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'BOSS’ VARE, PHILADELPHIA ‘CZAR,’ DIES Political Head of G. 0. P. Organization Taken at Atlantic City. LOST SENATE SEAT IN ’26 Ouster Led to Critical Illness: Struck Down by Indigestion. /;•/ r mt- <i Pi-fM ATLAN'I IC CITY, N J Aug 7 William S. Vare, 66 who for nearly n generation held political control of Philadelphia, died today at his Atlantic City home. He was one of the last of the oldtime political “basses” who, thirty years ago, controlled various key cities of the nation. Hiv death, which occurred at 11:30 a. m. brought to an end the Republican dynasty that dated back more than fifty years ago, to the vigorous days of Matt Quay, Boise Penrose and Jim McNichol. Actually, the organization ” which Mr. Vare inherited had its origination in the days of Thaddeus Stevens. irreconcilable foe of Abraham Lincoln. It was built and cemented together by Stevens and handed down practically intact, to the various successors. Ousted by Senate Mr. Vare was one of three brothers. George and Ed Vare, older than he was, threw him into politics in 1898. when he became a city councilman and shortly thereafter its president. His greatest political triumph—and detrat—came when he resigned from congress to run for the senate. In a bitter campaign he defeated George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot, and then as easily beat William B. Wilson, his Democratic opponent. The senate, undergoing a purging at the time—this was in 1926 refused to permit Mr. Vare to take his seat, charging he had bought his election through excess expenditures. The decision so disappointed the leader that his health was affected seriously and for a time it wa> thought he would die. Lost .Much of Power In 1928 he suffered a stroke, and again his life was despaired of. From that defeat, too. Mr. Vare lost much political ground, and his machine began to crumble beneath him. Although he was elected national committeeman, his heart was not in his work, and lesser leaders pulled away from him. The final blow came when his own candidates were disastrously whipped in the last municipal election. under an avalanche of Democratic votes. I,ate yesterday it was reported Mr. Vare was convalescing, and his condition early today was reported as favorable.” An attack of indigestion struck him down again at 11 a. nt . however, and within a few minutes the end came. His wife. Ida Morris, whom he married in 1896. and his two daughters. Mildred and Beatrice, were with him when he died. SENATE PROBE REVEALS GERMAN ARMS DEAL Investigators Reluctant to Talk Before Hearing. R-1 I nit-'t PrrtH WASHINGTON. Aug. 7.—'The special senate investigation of sales of American arms and munitions has led to a connection with the German military situation, it was learned today. German a (fairs have become involved at several points of the inquire which will begin formal hearings on Sept 4 Investigators were reticent to discuss the German connection prior to next month's open sessions. TVA ELECTRIC POWER SOUGHT BY ATLANTA City Council Names Agent to Investigate Feasibility. ATLANTA. Aug 7. Atlanta largest city in the southeast, moved today to obtain electric power from Tennessee Valley Authority. Mayor James L Key received a resolution, passed by city council, which calls for appointment of Jack C. Savage as agent for the city to investigate thoroughly the feasibility of a contract between the city and TVA DRUNKEN DRIVER GETS 30-DAY FARM TERM Warning Given by Judge Myers in Sentencing Man. Warning that ’drunken drivers can not operate on our streets.” Municipal Judge Dewey Myers today sentenced. Moms Gordon 937 Hervey street, to thirty days on the Indiana state farm and fined him 810 and costs on a charge of operating a vehicle while under the influence rs liquor. Gordon s car struck Stephen Wiism. 61*6 Carrollton avenue Feb. 19 Mr Wilson recentlv was released from the hospital

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 75

Dionne Quintuplets Sleep 17 Hours Out of Every 24 in Battle for Their Lives

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ROOSEVELT ON DROUGHT TOUR President Inspects Area Held in Grip of Devastating Heat. Bu f ft itrft /fi rs* DEVILS LAKE. N. D.. Aug. 7 President Roosevelt today began a I.VI-mile automobile tour over dustladen roads to inspect a region that United States Senator Nye of North Dakota and others want set aside for a $75,000,000 water storage program. The President arrived here at 9 a. m. 'lndianapolis timet and after a brief wait entered an automobile for the tour. In contrast to yesterday the day was fairly cool as the party set out. -

