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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:: Los Angeles Board of Supervisors members (left to right) John Anson Ford, John R. Quinn, Roger Jessup, and McDonough Gordon fraternize with a local food kitchen chef. Most likely to do with the decision of the Board of Supervisors to increase relief for the unemployed.
Date:: [circa December, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles Board of Supervisors members (left to right) John Anson Ford, John R. Quinn, Gordon McDonough, and Roger Jessup visit a local food kitchen. Most likely to do with their decision to increase relief for the unemployed.
Date:: [December, 1934]
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

Description:: Milton "Farmer" Page pictured by a telephone during the grand jury trial on gambling operations in Los Angeles County. Page was summoned as a witness and refused to testify.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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