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With receipt of Washington dispatches that Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy, of the United States Maritime Commission, will reach San Francisco even sooner than expected, the "Save-Our Shipping" committeemen here speeded last-minute steps to perfect their plans for his arrival. — Jan. 5 "With Lotte Lehmann, famed soprano as guest soloist, The Art Commission will present the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in a special concert tonight in Memorial Opera House. Conductor Pierre Monteux is to introduce the artist in an all-Wagner program."— Feb. 19 "A gigantic gambling ring, which for three years has squeezed fabulous profits from every city and town between San Diego and Seattle, was believed smashed yesterday when the Federal Grand Jury in San Francisco returned indictments against its alleged leadres (sic). Six Japanese, asserted principals or agents in the extensive combine, were accused of using the mails to operate an illegal lottery." — March 23 "Police Chief Quinn took a long stride toward control of vice as he ordered fingerprinting of all women arrested as prostitutes, streetwalkers, or keepers of brothels." — May 5 "WPA construction jobs for 5,500 San Franciscans during the next 12 months was (sic) assured as Mayor Rossi announced that Washington officials had approved three blanket projects." City pays $445,000 for materials, feds pay $3,323,000 for labor, to improve or repair public playgrounds, parks, roads and buildings. — June 22 Record throngs greet FDR. The city goes wild over the presidential visit. Roosevelt calls for world peace. Rousing welcome shatters Bay Area records. — July 15 "San Francisco's ordinance regulating the distribution of handbills is constitutional, the appellate division of the Superior Court held. The decision sustains the conviction of two people "arrested at Fourteenth and Valencia streets last April for distributing handbills of the Communit (sic) party." — Aug. 5 "Retail Department Store Clerks Union, Local 1100, last night called its members out on strike in twenty-seven major department stores and eight branches effective at 7 a.m. today ......... (despite) urgent pleas telegraphed by Mayor Rossi from Portland, Ore., to delay action until his return tomorrow." — Sept. 7 "The eighth plan for municipal acquisition of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company at a top price of $55...million was submitted to Supervisors by Utilities Manager Cahill." — Sept. 9 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast causes nationwide panic over dramatized Martian invasion of New Jersey. "Telephone switchboards of the Examiner, too, last night were flooded with calls from persons anxious to learn details of the New Jersey 'disaster.'..." — Oct. 31 "California's new death-factory went into capacity production yesterday and turned out two of the neatest corpses San Quentin's executioners have ever seen. It took Albert Kessell and Robert Lee Cannon, young convicts who had committed murder in an attempt to escape Folsom prison, and, by an adroit adaptation of the hydrocyanic process, it killed them before the eyes of 45 unenthusiastic witnesses." — Dec. 3 |
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