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The Weather In Two Parts 36 Pages FART II LOCAL SHEET It FAGES FORECAST FOR LOR ANGELES AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Fair Udty nd tomorrow hot tloud le lon eoatl In lot marnlnc. Mlmm nd minimum limpnilirn lor ynUrdarl It SJ, VOL. LI. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1932. CITY NEWS EDITORIAL-SOCIETYTHE DRAMA' SUICIDE LAID BIDS GET UNDER EVANGELIST ON MOVE IN SUIT TAX PROBLEM PICTURE FAILURE DEATH LEAP CAUSE EAP FROM FIRE MAY BE FATAL TO FILM JINX DAM ESTIMATE DETAILS AIRED One Shift After Another Marks Case ancer Uncle Identifies Body of Supervisors Get Twenty-one Sleeper Terror Stricken Blaze Jumps From Third Floor by Property Owners Air Views "Peg" Entwistle Sets of Figures Before Research Body Terror stricken when a Uctress Takes Own Life in Huge Saving Indicated on Los Angeles Survey Slated fx I i 1 McPherson Hutton divan on which he was sleep- ing caught fire, Robert Torlan, 37 years of age, sought to escape from the flames early yesterday by Jumping from a third-story window at 2975 Leeward avenue and incurred injuries that may prove fatal, according to police.

Torian was given treatment at Georgia-street Receiving Hospital for possible fracture of the spinal column and later was removed to the Methodist Hospital. Only nominal fire damage was done. 4 CITY-COUNTY RULE VOTE APPROVED Council Adopts Request for Putting Separation Project on Ballot An ordinance requesting the Board of Supervisors to place on the November 8 ballot a proposition asking permission of county electors for the city of Los Angeles to separate and form a new city-county government within the limits of the present city was adopted yesterday by the City Council. It is understood the reason for the adoption of a formal ordinance, instead of simply requesting the action, is that in the event the supervisors refuse, the city then may go into court. In the event the county voters approve the separation, a board of freeholders will be selected to draw a city-county charter, which then goes to the Legislature for approval.

Spanish Grant Fraud Suspects Get Plea Delay Pleading they were unacquainted with the charges contained In the Indictment, accusing them of using the mall in a conspiracy to defraud would-be homesteaders on old Span ish grant lands, Williamson S. Summers, Harry Newklrk Wheeler, Othle A. Adams and Harry C. White yesterday asked for a delay of two weeks before entering their pleas. United States District Judge Holl- zer, calling the calendar for Unit ed States District Judge Cosgrave, ordered them to appear October 3.

Asst. U. S. Atty. Baiter, conduct ing the Investigation and the pros ecution, supplied the defendants with copies of the indictment.

Ballard Wills Entire Estate to His Widow The will of the late Russell H. Ballard, president of the Southern California Edison Company, disposing of an estate valued "in excess of $10,000" was admitted to probate yesterday before Superior Judge Lahey. Under the will, Gladys Marion Ballard, the widow, 520 South Irving Boulevard, is bequeathed the entire estate. A daughter by a former marriage, Harriet Russell Ballard, was also mentioned in the will as chief beneficiary in the event the widow should not survive the decedent. Ballard died last August 8 at the age of 57 years.

The California Trust Company was named execu tor. Millicent (Peg) Entwistle CLAIM FOR CRAWFORD'S CASH DENIED Supervisors Get Opinion County Not Liable for Vanished $75,000 Under the form of a claim made by the Union Bank and Trust Company; executor of the estate of Charles Crawford, Los Angeles county is not liable for the pay ment of the $75,000 appropriated by Liberty Hill, chief deputy county clerk, after the money had. been placed in his care as a court exhibit in the extortion case against Morris Lavine, according to an opinion given the Board of Supervisors yesterday by S. V. O.

Pritchard, deputy county counsel. As a result of the opinion a claim made by the bank for the money was denied. Before the death of Crawford the money was being held as evidence against Lavine, former newspaper man whom Crawford asserted had tried to extort the amount from him. Later the funds, held as a court exhibit, were placed in the care of Hill, who later was convicted of using the money for stock speculation and who now is serving a sentence in San Quentin Prison. Eastern Legion Delegates Stop Here Few Days Seeking relaxation from their arduous activities at the American Legion convention in Portland last week, approximately 300 delegates are now in Los Angeles for a three-day vacation before returning to their homes in the Eas.

