November 13, 1941: An FBI investigation into the Los Angeles Japanese Chamber of Commerce and the Central Japanese Assn. reveals monthly donations of $4,000 to $5,000 to the Japanese government “for the army and navy,” The Times says. Continue reading
In going through my old files, I discovered several copies of a feature that appeared in the Los Angeles Examiner titled “Rediscovering Los Angeles.” These pieces were written by W.W. Kane, apparently based on interviews with early residents. This should not be confused with a series by the same title that appeared in The Times in 1935, written by Timothy Turner and illustrated by Charles Owens.
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November 13, 1907
Los Angeles
An uproarious meeting was held last night at Simpson Auditorium to raise money for the four Mexican revolutionaries being held in the Los Angeles County Jail. The hall was packed with “revolutionists, Socialists, labor unionites, atheists and others of that ilk,” The Times said, noting: “A wild-eyed anarchist with a smoking bomb in his hand was the only thing needed.” “The audience was composed mainly of Mexicans and Spanish-Americans, but not of the better class,” The Times said.
A red flag was hoisted above the Stars and Stripes and red crepe paper was strung throughout the hall, while music was provided by a Mexican orchestra of boys and girls “who were supposed to represent the purity of the cause,” The Times said. Mexican women pelted defense attorney Job Harriman with flowers when he began his address.
As you may have read, that was quite a comedy of errors the other night in the little city of Cypress in Orange County.
On a tip that Louis Ross Lord, 35, road camp escapee, was there, two Norwalk deputies, D.W. Llewelyn and D.J. Hawkins, went to a house on Sumner Pl.
When Lord opened the door and saw them, he struck Llewelyn, knocking him down. Llewelyn got out his gun and shot at Lord and he went down. As Llewelyn bent over to see if Lord was wounded, Lord jumped up and knocked him down again. He hadn’t been shot, he’d fainted. Continue reading
From the California State Archives.
Los Angeles, Cal.
November 12, 1930
Mr. Chas. L. Neumiller
President Board of Prison Directors
Reprisa, California
Dear Sir:
In regard to the case of Walter J. Collins now before you for parole may I be permitted a few words?
I have never known Mr. Collins personally and his prison record must speak for him, but I have been daily in personal contact with his wife, Christine Collins, for about a year and a half. She has lived in my home during that time. It is for her sake I am asking your leniency for Mr. Collins. Continue reading
Daryle Kelch was one of the most popular seniors at William S. Hart High School. He had a good friend, Douglas Austin, and a girlfriend, Karen Deadmon. And he was a dependable boy, according to the eulogy delivered by the Rev. Fred Dawson of Foursquare Gospel Church in Newhall.
He was from a big family, The Times said, with four sisters and two brothers. His parents were separated and he lived with his mother, Gladys.For all the good things about Daryle, the 17-year-old had one bad habit: hitchhiking. And however many times he caught a ride with some stranger, it was once too often.
On Monday, Nov. 10, 1958, Daryle and Douglas decided to hitchhike to Los Angeles to see Douglas’ friend, Nancy Rogers, whose parents had a vacation home in Saugus. For those who are unfamiliar with Los Angeles geography, that’s about 32 miles and although that area of Santa Clarita is developed today, it would have been remote in the 1950s.
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Andrea Brodine, 6, for whose life many have prayed since she was stricken by a deadly paralysis two weeks ago, walked again at the Huntington Memorial Hospital yesterday—supported by a mechanical carrier device but strongly on the road to full recovery.
The little girl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brodine, 839 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, were in despair when she was first taken to the hospital. Their daughter, suffering a type of spinal paralysis, seemed doomed to die.
We just don’t get deep thoughts in comics anymore.
November 12, 1941: Crowds line Broadway in downtown Los Angeles for the annual Armistice Day parade, which marked the end of what used to be called the Great War or the World War – until we had another one.
Tom Treanor, who was killed covering World War II for The Times, profiles the Kozinsky brothers, Herman, Frank and Morrie, who are starting out in the movie business as the King Bros. Their first was picture was “Paper Bullets” and the second was “I Killed That Man.”
John Huston likes to cast his father in small roles as a good luck charm. The latest is Walter Huston’s two lines as a bartender for “In This Our Life.”
“Hot Spot,” the film version of “I Wake Up Screaming,” starring Victor Mature, Betty Grable, Carole Landis and Laird Cregar, is opening at Grauman’s Chinese and Loew’s State.
A Kinder, Simpler Time Department: Mrs. Celia Kopulsky got a police escort to pick up her grandchildren at the nursery. She had jaywalked to catch a streetcar at 7th and Broadway because she was in a hurry to pick up her two grandchildren and refused to sign a traffic officer’s citation, so she was taken downtown. After a lecture on traffic safety, the LAPD took her to the nursery and then transported her and the children to their home at 216 1/2 St. Louis St.
Jimmie Fidler says: Ragnar Qvale, the ski champ the Darryl Zanuck “discovered” with such fanfare two years ago, is still in Hollywood — working as a mechanic for Lockheed.
Reminder: Boxie and I will be doing a live “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel and Steve Hodel on Tuesday, November 18, at 10 a.m. Pacific time on YouTube.
Can’t make the live session? Email me your questions and I’ll answer them! The video will be posted once the session ends so you can watch it later. Remember, this is ask me anything, so please remember to ask questions rather than make comments. Thanks!
