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Description:: W.P. Whitsett, one of the founders of the city of Van Nuys, recounts its founding at the city's twenty-third birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.
Date:: February 22, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Pictured is "Pop-eye," the two-year-old Persian housecat in the arms of his owner, Miss Betty Jean Welch. Pop-eye became famous for killing a four-foot-long black diamond rattlesnake. The snake invaded Pop-eye's backyard, wherein Pop-eye defended his territory and bravely defeated the reptilian invader.
Date:: March 15, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Jewelry stolen from motion picture actress Lila Lee by her former chauffeur, Robert Lewis. Lewis entered into Lee's home via a key he knew to be hidden on the back porch and stole the jewelry, worth a total of $10,000 (in 1934 dollars). Lewis was apprehended while trying to sell a ruby and platinum ring at a pawn shop for $3. When Lee was notified that her former chauffeur was in custody and her jewelry had been recovered, she was on set and had no knowledge the theft had taken place. February 16, 1934.
Date:: February 16, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified men weigh goods from bins on a scale. One bin is labeled sugar and another is labeled salt.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actress Marsha Hunt smiles as she receives a document from Judge Marshall McComb.
Date:: [between 1932-1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A slum area, with unidentified citizens visible. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Louis Payne covers his face with his hands and his hankerchief at his inquest, with father Lucius F. Payne at his side.Louis Rude Payne, 21 years of age, used a camping axe to kill his mother, Carrie L. Payne, and 15-year-old brother Robert in their Westwood mansion home. Louis R. Payne turned himself in for the killings of his mother and brother four to five days after their deaths, at a Huntington Beach police station. When he turned himself in, detectives found on his person both a letter and a telegram addressed to his father Lucius Payne, a St. Louis businessman, confessing to the crime, apologizing for his actions, and explaning that he did not know what impulse it was that drove him to the murders.Payne was convicted of the two murders, but found to be insane at the time of the crimes. He was confined to psychiatric treatment at the Mendocino State Hospital at Talmadge, in Mendocino County, CA. His father stood by him throughout his trial and conviction.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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