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MYSTERY OF MISSING BRIDE DEEPENS AS POLICE STRIVE TO LINK LOVER TO KILLING

Woman Attorney Slain, Is Belief of Detectives in New York. * trun£ clew studied Canceled Honeymoon and Dismissal of Maid Also Figure. By United Press NEW YORK, June 21.—0n the day Miss Agnes Tufverson, brilliant woman attorney, vanished without a trace, “Captain” Ivan Poderjay, the European adven(turer she married, purchased 200 , razor blades and a sleep-produc-ing sedative, police of the missing persons bureau disclosed today. By United Press NEW YORK. June 21.—Police were baffled today in their efforts to link “Captain” Ivan Poderjay definitely with the disappearance of Agnes C. Tufverson, New York and Detroit lawyer, missing since Dec. 20, sixteen days after she married the “international lover” at the Little Church Around the Corner. Vienna police, holding Poderjay at the request of New York authorities, threatened to release him unless indictable and extraditable charges were brought against him. New York police, seeking evidence to confirm their belief that Miss Tufverson had been murdered, could find no substantial proof. Among the facts collected by New York police within the last twenty-four hours were: Never Booked Passage 1. They believed they had learned where Poderjay purchased the “mysterious” trunk big enough to hold a body, which h.e guarded on a voyage to Europe. 2. They established that it was Poderjay himself, not Miss Tufverson, who told their maid not to report for work last Dec. 21 but to come back the following day, two days after the newly married couple’s honeymoon trip to Europe suddenly was canceled in a violent quarrel. 3. They learned that a few days before Miss Tufversons disappearance, Poderjay was overheard talking in German with three men outside their apartment. It was understood they were discussing money. 4. It was learned that Poderjay had not booked passage on the S. S. Hamburg which sailed Dec. 20, even though he took Miss Tufverson to the pier presumably to start their honeymoon. They believed the plan for a voyage was a subterfuge and that Poderjay precipitated the quarrel to cancel it. Stock Holdings Transferred 5. They learned that Miss Tufverson, shortly before her marriage to Poderjay, had made a transfer of her large holdings of stock and funds in a Philadelphia bank, but the transfer was not to Poderjay. Beyond these scattered data, police admitted they had nothing. They awaited results of Scotland Yard’s search in England for the missing trunk. Her apartment was examined with microscopic care. The incinerator in her apartment wa? sifted for signs of blood or human ashes.. Considerable importance was attached to the revelation that Poderjay on Dec. 20 told their maid not to report for work until Dec. 22. When the maid asked, on* the 22nd, where Miss Tufverson had gone, Poderjay explained she had been called to Philadelphia, according to the story police obtained from the maid, Love Letters Found By United Press VIENNA, June 21.—Ivan Poderjay, international adventurer, was writing passionate love letters to Mile. Margaret Ferrand, held here as his asserted wife, while he was courting Miss Agnes Tufverson in New York, it was revealed today. _ It was said on reliable authority that many of the letters were of erotic nature and that some indicated Poderjay was a sadist. The letters were found among the effects of Mile. Ferrand while police were searching her apartment for possible clues to the disappearance of Miss Tufverson after Poderjay went through a marriage ceremony with her in New York last December. The disappearance of Miss Tufverson and other strange happenings involving the arrest of Ivan Poderjay and Mile. Suzanne Ferrand may be connected with an international spy ring, counsel for Mile. Ferrand declared today. Dr. Leopold Bestermann, the attorney, said: w “I have become increasingly convinced that the so-called PoderjayTufverson affair is connected with a huge international espionage scheme. “It is possible that the ‘disappearances’ both of Miss Tufverson and the English Captain Frederick Davej* were eyewash to conceal somebody’s movements.” Dead, Family Believes GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 21. —A growing conviction that Mrs. Agnes Tufverson Poderjay, 42. New York attorney and former Grand Rapids resident, has been murdered and that her husband, Ivan Poderjay, hu absconded with $34,000 in cash and securities belonging to her, was expressed today by members of her family.

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New Bethel Residents Flayed by Noted Doctor in Typhoid Mass Meeting Dr. Thurman B. Rice, Indiana U. Expert, Rebukes Hecklers at Session Called to Map Counter-Attack Against Spread of Dread Disease. Indignant and puzzled, more than 150 citizens of typhoid-stricken New Bethel were warned, lectured, pleaded with and, finally, denounced vehemently last night in an anti-typhoid mass meeting in their high school. The denunciations came from Dr. Thurman B. Rice, nationally known typhoid expert of the Indiana university medical school, who was stung to intense anger by what he considered a complacent attitude on the part of certain New Bethelites.