ARMED BANDIT GANG TRAPPED BY POLICE Three Men Surrounded. Is Irvington Report. Howard Monroe, 7. who gave his address as Cincinnati and told police he was waiting for a street car. was seized this afternoon in an Irvington field as one of three armed bandits, who attempted to hijack a beer truck shortly after noon. Police this afternoon were reported to have surrounded in Irvington three armed bandits who shortly after noon today attempted to hijack a truck load of beer and. in . the attempt, slugged a truck driver on the head. The attempt occurred at Ritter avenue and Brookviile road. Irvington. The bandit trio stopped the truck and warned the driver. Robert McDowell, and his assistant against resistance, and. when the driver proved stubborn, hammered his head with a pistol butt. Police arrived before the bandits could start to unload the truck.

AKRON CHANGES MIND: DILLINGERS TO APPEAR Outlaw's Kin May F.xhibit at Fair. Council Decides. ./ I mit, <1 /*r> AKRON. 0.. Aug. 7 —City fathers changed their minds today and decided that the Dillinger theatrical troupe might appear at the Summit county fair, after all. Yesterday, the cuv cabinet ruled that the troupe, which exhibits the desperado's father, members of his family and a few of the more lurid mementos of hi crime career, could not put on their vaudeville skit here because morals of youth would be impaired. Today the cabinet not only decided to let the troupe appear, but offered to furnish it with a police escort.

Marie. Emilie, Cecile, Annette and Yvonne all sleep peacefully as their mother, Mrs. Oliva Dionne, watches over their water-bottle-heated nest.

World’s Most Famous Babies Are Fed Every Three Hours With Home Like Hospital as Nurses and Doctors Bustle About: World Offers Co-Operation. (Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Inc.) COR BEIL. Ontario, Aug. 7.—Oliva Dionne settles himself into the buggy, shakes the reins, and is on his way to Callander. It is early morning, but Dionne's house already is a-bustle, full of a purposeful and efficient stirring. Dionne has to meet the morning train at Callander—-it is bringing him a consignment.

Dionne is the father of the most famous babies in the world, the quintuplets whose birth on the night of last May 28 drew the sympathetic eyes of the world to Corbeil. And the precious freight that is coming to Callander is a gallon of natural mothers' milk, shipped in special containers from hospitals in Chicago, Toronto and Montreal. World Sends Gifts When he has received the containers, Dionne drives back over the rough and rocky road to Corbeil, two and a half miles, to find the day in full swing for his five tiny daughters. Here, in what had been a plain frame four-room cottage on the edge of the wooded wilderness, is a vertiable children's hospital, created overnight by the kindly interest of neighbors, the Red Cross, the Canadian government, and the gifts and encouragement of a world that had seen a wonder and wanted to help the somewhat bewildered and simple people through whom it came. From dawn to dusk, and often far into the night, hard-working nurses and concerned doctors bustle about. Dr. A R. Dafoe, the "old-fashioned country doctor” whose skill, devotion and practical wisdom brought the quintuplets safely through the unlikely chance of their birth, already has been here. He will be back again at evening. Twice each day he comes to attend the tiny girl-children whose survival is a modern miracle. Each One in Incubator The babies lie in a spare room off the kitchen, each in her wooden, glass-covered individual incubator. Every morning at 8 they are taken from the incubators and given an oil bath, the oil gently swabbed on the skin that is too tender to stand soap and water. The beds in the incubators are given a complete change. Every three hours the babies are fed with a dropper equipped with a rubber nipple on the end. The nurses gently force the feeding if the babes do not take the prescribed amount of warm mothers’ milk which constitutes their ration every twenty-four hours. The droppers are like an eye-dropper, but with a barrel about the size of a banana. Mostly, the quintuplets sleep. For sixteen or seventeen hobrs of the twenty-four, they simply sleep. Even now. after more than two months of life, they are smaller than many a new-born babe. Their premature birth, earlier than normal by nearly two months, started them out under a tremendous handicap which they are only now overcoming. It is this long sleep between feedings that is giving them a chance to build up toward the sought-for normal. They all look alike. Not only are they identical twins, but no one here knows which was the oldest. In the confusion attending ih'ur birth.

IXDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1934

This story of the Dionne quintruplets, accompanied by a full page of hitherto unpublished pictures on Page 3, is one of a series appearing exclusively in The Times. On page 4 of this newspaper is a Science Service article about multiple births.

the babies were not marked in order of their delivery, and no one ever will know, probably, which is the oldest. Already, however, they have developed individual characteristics, and the nurses say they can tell by the way they react to the oil swabs during their daily baths, whether it is Yvonne or Cecile that is being bathed. Yvonne is the plumpest; Cecile is the most vigorous, and stretches most; Marie has a tumorous growth on one leg that is being treated. Everything about the little roughplastered room show’s the influence of modern science and invention. No money has been spared to give these babies a better-than-usual chance to live and thrive. A small modern refrigerator stands in one corner to preserve the precious mothers’ milk which has kept them alive. The weighing scales are the most modern and accurate obtainable, for those slight gains of ounces and half-ounces are what tell the story of a victory of science, and skill, and devotion over death. Here is a maze of modem 1 ospital appliances, some of which have been useful, some of which are held against any unforeseen eventuality. There is an oxygen tank which v.as used shortly after the babies’ birth, when Dr. Dafoe despaired for a moment of their lives. The hospital "air” extends to every person who enters the babies' room. Nurses, doctor, visitors, even the mother and father, must don sterile cotton smocks and regulation surgical protective masks before en(Turn to Page Eighteen)

‘TYPICAL AMERICAN FATHER' DIES HERE Merrill J. Brown Succumbs at Hospital. Merrill J. Brown. 47. of 4144 Carrollton avenue died this morning at St. Vincent's hospital. Mr. Brown will be remembered by Indianapolis citizens as father of the "typical American family” chosen three years ago in a nationwide survey by the American magazine. He was sale manager of the Pitt-man-Moore Company and had been with the firm since 1911.

Slot Machine Hijacking Gang Raids City Clubs Mob Invades Private Rooms, Takes Gambling Machines and Cash; No Reports Made to Police. A series of raids on slot machines in private clubs within the last week has netted a gang of Indianapolis robbers more than a dozen machines and the cash these illegal gambling devices contained.

This was learned by The Times today on excellent authority. Since the machines are illegal, no reports have been made to police and officers of the clubs involved will not discuss the raids ror publication. Two well known north side clubs and a third on the south side were named positively by The Times’ informant, however, as having suffered raids within the last few days and there are known to have been others. The last known raid, referred to as a ’’hijacking'' by members of the club involved, took place early Sunday morning. Caretaker Is Menaced The “hijackers” drove a small truck into a drive-way in back of the club involved, gained entrance and were removing the machines when an elderly caretaker appeared at the head of a flight of stairs looking down on their activity. He was threatened with a revolver and “covered” by one of the trio while the other two men continued |to remove machines. At 3 a. m. the men left. An hour later they re- | turned and took two machines which they had left the first time. “They didn’t get so much, though,” laughed a club member. “The money is taken out of these machines here at 11 p. m.—and, anyway, the machines aren't ours” Owner Remains Mystery The identity of the owner is a carefully kept secret which police apparently either can not or | will not solve. Suggestions that the raids might be part of a slot ! machine “war” were met in wellinformed circles with the answer j that the slot machine “racket” here | is far too well organized to permit such a “war.” Yesterday saw unusual police activity in the slot machine field with three machines seized in a basement ' of Eastgate hotel, and five, broke n open and empty, recovered in the home of Prince Weathers, 59, Negro. 2115 Bellefontaine street. The club raiders are white men. It was learned, however, that, while police will not admit they know of the slot machine thefts, 1 there is a belief at headquarters that the Bellefontiane street house may have been a cache for the three white bandits. At the Eastgate. Arnold Stallings. ! 30, of 1138 West Twenty-ninth street, was arrested on the charge of keeping a gambling device. Weathers was held on a vagrancy charge while police investigated the possibility that the machines found ' in his home had been stolen. Detective Chief Fred Simon said today the only recent slot machine ! robbery called to his attention had occurred several nights ago at a barbecue stand in Edinburg, approximately thirty miles south *of Indianapolis.

