Mayor's Aide Guilty of Selling Jobs, March 24, 1939

A line of Nazi tanks crosses into Czechoslovakia.

Head of Federal Reserve calls for a balanced budget. Joseph Shaw, brother former Mayor Frank Shaw, is convicted on 63 counts of selling jobs and promotions in the Los Angeles police and fire departments.  Jurors also convicted William H. Cormack, a Civil Service commissioner. At the federal prison on Terminal Island, Chicago gangster Al Capone has begun attending church services, says the Rev. Silas A. Thweatt, pastor of First Baptist Church of San Pedro. Hungarian troops fight the Nazis over a piece of Czechoslovakia and the Soviets align with France and Britain against Germany.

"The future will prove that the case ... is nothing more or less than a political frame-up," former Mayor Shaw says.  George Brent replaces Humphrey Bogart in "The Old Maid."

Clifford McBride's "Napoleon and Uncle Elby" isn't one of my favorites, but it's certainly drawn well. These old-time sportswriters are a caution. They can't say "there was no one on base." Instead it's "the hassocks were barren of pedestrians."

Comments

[Richard H]

Regarding "Nuestro Pueblo".

Interesting coincidence with the Raymond Chandler postings.

Hightower Elevator is featured prominently in the Robert Altman film "The Long Goodbye" as the home of Philip Marlowe.

[Wayne]

The "Woodrow Strode" who is written about in the sports section page is of course Woody Strode, who after his UCLA and Cleveland Rams athletic career became an actor. He played the gladiator who spared Spartacus's life (and paid with his own), and was in a bunch of John Ford westerns, notably as John Wayne's hired hand in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence." He lived in Glendora until his death in 1994.