September 7: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

September 7, 2023 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1899, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “SEATTLE — Prince David Kawananakoa of Honolulu, who is on his way to Washington to visit his aunt, ex-Queen Liliuokalani, says: ‘Annexation is a decided success. Of course, from a sentimental point of view, the native Hawaiian feels like a man without a country just now, but that feeling will wear away. We want the President to appoint our governor and his cabinet and let the people elect their legislature. When this is done there will be no cause for complaint. Annexation has done great things for the Hawaiian Islands. The country was never so prosperous before.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1930, Eagle columnist Martin Dickstein said, “Mr. Welford Beaton, the iconoclastic movie commentator for the Hollywood Film Spectator, makes himself a little absurd in the current issue of that critical publication when he writes that film producers do not understand their business and that it does not seem possible that anything can arise to avert the financial collapse of the entire motion picture industry. Such statements, extravagant as they are, might have been given some consideration if they didn’t happen to originate with the same Mr. Beaton who confidently predicted in the Film Spectator that the talking picture would die a sudden death come last March. And, in spite of everything that the Spectator’s editor has written on the subject, the feeling seems to persist among moviegoers that the audible screen is a healthy youngster with a lot of useful years ahead of him.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1940, the Eagle reported, “Youngsters, heavy of heart, will take their last fling of uninterrupted play today and tomorrow, bearing sorrowfully in mind that Monday brings the first day of school. To more than a half-million Brooklyn and Queens children, after a ten-week vacation, life becomes a bit more serious with fun beginning after 3 o’clock five days a week. On the other hand, however, vacations ended yesterday for 40,000 teachers and supervisors. Dr. Harold G. Campbell, Superintendent of Schools, announced that everything was in readiness for the city’s 1,100,000 pupils.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1949, the Eagle reported, “LINZ, AUSTRIA (U.P.) — Sidney Schwartz, 22, of 19th Ave., Brooklyn, disappeared Monday in the Soviet zone after crossing the Linz Urfahr Bridge, American authorities here said today. Schwartz, who was staying at the Linzerhof Hotel, told the clerk he was going cycling in the Soviet zone. The clerk warned him that the Emms Bridge was the only official bridge which Americans can use to go to the Soviet zone. Schwartz insisted on using the Linz Urfahr Bridge. American authorities are investigating the case and probably will contact Soviet officers to obtain Schwartz’ release. Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, the youth’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Schwartz, said today that the youth was on an extensive cycling tour of Europe when he was grabbed by the Russians. They said he had visited France, England, Scotland, Belgium, Sweden and Denmark and that his adventuring had taken him to Switzerland, where he made the difficult ascent of Jungfrau, one of the highest peaks in the Alps … Mr. Schwartz said that his son was discharged from the Army as a technical sergeant and planned to re-enlist after his vacation in Europe was over.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1950, the Eagle reported, “(U.P.) — Kaiser-Frazer Corporation fell in line today with other automakers granting wage increases to their workers. Meanwhile, General Electric and the C.I.O. Electrical Workers opened Government-sponsored peace talks under the threat of new strike action. In an unusual ‘memorandum of agreement,’ Kaiser-Frazer and the United Auto Workers, C.I.O., agreed on an eight-cent hourly wage boost, additional four-cent annual increases and a cost-of-living pay scale over a five-year period. The agreement will go into effect as soon as a formal contract is signed. A company spokesman said the memorandum was issued to halt a wave of wildcat strikes among the company’s 16,000 employees. The agreement left Studebaker Corp. the only firm that has not joined the parade of auto producers granting wage boosts this Summer.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1954, the Eagle reported, “The turning in a long, long road of disappointment and frustration has come at last for two somewhat dazed tennis veterans named Vic Seixas and Doris Hart. For 31-year-old Vic and 29-year-old Doris have at last won the National tennis championships they had come close to winning a total of seven times before. Moreover, in addition to winning the singles titles in yesterday’s final round of competition at the West Side Tennis Club, they each scored a ‘grand slam’ — Seixas winning a share in the men’s doubles crown, Miss Hart a share in the women’s doubles crown, and then joining for still a third championship in mixed doubles. Seixas, who had lost out in the final twice before, grinned sheepishly and joked, ‘I guess it was old-timers’ day at Forest Hills.’”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1956, the Brooklyn Record reported, “The Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station will open its gates to the public between the hours of 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. tomorrow. The visiting throngs will witness a colorful review of approximately 3,000 naval and marine air reservists from the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut areas by Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery, USN, Chief of Naval Air Reserve Training, and Brigadier General Arthur F. Binney, USMC, Commander Marine Air Reserve Training. Admiral ‘Bull’ Halsey, USN (Ret.), of World War II fame, will be among the many notables attending this event. The public is invited to view the jet aircraft used by reservists on weekends.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who was born in 1930; “I Will Survive” singer Gloria Gaynor, who was born in 1943; Hockey Hall of Famer Jacques Lemaire, who was born in 1945; N.Y. Yankees broadcaster Suzyn Waldman, who was born in 1946; “The Simpsons” star Julie Kavner, who was born in 1950; author and journalist Peggy Noonan, who was born in Brooklyn in 1950; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), who was born in 1951; “L.A. Law” star Corbin Bernsen, who was born in 1954; “Lost” star Michael Emerson, who was born in 1954; Songwriters Hall of Famer Diane Warren, who was born in 1956; Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, who was born in 1962; former “Saturday Night Live” star Leslie Jones, who was born in 1967; International Boxing Hall of Famer Shane Mosley, who was born in 1971; National Soccer Hall of Famer Briana Scurry, who was born in 1971; “American Pie” star Shannon Elizabeth, who was born in 1973; and “Across the Universe” star Evan Rachel Wood, who was born in 1987.