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GRAN CHACO FOES IN HAND-TO-HAND JUNGLE ENCOUNTER Infantry Forces Clash With Bayonet and Machete; One Paraguayan Division Almost Wiped Out Completely. BOLIVIA IN LAST DESPERATE STAND Grewsome Battle Goes On for Sixth Consecutive Day, Soldiers Haggard and at Exhaustion Point. BY T. P. FARRELL I'nitrd Pres* Staff Correspondent ‘Copyright. 1934. by United Press) BUENOS AIRES, June 23.—With bayonet and machete, Bolivian and Paraguayan infantry fought hand to hand today for the sixth consecutive day. The living were haggard and near exhaustion. Thousands of casualties weie scattered o\er the bloody plain in the Gran Chaco jungle. Each side had thrown its picked infantrymen time and again against the other s position. Each time the defending force, in hastily thrown up earthworks, poured point blank fire from machine guns, trench mortars and field artillery to wither the ranks of the attackers.

Paraguayans fought for a victory that would route the Bolivian army across the border of the disputed jungle region into its own country. To Bolivians the battle was one that must not be lost. Thrown back mile bv mile for many months, the seriousness with which they recarded the present position was shown by the stoutness of their stand. At dawn Monday the Paraguayans. with their celebrated machete regiment in the van. first moved to the attack. They fought their way through jungle undergrowth and believed the Bolivians had evacuated their position. They advanced toward the Pucomayo river that forms the frontier between the Chaco and Argentina. They were but seven and one-half miles away, when the> found themselves trapped. Division Almost Wiped Out The Bolivian bombardment started. The Third Paraguayan division, forming the front line, was almost wiped out. It was such a complete victory tor the Bolivians that their staff decided yesterday to counter-attack. The position was reversed. As the infantrvman approached the Paraguayan line, a deadly fire was opened. The Paraguayans sent their own infantry out. machetes or jungle knives, that will lop off an arm. a leg or a head, swinging. Machete men and bayonet men of the Bolivians met in the middle of the plain before Canada Carmen and foucht hand to hand in the long jungle grass. The fight was indecisive, but was resumed today. Hopes to Break Wing Tactically the Bolivians were defending. behind the Canada Carmen fort, the Ft. Ballivian position which is the key to the rich oil fields at the Bolivian end of the Chaco —and were defending also Bolivia proper. General Jose Estagarnba. the Paraguayan commander-in-chief, a graduate of the St. Cyr military academv. the French West Point, hoped by attack after attack to break the left wing of the Bolivian fan shaped front by a flanking movement from his own right wing. To do so would mean that he would cut off 40.000 men of the Bolivian army, including all the veterans, from Ft. Ballivian. leaving them to face a fire from a semicircle of attackers, without lines of communication or supply. The Bolivian tacticians realized the nature of the movement and seemed prepared for it. STATE CHURCHES ELECT cr Is Bret hern Churches. B't T nitrd Prr*s LOGANSPORT. Ind.. June 23 The Rev. Leslie Lindower. Warsaw, today was announced as moderator of the Brethren churches of the Indiana district. The Rev. G. L Maus. Nappanee. was named vice-moderator, and the Rev. Frank Gehman. South Bend. secretary-treasurer. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: South southeast wind. 4 miles an hour; temperature. 78: barometric pressure. 29 96 at sea level; general conditions, scattered clouds: ceiling, unlmited; visibility, twelve miles. Times Index Page. Bridge . 4 Britain m Fear 7 Broun - 7 Business News 9 Church Services 9 Classified 11. 12 Comics 13 Conservation . 3 Crossword Puzzle .11 Curious World - 13 Editorial 6 Financial 14 Hickman—Theaters 7 Pegler 7 Radio 11 Serial Story 13 Sports 10. 11 Stato News 3 Vital Statistics 14 Womans Pages 4, a

