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Then, with Mrs. Shaw, he climbed into a plane to fly-before re-embarking at San Pedro and sailing around to New York- down to San Simeon to visit Publisher William Randolph Hearst. There, while Marion Davies and other guests "drank in every word," Mr. Hearst's syndicated cinema critic, Louella 0. Parsons, had an exclusive audience. Excerpts from her report...
...city hall, school, postoffice and Odd Fellows building lay in desolate heaps. At Artesia another school burned. At San Diego radios went off and the First National Bank's burglar alarm went on. Throughout the area trains had all halted where they were to prevent derailment. In San Pedro Harbor the cruiser Northampton, feeling a sharp tug on her anchor chain, got up steam in readiness...
...Manhattan, Citizen Herbert Hoover made a hurried call to Pasadena, learned that his wife and Herbert Jr. were uninjured. From Washington President Roosevelt wired Governor Rolph: "If anything is needed wire me at once. Trust preliminary reports are exaggerated." The President ordered the fleet off San Pedro and San Diego to give...
...scope of the story.* Treading their way across roads strewn with wreckage, reporters looked in vain for the nocturnal orchard of cherry-colored lights on the derricks of the great Signal Hill oil field. All lights were out. But two tanks at the Union Oil Co. refinery in San Pedro were ablaze...
Passengers on a coastal vessel which left San Pedro just before the first temblors, told of watching the cliffs at Palos Verdes slide into...