Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1932 — Page 9

LUPE DODGES ONE

Marriage? Let s Talk About Dogs

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Spring Is Here Its Uncouth Herald

BY DR. FRANK TIIONE Science Service Staff Writer IN the anarchic wars that shook the Middle Ages, nobles leading opposing forces sometimes used to employ their jesters as messengers when communication with the cenemy was necessary. Their ability to amuse, their reputed madness, their often real deformities, gave them an immunity that not even the sacred person of a formal herald could always be sure of. It is even so in the world of plants. Winter still Is camped sullenly in his white tents and holds the land in bondage. But already there are appearing the impudent purple noses of the despised and ridiculed skunk cabbage brotherhood, to serve notice on him that his conqueror, the sun, is marching northward and will not be denied a way for the comelier cousinship of violet and anemone and trillium and all the rest that come in his train. tt tt tt THE skunk cabbage really has become the victim of an unjust persecution. True, it does not have a foul odor, but, like its animal namesake, it never releases this defensive weapon unless it has been molested. You can walk alongside a thick growth of skunk cabbage for a mile and never have your nostrils offended. But if you undrtake to walk in the growth, the story changes very quickly. Any part of the plant, stem or leaf or flower, can issue a mephitic protest against being trodden on, and it invariably does so. In the bogs and low places of the woods, all you will find of the skunk cabbage just now are its uncouth flowers, pushing aside crumbs of frozen soil or even cracking thin ice ,to find their place in the wan winter sun. The big, lush leaves comd much later, and fill the spaces between the trunks during the breathless davs of summer. Later still, in autumn, you will find the knobby, spiky fruit-balls knocking about on the ground underfoot. NEXT: Singers of the Frosty Dawn. 70 ENTER EPWORTH LEAGUE’S INSTITUTE * — Three Classes Will Be Offered at Meridith Place M. E. Church. Record enrollment of seventy registered Monday night in the midwinter institute of the Epworth League of the Meridith Place M. E. church. Three classes will be offered. They will run four nights, ending Thursday. Classes are in Old Testament, taught by the Rev. J. G. Moore; New Testament, taught by Mrs. D. V. Griffith, and personal evangelism, taught by the Rev. George F. Henninger. Dr. O W. Fifer, district superintendent, will speak tonight during the assembly period. The Rev. H. M. Reynolds, pastor of the church, Is dean of the institute.

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LUPE VELEZ has a couple of dogs, which, aside from being pets, sometimes prove a great convenience to her. The noted Mexican film star made a brief stop late Monday at municipal airport, en route from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh, aboard a T. &. W. A. air liner. She was accompanied by her sister, Reina Velez. Although Lupe Velez spent only a few minutes at the field and did not have the dogs with her, they came to her rescue as she was being photographed and interviewed. “Miss Velez, Is it true that you and John Gilbert are pretty chummy again?” she was asked. “Oh, I have lots of friends,” she countered. “But are you friendlier with him than the rest?” persisted the reporter. “Say, have I ever told you about my dogs?” she queried. tt tt tt MISS VELEZ said she and her sister, Queeny, were en route to Pittsburgh, where Lupe will look over a role offered her in “Hotcha,” by Florenz Ziegfeld. With her somewhat limited knowledge of English, the diminutive Mexican star was stumped when asked to spell her sister’s real name, Reina. “I guess you spell it ‘r-e Oh, just call her Queeny,” she said. Reina is the Spaftish word for queen, she explained. A wedding ring she wears on her finger “means nothing,” she told questioners. Miss Velez disclosed that she became airsick before reaching Indianapolis. “•T'VERYWHERE I go, I go by -H/plane, in this country and in Europe,” she said. “This was Queeny’s first air trip and she didn’t get airsick, but I did.” The actress said she finished her latest film, “Broken Wings,” several days ago, adding that if she did not like the role offered her by Ziegfeld, she would return to Hollywood to make another movie. Lupe was Just as minus eyebrows on her visit here as she was minus her “wisecracking” dogs. Her brows are a couple of streaks of black pencil, slanting upward. SUPPORT IS PLEDGED ANTI-HOARDING DRIVE State C. of C., Hoosier Legion Post? Promise Aid to Campaign. Support of the Indiana Chambei of Commerce and the American Legion posts of the state has been pledged Richard Lieber, state director of the Hoover anti-hoarding drive. William H. Arnett, managing director of the state chamber, put the facilities of his organization behind the drive in a letter to the state chief. Similar action was taken by Ralph F. Gates, commander of the Indiana department of the legion, who urged co-operation from all posts throughout the state. PLAN ORATORY CONTEST Kirshbaum Center Will Sponsor Event on May 1. First annual oratorical contest for Jewish young men and women will be held at Kirshbaum Center on May 1, and prizes will be awarded in two age groups, one for the high school class in the ages of 16 to 19, and the other in the college class of 20 to 25. The event is being sponsored by the Beth-El Men’s Club in collaboration with the Kirshbaum Center.

