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ft! The Weather- TODAY Cloudy Tomorrow Cloudy All News of the World By Associated Press VOL. 95 NO. 147 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. THURSDAY. JUNE 20.

1929 TWENTY PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS KS0 GUARD KILLED, LINDY AND BRIDE RUM SHIP FIGHTS US TOMS VESSEL IN DETROIT RIVER Dry Protest Target ELECTRIC STORM DAMAGE HEAVY; BARNS BURNED Blazing Ball. of Fire Descends Upon' Building of John Stafford, Near Christiana; Structure and Contents Destroyed With Loss of Downpour Aids Firemen Lightning Hits Barn Near Sea ford; Hail Which Accompanied Rain Injures Melon Crop; Mercury Drops From 96 to 68 Degrees; One Dead From Intense Heat White Man Held Slave In Georgia, He Says ATHENS, June 19 AP). How a 28-year-old white man with a wife and four children was held in servitude on a Webster county peanut plantation by W. D. Arnold, was described here today by the alleged victim, Claude King, of Preston, who is held in the Clarke county Jail as a material witness in a federal indictment against Arnold.

King charged Arnold not only refused to pay him for his services, other than to give him $2.50 weekly for provisions, a house in which to live, but alleged that when he went to a neighboring town several months ago to make arrangements for the flight of his family from the alleged peonage farm, Arnold back to the plantation, and back to the plantattion, and caused him to be flogged by a negro. Two other negroes were forced by Arnold to hold King while a third whipped him with a strap, King stated. i 4 pm Seaford section hail fell for some tune, and it is feared that the young cantaloupes have been badly damaged. TJus will not be definitely known until an examination is made today. The sections about Wilmington and Seaford appear to be the only places which had a severe storm.

Georgetown reported that a slight rain and brisk wind prevailed In the evening, and the whici had been 104 degrees in some places during tne day, took a drop. Lewes only had a slight thunderstorm with some rain, and Dover reported th-same conditions there. The storm followed an unusually hot day in this city. The maximum temperature at the Porter Reservoir was 93 degrees. In many places in this city the thermometers registered, 95 and 96 degrees.

Following the storm the temperature fell to 68 degrees a drop of 25 degrees to a few hours. The sixty eight degrees was above the average for midnight however. The first person to be overcome by the heat in this city during the last few days, is Andrew Lambert, a (Continued on Page Nine) RETURN TO PUBLIC ON MITGHEL FIELD Become Center of All Interest at' Guggenheim Fund Test Flights POSE FOR PICTURES i Colonel Takes His Wife Up; Says Planes Must Be Made Far Safer MITCHKTr FIELD, N. June 19 (AP) Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.

Lindbergh came out of their honeymoon seclusion today, the place ol their return to public life being, fittingly, an aviation field. The famous flier and his wife spent the morning here to witness the first tests In the $150,000 competition being held by the Daniel Guggenheim fund for the promotion of aeronautics in the hope of discovering a "fool -proof airplane. Before the testing of the first entrant began the Lindberghs drove up to the hangar in the Colonel's 'car. sunburned from three weeks on their honeymoon yacht, and became at once the center of ail interest. They posed for news pictures together and then with a group of officials of the Guggenheim fund, and later, the Colonel told something about the safety competition.

He expressed the opinion that although aviation was on a soimd footing commercially, planes Nmust be made far safer and easier to handle than at present before the day of universal flying could dawn. Takes First Entry Up Colonel Lindburg took up the first entry in the safety competition for a trial flight, with Harry Guggenheim, president of the fund, as passenger. His only preparation for the flight, the first since his marriage, was to cast aside his blue serge coat and don a helmet and parachute. After a short spin in the air, dur-(Continued on Page Two) WOULD STAKE CLAIMS F0R G0LD Ardmore Man Says He Found De posits in State's Rivers DES MOINES, Iowa, June 19 (AP). There may be gold in Iowa's rivers.

At least it nrght appear so from a letter received today by Attorney General John Fletcher from W. Wes ley Miller, Ardmore, Pa. Midler wanted to know to whom gold found in Iowa rivers belongs and how he could procee- legally to claim deposits "which have been dis covered "Can I advertise. claim by right of discovery." he asked, "and then record my claim? Attorney General's assistants were inclined to believe there was no property open to "staking" in Iowa, as there is no public domain. Officials familiar with Iowa's nat- ural resources said there was no knowledge of gold deposits in appre ciable quantities.

