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Description:: Coach Frank Thomas and Mildred Cowan stand on football field with Bill Lee and Millard "Dixie" Howell, members of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. Howell played college football at Alabama from 1932 to 1934
Date:: between 1934-1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Law enforcement officials George Fisher (Lieutenant), Elizabeth Fiske (City Mother Policewomen), and J.W. Buckley (Patrolman) surrounded by bags filled with food goods, including Bagdad Coffee. Elizabeth Fiske was with LAPD from 1929-1964 and served on the City Mothers Bureau, a crime prevention division of LAPD staffed entirely by policewomen.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Jury foreman John P. Buckley and Judge Pat Parker at the Los Angeles County Grandy Jury trial where District Attorney Buron Fitts was indicted on charges of perjury and bribery.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts meets with his advisors over the charges of perjury brought against him by the grand jury. From left to right in the front sits Buron Fitts and attorney Joseph Scott, and in the back stand attorneys Jerry Giesler, Jack Gilchrist, and Harold Judson.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Jury foreman John P. Buckley at the Los Angeles County Grandy Jury trial where District Attorney Buron Fitts was indicted on charges of perjury and bribery.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chief James Edgar Davis hands Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, the mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. The group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also pictured are Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, and Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard.James E. Davis James Edgar Davis was Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926–1931 and from 1933-1939.
Date:: January 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Donald Hutson and Millard Howell of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team pose with their All-American Team blankets. Also pictured with the athletes are coach Frank Thomas, Christy Walsh, and USC coach Howard Jones.
Date:: between 1934-1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chinese civic leaders Peter Soohoo and Dr. S.J. Lin reassure Captain of Detectives Bert Wallis that gang warfare will not escalate in the Los Angeles Chinese community. From left to right, Dr. Lin, Bert Wallis, and Peter Soohoo.
Date:: March 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detectives Miles Ledbetter and Thad Brown question Edward E. Holmes over the unexpected murder of his wife Mrs. Celia L. Holmes. From left to right, Miles Ledbetter, Edward E. Holmes, and Thad Brown.
Date:: January 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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