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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
LAWN FESTIVAL
 STARTS TONIGHT
Immaculate COncep tiOn Church Grounds GayIy
 Decorated

With a crowd of several thou sand expected to attend, the an- nual lawn festival of the Church of the Immaculate Conception will get underway tonight at the church grounds. The fete will be held again tomorrow night, while there will pc a special afternoon program for children tomorrow.
 Workmen have completed their tasks of erecting the gayly-deco- rated booths and stands about the grounds, and the entire area in the rear of the church has been strung with multi-colored lights. Many of the decorations used this year are most novel and unusual in their placing and arrangement.
 The festival during both nights will feature special programs of entertainment, with Jack Fitzger- aid, leader of one of the states most popular orchestras, as master of ceremonies. The various local entertainers and celebrities who will be introduced by Jack have all promised to have special fea- lures ready to offer to the eager crowds at the festival.
 " 1uOSS WAo A1SO 0SeSANS0 SAAO parish affairs in the past recall that the entertainment portions of the program have been of an ex- ceptionally high caliber, as far as both ability and variety are con-
 cerned. This year. according to those in charge, the features listed will be even more numerous and enjoyable. The committee of ar- engagements to-day declared that the program has been so arranged that everyone who attends is cer- tain of a grand time.
 Special features for children will be the high lights of tomorrow afternoons presentation of the fes- tival. Hundreds of youngsters and their parents are expected to at- tend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

have the Children's Aid Society made guardian for the quintuplets, but this proved impossible, for there had been no neglect on the part of the parents. So Attorney General Arthur w. Roebuck of Ontario resorted to his powers as parens patriae (father of the country) and obtained judicial order appointing four official guar dians of the infants. This invali- dated the contracts formerly signed by the father literally with out legal authority over his own five tiny daughters.
 The period of climax was ap- preaching. Dr Dafoe had said from the first that if he could pull the quintuplets through a two- month period they would have a good chance of survival. That would enable them, he felt, to l overcome the handicap of their premature birth, which came two months earlier than normally. And they continued to gain, but slowly, very slowly.
 Operation" is Performed
 The two-month period arrived. And on the prophylactic and deli cate scales that had replaced the Dionnes' potato scales, the test was made. All were below the normal standard still, but consistent gains | in later weeks gave hope that they
 might well go on to maturity. | Every hour, it might almost be said, has been a climax for the
 quintuplets, for despite their re-
 markable progress during two months, they are not as far ad- vanced as many children are at
 birth. } So it was another climax when
 on the weekend of August 5, 1t
 was decided to treat Marie's spreading leg tumor, in fear that
 the blood-filled swelling might
 break. That would almost cer-
 tainly be fatal to so tiny a baby.
 The operation" one of the
 strangest in patient and surround ings to be recorded in medical his- tory, was successful. Marie and
 her sisters slept throughout the proceedings, Marie waking with 8 lusty yell whens adhesive tape was
 removed which had bound a ra-
 dium container to her leg. For the
 operation" performed by Doctors Howard and Edmund Kelly of Ball.
 timore, Md, consisted of exposing
 the humorous growth to radium
 emanations.
 | A score or more of French
 Canadian farmers and their wives,
 sons, and daughters had gathered
 in their Sunday best outside the
 wire fence that shuts off the nurs-
 cry ry-farmhouse from the road. Sol-
 mn-faced motorists scattered dust on the rutty-one-lane road from | Callandcr to Corbell as they passed
 leaning out to get look at the most famous farmhouse in the world. All were an unconscious of what was going on within as were the sleeping quintuplets
 SeO,OOO Worth of Radium
 | Dr Edmund Kelly had brought | from Baltimore a lead casket the size of a mans fist. It held em- anations from one quarter of a gram of radium-$60,00O worth in gaseous form.
 Handling the casket gingerly, Dr
 Kelly extricated the gases, confined them in a brass case. Marie was lifted by Nurse De Kiriline out of
 her incubator to what had been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
Thar Shows hozv Quality pays jor Aself

MEETING AGAR in smooth-running N order is part of the work an oil has to do. With today's tighter, fast CT engines, that's a real job.
 And right there is the reason why more people buy Mobiloil than any otherkind. Mobiloil helps avoid troub- le because it stays tough in the thin nest film. Mobiloil never breaks down
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

