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THE BOSTON GLOBE-THUBSDffY, JULY 4, 1929 12 LOS ANGELES MAKES SECRET TESTS LASELL GIRL PAINTING MISS UNITED STATES IS VISITING BOSTON DIVER WORKS FROM I SUNKEN SUBMARINE POLICE RAID TEH REVERE SPEAKEASIES OF TAKING ON AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT HER BATHHOUSE The plana was piloted by Lieut J. Gordon, attached to tha aircraft staff at Philadelphia. Herbert Wiley, lieutenant-commander In charge of the Loa Angeles, said, We made the first preliminary tests ever taken attaching, detaching an airplane from a dirigible in flight and they were fairly satisfactory. The teste will be carried.to completion In tha near future. The dirigibles now being constructed for the Navy at Akron, are designed to carry a plane.

It waa la view of perfecting this new feature of dirigible construction that the tests today were made. Irene Ahlberg Makes Stage Debut Here Tomorrow Beauty Queen Entered the Contest Without Knowing Jt Irene Ahlberg, crowned Miss United States at the huge beauty contest held less than a month ago In Galves- IRENE AHLBERG Hiss United States of 1929 ton, Tex, is making her first visit to Boston. Last night she entertained the newspapermen and women at a dinner in the Chinese room of the Hotel Statler. Despite the numerous addresses by newspaper guests and theatrical men it was Miss Ahlberg who made the neatest, best-timed speech of the evening. She explained, very simply and girlishly, her ambitions to go into pic tures.

She told her hearers that while she could wear a bathing suit so that numerous judges considered her the most perfect girl out of the 1200 who entered the contest she also could swim in that same suit. She believes that swimming and horse-back riding have helped her maintain the lovely figure with which she was born. Incidentally Miss United States is to be the star of the revue at the Metro- politan Theatre for the coming week. She Is making her professional debut in Boston. Until three weeks ago, she was a stenographer ln a cotton house on Worth st.

New York city. Mrs Ahlberg accompanied her daughter to this city. Sister Also Is Talented Miss United States is -not the only talented member of her family. Anita Ahlberg, Mrs Ahlbergs other daugh ter, won fame before Irene did. Anita is a brilliant young artist who has won two scholarships, one of which took her to Paris for a course in art.

Her recent stay with the Indians in Arizona, where she studied the native life and made pictures of the Indians in their home surroundings, made Anita the subject of several newspaper stories. Miss United States entered the contest without knowing it. Her aunt sent the pictures and data regarding Irene, and the girl was much surprised when told to appear at a certain theatre. Ill just walk on and walk off, and then youll be sorry to see me so humiliated before everyone, said Irene to her aunt. It wont be as much a oke as you think when no one applauds me." But Irene won the evening's contest and has kept on winning the contests until she was finally adjudged the winner at Galveston, I MISS HELEN JACKSON Of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Lasell Seminary girl likes the paint brush.

The cameraman caught her painting her bathhouse on Singing Beach. She Is the head of the student government at Lasell for next semester. AIRSHIP MAYFLOWER REACHES ROUND HILL Dirigible Eies From Lake-hurst to Bay State Flight to Plymouth Is Planned for Today Special Dispatch to the Globa NEW BEDFORD, July 3-The dirigible Mayflower arrived at Round Hill from Lakehurst, today. The airship la to be an adjunct to the work of the students and scientists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this Summer. Tonight the Mayflower is Installed In the new hangar.

Col S. H. R. Green on whose estate the airship landed, said that morrow he can probably reveal the names of trans-Atlantic flyers who will use the Round Hills station for communication because of congestion In other stations. Col Green announces he will build this Summer the largest landing mast In this section, which will be used by the Shenandoah when in this vicinity rather than the mast at Newport, also he will build a hangar to accommodate 10 airplanes.

The hangar will be of usual width to accommodate air-plants with HO feet wing spread. PLANS PLYMOUTH FLIGHT IN PLANE MAYFLOWER CLEVELAND FLYERS MAY RUN ItlTO RAIN Storm Threatens Kcfueling of Their Plane Today Culm City Endurance Ship Safe After Nearly Being Downed CLEVELAND. July 3 (A. monopUr-e City of Cleveland droned teadUy high In the air tonight, as the week which pilots Byron K. Newcomb and Boy L.

Mitchell hope to remain aloft to set a new refueling endurance flight record narrowed toward two days. Both men and plane seemed In good condition after another day of flying Aided by favorable weather. Tomorrow, however, heavy rains may be encountered late In the day, weather forecasters said, and in that case refueling la expected to prove difficult. Doth Crews Confident Five days in the air have left both the endurance and ground crews confident they will be able to beat tne present record of 172 hours. 32 minutes and 1 aecond.

