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ometimes one can only sigh. At his sentencing in the Harry Raymond bombing, former Police Capt. Earle Kynette speaks for half an hour in defense of his conduct.
Unfortunately, The Times didn't quote a single line of his remarks. Instead, we summarized them in one paragraph:
"The onetime head of the police intelligence squad immediately launched into a recital of his accomplishments, including his education, military experience and record as a police officer. He accused most of the state's witnesses as perjurers and wound up with the statement that he presumed that because of the political background to the case Judge Ambrose was loath to grant him a new trial."
Also on the jump, Mayor Frank Shaw says a group of Methodists acted in an un-Christian, un-American manner by endorsing his recall and in criticizing his brother Joe and Police Chief James Davis.
And two city analysts begin an audit of the Police Department. "Results of the survey, expected to require one to two months, may presage a complete or partial reorganization of the department," The Times says.
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arry Raymond finally goes home after 163 days in the hospital, The Times says. He promises a $1-million lawsuit against Mayor Frank Shaw, Joe Shaw, Police Chief James Davis, several subordinates and members of the police intelligence squad.
"It's swell to be home," Raymond says.
Also, 140 Civil War veterans leave Los Angeles by train for a reunion marking the 75th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. More than 1,600 Union and Confederate veterans are expected to attend the event. The travel expenses are being paid by the U.S. government, The Times says.
On the cover of Part 2, a group of Methodist ministers supports the recall of Mayor Shaw, criticizes Joe Shaw and Chief Davis, and censures the governor and attorney general for failing to help expose corruption in government.
And federal narcotics agents confiscate 50 pounds of marijuana seeds from Japan marked as "prepared food."
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rue confession: I mixed up June 26, 1908 and June 25, 1908. I suppose that happens more often that one might suspect--or not. Readers either politely didn't bring it to my attention or didn't notice. Thank you for your diplomacy.
To get to the point: The Times notes that the death of Grover Cleveland leaves the United States without a living ex-president. That will change when Theodore Roosevelt is succeeded by William Taft, but I'm trying to think of the next time the U.S. was in a similar situation. Certainly not in my lifetime.
In the second section, eight people are injured in the head-on crash of two streetcars at the Arroyo Seco bridge. Passengers on the outbound streetcar blame the crash on inattention by the motorman, who was "working with his motor" before the streetcar collided with the inbound car from Pasadena. Note that one of the injured was taken home instead of going to a hospital.
Also notice a meeting of Zionists for a fundraiser at the synagogue at Olive and Temple. Those who contribute to the cause can have their names inscribed in an elaborate "book of gold," The Times says.
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Above and at left, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin poses with Jewish ceremonial items brought from Europe by Henry Weinberger and his wife and presented to Wilshire Boulevard Temple. The Times says the donations include Paroches (hangings for the Ark) from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries.
Officer Fred A. Browne is scheduled to testify in the trial of Police Capt. Earle Kynette in the Harry Raymond bombing ... Seniors graduate at Occidental College and Mt. St. Mary's College ... And the Knights of Pythias hold an elaborate ceremony at Forest Lawn in tribute to deceased members.
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 Photograph by William Dietsch / Los Angeles Times Juan Romero in a photo dated June 18, 1968.
"It is hard to understand. I did nothing. It just happened. Mr. Kennedy was there and he needed someone with him, that's all."
--Juan Romero in a 1968 interview with Ted Thackrey Jr.
By Steve Lopez
Times staff writer
Photograph by Steve Fontanini
Los Angeles Times
Juan Romero is led into the courtroom to testify against Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, in a photo dated Feb. 15, 1969.
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When you write stories for three decades, occasionally someone asks if you had a favorite. I never did until five years ago, when I met Juan Romero.
An editor at Life magazine had asked if I remembered the busboy who knelt at Bobby Kennedy's side on June 5, 1968, when he was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Of course I remembered. The photos of that skinny kid in the angelic white service coat, cradling Kennedy, were searing.
Go find him, said the editor.
Romero wasn't hard to track down. I found him doing hard labor in San Jose, his strong hands callused by years of toil for a paving company.
But 30 years after the assassination, he was still haunted by that night, and talking about it was not one of his favorite things to do. We went out for a couple of beers, and Romero began squirming and twisting himself up. When he finally found a way to let it out, it was for his own sake as much as mine.
