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Pickets from the Workers Alliance protesting relief check cuts outside the State Building during S.R.A. hearings, Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Description:
Arial view of pickets from the Workers Alliance outside the State Building during the State Relief Administration hearings. The Workers Alliance was protesting a 40% cut to relief checks, which was one of the topics at the hearing. The hearing was led by an appointed committee of seven Senators and eight Assemblymen
Date:
March 5, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Pickets from the Workers Alliance protesting relief check cuts outside the State Building during S.R.A. hearings, Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Alleged blackmailer George Wallace, alias Robert M. Nixon, with U.S. Marshal William S. Sweeney, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
George Wallace (alias Robert M. Nixon) with U.S. Marshal William S. Sweeney. Wallace is accused of blackmailing lawyer and horse owner Neil S. McCarthy. McCarthy received four letters, allegedly from Wallace, threatening to maim his race horses with poisoned-needle darts if he didn’t pay up. Wallace testified that he had written the letters, but he had been acting on behalf of a gang of “tough eggs” that were behind the scheme.
Date:
[February 14, 1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Alleged blackmailer George Wallace, alias Robert M. Nixon, with U.S. Marshal William S. Sweeney, Los Angeles, 1940

Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Description:
Committee vice-chairman, Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, at the meeting of a joint legislative committee composed of seven Senators and eight Assemblymen, which was appointed to investigate policies and practices of the State Relief Administration. Some topics discussed at the hearing included S.R.A. funding of crossing guards, the transfer of S.R.A. headquarters from San Francisco to Los Angeles, how the S.R.A. leases quarters, and financial conditions, including the controversial 40% cut of relief checks. This last point drew picketers from the Workers Alliance, who marched outside the State Building during the committee’s S.R.A. hearings.
Date:
March 5, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Description:
Mrs. Elizabeth Klomp being photographed in Municipal Court. She is there for stealing three garments with a total value of $10.45 on Dollar Day. Ironically, at the time she stole the clothes, Mrs. Klomp had $27,009 in her purse, money she had withdrawn from the bank to make a real estate investment. In court, Mrs. Klomp pled guilty and asked for probation. She said she hadn’t meant to steal the clothes; she just got confused in the bustle of the sale. A month later, Mrs. Klomp was fined $100 and sentenced to five days in City Jail.
Date:
February 19, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Children getting something to drink in the S.R.A.'s Vermont District office while pickets gathered outside to protest a cut in relief checks, Los Angeles, February 28, 1940

Description:
Children getting something to drink inside the State Relief Administration's Vermont District office, a crowd of older children and adults wait in the background. Outside the office, picketers had gathered to protest a, seemingly arbitrary, 40% reduction in the checks paid to unemployed relief cases taken care of by the S.R.A.
Date:
February 28, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Children getting something to drink in the S.R.A.'s Vermont District office while pickets gathered outside to protest a cut in relief checks, Los Angeles, February 28, 1940

Children getting something to drink in the S.R.A.'s Vermont District office while pickets gathered outside to protest a cut in relief checks, Los Angeles, February 28, 1940

Description:
Children getting something to drink inside the State Relief Administration's Vermont District office, a crowd of older children and adults wait in the background. Outside the office, picketers had gathered to protest a, seemingly arbitrary, 40% reduction in the checks paid to unemployed relief cases taken care of by the S.R.A.
Date:
February 28, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Children getting something to drink in the S.R.A.'s Vermont District office while pickets gathered outside to protest a cut in relief checks, Los Angeles, February 28, 1940

Crowd of shoppers gathered around a table of rayon print dresses during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:
View from above of shoppers around a table of rayon print dresses during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:
February 17, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Crowd of shoppers gathered around a table of rayon print dresses during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Housing on Ann St.; the subject of a proposed city "slum clearance" ordinance, Los Angeles, February 1940

Description:
Aerial view of the housing on Ann St.; the subject of a proposed city "slum clearance" ordinance, which would demolish 450 units on the street at a cost of about $2,000,000. The ordinance was ultimately opposed by the City Council. This photo shows a train in the background, which was cited by a council member as reason for why the neighborhood was undesirable
Date:
February 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Housing on Ann St.; the subject of a proposed city "slum clearance" ordinance, Los Angeles, February 1940