Newcomb and Mitch-eU waved away the bag containing their breakfast this morning and dropped word that In their determination to succeed they did not want any extras transferred to them. Both flyers reported themselves nearly deafened by the constant roar of tha motors, but to the refueling plane crew they seemed weathering the monotonous grind in good aha pa. Ninety gallons more of gasoline were transferred to tha City of Cleveland this afternoon after a note was dropped requesting more fuel immediately. It was the 18th successful contact negotiated with the flying milk wagon piloted by E. E.

Basham. May Aim at 200 Hours So high waa optimism Airport today that the endurance flyers were expected to attempt to remain in the air 200 hours or longer. Observers who have watched the plane's functioning to date believed It waa only a question of whether human endurance could equal the mechanical. Tomorrow tha plana will go to Akron to make a refueling contact at an altitude of 500 feet In response to a request from ths Aircraft Association of Akron. CULVER CITT.

Calif. July 3 (A. Aiming at a new endurance flight record, L. W. MendeU and R.

B. Rein- hart were well Into their aecond day of flying by refueling tonight, having kept their biplane Angeleno, aloft since 7:30 a Tuesday. With the exception of being a bit tired everything waa running smoothly. a message dropped to the airport here said. Once Near Forced Landing The scare of a forced landing was experienced by the ground crew early today after an unidentified man in Hollywood telephoned the airport he had picked up a message from the flyers which said their gas was run- ning low.

Later It was learned they had overestimated their supply, as the message indicated. The flyera made a run for tha airport and swooped over It. flying blind because of a heavy fog. They barely escaped crashing into several telephone poles In an effort to get as close -to the airport as possible, hoping to attract attention with frantic calls and waving of arms. Realising the emergency, a load of fuel waa placed In the refluellng ship and as If to provide the straw which broke the camels back the motor refused to contact.

After several futile efforts, the refueling pilots gave the task up as a hopeless one, rushed another load of fuel to a nearby airplane and took off. The emergency refueling ship arrived In time enough to lower several cans of gasoline which Mendel and Reinhart poured Into their motor as It appeared to stop. Later a full refueling waa made with another plana lata today. BOY UPON BICYCLE DIVES OFF WHARF Swims to Safety, but Briny Deep Holds Wheel Special IMictkh ths Globe FROVINCETOWN. July 3-SIxtecn-yesr-old Antone Mead unwittingly staged pre-Fourth thriller when, astride a bicycle, he dived 20 feet into the harbor off the end of Railroad Wharf at the spot where the Dorothy Bradford ties up.

Tony was pedaling down the long wharf to meet his dad returning from a fishing trip. Tony was scanning the horlxon a bit too intently, for suddenly he discovered there was no more wharf. The bike glided over the wharf edge and Tony went down, bike and all. to the bottom. He swam to a ladder where Darrow Adams, garage proprietor, baoled him oat.

but, alas! his bike is still in the habitat of the finny tribes. GIFTS OF $700,000 FOR JAPANESE COLLEGE Kobe College at Kobe, Japan, an Institution of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, has had 3700.000 subscribed to its build tag fund, it was announced here yesterday. The amount was 3100,000 more than the goal set. The additional amount was offered by the Harkness Foundation. Kobe College, the oldest college for women In Japan, was founded in 1S75 by the Womens Board of Missions of the Interior, now merged with the American Board.

An 18-acre campus, costing 375.000, has been purchased by the Japanese graduates themselves, who are now raising an endowment fund of 3300.000. In addition to the 3100.000 conditional gift of Edward S. Harkness of New York, a 325.000 gift was received from Julius Rosenwald. PLAYGROUNDS SUPERVISORS ARE SELECTED AT NATICK NATICK, July 3 The annual opening of the Summer playgrounds has been set for Monday July 8, when registration will be held at ths following school grounds: Oak Grove, Cochltuate st. Bacon, Feleh villa.

North Natick, South Natick and East Natick. Charles J. Welch has been reappointed director. The following staff of supervisors has been chosen: Miss jgaxy Quinn. Mis Theresa Cashln.

Eileen Shannon. Miss Mary McGrath Mias Dorothea Clahane. Miss Mary Hogan, Miss Agnes Coleman. Miss Violet Godendorf and Richard Nugent. SOUTH BRAINTREE MAN IS STRUCK BY AUTO BRAINTREE.

July 3-S truck by an automobile operated by Dolphus liberty, a U. S. Coast Guardsman of East Boston, as he was crossing South Braintree sq tonight, Schtcklea of Liberty at. South Braintree, sustained severe Uceratlonsabout the head and legs. He was treated by Dr John F.