Thursday marks the 35th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, so last week, I went to visit Romero again in San Jose. The father of four, now 53, was pouring concrete under a merciless sun. When he got off duty, we went out for a cold one, just like last time, and Juan Romero revisited the day that has shaped his life.
It was Juan's stepfather, an Ambassador waiter, who got him the job. Juan, whose family moved to L.A. from Mexico when he was 10, had been flirting with trouble in his East L.A. neighborhood, and his stepdad's solution was to get him off the streets.
"I wore black pants and a white shirt to Hollenbeck Junior High every day," says Juan, who caught the bus for the Ambassador after school. The routine continued when he moved on to Roosevelt High.
Juan worked room service and met scads of celebrities in the Ambassador's glory days, but for him, the arrival of presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy during the 1968 California primary topped the charts.
Juan remembered photos of a Catholic John F. Kennedy on the walls of homes in Mexico -- "next to Pope John Paul and the crucifix" -- and he knew Bobby Kennedy had championed the cause of California farm workers.
"Bobby rolled up his sleeves and walked with them," Juan says.
When Kennedy checked into the Ambassador and called for room service, Juan, then 17, cut a deal with the busboy who drew the job. Juan would retrieve all the other guy's trays that night in return for the Kennedy job.
"He wouldn't do it," Juan remembers of his stubborn colleague. "So I said, 'All right. I'll pay you too.' "
A Kennedy assistant answered the door of the Presidential Suite, and Juan, his eyes wide, pushed the food cart into the room and found himself standing next to Kennedy.
"He shook my hand as hard as anyone had ever shaken it," Juan says. "I walked out of there 20 feet tall, thinking, 'I'm not just a busboy, I'm a human being.' He made me feel that way."
The next night, Kennedy won the California primary. He made his victory speech at the Ambassador and headed through the kitchen to escape the crush of people, but there was a crowd in there too.
Juan, who wanted to congratulate him, used his skinny frame to knife through the pressed bodies. This man was going to be the next president, Juan thought, and he wanted to see if he could shake his hand once more.
 Photograph by Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times Juan Romero, who gave his rosary to Kennedy. When Kennedy couldn't hold the rosary, Romero wrapped the beads around his thumb. "People were six and seven deep," Juan says, but he got close enough to stick out his hand. As Kennedy grabbed it, Juan heard a bang and felt a flash of heat against his face. Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin, had fired from just off Juan's shoulder.
"I thought it was firecrackers at first, or a joke in bad taste," says Juan, but then he saw Kennedy sprawled on the floor and knelt to help him up.
 Photograph by Boris Yaro / Los Angeles Times Juan Romero and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, June 5, 1968. "He was looking up at the ceiling, and I thought he'd banged his head. I asked, 'Are you OK? Can you get up?' One eye, his left eye, was twitching, and one leg was shaking."
Juan slipped a hand under the back of Kennedy's head to lift him and felt warm blood spilling through his fingers.
"People were screaming, 'Oh my God, not another Dallas!' "
Ethel Kennedy knelt down at her husband's side and pushed Juan away. Juan looked on, angry and stunned, fingering the rosary beads in his pocket.
"When I was in trouble, I would always go and pray to God to make my stepfather forget what I'd done, or to keep me out of trouble the next time. I asked Ethel if I could give Bobby the rosary beads, and she didn't stop me. She didn't say anything.
"I pressed them into his hand but they wouldn't stay because he couldn't grip them, so I tried wrapping them around his thumb. When they were wheeling him away, I saw the rosary beads still hanging off his hand."
Juan was taken to the Rampart police station and questioned about what he saw and what he knew. He was released, still trembling, headed for home, and went to school the next day. It was at Roosevelt High that he saw Kennedy's blood under his fingernails, and decided not to wash his hands.
"Then the mail started coming to the hotel," Juan says. "Sacks and sacks of mail. You couldn't believe the amount of it."
Most of it was supportive, addressed to the anonymous busboy. It was a kind of celebrity Juan never asked for or wanted, and he grew apprehensive about hotel guests asking to see him. He also heard from a handful of lunatics asking why he didn't take the bullet himself, or telling him Kennedy would still be alive if he hadn't stopped to shake Juan's hand.
