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Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. September 8, 1937.

Description:
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson pictured in court, on the day of his testimony before Los Angeles County grand jury regarding an ongoing investigation into religious racketeering. During his testimony, Wilkinson admitted to accepting $4400 from "gambling czar" Guy McAfee. The money was used to pay outstanding bills incurred by "The Last Days of Pompeii" pageant, presented by the Federated Church Brotherhood, of which Wilkinson was chairman. In his testimony, Wilkinson avowed that the funds received from McAfee came without strings attached, and that he and the notorious gambler had prayed for an end to the latter’s gambling addiction. Wilkinson, who was a vice crusader, resigned from the Citizens' Independent Vice Investigating Committee following his testimony. However, his resignation was denied by several Committee members, who believed that accepting the funds should not affect Wilkinson's position on the Committee.
Date:
September 8, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. September 8, 1937.

Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, 1937

Description:
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson pictured in court, on the day of his testimony before Los Angeles County grand jury regarding an ongoing investigation into religious racketeering. During his testimony, Wilkinson admitted to accepting $4400 from "gambling czar" Guy McAfee. The money was used to pay outstanding bills incurred by "The Last Days of Pompeii" pageant, presented by the Federated Church Brotherhood, of which Wilkinson was chairman. In his testimony, Wilkinson avowed that the funds received from McAfee came without strings attached, and that he and the notorious gambler had prayed for an end to the latter’s gambling addiction. Wilkinson, who was a vice crusader, resigned from the Citizens' Independent Vice Investigating Committee following his testimony. However, his resignation was denied by several Committee members, who believed that accepting the funds should not affect Wilkinson's position on the Committee.
Date:
September 8, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, 1937

Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, September 8, 1937

Description:
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson testifies against gambling and vice before the county grand jury. During his testimony, Wilkinson admitted to accepting $4400 from "gambling czar" Guy McAfee to use as financing for "The Last Days of Pompeii" pageant presented by the Federated Church Brotherhood, of which Wilkinson was chairman. Wilkinson, who was a vice crusader, resigned from the Citizens' Independent Vice Investigating Committee after this admission. However, his resignation was denied by several Committee members, who believed that accepting the funds should not affect Wilkinson's position on the Committee.
Date:
September 8, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, September 8, 1937

Dr. A. L. Skoog, assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and defense attorney Jerome Walsh, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Photograph of Dr. A. L. Skoog, defense psychiatrist from Kansas City, Missouri; assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and defense attorney Jerome Walsh (also of Kansas City), photographed during the trial of William Edward Hickman, who confessed to the kidnap and murder 12-year-old Marion Parker in December of 1927.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. A. L. Skoog, assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and defense attorney Jerome Walsh, Los Angeles, 1928

Dr. Ajika Amano, president of the Los Angeles Japanese Hospital, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
View of Dr. Ajika Amano seated in collared shirt, tie, and doctor's coat with eye diagram in background. Dr. Amano was the president of the Los Angeles Japanese Hospital before and after the hospital merged with the Southern California Japanese Hospital in 1935. The hospital eventually relocated and was renamed City View Hospital in 1961.
Date:
August 26, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. Ajika Amano, president of the Los Angeles Japanese Hospital, Los Angeles, 1935

Dr. A.D. Trotter holds a bottle of medicine that brought Mildred Gross back to life, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
28-year-old Mildred Gross had been declared dead at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital from an overdose of sleeping powder. But over the course of an hour Dr. A.D. Trotter administered several intravenous injections to Mrs. Gross that successfully restored her pulse, respiration, and reflexes, even though she did not regain consciousness.
Date:
December 1, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. A.D. Trotter holds a bottle of medicine that brought Mildred Gross back to life, Los Angeles, 1938

Douglas Wood, child heir after his seven mile walk to grandma's house, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
View of Douglas Wood sitting in collared shirt, shorts, and examining right foot. Douglas, grandson of millionaire Horace Boos, decided to visit his grandmother. Police and the boy's mother, Mary L. Wood, feared Douglas had been kidnapped and searched vainly for him. Douglas arrived safely at his grandmother's.
Date:
September 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Douglas Wood, child heir after his seven mile walk to grandma's house, Los Angeles, 1935

Dorothy Woody, Lillian M. Le Valley, Geraldine Borch, and Isabelle Allen organizing an event for the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Dorothy Woody, Lillian M. Le Valley, Geraldine Borch, and Isabelle Allen organizing a charitable event for the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion. Three of the women sit at typewriters, which are placed on a dining room table. Behind them, a tapestry hangs on the wall. There are stacks of paper on the table, along with pens and ink.
Date:
[circa December 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dorothy Woody, Lillian M. Le Valley, Geraldine Borch, and Isabelle Allen organizing an event for the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion, Los Angeles, 1935

