To recover a clothes bill from dapper Gangster Lawyer Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, who this week finishes a stay in The Bronx County jail for participating in the Dutch Schultz policy racket, swank Haberdasher Amos Sulka went to court. Some items: shirts at $18.25 (one day Customer Davis bought 16), handkerchiefs at $3, silk drawers* at $12.50, socks at $5.25 a pair, two "ladies' lounge suits" at $105 each.

Novelist John Steinbeck, 37, whose best-selling Grapes of Wrath has passed the 155,000th mark, took his sore throat (from a recent tonsillectomy) and his badgered personality into seclusion in a California canyon, far from literary clubs and literary lion hunters. Said he: "I'm no public speaker, and I don't want to be."

Still spry at 74, Labrador Doctor Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell sailed again last week for the desolate spot of rock (population 4,264) which he has nursed, fed, guided for half a century.

In a London newspaper appeared an ad: "For disposal to close an estate, a set of footwear, consisting of five pairs of boots and shoes, and two pairs of stockings worn by her late Majesty Queen Victoria."

Because a Paris weekly (Pour Vous) reported that she had been angling for a job as Nazi propagandist, sullen-eyed, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec), 40, got herself up in a salmon-pink outfit, stormed into court, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. Last week Cinemactress Negri was awarded 10,000 francs (about $265).

To celebrate the fourth birthday of Millionheir* William Astor, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor III, invited his playmates to a party on the lawn of Chetwode, pillared Astor mansion at Newport.

Hearing that Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley, GOP Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, Liberty Leaguer Jouett Shouse, Stiff-necked Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Republican Congressman Ham Fish and John and Anna Roosevelt were all sailing for Europe on the same ship, Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked : "That will be a great boatload," observed that if someone didn't get thrown overboard before the ship reached Southampton he would miss a guess. It would not, he predicted, be Jim Farley.

The following advertisement appeared last week in the New York Post:

NEWSPAPER MAN of thirty-one years' experience is desirous of job. Has worked as reporter, copyreader, rewrite, book reviews, dramatic critic, war correspondent, sports writer, columnist and briefly as publisher. Of neat appearance, although labor agitator. Not sure of recommendation from present post. No reasonable offer will be refused. Address Mr. X., P. 0. Box 521, Stamford, Conn.

Cornered in his Stamford home, slovenly Heywood Campbell Broun, whose contract with the World-Telegram expires in December, joked: "Of course I can always go back to raising potatoes."

*Davis was clad in drawers when he was nabbed by police in Philadelphia last winter in a room he shared with Actress Hope Dare.

*When John Jacob Astor II went down on the Titanic, most of his fortune went to 20-year-old Son Vincent, only a few million to Son John Jacob III, then unborn. Since Vincent has no direct heirs, William is heir apparent to both fortunes.

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