Juan left Los Angeles for Santa Barbara. He returned briefly to the Ambassador, but was finally driven away by ghosts. He worked at a hotel in Wyoming, then relocated to San Jose and married.
He settled comfortably into family life but lived with the cruel, nagging conviction that he'd been thrown into the path of history for a reason, and he hadn't been up to the challenge.
Juan was convinced he was supposed to find a way to express the hope Kennedy represented for him, but he couldn't find the words.
During the debate over California's Proposition 187, he felt that people were taking one look at his brown skin and figuring him for a freeloader. He wanted to scream that the ballot initiative was proof we needed another Kennedy, but he couldn't find a stage.
And that was just fine, because to remember that day in 1968, Juan ended up doing something more elegant and true. He took the faith expressed in that first handshake from Kennedy and honored the memory by working hard, providing for his family and living a life of tolerance and good deeds.
He doesn't always get it right. Juan's wife tells him he does so many odd jobs for others, it often comes at the expense of time with the family.
Maybe so, but Juan has to help those he can. And he has to keep moving, hurrying from one job to another like a man being chased. Especially around this time of year.
"For words to come out of my mouth that express how I really feel is so hard," Juan says, his eyes filling. "After years and years and years to think about what to say about that night, I can't figure out anything that does justice."
I tell him, once again, that he has said all the right things.
steve.lopez@latimes.com
Just remember: The Times editorialized against suspending U.S. immigration quotas for European Jews and other refugees, March 30, 1938: "They would ... reach havens as paupers either to be added to the relief rolls or compete for jobs with Americans for whom there is already a dearth." Email me
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At left, Marshal Dillon and Miss Kitty! But wait, there's roller derby: the San Francisco Bay Bombers vs. the Los Angeles Braves!
Talk about mind-rotting nostalgia: "Heckle and Jeckle," "Mighty Mouse" and "Howdy Doody."
And, hmm.... "Bowling Time" or "Topper"? Oh, I think I'll watch "Topper."
Tough choice at 8 p.m.: Gale Storm, Perry Como or Spade Cooley.
On second thought, I'll wait until 8:30 p.m. for "Have Gun, Will Travel."
Best of all: "Perry Mason."
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 Floyd Roberts of Van Nuys, who gained much of his experience on the dirt track at Ascot, wins the Indianapolis 500.
Roberts averaged 117.2 mph in a four-cylinder car (at left) built and owned by Lou Moore and designed by Harry Miller, both of Los Angeles.
In Oakland, Earl Ortman of Los Angeles sets a record in closed-course speed flying, 265.539 mph.
James Bailey Cash Jr., 5, is kidnapped from his bed in Princeton, Fla. The FBI searches for clues in the abduction and killing of 12-year-old Peter Levine of New Rochelle, N.Y., as the boy's mutilated body is cremated. (Franklin Pierce McCall is convicted of killing the Cash child and executed in the electric chair. The Levine kidnapping was never solved.)
And rumors spread in Vienna as the Nazis round up hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of Jews, according to incomplete reports.
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Above, The Times interviews Manitoba Police Chief E.J. Elliott, who is visiting from Canada to extradite a fraud suspect.
At left, a parishioner stabs a priest after Mass at a church in Salisbury, Mo. As he lay bleeding and expected to die, Father Joseph F. Lubeley expressed forgiveness for his attacker, Joseph Schuette. Lubeley recovered, The Times reported the next day. There is no further word on what became of Schuette, who was apparently angry with the priest over his intervention in an argument with another farmer.
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May 16, 1958: Above, The Very Rev. James Pike becomes Episcopal bishop of California. |
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In 1961, a group of Georgia Episcopalian leaders accused him of heresy, saying that he "expressed disbelief in the virgin birth of Our Lord, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity as stated by the church and the necessity of salvation through Jesus Christ alone."
Pike died in 1969 after he and his wife became stranded when their car broke down in the Judean desert.
Above left, Joseph "Sugar Joe" Peskin, a factor and former juke box figure, is pistol-whipped ... and a dozen patrol cars respond to a brawl at Betsy Ross High, a school for "problem girls" at 717 N. Figueroa.
At left, the generosity of the Dominican Republic's Gen. Rafael Trujillo toward Hollywood starlets (Zsa Zsa Gabor and Kim Novak) also extends to Joan Collins.
