The New York Times, November 28, 1941
LEPKE TRIAL IS DELAYED
Illness of Judge Taylor Causes Postponement of Summings-Up
The New York Times, November 28, 1941
The New York Times, November 27, 1941
The New York Times, November 27, 1941
Lepke Was Framed, His Counsel Asserts
Defense Says Rubin, Seeking Revenge Planned Murder
Now the Japanese Know: U.S.A. Won’t Sell Out China
PM, November 27, 1941
His Master Died in this room which was shattered by the blast of an illuminating-gas explosion last night, but a black shepherd dog Freca, was uninjured by either gas or the explosion. Police say Thomas Quinn, 31, a commercial artist, was found lying in front of a gas stove with all jets open in his west 26th Street apartment, but failed to make either a suicide or accident listing. Freca hid behind a small piano.
PM, November 27, 1941
PM photos by Weegee
Weegee, PM, November 27, 1941
The New York Times, November 26, 1941
The New York Times, November 26, 1941
The New York Times, November 26, 1941
LEPKE AND AIDES CLOSE DEFENSE
Racketeer Fails to Take the Stand to Answer Charge of Murder in Brooklyn
Long Summing Up Is Due
2 Days Likely to be devoter to Addresses – Jidge Rukles Out Widow’s Accusation
The New York Times, November 26, 1941
New York Post, November 26, 1941
Reles Escaped Death in Jail
Gunman’s Plot failed, Says O”Dwyer at Cop’s Trial
PM, November 26, 1941
Reles’s Guards on Trial
“Don’t look now… But I think there’s a new exhibit!”
No Handstands At Met Opening
By Henry Simon
PM, November 25, 1941, p.22
This season the opera opening was not all high hat; there was a showing of gold braid and a generous turnout of plain khaki. The fancy-peaked cap above is a captain’s, the other just a lieutenant’s.
PM, November 25, 1941, p.22
Opera patronesses seldom check their tiaras with the management. Here, at their table in the Opera Bar (only theater bar permitted in N.Y.) are, left to right, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, Lady Decies, Mrs. Leonora H. Warner.
PM, November 25, 1941, p.22
The cops keep a watchful eye on the standees. Last night a Mr. Burke (above) boned up on his libretto while waiting to buy a standee ticket.
The onlookers flanking the main entrance put on the dog in their own fashion. Lena Penola’s pooch is named Buddy. Photos by Ray Platnick,…
PM, November 25, 1941, p.22
The Newspaper That Can and Dares To Tell the Truth!
Read PM Everyday…
PM, November 24 1941, p. 5
…the newspaper division of the New York Public Library…
PM, November 24 1941, p. 14
PM, November 24 1941, p. 22
“Clifford Burdette: African-American Radio Pioneer” on WNYC.ORG
The Real Macumba…
PM, November 24 1941, p. 23
PM, November 24 1941, pp. 12-13
PM, November 24 1941, p. 13
Cop Kills Holdup Man:
A few minutes after he held up an Essex Street lunchroom on the Lower East Side and shot a patron, Vincent Mannuzza, 31, was lying dead at the feet of the cop who shot him. Patrolman Laurence Cramer, right, shot and killed Mannuzza after a two-block chase and is shown handing the gunman’s revolver to Sgt. Eugene Morland. The $20 loot taken from the restaurant lies in Mannuzza’s hat at his side. An ambulance surgeon crouches over the dead man who was shot in the head and back. Mannuzza shot a customer, Adam Zayko, 50, when he refused to go into the back room with two other customers and the manager of the lunchroom.
PM Photo by WeegeePM, November 24 1941, p. 13
POLICEMEN KILL BANDIT IN BATTLE
Thousands Awed as Gunman Fires Wildly at Pursuers in Crowded Delancey Street
CUSTOMER OF DINER SHOT
Critically Wounded When He Blocks Doorway as Thug Flees After Hold-Up
The New York Times, November 24 1941
Weegee, Naked City, 1945, pp. 82-83
There was a good double feature at the Loew’s Delancey Street on Sunday, November 23, 1941. At 8:45 PM, for 39 cents [7 bucks today], you could have seen this double feature, (neither were were gangster films):
Tanks a Million (1941): “It was the first of Hal Roach’s Streamliners, short films under an hour designed for the lower half of a double feature.” (Wikipedia)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941): “American horror film starring” Lana Turner, Ingrid Bergman, and Spencer Tracy. (Wikipedia)
PM, November 23, 1941
“…good and evil are so close as to be chained together at the soul…”
“Your Eyes Have Never Seen Entertainment So Graphically Filmed.”
“You Must See It To Believe It!”
