police chief, whose names was james toobin davis. and with the support of the railroad officials, and some state agencies, they set up road blocks at 16 major points of entry into southern california, for people who had no visible means of support. so if you are coming and looking for work, and you had no visible means of support, and you didn't have a cousin, or an uncle or somebody there that could vote for you, or give you a job. you were turned away. and this led to a great number of fat hoovervilles being built, just outside of these stopping points. so eventually, there began to be some public sympathy for these folks, because they were just down on their luck. they were folks looking for work. and as that began to happen, the public tenor began to change, and you had this idea of the blockade, and it was overturned, and what these were hoovervilles distributed, and the folks entered into the federal transient service for help. so we're hoovervilles also spawned, their own type of languages. and their own words for things. so i