anaheim-gazette 1935-04-25

ANSWER TO SANTA ANA'S MYSTERY JAIL SOUGHT IN FILES OF GAZETTE (Continued from page 1) Orange county was still a part of Los Angeles county. Its brick floor, an arched brick ceiling, and cells with onionous bars and chains, give color to this belief. Apropos of the dirt excavated from the lot in preparation for the basement, it is told that Bruner later used it to build a swimming pool in the rear of property he owned on Rush street. Many stories are extant of this pool for the boys and girls of the village that Santa Ana was in that day. Opinions differ also as to the source or location used in the basement and in the house that until recently stood at the rear of the building. Some de- FOX ANAHEIM 229 W. Center Phone 3602 Sun., Mon., Tues., April 28-29-30 Sunday Continuous From 2 P. M. "LADDIE" with John Beal • Gloria Stuart — PLUS — "STOLEN HARMONY" with George Raft • Ben Bernle Wednesday Only May 1 "McFADDEN'S FLATS" Richard Cromwell Walter C. Kelly • Andy Clyde Thurs., Fri., Sat. May 2-3-4 "TRAVELING SALES ADY" clare that they were made on the spot; others are positive that they were purchased from Garnsey's brickyard in operation where the Municipal Bowl is now located. A visit to the basement, according to Gillingham, discloses directly under the sidewalk, a large cell, 30 feet long by 10 feet wide and also 10 feet high. This has a double door with heavy iron bars in there are markets showing the one-line entrance of another set of bars. The east side of the basement where entrance from the street formerly was gained, is a small cell, 44 inches square, also equipped with heavy iron-barred door. The only present entrance to the basement is from the alley at the rear, and this door is also barred and further strengthened with a heavy chain. 3 LINES — 3 TIMES — 3 DIMES A WELCOME SALESMAN STOLEN HARMONY with George Raft - Ben Bernle Wednesday Only May 1 "McFADDEN'S FLATS" Richard Cromwell Walter C. Kelly - Andy Clyde Thurs., Fri., Sat. May 2-3-4 "TRAVELING SALESLADY" William Gargan Joan Blondell - Glenda Farrell — PLUS — "The WEDDING NIGHT" with Gary Cooper - Anna Sten General Admission 25c ANAHEIM THEATRE 182 W. Center Phone 4212 — FRI. - SAT. - SUN. Sunday Continuous From 2:30 "$10 RAISE" with Karen Morley Edward Everett Horton Second Feature — TIM McCOY In "The SQUARE SHOOTER" General Admission 20c A WELCOMED SALESMAN ANAHEIM GAZETTE is welcome visitor in 1000 Anaheim homes every week. The Classified ad section of Anaheim Gazette (little giant salesmen) is one of the most carefully read departments of this newspaper. To use the classified ads means that your salesmen are welcome in all these Anaheim homes. WANT-ADS TO SELL TO BUY If there is something you want to sell, trade or rent ... use The Anaheim Gazette Want-Ads. If you want to buy, trade or rent something read Anaheim Gazette Want-Ads. To insert a Want-Ad, simply phone, 2414, and ask for Adtaker. Phone: 2414 3 Lines - 3 Times - 3 Dimes Quality MEATS 225 East Center Phone 2905 GREATER ANAHEIM MAR MEAT DEPARTMENT YOUR SUNDAY ROASTS ARE HERE — ALWAYS FRESH — PROPERLY CUT TO RETAIN NUTRITION AND TASTE. MEAT DEPARTMENT YOUR SUNDAY ROASTS ARE HERE — ALWAYS FRESH — PROPERLY CUT TO RETAIN NUTRITION AND TASTE. Boiling Beef lb. 11c SLICED BACON, per lb. ...34c Veal Roast lb. 19c SHORTENING ...2 lbs. for 25c Veal Chops lb. 22c PORK ROAST, per lb. ...22c LAMB CHOPS, per lb. ...22c Lamb Roasts lb. 18c Rhode Island Picks the Wrong Horse (The following story, reprinted by special request from the Readers Digest, which in turn condensed it from Colliers National Weekly): FRANK D. MORRIS Mrs. McCravor looked like the average housewife, though the brace of small children who followed her into the shoe store were rather shabby. "Shoes for both." Mrs. McCravor answered briskly. "Something sensible; Mary's size four—Fred takes a seven." Then she started to talk to the proprietor. "Have you been out to the track?" she asked eagerly. The shoe merchant's "no" didn't discourage her. She launched into a lengthy description of Narragansett Park and its prize exhibits — fast crowds and fast horses. Jockeys? She knew most