NORMA LINKED TO BANK CRIME Accuser Admits Borrowing Cash From Girl’s Mate After Holdup. By United Press COURTHOUSE. DEDHAM. Mass., June 21. —The government's key witness at Norma Brighton Millen's murder-accessory trial admitted under cross-examination today that he borrowed money from Norma's husband after learning mat he had robbed a Needham bank of $15,000 and killed two policemen. George A. Douglas, Norma's diminutive attorney, wrested the admission from Saul Messinger, 25, of Brooklyn, N. Y., on whom the state largely depends to convict the 19-year-old minister's daughter on charges which might send her to prison for twenty-one years. In admitting that he borrowed the money, Messinger emphasized that at the time he did not believe Murton Millen’s story of the bank robbery and murders. The attorney tried in vain to bring out that the story Murton told of the bank robbery .was merely a part of casual conversation. The witness declared that the telling of the story “took twenty or thirty minutes.” “During all this time that the conversation was going on, Norma was moving around the room (in Hotel Chesterfield, New York)?” “Yes.” “And one time she said to her husband, ‘Don’t talk to him ?” “Yes, sir.” “And you and he were talking and joking at that time?” "No, that was the time he was telling me about the Dedham robbery.” Asked if he had sought the $20,000 reward offered or apprehension of the Millens and Faber, Messinger replied negatively. He said he had come to the trial as a voluntary witness.

HOPE WANES FOR 2 LOST IN LAKE GALE Widespread Hunt Fails to Yield Trace of Pair. By United Press CHICAGO, June 21.—Hope for the safety of a youth and a girl who failed to return from a hazardous Lake Michigan sailboat trip dwindled rapidly today. An airplane, three coast guard cutters and lake freighters joined in a fruitless search for Raymond Gustafson, 24, and Miss Ruth Hatch, 25, a student residing with the Gustafson family. A search of several hours revealed no trace of the missing eighteenfoot craft. Authorities feared that Mr. Gustafson and his companion may have met disaster in the midnight gale that churned the lake last night. MOB LYNCHES NEGRO ACCUSED IN ATTACK Alleged Assailant of Texas Girl Is Taken From Officers, Hanged. By United Press NEWTON, Tex.. June 21.—John Griggs, Negro, 38. charged with attacking a white girl, was taken from two deputy sheriffs last night and lynched. Griggs’ nude body was found hanging today from a tree in front of a box factory where he was employed. Times Index Page Bridge i 8 Britain in Fear is Broun .. is Classified 23, 24 Comics 25 Crossword Puzzle 17 Curious World 25 Editorial jg Financial ” ' 22 Hickman—Theaters 23 Lippmann 15 Pegler 15 Radio : s Serial Story 25 Sports 20, 21 State News 4 Vital Statistics 22 Woman's Pages 18, 19