Three women getting a deal on socks during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:
Three women looking through a 5 pairs for $1 deal on socks during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:
February 17, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Three women getting a deal on socks during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Silent film actress Sylvia Breamer in court with her sister Doris Kelly, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Silent film actress Sylvia Breamer (full name Sylvia Poppy Breamer Bohan) with her sister Doris Kelly in court attempting to recover $4000 which was loaned to her ex-husband Edmund R. Bohan from her late mother Jessie K. Plunkett. Breamer claimed that Bohan had never paid her mother back and now the money was rightfully owed to her and her sister, the heirs to their mother's estate. Bohan said the money was a gift from his former mother-in-law.
Date:
February 20, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Silent film actress Sylvia Breamer in court with her sister Doris Kelly, Los Angeles, 1940

Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Description:
Mrs. Elizabeth Klomp, in Municipal Court for stealing three garments with a total value of $10.45 on Dollar Day. Ironically, at the time she stole the clothes, Mrs. Klomp had $27,009 in her purse, money she had withdrawn from the bank to make a real estate investment. In court, Mrs. Klomp pled guilty and asked for probation. She said she hadn’t meant to steal the clothes; she just got confused in the bustle of the sale. A month later, Mrs. Klomp was fined $100 and sentenced to five days in City Jail.
Date:
February 19, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Description:
Mrs. Elizabeth Klomp, in Municipal Court for stealing three garments with a total value of $10.45 on Dollar Day. Ironically, at the time she stole the clothes, Mrs. Klomp had $27,009 in her purse, money she had withdrawn from the bank to make a real estate investment. In court, Mrs. Klomp pled guilty and asked for probation. She said she hadn’t meant to steal the clothes; she just got confused in the bustle of the sale. A month later, Mrs. Klomp was fined $100 and sentenced to five days in City Jail.
Date:
February 19, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Description:
Mrs. Elizabeth Klomp, in Municipal Court for stealing three garments with a total value of $10.45 on Dollar Day. Ironically, at the time she stole the clothes, Mrs. Klomp had $27,009 in her purse, money she had withdrawn from the bank to make a real estate investment. In court, Mrs. Klomp pled guilty and asked for probation. She said she hadn’t meant to steal the clothes; she just got confused in the bustle of the sale. A month later, Mrs. Klomp was fined $100 and sentenced to five days in City Jail.
Date:
February 19, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Playwright Mark Linder during his suit against actress Mae West, Los Angeles, 1938-1940

Description:
Playwright Mark Linder who brought a $1,000,000 damages suit against actress Mae West. Linder claimed West didn’t deliver on their agreement to split the profits of his play "Diamond Lil," which West sold to Paramount to be made into the picture "She Done Him Wrong.” West eventually won the suit because there was a lack of evidence corroborating Linder's claims.
Date:
between January 19, 1938 and February 20, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Playwright Mark Linder during his suit against actress Mae West, Los Angeles, 1938-1940

Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing, 14-year-old Anita Roos sells Mayor Bowron the first ticket to the Finnish Relief bazaar, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing from her native Finland, 14-year-old Anita Roos sells Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron the first ticket to the Finnish Relief Fund bazaar, held in S.A.E. Auditorium. Looking on are secretary-treasurer of the bazaar committee, Victor Kallio, and acting bazaar chairman, Peter Williams.
Date:
February 6, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing, 14-year-old Anita Roos sells Mayor Bowron the first ticket to the Finnish Relief bazaar, Los Angeles, 1940

Worker's Alliance member Oscar Fuss addresses a crowd of relief workers protesting a payout bill outside the State Capitol, Sacramento, February 23, 1940

Description:
Demonstration of relief workers outside the State Capitol showing their opposition to a bill that would provide relief workers with payouts rather than jobs. It was estimated that over half the crowd was from Los Angeles. Oscar Fuss of the Los Angeles Worker's Alliance is addressing the crowd saying, "We have come up here in our old broken-down jalopies to see that that dirty, lousy, stinking relief bill is stopped. Throw it into the sewer, where it belongs.”
Date:
February 23, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Worker's Alliance member Oscar Fuss addresses a crowd of relief workers protesting a payout bill outside the State Capitol, Sacramento, February 23, 1940

Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:
Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses, priced at $1.69, during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:
February 17, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940