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SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 20, 1933. PART II. NEWS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTIES LONG BEACH'S QUEEN SELECTED Dancer Will Reign Over Electrical Extravaganza WILLIE'S OLD-YEAH, BUT TOUGH! Fullcrton Character Dances on His Ninely-sixlh Birthday; He's Been Shot Thirty-one Times, Scalped and Has Survived Six Shipwrecks, He'll Tell You BIRTH CONTROL ACTION FAVORED Literature Mailing Urged by Convention POMONA'S BEER DECISION NEAR Proverbially Dry City's Laws to Be Attached iu lytiiLUim MT Sew Attendance Record Set at Pasadena Meeting fl IRL-WIFE DONS FINERY II TO KILL SELF WITH GUN Prospect of Divorce Results in Suicide on Eve of Parley at San Diego Lawyer's Office SAN DIEGO, April 28 Faced with the prospects of divorce from her husband, Virginia Ann Briggs, 19-year-old wife of Llano D. Briggs, San Diego business man, shot and fatally wounded today, twenty minutes before her husband was to call and take her to an attorney's office for a consultation.

Mrs. Briggs left a note to her Development Body Lawyer Will Ask Injunction Officers Elected to Serve Two-Year Terms I BY NADINE MASON FULLERTON. April 28. Little Willie is 96 years of age today. Ninety-six years is not so long when life is so Interesting and there are so many places to go, things to do and thing to see.

Willie Adams was born in New York on April 28, 1837, and he can tell one a lot of things but he's so busy. He's full of bullets bpen shot thirty-one times and can show you the' scars. He has five bullets in his body right now and he proudly displays the lumps and then hops off in a Jig he feels so good. He's only been shipwrecked six times and he's never married. "If I sat down and told you the history of my life, they'd hang me from a telegraph pole," Willie chuckles, remembering.

Eighty-one years ago, Willie's father, a sea captain, brought him around the Horn to San Francisco. STOPS MANY BULLETS CITRUS MARKET CONTROL LOOMS Quick Ruling by Superior Judge Being Sought POMONA, April 28. A stipulation was signed late today between City Attorp-T Stead and Archie D. Mitchell In which Stead wai-ved notice and agreed to a speedy hearing of the Pomona Chic Development Association's suit to restrain Chief of Police Klrby from interfering with the local sale or possession of 32 per cent beer. Attorney Stead stated that Mitchell wHI appear before the Los Angeles Superior Court tomorrow morning requesting that the case be set for an early date.

POMONA, April 28. Declaring many Pomona restaurants, soft-drink stands and others are losing much business because they are pro PASADENA. April 28. Passage by an overwhelming vote of a resolution urging legalization of mailing birth control literature and supplies to physicians and other approved groups, marked the concluding session late today of the annual convention of the First District, California Congress of Parents and Teachers. It was announced that the registration of 850 delegates from Los Angeles county, exclusive" of the city of Los Angeles, has set an all-time attendance record, there being more delegates present at the district conclave than attended the last national convention.

The following new officers were First vice-president, Mrs, Frank M. Wright of El Monte; third now too muc hto live without htm "now too much to live without him" and left burial instructions; asking that her wedding ring be placed in her hand. "CAN'T STAND STRAIN" "I can't stand the strains." her note concluded. The couple lived at 4054 Fourth avenue. Before shooting herself Mrs.

Briggs dressed carefully, in a ft Stabilization. Body Takes Definite Steps Enough Support Pledged at 1 -4 I if a. Ml IIIHI KIIH1IIIH Riverside Meeting Once on a trip he landed at New black and white street dress and carefully combrd her hair and rouged her face. In addition to the note she left her husband, there was also found a letter addressed to her father. vice-president, Mrs.

Carl E. S. Strem of Compton; fifth vice-president, i Mrs. A. H.

Millard of Monrovia: E. H. Bowerstock, Subway Terminal Willie Adams i ft Building, Los Angeles. ANOTHER SUICIDE Another ruiclde also was being investigated today. Swallowing poison in his drug store at 7912 Gerard street.

