Show Major Bowes of Radio Dies in New Jersey RUMSON N. N NJ J. J June Juno 14 UP- UP Death halted Friday the tho o spin of ot the wheel of fortune that brought fame and wealth to MaJ Edward Bowes The bespectacled dry voiced radio Impresario whose All AU Allright Allright right all rIght Became a louse Kouse- ous hold ph phrase e died Thursday night at his hil estate here on the eve othIs of ot his birthday Francis Francis' Cardinal Spellman administered ad ad- d- d ministered the last rites of at the Catholic church There was no announcement of at the immediate cause of at death Bowes who c came mc here In falling fall tall fallIng Ing ng he health three weeks ago ago from New York Yore City had been the sub subject subject of at many death rumors In re- re re cent months Last November the rumors became so eo persistent that ho ha released a statement declaring ho was very very much much alive and would like everyone to know It lt Born in California I Born In San Francisco where he he made and lost a fortune In thereal the thereal real estate business Bowes ros rosto roseto rose roseto to his greatest fame tame conducting a a. radio amateur hour which In 1935 was WI voted the most popular radio hour program with an estimated estimated esti esti- tI- tI mated listeners a week The program attracted tens reM of ot thousands of t tyro entertainers t to New York City So great was the pilgrimage that In 1935 the emergency emergency emer emergency emer- emer gency relief relict bureau disclosed that would-be would entertainers were j r c t t stranded each week in New York who Bowes who owed hi his military title to his hl membership In tho the officers officers' officers officers' c cers' cers rs' rs reserve corps and service durIng during dur dur- ing ing- World War I In the adjutant generals general's office stemmed the trek by establishing quarter- quarter annual auditions throughout the country bringing the tho winners to New York Long TJ Time e Program Thc The amateur show with Bowes ringing a a ag g gong ng and spinning his fortune while he chanted chant- chant ed edt edl Where it stops nobody began as a 1 sideline to his older Capitol Family program from tram the Capitol theater In New York This feature was the oldest oldest old old- ld- ld est et continuous program on the tho air until It closed May 25 1941 He began his climb toward suc euc success teas cess in his his' native city where he amassed a fort fortune uno in real estate only to be wiped out in the earthquake earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake of at 1906 He recouped his hI wealth however by estimating correctly where th the new business district of the city would be and taking a hand in the tion |