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EXPERT DISPUTES CLAIM:
Houdini hid secrets in grave?
Abortion 2nd most common
type of legal surgery in U.S.
FITCHBURG, Mass. (P) - An old locksmith who said he has the granite site Houdini and the vault.
expert on magician Harry Hou- studied Houdini for more than some trusted friends built in He says the site arrangement
dini says there is nothing to a 20 years, said Thursday he had 1916. and inscriptions on the tomb-
claim by a Fitchburg locksmith deciphered a complex code eft The magician died on Hallo- stones and column are special
that a secret vault exists in the by the late Houdini and learned ween in 1926 at the age of 52 codes pointing out the vault's
gravesite of the famed escape the whereabouts of the vault. and. isgbu6edtwthemeof oin. n
artit. igelw sid fficalswhoand is buried with members off location.
artist. Bigelow said officials who his family in the 70- by 10-foot
Milbourne Christopher, author maintain the site are more con- plot BIGELOW says the word
Miloure Critoperautorcerned with keeping it undis- .
of Houdini, The Unknown Story turbed w "Milton," and another fact dis-
and curator of many of [ou- b than trying to solve the Bigelow, who says he has read closed by an old friend of Hou-
dini's artifacts, said, "There's mystery. everybook and article about dini's are the keys to the code.
no fact to the theory at all." "Houdini took his secrets toHodnsyth granite can- "Milton" is John Milton, the
Ya .' the grave, but left the world a struction extends in a half-moon 17th century poet who wrote
"We've looked into this be- last intricate puzzle to solve in around the 10 graves. On top ofBige-
fore and found no vault," said order to get them," Bigelow a column sat a full-sized bust low says articles about Houdini
Christopher, a New York City said. of Houdini and to its side a contain references to the magi-
magician and an official of the THE gravesite at Machpelah atwcian quoting passages from M-
Society of American Magicians. rn~terv in Queens.N.Y.i BIGELOW says he is not the
'Houdini took his
secrets to the grave,
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but left the
world
the key to the puzzle, Bigelow
NORMAN Bigelow, a 30-year- says, and the secret vault is in
first to speculate about the ex-
istence of the mystery vault,
but he says no one has been
able to pinpoint the vault's pre-
cise location, as he says he's
done.
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Bigelow says he used Miltons
words to decode the gravesite
writings.
"If he had a secret to leave,
he would," said Bigelow of Hou-
dini.
a last intricate puz-
zle in order to get
them.'
-Norman Bigelow,
locksmith
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NEW YORK (P) - Abortion has become the
most frequently performed legal surgical pro-
cedure after tonsillectomy, according to a study
of the effects of the Supreme Court decision on
abotrion.
In 1972, the year before the high court struck
down state laws that restricted the operation,
there were 600,000 reported legal abortions.
In 1973, there were at least 750,000 legal
abortions in the United States and an estimated
900,000 in 1974, according to the findings pub-
lished in Family Planning Perspectives, a tech-
nical journal of the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
The Institute is a division of the Planned Par-
enthood Federation of America.
Christopher Tietze, principal investigator in
the study, said the survey illustrated " the
importance of the Supreme Court's decisions
in enabling thousands of women to obtain safe,
legal abortions." The study's other findings in-
cluded:
- Public hospitals have been slowest to re-
spond to the court's decision. Only 17 per cent
of public hospitals reported performing any
abortions in the first quarter of 1974, in con-
trast to 28 per cent of comparable non-Catholic,
voluntary and private hospitals. As a result,
abortions are less often available to low-income
women who have the most unwanted pregnan-
cies:
*More than 90 per cent of the increase in
legal abortions between the first quarter of 1973
and the same period in 1974 occurred in non-
hospital clinics;
*The places that perform abortions are now
more evenly distributed around the country, al-
though New York and California, with one-fifth
of the nation's women, accounted for two-fifths
of all abortions; and
*Abortions were highest in the mid-Atlantic
and Pacific states with respective rates of 31.5
and 28.4 legal abortions per 1,000 women of re-
productive age. In the east south central states
and the west south central states, the raes were
3.9 and 4.6 per 1,000, respecively.
The gravesite was vandalized "You must realize that you're
earlier this year and the bust dealing with a genius of ge-
smashed to pieces. Bigelow says niuses who was an expert at
this would not affect access to baffling the world."
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