US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Radio evangelist Reverend Ethel Duncan was arrested on federal charges of income tax evasion, which was filed against she and ex-husband Lloyd M. Prewitt for failing to file a return on their 1931 gross income of $86, 000. Photograph appears with the article, "Evangelist Booked On Tax Charge," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec 1935: A12. Ethel Duncan sits at a desk resting her chin against one hand and holding a crumpled tissue in the other. Text from negative sleeve: 4281 - (Rev.) Ethel Duncan - radio broadcasts Richard Cautillon (lawyer) (Income Tax Evasion) -> w/husband Lloyd M. Prewitt 12/?/35 [stamped:] Dec 31 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Rev. Ethel Duncan, who was booked at the County Jail last night on a Federal charge of income tax evasion.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13345 ark:/21198/zz002hnhv0
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Crimes--California--Los Angeles Evangelists Taxes--California--Los Angeles Duncan, Ethel, b. 1894
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