Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The town of Covina in the past year has suffered only two burglaries and a handful of intoxication arrests. Chief Coolman accounts this phenomena on three factors - the location of the city, the lack of foreigners and disputes over race or class, and the excellent employment rate provided by the fruit packing houses. Chief Coolman and Miss Towner sit behind a desk, Hazel smiling into the camera and Coolman staring at the secretary. Photograph appears with the article, "Covina Police Chief Keeps Thieves on Run," Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug 1935: 5. Handwritten on negative: Ralph L. Coolman 8-9-35 Hazel Towner Text from negative sleeve: 2044 - Hazel Towner, left, Ralph L. Coolman, Police chief of Covina. Covina is a crimeless city. 8-9-35 [stamped:] Sep 13 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Covina is one city which boasts of an almost perfect record of crime control. Here is Miss Hazel Towner, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, asking Chief of Police Ralph L. Coolman how the police have achieved their unusually fine record.
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