Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1929 — Page 5

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REVOLT ROCKS THRONE UNDER RULER Downfall of Alfonso XIII Impends, as De Rivera Loses Grip. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.. Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—The dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera, the Spanish Mussolini, is in grave danger and, by the same token, America’s favorite king, Alfonso XIII, is wobbling on his throne. Spain is seething with revolt, armed where the revolutionists ware to raise a violent hand against the regime, and moral where they do not. Nor has the army revolt, begun last Tuesday, been entirely put down, as announced by the dictator. While a rigid censorshop is keeping details from the world, enough news has leaked across the frontier to make P clear that the trouble is not definitely over. The dictator simply has thrown a large and heavy iron li<J on top of the erupting volcano, and on this lid he and every loyal regiment he <an muster are sitting, trying to hold it down. He may succeed for a time or he may not, but in Spain it certainly is believed that sooner or later he must go. He either will fall off or be thrown off. Alfonso Is Periled Also the lid, of course, surrounded by Rivera and his troops, is Alfonso. If there is an explosion, his own personal popularity may save his crown, but even that depends somewhat upon just how far he permits himself to go in backing the dictator. , Bom a king, his father having died before Alfonso's birth, he made a hit with all classes of his subjects as a regular fellow, plucky to the point of foolhardiness, fond of all kinds of sports and unusually democratic. But Spaniards admit their king is not as popular as he used to be. He is 44 years old now, and a Hapsburg. Primo de Rivera, acting in his name and presumably by his authority, has aroused considerable opposition in all but the most reactionary classes, so the remaining ties betwen the king and his people are being subjected to considerable strain. Rivera came intq power by a military coup d’etat in 1923, during a revolt caused by reverses in the Moroccan war. His first acts were to suppress the constitution, declare martial law, abolish parliament and set himself up as dictator, imitating Mussolini, in Italy. Elects Own Law Makers In October, 1927, anew one-body cortes, or national assembly, was created, but it had no power beyond suggesting laws which the dictator

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Sundy millions of officers and men in the allied armies had secret ambitions of capturing Kaiser Wilhelm, but the man to whom the former German ruler actually laid down his arms was Peter Keyser, above, then a lieutenant in the Dutch bicycle corps. When the kaiser fled into Holland Keyser met the imperial party at the Dutch border and made the kaiser and others hand over their swords and firearms. Keyser is now in Canada to study farming methods at the University of Alberta.

can accept or reject as he pleases. Moreover, its membership was handpicked. Some were made permanent members, while others, to use Rivera’s classic phrase, were “freely elected on the basis of government nominations.” That is to say out of a list of men who were not objectionable to the dictator, the people could elect anybody they pleased. There have been a number of revolts in Spain since the dictatorship, but illiteracy is high and the outbursts have not been well synchronized. The military have been able to put them down piecemeal. DENY PAINTINGS SOLD Reports of Sale By Ex-Kaiser Blasted by Officials. Bv United Press BERLIN, Feb. s.—Recent reports that former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany has sold several paintings of his collections were denied Monday by officials administering the property. They termed the reports “trial balloons” designed to see if a sale could be arranged, and added he did not intend to sell any of the paintings. Former Canal Employe Dies Bv Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., Feb. 5. David Cuppy, 93, bom in Lafayette on the present site of Purdue university, is dead here. He was in the employ of the company operating the old Wabash and Erie canal in its days of usefulness.

NEGLECT TAKES HUGE TOLL OF INDIANBABIES Derlorable Conditions are Revealed in Suppressed Red Cross Report. BY C. J. LILLEY Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Feb. s.—Lives of Indian children have been wasted through neglect and through failure of the federal government to give them proper care, Miss Florence Patterson, Red Cross nurse, reveals in an official Red Cross report suppressed for four year and just made public by the senate Indian investigating committe. Although the records of infant mortality are far' from complete and many Children probably have been born and died without any record being made of them, Miss Patterson said far more Indian children are dying in proportion than are children the general population. . “A few family histories show, perhaps much better than the available statistics, the waste in child lives,” Miss Patterson says in her report. “The facts were given by the families to the writer while visiting in the homes.” Death Toll High Family No. 1: Thirteen children —one living. “Most all died of smallpox.” Family No. 2: Twelve children—two living. All died when very young, of “fever.” Family No. 3: Five children—one living. Young parents. One child lived twelve days, “cord did not heal.” One lived four days, “fever.” One lived almost two years. One lived about three weeks—“got sick.” Family No. 4: Five children—two living. Young parents. All three died before year old. “Fever and cough.” C 111-advised feeding, lack of fresh &ir in homes and tepees, custom of always keeping the baby’s face covered when asleep, or in the open air, and lack of nasal hygiene were blamed largely. Manifestations of malnutrition were general and acute in a large proportion ot the children seen. “They repeatedly presented a picture similar to that of groups of children in eastern Europe whom government and voluntary agencies rushed in to feed in the war-devas-tated regions,” the report added. Diet Is Wrong Faulty diet was universal, and faulty personal hygiene and home hygiene was almost as general. Physical defects, bad teeth, enlarged tonsils and other child troubles were common, Miss Patterson found in her visits to reservations. Among most of the tribes in the southwest, Miss Patteron discovered that babies were not bathed for a week or ten days after birth. The

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Apaches smeared them with paint, especially the faces, and wrapped them in a tidy oblong parcel in a blanket, tightly bound with strips of buckskin or cowhide. Most tribes still kept their babies tightly bound and in the cradle, which could be carried on the mother’s back. Some tribes no longer painted their babies. The Apache and’ Navajo mother scorned any physical disability following childbirth and usually were up and around at once. §OY, 14, KIDNAPS BABY Newcastle Lad Also Took S4O From Aunt Before Going to Jail. By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Feb. s.—Hershel Cleek, 14, kidnaped the baby of his sister, took S4O from an aunt and spent a night at a hotel here under the name of “John Brown of Straughn.” Today he is a prisoner in the Henry county jail here. Authorities say the boy took, the baby from the home of his mother, Mrs. Alice Cleek, where it had been left following separation of his sister and Max Duncan, her husband, returning the child to the father. Then the boy went to the home of his aunt, Mrs. James Lundsford, and took the money.

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