-3 to put themselves in the running for first-half honors in the circuit.

Paul Waner could join the exclusive 3000-hit club in Boston this afternoon, going into today's game between the Braves and the Reds with exactly 2998 safeties to his credit. Whether or not he hits the magic figure today or tomorrow, Punch Bowl Paul will be honored with a testimonial dinner to be thrown tomorrow night by the Boston fans.

A Mitchel Field sergeant and three privates will escort Hollywood stars Jinx Falkenberg and Evelyn Keyes to Manhattan high spots tonight, or at least such spots as they can afford on their military salaries. The Army, impressed with how movieland has treated the men in uniform, has decided to turn the tables with a "Soldier's Pay Tour" for the visiting celebrities.

(Sparky Watts??)

("You mean HALF baked." Oh, Josephine.)

(I wish they'd get this new artist up to speed. I don't know who that is in Panel One, but it sure isn't Leona. I think it's that stuck-up college girl who always shows up in the Hill Page.)

(All right, I admit it. On my clothesline right now there's a message that translates to "SOCK SOCK TOWEL UNDERPANTS UNDERPANTS BRASSIERE SHEET SHEET PILLOWCASE PILLOWCASE PILLOWCASE TABLECLOTH." And no one will ever get wise!)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

See, Babs? Never marry a bandleader.

A wholly-owned subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey? "Well, yeah, but we never heard of I. G. Farben. HONEST!"

"Why, if there's one thing I learned from 'Daddy,' it's that you gotta be organized! And also, you should always keep an assassin an' a giant wizard on retainer! Isn't that right, Sandy?" "Arf!"

HAH! AMARD'S A CROOK! I KNEW IT! NEVER TRUST A CRITIC!

"Right, absolutely. Very good. Then the infantry it is."

Andy really does live a charmed life.

I'll never forget when I got up to receive my diploma, the hem of the gown caught on the bleachers and ripped, loudly and decisively. I rolled my eyes toward the ceiling, made a what's-the-use gesture, and got the only laugh of the night. Thus was my future mapped out.

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Take a hint, kid.

Moon is the most debonair man in the comics.

 

[Fading Fast]

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(When you visit the offices of the Pinball Association, you go up a high flight of stairs and then fall down into a hole. Isn't that so, Senator?)
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"I put the money aside in an envelope and put the evelope in my office safe."
"Let's recess so you can retrieve the envelope and bring it here."
"I don't want to inconvenience everyone, I'll just get it later."
"No, no, now's a good time, we'll recess and wait."

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A 38-year-old Flatbush man painting at the Hotel Pierre in Manhattan fell off his scaffold this morning but managed to slide to safety after grabbing the scaffold rope. Patrick J. Kinsella of 259 Newkirk Avenue was 21 floors above the street when he lost his balance and fell off the scaffold. He grabbed at the rope as he plunged downward and managed to hold on, sliding down three floors before coming to rest on an 18th floor terrace. His fall, however, acted as a counterweight, raising the scaffold, and his two fellow painters, up three floors. Kinsella was taken to City Hospital where he was treated for burns to his hands and a sprained back.
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I believe I saw that movie when it was first released in Hollywood's silent era.

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Seaman Joseph Higgins, late of Brooklyn and currently of the Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia, writes to the Eagle Editorialist to appeal for help in fending off the ignorant gibes of "outlanders" who resent his Brooklyn pride, his Brooklyn language, and his Brooklyn baseball club. The EE advises Seaman Higgins to bear his burden with equanimity, noting that "one of the penalties for being at the top is becoming a target for the jealous ones below." So Seaman Higgins will just have to accept that, "in the strident accents of other towns, they will assail the music of the Brooklyn tongue," and that "never having known the pride of a pennant-winning ball team," they will mock his allegiance to the Dodgers, and that as "products of raw towns only lately sprung from the wilderness or the prairie," they will assail his natural sophistication. But he will rest assured in the knowledge that he comes from "the finest community in the land, whose greatness is in no wise lessened by the jealous carpings of those whom fate has placed in less favored places."
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Wonder if Solly will see this editorial as I imagine he might be having some of the same issues seaman Higgins is having.

