Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1932, Page 12

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Make sure your radio set is ready for the pennant fight. Have your dealer TEST your — -z RADIOTRONS YOUR'PADIO Still Time if You Hurry to get the famous ’5 'Parl(er iofold Pen for only $3E and an old pen—or the great over-size 7 Duosfold Sr. Pen for only 5 and an old pen Parker reserves the right to end this National Trade-in Sale any day! Tens of thousands of people are trading in old pens of all makes for $1.25 to $2.50 cash in payment for Parker's latest streamlined Duofold Pens, and trading in old mechanical pencils for 75¢.to $1.00 on the pur- chase of brand new Parker Duofold Pencils. This National Tradesin Sale by Parker, to make way for late fall and Christmas shipments, is the biggest clearance ever held in the fountain pen industry. These are Parker’s latest and smartest colors, in- cluding Burgundy #hd Black, Sea Green and Black, Jade, Plain Biack, etc. All have streamlined non- breakable barrels—the pens with super-smooth, pressureless writing Duofold points, and quick- starting, non-c]ogging feed. Take your old pen or pencil to the nearest pen counter beforé this offer expires and walk out with a beautiful new Parker Duofold Pen, or Duofold Pencil, or both. The pen you trade in must have a 14k gold point but it does rot have to be a Parker. The Parker Pen Company, Janesville, Wisconsin. Lo THE EVENING NEW BOMB SCARE INTHAYER ATTACK Police Get Threats Against Alvan T. Fuller and Boston City Hall. By the Associated Press, WORCESTER, Mass., September 30.— | A letter and a postcard, the former received by Worcester police and the latter intercepted by a postal clerk at | Quincy, today held the attention of authorities investigating the bombing of Judge Webster Thayer's home early | Tuescay morning. Written in Italian. William P. Finneran, superintendent of Worcester detectives, said the letter received in Worcester was written in Italian and “pertained to the Thayer case.” Its contents were withheld. Meanwhile Boston authorities were sourred to further action by a postcard intercepted by a clerk at the Quincy post office last night. The card, addressed to police head- quarters, Boston, contained a throat to bomb the home of former Gov. Alvan T. Fuller and Boston City Hall. Po- lice were inclined to believe a crank was responsible, but posted extra de- ta t the Fuller home and at city hall. ‘The message on the card was headed “police dogs” and read: “In a few days you will know all about former | Gov. Fuller. be bombed.” Concentrate Efforts. State police concentrated their ef- forts in the vicinity of Gilbertville, 25 miles from here, due to the theft of 11 cases of dynamite from a construction company’s powder house there. Officers continued to guard Judge Thayer. presiding justice at the Sacco- Vanzetti trial, who has been living with neighbors since the bombing of his home. ~ Mrs. morial Hospital. Local authorities, who lay the bomb- ing to radical sympathizers with Sacco and Vanzetti, were aided in their in- vestigation by a Department of Jus- tice agent. City hall is going to WIFE ASKS DIVORCE Bethesda Wcman Files Suit for Limited Decree. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md. September 30.— | Through Attorney Kenneth Lyddane of Rockville, Mrs. Rose Marie Brown of | Bethesda has instituted suit in the Cir- cuit Court here for a limited divorce from Austin Willlam Brown on the ground of cruelty. They were married in Rockville and have no children, the bil! states. It is represented in the bill that the defendant was sent to the Hcuse of Correction on a charge of assaulting the plaintiff and that the two have not lived together since. 25,000 Sheep in Welsh Drive. Twenty-five thousand sheep were gathered recently in the biggest drive of the Welsh mountains. They came from the entire Migneint mountain | range of North Wales, combining three counties. The sheep were ascembled for the second annual dip of the sea- son. During the day the entire range Iwas alive with dogs, sheep and shepherds. arbara’s Wilson Shoe Thayer is in the Me-| | STAR, WASHINGTON, Jack the “Giant Killer” Fought for U. S., Now Fights for Job. Bullets Put Him Out of Fight Game, but He Takes What Comes. Jack - (the Giant Killer) Dillon has | no alibis to offer about his last big| | fight, the one that still punishes after | 14 years. Three machine gun bullets killed the | punch in his right arm and a trench infection took eight toes off his nimble feet, but was Jack glad to fight with the ‘Marines? “Right,” grinned the Giant Killer | this morning, shuffiing about the Sal- | vation Army barracks. | He was glad in 1917 and in 1932 he's | still glad, for those Marines were “swell guys,” and it was a “grand fight,” al- | though it finished him as a prize fight- er—the only profession he ever knew. Jack got no compensation for dis- | ability, nor is he crying for any. “Ain’t, |1 fit?” he demanded, “—well, what | the— Fit to Work a Little. | ‘The Giant Killer, at the age of 42, was | fit all right—ft to help a little at the hospital in the Salvation Army bar- | racks, for room and