To the Lions?

Maybe Democratic Boss Ed Flynn (who comes from The Bronx, got to be Franklin Roosevelt's right-hand man) was throwing a Brooklyn boy to the lions.

Maybe, instead, he was trying to put a knife in Franklin Roosevelt's frantic little friend Fiorello LaGuardia. It all depended on how you looked at it, when Boss Flynn handed Brooklyn's blue-eyed, stocky District Attorney William O'Dwyer the job of running against LaGuardia for mayor of New York City.

The Little Flower took to the air this week, said he will be a third-term candidate for mayor, come what may, keep his Washington post as Civilian Defense Administrator too. He will run as before on a Fusion ticket, will have the support of the American Labor Party.

To be sure of winning, he will need lots of Republican votes, for Irish-born (in County Mayo), 51 -year-old Judge O'Dwyer is not exactly a pushover. A onetime longshoreman, plasterer's helper, he started pounding New York City's pavements as a rookie cop just 24 years ago.

But cynical Brooklyn voters, knowing the New Deal will be solidly behind the President's Little Flower, thought Ed Flynn was probably setting up Brooklyn's O'Dwyer just to knock him over.

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