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A Mitchel Field sergeant and three privates will escort Hollywood stars Jinx Falkenberg and Evelyn Keyes to Manhattan high spots tonight, or at least such spots as they can afford on their military salaries. The Army, impressed with how movieland has treated the men in uniform, has decided to turn the tables with a "Soldier's Pay Tour" for the visiting celebrities.
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Thank you for a fun night on the town soldier, love, Jinx

And in the Daily News...

See, Babs? Never marry a bandleader.
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Bandleaders do seem to pop up a lot on Page Four, which is never a sign of marriage stability.

As to assigning more police woman to patrol the streets to stop the American soldiers from necking with the Australian girls, does anyone else see how this could backfire?

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Is Caniff really doing this again?

 

[LizzieMaine]

We can only hope that Normandie hit the dirt in time. That leer on the face of the soldier in panel two is one of the most chilling things I have ever seen in a comic strip.

Meanwhile, across the street from Ebbets Field...

"Jeez, Sam, I think they're onto us. How'd they catch on?"

 

[Fading Fast]

We can only hope that Normandie hit the dirt in time. That leer on the face of the soldier in panel two is one of the most chilling things I have ever seen in a comic strip.

Meanwhile, across the street from Ebbets Field...

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"Jeez, Sam, I think they're onto us. How'd they catch on?"

In the '80s-'00s, NYC ticket scalpers were never that brazen.

 

[Fading Fast]

The below is from an on-line newspaper "The City" that covers, well, New York City. It has a very liberal lean (hence it reflects its readership), so it's telling when it criticizes the government, which in New York is basically a left-vs-the-far-left fight as Republicans have all but no presence in it.

When I read the below, I thought how much it sounds like the political corruption we read about in these 1940s Day-by-Days all the time. As we often note, not that much is really new.


As early voting starts tomorrow, a power struggle over who will work the polls is revealing more about the county political machine in Brooklyn.

This year, because voters have two primaries instead of one, New York has 30 days of voting between the June and August primaries, and the November election.

Someone working all of those days could earn more than $8,000. And THE CITY has learned that Brooklyn party boss Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn has stripped the power to recommend poll workers from at least a dozen out-of-favor local officials.

Instead, Hermelyn named her allies as “liaisons” to the Board of Elections, two of whom appear to be falsely billing themselves as current district leaders. In low-turnout elections, political veterans say, having friends as poll workers gives a leg up — because they often bring their own family and social networks to cast ballots.

And this:

Some other items of note:

• Government watchdog groups are calling on the Brooklyn district attorney to investigate a rash of forgeries found by THE CITY in ballot challenges linked to the borough’s Democratic Party. The call comes after five Brooklynites told our reporters that forged versions of the signature appeared on Board of Elections paperwork linked to the party.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Somebody check the stock of antique Belgian paving blocks.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(O'Dwyer isn't gone a month and already again with the blazing trunk murders. Where's Turkus when you need him?)

The hearing on charges of unprofessional conduct made by an Amen grand judy against former Assistant District Attorney Samuel Goldstein neared completion today before Official Referee Leanner B. Faber. Goldstein was directed to return today for cross-examination by Chares J. Buchner of Assistant Attorney General Amen's staff. Goldstein yesterday denied every charge that was made against him, explaiing that he never at any time had any thought of preventing the appearance of Leona Kurowski as a witness against three youths she accused of attacking her in an automobile. He said he had never agreed with anyone that Samuel Rubin, one of the defendants charged with assault by the girl, would escape prosecution, although the case in magistrate's court was dismissed because the girl failed to show up. He also had no recollection, he statied of the request which Max Graff said was made in young Rubin's behalf that Goldstein would help him get out of the scrape. He admitted knowing Graff for years as a fraternity brother, and admitted that he "may have told him that if the boy has a good laywer there is nothing to worry about." He denied also that he had received from Louis Kassman, former "fixer" and bail bond racketeer $200 or any other sum to save Kassman from the indictment for subornation of perjury on which he was sentenced to five years.

(Ann Sheridan wires "HEY LEAVE ME OUT OF THIS.")