Gallivan, He Iter returned to bis home Says Rivals Were Darlings There were many girls in the contest who were Jealous of Irenes sue- cessbutshestaibelievesthatmost I the diving loc while" Naval Officers present timeare nice! ftaple gi 1 WatCh th on the botttom in deep water to simulate a helpless sub, the Defender, with her crew of civilians, will sink beside her and Crilley will work out of i Crilley Leaves Defender 50 Feet Under Water rest at Block Island Satisfies Nary Experts Aboard Falcon By NAT A. BARROWS GREAT SALT POND, Block Lland July 3 Stepping out from th bow of the private eubmarine Defsnj. er 50 fee from the surface, Crilley, mate of the boat, and the holder of the worlds deep diving record, crawled about on the bottom her, for nearly an hour today, demonstrat. lng the feasibility of a diver working from a submerged sub In the event that rough weather prevents surface diving to the rescue of a sunken sub. marine.

It was part of the Navys teBti here an outcome of the loss of the S-4 and the determination of the department to do everything possible to prevent a similar disaster. If such a system of underwater control of divers had been perfected in 1927, it is possible that men of the S-4 might have been Danenhower Tends Lines I wlth Lieut Commander Palmer H. I Dunbar, an outstanding submarine man ln charge, the diving ship Fake nd personnel came here for a I series of important tests with sub. marine safety devices that will last 1 through the entire Sumner. In thes, experiments the refitted s-4 again will play a part as a.

laboratory for demonstration. Crilleys dive today was mada to th complete satisfaction of Comman- i der Dunbar, Lieut Charles B. Momscn othw Afi. atePPln? UP 41? the efetlders diving pressure of toe water he door th J11 bottom, with Capt Sloan Danenhower tending chamber. Topside a swell was running in from the Sound, nothing serious but enough to have moorings a more important factor if the ship had been on the surface.

Crilley, who reached 306 feet the worlds deepest dive worked hia way in a radius of 30 feet from the bow et the Defender, struggling about la mud V.P knees, but proving the prat tlcability of the test. He recovered a unken anchor and marked It for surfacing Pontoon Not Sunk In the hour that he remained out of the diving lock, there was no trouble experienced by Danenhower in tending the lines, except for the discomfort of the compressed air and the small quarters. It had been planned today to sink the salvage pontoon 5, one of the poa-toons that brought the S-4 to the aw face, but Executive Officer Kelley'i plans to give the men Fourth of July liberty prevented this and the Falcon hauled out of the harbor at noon and docked at the submarine base, Nevr London, for the holiday. The S-4 Is now at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, receiving the final touches for the trip down to these waters, where she will be sunk outside for the rough water tests. With the S-4 lying i gaiety factor alight Commander Dunbar is satlsSed that the Defender is ln satisfactory condition, despite her 25 years, for the Cummers work, and the contract with Danenhower has been accepted, lliera is only a Blight safety factor in the boat, for she uses the antiquoted gasoline engines, requiring that the fumes be vented out a pipe to the surface.

The crew la forced to use the utmost care at all times, for the slightest spark would be liable to ignite tlie gas fumes that are always luiking in the corners and crevices. Block Island, wakening tu Its Summer of activity, is taking much interest In the work of the Falcon and the Defender, and the two ships are the object of excursions during the day. The Falcon will be back here cn Friday. FIVE CHILDREN SAVED IN CAMBRIDGE FIRE rjaTTlfivT Dllt Tvu nr Tit 3 '-'Ub UJ i driJlUo and Passing Citizen Five children were rescued from burning apartment late last night when fire, which started on the first floor of a three-story tenement house, mushroomed its way through one section of a duplex building at SOt 'Cambridge st, corner of Sixth et, Cambridge. The children were rescued by their parents, Mr and Mrs James Costa, and Albert Wilson of 152 Berkshire st.

East Cambridge, a spectator. The parents were asleep in a room ner the children, but Wilson, who ssw the fire, climbed a waterplpe to the first porch and made his way to the third floor. Mr and Mrs Costa had ln ths mean Mrf been moused from sleep by Mrs Reginia Motta, mother of Mrs Costa. Mrs Motta, who lives at 922 6th st, the fire from a rear porch of her hom located within a few yards of tps apartment. She shouted to her daughter- and warned her of the danger, Mr and Mrs Costa carried three the children down the stairs of buildings other section, malned untouched by the flames, i took out Albert, Genevlve, 6, Mary, 1.

Wilson brought out two dren Dorothy, 4, and Jane, 3. The fire started in the Economy Public Market' on the flrstfloor rtn building. The first, second and tmr floors were damaged. SPIRITS SUSPECTED AS CAUSE OF STRANGE ALARM Apparently the shade of some patriotic old resident of Cambr dg. as abroad in that city last night I00 chance to Indulge in a MU for a wanes night before the glorious Fourth whoopee.

