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MYSTERIOUS BLOND ENTERS BAFFLING MISSING BRIDE CASE New Yovk Police Search for ‘Sister-m-Law’ of Lost Lawyer’s Bigamous Mate, Held in Vienna. CALLED AT APARTMENT FREQUENTLY Intensive Hunt for New Clews Pressed; Little Importance Attached to Razor Blade, Drug Purchases. By United Press NEW YORK, June 22.—A mysterious blond entered the Poderjay case today when police disclosed they were looking for a woman with “a continental manner” who several times called at the apartment where the missing Miss Agnes Tufverson lived with her bigamous husband, “Captain” Ivan Poderjay. The woman, police have learned, identified herself to attendants of the apartment house as the “sister-in-law” of Poderjay, who is held on suspicion charges in Vienna. This pretense of relationship, they believe, may presage a more than cursory knowledge of the movements of the brilliant woman lawyer who vanished last Dec. 20.

The halting police investigation broke down one phase of Poderjay’s story today that his wedding to Miss Tufverson was a marriage of convenience, and that they did not intend to live together abroad. Letters written by Miss Tufverson between her marriage and her disappearance picture her as planning to live abroad forever. Conclusive evidence against Poderjay still evaded detectives today, however, despite the most thorough search of recent police history. New developments were few ana offered no tangible grounds upon which the international adventurer • could be linked with the mysterious disappearance of his bride last December. Detectives here worked feverishly, but fruitlessly, for charges that would serve for extradition. Little importance was attached to the fact that on Dec. 19, Poderjay purchased $lO worth of razor blades and a quantity of sedatives A second sister of Miss Tufverson, Olive, informed police she believed Poder jay subtly administered drugs to her sister “to gain control of her.” Possibility that Poderjay had induced Miss Tuf verson to sign over to him some or all of her $25,000 stock holding was exploded when it was learned than recent transfers of her interests all were accounted for. . A theory advanced by Captain John Ayres of the missing persons bureau that Miss Tufverson was killed, her body placed in a trunk and thrown overboard at sea will be tested when the liner Olympic arrives Tuesday. Identified in Boston By United Pres* BOSTON, June 22. —A Boston cleaning shop clerk told police that she is “positive” that a customer named “Todgerson,” who had a dress cleaned twice within the last six weeks, is the missing Agnes Tufverson of New York, whose photographs have been appearing daily In Boston newspapers. Bound Over to Court By United Press VIENNA. June 22.—Police have placed a charge of suspected murder against Ivan Poderjay in connection with the disappearance of Miss Agnes Tufverson. New York and Detroit lawyer, they announced today. Mile. Margaret Ferrand, arrested with Poderjay, was charged with suspicion of being an accomplice after the fact. Th% suspicion of murder charge against Poderjay is in addition to that of bigamy—at first technical bigamy—put against him when New' York police first asked for his detention. Mile. Ferrand also is charged W'ith bigamy. She was held at first merely for investigation. Poderjay and Mile. Ferrand now are under the jurisdiction of the court of investigation, which in Austria decides whether a charge is justified and returns an indictment if one is indicated. NINE CHARGED WITH ANTI-NAZI SPEECHES Trial Set Next Week for Group Arrest at Harvard. By United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 22. Nine persons arrested in anti-Nazi demonstrations in the Harvard yard and Harvard square yesterday were ordered held for trial next Wednesday when arraigned in district court here today. All pleaded not guilty to charges of speaking without a permit or disturbing the peace, or both, and Judge Edward A. Counihan set bail at S2OO on each charge. CAR LOADINGS UAG AIN / Increase 2.484 Over Prior Week Shown as of June 16. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 22.—The American Railway Association today announced carloadings of revenue freight for the week ended June 16 totaled 617.649 cars, an increase of 2.484 cars fro mthe preceding week and 24.890 cars above the corresponding week in 1933.

