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INDIANA PENAL SYSTEM FACES SWEEPING QUIZ Seven Famed Experts, Headed by Warden Lawes, to Conduct Probe. FIRST SESSION JULY 6 Six-Point Reform Program to Be Studied by Investigators. A swiping investigation of Indiana penal institutions bj a factfinding commission of seven nationally known experts in the fields of penologv and social reform was announced today. Heading the commission invited by (jpvernor Paul V. McNutt to pass upon an already tentatively drawn penal program is Warden Lewis F. Lawes of Sing Sing prison. The personnel also includes: Sanford Bates, director of the United States bureau of prisons; Ernest N. Roselle, superintendent of Moosehcart school. Mooscheart, 111.; Dr. F Lovell Bixby, assistant director of the United States bureau of prisons, department of justice; Miss Blanche LaDu. director Minnesota department of justice; Burdette Lewis, of the American Public Welfare Association, and Dean A. A. Potter, of the Purdue uni\ersity engineering school. First meeting of the commission will be held with Governor McNutt in the executive offices here July 6. Coy Reveals Plans Announcement of the commission and its member.*' willingness to advise on a penal reform program for Indiana was made this afternoon by Wayne Coy. undersecretary to Governor McNutt, m an address before the Central States Parole Conference at Chicago. Tracing the career of John Dillinger, whose nation-wide depredations thrw the Indiana penal system into the limelight. Mr. Coy admitted that he had little doubt that the state of Indiana made Dilhnger Public Enemy No. 1. Mr. Cov outlined the facts concerning Dillinger’s sentence to the Indiana state reformatory, subsequent transfer to the state penitentiary and the parole which loosed him upon a defenseless public. There does not seem to me to be anv escape from the fact that the state of Indiana made John Dillmger the Public Encmv No. 1 that he is today." Mr. Coy said. “The Indiana Constitution provides that our penal rode shall be reformative and not vindictive. Indiana I* to Blame • Taking the cas before us. we are forced to the conclusion that our penal institutions obviously failed of reformation, or that Dillinger was given too long a sentence for his first offense, or both. Instead of reforming this prisoner, our penal institutions provided him with an education in crime." Mr. Coy referred to the fact that Dillinger pleaded guilty to robbery of a Mooresville merchant and ten days later was sentenced to ten to twenty years for assault and battery with intent to rob. while his partner, older and with a criminal record, stood trial and got only two to fourteen years. Mr. Coy outlined the following six-point porgram which will be laid before the penal experts who have accepted Governor McNutt's invitation: 1 A more w idespread use of probation in order that many first offenders may be returned to places of usefulness in society without the stigma of confinement in a penal institution. I'niform Sentences Urged 2. Uniformity of sentences to those convicted of felonies, with power to a board of competent persons authorized to fix the length of sen'ence in each case. Such sentences would be truly indeterminate with a low minimum. Reformable tvpes could be released early and the nonreformablr held for long maximum terms. No man would be released from prison, if such a release could not be made with safety. On the other hand, many youthful and accidental offenders now serving long sentences would have opportunity to return to society; or the application of determinate sentences in all felony cases, with good time allowance for those who serve their time without marks on their record, with further good time allowance at the discretion of a competent board for those who make sufficient progress in the program of rehabilitation laid out for them. 3. A thorough pre-parole training. Case Studies Recommt-.led 4. An examination of the whole routine of prison life with particular regard to its effect on the reformation of the prisoner. 5. Case studies of each of the prisoners to the end that each case may receive the kind of training or treatment needed. Such information likewise is valuable to the prison official charged with parole supervision. 6. An adequate staff of properly trained parole supervisors and a close co-ordination of this work with the welfare work in the various counties. JAIL YOUNG ” BINGHAM Son of Former Senator Gets Thirty Har* for Picketing. B f nit. 4 Press JERSEY CITY. N. J., June 28 Alfred M. Bingham editor of the magasine. Common Sense end son of former United States Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, was sentenced to thirty days in jail today for picketing activities at & furniture plant.