No other explanation forthcoming for a phenomenon wni occurred right under the nose of patr man Patrick J. Kelleher tf on the corner of Vestern av and now ard st, Cambridge. Patrolman Kelleher heardthe clangor of approaching fire engines. The apparatus drew up beside firebox si. near which he was standing.

AHhougn the door of the firebox was tightly closed and the glass unbroken, an alarm from 381 had been received at the Central Fire Station. The mechanism of the box was examined na found to be in good working order. Neither patrolman Kelleher nor Deputy Fire Chief Albert R. Waite could thin of any explanation of the ghostly alarm. Five 1 Truckloads Liquor Confiscated Move Mads by District Men Request of Mayor Special Dispatch to the Globs REVERE, July 3 A raiding squad ron of 60 men of the Metropolitan Dis trict Police gathejed from stations all around Boston and comprising one fourth of the entire department, sur prised 10 alleged speakeasies In Beach' mont.

Revere Beach and the citV proper early tonight, acting on the secret request of Mayor Andrew A. whose own Police Department was not informed of the raids. At six of the 10 places liquor was seized. Five truckloads were confiscated, the value being set at more than 36000. Summons will be sought Friday at the Chelsea District Court in order that the proprietors of the six places where liquor was found may be prosecuted.

No arrests were made to night. The raiding squadron was headed by Capt Albert Chapman of the Charles River Basin Station as acting chief, assisted by Capt Edward H. Woods of the Fellsway and Revere Beach Stations of the Metropolitan Police. ThS traids were made at the request of Mayor Casassa, Capt Woods declared. Capt Woods explained that two special officers from the Blue Hills Station of the Metropolitan Police were imported to Revere about a month ago to get evidence for the raids.

He said the two men, Dennis Cronin and Walter F. Cunniff, had bought liquor 21 times at the places raided. On this evidence search warrants were tained for tonights raids. At 6 oclock the officers from the Metropolitan Police stations throughout Greater Boston began to arrive. Each was dressed in plain colthes.

The squads, of 45 patrolmen in all, set out for the following places named on the warrants: 460 Revere st, 40 Fairfield st, 24 Ambrose st, 22 Dolphin av, 180A Revere Beach Parkway, 180B Revere Beach Parkway, 3 Pratt ct, 284 Ocean av, 262 Ocean av and 129 Centennial av. Liquor was found at the following places: 460 Revere st, 40 Fairfield st, 24 Ambrose st, 22 Dolphin av, 1S0A Revere Beach Parkway and 180B Revere Beach Parkway. LINDBERGH AND BRIDE LEAVE OKLAHOMA Plans 1 Flight to Texas and New Mexico WAYNOKA, Okla, July 3 (A. Accompanied by his bride of a few weeks, Col Charles A. Lindbergh left the Transcontinental Air Companys field here tonight at 9:26 oclock.

Upon his departure. Col Lindbergh said he intended to stop at Amarillo, Tex, and probably would proceed from- there to clovis, tonight. AUTOPSY PERFORMED ON BODY OF STULTZ Officials Attempt to Find Cause of His Crash Special Dispatch to the Globe NEW YORK, July 3 Nassau County officials, who had attempted to keep the matter secret, today admitted an autopsy had been performed on Wil-mer Stultz, transatlantic flyer, Mon day night, following his death in an airplane crash with Edward B. Harwood and Ernest P. Castelluccio, near Roosevelt Field, I.

It was learned during the day, while Stultz was being burled at Williams burg, Penn, that his brain and other organa had been sent to Bellevue Hospital for analysis by Dr Alexander O. Goettler, toxicologist. In the absence of Elvin N. Edwards, district attorney, others in his office refused to be quoted but revealed the autopsy had been performed at their Instance on an order from County Judge Smith. Mr Edwards assistants said that Nassau County had been the scene of numerous unexplained accidents ln which the machines involved apparently were in perfect condition.

They added that in some of these tragedies something seem to snap in the brain or the body of the and the present investigation was ordered to ascertain if this was true in the case of Stultz. LYNN POLICEMAN ARRESTS MAN HE SAYS STRUCK HIM LYNN, July 3 Daniel Conrad was arrested in City Hall sq today, just before the tercentenary parade passed before the Mayoress of Kings Lynn, England. Conrad, according to patrolman Linus Shanahan, was firing off Fourth of July salutes and, when stopped by patrolman Shanahan, turned on the officer and struck him. He was booked at police station on a charge of drunkenness and assay.lt on a police officer. STOUGHTON MAN ACCEPTS U.