“This is a dirty town.” he roared in defiance of muttered crowd anger. “i tell you again, it s a dircy town.” He was retorting to an unidentified member of the crowd who, a moment before, had denounced the three Indianapolis newspapers for carrying “lies and filth” about New Bethel. “They make this out to be the dirtiest town in Indiana,” this man had protested. “New Bethel has more typhoid cases than any other community of comparative size in Indiana,” Dr. Rise retorted. “Since you aparently are afraid to hear the truth, you wish to have the matter kept secret.” Defends Reporters’ Presence This last statement was made after someone in the audience demanded that reporters be excluded from the meeting. The proposal was greeted with a burst of applause. “You have a dirty town!” Dr. Rice repeated, “and matters of such danger and concern should not be kept from the public.” His talk frequently interrupted by hisses and verbal denunication from the audience. One person, disregarding rules of order, jumped to his feet. “You might have more education than we do, but just because you’re a young fellow you don’t need to think you can come out here and talk to us like that,” the man exclaimed. “We don’t like it!” “You may not like it,’ roared Dr. Rice, his voice choking with emotion, “but it’s the truth—l’m a friend of this town and no one can accuse me of being a coward.” Program Is Outlined A chunky, sandy-haired, rather tired-looking man, Dr. Rice kept pounding at the points that New Bethel must co-operate to meet its problem and that it must realize typhoid is a problem which vitally affects the whole state, and, particularly, the 400,000 persons of nearby Greater Indianapolis. He. and other speakers, laid out as all-important, a three-point program: 1. Purification of water supply with a necessary corollary of proper sewage disposal. 2. Discovery of any carriers who may be jiving in the community and stopping of public gatherings where food is served until such discovery. 3. Inoculation. ‘You parents are responsible for the death of your children if you let them attend such gatherings,” he said, referring to picnics. Hecklers Admonished To hecklers, who objected that the state was doing little for them, Dr. Rice, peering through his spectacles and shaking an admonitory finger, showed little mercy. “If the state comes in here, you won’t like it so well,” he said. “It’s a last-ditch move, but the state, if its wants to, can quarantine this whole town and detour all traffic around it. Your business will suffer and you’ll suffer. How would you like that?” He met an objection by a man whose wife was ill at home, by turning suddenly on his adversary and demanding whether he had followed advice given New Bethel last year to inoculate. “No,” admitted the man. Others Sound Warning Dr. J. w. Jackson, state epidemiologist, spoke in a more pacific vein, but also warned New Bethel it must act. Dr. Oscar Ludwig, county health commissioner, who called the meeting, announced that all New Bethel residents could be inoculated by reporting at 8 Saturday at the school. S. M. Hutchison, United States public health service district superintendent, stated that the erection of sanitary toilets by federal emergency relief administration labor will begin in New Bethel today or tomorrow. Louis A. Geupel, state sanitary bureau chief engineer, discussed proper drainage of sewage. $25,000 FOR DILLINGER ARREST TO BE POSTED Justice Department Busy Compiling Public Enemy List. By United Press WASHINGTON. June 21.—Posting of a $25,000 reward for the capture of John Dillinger, notorious outlaw, by the department of justice was expected shortly when it was learned today that a list of United States "public enemies” was being compiled.

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“Ho-hum! What’s all this fuss about?” yawns Caroline Ruby Mercer, month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hansel Mercer, 1245 West New York street, just before her morning nap. Caroline’s parents are rejoicing today over knitting of a number of the fifty bone fractures which were found in X-rays taken three days after her birth. Until yesterday, she was kept on a padded wooden board, with her legs suspended from an upright framework. X-rays taken yesterday showed sufficient healing to allow the legs to be removed from their support. Caroline slept this morning on a pillow, like any ordinary baby. (Story is on Page 5)

Auto Theft Suspect, 15, Escapes at Courthouse City Youth Breaks Away From Detective, Dashes Through Traffic to Freedom; Outdistances Pursuer. George Leffert, 15. youthful alleged auto bandit, escaped from the custody of Detective John Sullivan today in the basement of the courthouse, fled out the Alabama street entrance, dashed through traffic and

THORNE SMITH, NOTED AUTHOR-HUMORIST, IS DEAD AT AGE OF 42

By United Press SARASOTA, Fla., June 21. Thorne Smith, 42, author and humorist of many best sellers including the “Topper” stories and “Turnabout,” died here late yesterday of heart disease. News of his death was not revealed by the family until today. Surviving him are his widow, two daughters June, 10, and Marion, 11. The humorist was in the middle of writing his new book, which had been contracted for by his publishers, Doubleday, Doran and Company, when he died. It was believed his body would be sent to New York. LEBANON MAN NAMED NEW G. A. R. LEADER David McKinney, Indianapolis, Is Choice for Chaplain. (Early details on Page 5) By United Press • MUNCIE, Ind., June 21.—John F. McKiney, Lebanon, was elected state comamnder of the G. A. R. at the fifty-fifth annual encampment here today. Edward McClelland, Muncie, was named vice-commander. Other officers elected were A. L. Akers, Delphi, junior vice-com-mander; Dr. E. H. Cowan, Crawfordsville, medical director; David Kinney, Indianapolis, chaplain, and Joseph B. Henninge* 1 , Indianapolis, adjutant-general. U. S. BUYING SILVER, MORGENTHAU REVEALS First Steps Are Taken to Carry Out Provisions of New Act. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 21.—The United States government has begun to carry out provisions of the new silver purchase act which provides for an eventual 25 per cent silver base for the country’s metallic monetary reserves, Henry Morgenthau, secretary of the treasury, said today. BLAST TOLL NOW~~FIVE Another Victim Added to List i Ford Explosion. By United Press DETROIT, June 21.—Death toll of Monday’s explosion in the foundry of the River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor Company today reached a total of five with the death of John Evans, one of thirteen workers burned when a tank of napthalene was spilled onto hot metal castings.