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‘This Is a Habit,’ Crown Point Man Tells Dillinger at Ball Game; ‘Certainly Is,’ Says John

By ! i trd Press CROWN POINT. Ind., June 28. —John Dillinger has taken up baseball as a pastime to while away the hours spent in eluding the law enforcement agents of the nation, it appeared today. Robert Volk, who is familiar with Dillinger’s appearance, said today he saw the outlaw attending a baseball game at Wrigley field in Chicago Tuesday. Volk was among those in a Crown Point garage from which Dillinger stole the car in which

PETTY LOANS INTEREST CUT Order to Firms Expected to Mean $213,616 Saving Yearly. Slash in the interest charges on petty loans, effective Aug. 1, was ordered today by the small loan division of the state department of financial institutions. The general order to all small loan companies in Indiana will mean an approximate annual saving of $236,616 96 to borrowers, according to Homer O. Stone, supervisor of the small loan division. The order increases to $420,483.39 the annual saving to small loan borrowers since promulgation of the new state financial institutions act in July 1933, when the monthly interest rate firs*, was reduced. At that time, the small loan rates were reduced from a straight per cent a month to 3'- per cent on sums up to $l5O and 2'j on the balance up to S3OO. the small loan limit. This rate, according to law, was to prevail until the department of financial institutions had studied the operating casts of small loan firms and received annual reports ) from all companies. The new' general order, based on this exhaustive data obtained by : the research division, reduces the m'-imum monthly small loan rates as follows: Not more than 3>i per cent on sums up to $100: not more than 2 1 per cent on sums between SIOO and S2OO. and not more than 2 per cent on sums between S2OO and S3OO. Thus, it is explained by the small loan division, the equivalent single rate on small loans has been reduced since the financial institui tions act becomes effective, from 3> . pp r rent on the twenty months payment, plan for S3OO. first to 3.24 per cent and now to 2.98 per cent. ‘LAST MILE 1 NEARS FOR DOOMED WOMAN Mother of 3 Ages Awaiting Governor's Action. Rt f it r 4 PrcnM OSSINING. N. Y-. June 28— Haggard and worn as the hours passed inexorably toward the time of her scheduled execution tonight Mrs. Anna Antonio. 28-vear-old mother, waited anxiously today for possible action by Governor Herbert H. Lehman granting her a stay or commutation. It was not known whether she would again see her three children —Phyllis. 9: Marie. 6. and Frank. Frank spent his time during yesterday's visit playing with a kitten in the death house corridor. Mrs. Antonio had little sleep last night. Attendants said she appeared to have aged ten years since yesterday. DANCE RECITAL IS SET Florence McShane's Pupils to Give Program at Keith's. Sixty pupils of Florence McShane's dance sf.Jios will appear in the annual dance recital at B. F. Keith's theater tomorrow night. Ensemble, ballet numbers, solo and group numbers will be given. 'rowning Condition Unchanged flu I mit' and Prrss NEW YORK. June 28—The condition of Edward West (Daddy* Browning, millionaire real estate operator suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage, was reported unchanged today, but still critical.

Mob Storms Car Barns in Renewing Strike Violence Rioters Beat Up Conductor and Motorman: 40 Flee as Fire Breaks Out in Trolley.

fly l nitrd Prr** MILWAUKEE. June 28—Violence broke out again today in Milwaukee's traction strike with the city's transportation system already cnppled by three riots during the night.

A mob stormed the Oakland avenue car barns today, dragging a motoman and a conductor from their posts and leaving them badly beaten. Only one car out of a normal one hundred left the barns. Fire, believed to be incendiary, broke out in a car on the south side and forty passengers fled to the streetintervention of the national labor board was demanded after mobs had battled police on three fronts last night. Major John D. Moore

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he made his sensational escape from jail here last March 3. He said he is positive that he not only sa but talked to Dillinger at the baseball game, but was too frightened to tell police until his disclosure to Lake county authorities today. a a a According to Volks story, Dillinger walked into the upper tier bleachers of the Cubs’ park on Chicago's north side and sat down beside Volk. Volk frankly was fidgety, since he recognized Dillinger at once. To make it worse. Dillinger seeme to recognize him. too. The Cubs w'ere playing the Brooklyn Dodgers and it was a pretty good game, but Volk lost all interest in w T hat was going on out on the diamond. When finally he recovered himself sufficiently to find his voice Volk said he remarked to Dillinger as casually as possible: “This is getting to be a habit.” ‘‘lt certainly is.” he quoted Dillinger as replying. Dillinger, it seemed, was not as nervous as Volk. In fact, Dillinger seemed to be paying little attention to the game, but kept his eyes glued on a building across the street from the