THE WEATHER" Delaware, Maryland and Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy Thurs day and Friday with scattered showers Thursday; not much change in temperature. LOCAL WEATHER 8.00 a. m. .....78 5.00 p. m.

89 1.30 p. m. .....92 Midnight 68 Maximum .93 Minimum 68 LENGTH OF TODAY (Eastern Standard Time) JO KILLED AS MOTHER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Philadelphia Woman, 24, Takes Gas, Has Little Chance to Recover BLAMES LOST LOVE Anna Carolivanos Decided to End All When Babies Were Hungry, She Says PHILADELPHIA, June 19 (API-Mrs. Anna Carolivanos, 24, killed her 10-months-old twins tonight when she attempted suicide by gas in the rear of a grocery store. The mother is in a critical condition.

George Saliata, proprietor of the grocery store, said the women entered his place carrying the two babie and asked if she might lie down, saying she was tired. Saliata, who is a friend of Mrs. Carolivanos' hus band, showed her to a rear room, a small kitchen with a cot in the corner. Two hour later Saliata said he r1e- tected the odor of gas and, entering the room, he found the children, one in each of the mother's arms, dead. The woman was unconscious.

Windows in the room had been lightly closed and gas was flowing from several open burners on a gas stove. At the hospital Mrs. Carolivanos told physicians the reason for her act. 'My husband didn't love me any more," she said. "When I lost his love and saw my infants hungry 1 thought we would be better off dead.

so I decided to end it all today." Doctors said the woman had bu little chance of recovery. 'BIRD OF PARADISE' SUIT AGAIN IN COURT riaywright Cited For Contempt of Court In New York NEW YORK. June 19 (AP Richard Walton Tully, playwright, today was cited to show cause why he shouldd not be punished for contempt of court for his alleged "willful" failure to assign all his rights from the Bird oX Paradise" to Mrs. Grace A. Fendler.

of Los Angeles. The order was signed by Supreme Court Justice Richard P. Lydon and is returnable tomorrow. Mrs. Fendler recently obtained a Judgment of more than $600,000 against Tully and one of more than El 50.

000 against Oliver Moroeco. producer, for plagarism of her novel. "In Hawaii." "The Bird of Paradise" was first produced in 1912 starring Lauretta Taylor and met with tremendous success. After more than 12 years of litigation. Supreme Court Justice Edward J.

McGoldriCk signed an order, entered in the county clerk's office June 11 last, giving Tully and Morosco until June 17 to assign all their rights to receive money from the play, and all papers concerning such rights, to Mrs. Findler. GCLFER'S ABILITY BASIS FOR DAMAGE ACTION Baltimore Woman Asks $30,000 After Accident, Charging Inexperience BALTIMORE. June 19 (AP) A man's game of golf came in for court attention here today when suit asking for $20,000 for negligence was against John E. Mellon by Mrs.

B. Wiltshire, mother of William Wiltshire, who was struck in the head by a ball driven by Mellon. The bill of complaint alleges negligence and charges Mellon with being an "inexperienced and unskilled player," in that he could not drive his ball where it should have been driven. It also charged that he failed to give proper warning before driving as required by law. FLIERS UP 34 HOURS, TRAVEL 4320 MILES LE BOURGET, France, June 19 (AP In an attempt to break the world's non-stop distance record, the French aviators De Marmier and Favreau had covered 4320 miles today after 34 hours in the air.

The aviators are making their flight without refueling and flew over a fixed route in a rough triangular course. They are after the world's distance record held by Captain Fer-rarin and the late Major Del Prete, of Italy, established on July 6 from Rome to Port Natal, Brazil, a total distance of 4791 miles. TWINS Mil SCORES INJURED AS TRAINS CRASH Two Seriously Hurt In Rear-End Collision In New York THOUSANDS AT SCENE Impact Causes Cars to Buckle; Cloud of Dust Brings Sudden Darkness NEW YORK. June 19 (AP) One man, a guard, was killed and scores of persons were injured, two of them seriously, tonight in a rear-end collision between a Sixth avenue and a Ninth avenue elevated train on the Interbo rough Rapid Transit elevated structure between West 112th and West 113th streets. The Ninth avenue train made up of Ave cars, had stopped three blocks above the high curve at 110th street, known locally as "death curve," because of the number of persons who have jumped from it, and was waiting to pull into the 116th street station.

