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THE IXDIAXAFOLIS STAR, MONDAY, JULV 30, 1934. Vti KNOW it's my son; dillincer tells his audiences LIVE POWER puts RHINO on the run! Cecil DeMille Proud of Bathtub Myth, His Contribution to Humanity Of course, the Rhino lost his sulk The minute Live Power hit his hulk But we'd not dreamt he'd try to fly! In fact, were planning, on the sly. To let this low-slung Jungle Goop SCREEN ODDITIES AND FACTS Pretend he was a Rhino-coupe! Settles Question of Identity as Kin of Desperado Appear on Lyric Stage J- BY CORBIX PATRICK. THE STAGE VERSION of the Dillinger post mortem was held at the first time in any theater. An business" received the fifteen-mln-elosest kin with silence and sym- I tj a.

With tapered head and heavy tread (But Live Power made him light, instead With horn for radiator cap (But he's too gay to close his yap!) Just shows you what Live Power can do! Red Crown gives crj more pick-up too. TtO MStLV lOttaS PttC-BOSeC MO tM SUBPttttt) i lb WHO mMrVCLF CAT A REV HEAL DODO WtWONC MIS 305 CHM KoUKUMef PSTOOF iira-uMno rurutcrtuqoi COBtCC. BY LEICESTER WAG NEB. HOLLYWOOD, July Today we'll discuss bathtubs and "yes-men," particularly the DeMille brand. The bathtub and DeMille have been friends for a long: time.

The noted director claims that DeMille coat of arms carries the head of a girl emerging from a wooden gadget which looks exactly like a bathtub. Maybe that's where it got its start. As to "yes-men," perhaps you recall that famous cartoon in Life. Assistants were fleeing in every direction. A building was falling.

People lay on the ground in fright. DeMille was standing on a platform staring at a tiny figure that was saying "No!" Part of legend. The "yea-man" is as much a part of the DeMille legend as the bathtub. They go hand in hand, or foot in tub. How did that "bathtub" myth develop? I asked DeMille.

Here's his answer: "I was early interested In bathtubs. They were made of tin with wooden casing; a sort of summer resort for cockroaches. It was Impossible to get underneath them to clean. The cockroaches held meetings there for years. Finally, to get rid of that they put a door in it.

But instead of keeping the place clean, they put everything they did not need under the bathtub. Tou could tell who had been sick thirty years before by the old medicine bottles. How It Started. "I thought it should be more beautiful, so we decided to take a block Standard Red Crown Superfuel gallon at no extra cost at all used in a picture waa designed by Paul Iribie and water came out from the sides and bottom instead of the old-fashioned shower with all the holes stopped up but one. My bathtubs have not been the work of carpenters and plumbers they have been the work of artists.

'Forbidden Fruit' with Wallace Reid and Cleo Ridgiey. in 1914, mas the first picture in which I used a bathtub. When the public saw these baths in little towns where they did not read Harper's Bazaar, they saw what you could do with a bathroom and they became bathroom conscious. "No, I've never been annoyed by the publicity of the bathroom myth. I am rroud of it To have changed a novel into a palace is an achievement "Tea-Man" Fallacy.

"I think I have done as much for humanity as has Pasteur." Now as to the origination of the "yes-man" idea: "The belief I was responsible for the 'yes-man' gag is fallacious. I have enjoyed the criticism of it The only truth in connection with that is that I must be right most of the time. The danger is that a man might try to show me that he is not a yes-man, and agree with me when I am not right. "Two or three men have lost out, not because they said but because they should have said It's silly to conceive of a man that says 'yes' to everything. The reason for my so-called yes-men is that they know more about their various jobs than I do.

