Word: peralta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saddened by the death of a brilliant son, Publisher William Dargie of the Oakland Tribune died. Publisher Dargie had married a beautiful, improvident Spanish woman named Herminia Peralta, whose great-grandfather had once owned, by land grant from the Spanish Crown, nearly all the territory now covered by the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. To his widow Publisher Dargie left a half-interest in the Tribune, with the privilege of raising money to buy the other half at a court sale to settle his cash bequests. Needing cash herself, Widow Dargie got it from a friend of her husband, Congressman...
...return for which she assigned him temporarily her half-interest in the Tribune. This half-interest Joe Knowland put up as collateral for a loan with which he bought the other half of the paper. Result of these transactions was to make Joe Knowland and Herminia Peralta Dargie joint owners of the Tribune, with Knowland holding voting control (to cover his $65,000 loan) and acting as publisher and president. Publisher Knowland and Widow Dargie became fast friends...
...Herminia Peralta Dargie died, her devoted Captain Martin (but not Joe Knowland) at her bedside. To Captain Martin she left ("as I would have done had he been my son") one-half of her residuary estate, the other half going to her sister, Mrs. Josefa Peralta Wilson. Taking precedence over these legacies was some $300,000 of cash bequests, which Herminia Dargie had apparently intended to be paid out of Tribune profits...
...Yard ordering him to bring in Miss Cooper, suspected of a jewel robbery. The local military party, whose uniforms resemble those of the Canadian Mounted Police, are also looking for a jewel thief-an English girl who visited a bank vault before the looting started, got away with the "Peralta diamonds." Further and frequently risible sequences: Lieutenant Chavez (Harold Huber) thrice presenting triumphantly to his general what he thinks are the missing diamonds, thrice consigned to a firing squad for his ineptitude; Borrah Minnevitch and his gang of lunatic harmonica players going musically crazy; the captain of a British freighter...
Divorced. Arturo Peralta Ramos; by Millicent Rogers Salm von Hoogstraeten Umos, daughter of the late Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Standard Oil heir; in Reno. Grounds: extreme mental cruelty...