board. | Jack, however, hasn't gotten around | to feeling sorry for himself. He’s broke, his post-war savings from the fight game have long since dwindled away— “a couple of health farms, a hotel that didn't go so good . . . you know, I don’t know anything but the fight game, I guess. And that makes a fellow slap- happy sometimes; anyhow it don't help his head for business any.” Sports records, rather than Jack him- | seif, are authority for the fact that he | went 20 rounds for a decision against { Prank Moran in Brooklyn the yeéir he signed up for the big fight overseas. Jack stripped at 171 then, a top- notcher in the light-heavyweight class. giving away weight, but no alibis, and immensely popular Wwith the fans. | Jack came here from Indianapolis | with the bonus army, was routed by the | soldiers and returned several weeks ago. Last Possession Burned. Jack's automobile—his last worldly possession—burned with the shacks on Anacostia flats. “Right!” said Jack, l“but that's O. K., it wasn't much of a | car anyhow! | “And I never came her to yell for the bonus. I ain't against it, under- stand; I came here because I thought | they could do something in Washing- | ton about getting me a job. “I'm not kicking, understand: that's what I did, joined the Army. I never | joined the bread line until I kad to— T ain't asking anything of anybody but a job!” | In a dispute over an emergency stair- | case at St. Anne's School, Liverpool, | England, 500 pupils were “locked out” | | recently. = Best for Young Best for Grown Ups| Fussells Ice Cream Department copies every "15—20 style success at GO window-shopping _ tomorroew . . . Compare Wilson Black slud:‘w'i:’ll ent, Ak:“m brewn D. C., FRIDAY, WAR-TIME BOXER IN BREADLINE, BUT NOT KIC KING, HE SAYS JACK DILLON. RICH ESTABLISHED 1879 SEPiLEMBER 30, 1932. DR. DUBOSE CLOSES 47 YEARS’ SERVICE Chief of Medical Section in Re-J tirement Unit of Veterans’ Ad- ministration Retires. After nearly 47 years in Government | service, Dr. George P. DuBose, chief of the medical section of the civil serv- ice retirement subdivision of the Vet- erans’ Administration, retired today. Born in Sparta, Ga., Dr. DuBose was graduated in medicine at the Univer- | sity of Virginia in 1883, and, after a competitive eivil service examination, was appointed medical examiner in the Bureau of Pensions in October, 1885. From that time until July, 1922, he served in the medical division of the former Pension Bureau and during the last eight years was assistant medical referee. On July 3 he was appointed to the position from which he retired | today. John S. Beach, chief of the retire- | ment subdivision, expressed deep per- sonal regret at Dr. DuBose's retirement, stating he was “universally beloved by his associates,” and that his “long and honorable service had been marked b singular devotion to his duties, whicl {in retirement cases involves both the welfare of the claimants and the inter- ests of the Government.” Water Collected From Air. By & new method drinking water is collected from the air in Southern France. A large, round pillar with a thick outer casing of cement is erected. | The water is produced by the difference between day and night temperatures forcing the air down pipes in the pillar, where it condenses and falls into & —Star Staff Photo. | reservoir. ! headgear extremely cool. If the tests Euve satisfactory aluminum hats will MOUNT VERNON BANK orcered fa: hot | IS SUED FOR $37,177.45 = OCTOBER Engineers’ Union Says Checks Were [ Cashed Without Certain Is One of the Finest Months for Painting Signatures. ;’ ‘The International Union of Operat- ing Engineers has filed suit in the Dis- Is One of the Finest Brands of Paint That trict Supreme Court to recover $37,17745 from the Mount Vernon You Can Buy Savings Bank, which, it claims, cashed checks totaling that amount for Dave Evans, former secretary of the inter- | tional union, when the necessary sig- natures did not appear on the checks. Evans was recently convicted on a charge of embezzlement in connection with the funds of the organization and ‘u: under sentence of five years' impris- onment. |~ Thréugh Attorneys J. S. Easby-Smith | and Frank S. Easby-Smith the plaintiff says the bank was informed as to the names of persons authorized to draw on the union's account and that it cashed checks from which necessary | signatures were absent. Aluminum Hats for Police. | London's commissioner of police is | making tests of aluminum hats for po- licemen. A number of men on duty have been wearing helmets lined with luminum foil, which is said to make There's 8 wealth of Magic” in every can that rival the rainbow...that sparkle with life in their pure tones or give a soft, subdued radiance when blended into pastel shades. “color . .colors | A magician who reaches into a silk hat produces no more magic than ycu can do, when you dip your brush into a can of FAIR- FAX PAINT! | Makes You Forget You Have FALSE TEETH No longer does any wearer of false teeth need to be annoyed or feel il at ease. % Your Dollar today buys More Paint than in Twenty Years—take Advantage of these Low Prices! 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