I could not design a bathtub, but I know when they are good and when they are bad. The yes-man legend is unfortunately not even founded on fact." the Lyric yesterday afternoon for audience which represented "good te offering of the late outlaw'! Pithy. inly once did it interrupt the interview with applause, when the mild-mannered father, asked why he had refused numerous offeri to exhibit the body of his bandit son. replied with rising voice and a vigorous gesture: "You can't get money enough to have me do that" -John Dillinger his son Hubert sfno. his daughter and son-in-law, Mr.

and Mrs. Emmett Hancock, stood by ev microphone and talked as they would to their neighbors at Moores-ville or Maywood of the boy who was always welcome home no matter what he had done. The spokesman for the audience was W. C. Gilbert," a professional entertainer, who asked them in turn creations which probably were uppermost in the minds of those present They had read most of the answers many times in the newspapers, but the' simple, unaffected feeling with which the members of the family told their little stories seemed to make up for any lack of novelty in the subject matter.

Sets Sumor at Best. The act of the dramatic Dillingers came to a climax when the interlocutor turned to the old man and wanted to know if it really was his On that they buried in Crown Hill cemetery Wednesday afternoon. The whence, aware of loose rumors that the so-called "Public Enemy No. 1" Was not the victim of Federal guns in the Chicago trap, sat still and attentive. "1 know it's my son," the elderly MOTIOX PICTTRE THEATERS.

TffllAV TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY lUUnl AND THURSDAY ONLY! ON STAGE IN PERSON! JOHN DILLU SR. AND MEMBERS OF MS FAMILY INCLUDING Want to Buy a Bear? Broad Ripple Doesn't Know What to Do With Zoo offers you more LIVE POWER pet Standard Oil Stations and Dm1 LINDEN, PAUL LUKAS IN VICKI BAUM'S I (GIVE mm SEXSATIONAL DRAMA BT HIS SON HUBERT, HIS DAUGHTER MRS. AUDREY HANCOCK AND HER HUSBAND Hear From Their Own Lips Incidents In the Life of the Late John Dillinger Jr. and of His Visit to the Kindly Old Father's Home April 8, When the Entire Nation Was Searching for Him! ON SCREEN WYNNE GIBSON ERIC THE A AUTHOR OF "GRAND HOTEL ADDED FEATURES MENTONE MUSICAL NOVELTY, "SUPPER AT SLX" OSWALD CA RTOOX- HOLLYWOOD NEWS REEL it Their stage presence seems perfectly natural. Unlike so many beginners at the business, they seem to have no trouble in finding a place for their hands.

Mr. Dillinger tells his audience that he decided to accept the stage offer because of expenses incidental to burying his son. He freely admits that he finds his experience interesting, but adds with a half aigh; "I'd rather be in the shade of the big maple tree down on my After the second show yesterday afternoon, the Dillinger family adjourned to the corner drug store for refreshments. The audience leaving the theater made little comment on the performance. But one elderly gentleman of an obviously kindly disposition was heard to say to his companion: "I hope they make good." The Lyric't Bill.

It li a question, of course, whether such an exhibition belongs in the theater. We feel lbt it is not legitimate entertainment. It is perfectly normal and natural that the family should preserve a feeling of loyalty and affection toward the departed son and brother no matter what his offense may have been, but it does not seem to us to be good policy to encourage the public to share that sentiment. It is possible to sympathize with the family without approving of their presence on the stage. Extent for a lingering morbid in terest in everything associated with the late outlaw, there would be no call for their appearance in public.

The performance, of course, can not be judged by the usual standard! oi criticism. It must be taken for what it is, a curiosity, or not at ajl. The picture on the Lyric screen, I Give Mv Love," is a drama of maternal aacriflce in which Wynne Gibson gives a sincere and effective performance, comparaoie io ner previous success in "The Strange Case of Clara Deane." While the heroine languishes in prison lor a killing which the court refused, to believe was accidental, her young son is brought up to believe that sne is dead and to worship her as an ideal. When she is released, he tem-permentally refuses to accept her as his step-mother and she disappears. Years later, the boy, now an artist, engages a life-beaten old woman he sees on the street to pose for a picture he will call "Defeat." He learns her true identity in time to appreciate her greatness of heart and change the title to "Sacnnce." Engaging performances are given by Paul Lukes, as the steadfast fjiend of this unfortunate heroine, and Eric Linden as the grown-up son.

