Word: tehachapis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strikes and the San Francisco General Strike. Investigating Communist Party petitions, vigilant patriots charged that eight circulators had made false attestations, got out warrants for their arrest. Last February one of them, a young woman named Louise Todd, was convicted of perjury, sentenced to one to 14 years in Tehachapi Women's Prison. Embarrassed authorities overlooked six small-fry Reds, but they could not ignore famed Charlotte Anita Whitney. Last fortnight she was brought to trial...
Separating Bakersfield, Calif, and the San Joaquin Valley from the Mojave Desert are the Tehachapi Mountains, an ugly, arid range. Fortnight ago black clouds gathered over them. Early in the afternoon it began raining. Creek beds that had been white and dry all summer became lashing rivers. Oldtimers in the small towns along the canyon sensed high-water and set out for high ground. Sixty tramps on a freight train which had sided on a culvert grew restive as the sound of rushing water grew into a mighty roar. When the flood broke, a 45-ft. wall of water tore...
Last week came comment from William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe which shares the Tehachapi Pass with S. P., must shoulder its portion of the reconstruction costs...
Riding through the snows near Fort Tejon in the Tehachapi Range, about 65 mi. northwest of Los Angeles one day last week, an Indian cowhand espied against the white wall of a canyon a black smudge. Hundreds of searchers afoot, scores of planes had been hunting for nearly a week for that black smudge. Guessing what it was, the Indian turned back because he "didn't want to see any dead people." Others whom he directed to the canyon found the smudge to be the bodies of the pilot and seven passengers in the burned wreckage of a Century-Pacific...