La Jolla, yesterday evening, Paul L. Mat-theel, 43, died without regaining consciousness a half-hour after physicians were called. Airs. Matthaei, the widow, found her husband in a semiconscious state on the floor of the store, according to her report to police. Her husband said, "I have just taken poison, It's all over now." Mrs.

Matthaei could ascribe no reason for her husband's action. Adeline Angove hibited from selling legal 3.2 per cent beer, the Pomona Civic Development Association, through it chairman, A. V. Storer, has retained Attorney Archie Mitchell of Ontario to file injunction proceedings against Chief of Police Kirby to restrain him from making arrests for the sale of beer here. The development association has requested all merchants to refrain from making any beer sales until the court announces a ruling.

ATTORNEYS TO ACT At a special meeting of the City Council, City Attorney Stead was Instructed to co-operate with Attorney Mitchell to obtain a decision as quickly aa possible. According to Stead, Mitchell is preparing to file hit brief this afternoon or early tomorrow, at which time Stead will file a demurrer and request an immediate hearing in the Lo Angeles Superior Court. Mitchell's brief is expected to attack charter provisions and Pomona's liquor ordinance. The ordinance, which defines intoxicating liquor as any beverage containing more than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol by volume, will be attacked on the grounds that such defination is unreasonable and ab Test Will Be Made With Valencia Crop RIVERSIDE, April 28. Confident that the Valencia orange marketing agreement will have by next week the necessary 90 per cent support from the packing-houses of Southern California, members of the stabilization committee of the Associated Citrus Growers' end In-.

ter-County Farm Bureau here today took initial steps toward setting up the machinery that will undertake the control of Valencia shipments. Reports submitted to the committee showed the signatures to be very close to the 90 per cent mark and with sufficient support pledged to put the project beyond the goal by the middle of next week. WILL NAME COMMITTEES Meanwhile, the marketing organizations were requested to be prepared to appoint members to three committees which will handle th actual prorating of shipments. These Include the distribution, growers' arbitrary and local regulation committees. On each the ratio of membership will be the same three members from the California Fruit Growers Exchange, two from the Mutual Orange Distributors, and two from the independents.

Two separate agreements were drawn up by the stabilization committee, one each for navel and Valencia shippers, but the navel crop is so nearly cleaned up only the Valencia agreement has been pushed this year. ORANGE COUNTY TEST LONG BEACH, April 28. The burning question here as to what seaside beauty would be chosen as queen for Neptune's Electrical Extravaganza was settled today when Adeline Angove, pretty young graduate of Long Beach Polytechnic was chosen to be "queen of the seas" for the spectacular water fete in Long Beach Marine Stadium on the night of May 6. With Burr Mcintosh as King Neptune she will share honors in the extravaganza, which is being heralded as the world's greatest water spectacle, and which will feature sixteen illuminated maritime floats. Orleans and was conscripted to serve in the Confederate forces in the Civil War.

'He was shot in the mouth at Chattanooga, a piece of his tongue was chipped off and there is a scar at the back of his neck where the bullet came out. At Gettysburg he was wounded in the left side, captured, court-martialed and sentenced to die. He escaped and was shot in the hand and a bullet grazed his nose. At Vicks-burg something else and Old Ironsides nearly finished him. Sailing about the world aboard his father's brlgantine and then he stops.

"Say, if I'd tell you lots of things, you wouldn't believe them." "Wild Willie, the fought with the Indians on the frontier at Kansas City, in Arizona and in Texas. At Little Big Horn, he was a part of the reinforcements that arrived just twenty-four hours behind Custer. SCALPED BY SQUAW "All were dead but Custer. He wasn't scalped. I'll always believe that Custer shot himself.

"Me? Oh, yes, it was an Indian woman who scalped me. That was another time. That was the Sioux, They knocked me senseless. She was an old woman the one who scalped me." "He shot a sheriff, one time in Texas didn't you. Willie?" proudly contributes Willie's policeman friend.

