James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and ghosts. With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s.

Headlines from June 21, 1934

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PODERJAY LUGGAGE HELD NO SECRETS, STEWARDS ASSERT; Hunt Narrowed to New York as Two Insist Body of Miss Tufverson Was Not Aboard. NEW TRUNK SALE IS BARED Police Learn of Purchase of Baggage 'Too Big' for Cabin on Eve of His Sailing. NO MYSTERY TRUNK IN PODERJAY CABIN

PRESIDENT TO START NEW RECOVERY AIDS BEFORE HIS HOLIDAY; Proposes to Set Up Machinery Under Recent Laws to Enforce Regulatory Acts. PROGRAMS BEING DRAWN Housing, Stock Exchange, Tariff, Communications, Relief Included in Schedule. ROOSEVELT TO ACT ON RECOVERY PLANS

MOSES PARK PLANS FACE LEGAL SNARL; Title to Lands Transferred to Him Questioned by Deputy Controller Mathewson. MAYOR IS NOT PERTURBED Department to Keep All Tracts Now Being Developed for Recreation, He Says. MOSES PARK PLANS FACE LEGAL SNARL

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