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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promptly moved in with him as secretary. Although Brother Joseph modestly described himself as a flag officer to Brother Frank, the admiral, the impression got about that Brother Joseph really ran things. To him went credit for the new air base, supply warehouses and improved anchorages which have made Los Angeles one of the Navy's favorite ports. He also got credit for other things: rumor was that he and Del Gado had smuggled $250,000 into Mexico in a false-bottomed car for safe keeping. Last week he was charged with shaking down 33 ambitious policemen and firemen...
...investigating further, readers were relieved to find that no one had yet actually been burned to death. Nonetheless, the impression persisted that a gigantic holocaust was destroying most Los Angeles suburbs. It was reported that the homes of Richard Dix and Directors Sam Wood and Frank Lloyd were completely demolished...
What really happened around Los Angeles last week was neither a sign of the wrath of God nor a wholesale cremation. A feature of the Southern California climate rarely mentioned by that city's energetic Chamber of Commerce is the peculiar haze visible on most autumn days. The haze is caused by smoke from fires in the dry. scrubby brush that grows as much as eight feet high over the sandy hills behind the city. Brush fires, unlike real forest fires, are easily extinguished and rarely do much more than annoy the mountain rabbits and keep CCC boys...
...contest between the best Western and best Eastern team. It is a contest between the best team of the Pacific Coast Conference and any other team in the country that the Conference's choice chooses to invite. Last week when Southern California trounced the University of California at Los Angeles, 42-to-7, it finished its Conference season in a dead heat with the University of California-six victories and one defeat apiece. But, since Southern California had roundly whipped California when they met four weeks ago, the Conference selection committee picked U. S. C.* represent the West Coast...
Listeners tuned to station KECA (Los Angeles) last week heard that simple explanation of the mechanics of childbirth. Although it might have shocked other U. S. listeners, Angelenos were not even surprised. They know that KECA's Manager Harrison Holliway is not scared by radio's taboos, is always ready to broadcast sensible medical information shunned at most microphones...