The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-28
Along broadway
ITEM-IZED INFORMATION
BY JACK lat

under-tae -skin-you know, write a book about
her experiences, as they all do. . Met ops
Leonard Warren had to bow 'em over IN
Buenos Aires concerts to get a Hollywood bid
"a bora and bred New Yorker. (The State
Dept. h~esitated about giving him a visa, as
IAN unknown quantity. y. Jane Froman air
featuring Adventure rew song WOW by Nick
and Charlie Kenny and Abrer Silver. . Paris
going wild over mo, No. Nannette,'' 20-year-
oldie, and '"Tea for Two" is being whistled
on zee booleevards. The Jewish realtors OF
Brooklyn all agreed not 10 bid ON the knights
of Columbus Bldg. there, when 1t comes up
for sale-so the KC's won't have to step up
the price to keep it.
Fiorello LaGuardia will set up world UNRA
headquarters in Geneva, and then resign. {.
The CP-PAC is spending plenty in Virginia
to unseat Sen. Harry Byro . The Pan-Amerl-
can Union is sitting on a headline: DR.. Ernesto
Galarza will resign, pointing to the Bolivian
situation and this couatry's ~hands-off policy
Sam Rosoff, N. Y. subway builder, having
plenty of labor griefs m Mexico. . Very con-
fidential (and very unofficial reports from the
| Coast intimate that Gen. Douglas Macarthur
is expected on this side OF the Pacific soon. . Z.
John Steelman is favored as the next Econom-
ic Stabilizer.
Jane Churchill, the girl-in-the middle Of the
Tommy Dorsey-Jon Hal imbroglio, dyed her
hair red and is in New York, trying to get a
show job. . John Cart, the musical director.
tells of a young male b~itplayer in Hollywood,
assigned to escort a famous film beaut to a
premiere. Next day he grunbled because it
was such a terrible pictu1e, he could hardly
concentrate on it. This Is Your FBI," Of
fetal ali program, next week will reveal:
''America's annual crime bill is II billion dol
lars; it's total education bill-from kindergar-
tens through colleges-is less than four billion
dollars
Romance Runaround: Connie Haines and
Romay's goodooking brother, Phil, very
much So. Bill Eythe phones Margaret Whit
ing, transatlantic, every weekend, despite re-
ports of a busted betrotEal Peggy Knudsen
and William S. Paley. rich radloman, lighting
two cigarettes on one match. . Ella Raines
and Rod Cameron. John, son OF Charles
Rogers, film producer, slipped the ring on the
proper finger of Joan Llrdberg, daughter OF
the plastic surgeon. . Don Costello keen about
Jane Keane. Venus Ran,ey CMiss America,
'4N a steady patron of No. 1 Fifth Ave, to
hear tenor Tony Craig. . Bud Ernst, Betty
Furness', ex, reciting Browning to Norma
Roberts. . Lii Damlta and Raymond Haklm
oohla-la --latest brand new entry-Gau
Russell and John Shelton.
On Aug. IA, first anniversary OF the Jap
surrender, there will be a charity benefit cele-
bration in the Japanese Palace, in Monticello,
N. Y. S. S. Kresge, chainstore magnate, do
mated one of his hornes in Miami Beach to
the Good Neighbor Methodist Church. . The
Anti Prohibition League has been chartered IN
N. Y. 1t will battle local option moves,
which keep popping up perennially throughout
the State, above the city boundaries.
There is a bitter controversy raging over
the case of Carlton Powell, Negro musician
on the Lanny Ross ai1-sEoW, who is under
medical care, Recovering from the result of a
fracas on the sidewalk before the E. 51st.
police station.
Many prominent theatrical folk, with Dash
iell Hanlnlett the chief spokesman, have COM
planned to Police Comm. Wallander that De-
tective Ed Clancy assaulted Powell, as a result
of which alleged attack Powell was taken to
Bellevue hospital with skull injuries.
The sympathizers say that early on the
morning of June IL (abou+ 3 ann Powell en-
tered the taxi of David Romanlck and asked
to be driven to an address in Harlem; that
Romanick refused; that Powell ordered him
to go TO the nearest police station; that when
Powell got out, to make complaint, Clancy
struck him without cause or reason.
We have looked into the case. Powell has
been indicted by the Grand Jury on charges
of assault with a deadly weapon. The testi-
monv Thy Clancy, Romanick and Clancy's
partner, who was presently was as follows:
That Powell entered the cab, used abusive
language, threatened the driver when he re-
fused 10 haul him.; that Powell kicked out two
of the taxi windows; that Romanick, pretend
ing to consent, drove 70 the police station and
ran toward it to ask protectlon; that Powell
followed him.; that Clancy intervened-
Now, sWore Clancy:
Powell reached under his coat and drew
an eight-inch hunting knife, in a harness which
he had attached to his suspender, and stabbed
me suddenly, upward, at my heart. l had a
comb in nv pocket. The knife cut through
two teeth of it. That stopped it partially. But
the point entered my body and inflicted a
wound which had me bedridden for a week
L drew my revolver, but didn't shoot. He
still had the knife in his hend, so l struck him
with my revolver until he dropped the knife
The knife and scab5ard were shown to the
Grand Jury. Clancy's physician testified to the
nature of the wound. The comb was another
exhibit. The indictment was voted. The de-
partment report on The matter paralleled the
Grand Jury testimony.
This case will be an issue in the forthcoming
campaigns. always hot in Harlem. Since it
will have a bearing on al least two congress
sional elections, it may become a national
cause celebre.
PowelTs sympathizers are determined not to
let it die.
Deane Carroll, beauteous daughter of a Bal