Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
WASHINGTON PAIR COMPOSED,
DESPITE IMPENDING FORTUNE
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis w. Dunmore Not
Excited In Face of Possibility of Great
Wealth From Invention.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
EAST HARPSWELL. Me, August II
N.A.N.A).-"I we win I shall be
everlastingly grateful. hope 1t will be
81 ,000, 900. know right now where we
could give half of 1t away"
The speaker, an attractive young
woman, fair In coloring and with a
Southern accent, shot an admiring
smile toward her rather shy, boyish,
dark-haired New England husband.
The husband, O slightly built man OF
dark complexion, at ease in gray sweat
er and flannel trousers, smiled back.
He was toasting his shins before an
open fire.
A furious rain was beating in across
the gray waters Of CaSco Bay and lash
ing the roof of the camp.
"And supposing 1t doesn't pan out?"
suggested the interviewer.
Gazes ut Husband.
Mrs. Frances w. Dunmore kept her
gaze on the. man whose inventive
genius promises to make them fabu-
lousy rich. The laughter in her gray
ish blue eyes never dimmed.
Then" she said, "wen 60 on living
happily as we always have"
Mr.. Dunmore, formerly Of HaverhNl,
Mass, who with o co-worker In radio
research stands to win not one but
many millions provided. . judgment
given In Delaware by Federal
seconded his wife's resolution with a
nod.
News dispatches announced the other
day that the claim of Mr.. Dunmore,
Government research engineer at
Washington, and a fellow worker, Per-
cival G. Lowell, employe OF a New York
manufacturing concern, to invention OF
the socket plug which has eliminated
storage batteries in millions OF radio
sets had been found valid in the first
court test.
The first intimation Of the prelini-
nary victory came to the Dunmores
vacationing with Washington friends,
Mr. and Mrs. William Norman Clarke,
at the Clarke'S Summer cottage here,
in q food Of congratulatory messages.
May Reach 320,ooo,0O0.
They are only now getting newspaper
accounts Of the court decision and the
estimates of what 1t may mean to the
plaintiffs, Dunmore, Lowell and the
Dubilier Condenser Corporation. to
which the inventoes granted q license
to use their pateuk Some Of the esti-
mates soar to $4,000, 900. The suit Is
against the HSdSo Corporation Of
Prospects Of vinnins . fortune. how
ever, have not swept the DunmofeS
from their feet. Mrs. Dunmore says
that when they 60 back 10 washington
she will contmoD 10 hudee tho 1amliy
expenses just aS she has always done,
to make both ends meet on her nus
bands Government salary.
~ ~ VQHAHi0n
Mr.. Dunmore will return to his job.
Having lived with their dream for sew
eral wears the Dunmores are now philo-
sophie about It. And though the
glamour of prospective afduence has
not ESCAPED them, it Is perfectly appar-
ent that they do not measure happi-
ness in terms Of dollars and cents.
Their own obviously deep anectlon LOT
each other still comes first, after eight
years of married life.
Under the cherry trees out py tne
washington Monument their romance
began. A mutual friend introduced
them.
Quick Courtship.
"rhe cherry trees were in blossom,
too" remarked Mr.. Dunmore, o true
Yankee. with an instinct against vast
ING words. It was q swift court6nip
T6ey met in March and were marIle9
in August. This young engineer ana
cnrinne Davis. o smiling girl who had
some to washington during the war
from Atlanta to work In the Veterans
Rureau. Mostly, they have lived since
then on MIR. Dunmore's salary:
persistent inventor since his Doy-
hood DAYS in Hayerhill, Mr.. Dunmore
has taken out several radio patents.
Sometimes they proved prontaole' put
never until now has fortune Sp-
peared on the horizon. IL.
Nobody knows how mucn my VILE ne
has helped" said Mr.. Dpnmore.
never could have done anything with
calt her. She has encouraged ana IN
suired me and done her share OF the
work. .u.
thing she has always typed the Original
specifications for me. If wanted ma
terial for Q four-turn loop antenna
which could be rolled up ana put INTO
a suitcase Mrs. Dunmore would go OUT
and come back with just the thing
''I bought black cotton neiting, MIS- AZ.
Dunmore interrupted, "ano Seweo tne
strips together. He wanted long seam
to thread o wire through
wife Responsible.
"She has picked up o lot, enough to
testify In interference cases. the M
ventor resumed. SIN fact. probably
wouldn't be here II it wasn't Tor my
wife," Then he explained what ne
meant. -.
for q patent" he said. I'VE didn't
have enough money to have them
drawn. So I was doing it and the work
wasn't finished. One evening we were
walking home In Washington. we were
going by the Knickrebocker Theater
and I suggested that we see the show.
".No,' Mrs. Dunmore said, you'd bet
ter 70 home and finish your drawing.
That was the night the theater root
fell and killed % persons.