DILLINGER’S PAL MUM ON CHIEF Doesn’t Know Where Gang Leader Is. Reilly Tells Questioners. By I nit*4 I*rent ST. PAUL. June 28.—Albert W. Reilly, captured confederate of John Dillinger. told federal agents today that he had no knowledge of the whereabout of the fugitive Hoosier outlaw. Reilly, captured in a Minneapolis apartment yesterday after being indicted on charges of harboring Dillinger, stolidly refused to give the government agents any information which might lead them to Dillinger's hideout. “Where is Dillinger now.” they asked the former mascot of the St. Paul Amercan Association baseball team. “I don't know.'* Reilly answered. I read in the newspapers that he might be dead, but I don't know anything about it.” NIRA IS ATTACKED IN FEDERAL COURT SUIT Former Terre Haute ayor Acts to Test Recovery Law. Another court test today faced NIRA as result of action by attorneys for Don Roberts, former Terre Haute mayor, in filing a writ of demurrer to the indictment of Roberts in federal court. Roberts was charged with violating the petroleum code authority by "bootlegging” 91.000 gallons of gasoline into Indiana from Illinois without paying taxes in Indiana, and with underselling competitors. His attorneys today withdrew his original plea of not guilty and substituted the writ of demurrer. MARIE ORESSLER FATE DUBIOUS. SAYS DOCTOR Star Dangerously 111 But Not in Immediate Danger, He Adds. fly I nitrd Press SANTA BARBARA. Cal., June 28. —Marie Dressier. 60. beloved trouper of stage and screen, was “dangerously ill” here today, but not in “immediate danger of death,” her physician declared. Dr. F. R. Nuzum. reported her condition early today as “unchanged.” “Miss Dressier is dangerously ill and her outcome is dubious." he said. "It is not anticipated that she will pass on immediately.” He refused to amplify his statement. QUINTET IS MONTH OLD Dionne Sisters Amaze Doctors by Continued Betterment. fly t nitrd Press NORTH BAY. Ontario, June 28 The'Dionne quintuplets celebrated their first month birthday today. Continued betterment in weights and in their general condition and vitality has greatly encouraged the doctor and nurses.

federal mediator, announced that he had asked the board to order the type of collective bargaining vote demanded by the striking employes of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company. Fifty-nine badly battered men and women spent the night in jail and twenty were taken to hospitals after three cursing, fighting mobs had smashed through police lines to attack cars, wreck trolley poles and rout motormen and conductors in a hail of brickbats.

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ball park as though he expected something to happen. a a a Dillinger got up and moved away into the crowd. Volk said, during the seventh inning when every one got up to stretch. Volk couldn’t do anything but sit there. He said Dillinger was unshaved and wore a dark blue suit with the collar of his shirt open. Volk didn't see any pistols or machine guns on Dillinger's person.

SWINDLERGETS 5 T 0 50 YEARS ‘l'm Not Guilty,’ Mutters Weintraut as Term Is Imposed. His debonair manner and attire wilted by a night in jail, Joseph B. Weintraut, Shelbyville gambler, was sentenced to a term of from five to fifty years in Indiana state prison today by William R. Ringer, special judge in criminal court. A Jury Wednesday found Weintraut guilty of embezzling “more than s2,ooo'’ from Miss Mabel Gentry, 48, red-haired former school teacher. When he heard the sentence. Weintraut's only answer was a muttered, “I’m not guilty.” Clyde Karrer, defense attorney, asked for a delay to gather records and testimony before Judge Ringer signs the commitment. Mr. Karrer said he would file a motion for a new' trial. Mr. Karrer’s contention is that if his client is guilty it should be for grand larceny, and not embezzlement. The state had charged that Mr. Weintraut obtained SB,OOO from Miss Gentry by promising to marry her. The sentence ended the efforts of Miss Gentry to bring her false lover to justice. After he vanished with her savings she visited bond houses and sought the aid the treasury agents, finally tracing Mr. Weintraut to his home in Shelbyville. Miss Gentry indicated today that she would fiie civil suit in an effort to regain the SB,OOO.