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SOVIET WARNS ARMY OF NEW WARDANGERS 5,000,000 Soldiers Ordered on Watch Against Territory Grab. FEAR WHITE RUSSIANS Czarist Sympathizers in Far East Suspected of Plots. BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Stall Correspondent (CoDvrlKht. 1932. by United Press! MOSCOW, Feb. 23.—Soviet military forces numbering more than 5,000,000 have been warned by the war office to prepare to defend Soviet territory against seizure plots. The warning came in a war office manifesto signed by Commisar of War Klementi Voroshilov and issued at the peak of the nation’s celebration of the fourteenth anniversary of the red army’s formation. The manifesto declared czarist Russians are plotting to seize Soviet territory in the Far East. Czarist Russians actively have been supporting Japanese occupation of Manchuria where Japanese and Soviet interests are involved. “White guards (czarist exiles) supported by certain groups of imperialists, openly are planning to seize Soviet territory in the Far East,” Voroshilov proclaimed. Attack Is Feared “East and west they are laying plans for intervention. They are preparing public opinion for an attack on the Soviet. They are organizing bands of white guards for the attack.” The warning aroused intense enthusiasm throughout the nation. The “armed proletariat” was eulogized everywhere. Voroshilov described the contrast presented between the bloodshed in China and the peace speeches of “bourgeois orators” at the world disarmament conference at Geneva. He emphasized that the Soviet Union desires peace, but pointed out the necessity for defending the slogan of Dictator Josef V. Stalin: “We do not want a single inch of foreign soil, but will not give up a single inch of our own.” Points to Manchurian Action Voroshilov’s manifesto was regarded as particularly significant in view of the recent formation of an independent state in Manchuria under Japanese influence. Russia has considerable interest in Manchuria, being joint operator with the Chinese government of the Chinese Eastern railway. Control of Manchuria by a hostile power would give Russia cause to fear for her chief eastern seaport, Vladivostok, and for portions of Siberia. Russia, in. event of attack, could mobilize an army of 638,000 actives and 4,528,000 reserves. Its standing army is the largest in the world, contrasting with 600,987 for France, Italy’s 404,151, Great Britain’s 208,573, Japan’s 230,000, and the United States’ 137,472. * , White Guards Foe of Soviet Only the military forces of France, with reserves numbering 6,327,502, and Italy, with 5,560,756 reserves, top Soviet Russia in total strength. The white guards, former members of the imperial regime in Russia, are bitter foes of the Soviet. Recently they have given support to Japanese military activity in Manchuria. When Manchuria declared its independence from China, it was announced that White Russians, who are present there in considerable numbers, would be granted citizenship. Subsequent movement of Soviet troops on the Siberian frontier was explained as being . necessary because of the danger of attack by white guards. GIRL WIELDS BOTTLE; RESCUES WRONG MAN Chicago Miss Halts Attack on Her “Father,” Then Finds Him in Bed. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—Anne Berdnick, 21, saw two men outside her window fighting with a third. “It’s father,” she gasped, and, picking up a milk bottle, ran to his aid. She beat off the two assailants with the bottle and the third man muttered his thanks and ran away. Back home she found she had been an unwitting good Samaritan. Her father was sleeping peacefully in bed.