It is a moderate melodrama of the 'Madame school. I PLAN PRAISED CONCLUDED FBOM PAGE ONE. have the workers pay for their homes and land. That ia just. I do not think it will entail any great burden upon the government over a period of years.

These projects should pay for themselves. I (eel. too, that private industry will be willing to decentralise. There are obvious advantages; advantages that keen business men will not overlook. And I do not think that cheaper wages is one of these advantages.

'I believe also that government supervision will be necessary for a long time, but government supervise ion is not government ownership. 'I know the President interest in this movement and his ideas for its future. And with them I concur. SECRET AGENTS PUN TO MAKE OTTO KING LUCERNE, Switzerland, July 29. () A mysterious meeting of po litical agents, said to be planning the restoration of the Austro-Hun-garian monarchy and to place Arch duke Otto on the throne, was re ported to have been held at Vitznau, near Lucerne, over the week-end, The secrecy with which the agents were supposed to have met prevented a confirmation of the report, but it was said that foreign powers Inter ested in restoring the Hapsburg monarchy sent representatives to Vitznau.

Army Colonel Calls Meeting. It was reported that the meeting was brought together by Col. Randa of the Austrian army; Felix Dunkel, an Austrian Monarchist, and Count Hojos, a Hungarian Monarchist who is an intimate friend of Prince Otto. Plans to take advantage of Austria's political uncertainty for the return of Otto either to Vienna or to the Austrian Tyrol were reported to have been under discussion. The Monarchists were believed by certain foreign agents to be preparing a campaign to win the support of Premier Mussolini of Italy to a restoration movement.

Storm Striket Nevada Village; Lost $10,000 LAS VEGAS, July a town of 200 on the Boulder Dam highway, eight miles from here, estimated damages at $10,000 today from a small tornado which struck last night. No one was injured. Four cabins and a service station were picked up, carried about twenty feet and stacked in a heap against a water tower. EDITOR FOUND KILLED. HOLDENVILLB, July B.

Phillips 23 years old, managing editor of the Holderivllle Daily News, died today a short time after he was found wounded in his office, a pistol In his hands. Associates said he apparently was in normal condition last night when he "made up" the paper and went home. HOIS nil jf a II ALWAVS CARRIES A ME.OL i wOW IM A OCBATMG CONTEST WMH ATTENDING A CONVENT IN death and It Is a cinrh that we can not afford to feed them," Manager Bennett explained. Willlnr to Board. "We do not know of any one who would be willing to board some bears during the winter months, or any of the other hungry brutes who have been purchased at fancy prices some years ago.

The city disposed of its zoo some time ago, I understand, in order to save the taxpayers' money, but we do not seem to be successful in getting bidders on the animals." So the question of putting the animals "out of their misery'1 or what to do with them is causing the management plenty of lost sleep to say nothing of the hot weather troubles. The park has one of the most complete zoos in the state. elated Press, explains in part the widespread apprehension in Austria today. Fey Was to Receive Poet. The list, drawn up by those who raided the Ballhausplatz and shot down Dollfuss, named Kurt Rintelen as chancellor, Emil Fey as vice chancellor, Konstantin Kammerhofer as minister of defense, Franz Wink-, ler as minister of agriculture, Franz Meyszner as minister of the interior and Walter Pflriemer at minister of justice.

Rintelen Wednesday was still Austria's minister to Italy. Fey at present is a minister without portfolio and commissar for extraordinary security measures. Winkler was formerly Dollfuss' vice chancellor, and Pfiriemer led the Styrian Heimwehr In the so-called "comic opera putsch" of September, 1931. Meyszner Is director of the Graz radio station. Intended for Von Papen Role.