of them by their first names, and her knowledge of their respective abilities would fill Volumes I and II. All this education it seemed, had been acquired since the opening of the new course. Before that, she admitted, she had never seen a horse race. Now, most of the time I pick them right. I've been playing every day for the last three weeks and you can't fool me; I know my horses. Now take this Dapper Don — I've been watching him. At Saratoga and Rockingham he's been coming along like a house afire. If you want something hot, bet your shirt on him in the fifth race today." By this time the McCravor children had been sensibly shod. Mrs. McCravor opened a bedraggled handbag and, to the amazement of the proprietor, she extracted, not currency, but a typed slip stating that "the bearer is entitled to two pairs of children's shoes ($2.00 each pair). (Signed) Public Relief Headquarters." Mrs. McCravor is but one heroine in a fantastic play enacted last summer and fall in Rhode Island. The playwrights who wrote this "hit" were the legislators of Rhode Island. About a half-dozen people decided to march all this betting taxes. The predicted visitors arrived, too. Automobiles, buses, planes, trains — including three daily race-track specials from Boston, 40 miles away — poured them into Narragansett. The peak was reached on the closing day of the season, when 56,000 natives and visitors arrived to place some $748,500 on sun-dry fast horses. In one afternoon, this strike-and-depression-ridden area dug into its pockets for nearly three-quarters of a million dollars! "General business will be stimulated." The remaining promise. Hotel men, restaurateurs, rooming-house proprietors and transportation officials say yes, business has been stimulated very nicely. But listen to the manager of the largest department stores in Providence: "Certainly $12,000,000 changed hands in betting, but do you suppose we merchants got any of the winnings in increased business? I'm afraid not. The entire season was just one big slump for us and we can trace it directly to the opening of the new track. One big store in town showed a 35% drop in sales that month and the smaller fellows were hit proportionately. Take Saturdays during the meet. Ordinarily that's our best selling day. But not last August — why, stores were practically deserted. Everybody was out at the track betting and losing money that they might have spent for clothing and supplies. The whole state went horse-crazy, betting their heads off on a game most of them knew nothing about, and a good many of them couldn't afford it. They suffered, their families suffered and so did we merchants." A used-car dealer in Pawtucket took up the cry: "The track has crucified business. I've lost $2000 a week in sales since the track opened. One week Twenty-two stables were in play at the Pythian Sisters card party on Thursday afternoon. Seems like all papers, or reporters, have racing on the brain... just horse-play Jimmy. Anyway now A. C. Rutceel and a few of his very close friends and patrons know who'll be the next president of the United States. If any of the readers hereof wish to know, don't let A. C., hold out—he knows. Profit showed up at the Rutceel-Smith institution yesterday afternoon (Beg your pardon Just looked up the word and find it is spelled prophet). Once you have tried our SUNDAY DINNER FOR 35¢ You'll Wonder Why You You Missed So Many Real Good Meals WE ALSO SERVE ICE CREAM SUNDIES With Fresh Fruit Flavors AL'S CAFE East Center Street Anaheim VOTERS! A NEW INDUSTRY AWAITS YOUR OK 1. Hundreds of steelworkers, carpenters, painters, artisans and laborers to be employed immediately. 2. A half-million dollars to be spent in construction. 3. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenue. 4. General business to be stimulated. 