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MOTHERS BEAT GIRLS^NNOYER City Woman, Arrested After Revenge Attack, Is Freed by Court. A tale of the vengeance of two east side mothers upon a man alleged to have molested their small daughters was unfolded today in Municipal Judge Dewey Myers’ court. * The matter came before Judge Myers 'when the man, whose head was injured by blows from a leather strap wielded by one of the mothers, swore out an assault and battery charge against her. When juvenile court authorities learned of her arrest, they rushed to Judge Myers and freed her wtih this story: The man had been molesting the 6-year-old daughter of one mother for about a year. She had said nothing, apparently frightened. Then he turned to the daughter of the other woman. Shg also was 6. The second little girl told her mother at once. The mother haled the man into juvenile court. With only the incompetent testimony of 6-year-olds against him, he was freed. This enraged the mothers and the attack followed, led by the woman arrested today. The complainant was not in court when Judge Myers freed the mother. Juvenile authorities said they doubted he would appear to press his charge. He is to move from the neighborhood on the order of the juvenile court. OHIO MAGNATE KILLS WIFE. WOUNDS TWO Rolling Mill Executive Then Ends Own Life. By United Press MIDDLETOWN, 0.. June 22. Sydney Rectanus, 46. vice-president of the American Rolling Mills, shot and killed his wife, Alma, critically wounded his mother-in-law, Mrs. Elise Rathman. and his daughter, Shirley, and then killed himself today. The mother-in-law and daughter are not expected to live. Members of the family could give no explanation for the sudden frenzy which prompted the shootings. ARMOUR OFFICIAL, ILL, ENDS LIFE WITH GUN Vice-President of Packing Firm Kills Self at Home. By United Press CHICAGO, June 22.—Frederick James Reynolds, 58, vice-president of Armour & Cos., shot himself to death today in the bathroom of his home in suburban Highland Park. Rushed to the Highland Park hospital by his wife, Mr. Reynolds died within an hour. Reynolds long had been ill. He contracted a serious throat ailment recently which necessitated the removal of his teeth and seriously impaired his nervous system.

By United Press T ONDON, June 22. —Military dictatorship in Germany in September was predicted by a “personage” close to former Kaiser Wilhelm, the Daily Herald correspondent at, Doom, Holland, asserted today. Wilhelm, the Herald’s informant said, learned during the last few weeks that plans for proclamation of the dictatorship, which would oust the Nazi government, were formed and ready for execution. “The former kaiser will be back

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Calm when she was escorted to court by a deputy, as shown here, pretty Norma Millen, on trial in Dedham, Mass., as accessory in a bank robbery murder for which her husband and two others have been sentenced to die, lost Iher poise and sobbed when witnesses described the death agonies of the policeman slain in the holdup. The 19-year-old daughter of a parson faces twenty-one years in prison if convicted.

Norma’s Mother Reveals Girl’s Romance With Killer Pretty Minister’s Daughter ‘Just a Little Girl,’ Divorced Wife Tells Dedham Jury. By United Press DEDHAM, Mass., June 22.—The rapid-fire courtship of Murton Millen, convicted slayer, and pretty Norma Brighton, parson's daughter, was described by Norma's mother at today’s session of her daughter’s murder-accessory trial.

In a clear, even voice, Mrs. Margaret Smith Brighton, who Is divorced from Norma's ministerfather, reviewed the romance from its beginning in a Paragon park dance palace at Nantasket Beach to the young couple's elopement only a few weeks later. The mother, a gray-haired, substantial woman clad entirely in white, was called as the first defense witness after the state had rested and George A. Douglas, Norma's counsel, had addressed the jury briefly. , Other relatives were to follow Mrs. Brighton in the fight to save the pretty defendant from a possible maximum sentence of twentyone years in, prison. Defendant Weeps Norma, sitting a few feet from the witness stand, wept as her mother described her romance. A matron handed her a little green bottle of smelling salts, which Norma sniffed. Mrs. Brighton testified that when their holiday was over, Murton drove her and Norma to Tewksbury. She left them there, Murton driving Norma to the father’s home. A week later Norma visited-her in Tewksbury, accompanied by Murton. Norma told her she had had trouble with her father and was going to leave him. “I told her to stay with him until I could make arrangements to have her live with me,” said the witness. “I told Murton Millen at that time to be careful of my little girl.” Suitor Was “Nice” to Her “I asked Norma. ‘Do you like Murt?’ ” Mrs. Brighton testified, “and she said, ‘He is nice to me.’ “I said, ‘You want to be very careful, Norma, you’re only a little girl,” and, turning to the jury, “She is a little girl. “She said Murt let her drive his car and she seemed very pleased and excited about it, just as a little girl would te. “Norma told me that Murton had a terrible temper and his own father told me that.” Mrs. Brighton testified. 9 CHILDREN ARE HURT IN COLLAPSE OF HOUSE Others Sought by Rescuers in Ruins of Abandoned Dwelling. By United Press CHICAGO, June 22.—Nine children were injured, two seriously, when an abandoned frame house collapsed today. Rooms of the old house were filled with the happy shouts of many neighborhood children who had made it a rainy-day playground when the crash suddenly . turned the scene to one of terror. Rescue crews continued at work in the fear that other children might be pinned beneath the wreckage.

