Tom Moran and Tom Sewell Fantasy by the Sea Peace Press: Culver City, CA, 1980 (1979) (Originally published by Beyond Baroque Foundation with a grant from the Visual Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts), 1939, 1930s, 1929, 1920s
"California Attorney General Earl Warren launched a crusade against the gambling fleet in 1939. Armed with nuisance abatement warrants, his deputies shut down two boats off Long Beach as well as the Texas, which operated offshore from Venice.
"But Cornero, now operating the Rex in Santa Monica Bay, did not give in easily. His crews used high-pressure fire hoses to repel the lawmen's efforts to board the Rex. For nine tense days the authorities laid siege to the boat. Cornero finally surrendered and took the issue to the Supreme Court. The jurors redefined the territorial limits and put him out of business.
"Cornero tried again with the Lux in 1946. He died of a heart attack while playing craps at the Las Vegas Desert Inn in 1955."