But there was more important work at the Dionne home. Feed ing for the youngsters was devised with medicine troopers holding cows milk and corn syrup. Then all the French Canadian mothers of the neighborhood who could serve as wetnurses came in and offered their help.
 On the second day, as the won der grew that the quintuplets were still alive, an incubator arrived from a Chicago newspaper, and a container of mothers milk came from Chicago hospital.
 Deaths Narrowly Avcrtcd
 When first weighed, on a rusty old potato scale, the five little sis ters together weighed well under 10 pounds. They were all between foot and 13 inches in length. All looked exactly alike, and no one knew which was the oldest, for Mrs Legros had had too much on her hands at their birth to do any tagging. Once one of them began to turn blue, and a drop of diluted rum was added to its ration of milk. Several times this expedi- ent appeared to be all that saved one of the tiny ones from death. Four days after the birth Dionne signed a contract for ap- pearance of the quintuplets at the Chicago Fair. He was offered a sum to him fabulous, for he was a man with 10 children, over whom hung like a pail a mortgage debt of a few hundred dollars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

under extreme engine temperatures.
 Afew trips to the repair shop can cost more than whole year of troub- le-free performance with Mobiloil.
 Pull up where you see the Mop,loil sign next time you need oil. Look for the patented Filpruf bottles with the locked tops. Try Mobiloil- and see what a genuine saving it means.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

Dr Dafoe baked, and when the quintuplets all developed unmis- takable symptoms of jaundice on June 3, when they were less than Q week old, Dafoe put his foot down. They were not going to be moved, he ruled.
 All Records Broken As the infants turned their first week of life they had already broken all records for 'quintuplets, and eager inquiries from medical men of several countries were stuffed in the pockets of Dr Dafoe.
 By this time guard had to be established about the little, house, for visitors refused to respect the signs of Private" and "No Ad- mission" that had been posted. l Neighbors helped shoo away the curious, but the rush of promot- CTS having business propositions to l offer the Dionnes was so great that | Dr Dafoe threatened to have the | babies taken to a hospital if it did not stop.
 His brother, pr William A. Da- | foe, outstanding Canadian ob- stetrician of Toronto, visited the quintuplcts at this time, and ex- pressed amazement that either mother or children was alive. But they were, and beginning to. show definite gains.
 While the Ontario highway de- partment was repairing the mud road between Callander and Cor bell to help pr Dafoe's daily trips | to the cottage and insure that he | could make them in bad weather, the doctor was seeing the quintu- plets through their siege of jaun- dice, and they began, to gain weight more consistently.
 l
 New Incubators Installed
 Through the Canadian Red | Cross and Toronto newspaper, new incubators were rushed in, one for each baby-old- fashioned incubators heated by hot water, for modern electric boxes could not be used where there is no ] power. ,a.r And on June g, the 18th day of the quintuplets' lives, they were named: Marie, Yvonne, Emelie, Cecile, and Annette. Marie, tiniest | oL llS UdDeS, SHOWeu uS&IllLe gain in weight on this day for the first time. Three permanent trained nurses went on duty, Ma dame Louise De Kiriline, Marie Anne Cloutier, and Yvonne Le- roux.
 Now Mrs, Dionne for the mo- ment held the attention of Dr Dafoe. On the 18th day she com tracted fever, and for "A hours gave the gravest concern. But she threw 1t off, and withinN AS hours was improving steadily. As the fourth week approached. strong efforts were made to get rid of the binding contract that called for the babies appearance at the Worlds Fair. Medical opinion by now united in the view that 1t would be highly unwise to move them.
 Four Guardians Named
 The tumor on the leg of Marie began to give some concern during the fifth week. Dr Dafoe had no; considered it dangerous, and Marie scarcely minded at all, but spe- cialists were called in for safety's sake. All agreed that radium treatment later would eliminate the growth without any great diff ficulty.
 Efforts were being made now tc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
aphy O Even WeeksOd Canadian Be Written 7H

This story is the second of two appearing exclusively i'm the Waterbury Democrat and other NEA Service newspapers, reveaI- ing what goes on behind the scenes in the Ontario home of the famous Dionne quintuplets, and telling the amazing "life story" of the babies.. Watch the Waterbury Democrat for addi- tional exclusive stories.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
RECEIPTS ISSUED
 FOR PARKING TAGS

