Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1922, Page 19

" THE EVENING B8TAR, Tis a Happy Thought to bring to mind the beautiful countryside, bedecked with green foliage and fields of clover, and to realize thiat the fine cows grazing here and there are respon- sible for Elk Grove<Butter. =" PROBE FIRE IN WA RISK BUILDING Officers Investigate Strange Blaze Set by Oif Poured + on Paper. Federal and District investigative forces are conducting a rigid inves- tigation of a fire that occurred early yesterday morning in the Arlington building, Vermont avenue between H and I streets, home of the Veterans' Bureau. Watchman Kline discovered the fire before much headway had been gained, extinguished it and sent in a call to the captain of the watch. It déveloped that a hole had been bored in the sash of a basement window on the I street side of the bullding. paper saturated with kerosene stufted into it and a match applied. . Very Little Dumage. Scorching ofvthe sash was the most - 7 s < £, W, » , WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE , 13, 1922. ~ CHIEF SULLIVAN-GETS BAG FROM POLICE OFFICERS Lieut. lth/)l C..Van Winkle'Is Also Going to San Francisco Conven- tion and to Speak on Way. Armed wwith a huge traveling bag, the gift .of the inspectors, clfl;flnhfj and lieutenants of his force, Calef of Police Sullivan' left last night at 6:40 o'clock for' San Francisco, where the internatipnal convention of police chiefs is to be staged. Maj. Sullivan wafired Into his office Sunday morning to look around for any stray matters of police business which might have escaped the week's grist, when suddenly a connecting door at the opposite side of his of- fice opened and the whole local con- tingent of police captains, licutenants :lnd :'lll!lll:(;"lul's_ came trooping into s office, bearing the traveli: with them. R Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle, chief of the woman's bureau, is also going to San Francisco. She'ls making the trip to visit the convention and will deliver addresses to a number of civic bodies and women’s clubs on her svay across the country. TGS e Diamonds, in more superstitions days, were belleved to ward off sor- cery, repel poison and confer victory over enemlies. ' By \ T = - — Receiving Apparatus: We Are Pleased to Announce That We Have Completed Arrange- ments to Become Distributors of Radio Receiving and Broadcasting Apparatus Manufactured by the Radio Corporation of America The unprecedented demand for this Radio Apparatus and Equipment has been such that shipments from the factory have been immediately sold out, and many of' our customers have been delayed in getting the parts desired: but we are now fairly well stocked and in a position to supply your requirements for practically everything in Standard Radio Apparatus and Equipment. We now have the following material and parts for immediate delivery: D. B. Crystal Detectors -~ ' = *. ‘D. A. 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Outside the window was found a two-gallon can nearly full of kerosene. It was wrapped in a part of a Sunday morning paper, pieces of the same paper having been used by the firebug to start the fire. The window through which the hole was bored opens from a room ml A Bautter for all the people all the time. With Each Poundof Elk Grove Butter are Inclosed Two Coupons, Which are Redeemable in Rogers Silverware |- Sold by Grocers Who Supply Their Customers the Best Butter GOLDEN & CO., Distributors which alien property records are filed, the records being mfar the window next to the one where the fire was - |started. Members of the forces conducting the investigation are not satisfled whether the attempt to burn the building was mads by Some DPersom interestad In the alien property or by a disgruntled former service man Wwho merely wanted to do damage as a matter of revenge. Many Threatening Letters. It is said that hundreds of threat- ening letters, of them bearing upon them the question of the bonus, have been received during the past few months. Many of them, it 18 stated, bear the names of the send ers, while some are without signa- tures. Some of the letters, it developed, were gent by former service men Who had been wounded or gassed and who, Switch Levers Switch Stops Contact Points Varnished Tubing Lightning Arresters Atwater-Kent Rheostats (Table and Panel Type) PR No. 536 Potentiometers “Value First” —that i3 the important thing%and it dominates here. 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SRS building, ugents of the s rvice di- vision were called into the stigation, and later the city police were asked to take & hand in it. ‘Wil Hunt Fingerprints. Wint. The can of oil and fragments of the Cx'nn-o-mfim paper in which it was wragped w turned over to Detective & identif expert of the local pol department, who will endeavor to find il | engerprints’ on them. Threats to burn the building and do all sorts of damaging things are said to have been contained in some of the |letters. It was suggested today that one of the writers of complaints about the bonus may have applied the torch, thinking bonu# papers were stored in the room. Such papers are not there, it is ‘stated. sald at the bureau today that It wi destruction of records of the alien prop- erty custodian might mean the loss of records which could not be duplicated. They are original records, it was stat- ed, and persons from whom informa- tion. was obtained have scattered, and many of them may be dead. 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How much could be saved for American car owners if all tire makers would compete dayin and day out just on quality Toilet Table. ...$26.50 ]: a “job that looks like @ moremonev” infavor of a chance to do better work. .He gets called an idealist, perhaps. But when folks want to buy good merchandise and satisfactoryservice he’s thekind of man they look for. i For practical example-note the tire business. : : .$28.50 MYSTIC SHRINERS TAKE OVER SAN FRANCISCO Double Bed.... Huge Parade With Many Bands and Gorgeous Colors Feature of Celebration. By the Associated Press. SAN FRAN! CO, June 12.—Dull care, efficiency and business threw up their jobs today and let nobles take over the work of running a city, for this was the official opening of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 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Porch Rocker (Exactly as Illustrated) Note the comfortable, high back and strong maple frame, nicely finished. five feet high; seat ‘ Seat l's o‘f\;‘ln::wpl:_- $ 50 apd platform in $ .00 11 d value b Surely the Best | | | (Exaetly as Ilustrated) Cord construction had foritsideal | a bigger service value for the car owner. ‘Whenever the cord principle was faithfully carried out it lived up to its original vision. . 5 Now the makers of U. S. Royal Cords ask permission to put this on records Without high integrity of manu- facture the cord ttre might just as well not have been discovered at all. Atlantic City Revpec forth i nd g suls Sundays, June 25 and July 9 of cord tire building has made U.S. SPECIAL THROUGH TRAIN Via Delaware River Bridge Eastern Standsrd Time. Lvs. Washington - - - 1201 AM. Tickets on sale beginging Friday pre- ceding date of excursion at Consolidated Ticket Office, 18th and F Streets, and at Four-passenger Lawn Swing —seat and plat- form of natural of Red. 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