John P. Mills appears in court, Southern California, 1931

Description: Mills stands outside of a courthouse, wearing a three-piece suit.
In 1931, Southern California real estate broker John P. Mills was accused along with Alexander Pantages, Jesse Shreve, William Jobelmann, and Olive Clark Day in contributing to the delinquency of two minor girls. The confessions and accusations involved the girls being coaxed to enter a hotel room with Mills downtown. It became known as the Hollywood love market investigation because Jobelmann and Day were accused of supplying wealthy men with young girls. Jobelmann and Day were both arrested.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Mills, John P. 1931
Handwritten on negative: John P. Mills

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Mills, John P., 1890-1978
Location: California, Southern
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Real estate developers--California, Southern
Judicial proceedings--California

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6625
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cww2w
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