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Julius C. Barthel,〔("Barthel Must Aid Ex-Wife," ''Los Angeles Times,'' April 18, 1930, page A-8 )〕 who went by J.C. Barthel, was an engineer and politician who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1929 to 1931. ==Biography== Barthel was a civil engineer who "prepared plans for the docks and other water-front improvements in the San Francisco Bay district" for the War Department. He moved to the Palms district of Los Angeles in 1906 and lived at 9001 National Boulevard.〔("The Watchman," ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 14, 1927 )〕〔(Location of the Barthel home in 1927 )〕 In 1913 he helped organize a state convention in Venice for the Fraternal Order of Eagles.〔("Flocks of Eagles," ''Los Angeles Times,'' April 18, 1913, page I-16 )〕 In the 1920s he was in the real-estate business and was on a committee that worked to bring UCLA to its present home in the Westwood district of West Los Angeles.〔 In May 1922, Barthel was among forty-six "asserted Klansmen" who were questioned by a grand jury investigating the Ku Klux Klan in the wake of the shooting death of a police constable during a Klan terrorism incident in Inglewood, California.〔(Warden Woolard, "Wizard Calls; Coburn Ambles," ''Los Angeles Times,'' May 16, 1922, page II-5 )〕 He made an application to the city of Santa Monica in July 1922 for lease on a plot of land next to the "new government aviation field on Central Avenue" to establish "an aerial passenger service to San Francisco, by way of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Salinas." He said he "represented a group of associates who would operate four Fokker passenger-carrying planes on regular schedule."〔("Coast Airplane Route Planned for Passengers," ''Los Angeles Times,'' July 28, 1922 )〕 He was secretary of the Venice Chamber of Commerce in August 1922.〔("Chamber Campaign Succeeds," ''Los Angeles Times,'' August 13, 1922, page II-2 )〕 Barthel was married twice, his first marriage to Letitia Barthel ending in a 1923 divorce, in which Barthel agreed to pay Letitia $50 a month for life, according to a complaint she filed in court. Both Barthel and Letitia remarried, and Barthel ceased payment of the alimony to his first wife. There were two trials. At the second trial, Barthel testified that he had signed the original agreement only because "I feared for my life. She covered me with two guns and kept me prisoner in a room for eleven hours on Easter Sunday, 1923." She denied the claim, and Barthel was ordered by the judge to pay back alimony of $2,400 to Letitia, by then named Letitia Winn, and continue the monthly payments as agreed.〔〔("Barthel Sued on Alimony Debt," ''Los Angeles Times,'' July 19, 1929, page 3 )〕〔("Mate Extorted Alimony Pact With Pistol, Barthel Charges," ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 12, 1931, page A-2 )〕 During a hearing that preceded the second trial, Barthel suffered a facial gash when Letitia Winn struck him in the hallway outside the court chamber. "Mrs. Winn moved toward Mrs. Barthel , who dodged while spectators yelled for police. Bailiff Danielson dashed into the hall, and restrained Mrs. Winn while the Barthels took refuge in an elevator."〔("Ex-Wife Hangs Wallop on Councilman Barthel," ''Los Angeles Times,'' June 21, 1930, page A-1 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J.C. Barthel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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