US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Buchanan testified before Judge J.F. Hamilton there is only one licensed betting place in California for the horse races at the Santa Anita track, and he does not know any of the men arrested for illegal gambling. Photograph appears with the article, "No Agents," Says Blue," Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb 1936: 8. Buchanan sits at a desk with his hands folded, looking off into the distance while another man writes on a pad of paper. Text from newspaper caption: Hugh Blue, secretary of the Los Angeles Turf Club, is shown here at the left as he appeared as a prosecution witness at a hearing of three bookmaking suspects in Judge Hamilton's court yesterday in Ontario. He said Santa Anita has no outside agencies for betting. At right is W. C. Buchanan, secretary of the California Horse Racing Board, who gave the same kind of testimony. Handwritten on negative: W.C. Buchanan Text from negative sleeve: 4653 - W.C. Buchanan, secretary California Horse- racing Board 2/26/36 [stamped:] Apr 9- 1936
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13859 ark:/21198/zz002j7bfd
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Horse racing--California--Ontario Witnesses--California--Ontario Buchanan, W.C California Horse Racing Board
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