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COL. GREEN AIMS AT RADIO MOVIES Son of "Richest Woman in the World" Making Costly Experiments at Buzzard's Bay. Up-to-Date in All Things, He Tried the Steinach Operation and Blood Transfusion. By GEORGE R. WITTE Copyright, 1925 (New York World), Press Publishing Company. NEW YORK-Big Col. Edward H. R. Green, 58 years old, feet tall, and weighing his 800-odd pounds, is believer in the maxim that it is never too late to adapt one's self to the times and take advantage of the latest discoveries and inventions in all fields of science. The son of the late Hetty Green, who was known during the last three or four decades of her life as "the richest in the world," has just undergone a blood transfusion operation, and, none the worse for the nervous strain it entailed, the big Texas colonel is sitting up and listening For Colonel in again. Green to be without his radio is just as unthinkable as for South Dartmouth, Mass., to be without its Colonel Buzzard's Green. Since Bay, the he the family estate at built his new palatia] has become home on fixture, tradition him and "Our benefactor Colonel.' in South refers to as Dartmouth, But for two and years the and population a half now him long-distance this criptic telephone message: and gave immeasurably, the colonel's "family" and includes has all grown the "This is Col. Green. You can yatchsmen and fishermen all along kill that Adopted obituary War of Orphan. me." the New England coast, ships at until after his mother around, It was not for hundreds of miles sea belief that had died, in 1916, in the radio fans throughout the east. and would remain bachelor him- her son For with the colonel an has equipped voice, and all his life, that Col. Green got this voice, which, in all justice to married. His and wife, is his who steady is with com- him should have at present its altruistic aims, his cruises aboard his panion on romantic name, is known as WMAF, yacht, the United States, was Miss South Dartmouth. Mabel E. Harlow of Chicago. At Big Audience on Water. the time of his in July, The big broadcasting station at 1917, Col. Green was 49 year old. Buzzard's bay has become mecca Two years later he played the for thousands of motorists and fairy god-father to tourists who come for many miles Jenny, or Jeanne Marie Turpau, to listen to the high-grade enter. who came to French war orphan, tainment the colonel ofprograms this to become the colonel's country fers at regular intervals. When but who was adopted daughter, the announcer's voice rings out snapped up by the Wilkes Barre across the bay the hundred of school before the necessary papers yatchs, launches and other craft could be taken out by him. He shut off their as if in recontinues to take an active interest sponse single electric button. in the young French girl, however, and profound silence reigns while who speaks perfect English, the concert is in progress. As soon although she knew no English at each piece is over the boats all when she first landed here. proceed as far as they can until The colonel's philanthropies have the next made. been as extensive as they have been Col. Green established WMFA as varied, and he has given hundreds an experimenting station as well of thousands of dollars to colleges as for its entertainment purposes, and other institutions of learning and here for the past year exten- But perhaps the most character. sive and costly experiments have istic act of kindness performed by been carried on toward the dishim was in connection with the covery of sending motion pictures troubles of the First National bank by wireless. Already promising re. of Terrell, Texas, where the colonel sults have been obtained. but the has extensive interests. When, in [colonel has decided to withhold de1920, the president of the bank comtails of the work that is being carmitted suicide and his death started ried on until the ultimate object run on the bank, Col. Green telehas been attained. graphed the American National In addition to making his big bank in the same city, in which he radio station indispensable to South is director, to deposit $250,000 in Dartmouthers and of currency in the rival bank, an act others, near and far. the big. milthat saved the bank from going ir*o lionaire has traveling radio sta [tion which visits farmers vilWith all his altruism and devolages within wide area to deliver tion to pursuits that are talks on the latest developments but profitable, the colonel has In farming. new inventions, and gov. wonderful head for business, and ernment, crop statistics and such the fact that he has added a good like. deal to the vast fortune left him But the colonel's interests and by his mother does honor to the activities are by no means limited shrewd bhainess sense she inculto the radio. He has kept abreast cated in him when he was still of in other fields young man, as well as to his own and has tried on himself the bene ability. fits of new discoveries, It is said that when he dies he such as the blood transfusion from will leave his big South Dartmouth which he is now recovering. estate. which covers 250 acres and Two years ago Col. Green underhas been in the hands of the famiwent the so-called Steinach "rely since 1867. when his ancestors juvenation" operation at the hands first came from England, to of Dr. Henry S. Pascal of No. 175 the community. West Fifty eighth street. New York. and the colonel announced Bananas were once sold as tropical few weeks after the operation curiosities in this country, each bathat he felt much stronger and nana being wrapped separately in than he had in years. tin foil. It was at that time that rumor got abroad that Col. Green had The Bronotosaurus, largest of all died following the operation. the prehistoric lizards, grew to be in where the onel newspaper has been Texas, prominent in politics sixty feet long and fourteen feet high. for many years, wired its New York correspondent. to "rush 1,000 words on Green." A reporter called up Of English invention are women's the Green apartments at the Wal- shoes hollow heels that condorf-Astoria and got the colonel tain powder boxes. himself on the wire. The colonel put off the but the Some of the prehistoric dinosaurs got editor of the Texas paper on the were no bigger than chickens.