Ten of the 1032 boys attending Flushing High School today are proudly wearing a distinctive button insignia declaring them to be full-fledged Flushing Commandos, a distinction earned by the boys after six weeks of rigorous athletic training. Of another 150 seeking to attain the distincton, 35 have passed reduced tests entitling them to the name of "Junior Commandos," and are striving mightily to earn the elite grade. To win full commando status, an aspirant must lift the equivalent of his own weight and carry it 100 yards, run a mile in six minutes, do ten dips on parallel bars, chin himself 10 times, climb an 18-foot rope without use of the feet, vault over a five foot horse, high-jump four feet, step and leap 16 feet, broadjump 16 feet, and do a front circle on a bar the height of his head.

(AND BESIDES TEXACO DID IT TOO AND NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THEM!)

(Gypsy's opening postponed? Please don't tell me somebody got killed backstage, because you know how that goes.)

The Eagle Editorialist notes with pride that three of the honor students of the June graduating class at Brooklyn College are a clerk, a street sweeper, and a refugee. "America is safe as long as that kind of a headline is possible."

(Even Lichty's ethnic caricatures all have the same physique. There's a message there, but I'm not sure what it is.)

The Germans have added 26 more Czechs today to the army of innocent hostages executed in reprisal for the assassination of Reinard "The Hangman" Heydrich. The latest victims were executed today, twelve in Prague and 14 in Brunn, among them a professor, a lawyer, a teacher, and an industrialist, accused of such "crimes" as having approved of the killing of Heydrich and giing shelter to persons engaged in anti-German activities. So far more than four hundred persons have been executed in reprisal for the assassination of Heydrich, number two man of the Gestapo, not counting the extermination of the town of Lidice, where every man was killed. Underground reports state that everywhere the Germans go in Czechoslovakia, they see the name "Lidice" written on houses, walls, trees, and telephone poles.

Patrons in an Ozone Park cabaret thought they heard a cap pistol fired shortly after 1 AM, but when police arrived to investigate they found 25-year-old singer Carol Lee of Manhattan with a bullet wound to the right leg. The performer, taken to Queens Hospital, told police she did not know who shot her, or why. Several patrons reported that, as the singer screamed out in pain after the shot was fired, several men "hurriedly left their table and ran from the place."

(Yeah, you don't win a pennant sitting inside to get away from the Unmentionable Weather for a week...)

The football coach for eleven of the past thirteen years at Erasmus Hall High School will report to Annapolis tomorrow to assume active duty in the U. S. Navy. Coach Paul Sullivan has been commissioned a lieutenant senior grade, and will be the second official of the famous Flatbush school to enter the officer corps, joining former principal Dr. John F. McNeill, recently promoted to the rank of Major in the air corps, and stationed in Washington. Sullivan will be succeeded as coach of the Buff and Blue by Austin Dugan, who served as assistant grid coach in 1942, and coached the Erasmus baseball team to the Brooklyn title last season.

(Napoleon? Didn't we go thru this already?)

(Mr. Ernst still can't draw Leona, but I do like his hard-boiled Mary.)

(Who laid out the comics today, anyway? This is all out of sequence. And who's this guy "Scott" and what makes him so great? HUH?)

("I'M SWEDISH. HERE, ALLOW ME TO GIVE YOU A MASSAGE.")

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News..

Ahhh, the Rev. Darlington. We no doubt remember him from last year, the good shepherd who is ever attentive to the fleecing of the shaggier members of his flock.

"'Ats it," exclaims Sally. "I'm outta t'wawteh f't' duhration!"

"Excellent!" declares Annie. "The Asp taught me how to hot-wire!"

If it turns out that Sandhurst is involved with these guys, I swear I'll break something.

I can remember Skeezix in his little basket on Walt's doorstep. *snif.*

So what else is new?

It's hard to let go.

A toy train? Well, at least it's not a cockfight.


You might think you're cool, but you'll never be Moon Mullins sitting around in a sleeveless black undershirt biting the end off a cigar cool.

Meanwhile, Shadow ambles along, notices flowers and candy in the garbage can, and struts off to see Suzy Q.

 

[Fading Fast]

(O'Dwyer isn't gone a month and already again with the blazing trunk murders. Where's Turkus when you need him?)
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It makes you almost nostalgic for the days when dead bodies popped up, not-mutilated, in the grease pits of gas stations. (We never got any follow-up on that story.)

