Robert J. Moes, 83; Surgeon and Bibliophile

Robert J. Moes, 83, a physician who served as an ambulance and police surgeon for several years at the city’s old Georgia Street Receiving Hospital and then became head of the emergency medical division of the Los Angeles Citizens Defense Corps during World War II. A bibliophile who prowled downtown Los Angeles bookshops while a resident at the old California Lutheran Hospital, Moes at his death had accumulated hundreds of books on anatomy. Many of them have been and will be donated to the University of Nebraska, his alma mater, or to the Moody Medical Library at the University of Texas. After leaving city service, Moes returned to a private practice he had started in 1931, retiring in 1976. He also had served on the Library Committee of the Los Angeles County Medical Assn. since 1949. In Los Angeles on Sunday.