Gossip Friday: Clark, Spencer and Al Volunteer

From December 1939:

Those who scoffed at the idea of screen stars accepting political offices as mayors of small valley towns are taking it back in large doses these days. And all because Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Al Jolson are men who mean business. After a small school girl had been killed on Ventura Boulevard by a speeding motorist, a meeting of citizens was called and right there in the front row sat Clark, Tracy and Jolson.

“We’ll need a committee to help curb this speeding,” the chairman announced, and instantly these three men rose to their feet and volunteered.

“We have time between pictures while your men are in your offices and shops,” they said, “and we volunteer for work.”

And what’s more, they’re doing it. Every speeder is noted, his license checked and reported. And traffic, because of these three stars, has been made safer on the valley highway.