DEATH OF MESSING IS RULED SUICIDE Note Left by City Man Leads to Verdict. A verdict of suicide by poison was returned today by Dr. John E. Wyttenbach. deputy coroner, in the death Saturday of Samuel M. Messing. 56, of 5427 North Delaware street. Dr. Wyttenbach said that notes found beside the body indicated suicide intention, but refused to divulge the contents of the notes. Mr. Messing, wnose son, Gordon, recently won a prize fellowship at Harvard university, was buried yesterday in the Hebrew Congregation cemetery after services in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 73 10 a. m 75 7 a. m 74 11 m 79 8 a. m 76 12 (noon).. 82 9 a. m 75 1 p. m 83

Dillinger Case Shows Up Glaring Errors By Police U. S. Agents Ruined Chances Several Times of Catching Outlaw, Probe by Times Reveals. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer. (Copvriirht, 1934, br The Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. All rights reserved). From Crown Point jail to Crown Hill cemetery the murderous trail of John Dillinger proved a thorny one for the police. But it has served to bring out some glaring faults in the work of federal agents and law enforcement officers in cities throughout the middle west.

While agents of the department of justice immediately claimed all the glory for ending the career cf Dillinger by killing him with four bullets, fired at close range in a Chicago alley, investigation by The Times reveals that the work of federal agents on the Dillinger case is more to be censured than praised. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice, admitted that the government spent about $500,000 in the hunt for Dillinger. This sum vas in addition to greater sums spent by cities and states—all monies coming directly from the nation’s taxpayers.

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COUNTY BUDGET REQUESTS SHOW $300,000 JUMP Governmental Departments Seek Total of $2,021,740 for 1935, Compared to $1,737,039 for This Year. TAX LEVY NOW HIGHEST IN HISTORY) Commissioners Set $350,000 as Sum Needed for Old Age Pension Fund; Ten Departments Make Reductions. County Auditor Charles A. Grossart today was studying county departmental requests for 1935 operating expenses, which totaled $2,021,740.05, an increase of nearly $300,000 over this year’s budget, preparatory to passing the requests on to county council. Judges in all courts except municipal courts one and two seek increases in salaries to statutory limits. Their salaries at present are $4,350 annually and they are asking $5,800, an increase of $1,450. Ten departments, including the office of Glen B. Ralston, county clerk, showed reductions in their budgets compared to amounts granted last year.

HINDENBURG IS LAID TO REST Dead Leader ‘Guardian of Nation's Rebirth,’ Says Hitler at Bier. (Conyrieht 1934. bv Um(ed Press) TANNENBURG, East Prussia, Aug. 7.—President Paul von Hindenburg was returned today to rest forever in the soil he made historic by his victory of Tannenburg over the great Russian “steam roller” in 1914. Over his body, Adolf Hitler, who became supreme ruler of the nation when Hindenburg died, called him the guardian of the nation's rebirth. It was a funeral oration, devoted to eulogy of the dead soldier-states-man. Pride in Germany's arms was in the speech, expressed by mingling Hindenburg’s name with his martial victories. Hindenburg’s body remained lying in state today while millions of people passed before it in the great memorial that marks his victory. His body will lie in the field mashals’ tower of the great memorial, a symbol of Germany's martial valor. Hindenburg’s funeral was marked by the boom of 101 guns, traditional death salute to a Prussian king. It was the first time since 1838 that it had been accorded to any one in Prussia. The funeral was the most brilliant military spectacle in Germany since the war, recalling vividly the fatherland's pre-war military splendor. Uniforms ruled supreme, outnumbering civilian attire twenty to one in the wide, octagonal interior of the fortress-like battle memorial. To the field gray uniform of the reichswehr or regular army w’ere added the green of Herman Wilhelm Goering's special police, the black of Hitler's bodyguard and the blue of a company of marines. TRAFFIC LIGHTS URGED Signals Will Be Placed Soon, Safety Board Reports. Thp safety board will install stop-and-go traffic signals at Tibbs avenue and Michigan street and Thir-ty-eighth and Illinois streets as soon as funds are available, the board informed petitioners today.