"Yeah. I'm tough." His father and mother were both more than 100 years of age when they were drowned in a flood. "How come they wait hundreds of years before they take a second wife in the Bible? How long was a year in those days? I'm too young to marry. Guess I'll settle The queen-elect, who was chosen purely on the basis of beauty as registered by still and motion-picture cameras, is a 17-year-old brunette, 5 feet 6 inches in height, and is a talented dancer. Choice of the ladies of her court will be announced later.

The United States Navy will render full co-operation to the committee arranging the extravaganza, Admiral Richard H. Leigh, today informed Waldo T. Tupper, managing director. Massed gioups of the fleet's powerful searchlights will illuminate the sky over the stadium. seventh vice-president, Mrs.

F. A. Wolz of Littlerock; recording secretary, Mrs. Maurice G. Williams of Pomona; financial secretary, Mrs.

C. C. Matteson of Pasadena; auditor, Mrs. L. S.

Bryant of South Pasadena. These officers will serve for two years. Mrs. O. H.

Spradling of Glendale, district president, has another year of her term to serve OPPOSITION EXPLAINED The birth-control resolution, introduced by the Santa Monica organization, was adopted by a standing vote of approximately 600 to 200 after a short but spirited argument. Mrs. H. V. Henry of Glendale opposed the resolution on two principal grounds.

She declared it dealt with a subject that properly should be decided at State conventions and expressed the fear that increased latitude in birth-control education might have a harmful effect on high school pupils. Displays in drug stores, it was should be curbed. Mrs. Mary M. Blenkhorn.

chairman of the Santa Monica committee, held that the resolution, through urging passage of Bill No. S-4436 that Is now belore the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, would do more than any other one thing to "lift a great burden from poverty-stricken women." Two other resolutions were passed by unanimous vote. One resolves that all possible measures shall be taken to make all schools and public buildings fire and earthquake The second urges the County Board of Supervisors to refrain from further curtailment of facil--: for eighteen months and then ran away. Twinkling eyes look at the brown knuck that is slightly swollen and covered with a patch of court plaster. "LICKED 'EM BOTH" "I did that boxiijg with a couple of fellows.

I licked them, though both of them." If it weren't for the rheumatism that bothers his feet sometimes, Willie would feel the same as he did fifty or eighty years ago, he says. He can hear whispers that even normal young people must listen hard to hear. He read without glasses. He doesn't drink. A good chew of tobacco is okeh, though, even if he has no teeth.

"Come on and see my shack. It's over here at Moore's Sand and Gravel come on in. This is a good shack." One looks around at the wood heater, the cot, the table. Poor. Happy, though.

There's a pension that takes care of the financial situation. And the old newspapers he gathers to sell, plus any salable Junk, keep Willie in funds with which to buy candy suckers for the children of the neighborhood. And the Moores keep an eye on him so that if he should happen to need some one for anything. Willie Is too independent to live with folks and be Jury Requests Further Inquiry in Beach Death surd. The charter provision merely prohibits sale of alcoholic beverages and does not define the content.

PASTOR CALLS MEETING Chief of Police Kirby announced SCHOOL CUT DATA HELD UPBYBOARD Monrovia Taxpayers' Body Aroused Over Inability to Get Budget Details MONROVIA, April 28. In reply Swift Wedding Today Will Be Quiet Affair PASADENA, April Kathryn Thompson Mather ol Pasadena will- be married to Edward F. Swift, of Chicago, at a quiet wedding at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs, W. M.

Thompson, at 800 Holladay Road, here at high noon tomorrow. Dr. Robert Freeman, pastor of Pasadena Presbyterian Church, will officiate. None but members of the bride's family will be present, Mr. Swift's 'family being in mourning in Chicago.