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'SPHINX WOMAN’ IS GIVENDEATH Mate Slayer First of Sex to Die on Gallows in California. By t nited Presg LOS ANGELES. June 23.—Nellie May Madison, dark-haired and middle aged, convicted slayer of her fourth husband, was destined today to become California’s first woman to die on the gallows. A superior court jury last night spurned leniency and returned a verdict carrying the extreme penalty for the alleged murder of a man the defendant insists is still alive. The verdict was as astounding to the courtroom as was Mrs. Madison’s plea that a man shot to death in her Burbank apartment was a stranger, and not her husband. Eric B. Madison, studio employe and reputed scion of a former Danish politician. The jury was out thirty hours before it marched in with the verdict condemning to death the plumpish woman whose courtroom demeanor had won her the sobriquet of “the sphinx woman.” The svelte widow told the jury her husband, cashier in a studio case, abandoned the marital union the night the “stranger” was slain in her apartment, and drove to Bakersfield. She has not seen him since, she said. Her strange defense was corroborated partially by three friends of her husband, who testified they were unable to identify three pictures of the man in the casket as Eric B. Madison. CONFER HONORS ON LOCAL BOY SCOUTS Three Win “Eagle Scout” Rank at Camp Meeting. Recognition _of outstanding Scouts was made at the camp fire program at the Boy Scout reservation last night at the closing of the first camping period. William Murray, Troop 18; Wesley Brown. Troop 38. and Carter Boyd. Troop 72, attained the rank of Eagle Scout. The rank of life Scout was conferred on Otto Benz and Henry Stenger. Troop 10; William Barr and Harvey Wilmeth. Troop 60: Robert Harger. Troop 82: Emerson Craig, Torop 90. and Ralph Cudlipp. Troop 100. Attainment of star rank was reached by Robert Kasberg and James Mercer. Troop 60. and Paul Kolb. Troop 90.

Victim of Alleged Swindle Stars as State Scores Heavily Against *.Lover *

With court adjourned until Monday, the state appeared today to have scored yesterday in the first j day of the trial of Joseoh B. WeinI traut, 58, Shelbyville. accused of having swindled SB,OOO from Miss I Mabel Gentry. 48. Indianapolis, star of yesterday's session. Miss Gentry, a diminutive woman who does not look her 48 years, told how Weintraut mixed sex appeal with talk of securities to obtain the SB,OOO in Liberty bonds from her. win her affection and agreement to marriage. only to "leave for Washington on a business trip” and fail to return. Court and prosecutor's office at- | taches said Miss Gentry was one of the best witnesses in Marion criminal court history. Clad in a plain, but well-tailored, black dress that contrasted strikingly with ner reddish-blond hair. Miss Gentry told her amazing story with a charming southern accent, speaking clearly and without emotion. She took the stand after Miss Jane Bal. 28. of 734 Park avenue, former telephone operator at the SpinkArms. and other witnesses had told of Wemtraut’s strenuous efforts to meet Miss Gentry, and after earlier witnesses had traced the bonds which she testified he took from her.

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WINS FILM CONTRACT

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It pays to be even an alternate Wampas baby star, Lenore Keefe, 17, has discovered. She’s now the proud possessor of a contract at a nice, juicy salary. And just a look at winsome Lenore, shown here as she received the good news, proves that she has the beauty to go with the film talent that won her the coveted papers.

LiT Arthur in Hospital; U. S. to Pay BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 23.—Because he was a major in the World war, Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana is in Walter Reed hospital heer today, having himself overhauled and made physically fit for the fall campaign at government expense. Ordinarily, it is extremely difficult for ex-service men to be admitted to this famous hospital, which is rated one of the best equipped in the world. They must have a special order of admission from the United States Veterans’ administration. These are particularly difficult to obtain, since the Walter Reed really is an army hospital, erected to care for men and officers on active duty, and not veterans as scuh.. But when one was a major and now is a United States senator, no difficulty ensues, it seems. For Senator Robinson awoke the other morning with a toothache, and that afternoon he was in the hospital for a general going over. He has been there since. Three years ago he made a similar trip to the Walter Reed and remained three weeks. Institution records disclose that he was admitted as an ex-service man on orders of the veterans administration. Hospital attaches admitted that this is rather unusual; although they have taken the overflow from nearby veterans administration hospitals at times, they said. But if one was a mere member of the bonus army, it is unlikely that admission would be forthcoming on any single day you appeared at the veterans administration with a toothache, it is conceded here.