Army Dictatorship to Oust Hitler Soon, Is Report

in Germany before the beginning of 1935,” the informant was quoted as saying. “It may be as a private citizen or it may be in an official capacity, but he will be back. “There never has been an official contact between the Nazi movement and Doom castle (where Wilhelm is in exile). On the contrary, the relationship has been bad. Wilhelm never has met Chancellor Adolf Hitler and each has refused to see representatives of the other. “We here do not expect to see Hitler last through the winter. “Lieutenant-Gqneral Werner von

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1934

BOY, 9, DROWNS AT GAMP NEAR DELPHI City Lad’s Body Recovered; Officials Absolved. Funeral services for 9-year-old Lloyd Allan, 3014 Ralston avenue, whose body was recovered late yesterday from the Tippecanoe river near Delphi, will te held Saturday afternoon in the E. Henry Hinshaw funeral parlors, with burial ir Crown Hill. The boy disappeared from Camp Tecumseh. to which he had been sent by the Indianapolis Welfare Society, after swimming time Wednesday afternoon. It is presumed he returned to the river bank and was drowned then. Coroner John Kirkpatrick has absolved the camp of blame. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. Ward; four brothers, Robert Ward, 10, who also was at the camp; Charles Ward, 7; Richard Ward, 5, and William Ward, IY2 ; two sisters, Mary Elizabeth Ward, 4, and Harriett Lou Ward, 2. Also surviving are three grandparents, Mrs. Hattie Ward, Indianapolis, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rudicel, Connersville. BUTLER DECISION IS POSTPONED AGAIN Case Continued Until Next Annual Session. By United Press CHICAGO, June 22.—The executive committee on higher education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools today continued the case of Butler university until the next annual meeting of the association, but ruled that meantime the school will remain on the accredited list. George A. Works, committee secretary, announced the continuance of the Indianapolis school, but said meanwhile a survey at the school will te made to determine whether requirements of the association are being met. , PRISON BREAKER DIES Earl Joiner, Notorious Bad Man, Found Dead in Cell. By United Press ' LIBERTY, Tex., June 22.—Earl Joiner, who escaped from the Angola (La.) state prison farm last year, and who subsequently figu?u in an -escape from Crockett (Tex.) officers, died in the Liberty county jail here today.

Blomberg, minister of war, contemplates proclaiming the dictatorship with martial law at the beginning and immediate cessation of the anti-Jewish campaign.” ana “T ATER,” the informant conA-/ tinued, the new leaders would seek financial assistance from the United States. “Plans of the army staff for the dictatorship are prepared. Hitler will be allowed to flee to Italy. Baron Franz von Papen, vicechancellor, will remain in Germany and from there re-establish