The delegates, most of whom are making their quarters at the Hay-ward Hotel, are headed by Henry L. Stevens, Past National Commander, Frank E. Samsel, assistant national adjutant, and members of the national headquarters staff. Local veterans' organizations are serving as their hosts. Yesterday the delegates sailed to Catalina Island.

Today they will make a tour of the studios. They will continue their homeward Journeys tomorrow night. EUGENE PALLETTE DUE HOME WITH HIS BRIDE Eugene comedy character aCtor of films, is expected to return to Hollywood today with his bride, the former Marjorie Cag-naccl of Ventura, whom he married in that city Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.

L. Cagnaccl. The marriage is the culmination of a romance that began last July when Pallette went to Sequoia National Park to play a role in a Fox Picture. She was there on a vacation. Hollywood Hills Leaps Prom Towering Sign to Death Below Blasted hopes for a screen career commensurate with the brilliant success she had enjoyed on the stage a house of cards that came tumbling down and revealed to her the futility of fleeting fame I That, substantially, was ascribed yesterday as the motive behind the pectacular suicide of Lillian Mllli-cent (Peg) Entwistle, beautiful 24- year-old actress, whose broken body "was found late Sunday night in a desolate ravine of the Hollywood hills.

Unable longer to endure what she apparently had regarded as the Ignominy of defeat in her encounter with fickle filmland, the young woman had plunged to her death from the top of the letter in the fifty-foot-high electric sign Hollywoodland." Harold Entwistle, the dead actress's uncle and sole relative, tripped the veil of mystery from the suicide after he had identified the body at the county morgue. "I'M AFRAID I'M A COWARD" The bereaved uncle, who himself is an actor, and with whom Miss Entwistle made her home at 2428 Beechwood the brief note she had left and between the lines read for the authorities a tragic story of his niece's bitter and unbearable disappointment over her iailure to "click" in the studios. "I'm afraid I'm a coward," the farewell message read. "I am sorry for everything. If I had done this thing a long time ago it would have aaved a lot of pain.

P. Peg had flashed across the theatrical firmament almost overnight shortly after making her debut with a Boston stock company when was only 17, the uncle explained. She soon was recruited by the famous -and distinguished Theater Guild of New York and as a member of that organization scored triumph- after triumph behind the footlights. But last season at least for her was disastrous. The first of the season's productions in which she appeared "folded up" after a week's run.

From this failure she went to another, and still another until sne had nothing but eight successive failures for her record. PURSUED BY JINX Last April she came to Los Ange les, her dazzling reputation having gained her an important role in support of Billie Burke in "The Mad Hopes." But the Jinx that had pursued her during the season on Broadway dogged her footsteps across the country and so "The Mad Hopes" closed after a conspicuously short run. Then the films beckoned and, with hope born anew, she followed the goblin finger to one of the studios. She was given a contract, with an option to be exercised or rejected upon the completion of her first picture. But the role In the end proved but a "bit" and stutEo officials shook their heads afid declined to re-sign her.

With her spirit broken, but resolved to return to her first love, the stage, Miss Entwistle, the uncle declared yesterday, sought funds with which to entrain for Broadway and a fresh start. But she sought In vain. None could she find to finance the contemplated trip. BLANK DESPAIR Then, last Friday night, black despair overwhelmed her hitherto proud spirit. She told her uncle she was going to a Hollywoodland drug store-for a book and then visit some friends.

Instead she climbed laboriously up through the Hollywoodland hills, lured apparently by the glittering electric sign with its fifty-foot-high letters. Up the workmen's, ladder she went, after leaving her coat and one shoe on the ground. No one will ever know how long she stood on that great letter but at last she kept her rendezvous with death. Striking the rocky base first, the body then tumbled another hundred feet and came to rest, crushed and broken, In the ravine. IN MORGUE UNKNOWN A woman hiker found the coat and shoe, left them on the steps of the Hollywood Police Station and then notified police of her And.