Passengers said the train had waited about three minutes when the seven-car Sixth avenue train crashed into it. The force of the crash caused the fourth and fifth cars of the Sixth avenue train to buckle and smashed the two platforms. It was at that point that the guard, Edward Bren-nan, 25 years old, was killed and a passenger standing with him was ser iously Injured. The other person seriously hurt was Motorman McGlynn. of the Sixth avenue train, who was caught in the wreckage of the front platform of his train and the rear platform of the Ninth avenue train.

Practically all of those who suffered less serious Injuries were passengers in the fourth car of the Sixth ave nue train. The force of the collision threw many of them to the floor of the car and several were cut by flying glass. The sound of the crash was heard for blocks and passengers said the collision was followed by a cloud of dust, like smoke. They said that although it was daylight, everything suddenly became dark and woman and chSarerr began to scream. A man standing in the street directly under the point where the collision occurred turned in a fire alarm and telephoned police headquarters.

Lead Passengers to Safety Meanwhile one of the men in the car in which most of the were passengers stood at a door holding an injured girl in his arms and attempting to prevent ths women from rushing out on the platform. He shouted assurances to them until rescue squads arrived to lead the passengers through the train to safety. Fire apparatus arrived, within a (Continued on Page Two) LEAPS TO SCAFFOLDING FROM BRIDGE, DROWNS Another Man Narrowly Escapes When Board Splits at Ocean City OCEAN CITY, June 19 (AP). Leaping from the Ocean City-Long-port bridge to a scaffolding six feet below, John Shine 40, was drowned and John McHale, 36, who was standing on the scaffolding, narrowly escaped death when he caught onto the iron work of the structure late today. Both men were from Phoenix-ville.

Pa. Shine and McHale, employes of the Phoenix Bridge Company, were working on the scaffolding 30 feet above the water of Great Egg Harbor Inlet. McHale had descended to the planking and was standing there when Shine attempted to jump down. The impact of the man's body split the narrow board and he was catapulted Into the water, which is about 50 feet deep at that point, with a strong current. McHale, who was seen clinging to the iron wcrk, was pulled to safety by a bridge guard, while another guard threw a life line to Shine, but he could not grasp it.

Shine leaves a widow and two children. DRESS, DIET BLAMED FOR TUBERCULOSIS Doctor Says Scarce Food and Clothes Cause Diseases In Girls POLAND, June 19 (AP) The modern mode of dress and the emphasis on dieting which "makes food as scarce as clothes" today was iiy Dr. Estes Nichols, of Portland, to be the cause of the prevalence of tuberculosis among adolescent girls. Speaking before the annual meeting of the Maine Medical Association, Dr. Nichols told of his 25 years experience la observing tubercular cases in the State.

He attributed the lowering of the mortality rate from the disease to the increased wealth which permitted higher standards of living. Sanitation and education also helped to bring about the improvement, he said. Fears for Hindenburg BERLIN, June 19 (AP) The Wolff News Agency tonight quieted fears for the health of President von Hindenburg. who has been reported ill while on a holiday in East Prussia. As a result of direct inquiries it may be officially stated that President von Hindenburg is enjoy'ng the best of health said the statement.

Liquor-runners Attack Without Warning, Damage American Boat, Escape to Canadian Waters Hole Peppered in Prow of Cutter by Revolver Shots; Federal Men Return Fire in Swift Chase WINDSOR, June 19 (By the Canadian Press) After a swift mov ing, revolver battle in Detroit river just before daylight today rum-runners of the East Windsor sector re treated into Canadian waters after peppering a hole in the. prow of a United States customs patrol cutter. There were no known casualties. The rum runners deliberately opened fire without notice on the American boat, it was charged by Walter S. Petty, acting collector of customs at Detroit.