OF ARKANSAS POST STOUGHTON, July 3-Maj Robert P. Holdsworth, who with his family returned recently from Stockholm, Sweden, after more than a years stay there, left today for Fayetteville, Ark, where he has accepted a position as instructor in forestry in the University of Arkansas. Mrs Holdsworth end children will remain here for the present. It was for the purpose of acquiring more knowledge of forestry that Maj Holdsworth went to Stockholm. He had received a fellowship from the Scandinavian Foundation, following the successful completion ot his studies at forestry department of Yale University.

During his stay in Stockholm he studied forestry in the Royal College, Stockholm, and in his articles written for the Globe he told many interesting events and experiences abroad. ROUND-THE-WORLD WALKER VISITS CAMBRIDGE MAYOR Gordon Moodey, 27, a round-the-world hitch-hiker from Toronto, Can, paid a visit to Cambridge City Hall yesterday afternoon where he met Mayor Quinn. Moodey left his home city last month and has made good progress so far and Intends to com plete the -tour within- five years to 111. and in to LAKEIIURST. J.

July 3 (A. The first attempt over made to attach an airplane to a rigid dirigible while in flight was made over the Lakehurst Naval Air Stadium today. Officials refused to comment, other than to say the experiment was fairly successful. The flight, over uninhabited country in South Jersey, was made with -the utmost secrecy and It could not be learned whether or not an airplane actually landed on tha giant airship Los Angeles. MODERN HOUSEWIFE BUSY, EXPERTS FIND Less Dishwashing, Cooking But More Management The modern housewife is not a lady of leisure and tha city housewife works practically as long as the farmer's 1 s.

A -A vv dr margret m. srsnx wife, it was said yesterday afternoon at the continuing 22d annual convention of the American Home Economics Association, at the Hotel Statler. Hildegarde Kneeland, In charge of the division of economics of the Federation Bureau of Home Economics, addressing one of the special sessions. Bald: Even in this day of ready-made clothing, canned foods, washing machines and nursery schools, the housewife has yet a life-size Job on her hands, according to the facts in hand. The bureau has figures showing that 51 hours a week is the average time spent by every housewife on her household tasks, very few women spend less than 42 hours a week and one third of the women are more than overworked, toiling from 62 hours on.

City home workers supposed to be wasting away in idleness differ little from farmers wives. What time the farm women put in the care of poultry. milk, gardening and other farm work, the city women put In the care of their children, purchasing and management. They have lees dishwashing and cooking, since farm women spend about 23 hours a week at the dishpan or over the stove, but they find other cares. According to the Federal figures the routine is about alike in city or country, seven and a half hours disappearing in cleaning, five and a quarter in laundering, an hour and a half mending.

Dr Margaret M. Justin presided yesterday at the luncheon for the State presidents of the federated clubs. There were numerous other luncheons for delegate groups and as on the previous, days the discussions were arranged to apply directly to the various special interests of the delegates. The convention will continue today and tomorrow. MADRID FOLK AWAIT ARRIVAL OF AVIATORS Sendoff Given Flyers and Rescuers at Algeciras ALGECIRAS, Spain, July 3 (A.

special train tonight sped Maj Ramon Franco and his threes companions, rescued near the Azores from their attempted transatlantic flight last week, homeward to Madrid. A tremendous demonstration of enthusiasm and affection, from the head of the Government down to the great body of Madrid citizens, awaited them there tomorrow morning. Enormous crowds gave them a send-off for Madrid this afternoon. To the tunes of the British and Spanish national anthems, the Governor of Algeciras. the captain-general of the Marine Department of Cadiz, and Ideal authorities saw them depart in company with officers of the British aircraft carrier Eagle, which rescued them at sea.

After the festivities at Madrid tomorrow, Capt Ruiz de Alda and Maj Gonzalez Gallarza will fly to Seville on Friday. Maj Franco was uncertain whether he could accompany them, although he said he wished to see my favorite city. A few minutes before their special train started an English girl from Gibraltar pinned in Maj Franco's buttonhole a tiny British flag. Inscribed God Save the King. The aviator signed her autograph album.

CAMBRIDGE HOT-DOC MAH INJURED BY CAR Elias Christopulos, 46, of 6S5 Main at, Cambridge, a hot-dog vendor, was seriously injured last night when he was knocked down by a Boston El evated Railway street car on Massachusetts av, near Lafayette st, Cambridge. Christopulos was taken to the Cambridge Relief Hospital. He suffered severe lacerations of the scalp, a severed artery in the head and concussion of the brain. He was pushing his stand across the street when the trolley car, operated by L. J.

Flynn of 125 Forest av, Watertown, struck him CHARLES HAMMOND. 74, COLLAPSES AT SC0LLAY SQ Charles Hammond, aged 74 yeark, an Inmate at the Long Island Hospital, collapsed In front of 6 Scoilay sq yesterday afternoon, falling to the sidewalk and suffering a fractured nose. He was removed to the Haymarket Square Relief Hospital, where Dr Bernard Devine found that he was also suffering from a severe shaking. His condition is serious on account of his age. MRS SARAH P.

