[5] In those days the district represented Silver Lake and an area west of downtown to Vermont Avenue and south to Valley Boulevard.

Late in 1947 Roden attempted to run for the California State Assembly but was ruled off the ballot by a judge because he had filed his affidavit of candidacy shortly before midnight on September 30 instead of observing a 5 p.m.

Roden was the only council member opposing the offer of a reward of $1,000 in connection with November 1946 violence occurring during a strike of film technicians at Columbia Studios.

He cast the one vote against this Council offering a reward for the detection of bomb throwers and he tried to get the Health Department to condemn the City Jail, so that arrested strike pickets would be released.

The feud continued the next year with Davenport submitting a resolution asking that the council be kept informed about "the progress of various bills before the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities."