Names: Julian Petroleum Corporation - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Another court document for a C. C. Julian case has a caption identifying it as an exhibit in a case in Judge Doran's court (image ark no. 21198/zz002cv8xp). Proceedings against C. C. Julian in Judge Doran's court are reported in the Los Angeles Times from 1926 through 1928.
Date:: [between 1926-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Page listing investment activities of C. C. Julian, possibly used in a court case with Judge Doran presiding.
Date:: [between 1924-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Another court document for a C. C. Julian case has a caption identifying it as an exhibit in a case in Judge Doran's court (image ark no. 21198/zz002cv8xp). Proceedings against C. C. Julian in Judge Doran's court are reported in the Los Angeles Times from 1926 through 1928.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: C. C. Julian was a con man who first hit oil in California in 1923 and over-sold shares in oil syndicates through the 1920'a into the 1930's. His business activities were repeatedly investigated. He committed suicide in Shanghai in 1934.
Date:: [between 1924-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Another court document for a C. C. Julian case has a caption identifying it as an exhibit in a case in Judge Doran's court (image ark no. 21198/zz002cv8xp). Proceedings against C. C. Julian in Judge Doran's court are reported in the Los Angeles Times from 1926 through 1928.
Date:: [between 1926-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: C. C. Julian was the owner of a Los Angeles petroleum company that was involved in a number of cases of fraud after selling his company and committed suicide by sleeping powders in Shanghai.
Date:: October 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: C. C. (Courtney Chauncey) Julian seated in the witness stand in a courtroom; the judge's chair is empty.
Date:: [between 1926-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Leontine Johnson (right) was a former confidential secretary of one of the heads of Julian Petroleum, S. C. Lewis. She and newspaper reporter Morris Lavine were tried and found guilty of an extortion scheme wherein Lavine accepted a sum from politician Charles Crawford to keep certain "secrets" quiet. These alleged "secrets" were contained in documentation regarding the manipulations of stocks and sales of the Julian Petroleum Corporation. These events are reported in multiple articles, including "Two in Expose 'Plot' Indicted: Extortion Charged Reporter and ex-Lewis Aide," Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 1930. Johnson and Lavine's trial ran from 1928-1932.
Date:: [between 1928-1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Inspection committee sent to examine the properties and assets of Courtney Chauncey Julian.
Date:: February 14, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Letter from Arthur Loeb to a Mr. Sanders, concerning the Julian Petroleum company and their stockholders.
Date:: [between 1929-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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