Grand Jury Vice Probe! Gilmore Field Expanded

"Put That Pistol Down, Young Lady."

Keith's 1949 post on Gilmore Field has dropped us in the middle of an extremely complicated grand jury investigation of the Los Angeles Police Department. To summarize: Officers James Parslow, Thomas C. Lindholm and Port A. Stevens were suspended by a police board that included future Chief William Parker for using excessive force during an arrest. The officers were partners of Sgt. Charles Stoker, a figure in the Brenda Allen scandal,  and they accused police officials of trying to undermine Chief C.B. Horrall to obtain control of vice in Los Angeles.   This is quite a page: Louise Overell, acquitted of helping Bud Gollum kill her parents, plans to get married. Police search for leads in the Green Twig murder of Louise Springer, who was kidnapped while sitting in a car a few blocks from the Black Dahlia crime scene.

City and county officials look for ways to keep chronic alcoholics out of the legal system. .   Episcopal humor! Ludovico Muratori, on location for "God's Earth," is killed by fumes from Stromboli volcano. Leah Ruth Chase says her husband, screenwriter Borden Chase, is having an affair with her daughter from a previous marriage. She wants a handgun permit -- and she wants her husband's gun permit revoked. I'm amazed this got into The Times -- even as a one-column ad.

The postwar building boom reached the minor leagues. The Hollywood Stars planned to transform Gilmore Field by turning bleacher seats into about 260 box seats and 1,000 grandstand seats. "We hope this will take a little pressure off the demand for box seats and reserved grandstand seats," said Oscar Reichow, the team's business manager. The right-field fence also would be removed so about 4.000 bleacher seats could be added. Here's a silent home movie showing the ballpark in 1957. Looks like the plans might have been altered or not completed. --Keith Thursby

Comments

[Howard Decker]

Wow! A chance to fly to "Frisco" for ten bucks. A big league football team in El Lay -- what a novel concept. They thought of everything back in the good old daze...And the Overell murder case. Great stuff.