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Found huddled in a $1-a-day Brooklyn room was Mrs. Mae Ebbets Cadore, daughter of the late President Charles H. Ebbets of the Brooklyn Dodgers and wife of the Dodgers' famed Pitcher Leon Cadore who once hurled a 26-inning 1-to-1 tie, now peddles drug supplies. Claiming not to have received a cent from her father's $2,000,000 estate since it became involved in litigation in 1931, she complained: "I'm down to my last rags. We have nothing. I've applied for home relief but they laughed at me when I told them I was one of the Ebbets. . . . I even tried to get a job at Ebbets Field but they won't let an Ebbets in there." Moping about her cold parlor in Montclair, N. J., Miss Ada E. Ebbets, 69-year-old sister of President Ebbets, revealed that she too had received no money for four years from the estate executors. Few weeks ago occurred the Dodgers' annual Ebbets dinner, paid for by a $5,000 trust fund left by President Ebbets which is not entailed.
Honored by San Franciscans on an officially proclaimed John McLaren Day was the city's grizzled 90-year-old Park Superintendent, a Scottish gardener who in 1887 started his transformation of 1,000 acres of sandy wasteland into world-famed Golden Gate Park.