So regularly have careless driv- CTS been coming into police head quarters to pay a dollar each for illegal parking that Police Super intendent Joseph H. Mclean has had installed new registering de- vice, enabling the motorist to re- ceive a receipt. A cash register has been in use for the past sew era1 weeks at the police desk and has been kept busy ringing up dol lars from the 15 to 20 drivers who come to pay each day.
 Police are still highly pleased with the results of the recent dic- tums cutting the parking fee from $2 to $1 and making 1t obligatory for everyone to pay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
NATURALISTS PLAN
 FOR FIELD DAY

Members of the Waterbury Nat uralist club will take part in the annual field meet of the Connecti- cut Botanical society on Saturday at Obwebetuck hill, Wfndham. Arthur B. Blewitt of this city is secretary of the Connecticut Botan- ical society and is assisting in mak- ing arrangements for the outing.
 Drunkenness in England has de- creased 50 per cent in the last five years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

recovered her normal health and strength.
 The future, which must have floomed crushingly over them as they looked down on the five tiny forms in. the clothes-basket, now looks hopeful and even rosy to the Dionnes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

''BIDDY" IS IA YEARS OLD
 Belleville, Kan. (UP)-William Hadley's large black hen is the matriarch of fowl flock in repub- lican county. For IA years Hadley has watcheds old "Biddy" age. The hen occasionally lays an egg,
Evening star., 1934-03-12
VOICE OF CARUSO SOARS AGAIN
FROM STAGE OF METROPOLITAN
Opera Coers Sob as They Behold the Costume the
Famous Tenor Wore in "Pagliacci'' and
Hear Recording of ''Vesti la Ciubba."

the master record Of the song played
1t on a phonograph behind q darkened
curtain.
All else during the night was
laughter.
And the hit scene was "She Knew
What She Wanted" satire on that
jade from Judea, Salome.
Herod With Telephones.
Herod sits in his court and tele-
phones John the Baptist to send Sa-
lone up from the cistern. Salome
appears, dances. Huge Lauritz Mel
chior, the Wagnerian tenor, danced
the role. He cavorted. rolled and
plunged about in the Dance Of the
Seven Wells" ~,
What will you have, saly. old
girl?"
Salome whispers. A slave goes into
the we'll Up come the heads Of the
music critics.
Another snappy scene was one OF
the gay COS, a day In Central Park.
Rosa Ponselle. Gladys Swarthout,
Frederick Jagel and Virgilio Lazarri
ride their bicycles round and round
as they sing the quartet from Mar
tha.'
There was Romeo and Juliet inter-
preted in the best modern style by
Charles Hackett and Lillian Clark,
the young American soprano, who
made her debut this year. Juliet Is
a bit incensed over Romeo's way Of
making love. 1t seems he's the big
shot racketeer from out West. Juliet
calls for her hangers-on. They mop
him up" with a machine gun.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE voice
of Caruso scared once again tonight
from the stage Of the Metropolitan
Opera.
It was q tribute to the great Nea-
politan tenor, in the flftieth anniver-
sary surprise party at the Met" the
one serious note In q night Of satire
and hilarity.
The house was darkened The gold
curtains slowly parted. A faint spot
shone on the stage. grew brighter,
disclosed . bass drum, the clowns
cap and robe-the ones used by Ca
ruso many a time on the same stage
in "Pagliacci."
Then the great voice, in the dia-
bolic laugh, the softness, the rise 10
the heights-in "Vesti la Giubba."
The song was ended. The spot
dimmed. The curtains closed For q
moment. there was a scattering Of
applause. But it quickly melted into
business. There were . few audible
sobs. Many eyes glistened.
Farrar in Tears.
Down in the front row, an honor
guest dabbed at her face with her
handkerchief. She was Geraldine
Farrar Many were the times in the
old days she and Csruso brought the
house down.
Up in a grand tier box. q bulky,
gray-haired man stroked his beard in
silence-Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the
general director.
For the tribute. the Metropolitan
had made q special recording from
Evening star., 1934-03-12

