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A private sleuth tells the Examiner that the shooting death of a Santa Cruz woman was not a suicide, but the work of bootleggers — "A rum ring so powerful that it was able to suppress the testimony of a virtual eyewitness to the murder of Mrs. Cora Mead, millionaire's wife, whose inside knowledge threatened its existence. ......... A rum ring which controls not only high officials, not only the lesser cogs of law enforcement, but, by terrorism or corruption, a large proportion of the civilian population of the region." — Jan. 3
"Another attempt to muddle the San Francisco to Oakland Bay Bridge situation was made in Congress." A Pennsylvania Republican introduced a plan calling for a span from Hunters Point to Alameda's Park Street. — March 22
"San Francisco, in sentiment, is 'wringing wet."' Of 23,526 ballots cast in a Literary Digest straw poll, more than half favor outright repeal of Prohibition, and only 12 percent favored enforcement. — April 1
Citing 40 traffic deaths in four months (nine more than the same period of 1929), Mayor James Rolph, Jr., orders the police department and traffic board to commence an educational and enforcement campaign. — May 3
"Today the American public have the opportunity to become part owners of the greatest publishing business in the world." Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc. offers $50 million in stock to the public. — July 7
"Victorious in a race against storm and time, with 251 human lives as the prize, the Matson liner Ventura reached the stricken British steamer Tahiti just as the passengers were leaving the sinking vessel in lifeboats." — Aug. 18
The government of France expels William Randolph Hearst from French territory for his 1929 role in "obtaining and publishing a secret document relating to the Anglo-French naval negotiations." Hearst replies: "I have no complaint to make. The officials were extremely polite. They said I was an enemy of France and a danger in their midst. They made me feel quite important." — Sept. 30
"In a new effort to relieve traffic congestion in the narrow streets north of Market, the traffic committee of the Board of Supervisors yesterday approved an ordinance which will prohibit parking on one side of Geary, Post and Sutter streets during rush hours." — Oct. 18
"Police 'look other way' on Halloween." Police Chief William J. Quinn issues special orders to indulge most pranksters, and the fire department reports fewer false alarms than the previous year. In Merced, however, arrests for Halloween mischief precipitate a melee. More than 400 high school and older boys riot in the streets, knocking a fireman unconscious, throwing the police chief to the ground, tearing up shrubbery and throwing rocks at motorists. — Nov. 1
"After purchasing thirty-six seven-ounce cans of marijuana" from a Santa Rosa man, state narcotics agents arrest him in the city "on a charge of violating the State poison law." The agents also ask local authorities to investigate, believing him to have "extensive acreage planted to the drug near Santa Rosa." — Dec. 22