April 18, 1943: Robert Earl Lee, 61, a worker at ranch in the Malibu Hills, surrenders to authorities after killing his employer, Nelson Ross Wolfe, and another ranch hand, Albert Everett Miller, with an ax.
Lee, described by The Times as “a short, frail-looking Negro,” said: “Mr. Wolfe bawled me out for not moving the milk cow out to pasture and about the chicken yard last Friday…. This morning he took me on again and asked me if I thought cows could fly like mosquitoes and get into pastures over fences. So I just grabbed an ax and hit him.”
Lee was sentenced to life in prison in the killings.
Also: A Russian village is being built at Santa Monica Boulevard and Formosa Avenue for “The North Star.” And yes, in later years this movie will be deemed subversive, showing communist influences in Hollywood.
ladailymirror.com 
Today’s government directed propaganda can become tomorrows subversive statement when the government changes its war call. Best to avoid propaganda of all stripe. Especially ours.
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You don’t see headlines like this anymore. But one question is unanswered. Can cows fly like mosqistos?
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Albert Miller’s real name was Arthur Meunier. His father, Theodore Meunier was stabbed in the neck with a butcher knife by a disgruntled former employee in Missoula MT in 1890. Albert is my great uncle and Theodore is my 2x great grandfather. Very odd two generations killed in similar fashion.
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Sorry, I meant Albert Meunier not Arthur.
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Thanks for the update. I have done at least 10,000 posts on Los Angeles history over the years and don’t remember them all. I had completely forgotten this one.
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