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(Ann Sheridan wires "HEY LEAVE ME OUT OF THIS.")
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So much in this article would set our social media and political world ablaze today.

Jinx Falkenberg wonders to herself, "how come Ann and Rita get mentioned, but not me!"

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Ten of the 1032 boys attending Flushing High School today are proudly wearing a distinctive button insignia declaring them to be full-fledged Flushing Commandos, a distinction earned by the boys after six weeks of rigorous athletic training. Of another 150 seeking to attain the distincton, 35 have passed reduced tests entitling them to the name of "Junior Commandos," and are striving mightily to earn the elite grade. To win full commando status, an aspirant must lift the equivalent of his own weight and carry it 100 yards, run a mile in six minutes, do ten dips on parallel bars, chin himself 10 times, climb an 18-foot rope without use of the feet, vault over a five foot horse, high-jump four feet, step and leap 16 feet, broadjump 16 feet, and do a front circle on a bar the height of his head.
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The military in 1942 might not yet have official "commandos," but apparently high schools do.

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(Gypsy's opening postponed? Please don't tell me somebody got killed backstage, because you know how that goes.)
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Apparently, Hollywood, too, has commandos; the US military really needs to catch up.

Yesterday, was a busy as heck day for me with work, but when I saw the scene in "Mrs. Miniver" (I keep TCM on mute in the background most of the day) where she captures the downed German pilot start, I did stop and watch the movie for fifteen minutes that I didn't have. Hence, it's not hard to understand why it was on track to break attendance records at Radio City Music Hall. Eighty years later and it is still incredibly engaging entertainment.

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Patrons in an Ozone Park cabaret thought they heard a cap pistol fired shortly after 1 AM, but when police arrived to investigate they found 25-year-old singer Carol Lee of Manhattan with a bullet wound to the right leg. The performer, taken to Queens Hospital, told police she did not know who shot her, or why. Several patrons reported that, as the singer screamed out in pain after the shot was fired, several men "hurriedly left their table and ran from the place."
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It could always just be an angry suitor, but knowing how cabarets, gangsters and chanteuses commingled in the '30s and '40s, you can't rule out mob activity. Maybe she didn't like that her "manger" was getting a 50% cut.

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(Yeah, you don't win a pennant sitting inside to get away from the Unmentionable Weather for a week...)
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Today, it's stunning just to read an article like Parrott's.

Ahhh, the Rev. Darlington. We no doubt remember him from last year, the good shepherd who is ever attentive to the fleecing of the shaggier members of his flock.
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There is a lot of "Page Four" on Page Four today: the dicey reverend, the opportunity to talk about panties, that complex "unwed" mother mess, the corrupt-cops-potato-gun story and the guy nailed on the old warrant for defrauding a woman over a promise to marry. Phew.

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Meanwhile, Shadow ambles along, notices flowers and candy in the garbage can, and struts off to see Suzy Q.

Yours is a better scenario for the strip, but when I saw panel one, I was thinking he should take the flowers home to his mother and share the chocolates with his family or friends. It's 1942 and sugar rationing is on, who throws a box of candy away?

 

[PrivateEye]

It could be even darker. Suppose Normandie survives -- but the Invaders take Merrily?

There's no "dislike" button...

 

[LizzieMaine]

Meanwhile, "beaches under the control of Parks Commissioner Robert Moses were exempted from the bill at his request."

Really? What a dawg.

 

[Fading Fast]

Meanwhile, "beaches under the control of Parks Commissioner Robert Moses were exempted from the bill at his request."

Really? What a dawg.

That part of the story confused me: does it mean that you can be scantily attired more than 200 feet from beaches under Moses' control? It seems like the bill is really less about the beaches than the streets 200 feet from the beaches, so why wouldn't that effect the areas around the beaches under Moses control as I doubt he also controls those streets? No?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Especially since the beaches under Moses' control include Coney Island Beach, the biggest of them all. Maybe it just means you can't cross the boardwalk without covering up.

I'll be very amused if Councilwoman Earle becomes the first challenger to the new law. Rita Casey will have a coronary.

 

[Fading Fast]

Especially since the beaches under Moses' control include Coney Island Beach, the biggest of them all. Maybe it just means you can't cross the boardwalk without covering up.