Following a wedding breakfast, at which a few intimate friends will be present, the couple will sail on a honeymoon cruise on the Santa Elena from San Pedro tomorrow night, being booked to Havana and New York, from whicih they Willi travel to Chicago to make their permanent home. Mr3. Mather formerly was the wife of Joseph S. Mather, Pasadena merchant. today that the City Council has in HUNTINGTON BEACH, April 28.

Further investigation into the death of Robert J. Cowan of Sunset Beach, whose body was found Monday floating in upper Anaheim Bay, was ordered here today by a Coroner's jury investigating the cause iooKea after. He'd rather live ities of the County Child Welfare Thus, shipment regulation will School? He sits still, remember- sun beside the mZ lng. He went to old West Point I remember have its principal test in Orange county whose groves are predominantly Valenclas. Riverside county ships approximately 1000 cars of this variety each year.

Teachers Will Gather Today of death. Cowan's face showed marks of violence and although there was water found in the lungs the jury was not satisfied that the death was accidental drowning. The verdict stated that the evidence did not show how the body got into the wa-tcr Coroner Abbey, District Attorney Kaufmann, Sheriffs officers and others made an investigation at Sunset Beach today, questioning many persons but little light was shed on the case, it was declared. structed him to arrest any person attempting to sell beer before the court has acted. Dr.

John Oliver, representing the Pomona Ministerial Union In its efforts to keep 3.2 per cent beer out of the city, today stated that he had called a meeting of ministers and laymen representing the Twelfth Congress District to make a survey of the situation. Frank Burke, editor of the Santa Ana Register, and an outstanding "dry," will address the gathering, Dr. Oliver stated. "I feel that Pomona business men are trifling with local sentiment," Dr. Oliver said, "Pomona was buiit up as a dry community and presents a far different situation from surrounding communities that have voted to allow the sale of beer and light wines, and our fight will to preserve dry tnadittons of tha city." at Fullerton Those attending the conference are Dr.

D. D. Waynlck, Anaheim, chairman; Harvey Lynn, Riverside; Paul Armstrong, general manager of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange; Allen Wheat- FULLERTON, April 28. More than 300 commercial instructors will assemble at the Fullerton Union on, E. D.

Patterson. Volney Kin Child to Help Entertain at Gibson Rodeo SAUGUS, April 28. Discovered caid and M. W. Williams, all of Redlands; C.

P. Early, general to demanas from, the Monrovia Taxpayers' League that teachers of the high school district be reduced 20 per cent in salary, and to other demands for changes in administration, the board of trustees of Monrovia Arcadia Duarte High School have aroused the indignation of the association by refusing to reveal whether a salary cut will be Included in $31,000 proposed savings in the new budget. The executive committee of the league has been ordered to request the definite information from the board, but It Is believed that the school board will continue to withhold details of the budget until more facts are known of next year's probable necessities. "As taxpayers, we have a right to know what our bdard is going to do," F. Moore, executive chairman, stated today.

On the report of Thomas Simpson, league member, a 15 per cent salary cut for grade school teachers has been approved by the league. In Its reply to the league, the high school board declares that separation of the business and admin High School tomorrow for the an nual spring meeting of the South em California Commercial Teach manager. Mutual Orange Dtstrlbu tors, and Bruce McDanlel of the Department. EXPENDITURES FOR RELIEF Mrs. Ruth Bowman cf Culver City, student welfare department chairman, reported a total of $75,849 spent for relief work In the first district during the past year.

In addressing delegates in the Civic Auditorium this morning, Dr. E. D. Starbuck of the University of Southern California, asserted that the "principal source of all our troubles is the lower self and its inertia and foolish desires." G. Derwood Baker.

South Pasadena Junior High School principal, and Mrs. Gudrun Thorne-Thom-sen, Ojai Valley School principal, were the two afternoon speakers. Mrs. Thome-Thomson described the modern methods of teaching whereby children absorb knowledge through contact with nature and each other Instead of having knowledge crammed down their throats. BRYAN RITES CONDUCTED ONTARIO, April 28.

