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9c Per Copy; $2.00 Per YmxJOHNNUMBERDRAWN#Robert Beckwith Shares Honors as NumberOne Man in Conscription Lottery HeldTuesday as Many Prepare for Draftof 1917ii. 6Reenacted today in San Marino was the old songJohnny get your gun, get your gun” for Johnny Houghton of 1340 Old Mill road, was number 158—the first number drawn in Washington,Tuesday, when the nation’s biggest lottery took place♦ as millions of young men prepared for peacetime conscription. Houghton, assigned to draft board No. 205, shared first honors with Robert Beckwith, 615 South San Marino avenue who held No. 158Called1JOHN E. HOUGHTONGarden Club toHave BoardlO ISMeeting, Nov. 5in board No. 207.Johnny, a resident of San Marino for over 15 years, attended the Huntington school, South Pasadena Junior High, South Pasadena-San Marino High where he graduated. Going to Occidental he was a member of the Phi j Gamma Delta fraternity and graduated in 1939. In high school he won his letter as a tennis star and also at Occidental. Participating in all local tennis tournaments, as well as Pasadena tourneys, he won the San Marino City Badminton championship last month by defeating Joe Peatman. He lives at 1340 Old Mill road.Unmarried, young Houghton has two sisters, Mrs. Robert G. Clelland, who was San Marino’s Silver Queen in the 1938 RoseParade, and another married sister who lives in Los Angeles. His brother, William Houghton lives at 1080 Darby road.In May, Houghton went to work in the office of the AsburyRapid Transfer Co., in Los Angeles. His father is vice-president of the Southern California Gas!et in mett, d of k on ouslyer 4, Mrs.I ap-i de-m of take /iew-scap-1 :oun-and ! i willThe regular meeting of San Marino Garden Club executive board will be held at the home of the president, Mrs. Chester A. Swift, 1840 Windsor road, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. November 5.Future plans for the club will be discussed.company.The other “first man”, Robert Beckwith is married and works for the Tanner Motor Livery in Pasadena.When interviewed Tuesday morning regarding his numberbeing the first one drawn he said that he had never won a sweep-Club is actively j Stakes, drawing or lottery of anykind but his luck had evidently changed, or had it.Following are the numbers listed of boards No. 205 and 207:BOARD NO. 205(Alhambra)Park School, 301 N. Marengo (Continued on Page Six)The Garden participating in the club landscaping exhibit in Pasadena Flower Show which opens this evening in the Fannie E. Morrison Horticultural Center, Brook-side Park, Pasadena. Their particular share in the exhibit is the perennial border of the garden which they have developed in
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Thu, Oct 31, 1940
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