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Attorney General Earl Warren's latest move in his war against horse racing bookies yesterday left more than a hundred of these operators virtually without information on the races. His action found the telephone company halting service to four distributing centers, who in turn had been relaying race information to approximately 110 bookies. — Jan. 26
Declaring it will positively end next Wednesday night, the management of the Warfield advises patrons not to delay in making reservations for "Gone With the Wind" which tomorrow will begin its ninth and final week. — March 20
Opening of Presidio tunnel and 19th Avenue improvements allow motorists "for the first time in history to hum from the Golden Gate Bridge, unimpeded and undetoured, across the Presidio of San Francisco, across Golden Gate Park, and on down the peninsula with a minimum wastage of time." — April 22
Overcoming war abroad and financial obstacles at home, the Golden Gate International Exposition reopens for a second season. — May 25.
A Mexico still predominantly pro-American, but riddled with Nazi and Communist agents and propagandists, was pictured last night by Diego Rivera, famed Mexican painter, as he arrived here to begin work on a set of murals at the Exposition. (Rivera's mural, "Pan American Unity," now graces City College's Diego Rivera Theater.) — June 6
The Bayshore Highway, long a notorious focus of accidents and deaths, is to be converted into Northern California's first "freeway" — a ten-lane express highway "designed to permit safe travel at speeds of seventy miles an hour." — July 26
Item from "San Francisco Night Cavalcade" by Examiner columnist "The Rounder": "The cheapness and zest of the following recipe is attested to twice every week, with great regularity, by two small boys who appear at the Owl Drug Store at Market and Hyde, while city employees marvel: Order one glass of plain seltzer (no charge, of course), add two lumps of sugar (free, of course), stir well, gulp, smile pleasantly at the man behind the counter, and leave." — Aug. 4
Congress passes nation's first peacetime draft: More than 75,000 San Franciscans — approximately 2,000,000 men throughout Northern California — will be required to register under the National Conscription Act. — Sept. 15
The forty hour week, which becomes effective today under the Federal Wage Hour Law, will bring only a slight increase in the total amount of wages paid in California, labor officials estimated yesterday. — Oct. 24
Curious inner workings of San Francisco's garbage system — workings involving loans to city officials, juicy insurance deals with supervisors and their relatives and secret slush funds to finance political campaigns — have been laid before the grand jury. — Nov. 5
Examiner editorializes on the city's economic decline: "One reason for San Francisco's present plight is that it thinks too much in terms of what its fathers and grandfathers did — does little to improve its own condition in this generation. ...The ravages of fire were wiped away by the men of thirty years ago. Now the ravages of apathy must be wiped away by the men of this generation." — Dec. 7