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...York City woke up one day this week, looked on its doorstep, and found no newspaper. The New York Newspaper & Mail Deliverers Union had gone on strike...
...cruelty to animals, given a suspended fine, stripped of his commission as volunteer officer of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection. In Los Lunas, N.M., a prisoner made a jailbreak, leaped to the back of a horse, which promptly threw him off on his head. Deputies woke him up. In Santa Fe, J. D. Wilkerson wounded himself playing the musical...
...poured in and the backwash washed me right out through that hole. Another gunboat came steaming in and picked me up. They laid me beside an Oerlikon gun and the row was awful. Jeeze, that gun left me in a daze, and I passed out. About 4 p.m. I woke up, seeing the top of a cliff. I asked one of the gunners: "Holy Jesus, we're pretty near home?" He said: "Home be b- we're still at Dieppe...
Cops & Robbers. In Manhattan, tired burglar went to sleep in Central Park with his swag, woke to find it gone complained to a cop, got arrested for burglary. In Indianapolis, a burglar got out of a building by calling out boldly: "Hey let me out of here!" The watchman obliged. In Kansas City, a young man who stole a truck explained to police that he had to, because the tires he had stolen a few minutes before were too heavy to carry. In Topeka, somebody stole all the buttons off Frank Coffman's closetful of clothes. In Seattle, William...
...Allied generals had pronounced impassable. Field Marshal Rommel and his mighty Mark IVs teach lesson No. 2 by blazing away through the Libyan sandstorms. Then there are the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, on their dash to home port, defiantly steaming through the English Channel before the British navy woke up. A brief, shocking sequence of Jap soldiers executing a pair of Chinese prisoners suggests the basic note of frightfulness as a factor in Axis tactics...