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Show SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1931 THE JOURNAL Page 3 ... ... TIMELY SALE IN PRICE WAR Not to be outsold by other leading department stores which have been in the throes of a price war, a department store on Union Square, New York City, dropped all bar riers on prices on nationally-know- n watches. Many of the timepieces were listed at 50 per cent off their former retail price. Representatives of the major watch companies, seeking to control retail prices of goods that have passed from their ownership, have sought to serve Injunctions against the sale and put an end to the consumers field day. Heres a view of a watch department jammed with buyers. ... A member of the FLAME THROWER FIRES RED POSITION Chinese Canadian a Communist position in Korea a brigade gives royal heat treatment with his flame thrower, during attacks which carried U.N. forces once more into North Korea. The Red forces were giving stubborn resistance, as they halted their retreat. The second spring offensive of the Chinese Communists in Korea ended in disaster for them, with thousands of the Reds killed. WOMAN IN YANKEES DUGOUT A lady fan climbed over the wall in Cleveland stadium recently and invaded the private sanctuary of the New York Yankees dugout at the start of a second game of a double header between the Yanks and the Indians. Two employees of the stadium are firmly escorting the uninvited visitor off the baseball field, as fans and players in the dugout seem to get quite a bit of amusement from the incident. She was allegedly in pursuit of Joe DiMaggio. POW CHOW . . . North Korean prisoners of war are literally digging in to the task of preparing chow for fellow Communist prisoners in a P.O.W. camp behind allied lines in Korea. Rice, the staple food preferred by Chinese and North Koreans, is made in batches of hundreds of pounds in these huge kettles. This gives a graphic idea of the job involved in caring for thousands of Communist prisoners in allied hands. More than 10,000 were captured recently. SEEKS ANNULMENT . . . Maria Tallchief, New York ballerina, is pictured at supreme court where she has brought suit for annulment from her husband, George Balanchine. He wants her to continue dancing, but she wants family and home life. LONGEVITY work, heavy 10 smokes a wine brought mond, Calif., REASONS . . . Hard eating, lots of sleep, day and a little red Quirino Ortiz, Richto his 114th birthday. He has three sons, two daughters and 21 grandchildren. UIGH JUMP-- St. BRIDEGROOM . . . The American movie Joan Fontaine, plants a kiss of congratulation upon the cheek actress, of Englishman, Sir Charles Mendl, in Paris, France recently. The congratulations were for his marriage to Yvonne Reilly in his Paris home. The new Lady Mendl surveys the scene at right. Mendls bride is 37 years of age, compared with his 81. The new bridegroom is a former ambassador to France from the British government. KISS FOR OCTOGENARIAN RECEIVES DADS D.S.C. . . . Major General 1. D. White, 1st army chief of staff, pins distinguished service cross on Paul Weber, 3, whose father, 1st Lt. Gerhardt II. Weber of Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y., was awarded the medal posthumously for extraordinary heroism in action in Korea last August. Looking on are the widow, Mrs. Mary Jane and Ileidl, 2. The D.S.C. is Weber, tfho is holding Karen, Honor. second only to the Congressional Medal of Louis Browns Ray Coleman goes up and over wall at Yankee Stadium after Yogi Berras one-year-o- two-ru- n ld, homer-- but misses catch. |