among her piano collection a vertical
grand manufactured by John Broad
wood g. Sons of London in 1880.
One Of the rarest among the
stringed instruments is a pocket fiddle
or "pochette. This is tiny stringed
instrument. l6 inches long, beauti-
fully inlaid with ivory and rosewood
and surmounted by a carved salaman-
der's head, which was carried about
by the dancing master in his pocket
$50 years ago.
Also important among these stringed
instruments are certain "viOlas
d'amore" of rare and delicate work.
manship. One beautiful instrument
Is surmounted by the head of blind
folded cupid, There is also an ex-
ample of what is thought to be stradi-
varius' workmanship. It is an in
strument somewhat like a lutte. but
made of the finest woods and with q
carved head.
Indian instruments in Group.
The sarangi and the esraj are rep
resentative of the stringed instru-
ments of India. The sarangi is beau
tifully inlaid with ivory and has IA
sympathetic strings, or strings which
are set in vibration BY the sound Vi
brations from the strings which are
played upon. The esraj has lower
pitch than the sarangi and is a curl
Gus boxlike instrument which the In
dians sat cross-legged on the floor to
play.
An unusually beautiful stringed in
strument in the collection is the. lira
gIitarre. which is $50 years old.
There is also an Italian lutte guitar.
200 years old, and harp guitar with
a design of gold leaf on the back.
about 100 years old.
Flute in Cane.
Another relic OF the dancing mas
ter's equipment is the flute in a cane,
curious old instrument which the
master used as walking stick be-
tween classes and on which he ac-
companied his pupils. The small pipe
organ was made in this country about
100 years ago by j. D. Nutter and is
an interesting specimen of the small
pipe organ used In the home In those
days.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
A|RPLANE ENGINE
PRICE GAP PROBED
McCarI's Figures Show Wide
Difference Between Army
and Navy Figures.
Rx the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A wide difference in prices paid by
the Army and Navy for airplane en-
gines was disclosed today. Con-
gressional Investigators started q hunt
for the cause of the gap.
Representatives Of both services had
estimated the average cost at around
s6 900 per motor. A statement by j.
r. McCarl, the controller general,
emphatically disagreed with that
figure.
since July, 1926, showed the War De-
partment paid an average of s6,691
for 4,245 engines. while the Navy's
average cost was s8,793 for 3,158 en-
gines.
The Investigators were trying. also.
to find out why two Army engines
which were bought on competitive
bids cost an average of 81 1913, while
103 obtained by the Navy. also on
competitive bids, cost Sl1 1882.
There were some differences In the
engines, the investigators agreed. but
they still wanted more information" I"
Rush Orders" Puzzle.
A puzzle over rush orders" put
through in the last days Of the Hoover
administration was growing even
more puzzling to House committee
men.
The Investigators had new tabu-
lation from McCarl of $4,000 600
worth of Army planes contracted for
in the three months just before Presi-
dent Roosevelt took office.
This showed that from January II,
1888, through February %, contracts
for $50 engines and 1876 airplanes
costing SO, ,405, l72 were let by the War
Department. The Navy had no con-
tracts during this period
OF these, only a Sl4l4227 contract
let to the Boeing Airplane Co. on jan
uary II for 1876 airplanes was held
by the controller to have been COM
petitive.
The other contracts. which McCarl
ruled we're not competitive, follow:
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation,
10 planes, February 81. 1888. s6l5S63;
Curtiss Airplane g. Motor Co. Inc
plane. February 2l. $4,000 and
IS planes. February 81, s946,791;
Douglas Aircraft Co. Inc, "a planes.
February %. s440. .304, and 6 planes,
February %. s292,Ol3: Glenn L. Mar
tin Co.. 40 planes, January II,
S2,440 605.
Pratt e. whitney Aircraft Co., 3 en-
gines, February 4, s633l4; 255 en-
gines, February 4, s1.251,962: en-
gines, February 7, S12,551; 20 engines,
February l6, $3.50 ,899; "a engines, Feb
ruary 28. sll3.133.
Wright Aeronautical Corporation. 2
engines, January Q. sl5085; 3 en-
gines. January II. $4,000; 50 engines,
February |. s45l444 64 engines Feb
ruary "a, $50 800: 90 engines, Febru-
AIRY 28, s585.67l.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
BANK BANDITS GET
$4,000 IN KANSAS
Atchison Police Chief Serl.
ousIy Wounded by Four
Machine Gunners.
Ey the Associated Press.

