First newspaper clipping:
Little Wins Speakership in Assembly
Breed Unanimously Chosen as Senate President Pro Tem, at Legislature’s First Session
Sacramento, Jan 2. - (AP) – Walter J. Little, Santa Monica, was unanimously elected speaker of the Assembly at the opening session of the State Legislature here today. He succeeds Edgar C. Levey of San Francisco.
Senator Arthur H. Breed of Oakland was elected president pro tem of the Senate, also by a unanimous vote. Breed has held this office for several sessions.
F. C. Clowdsley of Stockton, a Democrat, was elected speaker of pro tem of the Assembly, climaxing a contest with Percy G. West, Republican, Sacramento. The vote was 48 to 30. Clowdsley was nominated by Lucius J. Powers, Fresno, and supported by San Joaquin Valley Assemblymen.
Accepting the Speakership, Assemblyman Little declared:
“California should not brook sectionalism in this public affairs and I will see that it is not brought forward up this floor.”
He told the Assemblyman it would require “real thought on the part of the members of the Legislature to see that no stumbling blocks” were placed in the way of returning prosperity.
Varied Program
The Legislature convened for consideration on as varied and important a program as has been encountered in many years.
The Senators and Assemblymen were primarily interested in effecting governmental economy without necessity of increased taxation.
The Assembly was called to order first by Levey. After a roll all the members were called to the Speaker’s desk to be sworn in by Associate Justice J. A. Flummer of Third District Appellate Court.
Both houses adjourned until 9:30 a.m. tomorrow after completing organization.
In the assembly, Arthur A. Ohnimus, San Francisco, was unanimously re-elected chief clerk for his tenth term. Louis J. Erb, San Francisco, minute clerk at seven previous sessions, was unanimously re-elected. Michael Connolley, Los Angeles, was unopposed for election as sergeant-at-arms. Rabbi Norman M. Goldburg of Sacramento was named chaplain. Ohnimus appointed Fred J. Desch of Los Angeles first assistant clerk.
Crowley Named
Committees on attaches, mileage and rules were named by Speaker Little. Edward Craig of Brea is chairman of the attaches committee, which includes Samuel E. Robinson of Imperial, Harry B. Riley, Long Beach; Samuel M. Greene, Inglewood; Melvyn I. Cronin of San Francisco; Charles W. Fisher, Oakland; and Albert F. Ross, Redding.
Ernest C. Crowley, Suisun, heads the mileage committee, which consists of James E. Thorp, Lockeford; Clifford C. Anglin, Richmond; Frank J. Rogers of Los Angeles, and John H. O’Donnell, Woodland.
The rules committee has C. ray Robinson, Merced, as chairman. Other members are Charles W. Lyon, Los Angeles; Lawrence Cobb, Los Angeles; B. J. Feigenbaum, San Francisco; Eugene W. Roland, Oakland; Clowdsley and Little.
Second Newspaper Clipping:
Assembly Attaches Receive Presents
Attaches of the assembly were guests yesterday at that house’s biennial “love feast,” receiving gifts and words of praise from the law-makers. The beneficiaries included Speaker Edgar C. Levey, William Byrne, speaker pro tempore, Chief Clerk Arthur Ohnimus, Sergeant-at-Arms Arthur Ferguson, Assemblyman Harry Sewell, the five assembly pages, Madge Cross, chief stenographer, and several other secretaries.
Previously the senate tendered gifts to Lieutenant Governor H. L. Carnahan, A. H. Breed, Secretary Joseph Beek and various other attaches.
Third Newspaper Clipping:
City Facing Slot Machine Racket War
Quinn Hampered in Drive against Gambling by Reported Split in Police Department
Gangsterism in the best Chicago manner, lacking only a murder to make it perfect, has given police Chief Quinn the most difficult problem he has faced since becoming chief, it became evident yesterday.
Friday’s hijacking of two slot machines at the town Club, a night club at 2796 Hyde Street, was the first violent outbreak in the notorious slot machine, racket, but there were rumblings in the underworld yesterday y that the worst part is yet to come.
Four men, one of them armed with a sawed-off shotgun, held up the Town Club, bound three men and took away the slot machines. They made no attempt to rob the men present nor to rob the safe or cash drawers, showing clearly that the raid was part of a slot machine war.
Police Split Reported
Behind the scenes is declared to be a wide open split in the police department. Chief Quinn has ordered all slot machines seized wherever found, but the police captains in several districts have ignored Quinn, knowing that he cannot discipline a captain without the approval of the Police Commission.
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