May 22, 1938

Above, a plan for the Santa Anita Motor Inn at 101 W. Huntington. Apparently, the final design of the tower was a little more Art Deco (see the postcard here). At left, a miner leads detectives to the body of Leona Schmidt, 59, which was buried in the desert between Gorman and Lancaster. Schmidt's son-in-law Valean Neil Ross is being held on charges of killing her March 9 in an argument over whether an operation -- which Schmidt refused to pay for -- would have saved the life of his wife. And France says that it will go to war if Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Email me