Detectives hurried to the vicinity of the great sign and in the bright (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN "I didn't spend anything for meals while Ma was out of All the sisters-in-law invited me to eat with them, so I could see it was Ma an' not me that they dislike." I San Gabriel Project Eaton to Make Analysis of Costs Submitted Among the nineteen alternate bids on various phases of construe tlon work needed in the building of Dam No. 1 in San Gabriel Can yon, opened yesterday afternoon by the Board of Supervisors, four were below the estimates of Chief En gineer Eaton of the County Flood Control District. If accepted a sav ing of $342,000 will result. Two unit bids on the entire con st ruction and nineteen on separate Jobs needed to complete the whole project were received by the board and opened before a crowa oi con tractors that packed the Super visors' assembly room In the Hall of Records. All bids were turned over to Engineer Eaton for analysis, BELOW ESTIMATE There is every indication that the dam, which is to be built two and one-half miles below the Forks site in San Gabriel Canyon, will be con structed by the contractors who sub mltted low alternate bids on diner ent phases of the work, for their figures bring the cost of the dam below the engineer's estimate of $9,691,040.

The two unit bids, submitted by the Constructors, a company formed by a group of contractors, are approximately $2,000,000 higher than Engineer Eaton's estimate, the concern submitting practically the same figure as it did when bids were first opened several weeks ago ana rejected as being too high. LIST OF PROPOSALS The bidders bid on proposals as follows: (1.) Construction of the entire dam with gunite facing. (2.) Construction of the entire dam with the concrete facing poured. (3.) Excavation. (4.) (5.) (6.) (6a.) (7.) (8.) work.

The building of tunnels. Quarrying rock and filling. Concrete facing gunite. Concrete facing poured. Drilling and grouting.

Placing of steel and metal BIDS ON JOB The various comnanies bidding on the Job and their bids are as fol lows: No. 1 Constructors, $11,268.97855. No. 2 Constructors, $11,236,473.55. No.

3 Haddock, Donovan Son, 020. Mittry Brothers, $893,000. Holland Palmer, $884,250. George G. Pollock, $684,730.

No. 4 Robinson-Roberts and "Herman Baruch Corporation, $336,537.50. Holland Palmer, $279,490. Floyd Strafner, $460,970. Lihdgren Swlnnern, $398,270.

Mundro Engineering Company, $471,610. No. 5 Constructors, $9,068,050. No. 6 American Concrete and Steel Pipe Company, $990,847.

No. 6-a American Concrete and Steel Pipe Company, $969,177. No. 7 Daniel G. Longden, $132,895.

Emsco Concrete Cutting Corporation, $132,595. Halberton Grouting Company, $103,742.50. No. 8 C. M.

Hill, $120,909. Soule Steel Corporation, $154,498. Los Angeles Contracting Company, $117,262.75. American Concrete and Steel Pipe Company, $139,319.50. Engineer Eaton said he will have a complete analysis of the bids ready for submitting to the of Supervisors Monday.

He hopes the board will at that time award at least two of the alternate bids, the one on excavation and on the first two units of tunneling. STOP SIGNS SANCTIONED The City Council yesterday ordered the installation of arterial stop signs at the intersection of Wilton Place and San Marino street. geles, received the greater part of his education here, partly at the Throop College, the predecessor to the California Institute of Technology, and at 18 entered the employ of his father's store. During Mr i Robinson's reign as head of the departmentstore, business associates pointed out yesterday, he adopted in Its behalf the age-old New England policy of "no Indebtedness." "He did not believe in owing money," they said. "Consequently the specJre of indebtedness was unknown in the J.

W. Robinson Company, and still is. The company owns Its building the property is free and clear. And so is the entire stock. That was Mr.

Robin- (Coatinued oa Fact 2, Column 2). for Conclusion Today Equalization Board Member Tells Revenue Drop 1 In its final stages, an investigation by the Tax Research Bureau into the tax burden borne by homes, farms and all other real estate lo cally taxed was held yesterday in the State Building to give property owners and interested groups an opportunity to present their views. The Los Angeles survey will close today and be followed by a meeting at San Diego tomorrow. The last of a series of public meetings will be held at Fresno next Monday, after which the bureau will draft a report for submission to the 1933 Legislature as a basis for possible legislation to remove any lnequali ties. Fred E.

