R. C. Branion was the head of the Emergency Relief Administration, and was charged, along with several others, with conspiracy to defraud the government in 1934.
A cropped version of this photograph appears with the article, "NAZIS FROWN ON LEO GALLAGHER: Los Angeles Attorney Banned From Berlin Trial Police Take Him and Three Others From Court Support of Reichstag Fire Defendant Stirs Ire," Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 1933: 3
Stouffer was a former secretary of the San Gabriel-Garvey chapter of the Red Cross and a former mayor of Lodi. He leaves behind his widow Allie and two brothers living in Ohio.