The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • Page 123

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1997 B15 LOS ANGELES TIMES PASADENA: Eternal Rest L. A. Then and Now Cecilia Rasmussen Continued from B12 "Typically, at the time, major cemeteries were placed outside the city limits." Boston leaders built a cemetery in nearby Cambridge, and New York opted for Brooklyn, he said. A few cities enacted outright cemetery bans, said Sloane, who is a USC assistant professor of urban planning. Levi Giddings acquired the 23-acre site for Mountain View in 1875, opening for burials in 1883.

Among the first buried there was his daughter, whose grave was moved from near where the Tournament of Roses mansion is today. Three years later, Pasadena incorporated and drew its boundary a block or two south of the cemetery. A history of the city published in 1895 describes the property as "worthless land." One local history buff, Sue Moss-man of Pasadena Heritage, said there is no proof that the city purposely drew its boundaries to exclude the cemetery. In any case, pressure for burial grounds in Pasadena was probably reduced by the opening of the sprawling Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles in 1917, Sloane said. A If Heidi Fleiss was the latest incarnation of the Hollywood madam.

TEACHER: New Trial Allowed Associated Press Elizabeth Adams was "Beverly Brenda Allen reigned as em-Hills Madam" in 1970s, '80s. press of LA. vice in the 1940s. a pricey brothel. When the "Black Widow" ran afoul of the law, the young Mitchell testified that her former boss had lured her into this "shameful business." When Forrester went to jail, Mitchell now Brenda Allentook over the business.

Buoyed by the power of her shrewd manager and boyfriend, the vice cop Jackson, Allen "grew the business." Soon, 114 party girls were working for her, taking in $9,000 a day from customers who paid from $20 to $100 for the services of one of "Brenda's girls." Allen took 50 off the top and a third went to pay cops, doctors, lawyers and bail bondsmen. Allen rented large, ornate party houses above the Sunset Strip on streets such as Cory Avenue, Harold Way and Miller Place. After each one of her 19 arrests, she just packed things up and moved to another house on the next street On the night of Feb. 21, 1947, Allen and Jackson were necking in his car in front of her apartment at 9th and Fedora streets when a robber stuck a machine gun through Jackson's open win-, dow. Jackson, pretending to reach for his wallet, pulled out a pistol instead and killed Roy "Peewee" Lewis, the stickup man, while the getaway driver sped off.

Jackson told the police that Allen was a Police Department stenographer. A year later, a reporter with the Daily News discovered that the woman with Jackson that night was actually Allen. Subsequent headlines led to a grand jury investigation. Jackson denied any wrongdoing, but Allen testified that she paid him $50 a week for each woman she employed, as well as other sums to other vice squad members. In 1951, Allen's successor Barrie Benson, 29 conducted business in a 13-room Moorish castle with red and purple rooms on Schuyler Road north of the Sunset Strip.

It was a favorite hangout for gangland figures, including Sam Farkas, bodyguard to mobster Mickey Cohen. Benson's business was the first to go under when Police Chief Parker took command. An underground celebrity in the 1970s and 1980s, the "Beverly Hills Madam," Elizabeth Adams, took the business international, dispatching a bevy of young and beautiful women to Saudi princes and millionaire businessmen. Her average cash flow grew to $100,000 a month. Acting as a police informant by passing along "pillow talk," Adams managed to keep the cops at bay for 20 years.

When Adams' business went under in 1988, her rival a twentysomething party girl and former Adams protege picked up where Adams left off, stealing her business, books, girls and guys. Today, that madam Heidi Fleiss is behind bars, and there's a job open in "the industry," as they say in L. A. History of Hollywood Madams Is Long, Lurid As long as there has been a Hollywood, there has been a Hollywood madam. And if parts of the industry trembled over talk that Heidi Fleiss, the most recent madam to the stars, had a "black book" filled with the names of celebrity customers, whole studios shook when some of her predecessors threatened to describe the sexual proclivities and eccentricities of actors and politicians.

