Show NEWS T HIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON PART ON N EW YORK policemen Poll Pol leemen cemen seem to have hava more social security than almost anybody else it if they behave themselves and yet about 70 of them hc have ive corn com seek cau cause se bitted ed suicide in for cops copa new york in the despondency last few years y just why a po lic emans 11 life fe Is not a happy one was not made clear by gilbert and sullivan but members of the new york force are out to find and out and do something about it their new and unique trouble clinic has been investigating and prescribing it lists eight reasons why policemen get in distress and the list includes just eight brands of money trouble the news today Is that the department clinic has official sanction and is opening headquarters iri id the old world building patrolman joseph J burkard of the traffic squad an energetic resourceful self starter in the department 20 years pioneers the he new clinic with the aid of a young patrolman wit who Is a student of psychology at co lumbia university they brought in dr menas S Gre gregory jory famous psychiatrist and dr carmyn J lombardo also widely known as a specialist in mental disturbance the clinic already has handled cases some of them of extremely serious nature the clinic was established under the Patrol mens benevolent ass association ocla of which mr idea first burkard was tried out elected president by bv lesion legion last year it I 1 ls Is oy legion said to have g been his original idea suggested by similar work by the Ame american legion oi of mr is a lormer former new york county commander lie he has been a genial mixer in the department for many years vice president of the glee club and long active in the affairs of the P fi A A friend of this writer gathering material tor for a book on new i quoted to a young police lieutenant inspector Villi williams arns remark thit that there is more lawon law on the endom end biot a emans nans night stick than there is in a decision of the supreme court couri bunk and it always was said the lieutenant col age lege men are joining both the fire departments J ed edgar r If hoover and others are helping beug to bring about a new conception 0 of a policeman the flatfoot flat hat foot era Is ending and then said my friend the lieutenant disclosed that he was a college graduate and engaged in an informal discussion of psychiatric training and methods in connection with police work would tim cops have made their own psychological clinic in inspector williams day T THE HE late texas guinan gave george raft a pair of gold plated garters they brought him luck and he be still wears them the sleek slow eyed young tex lex isanan gu inan italian alumnus gave george of new yorks gold garters gaiters hells X kitchen it c h e n has taken success to in his easy dancing stride hes an ex hoofer but like other moving picture stars hes beginning to look a gift horse in the mouth he like his role in para mounts st louis blues and the company suspends him it Is one more instance of increasing esthetic e S sensitivity in movle land inand in and around kitchen he was a professional light weight boxer winning 25 fig fights lits hamoed kayoed seven times ile he was an outfielder tHelder ou for tho the springfield olas mass minor league team to for r two seasons ile he did well enough but it ft was a sideline of impromptu boofing hoofing and spooning spoofing fing which paced him film into the night clubs and tho the big broadway Cro adway shows allows Us ile achieved a sinister reptilian suggestion in his dancing which made him known fraternally up and down broadway as the old blacksnake 11 he was just looking on at the brown derby in hollywood when a prowling director seized him as a type and ruthlessly sloughed him into fame and fortune Ms his 1937 earnings report was topped only by cooper and baxter among th emale the male stars xe he owns 45 suits of clothes and a piece of henry armstrong Q consolidated news features feature service |