Stewart, a member of the State Board of Equalization and vice-chairman of the Tax Research Bureau, presided at yesterday's session here. He stated that during the last two years there has been an un precedented shrinkage in the sources of both State and local tax revenue in California, with gross re ceipts of public utilities and gross premiums of insurance companies, on which a large part of the State taxes is based, falling off heavily, HUGE SHRINKAGE "In 1931, State revenues from these sources were $2,958,544 less than in 1930 and this year's taxes are In turn $3,101,674 less than the 1931 total," he said. "This is a shrinkage of more than $6,000,000 In two years. Meanwhile, taxes from banks and corporations, already greatly reduced by changes made on recommendation of a Special Tax Commission in 1929, have continued to decrease until they now yield less than they did in 1928. "Counties and cities also are feel ing the pinch.

Since 1930 the as sessed value of all taxable property in cauiornia nas snrunk more than $2,000,000,000. It may be conserva tively assumed that each family in the State has sustained an average loss in the value of its property subject to taxation equivalent to at least $2000. If we stop to realize how many families never have paid taxes on property valued at that amount, we may have some conception of what has happened to others who have had greater taxable wealth In the past. GOVERNMENTAL COSTS "Governmental costs," he contin ued, "have not decreased in proportion. Consequently, citizens are be coming interested in taxation to a degree hitherto unknown in this generation.

Mere slashing of budg ets, although necessary and a source of some relief, will not solve the problems. Taxpayers must consider whether our revenue system is adequate for our needs and must insist on such revision as may be neces sary in the public Interest." Specific changes in tne state revenue laws, which he said would reduce the cost of operating certain public offices, were recommended by J. w. Hartman, cmer oeputy County Assessor. CHANGES PROPOSED He urged that all taxes for the support of local government be col lected by the Tax Collector and that real property be assessed biennially or quadrennially in the odd-numbered years.

The latter procedure, he contended, would stabilize values for assessment purposes and relieve the work of the Board of Equaliza tion. It was proposed further by Hart- man that interest be paid on taxes recovered by the courts in litigation involving illegal or erroneous assessments. In conclusion the speaker sug gested that the bureau make a study of the question of equalization with a view to establishing a board of review or appeal. Under the present law, he pointed out, there is no appeal from the board's decisions. Earl Lee Kelly of Sacramento, director of the Tax Research Bureau, declared the bureau is utilizing every known method of practical and scientific approach to the solution of -the tax problems.

The bureau was created by the 1931 Legislature and a budget of (Continued on Page 2, Column i) HONOR GUEST related by Chief Engineer Wey mouth of the Metropolitan Water District; the fact that Secretary Wilbur will appear here at a date so close to election will probably prove of greater interest at this time. Secretary Wilbur is In reality the directing genius of the Hoover Dam project since the construction of the dam is controlled by the department which he heads. Advance ticket sales will be han dled by the Chamber of Commerce. ENGINEERS EXPRESS GRATITUDE TO HOOVER Gratitude to President Hoover for the. action of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation In loaning the Metropolitan Water District (Contisued on ptje 2, Column ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA: For a generation, Rosa Neel and his wife have lived on a ranch in Lower California.

They are charming and cultured people. Revolutions and uprisings have swept across Mexico and left them untouched. When Bryan ordered all Americans out of Mexico at the time our ships bombarded Vera Cruz, the Mexicans cared for Neel's ranch. Mrs. Neel told me about Mexican servants.

She has known the girls who work for her ail their lives. Yet, so strict is the etiquette of Latin countries, that not one will come to the ranch without a chaperone. Sometimes it Is a friend; sometimes a young brother. When it is a girl friend, she sits around and hands the soap to the girl who is working. Even widows will not think of coming to any ranch without a duenna.

LITTLE WARS The Japanese-Chinese fracas had an echo in Baja California. The Japanese are the market gardeners of the peninsula. The Chinese are the storekeepers and the sellers. All during the Shanghai fighting, the Japanese allowed their asparagus to go to head and waste In the fields; they refused to gather it because it would have been sold by Chinese storekeepers. SEA HARVESTS' Constipated Americans have supplied Lower California with one of its chief industries.

Agar before it gets into the drug stores is a very delicate fine sea weed that grows like grass on the sea bottom in the waters off Punta Banda. Th Vinv estaVilicVvol a camp on the hills back of the cove. All the weed is gathered by divers who wear sea helmets. The dried agar brings $100 a ton at the nearest market. Most of it goes back to Japan to be prepared.