Those threats were taken seriously because, unlike Fleiss, her predecessors usually were even cozier with the cops than they were with their clients. In fact, during the movies' so-called "golden age" of the 1920s and 1930s, the madam of the moment usually could count on the cops she paid off to give her enough "pre-raid" warning to clear out any big-name customers. The renowned Lee Francis always had French champagne chilled and dishes of Russian caviar waiting for the vice squad when it arrived. After going through the motions and finding no one to arrest the officers would sit down and enjoy her hospitality. But all good things must come to an end, and Francis eventually spent 30 days in jail on a morals charge, leaving her market niche open for Ann Forrester, soon dubbed the "Black Widow" by the police.

By the late 1930s, the "Black Widow's" lavish prostitution business was raking in $5,000 weekly while she set Hollywood atwitter with talk of files containing the identities of male customers. But Forrester, too, was eventually convicted of pandering and went to jail. At her trial, the famous reform mayor, Fletcher Bowron, unsuccessfully pleaded for a lenient sentence because "her information was of great value in determining the identity of those Police Department members whose honesty was questionable." In 1940, while the "Black Widow" sat in jail, her protege, Brenda Allen, began spinning her own web. For the next decade, Allen a redheaded "party girl" reigned as the bawdy empress of L.A. vice, serving millionaires and movie stars alike.

She delighted in boasting that she had never spent a day in jail. As it later emerged, that was because she had improved on her predecessors' notion of safe sex by taking a Hollywood vice cop, LAPD Sgt VENTURA COUNTY Continued from B13 South Bay auto body shop, admit-, ted in the legal statement that in 1 1990 and 1991 she received grades for three auto collision repair classes and one business math class she never attended. Attorney Dennis Walsh, representing the college, argued in court that it was not expressly against the law for El Camino or any other public institution to have bogus students. Because McMahon could not prove that the college had obtained any additional local, state or federal funds by having a few extra i phantom students, Superior Court Judge Hight dismissed the lawsuit as frivolous and ordered McMahon to pay the college's $160,000 in attorney fees. The appeals court threw out the $160,000 assessment.

After the initial trial, the college began preparing papers to dismiss the auto body instructor. In Febru AN ACLETO RAPPING Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Lee Francis treated vice officers to champagne and caviar. to protect prostitutes. The scandal forced Police Chief Clemence B. Horrall into early retirement.

His place was temporarily taken by former Marine Corps Gen. William A. Worton, who eventually was replaced by the hard-nosed William H. Parker, who came in with City Hall's mandate to clean things up. During the scandal, it also emerged that Allen's real name was Marie Mitchell.

She had made her professional debut as a teenage streetwalker on a seedy stretch of West 6th Street between Union Avenue and Alva-rado Street. It wasn't exactly Schwab's, but she soon was "discovered" by Forrester, who took her off the street corner and into W8KBS6KHBHB Denver Miller, Pasadena's principal planner, said that because there is no mention of cemeteries or other types of resting places in city planning, codes, such land use is illegal He believes former city officials deliberately left out such uses because they did not want them. But today, as cemeteries become crowded Mountain View recently eliminated several roads to make room for more burial sites cremations have increased from a handful in the 1960s to 21 of people who die nationwide and 42 in California. When All Saints representatives asked the city last summer about building a columbarium, they were told it could not be done without changing the law to recognize such a land use for churches. "We were shocked," said All Saints' Kully.

"Why in all these decades had it not come up before?" Sloane said that in some ways, these columbarium niches reflect a return to ways of medieval Europe and early America, where those with the most status in society were buried in the cathedral or abbey. He said columbaria are also a source of income for churches and benefit their members. ary, the Board of Trustees recommended that he be fired. He was placed on unpaid administrative leave while the state office of administrative hearings reviewed his case. In September, the hearing officer concurred with the college, and McMahon was dismissed from his job, said school spokeswoman Keating.