Funeral services were conducted today for Mrs. Mary Melinda Bryan, wife of E. H. Bryan, and mother of Mrs. Arthur M.

de Berard, 657 East Fourth street. Mrs. Bryan's death occurred at the home of her daugh ers' Association, according to an an same company, both of Rediands; A. J. Crulckshank and Arthur Mc- DRIVER GETS PROBATION SANTA ANA, April 28.

Alfred Kroymar.n, Stanton rancher, tooay was granted probation for one year by Superior Judge Allen, in connection with a charge that he failed to render aid after his car had struck and injured William Ditt-man of Anaheim, March 29. nouncement made by L. O. Culp head of that department in Fuller- Fadden. Santa Ana: Perry Mathis Tree-Planting Need Told by Capt.

Corlett LAGUNA BEACH. April 28. Need of a national tree-planting campaign was set forth here tonight by Capt. Dudley Corlett, horticulturist, as he spoke on "The Romance of Trees to more than 100 garden-lovers gathered at Hotel Laguna to celebrate success of the fifth annual flower show and garden contest under auspices of the Laguna Garden Club. Many distinguished guests from all parts of the Southland were present.

W. V. Mathews, president, presided. Dr. Dorothy Smiley of the Red Cross of Santa Monica outlined President Roosevelt's reforestation plan.

Entertainment was provided by Lone Star, Indian trumpeter; Holly Lash Visel, dramatic soprano, and Leon Burford, youthful violinist, all being accompanied by Clarence Gustlin. by Hcot Gibson in Dallas, little Dickie Jones, the mm. mm "Little COWbOV i Kl Rambler," has and J. A. Baker of Anaheim and Jack Grill of Garden Grove.

MARKET STABILIZATION ton High School and Junior College, and president of the association. A variety of entertainment and instruction has been planned by members of the local faculty, who been broucht to HELD CITRUS GROWERS' HOPE ANAHEIM. April 28. Valencia are to be in charge of various desk and information bureaus. wiiif it The convention is scheduled to Ant Appetite to Determine House Plans 4 ft open at 10 a.m.

ORANGE COUNTY DRY LAW ATTACK DROPPED SANTA ANA. April 28. The expected appeal of a Superior Court decision holding that the county dry ordinance is constitutional has been dropped, it was learned today, with the release of Frank Haegele, Sunset Beach cafe man, from the County Jail on payment of a $20 fine for possession and gift of 3.2 beer. Haegele's attorney, Otto A. Jacobs, explained today that an appeal, even if successful, would be wasted, because of the local option clause in the State measure.

istrative offices of the schools, as Los Angeles to entertain the crowds at Gibson's annual rodeo here Sunday afternoon. The program of cowboy ballads which made Dickie a "hit" at the Dallas rodeo will be given by the youngster. Other enter PASTOR TO SAY ADIEU NORTH HOLLYWOOD, April 28. Rev. Robert Center, who has been pastor of the First Baptist Church here for three years, will preach his She was 71 farewell sermon Sunday.

He resigned the pastorate a month ago. ter, and son-in-law, years of age. Dickie. Jokes requested, is not practical, and declines to appoint an auditor, but will allow the league or interested citizens to employ one at their own expense to examine school records. Baptist Vomen Name Heads of Mission Body PASADENA.

April 28. With 300 delegates from California, Nevada BOAR-OS FCfi I SOME PALM SPRINGS TO DANCE PALM SPRINGS, April 28. Popularity of dances under the desert stars has prompted a second open-air affair for the spring season at Palm Springs, to be held Satur orange and lemon growers of Southern California have reduced production costs to a minimum and any further improvement of their tndi-tion under present prices must come from market stabilization. This conclusion is deduced by Harold E. Wahlberg, Orange county farm adviser, who last night reported on the seventh annual Valencia and lemon cost and efficiency analysis.

