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Russian aviators meet the press after breaking the non-stop flight record, flying from Moscow to San Jacinto, CA. July 14, 1937.

Description:
Soviet aviators -- Col. Mikhail Gromov, pilot, Maj. Andrei Yumashev, co-pilot, and Capt. Sergei Danilin, navigator -- are welcomed after breaking the nonstop flight record, flying from Moscow and landing in San Jacinto, California, via the North Pole. The trio flew over 6700 miles in 62 hours and 12 minutes. The original plan was for the airplane to land in San Diego, but fog made landing the Russians’ large monoplane on San Diego’s short runways dangerous, and so the crew landed instead in the semi-desert fields surrounding San Jacinto.Pictured from left to right are Russian Consul Grigori Gokhman, Andrei Yumashev, and Sergei Danilin.
Date:
July 14, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Russian aviators meet the press after breaking the non-stop flight record, flying from Moscow to San Jacinto, CA. July 14, 1937.

Mrs. Fleeta Gettle and her children smile for the camera, after the safe return of kidnapping victim William F. Gettle. Circa May 15, 1934.

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Mrs. Fleeta Gettle, her four children, and an unidentified woman smile for the camera through a window, after the safe return of kidnapping victim (as well as husband and father) William F. Gettle.William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a housewarming party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:
[circa May 15, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Mrs. Fleeta Gettle and her children smile for the camera, after the safe return of kidnapping victim William F. Gettle. Circa May 15, 1934.

Los Angeles County's prize-winning Belgian draft horses are sold at auction. April 18, 1934.

Description:
Five of the twenty-six Belgian draft horses being auctioned off by Los Angeles County at Los Angeles's Union Stock Yards. L.A. County's Board of Supervisors had assessed that the draft horses, though they had won many prizes and obtained national recognition, were too expensive to continue to care for. The twenty-six horses netted $11,367.50 at auction.
Date:
April 18, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Los Angeles County's prize-winning Belgian draft horses are sold at auction. April 18, 1934.

Inglewood Post's float in the 1936 annual march of the American Legion and veterans of the first World War.

Description:
The Inglewood Post's float in the annual state parade of the American Legion, during which veterans of the first World War took to the streets of Los Angeles en masse along with bands, floats, drum and bugle corps. Nearly a quarter of a million people participated in the march. The Inglewood Post's float attracted particular attention for its large floral representation of the American Legion's insignia, center.
Date:
August 11, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Inglewood Post's float in the 1936 annual march of the American Legion and veterans of the first World War.

Members of the American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies on Memorial Day, May 26, 1934.

Description:
Memorial Day, also known as "Poppy Day", May 26, 1934. Members of the American Legion Auxillary pose with Los Angeles's City Council president. In the front row of the photo are City Councilman Howard Davis, Auxillary members Marie Gore, and Mary Repp. Behind them are Auxillary members Julia Van Sky and Mrs. Tom Rice.Members of the Los Angeles American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies, made by veterans of the First World War. The poppies were sold by members of the American Legion Auxillary in order to raise money for disabled veterans and their families.Poppies were chosen as representative of Memorial Day due to their presence in the iconic World War I memorial poem, "In Flanders Fields". The poem was written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
Date:
May 26, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Members of the American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies on Memorial Day, May 26, 1934.