From his small garage stuffed with legal documents, McMahon is preparing for his new trial, which will be strictly on any retaliation he may have suffered for complaining about phantom students. He is hoping to win this time. "I don't think there is a jury around that won't be sympathetic," he said. "If they have taken a class and struggled to get a they are going to be mad as hell that someone got an A because their dad is somebody or they are an athlete who can jump and run." AUCTIONEERS IN SO. CALIFORNIA SINCE 1916 CA 90040 (800) 404-ABEL ntimn Auctions California American Paintings Auction: Dec.

10 iria; 0 -J00 ext, 7601 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles SU! SHUTS M0 ULMDsy nnd ttsrimi femur oran I rum XV tufted rorvnd rhnir bird both. Chinese wrners. Bisque pieces. Cut crystal Crystal 3Smc0 rr A.N. ABELL A SPECIAL AUCTION WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3 AT 1 RN.

Preview Tuesday 230 PM to 430 PM Wednesday 9 AM. Till Time Of Sale From 3 Estates a Collection Of Shotguns, Rifles, Pistols And Revolvers By Remington, Merkel, Browning, Winchester, Walther, Colt, Smith Wesson, Collection Of Gold And Silver Coins; Large Stamp Collection. Los Angeles Times Ann Forrester was dubbed the "Black Widow" by the police. Elmer V. Jackson, as her lover and business partner.

But in 1948, Allen too was indicted after an LAPD telephone tap recorded an all-too-chummy business chat between the bordello queen and her badge-bearing partner. Her arrest shook Hollywood, which instantly began to buzz with rumors about a little black box containing the names of 250 celebrity clients, including entertainment industry figures, politicians and gangsters. But the elaborate vice sting embarrassed the Los Angeles Police Department even more. The key players in Allen's operation included not only Jackson, but other vice cops paid was confined to the roof and attic, said spokeswoman Sandi Wells. But it took 43 minutes to contain the blaze because of embers in the wooden shingle roof, Wells said.

"Getting there was tough too, because the streets are so narrow," she said. Strawberry Hill Road is part of the Westgate Estates tract near Janns Road and the Moorpark Freeway. Most of the homes were built in the early 1960s, Wells said. Jean Fensler said she was visiting with a neighbor on Strawberry AUCTION THURSDAY DECEMBER 4 AT 9:30 A.M. Viewing Wed.

9 AM. To 430 PM Thurs. Till Time Of Sale Partial Listing Includes: Knabe Grand Piano, 5'6" Man. Case; Pr. Italian Decorated Commodes; English Lacquer Bone Inlaid Sideboard; Chinese Cabinets, Altar Table, Side Tables, Chairs, Art Nouveau Bureau Cabinet; Provincial Double Door Armoire; 19th C.

Federal Mah. D.L Dining Table; Empire Style China Cabinet; Pairs Of Carved Mirrors; 5 Pc. English Decorated Bedroom Set; 8 Pc. Mah. Dining Room Set; Oil Paintings; Collection Of Early 18th 19th C.

Tea Pots; Rookwood Vellum; Dirk Van Erp Copper Vases; English Tea Caddy; Omate 5 Pc. Sterling Silver Tea Service; 154 Pc's Towle "French Provincial" Sterling Silver Flatware; 85 Pc. Copeland Spode "Wicker Lane" Large Bronze Font; Small Bronze CupidShell Fountain; Service Plates; Staffordshire Figures; Persian Chinese Rugs In Area And Room Sizes; 1986 Mercury Lynx (IPZH289); 1955 Ford Thnnderbird (HDH543); Etc. Estate Jewelry: Includes: 3 12 CT. Diamond Platinum Ring; 14 Kt.