PLANE DIVES INTO STREETiPILOT DIES Ship Explodes on Way to Get Passengers. By United Pregg BURBANK, Cal.. June 23.—A Central Airways pasenger plane crashed into a street near here and exploded today, killing the pilot, just before it was to pick up pasengers at Saugus. Hope of determining the cause of thee rash apparently perished jvith the pilot, C. L. Bucher, who died instantly. The liner was ferrying to the airport where several passengers were awaiting the takeoff on a flight to Mexico.

Weintraut, or j. B. Worland, as he was known to her at the time, had described himself to Miss Gentry as a big stock market player, who was a personal friend of President Roosevelt, and had made frequent visits to the White House, she testified. She said he made much of a claim to membership in the “International Stock Exchange." After winning her affection and trust, he took her to Chicago, although she explained she was not in the habit of making such trips and would make just that one prior to their now expected marriage, she testified. They registered at a south shore hotel as Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Worland, Ft. Wayne, she explained. After -she had sold her furniture and spent SSOO on clothes for a planned honeymood in Havana in October. Weintraut took his sudden • business" trip to Washington, with the bonds in his possession, she said. “The next time I saw him.” she said, “was when he was arrested in Shelbyville last February." She told of locating Weintraut in February, through co-operation of federal reserve authorities, government secrej service agents and po-

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934

‘TORTURE CHAMBER’ OF MISSING BRIDE’S MATE FOUND IN VIENNA

U. S. AGENTS TO JOIN ARMY SCANDAL QUIZ Red Tape of Purchase and Sales Methods Studied by House Probers. By United Presg WASHINGTON, June 23.—Convinced a major army scandal is hidden beneath the red tape of war department sale and purchase methods, the house military affairs investigating committee today prepared to use justice department operatives in an intensive summer inquiry. The move came as the names of Harry A. Woodring, assistant secretary of war; Ralph T. O’Neill, former American Legion commander, and Robert Jackson, resigned secretary of the Democratic national committee, entered testimony concerning a surplus clothing sales contract. The committee is the same which previously startled the war department by unanimously recommending removal of Major-General Benjamin D. Foulois, air corns chief, on charges of inefficiency and violation of the law requiring competitive bidding on plane contracts. The first major objective of the summer investigation, according to Chairman William N. Rogers, will be to obtain full details of the surplus sales contract which a district grand jury investigated without results last winter. Colonel Joseph I. McMullen, who holds a key position in the judge advocate general’s office has testified that at Mr. Woodring’s instance he drew up a contract for the surplus sales in accordance with terms requested by Joseph Silverman, New York trader, who was later banned from departmental business deals. Mr. O’Neill represented Silverman during preliminary negotiations here. McMullen Is Assailed Although Colonel McMullen implicated Mr. Woodring in the case, one committee member charged that “McMullen just decided to lay it on Woodring because he is in hot water himself.” Mr. McMullen, who. enlisted in 1896 and rose from the ranks to his present $6,000 a year job, previously admitted to the committee that at various times he had accepted more than SB,OOO in legal fees from private companies while on active duty in the department. Other lines of attack in the summer investigation will be to determine if possible whether air corps officers were entirely “disinterested” in approving negotiated plane contracts to favored companies instead of permitting open competitive bidding. and an inquiry into the reason why various specifications for- army material have been so drawn that only one or two companies may qualify. Boston Hearings Set Hearings in Boston next month are expected to go into a phase of the surplus clothing deal involving the Newbury manufacturing company, which Jackson allegedly represented during the contract negotiations here. In New York later, Silverman's activities probably will be looked into. The justice department, it was Learned, was being kept fully informed of developments. William W. Prager. assistant New York district attorney, also is aiding the committee. The committee kept secret the number of special investigators at work throughout the country, but it was believed ten to twelve were active. S3OO Diamond Rings Stolen Two diamond rings, valued at S3OO. were reported to police today as stolen last night from the home of Madeline Ross, 1222 East Ohio street.

lice. She accompanied Indianapolis detectives to Shelbyville. She was asked if she were able to identify the defendant. “A block away!” she exclaimed. Granted a private conversation with Miss Gentry, Weintraut confessed to her that he was a married man and pleaded for mercy, she said in concluding her testimony. Defense attorneys subjected her to a merciless cross-examination, but got little satisfaction from her unhesitating replies. Deputy Prosecutor John Kelly scored again for the state when he called to the stand detective John Marren, who arrested Weintraut. Weintraut told his attorney he had won the bonds from Miss Gentry in a poker game, Mr. Marren said. “She had taken me for $600." Weintraut said during the trip to Indianapolis in a police car, Mr. Marren testified. “She must have been pretty smart if she took you for that much." said Weintraut's attorney, according to Mr. Marren. He added that Weintraut then declared he should have "cleaned her completely, so she wouldn't have had any money to fight me.”