DILLINGER ALIVE AND WELL, SISTER REVEALS

ONE DEAD, TWO DYING Are CARCRASHES City Man, Hit by Truck, Is Fifty-Eighth Victim in County. One person died in city hospital last night as the result of injuries suffered in an accident earlier in the day, two were injured critically and twelve others less seriously injured in automobile accidents late yesterday. Edward Walters, 50, of 2017 North Dearborn street, died _ last night of injuries C received when he became confused while *** crossing New York 11 street at Liberty street and was struck by a truck driven by Albert Michaelis, 20, of 821 Parker avenue. Mr. Walters is survived by his widow, Mrs. Hattie Walters, and a son, Robert E. Walters. He was born in Eminence, Ind., and had lived here fifteen years. The body was taken to Moore & Kirk funeral home but funeral arrangements have not been completed. Witnesses said Mr. Michaelis was not to blame. Mr. Walters is the fifty-eighth traffic victim in Marion county this year. Motorcyclists Injured A motorcycle rider, Edward Baumann, 25, of 1828 Singleton street, and his passenger, Mrs. Irene Benton, 22, of 3843 Oliver avenue, were injured critically when the motorcycle collided with an automobile at the National and Holt roads shortly before midnight. Mr. Baumann was following an automobile driven by Richard England, 21, Mars Hill, and the crash occurred when Mr. England made a left turn. Mr. Baumann and Mrs. Benton, who were catapulted over the automobile to the opposite .side of the road oy the force of the impact, are not expected to live. William Benton, husband of the injured woman, appeared at the Marion county jail today and declared that his wife had not teen riding on the motorcycle, but was riding in the automobile. Ten persons were injured last night when a car containing seven young persons collided with a car occupied by three women at Eightysixth street and College avenue. . . ■ . The List of Injured The injured are Miss Martha Ash, 22, of 2446 Central avenue, Apt. 3, internal injuries; her sister, Miss Mary Ash, 26, cuts; Mrs. Opal Holstein, 30, of 3331 North Meridian street; Charles F. Van Briggle, 16, Home Place; Miss Frances Van Briggle, 18, Home Place; Miss Beulah Taylor, 19, Sheridan; Miss Virginia Applegate, 17, Carmel; Miss Dorotha Applegate, 18, Carmel; Joe Smith, 18, R. R. 16, Box 54, and Wes Thomas, 15, Home Place, cuts and bruises. Miss Martha Ash was driving one car with her sister and Mrs. Holstein as passengers. Mr. Van Briggle was the driver of the other car. The Ash sisters were sent to Methodist hospital and the others to city hospital. The Ash car was moving across Eighty-sixth street when it was struck by the other automobile going north on College avenue. Doctor and Wife Hurt Dr. Sidney Schreiber, 36, Chicago, and his wife Ruth, 23, were injured yesterday when a car driven by an alleged automobile thief collided with the car in whicn Dr. and Mrs. Schreiber were sitting at the entrance to the speedway golf course. The driver of the stolen car fled, but his companion, William Nixon, 22, Negro, 520 Douglass street, was captured by Francis E. Meyers, 1717 South Delaware street, and held for the police. The car was reported stolen from Stacy E. Michael, 1309 East Market tsreet, according to police. Nixon was charged with vagrancy and held under $2,000 bond. Dr. and Mrs. Schreiber were treated at city hospital for lacerations. Both automobiles slid down a steep embankment into the course grounds, tearing down fifty feet of board fence, after the crash. Christian Endeavor Elects By United Press FORT WAYNE, Ind., June 22. Homer Augsburger, Berne, today was elected president of the Indiana Christian Endeavor Union in the first business session of its annual four-day convention here.

friendly relations ' with the Vatican. Baron Konstantin von Neurath, foreign minister, will prepare for Germany’s return to the League of Nations.” The informant added that Papen’s criticism of Nazi extremists, which precipitated a cabinet fight in Germany, delighted but did not surprise the former Kaiser's household. a a a STORIES that the military element in Germany did not approve of Nazism and was ready to overthrow it have teen circulated widely.

COURT IS CONVULSED AS ADELE ASTAIRE THUMBS HER NOSE

By United Press LONDON, June 22.—A select audience in divorce court was convulsed with laughter today when Lady Cavendish, the former popular American dancer, Adele Astaire, thumbed her nose while testifying in the divorce suit of Edward F. W. James against Tilly Losch, dancer. Lady Cavendish was not making the gesture of derision at any one court. She was testifying in support of Miss Losch’s denial of her husband’s charge that she misconducted herself with Prince Serge Obolensky. The gesture demonstrated how she and Miss Losch “made faces” at one another from two taxicabs traveling side by side on Fifth avenue in New York. Lady Cavendish was in one cab with a companion and Miss Losch and Prince Obolensky in another. It was on that ride that James alleged the prince and his wife were observed in a kissing clinch. Lady Cavendish testified that siie had a clear, view of the other cab and that no kissing occurred.

PRESIDENT SEES SONJNJJEFEAT Young Roosevelt’s Harvard Frosh Crew Beaten by Yale. By United Press ABOARD SEQUOIA. NEW LONLON, Conn., June 22.—President Roosevelt today saw a gallant Harvard freshman crew that included his son, Franklin Jr., nosed out by Yale by half a length. Mr. Roosevelt, who temporarily shoved aside the cares of office to become a Harvard rooter again was disappointed, but took the defeat with a smile. “It was an awfully good race,” he said. Garbed in light clothes and his old battered white fisherman’s hat, the President had a point of vahtage on the forward upper deck of the referee boat to which he transferred from the Sequoia shortly before the start of the traditional contest. Mrs. Roosevelt watched the crews from the Tara, the judges’ boat. With her were Mrs. James Roosevelt and a group of friends. ‘STERILIZED’ FATHER OF BABY SUES SURGEON Court Rules Against Parent in $5,000 Damage Action. By United Press ST. PAUL, June 22.—A husband whose wife presented him with a son despite his submission to a sterilization operation today was denied $5,000 damages in the Minnesota supreme court against the physician who performed the operation. The high court held that an operation to sterilize a man whose wife may not have a child without grave hazard to her life is not against public policy. Mennonite Bishop Dies By United Press ELKHART, Ind., June 22. —Bishop David Barber, 72, Harrisburg, Pa., who came here four weeks ago to attend a meeting of the Mennonite board of missions and charities, died last night of pneumonia.