The report was given before fifty growers who co-operated in compiling data upon which the conclusion was based. The Valencia analysis revealed that the average gross income per acre from 90 per cent of the groves was $263.12, while cash production costs totaled $166.91, leaving $96.21 per acre to meet interest and depreciation. The lemon analysis reveals a gross per acre income of $264.77, while cash expenses were $214.56, leaving a balance of $50.21 for interest and depreciation. SECRETS OF ORCHIDS DISCLOSED Social Elite Flock to See Show in Pasadena tainment will be provided by trick riders and ropers, cowboy clowns and their mules, and by the 150 stellar cowboy performers who will be seen in the competitive events carded for the afternoon. CRASH SUK SETTLED UPLAND.

April 28. Suit for $36,375 filed In Superior Court by Miss Grace Weinberger against Gus A. Hanson, local fruit packer, day evening at the Desert Inn. Fred as an outgrowth of an automobile col Harris's Campus Capers orchestra from the University of California at Los Angeles will provide harmony for the informal dinner- lision at East street and Campus avenue, Ontario, November 16, 1932, has been settled out of court, it was announced today. a4f and New Mexico in attendance, the eighteenth annual meeting of the South Pacific district, Women's American Baptist Missionary So dance.

cieties, was concluded late today with the re-election of the presi PLAY JOUST ENDS TONIGHT 3 i dent, Mrs. D. W. Schlosser of Venice. Besides Mrs.

Schlosser, officers for lot the ensuing year are: Vice-presi SANTA ANA. April 28. Fol Rites Conducted for Harmonson FILLMORE. April 28. Funeral services were conducted here today for Glenn Harmonson, prominent banker and automobile man, who was killed last Tuesday in a head-on automobile collision with a truck at Cypress.

Last rites for Harmonson were in the Fillmore Presbyterian Church with Rev. George Gammon officiating, Burial was In the Bardsdale Cemetery. He leaves a widow, Til-lie; two brothers, Leo and Von; a Clara Rood, and two sons, Earl and Leo. dents, Mrs; O. T.

Ellis of Long Beach, and Mrs. George M. Thomas of Alameda; secretary, Mrs. W. B.

lowers of the Little Theater movement in Southern California are looking forward with keen interest to the finals in the seventh annual tournament of one-act plays which Little Theater groups from Fuller-ton, Redondo Beach and Burbank. Blocks of seats have been reserved for the various "rooting" section and the applause takes on something of a collegiate nature. Groups from San Dieguito (San Diego county,) Laguna Bench and Oxnard will appear tomorrow night. The tourney, sponsored by the Santa Ana Community Players, is being held In the Ebell JAR BLAST BURNS WOMAN PICO. April 28.

Mrs. H. A. Lierman, Jackson street, was severely burned while canning fruit. An overheated jar exploded, throwing the boiling contents over her face and arms.

She was given emergency treatment and the attending physician is of the opinion that the burns, although very painful, will not cause disfigurement. concludes tomorrow night. The sec ond inning in the dramatic Joust was staged tonight with participat A Addis of Los Angeles; World Wide Guild secretary Mrs. Webster Davis of Glendale; Children's World Crusade secretary, Mrs. E.

G. Peck of Los Angeles; White Cross secretary, Mrs. J. C. Cline of Bellflower; missionary education chairman, Mrs.

John Speed of Torrance; reading contest chairman, Mrs. H. L. Langdon of Oakland; civic chairman, Mrs. M.

M. Wann of Berkeley and literature secretary, Miss Mary E. Bamford of Oakland. ing units from Monrovia, San Ber nardino and Tustin. The tournament opened Thursday night by PASADENA FLOWER SHOW -GRAND PRIZES AWARDED INQUEST TO BE OMITTED IN-FIRE DEATH AT PARTY Mrs.

William L. Stewart She la shown with her sweepstakes exhibit. SANTA MONICA, April 28. No PEARBLOSSOM, April 28. On one of the streets of Pear-blossom is a big ant hole with pieces of a certain kind of wall board nailed to the ground.

The idea. is to see whether the. ants eat the wall board. Capt. Tlmmons, who once walked the bridge of the Idaho and Texas battleships, has retired and located here, and is building a home.