His men return ed the volleys and chased the intruders back: to the Canadian shore, be said. The battle started. Petty reported. when the rum craft was about 100 feet oft the foot of Joseph 'Campau avenue, Detroit. The border patrol was gliding down stream and was about 60 feet from the rum vessel when its crew of several men blazed away suddenly with revolvers, the bullets drumming against the gov ernment boat, blasting a hole above its water lines.

Petty said. "Our men returned the fire prompt ly," Petty added. "The rum-runners swung abcut and retreated toward Canada, maintaining a heavy fire at its pursuer." Petty charges that the firing from the rum boat continued long after it had reached Canadian waters. The customs boat abandoned the chase at the international water line. The police could not determine the number of men on the rum boat.

They hid behind a high stack cf liquor cases as' they emptied their guns at the oncoming customs cruiser. Petty said. RUM-RUNNERS WARNED OFF ONTARIO BORDERS TORONTO, Ont, June 19 (By the Canadian Press) Rum-runners and others with law-breaking intent are warned off Ontario's borders by W. H. Price, attorney-general, who today declared that if necessary he will double the provincial police forces at Windsor and Niagara Falls in order to protect Ontario's citizens.

"We are not going to allow these people to come into Ontario and shoot up our citizens said Colonel Price. "Naturally, any dispute between American authorities is an international question and would have to be dealt with by the federal au-(Continued on Page Two) $2000 GEM SMUGGLING PLOT FOILED BY 'PROPS' Torn Paper, Queer Pipe Lead To Arrests in New York NEW YORK. June 19. (AP). After trailing a collection of "props' that a fiction writer would consider ideal trappings for a good detective story, customs men today had under arrest Mendel Silberberg, a Jeweler, and his son, Louis, both charged with diamond smuggling.

The "props" consisted of a pouch of tobacco containing $2000 worth of small diamonds, a slip of torn paper; with ragged edges torn to fit another piece of torn paper, and a long pipe with a perculiarly curved stem. Louis Lemaire a sailor on an ocean liner, had them when he was picked up and searched at a North River pier. They released him and followed him to a Brooklyn street corner, where after he had lighted the queer pipe, he was approached by young Silberberg, who had the other piece of torn paper. PLAYING OF ITALIAN ANTHEMS RESTRICTED Overworked Recently, National Hymns to Be Saved for Holidays ROME, June 19 (AP) The two official Italian national anthems, the Royal March the Fascist hymn. "Giovinizza (Youth), have been overplayed of late, and on inappropriate occasions, the murstry of the interior has decided.

Consequently they can in future be expected in public places only on the following holidays: March 23 Anniversary of the foundation of the Fascist combat groups. April 21 Anniversary of RSome's foundation. May 24 Anniversary of Italy's war declaration of 1915. First Sunday in June Feast of the "Statue," the constitution granted by the King of Piedmont in 1848. September 20 Anniversary of Italian troops' entering Rome.

October 28--Anniversary of Fas cists' march on Rome. VArpmhpr Annl vwsirr rif war victory of Vittcrio Veneto. 1 isoremoer 11 ine king DirtaGay, DIPLOMAS GIVEN TO 239 STUDENTS OF HIGHJCHOOL Largest Class In History of Institution Is Graduated PRIZES ARE AWARDED Hundreds of Parents and Friends Attend Commencement Exercises Last Night The largest class in the history of the Wilmington Hieh School was graduated when 239 students were Vinrtrl rtinlnms in thi commence ment exercisoes art the institution last niffht. hv James T. chandler, vice- president of th -Bot of PxAMc Edu-.

catoa. The class was so large that it mnrtt than hulf of the irround floor of the auditorium, the remain der of the seat being resenea ior parents and rrienas or tne graduates. Attired, in the traditional black cap and gown, bespeaking the solemnity of the occasion and the honor of academic achievement, the group presented an interesting spectacle when, to a processional march played by the school orchestra, they filed across the stage receiving their diplomas. Each of the girls, who outnumbered the young men, carried a huge bouquet of flowers. Truck loads of other flowers and gifts were unloaded during the ceremony and were presented to the students by perspiring messenger boys.

