Highway Patrol Rounds Up Missing Legislators, May 21, 1939

"Teach me to dance, Dragon Lady."

View this page At left, my kind of story. The Assembly sends the Highway Patrol to track down legislators who skipped their session on the last day they got paid. Among the missing is Assemblyman Sam Yorty, who reported later in the day. There's a follow-up on anti-Semitic groups in the U.S. and purported plots to take over the government. In Italy, mobs shout "On to Paris!" and crowds at the Tall Corn Exposition in Marshalltown, Iowa, are terrified when an ape escapes from a carnival and runs through the streets before being captured in a hardware store. The Yankee Clipper, which can carry 35 passengers, begins service to Europe.

Ed Ainsworth takes a look at back at six years of columns. At right, Los Angeles is reading "The Grapes of Wrath," "All This, and Heaven, Too" and "Reaching for the Stars."   Jews and Arabs fight with the British in the Holy Land. View this page There's a mile-long table for Ontario's All States Picnic. View this page "Only Angels Have Wings" is opening. Hollywood is ruled by fear of criticism, failure, public opinion and whispering campaigns, Hedda Hopper says. View this page

Here's some interesting background on the interchange where Glendale Boulevard turns into 2nd Street west of downtown. Evidently much of the bridge was buried but the caption is a bit unclear as to the reasons. Note that the artist is Charles Owens of Nuestro Pueblo. Still another attempt to ease traffic in Los Angeles: A bridge is built to help turn Olympic Boulevard into a thoroughfare across the city.

Comments

[Angus]

Gentlemen:

As an old-timer (vintage 1943), I find the old Times and Mirror-News pages fascinating. What a different world it was.

One question: what was the fascination the Times had for royalty? Virtually every front page you've reproduced from the late 'thirties has at least one (and sometimes more) story about European royals. Did other papers share this trait, or was this unique to the Times?

Many thanks for you efforts, and please keep digging.