Dorothy Oaks holds gifts for Judge Thomas P. White and Charles R. Morfoot who were working the Guttman-Sewell case, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Dorothy Oaks stands behind a table, holding gifts for Judge Thomas P. White and defense attorney Charles R. Morfoot. In her left hand, she holds up a rose lying in tissue paper in a box. By her right hand on the table, is a gift wrapped circular bundle. Judge White is being gifted a rose, while Morfoot is being gifted a cabbage.
Date:
July 10, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dorothy Oaks holds gifts for Judge Thomas P. White and Charles R. Morfoot who were working the Guttman-Sewell case, Los Angeles, 1935

Dorothy Mackaye, Paul Kelly, and attorney William Rains during the Paul Kelly murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Dorothy Mackaye (wearing hat), Paul Kelly (right of Mackaye), and attorney William Rains (right of Kelly) sit at the side of the courtroom and observe the judicial proceeding of Kelly's murder trial, who was charged for the murder of actor Ray Raymond. The man to the left of Mackaye is unidentified, as well as the man sitting further off to the side.
Date:
May 18, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dorothy Mackaye, Paul Kelly, and attorney William Rains during the Paul Kelly murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927

Dorothy Libaire, theater and film actress of the 1930s, receives a writ of divorce from her husband, director Marion Gering. April 9, 1936.

Description:
Theater and film actress Dorothy Libaire, photographed at the Los Angeles Superior courthouse upon the occassion of her divorce from husband, Russion film and theater director Marion Gering. According to Libaire, her husband believed that people involved in theater should not be married. The two were married on November 28, 1930. Gering directed Libaire in the 1932 film "Madame Butterfly," starring Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant. Libaire played the part of "Peach Blossom." They separated on January 22, 1936.
Date:
April 9, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dorothy Libaire, theater and film actress of the 1930s, receives a writ of divorce from her husband, director Marion Gering. April 9, 1936.

Dorothy Frooks tries to get involved in politics, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
When Miss Frooks wrote to the First Lady and asked for her support for candidacy in running for Congress Frooks was met with the response that she 'take no part in local party politics', but not soon after Roosevelt supported Frooks' opponent Carolyn O'Day. She has established the free milk for babies in New York, attorney for the Salvation Army, and is soon releasing a book entitled "Over the Heads of Congress."
Date:
July 22, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dorothy Frooks tries to get involved in politics, Los Angeles, 1935

Door to the jury room during the trial of Louise Peete, accusing of killing Jacob Denton, Los Angeles, 1921

Description:
Door to the jury room photographed during the trial of Louise Peete, accusing of killing Jacob Denton. On the right is a diagram of the 2nd floor of the house of Jacob Denton, where Denton was murdered, with a label reading "Plan of second floor of 675 So. Catalina St. Los Angeles, Cal. Surveyed by County Surveyor. November, 1920. Scale 1" = 2'"
Date:
[between January-February, 1921]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Door to the jury room during the trial of Louise Peete, accusing of killing Jacob Denton, Los Angeles, 1921

Donna Larson and Elsie the Borden Cow, star of the 1940 film "Little Men," Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Elsie the Borden Cow, the unofficial mascott for Borden dairy products, with Donna Larson(?). After appearing at the New York World's Fair, Elsie was chosen by R.K.O. producer Gene Towne to star in the 1940 film "Little Men," based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Elsie arrived in Los Angeles on July 12, 1940
Date:
1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Donna Larson and Elsie the Borden Cow, star of the 1940 film "Little Men," Los Angeles, 1940

Donna Emptage standing in the backroom of a building previously rented by attempted kidnapper Leroy Anderson, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Donna Emptage, who unwittingly rented the hideout of Leroy Anderson (alias Jack Williams), attempted kidnapper of millionaire San Marino banker Herbert D. Ivey. Emptage stands in a room with an iron-frame bed and other furnishings. This room was located in the rear of the storefront building previously rented by kidnapper Anderson.
Date:
October 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Donna Emptage standing in the backroom of a building previously rented by attempted kidnapper Leroy Anderson, Los Angeles, 1935

Don Dixon demonstrating his accordion skills to Judge William R. McKay, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Don Dixon demonstrating his accordion playing skills to Judge William R. McKay to prove that he was not drunk when he rammed his car into a parked automobile outside his house, but rather tired after a long night of accordion playing at a wedding. Judge McKay believed Dixon’s excuse. Isadore Maidel, Walter Slosson and Don Redwine listen in.
Date:
August 24, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Don Dixon demonstrating his accordion skills to Judge William R. McKay, Los Angeles, 1934