GERMAN LINER HITS ROCK, GOES DOWN WITH LOSS OF FIVE LIVES

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This picture telephotoed to London and thence via Bartlane transmission to New York, show's the North German Lloyd liner Dresden, with a twenty-degree list, just before she sank, after striking a submerged rock off the southwestern coast of Norway. The photo was taken from one of the rescue ships, part of which can be seen at the left. Five women lost their lives, and many were injured in the disaster.

ANTI-TYPHOID SERUMREADY County Officials Prepared to Inoculate 125 at New Bethel. Sufficient anti-typhoid serum to inoculate 125 persons was taken to New Bethel today by Dr. Oscar W. Ludwig, county health commissioner. The serum, supplied without charge by the county, was to be used by New Bethel’s twe physicians in a mass inoculation at the schoolhouse this morning. First announcement of the plan to inoculate all who would apply for inoculation was made Wednesday night at the little town's stormy anti-typhoid meeting. It was predicted then by those critical of what they called the town’s unwillingness to co-operate that not mare than fifteen persons would apply. ONION WORKERS ON STRIKE: WAR FEARED 750 Picketers Demand 35 Cents on Hour Wage. By United Press ADA. 0., June 23 Barefoot men and women, striking for higher wages for their back-breaking toil, strengthened picket lines around the world’s largest onion patch today in a labor war in which the threat of violence increased hourly. More than 750 onion workers, most of them illiterate, their shoulders bent from toiling through marshlands behind light weeding plows, defiantly threatened to use force if necessary to prevent landowners from bringing strike-breaekrs into the bog to remove weeds which threaten to choke the crop. Strikers demand wages of 35 cents an hour for an eight-hour day. At present they receive 10 cents an hdtir for a ten-hour day, together with living accommodations furnished by the operators. SLAYER FIRST TO DIE IN LETHAL CHAMBER Farmhand Had Painless Death in Gas Room, Doctors Say. By United Press CANON CITY, Colo.. June 23. The body of William Cody Kelley. 30, executed farmhand, was sujected to a minute autopsy today because he was the first man to die in Colorado's new lethal chamber. Doctors announced he died a painles death. He felt nothing and was unconscious ten seconds after the gas fumes were generated. They pronounced the lethal chamber a success. Kelley was executed last night for the murder of Russell Browning, a rancher. MOTHER OF 3 AWAITS ELECTRIC CHAIR DEATH Husband S.ayer Hopes for Commutation Before Thursday. By United Press ALBANY. N. Y., June 23.—Defense counsel retained hope today that Governor Herbert H. Lehman would commute to life imprisonment the death sentence of Mrs. Anna Antonio. 28. convicted Albany husband slayer. Mrs. Antonio, mother of three young children, will be electrocuted in Sing Sing prison's death chair next Thursday unless Governor Lehman intervenes. Mute Drowns Amid Hundreds By Unitrij Press MEMPHIS. Tenn., June 23.—Unable to call for aid while hundreds of bathers swam nearby—some only a lew feet away—William Jr*eph Cook Jr.. 24. a deaf-mute, drowned in a swimming pool here. Hourly Temperature 6 a. m 69 8 a. m..... 78 7 a. m 72 9 a. m..... 80

FOILS CITY WOMAN’S ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE Druggist Knocks Glass of Poison From Customer’s Hand. L. A. Dorn, owner qf a drug store, Massachusetts avenue and North street, frustrated an attempted suicide last night in his store. A woman entered the store and ordered a bottle of poison. The druggist refused to make the sale. The woman left but returned shortly and ordered a soft drink. Mr. Dorn saw her pour the contents of a vial into her glass. He knocked the glass from her hand and called police. She was sent to city hospital.