The Cop Kills Holdup Man story was widely published, photo-free, on November 24, 1941, here are selected newspaper headlines (and a book caption):
Cop Kills Holdup Man (PM)
Crime And Punishment (Naked City)
Delancey St. Battle Ends In Death (Knickerbocker News)
Ex-Convict Slain In $9 Holdup Of New York Diner (Troy)
Ex-convict Shot Down after Chase (Niagara Falls)
Exconvict Killed, Diner Patron Shot in East Side Holdup (Syracuse)
Just Out Of Prison Thug Is Shot Dead In a Street Battle (Daily News)
New York Police Chase, Slay Convict (Herald Statesman)
Police Kill Ex-Convict (Ossining)
Policeman Kill Bandit In Battle (New York Times)
Robber Slain, Diner Wounded (Rochester)
PM, November 23, 1941, p. 43
What To Do If We Get A Real Flu Epidemic
PM, November 23, 1941, pp. 44-45
‘SUSPICION’
With Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine
An Alfred Hitchcock Melodrama
PM, November 23, 1941, pp. 48-49 (…a photo by Gene Smith…)
Catching the Eye Of Man in Street
People Who Took These Photos Weren’t ‘Arty’ They had Their Lenses on the World
PM, November 23, 1941, p. 64
Smart Burton Turkus Battles Murder, Inc
The New York Times, November 22, 1941
PM, November 21, 1941, p.12 (Photos by Gene Badger, PM)
New York’s Thanksgiving: A Big Parade, and Turkey…
PM, November 21, 1941, p.13 (Photos by M Engel, PM)
… And the Ragamuffins, Featuring National Defense
The ragamuffins of New York capered as usual on Thanksgiving Day. Those pictured on this page were part of a Madison Square Boys’ Club parade on First Avenue. Many carried spot-news banners, an innovation encouraged by the Club as a substitute for traditional ragamuffin street begging…
PM, November 21, 1941, p.22 (Unidentified photographer)
Hitchcock’s Latest Masterpiece… A Melodrama of the Mind
By Cecelia Ager
The film ideal is a blend of story-telling, writing, musical scoring, photographic composition, acting, developing characterization, cutting and direction – co-ordinated to achieve dramatic impact, an impact indigenous to the movies, impossible to any other art form…
PM, November 21, 1941, p.22
The New York Times, November 17, 1939
SLAIN BY EAST SIDE THUGS
Soft-Drink Vendor Shot Down In Prince Street Doorway
The New York Times, November 17, 1939
The New York Post, Friday, November 17, 1939, p. 10 (Associated Press Photo)
Street Scene in New York
After the guns ceased barking and the gunmen fled, neighbors peered from the fire escape and almost every window last night for a glimpse of the body of Anthony Greco, slain in front of his own cafe at 10 Prince Street.
The New York Post, November 17, 1939
Times Herald, November 20, 1939, p.1
LIFE, November 27, 1939, pp. 26-27
Murder in New York
After dusk on Nov. 16, Angelo Greco stood smoking outside his cafe in Manhattan’s Little Italy. Emerging from the darkness, a man drew a gun, fired four shots, fled into the night. Greco tumbled dead in his doorway. From windows above, heads popped out. Police cars screamed into the street. Close in their wake arrived Arthur Fellig, famed free-lance photographer (LIFE, April 12, 1937) who sleeps behind police headquarters, has a short-wave radio in his car. He listened briefly while neighborhood folk stolidly disclaimed knowledge of the murderer, then stepped back and photographed this dramatic street scene.
LIFE, November 27, 1939, p. 27
Weegee, Naked City, 1945, p. 79
Balcony Seats At A Murder
This happened in Little Italy. Detectives tried to question the people in the neighborhood… but they were all deaf… dumb… and blind… not having seen or heard anything.
Weegee, Naked City, 1945, p. 79
Weegee, Famous Photographers Tell How…, ca. 1955
…One of the best pictures I’ve made… Just to give you a little aside. I got up nine o’clock one night, and I says to myself, I’m going to take a nice little ride and work up an appetite… I arrive right in the heart of Little Italy, 10 Prince St. Here’s a guy who had been bumped off in the doorway of a little candy store. This was a nice balmy, hot, summer’s night. The detectives are all over… but all the five stories of the tenement people are on the fire escape… they’re looking, they’re having a good time… some of the kids are even reading the funny papers and the comics… There was another photographer there and he made what they call a ten foot shot… he made a shot of just the guy in the doorway and that was it… To me this was drama, this was like a backdrop… I stepped all the way back about 100 feet. I used flash powder. And I got this whole scene… the people on the fire escapes, the body, everything… Of course the title for it was “Balcony Seats at a Murder”… That picture won me a gold medal with a real genuine diamond… So that was it… So I try to humanize the news story. Of course I ran into snags with the dopey editors. If it was fire they’d say where’s the burning building? And I’d says look they all look a like. I says look, here’s the people effected by the burning building…
Weegee, Famous Photographers Tell How… ca. 1955
The New York Times, November 14, 1941
GUARDS DEMOTED IN RELES ESCAPE
Five to Get Departmental Trials on Laxity Charge – Mayor Orders Inquiry
…speculation mounted as to Reles’s motive in attempting to escape that admittedly afforded him a haven from an underworld enraged… it was known that Reles feared only one underworld figure, Albert Anastasia… He always did the weird, fantastic thing…
He could sing but couldn’t fly”…
Long Island Daily Press, November 14, 1941, (Unidentified photographer)
FUNERAL. Mrs. Rose Reles, left, widow of the gangster, Abe Reles, who fell to his death from the window of a sixth floor room at the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, is helped to a car after attending the burial services yesterday in the Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale. She screamed incessantly during the rather sketchy ceremony.
New York Post, November 14, 1941, (Unidentified photographer)
THE END OF THE ROAD FOR KID TWIST
GRAVEDIGGERS finish covering all that is mortal of “Abe Reles… Died Nov. 12th 1941… Age 36 years, 6 months, 2 days…”
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