Quote of the Day: "Moslems teach one god and three wives and we teach one wife and three gods and it's no wonder we are losing the continent."
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 Above, I don't even know where to begin with this one: "Islam is identified with the darker races while Christianity is thought to be a white man's religion. Thus Mohammedanism is more acceptable to socially conscious Negroes, who have a new spirit of nationalistic pride." This is beyond appalling. I cannot imagine how this got into the paper. Even in 1958. Below, Nixon's disastrous Latin American tour becomes fodder for his book "Six Crises" ... The view of former Foreign Service worker Russ Olson is here. 
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 Above, 300 Jewish refugees arrive from Germany ... and President Roosevelt asks Congress to approve money so the U.S. can join an international committee to study the problem of refugees. Below, police surgeon Charles F. Sebastian testifies about Harry Raymond's injuries in the bombing that nearly killed him. If the name sounds familiar, it's because he was the son of Charles E. Sebastian, the former police chief who was elected mayor in one of the more colorful and corrupt eras in Los Angeles history ... Sheriff's deputies raid the gambling ship Rex and The Times gives the story just a few paragraphs ... but more coverage is coming ... And crews are hard at work to get Union Station ready for the Shriners' Convention in June. 
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May 10, 1908
A century later, the church is still standing, as shown in Google's street view feature. The building was designed by Franklin P. Burnham. The article notes that a speaker can be easily heard anywhere in the auditorium (recall that this was before microphones) because of the carefully designed acoustics.
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Above, an arresting and perhaps inflammatory title for a book that's fairly obscure today. It appears to have been written by a Swedish Christian who advocated assimilation ... The book also appears to have evoked a response from Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. Below, police chemist Ray Pinker--who figured in the 1947 Black Dahlia case--is under police guard because of his testimony in the Earle Kynette trial ... The warden of the Nebraska penitentiary gives $5 to inmates serving 10 years or longer so they can send flowers for Mother's Day--plus paper and a stamped envelope so the inmates can write letters to their moms. Quote of the Day: "I am certain that for Rome as well as Germany there will result a future that will be glorious as well as prosperous." --Adolf Hitler, sealing Germany's alliance with Italy during a visit to Rome
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Germany plans to move thousands of Austrian Jews, and The Times buries the story with a one-column hed on Page 8. Below, how does Margaret Bourke-White get those terrific pictures? Why she smokes Camels!
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 Above, migration of Los Angeles Jews to the Westside and the San Fernando Valley is reflected in the sale of the Eastside Jewish Community Center, 2317 Michigan. Below, Los Angeles begins Cinco de Mayo celebrations with a Sunday picnic, with more events to follow ... Valley clubwomen are being asked to return stolen cages of parakeets that were lent as table decorations for a charity ball ... The Times runs a historic picture of Mission La Purisima from 1885 by Adam Clark Vroman and a 1958 photo showing the mission's restoration ... Edward Teller and Clark Kerr are among the dignitaries addressing UC alumni at the Disneyland Hotel. Teller says that by 1973, it will be possible for one nation to control the world's weather.
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Above, an update in the Brownsville incident ... Below, arson destroys a "spite house" next to 1712 W. Adams ... Ministers of the First Christian Church help raise money toward a legal test case on the Bible in public schools ... Population of the city of Los Angeles, as determined in a school census, is 305,000, The Times says. There are 65,000 children in the city younger than 17.
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Above, Arnold Schoenberg's orchestration of Brahms' quartet for piano and strings receives its U.S. premiere. I once listened to a recording of a talk by Schoenberg and was surprised to hear him pronounce his name "Shane-berg" as in "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen." Below, Nazi teachers (the National Socialist Teachers Assn.) burn books, starting with "Three Times Austria" (Dreimal Oesterreich) by Kurt von Schuschnigg. This bonfire of 2,000 books was largely ceremonial, The Times said. The Nazis planned an even bigger fire for 30,000 volumes collected from libraries and universities to purge "objectionable literature" forced on the people. Quote of the Day: " 'Books by Emil Ludwig, Stefan Zweig, Vicki Baum' and 'clerical monarchist literature' must disappear from German homes."