He was told that ants would carry away the wall board house if he cared to use it. But his scientific mind found a scientific method. Two ants at first investigated the material and evidently reported to their fellows at. the home nest. As the ants have not yet quite decided whether they will carry off the wall board samples, it is uncertain what kind of material will be used in the new house.

Capt. Tlmmons is biding his time. Food Experts Meet Today in SantaBarbara SANTA BARBARA, April 28. Dr. William D.

Sansum, head of Sansum clinic at Cottage Hospital, will be the principal speaker -when home economics teachers of Southern California convene here for a one-day session tomorrow. His sub-' jpet wlfl be "Our Present Day Knowledge of Digestion and Normal Intestinal Flora," at the morning session at 10:30 o'clock in Santa Barbara Junior High School. PASADENA, April 28. More than 8000 children were guests of the Pasadena Horticultural Society today at the Southern California Spring Flower Show which closes tomorrow at 10 p.m. in the Civic Auditorium exhibition hall.

The Little Garden Club of Pasadena, it was announced, has won the grand sweepstakes prize in the private grower's class with its elaborate Chinese garden entry. The Coolidg; Rare Plant Garden was awarded the sweepstakes in the commercial class. Additional first prizes have been awarded as follows; Amateur Section Cut Flowers: Iris, Mrs. C. J.

Pegler, Sierra Ma-dre; Mary M. Casey, Altadena; orni-thogalums, Mrs. A. T. Kcnyon, Pasadena lilies of the valley, Mrs.

E. A. Shaw, Pasadena; pansies, Fred Walters, Pasadena; sweet peas, Mrs. Chester O. Hanson, Pasadena; Clarl-ta Heath, South Pasadena; snapdragons, Mrs.

J. J. Skow, La Canada; calendulas, Phyllis James, Altadena; gerbcras, H. P. Hammond, Altadena; petunias, Mrs.

J. Harrison, Altadena; pelargoniums, Janet F. Brown, Pasadena; nasturtiums, Jessie A. Pasadena; scarlet (flax, Mrs. E.

R. Webb, Pasadena. Flowers not classified, Mrs. George Poulter, Sierra Madre. party at midnight to go to th home of friends, told the officers her husband on previous occasions had gone to sleep with a cigarette in his lips, they reported.

While the body found in the ruins was unrecognizable, a check-up of all guests at the party left Harbeson alone unaccounted for. Harbeson was said to have been a member of a wealth? Beverly Hills family, spending a large part ot his time at the beach home. His wife was prostrated over the tragic ending of the party. He Ichvps a brother, Harbeson of Beverly Hills, in addition to his widow. L.

Stewart of this city; First prizes were won by Dr. Henry Eversole and Curtis. Peck, and second prizes went to Mrs. Malcolm McNaughten and Joseph Urmston. Orchids that have the appearance of a swarm of yellow butterflies in flight, others that look like giant pansies and some that resemble the face of a bearded mandarin attracted the Interest of the throngs.

For educational purposes, Arma-cost Aj Royston, commercial growers, entered an exhibit which shows each step in the artificial propagation' of orchids. PASADENA, April 28. guarded secrets of orchid culture were revealed to more than 300 of the Southland's social elite who feasted their eyes and their noses today on the exotic blooms entered in the Orchid Show, sponsored by the Pasadena Garden Club, The display of thousands of dollars' worth of orchids will be concluded tomorrow in "Caslta del Arroyo." located on the east bank of the Arroyo Seco at Arbor street. The sweepstakes prize was won by the collection of Mrs. William Inquest will be conducted In the death early yesterday of Thomas T.

Harbeson of Beverly Hills, whose charred body was found in the ruins of his Topanga Beach home, one of four cottages de- stroyed- by a fire. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow at the Todd Leslie mortuary. Deputy sheriffs of the Topanga substation expressed belief that the fire, which started in the Harbeson cottage an hour after an all-night party had been In progress there, was started by a cigarette. Harbcson'i wife, who had left the.