Shaw for Porter

Los Angeles, fifth city of the U. S., got a new Mayor last week. By a 31,500-ballot majority John Clinton Porter was ousted for Frank Lawrence Shaw. In office since 1929, Mayor Porter won a recall election last year because his opposition consisted of a scattered field of nonentities. But many a Los Angeles citizen was itching to get rid of him because : 1) as a Dry, he had '"disgraced" his city by refusing to drink a wine toast to the U. S. President while junketing in France with other U. S. mayors two years ago (TIME, June 1, 1931); 2) he had snubbed Franklin D. Roosevelt when the Democratic presidential nominee was campaigning in Los Angeles last year (TIME, Oct. 3); 3) he had turned the police department into a corps of "super-snoopers." In defeat Mayor-reject Porter last week threatened to hang on to his job on the ground that Mayor-elect Shaw was not a U. S. citizen. Born in Canada 50 years ago, Frank Shaw was brought to the U. S. at the age of 5 by his father, a pioneer homesteader in Kansas and Colorado. He drummed the Southwest for a wholesale grocery firm in Joplin, Mo. Twenty-five years ago he settled in California. He was twice elected to the Los Angeles City Council by the businessman vote. When Supervisor Jack Bean mocked him as ''the grocery boy who made good,'' Mr. Shaw wrested the supervisorship from him by 80,000 votes. He was chairman of the County Board of Supervisors when elected Mayor last week. During this long public service no serious question had been raised about his citizenship. His explanation: his father, who died when his son was 14, had been naturalized, which automatically made his minor children citizens. The naturalization papers were lost in a Joplin fire. Short, stout and smiling, Mayor-elect Shaw wears a brace on his right leg, walks with a marked limp. Even to his friends he declines to explain his infirmity's cause (presumably infantile paralysis). Despite it he sails, shoots, fishes. His "new deal" for Los Angeles calls for a big public works program, and the dismissal of Chief of Police Roy Steckel and Captain William Hynes, hot Red hunter.

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