On this day in 1930, telephone operator Louise Gipe, a heroine of the St. Francis Dam disaster, attempted suicide. On April 17, 1930, Louise Gipe, a nighttime telephone switchboard operator for the Oxnard and Santa Paula Home Telephone Company, attempted suicide by self-inflicted gunshot. Gipe was f ound in her bedroom at a boarding house in ... The post Today In SCV History: April 17, 1930 – St. Francis Dam Heroine Attempts Suicide appeared first on KHTS Radio. ...read more read less