There is not the slightest evidence that Fey played his role as intermediary between the invaders of the Ballhausplatz and outside authorities Wednesday under anything but the compulsion of the pistols of the putschists. The fact that they wanted him to become their vice chancellor, however, was regarded as an explanation of why they did not kill him at the same time they disposed of Dollfuss. Observers Intimately acquainted with the "purge of blood" in Germany June 30 exclaimed on seeing the Cabinet list of the putschists that "Fey apparently was to be invited to become another Franz von Papen." It was recalled that the fate of von Papen in Germany long trembled in the balance after the suppression of the German revolt. In repeated appearances on the balcony of the chancellery Wednesday Fey ordered the government's armed forces to make no hostile move. Asked for Dr.

PAriemer. Then he asked that Rintelen be brought, and when he failed to ap pear the invaders finally ordered, though Fey tnat Dr. Pfiriemer be escorted into the chancellery. A photograph of the 1931 Heim wehr putschists, before this correspondent as this is being written, further illustrates the complications of a situation bristling with rumor, suspicions, fears, bitterness and sud den alarms. The photograph shows Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, now head of the government, but then a Heimwehr leader outside the government Another in the photograph is Dr.

Pflriemer, the instigator of the 1931 putsch and the man wanted Wednesday by the putschists when Rintelen failed to appear. Another is Kammerhofer, leader of the pro-Nazi Styrian Heimwehr and leader of the Nazi fighting forces in Styria last week. Still another is Egon Berger Waldenegg, at present minister of justice under von Starhemberg. Was to March to Support. Kammerhofer' part in last week's action, according to his friends who are still outside jail, was to have been to march on Vienna from Styria to support Rintelen against any counter putsch.

Meyszner task it was stated, was to organize the raid on the radio station. Franz Rauter, who fled to Munich long before the putsch, was expected, according to well-informed quarters, to send the Austrian Nazi legion into Austria from Bavaria. The invasion, except for the uncontrolled action of a few groups, did not materialize. Some of the disorders of the last twenty-four hours have been bloody encounters between bodies of government troops mistaking each other for Nazi revolters. An exchange of machine gun fire between government forces at Graz last night is still unexplained, but three persons were killed.

Another skirmish at a Graz suburb which lasted more than an bour was due to a nervous misunderstanding A garrison of over-fatigued Helm-wehrmen opened fire on a detachment of government troops marching up to relieve them. (Copyright ltM, by Um AiMcletita Preii of marble and design the tub aftes me noman pool, me nrst bathtub i DILLIIfflW Asserts Youth Being Injured by "Foolish, Morbid Sensationalism." Selfish Interests were scored for commercialization of the career of John Dillinger by the Rev. Richard M. Millard, pastor of the Broadway M. E.

Church, in his sermon on "Daring to Be a Daniel" yesterday morning. He disapproved of the Dillinger family appearing on a local theater stage to tell their version of the life and death of America's bad man No. l. "Just at present our youth Is being irreparably injured by an endless mass of foolish, morbid sensationalism," he said. "Distinct values of life are being endangered by the propaganda of selfish interests which tend to unbalance youth In its standards regarding real worth while living.

Sensationalism Not Ended. "The forward-looking citizens of this state have been patient and long suffering concerning sensationalim while the career of a notorious criminal has been kept before the public for recent months. "The public haa been much in sympathy with the family in its repeated and apparently sincere requests for privacy. Many sighs of relief have been heard in recent days in hopes that the whole episode in our state has at last come to a close. But, alas, we are now informed in our public press that the much longed-for change in front page sensationalism, endless pictures of crime and its environment is not to be enjoyed.

