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^iunerai car cnauneurs and gatekeep- i the bodies will be disinterred and reburied in separate pio^,Stepped Business;Out Walked Romanceiv-aw ne 10-InRSS ;to- Iigs:Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. GiffordBu United Pre** ' —. . * A rENO. Nev.. Aug. 8.—Big Business, modern master of glorified serfs.Ro-n-a-or 1iv- ' ise I or ; ?ss;tothis no respecter even of the homes of the energetic young men itmakes its loyal slaves. »With its cat o’ nine tails of ambition. Big Business lashed Walter S. Gifford. 44. president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. from his own house and his family.How the commercial success of one of America’s industrial giants led to the collapse of his domestic life was revealed today in the evidence by which Mrs. Florence Pittman Gifford obtained a Nevada divorce.While Gifford was guiding theA. T. T. toward its present position at the top Qi American industries. with assets of well over two million dollars and enough stockholders to populate a city the size of Columbus, O., his wife said she became unhappy with a husband who had no time for society and gave all his thought to the development of his business.Gifford ceased to think of his wife or his home during this period of commercial ascendency, according to testimony.As the affairs of the A. T. T., which owns and operates the immense Bell Telephone system and most of the other lines of communication throughout the country. occupied more and more of the president’s time, married life became distasteful to him, Mrs. Gifford charged.Beyond that ironical touch reflecting the price of success in the business world, the case was devoid of sensations.Neither party attacked the other's character in the divorce petition or the evidence.Their two children, Walter and Richard, were awarded to Mrs.Gifford, with the provision that their father shall look after them while they are attending school.Gifford has been with the A. T. T. since he was 21.SIBERIA WILLGIVEBIGGEST TESTTundra Wastes Are Greatest Danger on Around-the-World Trip.BY LYLE T. WILSONUnited Press Staff CorrespondentLAKEHURST. N. J., Aug. 6. — Perils unknown to even such hardyadventurers as trans-Atlantic fliersccawait the Graf Zeppelin on its round-the-world flight, in the opinion of Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the dirigible. ,The long cruise is scheduled to start from here Wednesday at midnight and sixty men worked today at the job of refueling the greatairship. They were filling her bothwith hydrogen, the lifting gas. and ethane, the fuel gas. and it was expected the work would not be finished before tomorrow evening.Dr. Eckener believes the most formidable obstacles in the way of realization of his dreams of an aerial circumnavigation of the world will be encountered in the silences over the Siberian tundra wastes, between Friedrichshafen and Tokio.Asia offers no radio protection to aerial navigations. There are not even adequate maps. For land marks Eckener must utilize the great rivers which twist through the Russo-Asiatic plains. Word of his coming may not have preceded him to the far places he must pass over. The Graf might be pot shotted by an anxious villager unaware of its peaceful mission.Germany’s great wireless stations at Nauen will keep in touch with the Graf. But Nauen will have no means of predicting weather conditions ahead of the dirigible.Always ahead will be the tundra horizon beckoning the craft forward to unknown danger. To land without destroying the ship probably would be impossible. Bringing such a craft to earth is an operation requiring ten men below for every man in the dirigible’s crew.The Pacific ocean apparently concerns Eckener but slightly. He will fly north of ship lanes, along the Aleutian island group to the vicinity of Seattle, Wash., where he will turnnfv» Vuc firct Ampriran stnn at
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