Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1931, Page 10

lli THE JFLE FINALS HELD AT CAMP POLLARD Tries for Record Scheduled| Tomorrow—Youngsters Show Training. ——] asssssrenveracy ecial Dispatch to The Star. CAMP POLLARD, Virginia Beach, iVa, August 31.—The final round of +preliminary rifle firing takes place on ?the range today. Firing for the record Sbegins tomorrow, when the 1st Bat- | “talion, 20th Marines, moves onto the «firing line. 37 A fine tribute to the coaching of the lold-timers lies in the fact that green ungsters who, until & few days ago, Tiever had a rifle in their hands, are “turning in scores of from 40 to 44 out of possible 50-point strings. Yesterday’s sunset parade, widely “gdvertised by the Norfolk-Portsmouth 2 Chamber of Commerce, saw thousands “of spectators from Norfolk and vicinity ras camp visitors. The model Marine % Corps brigade camp rapidly Zecame one “of the beach show places. ©raternal Feeling Felt. During the encampment of the 121st Engineers here the finest of fraternal *feeling was in evidence and each or- ganization co-operated with the other. Both Col. Stanley, commanding the :Marine brigade, and Col. Oehmann, commanding the Engineers, expressed the wish that next year the two or- :ganizations might function in training «10 co-operate on training problems in- :volving Army engineers and Marine « Corps landing forces. " The week end saw the first presenta- ition of a musical variety show with *brigade talent. Jim McWilliams, a for- Jmer Keith and Orpheum star, volun- +teered to stage entertainments. He was r , staged Saturday night, ran for three hours. Gen. Fuller, com- mandant of the Marine Corps, and Mrs. - *Fuller were honor guests. Overflowing With Talent. The brigade is overflowing with tal- ?ént, ranging all the way from mountain *harmonica players to campus vaude- 2yille teams from the various universi- tties and colleges represented in the =ranks of the brigade. +" Beginning tonight, the championship % elimination boxing bouts will continue, 2 the semi-finals taking place on Wednes- % day and the final on Friday. & The health of the brigade personnel % femains excellent, the sick list being *limited to cases of blistered feet and ® cimilar average training camp causes. IThus far the brigade shows a perfect * score as to behavior, both in camp and 2on “liberty,” no disciplinary cases oc- % curring. The brigade employs neither | * shore patrol nor military police, the % ¥honor _ system” Coali fult ol | | » conduct at all times. imisresciessmasmimrreaTIsancas Cure for Finicky Husbands Woman’s Skeleton, Buried 5,000 Years, Found Amid Riches By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August S1. —Officials of the University of Pennsylvania Museum said yes- terday that a complete skeleton of a woman, surrounded by rich burial gifts, all dating back to 3,000 B. C., has been found in Persia by museum excavators. Eric Schmidt of the university museum expedition discovered a sarcophagus containing the skele- ton at Demghan, Persia, the statement said. ‘Word of the find stated it was among the most important in recent Persian archeological re- search and that from the orna- ments surrounding the skeleton a high state of civilization of the period was shown. Ancient City on Tiber in 585 B. C. Had Only 312,000 Population. GANG LORD KILLING AT RESORT PROBED Police in Three States Seek Slayers of Duffy, Who Left Wife $400,000. By the Assoclated Press. of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York today sought the killers of Mickey Duffy, South Jersey racketeer chief, slain Saturday in Atlantic City. He had set up trust funds totaling $400,000 for his wife. Released in $10,000 bail after arrest as a material witness, she was guarded | by six gunmen in her Philadelphia man- | sion. Duffy's henchmen were searching un- derworld hangouts for the killer. Both EVENING PHILADELPHIA, August 31—Police| STAR. WASHINGTO N, Db MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1931. 9&?1 killing and were held under $150,000 Atlantic City has been a truce zone for gunmen under an unwritten agree- ment, and Duffy was without his body- | guard during his stay there. He had ;sent for his guards shortly before he | was slain, Duffy had known for several weeks that he was the spot.” Twice dur- ing the past six weeks he had been | the target for bullets that missed. | Police Threaten Expose. Philadelphia police took control of the Duffy suite in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and obtained papers which the; saild would “rip open” the underworld. Names, addresses and telephone num- bers, many of those of prominent social, business and professional persons, were found. Police sald they sought Albert Skali, | Dufly’s confidential ~ aide; Sammie Grossman, Philadelphia gangster; Rob- | ert Perkins, Duffy’s Gloucester, N. J., | beer manager; Dave Silverburg, Phila- delphia gambler; “Dutch” Schultz, New York beer seller; Joe Jacobs, formerly Duffy's chauffeur, and Johnny Shea, gambler. Skall is believed by Ralph Gold, Atlantic City detective chief, to | have fired the death bullets. with Gross- | man and another man present. | 8. Cameron Hinkle, assistant prosecu- tor of Atlantic City, said Dufly was shot “because it was #bsolutely neces- ROME, August 31 (#).—Mussolini’s | police and the gangsters held the theory | sary he be shot that day wherever he Rome is almost seven times as large as| that Duffy was slain by his own men was.” Julius Caesar’s and has gained 250,000 in population under the rule of Il Duce. First Italian city in rank, Rome had & population of 1,003,881 on May 31, it was announced yesterday. as he slept. | stafn in Gang Truce Zone. 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