"Instead, it is reported that within a week, following the end of this pathetic career, that the whole family will be seen on the stage, keeping this checkered chapter and history before those who are morbid and who are seeking sensation. Deplores "Victimizing" of Family. "Is it wise and fair for institutions of industry in our community to victimize this family which has gone through deepest sorrow in order to add to ticket office receipts and subscription returns? above all, this family which has had the confidence and sympathy of the public can- not afford to commercialize the unfortunate experiences of their own inner circle. "We have had enough. Additional information and foolish entertain ment on this deplorable incidence that will not be a permanent asset to American culture and to the inner powers and ideals of youth.

If travel and debt are to be paid. by relating this grewsome story, wnat about the interests of seventeen families who have lost loved ones as a result of- this checkered career? And shall any consideration be given to its cost of several million dollars of the taxpayers of our country? Cites Huge Crime Cost, "The crime problem In America, with its annual cost of $13,000,000,000, and with an armed underworld, said to number in size our army and navy, is too serious either to be played with or be made a source of revenue for private industry. "In the name of the youth of Indiana and for the sake of the good name of our fair state, I protest against the continuation of this sensationalism and call for active church building, a turning to the pursuits of true culture, the exemplification of the life transforming power of vital religion and the belief in and obedience to the great good God which are among the imperative needs of this disturbed and sad hour." STREAM OF CIRIOCS AT GRAVE. It is a safe bet that more persons saw John Dillinger's grave in Crown Hill cemetery yesterday than saw John Dillinger Sr. and his family at a downtown theater yesterday.

Nobody would give an estimate, but employes of the cemetery and police assigned to the job of keeping the morbidly curious crowds in good order said that the line of traffic had been almost steady since the ceme tery had been opened at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. Wallace Duke, an employe who had been trans ferred to traffic duty, said that he saw automobiles from nearly every state in the middle West and from a number of Easten states. Besides the flood of Indiana cars, there were many from Ohio, Illinois. Michigan, Kentucky and other states near Indiana, he said. He said the crowd was "larger than on decoration day." Five employes and two Indian apolis policemen directed the curious visitors, when drawn out concern ins the status of a civilization that would send thousands to visit an MILL RAPS farmer replied without hesitation.

"rwish to the Lord Almighty that It wasn't." Mr. Dillinger, Hubert and Mrs. Hancock all related incidents of Johnny's visit to his father's farm the- week-end of April 8, while he was the object of the greatest manhunt in the history of the nation. "I certainly was glad to see him," aid Mr. Dillinger, who could recall no particular conversation that they had.

"John came home on Thursday night (April 5)." Hubert said, "but I didn't know it until Friday. Father toak me by the arm and said he had a 'surprise for me. We went into thT kitchen, but 1 saw nothing. John said and stepped from behind a door. He acted just like he always did." Scorned Caution, That America's most-sought-after man did not seem particularly concerned about the fact that the place was being watched day and night wtW confirmed by Mrs.

Hancock. It wasn't until Saturday, she said, that ''(e-knew John had come home, and ah hurried from her house in May-wood to Mooresville to see him. "When I got there he was lying oit'the davenport reading a maga-cine, alone in the living room. I was happy never knew whether I'd ever see him alive again." She told about the famous Sunday chicken dinner. "The memory of that day will always be in my heart.

I'll never for-ge it," she declared, her voice chok-inffwlth emotion, "My brother," she said, "was a great lover of children." Mr. Hancock, it seems, was In charge of the family's press relations during the hectic days of the bandit's last home-coming. "Johnny was like my own son," he announced as he told of his contacts with the fourth estate. "The newspaper men weren't so bad," he said, "but the cameramen acted as if they weren't even civilized." We understand that Mr. Hancock's remarks on this score were censored In final rehearsal yesterday morning.

He told how he had forcibly ejected one cameraman who was bound to get a picture of the departed in the coffin. "It was a very sabred thing to us," he explained. k- "Model Prisoner." Mr. Hancock reported that among those who visited the house at May' wood before the funeral was one man who said that he was a guard and had been in charge of Johnny for six years at Michigan City. The geerd, he said, told him that JflTnny "was a model prisoner.

