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Title
Hugh Blue during a Turf Club gambling hearing, Ontario, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
April 9. 1936
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "No Agents," Says Blue," Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb 1936: 8.
Blue sits at a desk watching an unidentified man write.
Blue testified that the three men arrested were not part of the Turf Club, and that there were no agents outside of Santa Anita.
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.
Text from negative sleeve: 4655 - Hugh Blue, secretary of Los Angeles Turf Club. 2/26/36 [stamped:] Apr 9- 1936
Handwritten on negative: Hugh Blue
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13860
ark:/21198/zz002j7bgx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Horse racing--California--Ontario
Witnesses--California--Ontario
Los Angeles Turf Club
Blue, Hugh
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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