WAR'S FIRST SHOT FIRED 20 YEARS AGO Serbian Youth Shot Down Archduke on This Day. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, June 28.—Exactly twenty years ago this St. Vitus’ day, Gabirle Princip, crack-brained Serbian youth, fired the shots that started the World war. Before it had ended, thirty-two nations, from the United States to Siam and San Marino, had been dragged in; 8,538,000 lives had been snuffed out; 21,000.000 more had been w-ounded; and, directly and indirectly, 337 billion dollars had been burned up. Today, the life of the League of Nations, the one thing which might have prevented the coming of another baptism in gore, is hanging by a thread. Crippled from the beginning by the absence of the United States and Russia, it will take something akin to a miracle to save it now that both Japan and Germany have withdrawn and Italy pays it only lip-service. The world, therefore, is right back where it w'as on St. Vitus day, 1914. when Princip’s bullets plowed their way through the body of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's morgantic wife. Sophie Chotek. and laid the heir to the Austrian throne in his grave. In Europe there is a growing conviction that there is only one hope for an effective League of Nations as the bulwark of world peace. That hope lies in the United States and Russia becoming members. Russia, it is believed, will be admitted next September. Whether the United States ever will join, and if so, w r hen, is as much of a question as ever, but American membership is by no means the improbability it once was. 4 BURN TO DEATH IN RANCHHOUSE BLAZE Three of Victims Trapped in Reach of Safety. By United Press HANFORD. Cal., June 28.—Four persons were burned to death today, three of them fithin a few feet of safety, when fire trapped them in a four-room ranchhouse near here. The dead: A. Kolff. 47. rancher; Matthew Kolff, 10. a son; Jennie Kolff. 11, a daughter; Mrs. Jennie Larkoff, 45, housekeeper. Scottsboro Decisions Upheld Bit L uited Press MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 28. The Alabama supreme court today affirmed conviction and death sentences of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. Negroes, convicted last November of complicity in the Scottsboro assault case. Code Violator Fin\d $2,500 B n United Press PHILADELPHIA. June 28—Fines totaling $2,500 were impaled today upon Harry Sley and the Slev system garages for alleged violation of the NRA garage and parking code.

100 ARE DEAD IN U. S. AS RESULT OF STIFLING HEAT

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True to the best traditions of journalism. The Times yesterday dug up the old chestnut of proving w'ith the aid of a pretty girl, that it w'as hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk of Monument Circle. To save trouble and take advantage of modern appliances, however, it had the egg friend in a nearby restaurant and then taken to the circle. Anyway, it was 100 in the shade and hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk, which was what The Times set out to demonstrate. The girl, incidentally, is Miss Isobel Lane. 551 South Central Court.

17 Dead, Many Dying in Three Western Blasts Mangled Bodies of Eight Men, Two Women After Terrific Explosion at Powder Company. By United Press * Charred and mangled bodies of seventeen persons killed in explosions lay in mortuaries west of the Mississippi river today. A dozen more W'ere in hospitals. Victims included men. women and children at Olympia, Wash., Chey-

enne. Wyo.. and Columbia. Mo. Two explosions blew away the mixing plant . of Denn Pow'der Company at Olympia early last night, killing eight men and two women. Six more were expected to die. Headless, mangled and limbless bodies were hurled grotesquely against fences and posts around the plant. A minor explosion in a grinder apparently set off the terrific detonation. A blast of mysterious origin last midnight demolished three twostory buildings in midtow'n Cheyenne. killing three women, injuring tw'O others and an unknown soldier. ; The city rocked. A gasoline distributor and an as- j sistant w'ere killed at Columbia, where a blast wrecked an 8.000- ! gallon capacity tank car on a rail- | way siding. Two children died later, i Four persons were injured and one of them w r as expected to die. Little hope w'as held for recovery ; for the injured in the Olympia : blasts. State fire marshal’s investigators | examined blackened walls attempting to determine the cause of the explasion. which originated in the mixing plant and spread to a powder magazine. A second storage j house was threatened w'hen burning | debris sprayed high into the air and started several brush fires. Fire- j men quickly gained control with the aid of volunteers. AGED HOOSIER KILLED Shelbyville Man, 83, Fatally Hurt When Struck by Car. B'J United Press SHELBYVILLE. Ind., June 28. | Jo.in Corkin, 83, was injured fa- j tally late yesterday when he was struck by 3n automobile driven by William Saleba. Indianapolis. The accident occurred near Mr. Corkin s | home, on U. S. Road 52, three miles i west of Morristow'n. Mrs. Insull Sails for Home By United Press CHERBOURG. France. June 28 Mrs. Samuel Insull sailed on the , Majestic today for Chicago to join j her husband, who is awaiting trial on charges connected with collapse of his utilities interests. Times Index Page ! Bridge 12 Broun 15 Classified 21, 22, 23 Comics 25 Crossword Puzzle 14 Curious World 25 Editorial 16 Financial 24 Hickman —Theaters 17 Lippmann 15 I Pegler„ 15 Radio 28 Serial Story 25 Sports 18. 19, 20 State News 9 Vital Statistics 24 Woman's Pages 12, 13, 14