But one thing not for his own good, he was too tight-mouthed. He wouldn't saV anything. He took the rap many a time for another fellow." They made no apologies for Jdltnny. He was not at the bar of justice In his own family circle. Mr.

Dillinger described the "fan irAfl he has received of late, and displayed occasional faint flashes of a sense or. numor appropriate 10 me Stage. "Everybody knew I had a birth' dav yesterday," he said. "'How old were you," asked the Interlocutor. -'I'd better not tell," replied the 70-year-old father.

The audience smiled. The Dillingers are taking seriously to their new. if temporary, calling, Manager Ted Nicholas of the Lyric declares. Mr. Dillinger is his own severest recognizes his mistakes and plans to "improve his per-fottnance.

IThis is our home town," he plains, "and we want to make a good showing." They Learn Fast. Yhey are learning fast, and the routine was being strengthened at each show yesterday afternoon. The family is appearing six times a day be'tween presentations of the Lyric's Dicture. If they reit any nervous ness at appearing before an audience for. the first time, they didn't show Weather Summary IVKt M.

Weather. Low. High. Pre. Amarllln I 88 84 84 84 92 8 Atlanta Bofeton Cloudy Buffalo Clear Chicago Cloudy Cleveland Clear Pitflaa Clear Dver Clear DtflOth Clear Edmonton Clear EvahivllU) Clear KantiM City LoTAngelei Mtaml Cloudy Mlsueapolis Clear New Orleans Cloudy New Tork Cloudy Oklahoma City Clear Omaha PltUburgh Cloudy .10 98 90 4 90 90 104 90 8 T4 88 80 ioa 88 88 76 7 It 88 98 100 72 92 92 88 82 72 88 .83 .20 Portland, Ore.

Clear Prince Albert QuIAppelle Rapid OH mU Oitv Clear Bait City Clear San Antonio Baa Francleco Clear Bault Ste. Marie Rain Bpekane Clear Tampa Cloudy Toledo Clear Waihlngton .50 .64 3 02 Winnipeg uiwr Yellowstone Park Clear Note Amounts of precipitation of leas thaw .61 Inch are not recorded. Obeerva- IAaa tafean p. Weather Bureau I efflett. outlaw's grave, one policeman leaned back and gave the following bit of philosophical information: "People are about like they used to be.

We say we go ahead, but I don't know. We drive automobiles now instead of horses, but we get to the same places. It looks about the same to me, except that we go faster now. People are about the same as they used to be, seems to me. I can't see any improvement." BERLIN HEARS BERLIN, July 29.

Reports originating in Czechoslovakia that Italy, France and possibly England are considering a joint demarche to the Hitler government, alleging implication and responsibility in the Austrian crisis, filtered into Berlin tonight. From Munich came even stronger reports regarding Italy's attitude. Well-informed sources there said Italy will demand dissolution of Hitler's storm troops and the Schutz Staffel, black-shirted, picked guards. It was said Italy's demarche will take the form of a sharp note demanding an answer within forty-eight hours. Mussolini Sends Instructions.

Mussolini, it was understood in Munich, has instructed his ambassadors to notify the interested powers of his intention and to suggest to them that Nazii organizations such as the storm troops are a constant menace to Austria's independence. The Hitler government, meanwhile, continued to concentrate its energies on its international reputation, through word and act. There was no attempt to conceal the fact that Austria's delay in accept Franz von Papen, former German chancellor, as Hitler's appointee to the Austrian ambassadorship was causing uneasiness in Wilhelm-strasse. Von Papen Ready to Go. Von Papen is ready to proceed to Vienna as soon as Austria is ready to accept him.

