The secret of Babe Ruth’s happy marriage: White Owl cigars.

December 1, 1938: California prepares to use the gas chamber for executions rather than hanging.

The state’s new gas chamber, 1937, “said to be the most painless method of capital punishment,” The Times says.

San Quentin uses two guards to prepare for the first executions in the state’s gas chamber. California continued hangings, however, for inmates convicted when that method of execution was still in force.

In Germany, rabbis work overtime conducting funerals for waves of Jews who have committed suicide in the face of new Nazi restrictions.

In Los Angeles, a Northrop employee is arrested on charges of selling plans and photos of combat planes to the Japanese.

Henry Ford says that accepting an award from Germany doesn’t make him a Nazi sympathizer.

“A week without Jews” in Warsaw.

Notre Dame favored over USC.