Alleged Swindle Victim Identifies ‘ Lost * Bonds Gave Them to Ex-Sweetheart, Woman Testifies in Trial of Shelbyville Man Here. Twirling a lorgnette between her fingers, Miss Mabel Gentry, a diminutive woman with reddish-blond hair, who does not look her 48 years, took the stand today in the swindle trial of Joseph B. Weintraut, 58, Shelbyville, and told of giving Weintraut eight SI,OOO Liberty bonds.

Miss Gentry’s appearance was brief, since Deputy Prosecutor John Kelly, at this stage of the trial, only had her identity bonds already placed in evidence with other witnesses. She said she had given the bonds to Weintraut Sept. 14, 15 and 18, 1933, but she was not called upon to tell the way in which, the state says, he gained her confidence and affection, mixing sex appeal with securities.

Baron Blomberg is an old Reichswehr man of distinction, and a non-Nazi. Papen, a representatice of the Junker and industrial elements in Germany, is not a Nazi. He has done all the Hitler government’s negotiating with the Vatican and it was* he who arranged by mediation the accession of the Nazi government in January, 1933. ' Neurath also is a non-Nazi. He is a former Nationalist and a holdover from the government which preceded Hitler's

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BLACKMAIL IS CHARGED TO CITYJPIAN Dr. Karl R. Ruddell, Noted Indianapolis Surgeon, Is Complainant. Charged with atempting to extort $5,000 from Dr. Karl R. Ruddell, 2626 North Meridian street, prominent Indianapolis surgeon, Mrs. Marie Wagner, 32, 722 Fairfield avenue, today faced blackmail charges. Mrs. Wagner was arrested yesterday and placed in the Marion county jail, following return of an indictment by the grand jury, but was released last night under SIO,OOO bond. Mrs. Wagner is alleged to have written two letters to Dr. Ruddell demanding $5,000 if he did not want alleged scenes in his office revealed to his wife or to Mrs. Wagner’s husband. The indictment was a result of a complaint by Dr. Ruddell to Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, after the surgeon had received the first letter three weeks ago. The second letter was received recently. When Henry Wagner, the arrested woman’s husband, learned of the letters, he is said to have written Dr. Ruddell asking for an interview. Whether one was granted, is not known “Perhaps you would like to have your family know about this, or maybe my husband,” one of the letters raid to have been written by Mrs. Wagner, declared. “It will cost you $5,000 if I don’t hear from j;ou,” the letter concluded.

COOLING RAIN ENDS HEAT WAVE IN CITY Serious Storm Doubted by Weather Bureau. A heavy, cooling rain broke over Indianapolis at noon today after the sun apparently had triumphed over persistent clouds in mid-morning. The weather bureau said it could not determine how much rain would fall, but said it did not believe there would be a serious storm. Counties in the southern portion of the state reported as much as an inch of rainfall last night and, the weather bureau said, as much may fall here this afternoon and tonight. Earlier in the day the bureau had forecast showers for tonight with tomorrow cloudy. Last night summer |came in officially at 9:48 with just a touch of rain. By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 22. Flooded streets, fallen trees, and disabled communication lines were left in southwestern Indiana today in the wake of a severe rain and wind storm. One death was attributed to the unnatural atmospheric condiitons which resulted in a heavy rainstorm followed by winds of near cyclonic velocity. Frank Beckwith, 40, of near Wheeling, Gibson county, was killed by lightning.