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Above, as I have noted before, I rarely post old Times editorials because they are usually embarrassing (the U.S. doesn't need a federal law against lynching, we shouldn't offer a haven to European Jews because they'd just go on welfare or take jobs away from Americans, etc. etc.). The reasoning here is simply staggering. Below, a witness in the trial of Police Capt. Earle Kynette describes death threats he received while visiting bombing victim Harry Raymond ... The U.S. asks Germany to explain its order seizing Jewish property ... And Egyptian students in Cairo protest against Jews in Palestine. Quote of the Day: "You're next." --Anonymous phone call to Ralph Gray, witness in the Harry Raymond bombing
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 Below, the trial of Police Capt. Earle Kynette in the Harry Raymond bombing gets particularly juicy when the prosecution introduces a large stack of recording discs, apparently of radio speeches, taken from police. Prosecutors charge that the Los Angeles Police Department's intelligence unit spent most of its time keeping tabs on the administration's enemies rather than tracking criminals. The names include former mayoral candidates, civic officials, journalists and an evangelist ... Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goering orders the confiscation of Jewish wealth ... Child actor Jackie Coogan's fortune has gone from $4 million to $500,000 ... And wedding bells ring for Albania's King Zog. Quote of the Day: "If finance would get out of government and government would get out of business, everything would go again." --Henry Ford, on fixing America's economy
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Above, recall the assassination last month of Durham Stevens, American adviser to the Japanese government, by a Korean youth ... Below, a crazy cross-section of stories from early 20th century Los Angeles, difficult to read but worth the challenge: A train from New Orleans arrives with 1,000 alligators for one of the local alligator farms. Notice that although the story says the alligators were en route for 10 days, they only needed a little water and no food ... A Presbyterian missionary named F.W. Bible discusses China's economic future ... Note "Yellow Peril" in the headline... And there's an update on the construction worker who fell 50 feet from facade of the Masonic Temple. He not only survived landing on his head, he also survived 1908-style brain surgery ... The Williams Jubilee singers of Chicago, an African American ensemble, perform "My Old Kentucky Home," "Old Folks at Home" and "Old Black Joe" in a benefit for the black YMCA ... And the school superintendent criticizes a city auditor who found that the district's finances were in disarray, forcing educators to close classrooms and cut teachers' pay.   Email me
Below, the prosecution prepares to call bombing victim Harry Raymond in the trial of Police Capt. Earle Kynette ... The proceedings are interrupted as bailiffs throw an old drunk man out of the courtroom after he yelled "Look out! Look out!" ... Sam Goldwyn says movies are terrible, even the "A" pictures. He blames writers, actors and directors. "They all get too much money, he said," according to The Times ... Nazi violence against Jews breaks out in Theusing, Czechoslovakia ... State liquor agents are accused of soliciting a bribe to renew a cafe owner's license..
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 I guess I'm just a sucker for holy men who run backward. And no, I can't find out anything else about Goliath Messiah ... Below, the United Palestine Appeal advocates a program to settle 500,000 Jewish refugees in Palestine over five years ... In Germany, the Nazis threaten a year in prison for anyone who helps disguise Jewish ownership of a business ... Austria limits Jewish enrollment at universities to 2 percent ... And the Nazis force Austrian Jews to picket their own businesses. Quote of the Day: "Louis Lipsky of New York, chairman of the administrative committee of the United Palestine Appeal, condemned the liberal forces of the world for what he said was a betrayal of the Jews." --The Associated Press
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Below, the 1937 slaying of underworld figure Les Bruneman intrudes into the trial of Police Capt. Earle Kynette in the Harry Raymond bombing. (Pete Pianezzi, convicted of killing Bruneman at the Roost cafe, was paroled in 1953) ... Former City Atty. Erwin P. Werner and his wife are sentenced to prison on corruption charges ... On the jump, Col. Frank Knox calls for the suspension of Social Security taxes with the money going to provide jobs for the unemployed. Quote of the Day: "The current business slump is not a recession.... [It's a] Roosevelt depression caused by political, not economic conditions." --Col. Frank Knox
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Below, a large number of prospective jurors in the Earle Kynette trial say that are against the death penalty ... A local fund-raising campaign, part of a national effort to aid European Jews, will focus largely on the movie industry, The Times says ...