GREENE. AUTHOR. IS 73 YEARS OLD LEXINGTON, July 3 Mrs Sarah Pratt McLean Greene author, who lives at 8 Glen road, was 73 today. She passed ths dsy quietly. Mrs Greene, who is fond of motoring, is often seen riding.

She is, the author of many Cape Cd stories and other popular books. She was born In Simsbury, Conn, WAKEFIELD WOMAN HEIR TO $750,000 Little Thrill in News to Mrs Heath Will Continus to Live Quiet Lite She Always Has CHICAGO, July 3 (A. Sarah Heath of Wakefield, Mass, as sole heir received the entire estate of 750,000 1 left by her brother, Charles. F. Green, head of a jewelry concern here.

WAKEFIELD, July 3 Beneficiary of a fortune of 3750,000 left by her broth-er, Mrs Sarah Heath will continue to live quietly and comfortably at her modest home at 10 Heath st. Widow of Dr Joseph W. Heath, one of the best known practising physicians of this district at the time of his death 10 years ago, Mrs Heath has formed many associations In this town and does not Intend to let the fortune make her life any different. She has known about the fortune of 3750.000 since last February. Her brother, Charles F.

Green, head of a Chicago jewelry concern, died in Chi' cago last February. Soon after his death, Mrs Heath was notified by his attorneys that she was the sole beneficiary of the will Her brother amassed his fortune In the jewelry business at New York and Chicago. He was for many years in New York and later removed to Chicago, where he became head of a jewelry concern. Mrs Heath has been In poor health the last few years. She was always of retiring disposition and when dis cussing her newly-acquired fortune last night, she said that she did not know to what use she would put tne Mrs Heath lives In a one-family dwelling at 10 Avon st, the same little house in which her husband practised his profession more than 30 years.

Dr Heath was well known in Wake field and surrounding cities and towns, having the largest practise of any local doctor at the time of his death. He was chairman of the Board of Health for several years. The Heath home is situated on Avon st directly across from the Beebe Memorial Library, about two blocks from Wakefield sq. son. Heath, who operated a poultry farm in Lynnfield for several years.

He now lives with his mother. CHICAGO PLANE OFF IN FLIGHT TO BERLIN Contlaaed From the First Fsge the postmaster of Berlin within a I week, the first to be carried from I Chicago to Europe by air. Short Flights Planned Of the 5000 miles, 1500 water, although none of the water hops is more than 300 miles. On the shores of Greenland and Iceland and on the Faroe and Shetland Islands, as well as through the northern woods, stores of gasoline have been placed at 800-mile Intervals along the route. There the Bowler will stop for fueling.

The goal for tonight was Great Whale, a trading post 1000 miles from Chicago in the Hudson Bay country. If preparations at scheduled stops take too long, however, it was planned only to make Rupert House, some 400 miles nearer. Weather for the first two days of the flight waa favorable and no delays were expected in the trip across the top of the world. The amphibian, wned by the Chicago Tribune, Is piloted by Bob Gast and Parker B. Cramer.

The Tribunes aviation editor, Robert Wood, is a passenger on the trip, made for the purpose of a new mail and commercial route to Europe. Named for English Derby The ship draws its name from a type of derby hat worn in England and known as the "Hunting Bowler. The plane is named as the English pronounce it Untin Bowler, Its first stop was Milwaukee, where crowds greeted the plane as It swooped onto the waters of the bay. The Bowler took off an hour and seven minutes later and made its next etop at Sault Ste Marie, Mich, on the waters of the Marys River. The plane came down' on the American side of the river and taxied to the Canadian Forestry Department aerodrome on the other side.

Five hun- dred gallons of gasoline were waiting at the Soo for the plane. Its next stop was Reml Lake, on the Canadian National Railways transcontinental line, where a provincial government air base is situated. At Reml Lake is the last of Government radio stations, there being none at Great Whale or Rupert House. MOONBEAM, Ont, July 3 (A. Chicago amphibian plane, the Untin Bowler, arrived at the Reml Lake air base, near here, at 7:50 Boston time, tonight.

WORKMAN ON TUG KILLED BY ELECTRICITY While working on board the tug Clara H. Doane, tied up at the Atlantic Works, off 80 Border st, East Boston, yesterday afternoon, Robert Anderson, the fireman, was killed by electricity. Anderson was 23 years old. single, and lived at 32 Shelby st. East Boston.