He was reported today to be in further conference with Chancellor Hitler at Bayreuth, in southern Germany, a peaceful little town which has become an impromptu political theater. Prussian Premier Hermann Wil-helm Goering and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels were likewise believed to have conferred privately with Hitler' during the day. The propaganda ministry took occasion to deny that the German-Austrian border again had been closed from the German side, claiming that it was only "rigorously patrolled." There Is also evidence of a determination to combat all suspicion of direct communication with the Austrian Nazis in Austria. Reports of fighting at the border In which the rcichswehr, or regular German army, was involved had no verification. The mouthpiece of Foreign Minister von Neurath, published in Munich (the Frankfurt Zeitung), eaid today that "any demarche in Berlin by those powers purporting to be Austria's special guardians will be absolutely futile." VIENNA.

July 29. tension in Austria appeared tonight to have found its way into Germany. Shortly after 10 o'clock an Associated Priss representative called on long distance telephone to the home in Bayrr-uth where Cnancellor Hitler is staying. Tell me what's doing in Austria, was the immediate demand from a close friend of the chancellor. "We get all sorts of alarming rumors.

We understand that people wno favor our point of view are simply shot down Wherever fighting occurs we understand orders to Federal troops and auxiliaries are to take no prisoners and give no quarter. 'One man came through with a story so alarming that we want to check up on it." Pressed to reveal from what sec tion of Austria the informant came, Hitler's friend replied, "from Carinthia, where we understand things are worst Far Earthquake Severe, Seismograph Indicate WASHINGTON, July 29. -Georgetown University's seismograph today showed a "severe" earthquake 4,000 miles northwest of here beginning at 3:46:19 p. m. (Central standard time), yesterday, and ending at 7 p.

m. The maximum intensity was reached at 5: p. m. DEMARCHE DUE Will the animals of Broad Ripple park's zoo be put on the spot victims of some expert marksman? This is the question which has arisen before the management of the park on account of a dilemma about what disposition will have to be made of them. This part of the big amusement park has never been a profitable venture for the animals "eat their heads off," and efforts to sell the animals have not been successful, according to Ralph L.

Bennett, park manager. The management of the park can not afford to keep the animals during the closed season of the park, and it can not afford to feed the "critters." "While we have to think of shooting the animals, It would be more humane than to let them starve to Austria Fearful, Cabinet Changed CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE. thrown or fell out of a fourth-story window at police headquarters. Bristling bayonets and bullet-proof ahutters made a fortress of the central police station. Steel-helmeted police officers were rushed to strategic spots by motor cycle.

Automobiles, parked close together, made an Improvised barricade for the Heimwehr headquarters in Renngasse. The officer who tumbled from the window, authorities revealed, was an inspector who participated personally in the raid on the chancellery Wednesday in which Chancellor Doll-fuss was assassinated. Hay stacks just back of the picturesque Cobenzl Hotel on heights overlooking Vienna were set on fire. It was first reported that the hotel was burned, but it was ascertained it was not touched by the flames. Police patrols started to scrutinize carefully all persons moving about in the city.

On Maria Hilfer strasse police held up many persons, especially young men, demanding to see their identification papers. Strong guards were thrown about all public buildings, Some officers explained to pedestrians that the unusual commotion was merely a "trial alarm." Power Stations Dynamited, There were isolated skirmishes in the provinces. Several power stations were dynamited. But artillery and machine guns of the federal army and the heimwehr apparently had battered down the opposition In Styria, Carinthia and other provinces where bitter fighting has resulted, according to various estimates, in the death and injury of four thousand since the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss last Wednesday, Meanwhile, sources close to the government indicated today that the probabilities of Austria's accepting Franz von Papen as minister from Germany are growing increasingly slim. Needs Unanimous Vote.

It was pointed out that the acceptance of von Papen, whose Intercession was looked to by many to restore cordial relations between Austria and Germany, must receive the unanimous vote of the Austrian Cabinet A single Cabinet member could make the German vice chancellor persona non grata to Austria. The latest word from the German legation was that no decision by Austria is expected before the end of the week. May Impose Certain Conditions. It was suggested in some quarters that von Papen may be accepted with certain conditions. One, it was believed, may be a demand for the dissolution of the Austrian Nazi legion in Bavaria.

