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...boomed toward defense production at wartime levels. But the U. S. already had signs of another housing shortage. Worst shortages were at and near shipyards (Bremerton. Wash.; Norfolk, Va.; Newport, R. I.; Mare Island. Calif., etc.) where workers flocked by thousands. At Bremerton (Puget Sound Navy Yard), State patrolmen, harried by reports of "stolen" and abandoned cars, wearily retorted: "Hell, there's guys living in them-Navy yard workers...
...York City's Times Square 15 patrolmen, three mounted police herded cars through a great crowd that spilled into the streets, attentive, grim, unusually silent, under the bulletins racing across the Times Annex...
Also working on the problem is the social welfare bureau of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, run by a policeman, Psychologist William McDonald. Most cops kill themselves, says the bureau, because of: 1) debts and duns; 2) drinking; 3) domestic difficulties; 4) harsh discipline; 5) a handy revolver. By calling off loan sharks, and talking over family troubles "cop to cop," the bureau claims to have saved many a blue-uniformed life...
...charge of conspiring to protect and operate policy houses (which did an estimated $10,000,000 annual business in Detroit and have been operating unscathed for more than ten years), Judge Ferguson indicted 151 persons, including ten police lieutenants, 34 sergeants, 37 patrolmen, six detectives, Negro John Roxborough (comanager of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis), pompous ex-Mayor Dick Reading-and Prosecutor McCrea...
...Highway patrolmen guarded the pop-bottle-littered lawn all night; at 7:30 a.m., pink and rested, Mr. Farley (who neither smokes nor drinks) nodded at guests drinking bourbon hot toddies, went in to breakfast on grapefruit-and-strawberries, broiled Tennessee ham, hominy grits, scrambled eggs, hot waffles with sorghum, coffee and tiny hot biscuits...