5. Thousands of visitors to be attracted to our state. A few weeks later the hundreds of artisans and labors marched forth eagerly to their promised jobs. They assembled on a vast plain five miles from Providence, as the taxi flies. Promise Number Two was more than fulfilled. Approximately a million and a half dollars were spent on the construction of Narragansett Park. It had a loud-speaker system, 300 part-mutuel windows, and a big tote board (totalizator which flashes the changing odds as betting progresses. Promise Number Three, tax revenues also bettered expectations. At the end of the first 59-day season, $811,872 was turned over to the state treasurer in They Say — The Early Bird Gets the Worm But — Who wants a worm — when you can get one of our LUSCIOUS SANDWICHES any time or if Hungry, lunches can always be had ... Come in... BELMONT CAFE WINES • BEER • LUNCHES SHORT ORDERS 243 W. CENTER ST. Anaheim VEGETABLE DEPT. ALL SEASONABLE FRUITS AN VEGETABLE ALWAYS — CLASSIFIED ADS VEGETABLE DEPT. — ALL SEASONABLE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ALWAYS — Onions NEW CROP 3 lbs. 15c LETTUCE, large heads ...2 for 9c Asparagus Fancy Northern lb. 5c GRAPEFRUIT ...7 for 15c Strawberries - box 5c Strawberries No.1 box 10c NO. 1 NEW SPUDS ...6 lbs. 25c Peas SWEET TENDER 1b. 5c CLASSIFIED ADS RATE: Five cents the line (count five words to the line) for each insertion. Phone 2414 for want ads that bring results. A REAL OPPORTUNITY BUICK MOTOR—Good, suitable for exchange in car, pump drive or stationary engine—or will sell car complete, $40.00. Also other good used cars. KIRVEN CAR CO., 250 No. L. A. St., Anaheim. Phone 4497 tf PAINTING & PAPERHANGING Painting, and paper hanging. J. E Saylor 131 W. Chartres, Phone 2761 PIANOS FOR SALE 100 PIANOS to choose from; Knabe, Bechstein, Steinway, Chickering, Klimball, etc., new and used, $35 and up DANZ, Anaheim. $10 FREE! Send name of friend who wants piano and get $10 Free when we sell. DANZ, Anaheim. HELP WANTED WANTED—100 men and women to try our 25c lunch week days and 35c dinner Sundays. AL'S CAFE 4tfc SALESMAN WANTED MAN WANTED for Rawleigh Route of 800 families. Write today. Rawleigh, Dept. CAD-11-SA, Oakland, Calif. 4/18-25p FOR SALE FOR SALE—3 electric brooders, 500 capacity. A. Worth, Orange Ave. at Shirley Station, Cypress. 4-25-tf Long Horse in the Readers Digest. visitors arrived, too. miles away—poured ransett. The peak was losing day of the seanatives and visitors some $748,500 on sunIn one afternoon, this ison-ridden area dug for nearly threedollars! pass will be stimulated." Promise, Hotel men, coming-house proprietation officials say yes, seen stimulated very the manager of the ent stores in Provid- $12,000,000 changed but do you suppose any of the winnings ness? I'm afraid not. was just one big we can trace it dining of the new track. town showed a 35% month and the smallhit proportionately. during the meet. Orour best selling day, august — why, stores deserted. Everybody back betting and losing might have spent for miles. The whole state betting their heads most of them knew and a good many, of word it. They suffered, offered and so did we older in Pawtucket took the track has crucified ost $2000 a week in back opened. One week and other institutions whose tempting money was handled, that if any of them were seen at the new track, betting or not, they would be dismissed. Furthermore, there were to be no more discussions of racing during business hours. Not only were business men losing money because everybody was not buying but betting; some of their own ranks joined the bettors. One — whom we'll call Hank Smithers — threw away his entire business. Hank had a small ice cream factory and was making a better product than his competitors. He made money, plenty of money. Looking for a suitable place to spend his spare time and spare cash, Hank arrived at the new track. He knew a lot about ice cream, nothing of competing thoroughbreds. His track losses grew more rapidly than his new neglected business. Eventually, to cover his losses, he had to sell out the business. The horse hysteria was not confined to one class of workers. At the many textile plants which honeycomb the state, lunch-hour forums took on the semblance of an afternoon at Belmont Park. Tips so hot they must have scorched the feed-box whence they came were tossed about. The opening meet lasted a month, but the interest in horses lingered on. Once the pari-mutuel bug