It was reported that the Italian legation Is bringing pressure to bear to prevent an unconditional acceptance of von Papen. The attitude of Ballhausplatz toward von Papen contrasted strongly with its opinion of him June 30 when there was an impression among Austrian officials that he might succeed Hitler as the German chancellor. At that time a hopeful atmosphere prevailed and it was pointed out that von Papen was an influential Cath-olio and a friend of Austria, Brings Change of Viewpoint. The change In viewpoint is attributed to the fact that von Papen now is offered as a Hitler appointee. The newspapers here today published an address by Propaganda Chief Adams in which von Papen was Indirectly implicated in the anti-Austrian expressions of the German press following the death of Chancellor Dollfuss.

One glance at the list of the Cabinet proposed by the sponsors of last week's putsch, obtained by the Asso- II II PI 1 wfjlff It Love and Laughs PARIS INTERLUDE Gay M-G-M ffomanca wtth MADGE EVANS ROBT.YOUNG TJNA MERKKL-TED HEALY-OITO KRIOM LAUREL HARDY CABTOON-NEWB Storft Friday JEAN HARLOW I'RANCHOT TONE Lionel Bsrrrmor "GIRL FROM MISSOPBI" AMUSEMENTS. INDIANAPOLIS AFTERNOON TllOtt 31 AND NIGH July OM Bmll Park, Wctl Wuhlmctoa B. rhe Greatest Show Ca Etrtk ALL KEY THIS TEAK fax Eisca THAN EVCT THE MOST COLOSSAL EXHIBITION! Mammoth Entertainment! ami Terrific New Semiatte In the History ef tfce WerM) IMS tmflt SWAfWh OimIi Clmi I Mm MiaatCT Aaiaab-i Utt al BwtoM- Hmt-I Itimttmltlttf MSW1 Si ig C.ii wrW UfM Tnt TniM S. SJ Cn m4 WON PBSl IM EVBlT Twice fgrS DOORS OPEN 1. 7 P.

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Tucker, Star. tar vtvmc II li. riAJilfS IN THE OID- HSBIOHEDffl? CHICAGO, July 29. police department announced today that the surgeon who revamped the widely-advertised features of slain John Dillinger was a former convict. They withheld his name because they understood he was already in the custody of Federal agents.

The surgeon, officers said they had learned, was paroled from the state penitentiary at Joliet two years ago after serving a sentence for a criminal operation. They said he had been associated with the Described as "a wizard with the knife," he was linked by police with James Probasco, who leaped to his death last week from the Chicago bureau of the Department of Jus tice after agents had accused him of permitting the surgeon to lift the faces of nulinger and his comrade, Homer VanMeter, at Probasco's North side home. Refuse to Discuss Status. Government operatives refused to discuss the status of the persons they have seized in their drive to corral Dillinger gangsters still at large. These include the unidentified doctor; Polly Hamilton Keele, the slain outlaw's last sweetheart, and Mrs.

Ann Sage, who was with the Indianian when he was shot down. Police, pursuing an' independent campaign to bag the gunmen, have taken three former inmates of the Indiana state prison at Michigan City Joe Parker. Lawrence Strufe and Harry Forrester as possible sources or Information that would place them on the desperadoes' trail. NOTED ENGINEER DIES. GREAT NECK, N.

July 29. tfl John F. O'Rourke, 79 years old, engineer who built the tubes of the Pennsylvania and Long Island railroads under the Hudson and East rivers and who also made the of Los Angeles harbor, died today, All WW 'M- sr vmm I THE greatest thrlHs v) spectacle ever made jil JChere comes a 1 THE MAVYiTJ JAMES CAONET 1 FATOBBIEir ylA GLORIA STUART I 1 VlSj SSI FRANK McHTJOH VK' COOTBT rSkiT I crrow DILLINGER SURGEON IS FORMER CONVICT.

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