BUFADOR One world is a mile from the agar camp. This Is the spouting rock that goes by the local name of El Bufador (the snort of a bull.) I have seen the spouting rock at Honolulu; it is tame compared with El Bufador. The water comes in with a slow rush; as it enters the sea cave, there is a dull snorting roar; and the spray jets up in a white storm often as high as a hundred feet. Sometimes fish are thrown up. One man attempted to row in with a boat to take a photograph: all they ever found of him was a few boat splinters.

During 'the storm season tht roar of El Bufador can be heard for several miles. Court, Reporter Law Proposed On motion of Supervisor Baine of Hollywood, the Board of Supervisors yesterday ordered the County Counsel to prepare legislation for submission to the next Legislature, providing that court reporter? be placed on a fixed-salary basis. The action of the" board was taken following a report from County Counsel Mattoon to the effect that under the present laws this cannot be done legally. The State law fixes a system of fees for court reporters. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN "Nobody in our part the country is really starv-' in' except them that's doin it because o' too much prosperity." 1 (Ctfyriiit, mi.

KttuWt SritJiemt) fiarrv pastor taken in course of "parade" to court. McALLASTER LAST RITES TOMORROW Masonic Services for Deputy County Counsel to Be at Wee Kirk Masonic funeral services tomorrow at 4 p.m. will be the final rites for Raymond C. McAllaster, deputy County Counsel, who died Sunday as a result of self -administered poison. The funeral will be conducted at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, with interment following.

Offices of the County Counsel will be closed. Pallbearers, headed by former County Counsel Bishop, under whom McAllaster served, and County Counsel Mattoon, will he made up of associates in the office. Neither friends, associates nor the widow or mother could ascribe any motive for the suicide other than a mental depression brought about through worry over Illness. He appeared cheerful when left his home at 4329 Maycrest avenue Sunday morning to keep his self-determined tryst with death. McAllaster, who was 39 years of age and born in Milwaukee, leaves his widow and his mother, Mrs.

Emma McAllaster. Rochester Files Contest on Poll George W. Rochester, State Senator, filed a contest yesterday in the Superior Court over the recent primary election for the Republican nomination in the Fourteenth Congress District. He contends that the final canvass of the election by the Supervisors, which rave William D. Campbell a vo of 9399 to his (Rochester's) 9 is incorrect.

According to Rochester the tally sheets should show that he was nominated by a vote of 9357 to Campbell's vote of 9169. SUBWAY WIDENING FENDS The proposal for the widening of the Washington Boulevard subway, between Santa Fe avenue and the Los Angeles River, from twenty to seventy feet at an estimated cost of $52,000, yesterday was taken under advisement by the Board of Supervisors pending ah investigation. WILBUR TO BE Almee Semple New photograph of Angelus Temple from court Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton, evangelist, had only one lawsuit to go on trial yesterday, but she found herself in three different buildings and in five courtrooms before the case actually got under way. The parade began in the Court house, where the case was assigned to Superior Judge Smith on the nineteenth floor of the City Hall, A case on trial there before Judge Palmer necessitated the transfer to a department In the Hall of Rec ords, whereupon attorneys, litigants and the Judge made their way to the eighth floor of the Hall of Records and, after a search, found a makeshift courtroom in the cham bers of Department Eleven. Everybody was nicely settled when word came that the case was to be heard by Judge Wood in the Court house, where all immediately pro ceeded.

There it was stated the case mignt taice three days, so it was determined it should go to a nonjury department. It was as signed to Judge Landreth on the main floor of the Courthouse. The case involves suit of R. D. Clarke, as assignee of Attorney Lynden Bowring, against the An gelus Memorial Association, for $9782 and against Aimee and David Hutton for $4188.50 for attorney's fees over a three-year period.

The evangelist did not state how she determined the title of her next Sunday's sermon, which she was working on at odd moments during her tour of the county buildings, but said she would call it "The Cross of Christ." Montagne Last Rites Conducted Hollywood screen players, writers and executives gathered yesterday at funeral services for Edward J. Montagne, scenario editor-in-chief who died last Thursday night at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. The service was a requiem mass at Blessed Sacrament Church, following which the remains were shipped by Cunningham O'Connor, morticians, to New York City for burial. Active pallbearers were Curtis Denton, Dave Epstein, Raymond Schrock, W. C.