Film Extras Forced to Have ‘Affairs’ to Get Jobs, Hollywood Jury Charges

By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 21.—Charges that young girls aspiring motion picture careers are forced to submit to “affairs” with studio courtiers were contained today in a grand jury report. County officials made public the testimony of a feminine “bit player,” that she and others who come to Hollywood are forced to become "party girls” in exchange for minor assignments.

disappeared. Too young to be chained, Leffert was free to make the dash for liberty at the time, detective Sullivan said. Dodging the heavy traffic on Washington street, the youth darted down an alley with Sullivan outdistanced. The youth just had come from criminal courtroom and was being taken to juvenile court to answer charges of vehicle taking. He is alleged to have been one of three boys who stole seven automobiles. His alleged companions, Hubert Parsley, 16, and Frank Hittle, 20, were sentenced to six months on the penal farm by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. Sensational Trial Hinted A sensational blackmail case will come before criminal court soon, Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker indicated today when the grand jury returned nine indictments, one of them for a fugitive. Judge Baker indicated that the fugitive was a woman who is &- leged to have attempted to blackmail a prominent physician here. ROOSEVELT ARRIVES TO WATCH REGATTA Business of State Keeps President Busy. By United Press NEW LONDON, Conn., June 21. A pouch of special mail, bills and other government business was carried aboard the yacht Sequoia for President Roosevelt's attention a he arrived here today after a leisurely cruise from New Haven, Conn. Mr. Roosevelt came to New London from New Haven, where yesterday he received an honorary degree from Yale university and defended the use of the brain trust as necessary in American government. A mass of administration detail, bills that await his signature and (Turn to Page Three) CATHEDRAL POST GOES TO MONSIGNOR NOLL St. Phillip Neri Pastor Named Rector by Bishop. The Right Rev. Monsignor Raymond R. Noll, V. G., S. T. D., pastor of St. Phillip Neri church, has been appointed rector of SS. Peter and Paul cathedral to succeed the Most Rev. Joseph Elmer Ritter, now bishop of the Indianapolis diocese. The appointment becomes ’effective June 29.

The testimony preceded indictment of Dave Allen, head of the Centra] Casting bureau, and Gloria Marsh, screen actress, on morals charges. "You found it necessary to have affairs with men in order to get jobs?” a deputy district attorney asked. “Oh, yes,” she replied. “That is about the only way, unless you were a director and you had a

STIFLING HEAT TIGHTENS GRIP ON ARID MIDWEST AFTER CYCLONIC STORM

Five Women Killed as Vacation Liner Strikes Rock, Sinks; 970 Saved Rope on Lifeboat Snaps, Hurling Passengers to Death; Survivors of Sea Tragedy, 12 Hurt Seriously, Suffering From Exposure. By United Press STAVANGER, Norway, June 21.—The liner Dresden, vacation ship for 975 German working people, nosed down into the sea today, a wreck, leaving five women of its complement dead ashore and the rest scattered along the Haugesund coast, shivering in summer finery. Its hull ripped open when it struck the partly submerged Kleppefluec rock on the east side of Karmoe island, the 14,690-ton North German Lloyd liner turned over and sank at 8 a. m. today after passengers

BARBER DIES AS GARHITS POLE Speedway City Resident Is Killed in Crash Here; Driver Held. Samuel Cosner, 37, of 4943 West Eleventh street, Speedway City barber shop proprietor, was killed almost instantly last night when an automobile in which he was riding sideswiped a utility pole in the 4000 block, Massachusetts avenue. Wilson D. Nash, 42, of 5054 West Thirteenth street, driver of the car,

was held on a charge of vagrancy pending a coroner’s inquest. Mr. Nash told police he was blinded by the lights of an approaching car and