A flood of telegrams of congratulation pounded in on the students from their friends out of town. AftjM- siorial to which the members of the class marched from the auditorium, and excitea group oi friends and relatives surrounded each graduate in the halls. John B. Quinn, president of the class, spoke on the "Influence of the High and Miss Barbara Co-lona on "Beauty." Mr. Quinn compared the development of character to the construction of a San Francisco building.

rw-h t.hniip-h tall and apparently unable to withstand such a shock, was not demolished by the eartnquaKe. (Continued on Page Nine) YOUNG HEFL1N ARRESTED ON NARCOTIC CHARGE Senator's Son Held for Driving Under Influence of Drug WASHINGTON. June 19 (AP) James Thomas Heflin, Jr, son of the senior senator from Alabama, was arrested here today charged with operating an automobile while under the influence of a narcotic. He was released after several hours under $1000 bond signed by a professional bondsman. His case is to be called in police court tomorrow morning.

Heflin was arrested, police charge, after he had crashed into a truck on Pennsylvania avenue. Hcwas first taken to the trade bureau and then to a hospital for examination before the charges were filed. Wilmington and vicinity was in the throes of a severe electr.cal storm for sometime last night. As a null a number of telephone wires were damaged and the telephones put out of commission. A poll was struck at TricTYiir and thft lishtnms entered several houses causing excitement but doing no damage, a Darn owneu by John Stafford near Christiana, was struck by lightning and destroyed with a loss of $10,000.

Many trees were blown down. Many motorists traveling along the highway south of Wilmington were terrified when the flaming Obit 01 lightning struck the Stafford barn. Residents of New Castle and pleasure ccovors at. neemer's Beach also re port seeing a streak from the sky. One witness described the bolt as a blazing ball that struck with an ear- splitting sound.

The wnoie structure seemed to burst into flame immediately -Storm About Seaford Seaford had a similar storm and at that place a barn wai burned, uvmi other nlaces were struck and two women were injured when thelx car went on tne roaa a puuumB rainstorm. In some portions of the I WEALTHY RESIDENT WILL TRY PLAN OF OLD AGE PENSION Will Furnish Money for Work Until Next Legislature Meets NAME WITHHELD Mrs. Laura Calhoun Walls Will Make Investigation of Number Needing Help Through the generosity of a i-oaithv nelawarean. aeed and suf- frmsr mm and women citizens of 'this State will be aided financially and in other ways unaer pracutBAij K. cam.

t.rm old aze pen sion bill which met with defeat in the last General Assemoiy. Announcement of this was made yesterday by Mrs. Laura Calhoun Walls, of Lincoln City, Sussex counts orhor in the Dublic schools there, and a member of the Mothers' pension Commission. The wealthy benefactor has requested ais name not be made public. He be-eam interested following correspon dence with Mrs.

Walls. The aid will continue, Mrs. wans announced until such time as an old age pension bill similar in character to the one introduced by Representative Edward I. Glenn, Wilmington, is passed. last night.

Mrs. Walls said that although the namei the benefactor may oe maae puo-lafor date, at nresent it would be kept secret in obedteuie to his wishes. un woii. tator she will sDehd her vacation in locating residents of the State over 6o years oi age -who eiui by misrortune or ill health, are unable to enjoy the real necessities of (Continued on fage nui SAVE PASSENGER BOAT HELPLESS IN NIAGARA Steamer Towed to Buffalo After Steering Gear Breaks BUFFALO, N. June 19 (AP).

The passenger steamer Ossian Bedell reached here this afternoon in tow of a Coast Guard cutter and a tugboat after the water-front had been thrown into a furore by word that the little craft, with thirty passengers, was on fire and drifting helplessly down the Niagara River. At the office of the New York and Ontario Ferry Company, operators of the Bedell, it was learned that tbe steering gear of he boat had broken down. Aside from that, officials said, there was nothing amiss. Film Actress Would Wed Broker LOS ANGELES. June 19 AP Mar McAvory.

film actress aDDlied todav for a permit to wed Maurice O. Cleary. Los Angeles investment broker. Miss McAvoy said the wedding was planned for next Wednesday at a Beverly Hills church. She gave her age as 25.