The body was removed to the Northern Mortuary on instructions of Medical Examiner Magrath. The Doane is undergoing repairs, and Anderson was working In the engine room of the boat with an extension light, when he was rendered unconscious. His plight was discovered by others on the boat and be was harried to the first all room of the Atlantic Works and treated. Dr E. E.

Bowen of 280 Sumner st. East Easton, was summoned and pronounced Anderson dead. GLOBE WANTS GLOBE DISPLAY ADVTS READ TODAY, I I are over of to 40 of an St 9 More than 300 years after his ancestors sailed Into Plymouth Harbor on the good ship Mayflower Pres Paul W. Litchfield of the Goodyear Tire and BOMB DAMAGES GRAIN EXCHANGE Cashier Accused of Plot to Conceal Shortage Los Angeles Employe Blames Night Life for His Troubles LOS ANGELES, July 3 (A. alleged plot of a cashier to wreck the offices of the Los Angeles Grain Exchange in the hope of obliterating records of a shortage in his accounts today caused a bomb explosion which partly destroyed the trading suites.

The blast, which was set' off 20 minutes before a staff of clerks arrived to begin their days duties, shattered partititions, knocked, the plaster from ceilings and walls and damaged furni ture. The offices were vacant at the time The cashier who was arrested three hours later and who, police said, ad mitted the plot, was Perry Parson, 47, an employe of the exchange for the last six years. Parson, police said, ad mitted a 31000 shortage dating from last January. The suspect was charged with dynamiting a building and embezzle' ment. He is married and the father of three children.

The explosion which occurred on the fifth floor of the L. W. Heilman Build lng in the financial district at Sixth and Spring sts, resulted from the ex plosion of one bomb. Police found two other bombs in office closets, their fuses burned, but unexpioded because of faulty percussion caps. They were made of dynamite.

In his alleged confession Parson said he had takpn the money and He used it for a number of parties said he had spent it all and blamed his "night life for his act. FIND CENTURY-OLD RUM IN RIVER BED NEW YORK, July 3 (A. Sand hogs working 40 feet below the level of the East River, on 'the foundation for a 33-story office building at 120 Wall st, found 100 bottles today which officials of the construction company said contained West Indian rum at least a century old. The men were working under 21 pounds of air pressure when they found the first bottle. They dug Into the side of the shaft and had collected 100 bottles when the 100-ton caisson in which they were working, undermined by the side shaft, dropped three feet and cut off the rum mine.

The building is being constructed on filled land near South st and it was supposed that the liquor may have been part of the cargo once wrecked in the river and that the bottles had gradually settled in the soft bottom. LEADER NOTES PROGRESS IN BAKERS' UN0N DRIVE The following announcement was issued by Chris Kerker, general organizer of the Bakery and Confection ery Workers International Union yesterday: Satisfactory progress in the organization drive is being made by the committee in charge of Bakers Union 7, several new bakeries have been added to the union program. Organized labor, whose aid is being soiiq-ited by evenng addresses through the educational committees, is taking a noble position In the Interests of the organized bakery workers. An open meeting Is being arranged to take place July 13 at 7 which will be addressed by Miss Rose Sullivan of the Electrical Workers executive board and James R. Martin of the Typographical Union executive board on the question of Eli-nination of Waste and the Necessity of Efficient Cooperation and Loyalty to the Cause and Industry.

MISS GENTRY'S CONDITION STILL REPORTED CRITICAL MINEOLA. July (A. Miss Viola Gentry, injured in the airplane crash in which her pilot. Jack Ashcraft, was killed last Friday, was still In a critical condition at Nassau County Hospital and Is not vet out of danger. Hospital attendants, however, eaid her condition showed slight improvement.

She has a fractured skull and both arms are broken. Miss Gentry has insisted ever since she entered the hospital that, while they were removing her from the wreck of the plane, she overheard someone say, Jacks dead. Nurses, however, continue to assure her that she must have dreamed it, The type of beauty contestant has changed in the past few years, and everyone said what nice girls we were, not a bit high-hat or snooty, laughed Miss Ahlberg. I made many friends in Galveston and the girls who were my rivals were absolutely darlings quiet, sweet and well-bred. None of the girls had ever been on the stage or even in the mob scenes of pictures.

Miss Ahlberg Is already suffering from advance stage fright, occasioned by her dread of making her stage debut tomorrow noon at the Metropolitan. SAVES FIVE Oil FIRST DAY AS POLICEMAN Special Dispatch to the Globe QUINCY, July 3 Patrolman Charles Ferrazi, who was appointed a regular policeman only yesterday, started bis first day by rescuing five children this evening from the home of Anthony Antonlus, 21 Pray st, during a fire. The fire started ln the cellar, and the house was filled with smoke when Ferrazi discovered the blaze. Five children were alone ln the house. Fer- razi brought them all to safety.