L
ATCHISON, Kans., March Ia
-Four machine gun bandits robbed the
Exchange National and Exchange
State Banks of approximately s2l 900
here today, shot and wounded Chief
of Police Willard Lnville and fed
With nine bank employees as hostages,
all of whom were released later.
Ed Iverson, cashier of the Exchange
State Bank, was beaten on the head
during the hOld-up and fell from the
robbers car as 1t sped out Of the city.
He suffered fractured skull.
The two banks. associate institu-
tions, are located in the same build
ing.
Miss Addie Mattocks, Miss Mary
Low and George Wolf, assistant CASH
ier of the Exchange National Bank,
we're the last of the hostages freed.
They we're released "a miles south of
here.
Chief Linville, who had been warned
the robbery was in progress, was
struck down by burst OF machine
gun fire across the street from the
bank. He had attempted to draw his
gun. Six bullets hit him and his con-
dition was reported critical
The bandits, who forced entrance
to the bank by knocking the lock off
side door, waited inside as employees
arrived. A porter Sam Overstreet,
got a glimpse of the strangers from
the outside and telephone a warning
to police.
To protect themselves the bandits
lined up nine persons on the running
board of their car They had Iverson,
Hugh Cavanaugh, Ed Mattocks, John
Baker, Miss Gertrude Weinman, Miss
Mattocks, Pat Hansen, Wolfe and
Miss Low.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
DEMOCRATIC LEADER
FEARED KIDNAPPING
Testimony at Strewl Trial Brings
Out Belief of Dan
0'Connell.

By the Associated Press
ALBANY, N. Y, March 12-Testi-
mony was introduced today at the
trial OF Nanny Strewl. purporting to
show that Dan O'Connen, Democratic
political leader, believed he was to
have been kidnapped last Summer,
Louis Snyder, an Albany attorney,
whom Strewl asked to advise him in
the negotiations with the kidnapers of
Lieut.. John J. O'Connell, jr., testified
Dan OConnell told him:
you know I can't 60 to New York,
I'm the man who was to be kidnapped.
Snyder testified for Strewl, accused
Of kidnapping Lieut.. OConnell, nephew
Of Dan
Strewl had insisted Dan accompany
him to New York for the final act the
payment Of $4,000 ransom and re-
covery Of the boy.
Snyder also said Strewl had been
warned by the gang that If the ram
som was not paid by July 29 the
young lieutenant was to be killed.
II told Dan that Strewl had re-
ceived threat that the feeding Of
the boy would be stopped on Saturday
July 29)," declared Snyder, land
after then John would be given
poison"
Evening star., 1934-03-12
LUMBER CODE VIOLATORS
WILL BE PUNISHED
Directors of Hardwood Manufac-
turers' Institute Meet to
Plan Enforcement.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March I2.-
Drastic punishment for future viola
tors of the lumber code was predicted
last night on the eve of a meeting
of directors Of the Hardwood Manu-
faoturers' Institute. Inc.
Directors of the institute. the di-
visional agency of the Lumber Code
Authority, Inc, are meeting here today
to take steps toward immediate en-
forcement of penal provisions of the
code.
F R. Gadd. in charge of enforce
ment Of the lumber code in the II
States Of the Southern and Appala-
chan regions. said he will make
detailed report of violations. after
which he will start prosecution of the
firms involved.
The code provides for fine Of $500
a day for each day the code is vio-
lated Other penalties include peni-
tentiary sentences.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
Army Air Corps
Plots Safe Route
To Reduce Deaths

Army Air Corps ofricials today
plotted . route from Newark,
N. j., to San Francisco as the
backbone Of q codified airmail
system designed to cut the high
death toll suffered by military
pilots
Other Army airmail lines tenta-
lively decided upon, all of which
will be flown as fair.weather
routes and on reduced schedules.
include:
Boston to New York, New York
to jacksonville, Washington to
Atlanta. Chicago to Dallas via
St. Louis and Kansas City, Salt
Lake City to San Diego. Salt
Lake City to Seattle. Cheyenne
to Denver.
Others may be added by the
time the Army resumes flying
the mail, probably Wednesday or
Thursday.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
0FFUTT TO ADDRESS A. U.
HEIGHTS CITIZENS BODY
Other Two Members of A. B. C..
Board to Be Guests Of Meet
ing Wednesday Night.

George w. Ofutt, jr., chairman Of
the Alcohol Beverage Control Board,
will be the principal speaker at the
regular monthly meeting Of the Amer
lean University Heights Citizens Asso-
citation 10 be held Wednesday night
at Hurst Hall on the American Uni
versity campus.
The other two members Of the A.
B. c. Board. Mrs. William Beverly Ma
son and Isaac Cans. will be guests OF
the association at the meeting.
Capt Dick" Mansfield Of No.
police precinct. we'll known as a car
toonist, will entertain with a chalk
talk" and there will be musical Sc
lections by Mrs Vera Nealv Ross, con-
tralto, and l0-year-old Welton Men
dlesohn. hoy baritone"