CLOUDY BUT WARM WEATHER PREDICTED Rain Not Expected: Mercury May Hit 90. Cloudy but warm weather today was forecast for tomorrow by the weather bureau. Unsettled conditions. , however were not expected t obring showers. Fair weather today was expected to cause the mercury to rise possibly to 90 this afternoon. A total of .09 inch of rain fell in Indianapolis in the twenty-four hours ending thsi morning. In various parts of the state Hoosiers dug their way out of debris left in the wake of a summer thunderstorm that killed at least one person, injured several others, and caused unestimated property damage. GENERAL JOHNSON TO UNDERGO OPERATION NRA Head Expects to Return to Desk Monday. By United Pregg WASHINGTON, June 23.—General Hugh S. Johnson was in the hospital again today, but he expected little interruption in his administration of NRA affairs. General Johnson entered the hospital for an operation on an abscess. It was not considered serious and he expects to be back at his desk Monday.

BY TOM BOONS

NOONE'S SELECTIONS FOR TODAY Day’s Best—Polish Beau. Best Long’shot—Golden Glitter. Best Parlay—lnflate and Pomparagon.

At Washington Park — One Best—Mata Harl 1. Spanish Babe, Dojo, Born Happy. 2. Pomparagon, Fire Star, Long Bit. 3. I say, Sergeant D., Fair Billows. 4. Jewelry, Bossie Eye, Lady Louella. 5. Trevallion, Tack, Eroadstep. 6. Mata Hari, Dust Girl, Marcella H. 7. Lillian Z., Fair Image, Deets Campfire. 8. Morpheus, Port o’ Play, Le Ministre.

At Aqueduct — One Best—Rose Cross. 1. Omaha. Allen Z. High Image. 2. Blackcock. Heather. Muskogee. 3. Back Fence, Dunfox, Day Signal. 4. Rose Cross, Growler, Singing Wood. 5. Black Falcon, Dark Devil, White Cloud. 6. Kibitser, foumy Tom, Syriac.

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ROOSEVELT ON WAYTO HOME Dock Strike, Legislation on Program for Study at Hyde Park. By United Pregg EN ROUTE to HYDE PARK. N. Y. June 23. —President Roosevelt headed for his Hyde Pork home today where important administration matters, including legislation and labor, require immediate attention. Mr. Roosevelt and his party motored. He will return to Washington Tuesday morning. The longshoremen's strike paralyzing shipping on the Pacific coast was expected to be No. 1 on his agenda when he reaches his desk. The President last night dispatched to Governor Frank F. Merriam at Sacramento,- Cal., a telegram advising him that appeals for federal intervention to halt the strike had been laid before Miss Perkins. While no official information was available there were reports that Mr. Roosevelt was prepared to veto the farm mortgage moratorium measure approved by congress. The President spent iast night on the yacht Sequoia, remaining up beyond his regular bedtime to scan communications dealing with the west coast strike. During the evening he chatted with his .son Franklin Jr., who was a member of the freshman crew of Harvard that lost to Yale yesterday. The President, on his return to Hyde Park, will have as his guest his youngest grandchild, daughter of Elliott and Ruth Goggins Roosevelt. They arrived a few days ago. 40TH BIRTHDAY IS OBSERVED BY WALES Heir to British Throne Holds Quiet Celebration. By United Presg LONDON, June 23.—Unmarried, and apparently unlikely to be, the prince of Wales celebrated his fortieth birthday quietly today. He had lunch with his parents at their palace, and received his birthday gifts, including from his little nieces. Princess Elizabeth and Margaret Rose.

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At Latonia — One Best—New Deal 1. Abdel, Smear, Glamorous. 2. Prince Fluz, Panalong, Jane Rachel. 3. Imdda. Morden, Scrip Money. 4. Grimace, I Pass, Sun Boy. 5. My Blaze, Cactus Rose, Frederick. 6. New Deal, Open Hearth, Marmion. 7. Gibby's Choice, El Puma, Dusky Lass. 8. King Cicero, Legality, Boom’s PaL At Detroit — One Best—Polish Beau. 1. Jim X , Merry Go On, Pish Tush. 2. Burgoo, Morsel. Swifty. 3. Inflate, Devilish. Tremolo. 4. Polish Beau, Try Sympathy Philaia. 5. Nocturnlabe, Adamite. My Man. 6. Sabula, Sea Fox, Strideaway. 7. Gertrude Read©, Bright Bubble, Gallop Along. 8. Lazi Canter, Thistle Guy, Noelwocd.