MANY FINED IN HINGHAM FOR ILLEGAL DRIVING HINGHAM, July 3-Many ctuses were heard in the 2d District Court of Plymouth County today. Fines of 3300 were Imposed by Judge Edward B. Pratt. State Trooper Lewis E. Bond of the Norwell Barracks was the complainant against William G.

Grounds, East Weymouth, and Miltcn R. Millman, Plymouth, for operating a motor vehicle at unreasonable rate of speed. Each was fined 315. State Trooper George D. Rapport appeared against Marie W.

Tuscan, 109 Fernea st, Wollaston, for the same offense. She paid a fine of 310. Bond also testified against R. Earker, Boston, for cutting out of line i and Cyrus F. Bullock, Taunton, for not slowing down at intersecting street Earker was fined 310 and Bullock 320.

John MacGrachie, Quincy, paid a fine of 315 for not slowing down and similar fines were paid on the- same charge by Lester J. Hogdon, Quincy; William H. Osterberg, Duxbury, and Eugene F. Glass, Duxbury. Trooper Bond was the complainant in all cases.

BROOKLINE MAN. WATCHING LYNN PARADE. FALLS 15 FT LYNN, July 3 Walter E. Cohen, 47, 230 Clark road, Brookline, sustained to hia back today when he fell from a second-story window onto a marquee, then through the glass, a distance of 15 feet, to the sidewalk. Police officers held up the parade permit an ambulance to pass and take the injured man to the hospital.

His condition is reported as not serious. DVIS WALCOTT HYANNISPORT, July 3-Mlss Char-lott E. Walcott, daughter of Mr and Mrs George Walcott of 885 Park av. New York, this afternoon became the bride of J. Sterling Davis of Evanston, Rev Dr Frederic Budlong was the officiating clergyman, the ceremony being performed at St Andre ws-by-the-Sea.

The bridegroom la the son of Mrs James A. Davis. He attended Yale is a member of the Lloissen Club. The bride attended the Bennett School Milbrook, Y. They plan to make their home In Chicago, following a trip Bermuda.

Miss Molly Walcott of Cambridge, cousin of the bride, was one of the bridesmaids. Rubber Company will fly to Plymouth today from his Summer home at Green Harbor in the baby Zeppelin Mayflower, property of the Goodyear epplln Corporation of which he is also1' head. He will be accompanied on the flight by Pres Samuel L. Startton of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech' nology and upon arrival at the fam ous old town a few other friends will be taken aboard for a short trip. Pilot V.

L. Smith will be in charge. Pres Litchfield, who now lives in Akron, is a native of Boston. Within a few days he plans to fly over that city in the Mayflower and see It lor the first time from the air. The Mayflower was put Into commls sion at Akron on May 1 and recently made a non-stop flight from that city to Lakehurst, J.

NANTASKET THRONGED ON THE NIGHT BEFORE" NANTASKET, July 3-Nantasket Beach was thronged with automobiles and people tonight In the amusement center district while open house was in order at the Summer residential sections from Pemberton to Green Hill. Guests were being entertained by all the colonists with special family parties at the several residential clubs, motor inns and yacht clubs where dinner dances predominated. Ji. special display of fireworks was shown at Paragon Park at 10 oclock lasting until midnight with dances at the Paragon Hall, Ocean Gardens, Shore Gardens, Pemberton Inn and the Sea Gables. Extra details of police under command of Sergt Michael Sullivan pa- trolled the grounds of the.

State Res ervatlon and additional traffic officers were assigned to handle the motor cars. ARTHUR C. GARDNER QUINCY, July 3 The funeral of the former Councilman, Arthur C. Gardner, who wag married June 19 on his death bed at the Quincy City Hospital his housekeeper, Mrs Addle Nelson, was held this afternoon from his home, Berlin st, Wollaston. Services were conducted by Rev Vaughn Dabney of Dorchester.

Following the religious services there was a Masonic service, conducted by the local lodge for the Masonic lodge of Milford, Mass, of which Mr Gardner was a member. Burial was In Milford, his native town. MRS MARY M. ROCHE QUINCY, July 3 Mrs Mary Roche, widow of Thomas Roche and mother of William Roche, teacher Latin and mathematics at the Quincy High School, died this afternoon at her home, 31 Spear st, after illness of several months. Her funeral will be held Friday morning at John's Church, where a solemn high mass of requiem will be celebrated at oclock.

JOHN J. ALLEN HINGHAM, July 3 John J. Allen, 84. died today at hia home on Crow Point lane. A native of Nova Scotia.

Mr Allen came to this town when a young man where he worked until a few years ago when he retired from business. The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at the Hiogham Cemetery Chapel at 3:30, 4.

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