With hundreds of federal agents, thousands of police officers and millions of dollars spent in the search for one desperado who did nothing extraordinary to cover his moves, freely attending ball games and movies, a question arises. What would law-enforcement officers do if a thousand potential ■'Dillingers” locked up in state prisons throughout the country suddenly found themselves at liberty? And with recent escapes from Michigan City prison fresh in the minds of the public, such a possiiTurn to Page Six)

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Largest increases were asked by the county commissioners, seeking an increase of $130,000; Sheriff Charles 'Buck) Sumner, who asks $17,000 more for his office budget and $33,000 more for the county jail budget, and the municipal court probation department, where $7,000 more than the 1934 figure is sought. Most increases requested in other departments are in salaries for deputies and clerks. Practically all budget requests will be cut to insure substantial reduction in the county tax levy, which now is 56 cents, the highest in the county's history, according to Fabian Biemer. chief deputy auditor. $35,000 for Pension Fund Budgets allowed for operation of the county government this year totaled $i.737,039.32, which was $473,558.32 less than was asked in the original requests. These totaled $2,213,958.58. The county commissioners, who ask for $832,713.50 as compared with ‘ the $752,093.50 granted this year, seek $350,000 for the old age pension fund. This year $200,000 was allowed. but this amount was cut to S9OOOO by the adjustment board. Sheriff Sumner’s jail budget calls for $71,320 as against $33,340 allowed this year. He seeks $61,000 for his office budget next year, as compared with $44,360 granted this year. Increases in salaries for his employes constitute most of the increase in both budgets. Ask S“, 000 IncreaseMunicipal court probation-depart-ment asked $17,300 in comparison to $10,275 with which the department operated this year. Salary increases for deputy prosecutors increase by $4,000 the budget, filed by Herbert E. Wilson, prosecuting attorney. He was allowed $48,417 this year and he seeks $52,955 next year. Judge Frank P. Baker increased his criminal court budget request from $24,840 to $31,450. Besides requesting increases in his own salary and those of court attaches, he asked for SI,OOO for .salaries of special judges in change-of-venue cases, an amount not allowed for this year. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox increased his budget demand for next year to $15,000, as against $13,450 granted this year. All Show Increases Budgets for other courts, all showing increases by requests for higher salaries, are; Probate $16,800, present budget $12,470; juvenile $38,819, present budget $34,376; superior one $12,100, present budget $9,860; superior two $12,305, present budget $10,355; superior three $12,200, present budget $9,850; superior four $12,850 present budget $10,350; superior five $12,325, present budget $9,875; municipal three $7,834, present budget $6,459, and municipal four $8,750, present, budget $7,135. Municipal courts one and two both filed decreased budgets. Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, room one, seeks $12,695, as compared with this year's budget of sl2 643. Judge Dan V. White, room two, requests $12,605, his present budget being $12,648. The courthouse budget as filed was $50,412, as against the present budget of $47,352. The increase is for supplies listed at $3,000. Dunn Asks Salary Hike Health commissioners’ budget shows an increase from $7,693 to 53.193. The increase is in the contagious disease fund. J. Malcolm Dunn, county school superintendent, asked for a salary increase from $2,800 to $4,000. His budget request total is $5,990, compared to the old budget of $5,075. The county surveyor’s budget request for next year calls for $19,563. Present budget is $12,752. The county treasurer increased his request from $85,325 to $94,325. The county assessor's request showed an increase from $6,444 to 59.044. Besides decreases in requests of the county clerk and municipal courts one and two. other reductions were made in requests of the Marion county insane hospital, county trustees board. Perry township assessor, Washington township assessor, Lawrence township asses- ' sor and the county board of review.