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Room Called ‘Museum of Abnormality’ by Police. LETTERS BARED Mile. Ferrand Termed ‘Commander’ in Lurid Notes. By United Pregg VIENNA, June 23.—Ivan Foderjay; international adventurer held on suspicion that he murdered Miss Agues Tufverson, missing New York and Detroit lawyer, called Mile. Margaret Ferrand, with whom he was arrested here, his “sovereign,” “commander,” “dictator,” and “queen,” letters disclosed today. The letters were written by Poderjay in New York when he was courting Miss Tufverson. Each police visit to the PoderjayFerrand apartment seemed to disclose more evidence of the murky workings of Poderjay’s mind. In addition to the letters, obscene and wildly written, the police found what they called an “eroticism cabinet,” containing instruments and pictures, some with Podcrjay as model. Clothes Trimmed in Lace They found also a wardrobe of men’s clothing, trimmed with lace, and a corse, w v ch they said Poderjay wore. Strangely furnished, police said, the room in which they found the cabinet and the clothing resembled a museum of the abnormal. Continuing their attempt to break down Mile. Ferrand in their effort to learn Miss Tufverson's fate, police forced her to don dresses she had admitted belonging to the missing woman lawyer. They also used her to find which dresses of Miss Tufverson’s, described in an inventory from New York, had been altered for her. A Belgrade dispatch today said that a lawyer there asked police to effect Poderjay's extradition to answer to a. charge of perpetrating a 500.000 dinar < 11,400) swindle In connection with a building contract. “Innocent,” Sister Says The lawyer said that Poderjay wired him "rom New York: “Have instructed my lawyer, Mr. Tufverson. to settle debt.” From Laibach, Jugoslavia, came a statement by Poderjay's sister: “I have not seen Ivan for fifteen years. I am certain, though, that he is innocent. His weakness—his whole misfortune—is too much love for women. Once m.v father received from him a trunk full of men’s and women's clothing. We gave it away.” Sadism Is Hinted By I nited Pregg NEW YORK. June 23.—T0 the lurid aura of mystery surrounding Ivan Poderjay, already revealed as a notorious adventurer, lover, swindler and possibly a murderer, there was added another amazing tint today that pictured him an erotic sadist. This bizarre development came when Vienna authorities, intensifying their search for Poderjay’s missing bride, found a torture chamber in the apartment he was sharing with Mile. Suzanne Ferrand. his bigamous wife. With this discovery, police advanced the. theory that Poderjay was a sensual, sex-mad character and may have applied his perverse inclinations upon his bride. Agnes Tufverson, who has not been seen since Dec. 20, a few days after she and Poderjay were married here. Boston Clew False With the exception o' discovering the chamber, the police in a half-dozen cities in the United States and the continent had made slight progress in their search for Miss Tufverson —or her body—or toward a clew linking Poderjay definitely with her disappearance. One favorable development for New York police was a communication from Vienna announcing that a technical charge against Poderjay had been replaced by one of suspicion of murder. Under the new charge it will be possible to hold him indefinitely. One after another of “clews” brought to light here were discarded. Police concluded that a Boston dress shop clerk, who identified a picture of Miss Tufvprson as a woman who had brought two dresses to be cleaned within the past few weeks, was in error. They ordered a general search of hotels and rooming houses in the neighborhood, nevertheless. Victim May Have Fled A thorough check of all port records convinced police that Miss Tufverson never left New York—at least alrve. But still searching for a trunk missing from Poderjay’s traveling equipment, they awaited arrival of the S. S. Olympic Tuesday to determine whether it could have been thrown from a porthole while he was en route to Europe two days after his bride’s disappearance. The only new theory espoused by developments of the last twentyfour hours was that Miss Tufverson, learning suddenly of her husband's twisted mental and sex being, decided to flee rather than "explain.” i