Cleary said he was 3L Dr. J. M. Doran, commissioner of prohibition, above, denies that he in spired the customs "border terrorism" as alleged by Representative R. H.

Clancy, of Michigan, who said Doraxi's threats to take Jobs from the guards made them too zealous. Mr. Doran says tl.1 customs patrol does not come unucr his Jurisdiction the prohibition department, therefore he could not order them around. (International Newsreel) HOOVER IS ACCUSED OF 'SUBMERGING' ISSUE Glass Declares Major Problem Ignored In Pnmo Innniru Vllllll IIIIIUIIJ WETS, DRYS CLASH Senator Copeland Denounces Shootings; Jones Rushes to President's Defense WASHINGTON. June 19.

(AP Prohibition outbursts reverbrated again today in the legislative and executive branches of the government, -attention being devoted chiefly to the Hoover law enforcement commission and shootings by dry officers. Wets and dry of both parties clashed in Senate debate to provide a high point in the recently prevalent controversy ovef the use of weapons in enforcing the Volstead act. The closing day of the session was featured by charges of Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, that the administration was "submerging" prohibiten in the law enforcement inquiry. The Virginian quoted from President Hoover's New York speech declaring prohibition was a "segment, of the task. Senator Jones, Republican, Washington, another dry, rushed to the President's defense, asserting that while he "may.

not have said to his law enforcement commission what I would have said, nevertheless he has twice before given his prohibition views and. we must give him more time and opportunities before we can believe he has forsaken the principles he announced." Denonnes Shootings Senator Copeland, Democrat, New York, a wet. denounced shootings by agents and deplored the 'fanatical attitude" toward dry enforcement which he contended was undoing the law. Senator "Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, an ardent dry, replied it was (Continued on Page Two) MAN CRAZED BY HEAT JUMPS FIVE STORIES NEW YORK, June 19 (AP) Driven crazy, he said, by the hea John Roberts 47 of Mossmere N. tied his leather belt around his necK today and jumped from the top oi a five-story building of the midtown section.

Before he lapsed into unconsciousness hp' "li police that he was "crazy from the heat." He was taken to Flower Hospital suffering from fractutres of both ankles, fracture of the shoulder and internal injuries His condition was critical. Wife Yellow Bird Pilot Sails NEW YORK, June 20. (Thursday) (AP). Mrs. Jean Assolant.

wife of the pilot of the Yellow Bird, trans-Atlantic airplane, sailed early this morning on the lie De France to Join her husband in Paris. Others on board the liner as it sailed were Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. Mi's Anne Morgan, Mrs. W. K.

Vanderbilt and Princess Cantacuzene, granddaughter of General Grant. FOR SAFE MILK and MTTiK PRODUCTS esa CLOVEK PROHIBITION QUIZ DR. SNOOK FOR EIGHT HOURS ON GIRL MURDER Ohio Prosecutor Leaves Grilling to Question Mysterious Witness STAIN ON MAN'S GLOVE Chemist Not Determined Whether It Was Human Blood or That of Animal COLUMBUS. Ohio, June 19 (AP) The questioning of Dr. James H.

Snook, deposed Ohio State University professor in connection with th murder of Theora K. Hix. 24-year-old' co-ed. passed the eighth hour at 10 o'clock -tonight when County Prosecu tor John J. Chester, suddenly lefo the room where the grilling was in progress and started out to interview a mysterious witness.

The name of the witness and tha information, which the prosecutor wished to obtain from was kent secret, but it was understood that ho was a man living to the university district, whom Chester belle-es may- throw some light on the hammer kill. ing of the rl student. C. Long, chemist, said today that he reported to Prosecutor John J. Chester: investigating the murder, that blood stains were on tha door jamb of the automobile of Dr.

Snook, and on the physician's gloves found in the car. He aaid that he had not determined whether th'-y wer human blood or blood of an animal. Dr. Snook is a veterinary surgeon and he had told police that he in. Jured his hand while working on the automobile last Wednesday, the day before the murder.

One Man Released Marion T. Meyers, held in the in vestigation was releasJd today by County Prosecutor John Chester, Jr. Meyers' release came after Prose cutor Chester questioned him. Chester said he was convinced Meyers knew more about the girl's death than he had tod investlsators. but he was of the opini.vi that Mey'rs had no direct connection with the crime.