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November 12, 1907
Los Angeles
Half a block from his home at 1131 Westlake, John P. Shumway Jr. was badly injured when the carriage he was driving collided with the 11th Street trolley. Shumway was thrown about 20 feet, striking the pavement head-first, and the horse ran for the stable, pulling what was left of the smashed carriage, witnesses said.
Shumway was carried to his home, where his father, Dr. John P. Shumway, treated him for a concussion, bruises and cuts. A year later, the family filed a personal injury suit against the Los Angeles Railway, seeking $10,355 ($204,938.83), although The Times failed to report the outcome of the trial.
Several weeks ago Glen Shahan’s miniature schnauzer, Henry, developed a cough. When it persisted, the veterinarian recommended that Henry’s tonsils come out. This was done but poor Henry continued to wheeze, and the other day Glenn, ABC TV publicist, took him back to the vet for examination.
“There’s nothing more I can do,” the vet said. “The only thing now is to send him to Palm Springs for a week. That ought to clear it up.”
“You’re kidding,” Glenn said.
“Oh no,” was the reply, “you just put him on the bus and I’ll arrange to have him met and picked up in a station wagon and he’ll stay in a nice, sunny place.” Continue reading
For a minute. Talk to him for just a minute and you know that he’s not the man who looks for trouble.
He’s a quiet man. Everything about him is quiet. His voice. His manner of dress. The way he walks into your office. He makes no noise.
Age: Mid-40’s. Distinguishing characteristics: None.
He’s just one of the 2 1/2 million people in this city.
What sets him apart from the rest — for today, at least — is his story.
“I manage a cafe,” he starts. “It’s a nice place. Family type.
“When my partner and I took it over seven years ago, it had a bad name. We worked hard to make it clean and respectable and that’s what it is now. Continue reading
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November 11, 1907
Los Angeles
On a trip to Topeka, Kans., to visit relatives, Lena River Packard of Los Angeles met Edgar (or Edwin) Campbell Arnold, a wealthy wholesale druggist who quickly became her constant companion and ardent suitor. Love soon blossomed and in a few months, Edgar arrived in Los Angeles to claim his bride.
A lavish wedding was arranged, bridal showers were given for Lena and the minister was brought to town from Ventura, where the Packards once lived. Edgar gave her a diamond-studded bracelet as a token of their upcoming marriage.
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Bits of clothing found with a child’s skeleton in a small ravine in Orange County yesterday were identified as belonging to 6-year-old Rochelle Gluskoter, who was kidnapped Feb. 15, 1946.
The identification was made by the child’s parents, Abe and Miriam Gluskoter.
Thus came the first tangible clue in the abduction case which has baffled investigators for nearly two years.
The Gluskoters, who now live at 913 E. 87th St., appeared at the sheriff’s Bureau of Investigation accompanied by Inspector J. Gordon Bowers, who directed investigation in the days following the little girl’s disappearance.
Image: May 18, 1932, “Letty Lynton” is opening in Los Angeles. Credit: Los Angeles Times
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In the novel “Letty Lynton” and the play “Dishonored Lady,” the heroine gets away with murder, thanks to lies of friends. In the cinema world, however, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer earned major punishment for plagiarizing the play. It was assessed huge monetary damages and saw its film “Letty Lynton” forever removed from circulation. It didn’t have to end that way.
Playwrights Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes wrote the play “Dishonored Lady,” based on the 1857 murder trial of Scottish Madeleine Smith, who murdered her lover. It opened 1930 in New York to tremendous success. MGM negotiated twice to acquire the play’s screen rights, but both times the Will Hays Production Code Office nixed production because of immorality. The studio instead bought the rights to novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes’ book “Letty Lynton,” also based on the same story as the play. Studio Creative Chief Irving Thalberg desired the story for Joan Crawford, who played coarser, tougher roles than most of the MGM starlets.
From the California State Archives
2614 N. Griffin Ave.
Los Angeles, Cal.
November 10, 1930
Mr. Charles L. Neumiller
Pres. State Prison Board
% Mr. Myron Clark, State Clerk
Reprisa, Cal.
Dear Mr. Neumiller,
I have been informed that the case of Walter J. Collins, who is at Reprisa, comes up before the Prison Board next month and as a sister of Mrs. Collins will you permit me to present my personal knowledge of the circumstances upon which the application for parole is based, which I sincerely request and hope will be brought to the attention of the board for consideration. Continue reading
The Christine Collins lettersThe woman whose tragedy inspired the Clint Eastwood movie “Changeling” tells her story in her own words. |
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This week’s mysterious silent movie was the 1919 film The White Heather, with H.E. Herbert, Ben Alexander, Ralph Graves, Mabel Ballin, Jack Gilbert and Spottiswoode Aitken.
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November 10, 1907
South Pasadena
What sort of monument do we leave for real estate developers? For John B. Althouse, who built hundreds of homes in the Wilshire district, as well as the West Adams district and the San Gabriel Valley, the answer might be nondescript offices and vacant lots.
Here’s the house he built for himself at Oxley and Fremont in South Pasadena, a few blocks from my home. In fact, I pass the corner every day.
Clearly it’s no more possible to control the gags about the quiz show scandal than it is to control the mushrooming scandal itself, and the other day a group of coffee break philosophers of my acquaintance got around to the subject.
A man named Marvin contributed the subversive thought that in addition to handling out its annual Emmy awards next year the television business should offer a special Ananians award, on the occasion of which the band should strike up with “Pony Boy.”
A cynic named Jerry suggested a Stoolie award, but he was quickly smothered on the grounds that this was strictly a police matter.
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