Deadly LAPD Beating: Officer Describes Arrest
Jan. 17, 1943: District attorney’s investigators question Police Sgt. James F. Martin about the arrest of Stanley H. Beebe, who died after being beaten by LAPD officers. Martin said that he got a...
View ArticleLAPD Officer Kicks News Photographer, Delays Beebe Inquest
Jan. 13, 1943: The inquest in the death of Stanley H. Beebe, who was fatally injured in a beating by LAPD officers, is halted when Officer John Yates kicks Herald-Express photographer Edward Phillips...
View ArticleAFSCME Seeks to Organize LAPD
March 20, 1943: The AFSCME sets up a local for LAPD officers, an action opposed by Police Chief Clemence “C.B.” Horrall and Deputy Chief Joe Reed. The Los Angeles Police Protective League,...
View ArticleMobs Storm Butchers Trying to Beat Ration Deadline
People line up outside a meat market at 2100 N. Broadway. 2100 N. Broadway via Google Street View. March 28, 1943: And did the “Greatest Generation” meekly, humbly and patriotically accept meat...
View ArticleHuman Fly Flees Hall of Justice
April 4, 1943: Col. Darryl F. Zanuck comes under criticism for trying to return to civilian life. (Zanuck said there wasn’t much chance that he would make more movies of combat.) Sen. Harry Truman...
View ArticleJapanese Lieutenant Killed at Guadalcanal Went to USC
April 11, 1943: And here begins one of my favorite “Li’l Abner” episodes: Zoot Suit Yokum. The Times reports a strange encounter on Guadalcanal in which an unidentified Marine took a rifle from a...
View ArticleBerserk Negro Kills Two Men on Ranch With Ax
April 18, 1943: Robert Earl Lee, 61, a worker at ranch in the Malibu Hills, surrenders to authorities after killing his employer, Nelson Ross Wolfe, and another ranch hand, Albert Everett Miller,...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: David O. Selznick and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Madame Chiang in a film clip at the Hollywood Bowl, beginning at the 4:22 mark on a newsreel posted on YouTube. Seventy years ago, film producer David O. Selznick staged an over-the-top extravaganza...
View ArticleTeen Convicted in Bloody Killing of Girl, 12
The “Greatest Generation” isn’t getting enough “bulk.” Let’s rename Bunker Hill as Angels’ Terrace. Or not. The Courtemanche family lived in the old Sepulveda place at 751 N. Palos Verdes St., on a...
View ArticlePolice Smash Marihuana Ring
The Times publishes artist Charles H. Owen’s map of the Sicilian invasion. Owens’ artwork is featured in “Nuestro Pueblo,” one of my favorite books on Los Angeles. July 11, 1943: LAPD officers and...
View ArticleA Night at the Florentine Gardens, 1943
Here’s another item from the Florentine Gardens: A 1943 photo of people that has been listed on EBay for 99 cents.
View ArticleMan Shoots Companion in Search for Prowler
Nancy and Sluggo in all their vintage glory. July 19, 1943: The Times publishes a list of casualties from the Army and Navy. Francis Joseph Montclair was a motor machinist second class and is buried...
View ArticleStreetcar Strike Could Paralyze Los Angeles!
July 24, 1943: Labor problems threaten to paralyze mass transportation in Los Angeles. The Times says that 3,000 Los Angeles Railway workers have ended a 24-hour walkout while 2,500 Pacific Electric...
View ArticleAction by FDR Averts Streetcar Strike!
July 25, 1943: President Roosevelt intervenes in the planned Pacific Electric Railway strike, saying that he did not want to use Army trucks to transport war supplies. The strike centered on a raise...
View ArticleTomahawk Murder: ‘It Must Have Been the Heat’
July 31, 1943: Los Angeles — and that is Los Angeles before air conditioning — bakes in a heat wave, temperatures so hot that it’s the reason for murder. “I had a sudden impulse; it must have been the...
View ArticleOfficer Kills Two, Wounds Two in Brawl at Shipyard Workers’ Party
A zoot suit with a drape shape, reet pleat and stuff cuff in the comics! This is a story that, as presented in The Times, seems straightforward: A police officer responding to a rowdy party is...
View ArticleHero Stops Runaway L.A. Streetcar
Aug. 15, 1943: Los Angeles’ long-gone streetcar system has achieved sainthood, but here’s an incident suggesting that in reality, it was less than perfect. (Heresy, I know). Shura Cherkassky performs...
View ArticleLAPD Women Join Marines
Aug. 21, 1943: Two women from the LAPD are joining the Marines: Lucy White, 26, who works in the fingerprinting department, and Margaret Davis, 22, of the record bureau. Judge Benjamin J. Scheinman is...
View ArticleParents Sue Doctor Who Said Baby Girl Was a Boy!
Aug. 29, 1943: The family of Marine Cpl. Carroll E. Trego, a radio operator captured in the fall of Wake Island, receives a letter written from a prisoner of war camp in Shanghai. Dr. John M. Andrews...
View ArticleUnion Pleads With Streetcar Workers Not to Strike
Sept. 5, 1943: Explaining that “war strategies between President Roosevelt and Britain’s Prime Minister Churchill come first,” William P. Nutter of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen pleads with...
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