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Above, an update on the Doukhobors ... Below, the fleet is on its way! And so is Elinor Glyn! Quote of the Day: "To swear to love for life is an insult to God. Love is an emotion placed in beings by God to induce them to re-create their species. It's an emotion which no human being can control and it leaves the body as quickly as it enters. " --Elinor Glyn, author of "Three Weeks," May 3, 1908
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Above, Shirley Temple, Peter Lorre and Mickey Mouse ... Below, what do we have in Gothic type above the masthead? Yes, it is Easter Sunday in 1938 ... At least 16 Arabs die in a fight between British troops and terrorists in the Holy Land ... A devoted dog pays daily visits to the grave of its master in a Bloomington, Ind., cemetery ... Britain and Italy sign an agreement that "pulls powers from the abyss of war."  Email me
Oct. 5, 1965
Pope Paul VI makes history with a 14-hour visit to the U.S. The Times devotes 11 pages to the pontiff, including a transcript of the pope's remarks at the U.N. (Pages 4 and 7), a page of photographs and sidebars on the reactions not only of the Roman Catholic faithful but of New Yorkers at large. In addition to a plea for peace, the pope called for rejection of "artificial birth control" and support for universal membership in the U.N., The Times said. Quotes of the Day:
"In the ecumenical spirit of the times, the first appearance of a pope in the New World struck deeply into the wellsprings of goodwill among men of many faiths. And from his fervent appeal in the resplendent General Assembly hall of the United Nations echoed forth a peculiarly eloquent cry for peace." --Robert J. Donovan, Times staff writer
"No more war, never again war," Pope Paul VI, address to the United Nations
 
      
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Above, Yiddish theater in Los Angeles! Below, the Harry Raymond bombing case is about to go to trial. Prosecutors say they plan to seek the death penalty ... The bishop of Los Angeles has a Holy Week message on the front page of the B section ... Youngsters out of school for spring break head to the city's parks ... On the jump, a pair of coati mundis foil a burglar at the San Fernando Valley home of George Palmer Putnam ... And Joseph Grimes strangles himself rather than face charges of molesting a child in the Union Pacific railway yards. Quote of the Day: "I wish the restaurants would give you one good cup of coffee instead of all what they call coffee you can drink. Oh 'All the Coffee You Can Drink,' what crimes have been committed in your name!" E.V. Durling
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Above, a mayor is murdered in Mexico and two settlers are ambushed in Israel. How Eliezer Krongold, formerly of Toronto, became an "American" in the headline is a question I can't answer. Below, Austrian Jews fear reprisals after handbills reading "Hitler Will Not Return to Berlin Alive!" are found on the outskirts of Vienna ... Two American Navy officers who survived when Japanese bombers sank their ship in the Yangtze River pay a visit to Los Angeles en route to San Francisco ... The official newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Vienna urges all Catholics to support the union with Germany ... And a chain of New York salons picks the most handsome men for 1938: Women select Anthony Eden, Gary Cooper, Fred Astaire, the Duke of Windsor and Leopold Stokowski. Men select Eden, Cooper, Clark Gable, Lou Gehrig and Adolphe Menjou. Quotes of the Day: "One Nation. One Reich. One Fuhrer" ... "Hitler Means Bread and Work for All" ... "Economic Reconstruction and Peace" --Slogans posted throughout Vienna.
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 Above, the Nazis begin taxing synagogues retroactive to Jan. 1, 1938, and ship former Austrian officials to Dachau. The Rev. Martin Niemoeller, by the way, survived the war. Below, Police Capt. Earle Kynette hires former state Sen. George W. Rochester for his defense ... A front-page editorial about ballot technicalities that bar voters from deciding where to stage an annual trade fair and 1942 Cabrillo World's Fair ... "Elderly" private detective Pearl Antibus becomes hysterical on the witness stand while testifying about her expenses in investigating blond divorcee Jean McDonald. Quote of the Day: "At first Dr. Sheley merely told me that he had a young patient who was regarded as a 'wild onion' by his folks, who were very much concerned about the young chap's affair with a Hollywood divorcee. He said the girl was certainly a looker." -- Pearl Antibus, on investigating Jean McDonald on behalf of Thomas W. Warner Jr. to determine whether McDonald loved Warner -- or just his money.
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APD "squadmen" (now there's an interesting coinage) are questioned before a police board of rights on allegations that they obstructed the investigation of the Harry Raymond bombing. The first three officers to testify say that they refused to answer questions because they considered themselves under technical arrest and acted upon the advice of their attorneys. 
