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I~ Re Application of Valencia Business Men's Club. On motion of Trustee Penn, seconded by B~uns and carried, the application of the Valencia Business Men's Club for a permit to operate a Business Men's Club at 3094 N. Broadway, was referred to the Chief of Police and City Attorney for investigation. In Re Monthly Reports. In Re Monthly Warrants. On motion of Trustee Penn, seconded by Rowland and car- ried, the monthly reports of the City Officers for the month of June, were referred to the Finance Committee. . On motion of Trustee Penn, seconded by Bruns and carried, the Clerk was instructed to draw warrants according to demands audited by the Finance Committee. In He Mileage of Chief of Police's Car. Trustee Rowland, appointed as a committee to investigate the statements made by Trustee LeGaye with reference to the increased mileage of the Chief of Police,s car, repot. ted that the difference in mileage on all police cars was due to the installation of radios and that the cars were in motion most of the time. Trustee Rowland stated that Chief Howard had a statement to make and the follow- lng communication was read: To the Honorable City Council, City of Santa Ana, California. July 2, 1934. Gentlemen: A report of the Council proceedings, appearing in last Tuesday's issue of the Santa Aha Register, repre- sents Councilman LeGaye as having made the statement before the Council meeting of June 25, 1934, that the Chief of Police of Santa Ana has been using a city owned automobile for the purpose of furthering his candidacy for Sheriff, and that the taxpayers were buying gasoline to operate the car. Inasmuch as Councilman LeGaye has not denied the newspaper report, it is a fair assumption that he was correctly quoted. Therefore, I wish to chal- lenge the statement made by Councilman LeGaye, apparently for the purpose of injurtug my candidacy. I wish to specifically refer to the statement by Councilman LeGaye in his report to the Register, or rather the report appearing in the Register, as to the car, a Ford V 8, which he says was operated by the Chief of Police. His mileage figures are irrevalent because he either inadvertently neglected to state, or did not know, that a comparative mileage basis could not be fairly made because there was no police radio patrol service in March April and May of 1933, when the car travelled 3316 miles, as 9049 miles made during the same months in 1934, when the car was placed in radio patrol service. This car was considered the Chief's car up until the middle of Febru- ary, 1934, after which time it was put in patrol service, and driven by Capt. Buckles at night. On March 15, 1934, it was put in radio patrol service and has continued in that service. Police radio cars, as is w~ll understood, are in motion most of the time, and grea~ pressure was exerte~ to get this ser~ce in Santa Ana and Orange County so that criminals could be more promptly apprehended. It was approved by the Board of Supervisors. I am sure the tax-payers are not complaining about this increased pro- tection. In this conrmction, it might clarify the situa- tion to say that the mileage on cars numbers 1V and 18 show an increase over the same period as the Ford V 8, because they are a part of the radio patrol equipme~ for 1934, which was not a part of the service in 1933.