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that his automobile left the road, out of control. Mr. Cosner was born in Greencastle, Ind., and came here seven years ago. He worked in downtown barber shops until a year ago, and then purchased a shop. He was a member of the Barbers’ union, the Fillmore (Ind.) lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and the. Mt. Meridian (Ind.) Methodist church. His death was the fifty-seventh traffic fatality in Marion county this year. Surviving .’-lim are the wid >w, Mrs. Pearl Cosner; a daughter, Madonna Cosner, 14; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Cosner of near Greencastle, Ind., and a brother, William Cosner. who lives with the parents. Mr. Cosner’s seriously ill mother-in-law, Mrs. Alice nurst, who lived in the Cosier home, has not been told of his death for fear the shock might prove fatal. Mrs. Cosner was not notified until six hours after the crash and had spent part of that time searching for her husband. Services probably will be in Greencastle Saturday. 1,000 BOLIVIANS DIE IN GRAN CHACO BATTLE Decisive Struggle Waged Along 75-Mile Front. (Early details on Page 10) By United Press ASCUNCION, Paraguay, June 21. One thousand Bolivians were killed last night in a desperate battle which may prove the decisive point of the war. The battle raged along a seventy-five mile front in the Gran Chaco, an official communique said today. WATCHMAN FOUND SLAIN Discovery Made After Settlement of Strike in Ohio Plant. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., June 21.—Night Watchman Sam Miller of the Hercules Pants Company here was killed today by a blow on the head, several hours after company officials and employes reached an agreement which ended a week’s strike. Marshall Turley, 55, day watchman, who was discharged Sunday, was questioned while a murder charge was prepared against him. EX-CONVICT, 20, SHOT Youth Slain by Police When He Tries to Draw Gun. By United Press GREEN BAY, Wis., June 21. Godfrey Belongia, 20-year-old exconvict, was shot and fatally wounded by a policeman today when he drew a gun in his attempt to escape from another officer.

daughter, or a sister, or a relative, or something like that.” Allen and Miss Marsh, who have denied the charges, are to appear for trial June 27. Allen said the charges were a “frameup” of enemies attempting to oust him. “I was terribly bawled out by my friends when I got registered at the bureau,” the witness related. “They said they knew how I had got registered, and I was embarrassed about it. Several of my friends stopped speaking.”

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uaa Deen removed. With three holds full of water and others filling, the big ship at first sank slowly and then rapidly as the tide rose during the night. Os the five women victims, four drowned when a davit rope of the first lifeboat broke. The fifth died in a hospital here of injuries. Most of the rescued passengers were suffering from exposure. Only twelve were believed to have injuries of considerable extent. All Rest Are Safe All the rest were sheltered in peasants’ and fishermen’s cottages, schools, and other havens along the coast between here and Haugesund, after their rescues by the Norwegian steamships King Haakon, King Harald and Crown Princess Martha, which responded to the Dresden’s SOS last night during the dinner hour. The North German Lloyd liner Stuttgart, sent from Bremen as soon as it was known the Dresden was doomed, was on its way to collect them and take them home. The passengers were at dinner, dressed in their best, women in flimsy gowns and high-heeled slippers, the ship’s orchestra playing, when there was a frightening jar, the ship shuddered, and began to list. There was no panic. The passengers proceeded in orderly manner to the decks outside. The 280 members of the crew were at their emergency posts. Four Picked Up Dead Twenty women stepped into the first boat. It was lowered from the davits. Just before it reached the water a supporting rope broke and the boat capsized. The women, in their lifebelts, were picked up by the King Harald, little Trondheim steamship, and brought here. Four were dead. The fifth died in a hospital later. A second lifeboat capsized when it fouled a propeller at the rising stern, but all its passengers were rescued. Many women trudged miles along the coast in the rain in light gowns and high-heeled shoes, and were suffering from exposure today. MISS PERKINS URGES DOCK STRIKE TRUCE Labor Secretary Threatens Federal Action. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 21.—A softvoiced, brown-eyed woman today took decisive steps to end the biggest labor strike in the country, that of the Pacific coast longshoremen, affecting about 20,000 men. Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, brandishing the same big stack which she threatened to use in the steel industry dispute, wired the longshoremen and their employes to submit their quarrel to an arbitrator from her department. If they did not, she indicated she would invoke the administration’s labor dispute bill. It would establish an arbitration board, which could settle the fight arbitrarily. FAST PONY EXPRESS RIDER DIES IN WEST Pioneer Californian Helped Build First Railroad. By United Press STOCKTON, Cal., June 21.—William Campbell, last of the valiant pony express riders, rode with his comrades again today. He died here after a brief illness. His widow, three sons and four daughters survive. From Nov. 1, 1861, until October, 1862, Mr. Campbell rode a leg of the hazardous horseback mail relay from Joplin, Mo., to Sacramento. Cal., prior to advent of the steam railroad. An early settler of Nebraska and Kansas, Mr. Campbell was one of those engaged in construction of the Union Pacific’s inaugural transcontinental railroad. He came to California more than forty years ago. LOG CHURCH OBSERVES 19TH ANNIVERSARY Children and Women Helped Build Wisconsin Structure, By United Press DELAVAN. Wis., June 21.—The Walworth Baptist church here originally built of logs, which were rolled on to the site by women and children as veil as men, celebrated its ninetieth anniversary June 3.