Diamond Lavaliere; 14 Kt Ladies Ebel Bocherer Watches; Charm Bracelets; Earrings; Pearl Necklace Earrings; Bracelets, Boucheron Compact, Costume, No One Hurt in House Blaze Blamed on Fireplace Ember 2613 YATES, LOS ANGELES, n-. mill "in i nr r. rax n-voov Dona svmwb jiu) oaa-ju it Internet At http:www.abell.com Previews tried to put out the fire. But it was going much too good for that." Neighbors were also concerned for the safety of Tigger and Taffy, the Aliens' mixed-breed dogs who were locked in the backyard. "We got them out OK and they're staying down at the neighbors," Fensler said.

Authorities placed the damage to the house at $100,000, and $50,000 to the contents. Despite the loss, Wells said, "The crews did a good job of saving a lot of furniture." Hill Road, when they saw smoke coming from the two-story house belonging to Gary and Linda Allen. "My friend called 911, and then we both ran outside," Fensler said. "The house was on fire." Of great concern to neighbors was the safety of Monika Heman, 68, who rents a room from the Aliens and was the only person inside at the time of the fire. "My neighbor's husband ran into the house and got the lady out," Fensler said.

"Then four or five of the neighbor men got hoses and PREVIEWS: Today, Nov. 30 (Noon-5) Dec. 1 (10-5) Dec. 2 (9-12 Rugs only) Oriental Rugs Carpets Auction: Dec. 2 Fine Jewelry Auction: Dec.

9 11 Member: International Auctioneers w. Anr: Mrjm Gait. MRUS MOTION IWSDAY, DK. Furniture f. fiirniOiinm from three Kioto Ink nrivnto hnmix 2ND Custom itiree-oiece wol unit, liffony style bronzt leaded glass shode Tomp.

Oil I wntertoior pointings. Prints, leather corner sect. son. Louis XV style sofa. Singles pairs of wing, dub I occ chairs.

Table fl lamps. Limoges awn. Bawla china. Bronze I brass access. Brass oil heater, urge hand-carved wood horse.

Marble top inlaid trench cob with bronze By SCOTT STEEPLETON SPECIAL TO THE TIMES i. A smoldering ember from a fireplace is being blamed for a house fire Saturday afternoon in Thousand Oaks that caused $150,000 damage and displaced three people, authorities said. Two dogs were also threatened by the blaze at 1422 Strawberry Hill Road, but neither animal was injured. County firefighters arrived at 3 p.m. and discovered that the fire Cos Actco (Times 4 NBC mountings.

Hond-cotved seat with (on heads. Cement stetrrwate. veiman nans, inree root cement oriental ng. rw at iron hosts, im pona nunae Deteiaiea loiann screen. 4 panel carved leakwood screen.

3 pc ornate wrougnt von garden serte chairs. Morble top talrwood stand. 128 leather bound novels by famous authors collector editions. Chinese leakwood carved occ chair, lots of brie brae china, porcenins, ornate gold leaf glass top coffee table. Art objects.

Louis XV carved coffee table. Old German chocolate set. Beautiful Louis XV carved white look) Brocotel tufted I split boa sofa 1 ioveseot. White gold french coffee I corns pair of Crystal Jarondos. Duncan Pftyfe mah dining set with aedennt I china cab.

Outstanding country french in set with oval table 8 choirs. Buffet china cab. Sofas I laveseats, sofa beds, bed sets. Wood metal dinette. John Widakomb cabinet.

10tiBuyPrmim.BOIH)14M373OIHU 310.W77373 1110 Um Wwstn ht. 8775737 Book Review Sundays Phth Id Better Hehlth. Now the timely, informative news and features of The Times Monday Health section come to life. TIim Tfmin Linn Uh mnnnrtft nn Tnrlttt in I A atiam KHnnMni mnrninn at C-Otl G-f)fl unit 4l A in LA at 6:00 and 6:30 The Times Health reports on Today every Monday morning 5:30, a.m. Eos Atigetcs.