Peters, Norman Tau- rog and Harold McCord. ing larger and better than ever before. A dainty little volume of 2670 pages, it contains the names of 30,545 notable living Americans beginning with Dr. Charles Dettie Aaron right through 2544 pages of biographical sketches to Flora G. Zygman, Polish pianist.

To be more specific and take stock of the, great of our own State, It found that in this great bulk of pages California manages to fill six, four column pages, with about one and one-half columns additional With approximately 104 names to a column, this brings the total of those to whom we may point with pride to about 2652, who are listed from 157 cities of the State. be even more specific, it appears that some 640 "big shots" are listed for our own fair city as compared to 376 for San Francisco. This no doubt, may be explained, by the fact that a large number of the entries for Los Angeles are drawn frbm the ranks of the motion-picture luminaries, and that authors, artists, composers and others of the intelllgensia run them, a close second. Even outside of the city, for instance, there Is one community from which fourteen notables are listed (Continued on Face Column 1 NEW "WHO'S WHO" OFF PRESSES Six Hundred and Forty Angelenos Included Among 30,545 Names of America's Creai Listed in Latest Book of Celebrities HARRY W. ROBINSON DIES Private.

Rites to Be Conducted Tomorrow for President of Department Store A sudden relapse of an. Internal Illness yesterday brought -death to Harry Winchester Robinson, president of the J. W. Robinson Company. Mr.

Robinson, who was the son of J. W. Robinson, founder of the department store which bears his name, died at his Beverly Hills home on Elden Way, where he had lived the past twenty-one years. Stricken last February with an Mr. Robinson grew up in Los An Interior Secretary Will Speak at Luncheon Tomorrow Celebrating Aqueduct Bond Deal Secretary of the Interior Wilbur will be the guest of honor and principal speaker at a luncheon here, tomorrow noon, the event to be held at the Biltmore in celebration of the success of the Metropolitan Water District in procuring the $40,000,000 pledge of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the purchase of Colorado River Aqueduct bonds.

Plans for the affair were disclosedthe details of the aqueduct project. If there are doubts In any minds concerning who is who in America for 1932 and 1933 they may be set at rest at once for a new edition of "Who's Who in America" is just off the press with a complete and unabridged list of all the persons who qualify as celebrities of one sort or another and of one degree or another. Should you fail to find your own name therein and if you are at a loss to understand the omission, the following statement of the standards of admission may give a glimmering of the reason you have been overlooked. The book states: "The standards of admission to 'Who's Who in America' divide the eligibles into two classes: (1) Those who are selected on account of special prominence In creditable lines of effort, making them the subjects of extensive interest, inquiry or discussion in this country; and (2) those who are arbitrarily Included on account of official position civil, military, naval, religious or educational." And furthermore, it will tell you that not a single sketch has been paid for and none can be paid for. This edition, which Is the seventeenth biennial edition, (the first one having been published in 1899,) has outdone tts predecessors be- ii yesterday oy Presidenj A.

Schleicher of the Chamber of Commerce, who said the chamber will join with the Metropolitan Water District in hon oring Secretary Wilbur as well as giving recognition to Federal aid extended for the aqueduct project. When it became known Secretary Wilbur will be in the city tomorrow, invitations were Immediately dispatched to business leaders in all of the communities of the Los Angeles area who are members of the Metropolitan Water District urging, ineir ptu ucipb-uuii in me mncneuzi meeting Special arrangements are being made -to have the city and county officials of Orange, River side and San Bernardino counties present. While the general public will have an opportunity to hear, first-hand, Intestinal complaint, Robinson was operated on during May and while his condition was regarded as critical for several months, members of his family and close associates believed that an improvement shown a month ago would bring recovery. For the past several weeks Mr. Robinson was able to leave his bed, but yesterday morning his condition took a turn for the worse and he expired shortly after 1 p.m.

Mr. Robinson was born in Brock- i ton, October 19, 1878, of a pioneer New England merchant family. His grandfather was a dry goods merchant as was his father. He came to Los Angeles when only 4 years of age with his father, who founded the old Boston Dry Goods Store la 1833, I.