Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections / Subject: People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Wrestling match between Ernie "Dirty" Dusek and Vincent Lopez (born Daniel Vincent Lopez de Vinaspre). The match was part of Jack Daro's international championship wrestling tournament, Olympic Auditorium.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Loretta Ennis (right) and Margaret Howden (left) pose at an event involving the Miss America pageant.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Katheryn Padrick sits on a desk wearing gloves and a hat with a typewriter in the background.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese and Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts examine soiled clothing possibly owned by Thomas Edward Dugger. Dugger, known as "Ape Man", was convicted of eleven felonies related to the robbery, kidnapings, and assault of three women. Dugger was indicted on April 4, 1935 and sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on February 18, 1936.
Date:: Between 1935-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Col. Henry L. Roosevelt speaks at a luncheon held in his honor. The luncheon was hosted by the directors of the Chamber of Commerce after Roosevelt visited the Los Angeles Harbor and proclaimed it an ideal naval hub. Roosevelt is center, surrounded by two unidentified men. The Chamber of Commerce was located at 12th St. and Broadway.
Date:: May 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Pete Schneider on trial for manslaughter on May 16, 1935. Schneider was accused of causing the death of G.A. Schnabel in a beer parlor fight on February 17, 1935. Peter Joseph Schneider, known as Pete Schneider (August 20, 1895 - June 1, 1957) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1914-1918) and New York Yankees (1919). He was born in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: May 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Detective Joe Filkas questions winter sports coach at USC Ernest LaValle over the murder of his friend Mrs. Celia L. Holmes.
Date:: [circa January 29, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Sol Zemansky at the grandy jury trial on gambling conditions in Los Angeles. Zemansky refused to testify voluntarily at the trial and was later subpoenaed to testify. Zemansky was businessman who owned pawn shops and loan companies, including Provident Loan Association.
Date:: January 29, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chief James Edgar Davis holds a box with the burning mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. The mortgage was set on fire by Gloria Swanson, silent film actress. 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:: Veteran Deputy Sheriffs Angel A. Yorba and George Shehi retire and pose with Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz at their retirement ceremony. Left to right: Yorba, Biscailuz, Shehi.
Date:: December 12, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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