W.H. Kindig Collection

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Table of contents

Clippings

Clippings 1925-1936

Scope and Contents

Includes clippings on homesteading claims, investigations into H.N. Wheeler and land fraud cases.

General

Original clippings in envelope photocopied and discarded.

Correspondence

Correspondence 1931-1932; 1936

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence to and from W.H. Kindig and U.S. Senators Sam Bratton and Gerald Nye, Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, and Manager of the Civic Development and Real Estate Department of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce C. J. S Williamson, regarding publications and claims by H.N. Wheeler and Williamson Summers on homesteading activities on former Mexican Land grant properties. Also includes letter from C.C. Moore, Commissioner of the General Land Office, with Senate Report 426 attachment; and letter from T.A. Walters, Acting Secretary of the Interior, to W.H. Kindig regarding court case A. 17366, U.S. v. State of California and Standard Oil Company of California, et. al. and copies of Appeal From the General Land Office (1935) and Motion of Rehearing (1936) for case A. 17366 signed by Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior.

Government and judicial documents

Appeal In the matter of the application to homestead certain lands in Los Angeles County, California, by Morrill Allen, Jr., and others; Before the Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. [re: Rancho de los Palos Verdes] ca 1931

Scope and Contents

Includes two copies of brief and argument by Jesse H. Evans and William Boone Douglass on behalf of appellants, Morrill Allen, Jr. and others from L.A. case No. 049472 et al.

Mexican land grants in California: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on public lands and surveys, United States Senate Seventy-first Congress, first session, pursuant to S. Res. 291, a resolution to investigate charges of the illegal delivery to private interests of lands ceded to the United States by the government of Mexico. 27 May 1930

Scope and Contents

Includes bound transcript of hearings and testimony. GPO publication with notes: "Printed for the use of the Committee on public lands and surveys;" "April 2-6, December 5, 1929, February 6 and May 27, 1930". Gerald P. Nye, chairman.

U.S. House Bill 6098 (73rd Congress) 12 Jun 1933

Scope and Contents

Includes two copies of text of bill introduced by Jennings Randolph "to collect and pay into the Treasury of the United States, $4,000,000,000, the value of oil, gas, and minerals on lands, the property of the United States, which were ceded to it by Mexico and which have been unlawfully, illegally, and wrongfully taken and withdrawn by foreign, as well as domestic, corporations and persons, and for other purposes."

U.S. House Bill 8495 (73rd Congress) 6 Mar 1934

Scope and Contents

Includes text of bill introduced by U.S. Representative George Washington Edmonds "to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to repossess certain mineral lands ceded by Mexico to the United States of America by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and to provide for the national defense, and for other purposes."

U.S. House Bill 8496 (73 Congress) 6 Mar 1934

Scope and Contents

Includes text of bill introduced by U.S. Representative George Washington Edmonds "to withdraw from "disposition and sale" under the public-land laws all lands lying within the exterior boundaries of "alleged" or "duly asserted" Spanish or Mexican land grants, and for the protection of bona fide homesteaders, settlers, and/or innocent purchasers thereon, and for other purposes."

Publications

Bulletin No. 3 November 1931

Scope and Contents

Includes volume 3, number 1 of publication by James E. Welch, a contractor and builder from Louisiana and employee of Standard Union Oil Company of Venezuela with updates on his lobbying efforts to the U.S. State Department to regain custody of his Venezulean-born child and the activities of the Venezuelan governmnet. Lead article includes, Land Thieves Protected in Their Raids on California: Gigantic Land Frauds Rapidly Becoming A National Scandal. Page four includes letter of support for Welch by H.N. Wheeler.

Citizens Land Association publications ca 1931-1933

Physical Description: 4 Folders

Scope and Contents

Includes press releases, handbill, power-of-attorney form and numbered and unnumbered pamphlets. Numbered pamphlets include: Chapters 2-5 Mexican Grant or United States Public Domain? The Truth about the Ranchos and the Mexican Grant Racketeers; Chapters 5-7 Mexican Grant or United State Public Domain?: Is it a Great Conspiracy to Defraud the Government and the Homesteaders? Chapter 7 Mexican Grant or United State Public Domain?: Is it a Great Conspiracy to Defraud the Government and Ruin California?; Chapters 8-9 Mexican Grant or United States Public Domain?: The Truth of the Ranchos and the Great Conspiracy; Chapters 9-13 The Betrayers of the United States: Selling "Mexican Grants" or "Looting the Public Domain?"; Chapter 14 When the Statute Begins to Run: The Facts of the "Great Criminal Conspirarcy"; Chapters 15-16 California's Ranchos: Why They are Being Homesteaded; Chapter 16 California Lands: Acquired by Fraud / Protected by Politics / Disposed of by Deception / Sustained by Intimidation; Chapter 17 "Halt American and Salute the Jew! (or Communist)": California Put and Take; and Chapter 18 A California Mystery: How the Torrens Title System Would Eliminate the Title Insurance Racketeers.

Unnumbered pamphlets include: The Truth of the Ranchos, XMAS, 1931, Looting The Public Domain; Mexican Grant or United States Public Domain? The Truth of the Rancho and the Disposition and Sale of the Public Lands of the United States; and the British Secret Service Report: Do the British Jews Plan to Take the USA with the Aid of the Hoover Administration? (Second Edition).

General

Some volumes contain multiple chapters. Duplicate pamphlets included in folder 4.

Fraudulent California Land Grants by Clinton Johnson December 1926

Creator: Johnson, Clinton

Scope and Contents

Publication outlines Mexican and Spanish land grants asserting patents issued are fradulent. Author uses Palos Verdes as an example of invalid land grant.

Plain Talk Magazine ca 1931

Scope and Contents

Article by H.N. Wheeler titled, 'Those California Land Frauds' in which Wheeler claims that land grants in California are fraudulent and as such all land is in the public domain and subject to homesteading rights.

Silver Shirts of America publications 1932-1933

Scope and Contents

Includes two copies of "For crimes and misdemeanors that have bankrupted the United States Treasury I Hereby Impeach the Federal Reserve Board!": McFadden's Epochal Indictment in Congress, May 23, 1933; "The sack of these United States by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks is the Greatest Crime in History!": McFadden's Epochal Speech in Congress, June 10, 1932; and What Manner of Government is the Christ to Set up? L, Article 1 of the 22 Articles of the Christ Democracy.

Collection Contents

Clippings

Correspondence

Government and judicial documents

Publications