ROOSEVELT SIGNS NEW MUSING BILL Personnel of Administration Board Still Unknown. By l nitrd Press WASHINGTON. June 23.—The housing bill, one of the major efforts in the administration's recovery program, designed to stimulate construction throughout the nation, was signed today by President Roosevelt. There is no indication as yet, however, as to the personnel pf the board that will administer the measure. , The bill provides for improvement in housing standards and conditions with a system of mutual mortgage insurance. PODERJAY EXTRADITION HOPELESS. POLICE FEAR La Guardia Opposes Funds Until Stronger Case Is Built Up. / By f nitrd Press NEW YORK. June 23.—Hope of extraditing Captain Ivan Poderjay from Vienna to answer numerous questions about the disappearance of his bride. Miss Agnes Tufverson, was virtually abandoned by police today. Mayor La Guardia indicated he would not approve a request for funds to send detectives abroad untila stronger case is built against Poderjay.

Norma, Resigned, Reads in Cell as Appeal Is Planned Minister’s Pretty Daughter, Facing 21-Year Term, Sleeps Well, Eats Light Breakfast.

By f nitrd PressDEDHAM. Mass.. June 28.—Refreshed and resigned, Norma Brighton Millen read magazines and sewed in her tiny cell in Dedham jail today while her lawyer labored over legal maneuvers he hopes will save her from a possible 21 years’ imprisonment.

Attorney George A. Douglas has twenty days in which to file exceptions taken during the weeklong trial that ended soon after midnight when a Norfolk county jury, after nearly seven hours’ deliberation, convicted the gay minister's daughter as an accessory in two murders and a $15,000 bank robbery. It is believed that, if the exceptions are denied. Mr. Douglas will carry the case to the fall bench of the Massachusetts supreme court.

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81 Drowning Fatalities Are Reported in Survey of Nation. MERCURY PASSES 100 No Relief Is in Sight. Weather Men Tell Middle West. Bn United Prrss CHICAGO, June 27.—Sweltering', killing: heat hung over the United States today with scant hopes of early relief after exacting a toll of nearly a hundred lives. In several states all June records were shattered as the mercury continued its upward climb beneath a blazing sun. Under a summer sun that beat down on a suffering populace and parched, withered crops the mercury rose to well above the 100 mark. Temperatures of 104 were reported from a number of cities. The heat wave, following close upon the w'orst drought in a generation. was held responsible for eighty-one drownings and twentyfour other deaths during the week, according to a United Press nationwide survey. The temperature reached 97 degrees in Chicago at noon-with 100 degrees reported at the Chicago municipal airport. It was 102 at Springfield, 111., and Culver, Ind., 98 at Omaha and Moline. 111., 101 at Sioux City. la.. 100 at Grinnell. 93 at St. Louis, 100 at Richmond, Ind., and 98 at Kansas City. The weather bureau said that in most sections the torturous hot weather will continue for at least two days and that the only prospects of relief from rain were in the northwestern states, Minnesota and the Dakotas. The greatest toll of life was in Illinois, where twelve drownings and four heat deaths were reported. Ohio reported ten drownings and three other deaths directly attributable to the humid heat. The heat, coupled with reports that com was withering on its stalks in the great farmlands of Nebraska and lowa, sent the price of corn up from l'i t,o nearly 2 cents on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat prices rose more than a cent, as also did oats. Highest at Vincennes Yesterday’s highest temperature reading was 105 at Vincennes in southern Indiana. Readings of 104 were reported from Charles City, la.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Terre Haute, Ind.; Peoria, 111.; Springfield, Ul.; Omaha and Sioux City. The toll of drowning and deaths attributed to the stifling heat was: Heat Drownicgs Deaths Illinois 12 4 Alabama 1 1 Ohio 10 3 Pennsylvania 6 1 Wisconsin 4 Indiana 5 Minnesota 3 Kentucky 3 1 West Virginia 2 Tennessee 2 1 Alabama 3 Missouri 1 5 lowa 4 5 Oklahoma 2 Minnesota 3 I Georgia 2 North Carolina 5 Kansas 1 Texas NIGH COURT UPHOLDS SURETIES RELEASE Decision Means Millions Loss to Government. The Indiana supreme court, in a two-to-one decision with two judges not participating, today held constitutional the action of the 1933 legislature in releasing sureties on public deposits where such sureties had been written personally by bankers without fee. The decision came in the case of the Bolivar township finance board against Avery Hawkins and others and involved $28,000, but the opinion actually means the loss of millions of dollars to governmental units throughout Irtdiana. The act, which is retroactive until 1927, was attacked as contrary to both federal and state constitutions and as distinctly class legislation.