Earlier witnesses had told of Weintraut’s strenuous efforts to meet Miss Gentry, who appeared in court today in a black silk dress. One of them, Miss Jane Ball, 28, of 734 Park avenue, formerly a telephone operator at the SpirkArms, told of two beer-drinkii g parties with Weintraut at which he attempted to get Miss Gentry’s name and hotel room number. Both Miss Gentry and Weintraub were registered at the hotel at that time, September, 1933, Weintraub as John W. Worland. This was established on the testimony of Miss Ball and two others. First, Weintraub took her to drink beer for two hours at an Illinois street restaurant and then he drank homebrew with her at the Park avenue address, she said. She refused both times to violate the hotel’s rule against giving names of guests, she said, but later weakened and gave both Miss Gentry’s name and room number, 1814, over the phone. “Asa matter of fact,” thundered defence attorney Clyde C. Karrer on cross-examination, “didn’t you, at one time or another, tell him you’d get him a good woman?” “I did not!” Miss Ball Snapped.

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Newest Report About Outlaw Is Given in Letter. JOHN 32 TODAYi Stage Offers to Father Are Branded as ‘Bunk.’ By United Press GALION, 0., June 22. John Dillinger still lives, according to his sister, Mrs. Audrey Hancock, Maywood, Ind., who has written Mrs. Eulalia Callender, a friend here, that “we have heard from John and he is well.” Reports have been recurrent sine® the Indiana desperado shot his way from a trap set by federal officers at a Wisconsin resort, that he may have died of wounds. “We do not know where John is hiding,” Mrs. Hancock wrote. ‘T wish I did know. We have so much mail for him. Today, Friday, June 22, is his 32nd birthday.” “I don’t believe he would surrender. He doesn’t trust any one,” Mrs. Hancock wrote. Dillinger’s sister expressed distrust of offers reported to have been made to the gangster's father to appear in vaudeville and at a Coney Island resort. “All this bunk about wanting dad to go on the stage is only another federal trap,” she wrote her friend here. “If they can’t catch him on® way, they will try another.” Mrs. Callender, in revealing contents of the letter, said she had asked Joseph W. Sharts, Dayton attorney, to petition Governor George White of Ohio to commute death sentences of Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley, members of Dillinger’s gang. The two men were sentenced on conviction of slaying Sheriff Jess® L. Sarber, at Lima, 0., in liberating Dillinger from jail. Mr. Sharts was said by Mrs. Callender to have sent a plea to ths Governor for the doomed men, asking intercession on “points of legality.” The Lima district appeals court re ’ently denied the men anew trial. T.iey are sentenced to die in July. Mrs. Audrey Hancock, Maywood, today denied to The Times that she had received a letter from her brother, John Dillinger, notorious public enemy, but added that “he has so many friends that if he were injured or dead they would notify us.” Mrs. Hancock, who reared Dillinger as a child, today inserted a classified advertisement in The Times in which she extended birthday greetings to Dillinger. It was explained that the notorious outlaw scans Indianapolis newspapers closely. The greeting read: “Birthday greetings to my darling brother, John Dillinger, on his 31st birthday. Wherever he may be, I hope he will read this message.” It was signed “Audrey Hancock.” He Likes His Uncle Stalwart, bronzed Norman Hancock, her son, and 21-year-old nephew of Dillinger, said today he wou;d “just as soon” be with Dillinger as sitting around home. The nephew admitted he had traveled with Dillinger several times since Dillinger had been a fugitive. He added that he felt he Was in no danger when he was with his uncle, and 'commented that Dillinger apparently took no particular precautions against being spotted by police. Mrs. Hancock revealed that hundreds of letters from all parts of the world have been received at her home for Dillinger, some upholding him and others condemning him. Three Proposals a Day! As many as three or four proposals have been received in his mail in one day, she said. The sister said the letters have been torn up and burned. She describes Evelyn Freschetti, Dillinger’s sweetheart, also known as Ann Martin, who was arrested several weeks ago in Minneapolis, as “very considerate, kind, and not at all the type'usually considered a gun moll." John Dillinger Sr., father of the outlaw, said his son w r as 32 today. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 70 10 a. m 79 7a. m 70 11 a. m 81 Ba. m 74 12 (noon) . 82 9 a. m 77 1 p. m 71 Times Index Page. Berg Cartoon 22 Bridge 24 Britain in Fear 21 Broun 21 Classified 28, 29 Comics .31 Crossword Puzzle 28 Curious World’ 31 Editorial 22 Financial 30 Food Section 16, 17, 18 Hickman—Theaters 10 Let’s Go Fishing 6 / Lippmann 2i I Pegler 21 Radio 14 Serial Story 31 State News 7 Vital Statistics 30 , Woman’s Pages 24, 25 I