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Four Dead, Three Lost on Lake Michigan in Terrific Gale. DAMAGE TOLL IS HIGH Higher Temperatures Are Predicted; Wind, Rain Also Expected. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 71 10 a. m 85 7a. m 73 11 a. m 86 8 a. m 78 12 (noon).. 88 9a. m 83 Ip. m 87 By United Press CHICAGO, June 21. Stifling heat hung over the broad sections of drought-withered farm crops in the middle west today as nature added fresh weather torments to the nation’s agricultural center. Rain came in scattered sections last night but with it came a cyclonic windstorm that leveled crops, ■ severed communication and electric lines and left four dead and three others missing in the windwhipped waters of Lake Michigan. It was the first day of official summer and it found the farming area in a sorry plight, battling drought, insects, windstorms and almost unbearable heat. The one bright spot in the picture was the rapidly rising commodity markets which assured farmers a good price for such crops as they could save from ruin. Even higher temperatures were forecast for the week-end and there were warnings of additional storms late today, tonight or tomorrow in Indiana, Ohio, southern Illinois and southeastern Missouri. Plane Seeks Missing Pair Last night’s storm, of almost tornado violence in some sections, took its toll of lives in Wisconsin and Illinois. - Meanwhile an airplane, chartered by a frantic mother, skimmed over the blue wastes of Lake Michigan in a search for Miss Ruth Hatch, 25, and Raymaond Gustafson, 25, lost on a sailboat trip here. Richard Ludlow, 19, of Evanston, 111., also was missing, lost in the midnight storm on the lake. Repair crews were at work throughout lower Wisconsin after the furious windstorm which blew down buildings, uprooted trees, ripped off roofs and injured scores of persons. Property damage was expected to run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hog Prices on Climb Yesterday’s temperatures in the central states ranged from 90 to 102 degrees, the highest being at Kansas City and Oklahoma City. Readings of 96 were reported at Wichita, Kan., Springfeild, 111., Keokuk and Davenport, la. St. Louis suffered in heat of 94 degrees and temperatures of 92 prevailed at Detroit, Cleveland and Ft. Wayne. Continuation of the withering heat brought marked reaction on the world’s great livestock trading center here when the price of hogs went to $5.25 a hundredweight, the highest since last Oct. 10, and within 30 cents of last year’s peak. Livestock prices were generally higher in pace with the thermometer. Summer’s Debut Near Summer will make a quiet debut into Indianapolis at 9:48 tonight amid a rumble of thunder and the patter of rain, if the weather bureau predictions are true. June 21 is the longest day of the year. The sun rose at 4:15 a. m. and is scheduled to set at 7:15 p. m., fifteen hours and one-half of daylight. After today, the length of the days will decline steadily until the shortest day, Dec. 22. APACHE CHIEF GUILTY Indian Fined for Attack on White Girl Secretary. By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 21. Chief Running Elk, Arizona Apache Indian, was convicted today on assault charges by a jury which imposed as punishment a fine of $250. The Indian was charged with criminally assaulting his young, white secretary three days after she entered his employ. His purported victim burst into hysterics when the verdict was read.

CHICKEN DINNER IS GIVEN FOR ‘MICKEY’ Mrs. J. Schmoll, 1218 King avenue, was so overjoyed at the return of her pet bulldog, “Mickey,” who was * lost for several days, that she treated him tn a chicken dinner. It is interesting to know that Mrs. Schmoll made several attempts to find her pet though other newspapers, but it was not until she placed a lost ad in The Times that her dog was located, found by a reader of The Times. The Times finds things, because it is read by thousands who read no other paper.