Arizona National Guard sergeant Ernest Mendoza transmitting report by radio, near Parker, Arizona, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Arizona National Guard sergeant Ernest Mendoza transmitting report by radio, near Parker, Arizona, 1934

Date Created

1934

Date

1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

In 1934, with plans in place for United States Reclamation Service and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to build Parker Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and California, Arizona governor Benjamin B. Moeur protested the diversion of water to California by sending members of the Arizona National Guard to the dam construction site. A local ferry service also participated under the informal name of the Arizona Navy.
Ernest Mendoza, in uniform and headset, standing at portable radio setup arranged on dresser with mirror
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 11, 1934, "Army Scans Dam Site, Arizona Soldiers Visit Scene, First Report from Seat of Two-State Dispute Sent to Phoenix, Military Party Movements Made to Halt Asserted California Invasion." Arizona soldiers … made their first soldierly observation of what is going on there. Tonight the first report of what the soldiers saw went forth in a formal report transmitted from their temporary camp there at Parker via their portable radio to their armory at Phoenix. … Caption reads: Messages from the front. Here is Sergt. Ernest Mendoza as he radios the latest events from the Colorado River front to Gov. Moeur at Phoenix over a portable set in a Parker hotel room. Advices from Phoenix, however, are to the effect that all the Governor is receiving are strange sounds, but then that may be a new code, who knows? (Times photo)

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: (unidentified)

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Arizona. National Guard
Mendoza, Ernest

Location

Parker (Ariz.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Communication facilities--Arizona--Parker
People
Radios
Government
Parker Dam (Ariz. and Calif.)
Militias--Arizona