has tapped the veins, prepare for a long siege. The Rockingham track in Salem, N. H., is only a few hours by train from any part of Rhode Island, so in September Rockingham gained a large parcel of new customers. And those Rhode Islanders who couldn't get there stayed at home and patronized the local bookles. Nor was the betting virus killed off by the winter snow. Thousands of Rhode Islanders discovered that racing, like birds, travels south in the winter and that at Hialeah, Tropical Park and Santa Anita, potential miracles of finance were still available—again through the so-accommodating bookles. Here was another industry that was being stimulated! Although the track at Narragansett from statistics on withdrawals from savings and other accounts, it is estimated that close to a million dollars were deducted from depositors' passbooks during the first racing season. Furthermore, utility companies and installment houses are finding it difficult to collect their monthly bills. Coal dealers complain they got practically no business last year from customers who used to order, at summer rates, their winter supply. Fond parents simply don't give Junior a stick of dynamite to play with, but this new hobby-horse may prove just as dangerous a toy of innocent Rhode Islanders if they don't handle it with proper caution. It is racing history that Narragansett's first season was the most successful of any track in the country last year. Millions of dollars changed hands within the state. And what did Rhode Island get out of it? A headache. Possibly after this first hysteria has passed those Rhode Islanders who have been burned in the betting blaze will learn that reaching one's hand back into the fire is a poor way to heal burned fingers. Possibly they will heed the advice of President Roosevelt, who recently said: "The average person always loses. Only a very small minority of the people of this country believe in gambling as a substitute for the old philosophy of Benjamin Franklin that the way to wealth is through work." HELLO, SUCKER, LOOKIT HERE It is said the "take" at the race track is to be cut from 8 to 6 per cent in order that the dear public can reach for more dough. Housecleaning. Now, wall brush $1.39, push broom $1.59. New specials, Ph. 4893, Fuller, 125 S. Bush. 3-28-41p 3 LINES — 3 TIMES — 3 DIMES RAMONA California's Everybody in the track betting and losing might have spent for miles. The whole state betting their heads most of them knew and a good many of word it. They suffered, suffered and so did we older in Pawtucket took the track has crucified most $2000 a week in track opened. One week season was the first that I didn't sell a procers, haberdashers, owners and other hooped this wall. Some they might just as well shop while the racing they would have sav- overhead. All agreed the Islanders were being impoverished by an called "playing the warned the employes insurance companies Although the track at Narragansett is operated on a pari-mutuel system which does not recognize bookmakers, these gentlemen swarmed in like flies to honey. Nothing less than a $2 ticket is sold at the track betting windows, but the bookies would take any amount from ten cents up. Boardrooms with their elaborate layouts and direct wires to a half-dozen tracks, cigar-store back rooms, barber shops, office-building elevators — all became betting headquarters. Shopgirls, newsboys, mill-workers and school children were regular customers. Of course the local authorities tried to stamp out this traffic, but with little success. Another local industry also had a spurt. Small loan companies found themselves suddenly called upon to advance amounts ranging from $50 upward to persons who were "facing an emergency was not always accurately stated, but the loan investigators could have followed a number of trails which ended abruptly at the betting windows of the new track. One man who had a small insurance policy was not even "facing an emergency." When he learned that he could borrow $50 on his policy he drew it out. One trip to the track ended the chapter. 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