Meyers, a former suitor of the girl, maintained throughout he knew nothing of the crime and that he had broken off relations wih Miss Hix last October. Father Present Melvin T. Hix, father of Theora, twenty-four, Ohio State University (Continued on Page Nine) STAGE SERIES OF RAIDS ON CHESTERlDRUG DENS CHESTER. Pa, June 19 (AP) Federal and State agent Joined forces tonight with Delaware County detectives and. Chester police in a city-wide drive agiinst the illegal sale cl narcotics.

Raids were made simultaneously in various parts of the city and score of persons were arrested. T.i rid- ers, about seventy in number, wer led by District Attorney. MacCarter, Sun rises, 4.31 a. sets, 7.31 p. m.

HIGH TIDES TODAY A. M. P. M. Lewes 5.44 6.07 Kitt's Hammock 7.29 7.47 Bombay Hook 8.44 9.02 Port Penn 9.29 9.47 Mouth of Christiana ...10.39 10.57 Wilmington 11.19 11-39 Weather Conditions General weather conditions at 8 p.

m. (Eastern time) last night, reported by the United States Weather Bureau, at Philadelphia: Aibanv. nT 2 Vt.CV4v Atlanta. 84 90 Pt.Ci'dy Atlantic City. N.

1 t)2 Baltimore, Mi; i 8 94- Ram smark. N. 0 11 .02 Ft.CTdJ Boston. Mass. 8 88 Cloudy BuBalo.

N. Y. 88 74 .48 Cloudy Cape May, N. It SO Pt.Ci'dy Chicago. Ill ..74 SO Clear c.nctnr.Bti, o.

7a 86 .18 cloudy Cleveland. O. 88 84 1 74 Rain' renYT. CoL 86 80' Clear Detreit. Mich.

90 Pt.Ci'dy East port. Me. 54 84 Cloudy Galveston. Tex. 83 84 Clear HatUras.

N. 14 80 Clear Helena. Mont. $8 S8 Pt.Ci'dy Indianapolis, Ind. 84 88 Clear Jacksonville.

Fla. It 88 Clear Kansas C.tr. Mo. 88 83 Clrar Knoxville. Tenn 88 Pt Cl'dy Lo Angeles.

Calif 92 98 Clear lxjuisTilIe Ky 74 SO .88 Pt.Ci'dy Miami. Fla 78 83 .18 Cloudy Nantucket. Mass. 82 84 C'oudy Ne Orleans. La.

84 90 Cloudy New York City 78 92 CIudy Norfolk. Va 8S 0 Cloudy Oklahoma City, 8 94 Clear Phoenix. Art. lo 108 Clear Philadelphia. Pa.

84 95 Cloudy Pittsburgh. Pa 70 BO Cloudy Portland. Me. 82 72 Pt Cl'dy PortUnd. Ore 88 88 Pt Cl'dy St.

Louis. Mo. 88 88 Clear Salt Lake City, 88 88 Clear San Francisco. 72 84 Oar Sannah, O. 80 83 Pt.Ci'dy Scranton.

Pa. 7 92 TS Rain Seattle, Was 82 84 Cloudy Tampa. Fia. 74 80 Pt.Ci'dy lftsslucjUffi, D. 90 Cloudy.

Feature Matches Listed Today In Tennis Play With the State Lawn Tennis Championships drawing near the end. today will be a busy one in practically every division of play. Starting at 3 o'clock, seven of the eight seeded stars in the men's singles will battle for semi-final places. In this event Eddie Jacobs meets J. Gilbert HaH.

Julius Seligson opposes Bradshaw Harrison, Fritz Mercur plays Bruce Barnes and Tamio Abe takes on Berkeley BelL Following the men's singles play, at 430 o'clock, Mercur and Hall wilt play Cram and McTyiere. Bell and Barnes will meet Doeg and Larry Hall in the semi-finals of the men's doubles, while the finals in the women's doubles between Miss Andrus and Miss Hilleary and Miss Rice and Miss Gladman will follow at 5 o'clock. The committee will have the bleachers erected this morning in order to handle a large gallery for the feature matches today..