I'll be very amused if Councilwoman Earle becomes the first challenger to the new law. Rita Casey will have a coronary.

What a mess this whole issue is.

 

[LizzieMaine]

(And if they won't let Louis fight, I bet they could bring in a real nice gate with a Conn vs. Old Man rematch!)

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson indicated today that all reports of Japanese landings in the Aleutians indicated that the invasion forces are small. The secretary stated at a Washington press conference that he was unable to say, however, if the invaders brought up reinforcements at their small land-hold on Attu, westernmost of the Aleutian group, or at Kiska harbor, which some Japanese ships have entered, because prevailing fog limits aerial observation. Stinson stressed, however, that Allied victories in the Pacific have greatly reduced the threat of an attack on the West Coast by Japan.

The sinking of eight United Nations ships by Axis submarines in the Atlantic and the Caribbean, and the escape of an American merchantman that dodged half a dozen torpedoes from an Axis raider in the Gulf of Mexico were disclosed today by the Navy. Naval authorities announced that at least 41 and up to 48 seamen were lost when subs sank two Central American vessels in the Caribbean, while fourteen survivors of an Allied freighter sunk in the Atlantic made their way safely to an eastern Canadian port. It was reported by a Havana newspaper that 20 survivors of a Nicaraguan merchantman arrived there after being rescued by "an American unit" seventy miles off the northern coast of Cuba.

("Change your underwear frequently." And then nobody will make fun of you down at the bowling alley.)

(Good luck with this.)

Scrap rubber piles grew higher today as householders stripped their premises bare of the much-needed material in a treasure hunt that has already contributed several thousand tons in the state. Although only 272 tons of rubber scrap had been carted to the central warehouses of the large oil companies as of this morning, it is reported that "many times that amount" is piled at gasoline stations around Brooklyn waiting to be collected. The Brooklyn and Queens bulk plants of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, the TIdewater Oil Company, the Cities Service Oil Company, the Gulf Refining Company, the Sun Oil Company, the Texas Company, the Colonial-Beacon Oil Company, the Shell Oil Company, and the Sinclair Refining Company are all providing facilities for the collection and storage of rubber waste until it can be turned over to the Government for reprocessing. Boy Scouts thruout the city will make a final gleaning thru June 30th in hopes of collecting the last little bits of rubber scrap for the campaign.

("Big slow western" = pretty much every western. And no fair making fun of Binnie Barnes, Herb -- these dialect parts are hard!)

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.

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.

(It's RABBIT! Welsh RABBIT! RABBIT! RABBIT! RABBIT!)

The Dean of American Bandmasters died yesterday at his home in West Long Branch, New Jersey following a brief illness. Arthur Pryor, a disciple of the late John Philip Sousa, was 71. Pryor joined the Sousa band as a trombonist in 1890, and toured the world as a member of that organization until forming his own band in 1903. He became one of the first bandmasters to make phonograph records, and millions of copies of his recordings have been sold. He was also a frequent performer on radio programs. A record of his most popular composition, "The Whistler and His Dog," has alone sold more than two million copies.

(No, what people don't appreciate is that Leo felt the need to start Mr. Davis in the first game of the Series last year when he had Higbe rested and ready to go. WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT???)

(That's what you get for using that gluten-free flour.)

(I was hoping more for Mary dressing up as a commando, abducting Pal Joey, and tying him to a chair in the woods. But I guess a phone call, whatever.)

("It's my lunch. Here, want a cheese sandwich? I got Limburger...")

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

 

[LizzieMaine]

And in the Daily News...

"Let us prey..."

"Bohemia style?" You mean long braids, peasant blouses, and lederhosen, but with zippers?

True fact: the grocery carriage was only introduced six years ago, and they're obviously still working out the safety features.

Fifth columnists!

"Oh, and call your lawyer."

"You will? Um, that business with Tula didn't mean a thing."

"Carl -- we think the strip's been a little dark lately, and we think you need to get back to basics. Maybe bring back Pop. Just a suggestion. Signed, Your Editor."

And with his dying breath...

Page Four! Page Four! Page Four!

And the worst thing is, you just know they haven't got a permit to do this.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And a sporting bonus, Mr. O'Mealia's interpretation of the recent wave of shutouts...