The Archive · 1929

Meant Him to Have Money

NAE, D. No" Sructay Semvica Los Angeles, Cal., Mar. 18.

The will of Lucy Banning Ota, wealthy American woman who here recently, was published to. disclosing that she left the bulk of her fortun eto her husband, Setsuzo Gta, a Japanese student and wre The amount of the fortune is not en but is estimated at sever faundred thousand dollars.

To be certain that her husho: JoUtained the money she wished hi have Mrs. Ota directed her attorneys to sell real estate she. Jowned and give the money to Ota, hereby defeating a state law which forbids Japanese to own real estate California, Ars. Ota made her will in 1926, luefore she married the Japanese and before her divorce from her_previous husband, Robert Ross.—United Press. concurrent enforeemert and partly ire of many State and oath of office zealously to enforce the laws, with the result that there had been a dangerous expansion of criminal elements who had found.enlarged opportunities for dealing in illegal liquor. that occasion, President Hoover said that a large state of affairs resulted di American citizens, who,

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