Norma .v.as up early after a sound sleep. She breakfasted lightly on oatmeal and milk —standard jail fare—and then absorbed herself in reading and sewing, as she has done every morning since she first entered the cell four months ago. Contrary to custom, however, she talked little with her neighbors, a woman doing time as “a common railer and brawler.” and another incarerated for arson.

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Temperatures Rise and Fall in Dizzy Fashion as City Swelters; NEW RECORD IN SIGHT Sleep Is Impossible for Indianapolis; Throngs Seek Relief. Hourly Temperatures 1 a. m.\ 80 2 a. m 81 3 a. m 82 4 a. m 82 5. a. 82 6 a. 84 7 a. m 86 8 a. m 88 9. a. m 93 10 a. m 95 11 a. m 96 11:15 a. m 97.6 11:30 a. m 99 12 (noon) 97 12:45 p. m 100 lp.m 99 1:15 p. m 100.9 The temperature reached 100.9 degrees at 1:15 p. m., smashing the all-time June record for Indianapolis of 100 degrees set yesterday at 4:30 p. m. Soaring crazily, the mercury early this afternoon was on its way to smash the alltime June heat record of 100, set yesterday. With scattered clouds occasionally blocking the sun’s intense rays, the mercury vacillated somewhat duiing the day. dropping a degree or two at times, but always recovering and climbing higher and higher. Shortly after 12 this noon the mercury touched 99.8, just .2 less than yesetrday’s high of 100 at 4:30 p. m. A short time later the reading was 99. The swltering city was given little hope of relief by the weather bureau's forecast of “fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow.” No Relief in Sight No relief in the form of rain is in sight, weather bureau attaches said. Even in the west and northwest only a few slight showers have been reported. The highest temperature in the state was 105 degrees in Vincennes. Other high readings were 104 degrees, Terre Haute, and 102, Lafayette. The average high temperature for the state was 98 degrees, 3 degrees cooler than a high average of 101 degrees reported June 2. Gasping and perspiring from the hottest June weather Indianapolis ever has known, city persons yesterday desperately sought cover from the sun during the late afternoon when the temperature vaulted up from 97 degrees at noon to 100 degrees at 4:30. Two Are Prostrated Downtown drugstores and bars were invaded by persons seeking refreshing drinks. Meanwhile two persons were treated at city hospital for heat prostration. They are Russell Bohannon, 32, ot 657 Davidson street, overcome while working in a garage at 332 South Pennsylvania street, and Marion Tinsley, 22, Negro, 2430 Sheldon street, prostrated at Pennsylvania and Ohio streets. Physicians have warned against over-exertion while the city is in the grip of the blistering heat. A group of small boys who didn't, find it hot enough on the street, climbed to the roof of the Lyric theater in rrid-morning. Perspirmg policemen from a radio squad car routed them. Despite the heat, the city health board reports that there has been a decline in illness during the warm weather. Sleep Is Impossible Sleep almost was impossible last night as only a wan breeze stirred and temperatures clung to the eighties and nineties. The parks were crowded with people seeking reliefy, sleeping on benches and on newspapers on the ground. All day yesterday and early today, swimming pools were jammed with children and their elders who wished only to stay in the cool water. Two youths, Harry Nahamias, 7. of 1125 South Capitol avenue, and John McCann, 20, of 736 Lexington avenue, suffered cuts because of accidents in crowded pools. Young Nahamias struck botton while diving at Rhodius pool, and Mr. McCann was injured when another bather dived on him at Willard pool. Both were treated at city hospital. Crops Not Injured Although the terrific heat was unpleasant to human beings, the crops throughout the state have not been injured except in isolated spots where there has not been much rainfall, E. C. Faiist, editor of the Hoosier Farmer, said today. W.ieat crops are past the point where they may be injured by the sun's violent rays and the oats and corn have withstood the weather, Mr. Faust said. However, farm animals suffered from the high temperatures. Even crime- suffered a slump yesterday, according to police reports, although there were several minor case? involving tempers stretched taut by the irritating heat.