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HINDENBURG HONORS HIS PLEDGE

Iron Mom of Germany Keeps His Vows to Republic

This is the second of six exclusive stories on President Paul von Hindenburj, Germany’s greatest modern figure, who is now a candidate for a second term in the national election to be held in Germany on Sunday, March 13. BY MILTON BRONNER European Manager, NEA Service (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) BERLIN, Feb. 23.—Never for a moment in the six and a half years he has been president of the German republic have the people had cause to believe that Paul von Hindenburg, who rose from generations of monarchists, regretted hit. oath to the German republic, or tried to abuse it. With his right hand raised to God, he made the vow to defend the republic and its constitution. He has kept that vow faithfully. It stands him in good stead now, he runs for re-election. A stout Lutheran, he has conceived a great friendship and admiration for Dr. Heinrich Bruening, Germany’s Catholic chancellor, and has backed him to the limit. Socialist leaders in Germany’s government are bosom friends of this grizzled, 84-year-old veteran, who once was commander-in-chief of the greatest army ever sent to battlefield. Today millions of Republicans in Germany trust the old ex-monar-chist implicitly. All of which is pretty good for a junker of the junkers, whose ancestors were east Prussian nobles at about the time the Hohenzollerns were beginning their climb to Prussian kings. More than eight hundred years ago families of Germans were great landlords and fighting noblemen — were engaged in spreading German kultur, Prussian dominance and the Christian religions among the pagan tribes east of the Elbe river. Among these families were the Beneckendorffs, with whom the Hindenburgs intermarried. tt THEY did not always win. Sometimes they were hammered to smithereens, as in the battle of Tannenberg about 500 years ago, a defeat they were to avenge in 1914 when their descendant, Paul Beneckendorff von Hindenburg, was to win his battle of Tannenberg, one of the greatest victories of modern times, with a dreadful slaughter of the Russians. The Beneckendorff von Hindenburgs, like all these East Prussian junker families, took the sword when their king called them and between times lived on their great ancestral estates, watched the work on their farms, and raised their great families of strong sons and daughters, who largely intermarried and formed one great ruling caste. u tt tt WHEN Prussia began to be a great going concern under the Hohenzollerns, the Hindenburgs naturally became soldiers in the Prussian army. One of tnese was young Lieutenant von Hindenburg, who married in 1845 and to whom a son was born on Oct. 2, 1847. The boy was christened Paul Ludwig Hans Anton. His father was then stationed in the Polish city of Posen, which was situated in that part of Poland which had fallen to Prussia. The year 1848 saw a wave of revolution all over Europe. The Poles also rebelled. Paul’s father took to the field to campaign against them. But the Poles took Posen and one night,

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ALTON, 111., Feb. 23. —Robert Wadlow “biggest little boy” in America, celebrated his 14th birthday Monday by releasing the following statistics about himself: Height: Seven feet four inches.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932

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Even a president likes his beer in Germany, and above you see President von Hindenburg celebrating his first election in 1925 at one of those “bier-abends”— which seems to be just a quaint old German custom. Center is young Hindenburg as a cadet at military school in 1865; right, af a lieutenant in the Third Footguards in Prussia’s w r ar against Austria. just before his mother rocked him to sleep, one of the things the future general saw was the town illuminations in honor of the Polish rebels. That baby was destined years later to overrun Poland with his armies. THEN his father was sent’ to Cologne on the Rhine, where troops had been sent to overawe the working classes who just were beginning to become Socialists. Fate held a queer future for this baby, whose father’s job was to suppress Marxism nearly eight decades later, as president of the reich, he was to invite Socialists to form the cabinet and run the German government. Soon Paul’s father returned with his family to the province of Posen and lived on a country estate near Pinne, By that time Paul had brothers and sisters. At that tender age Paul learned military discipline and military cuss words. But not from his father. The family had employed as a nurse an old woman who had been a vivandiere with the Prussian armies. When the kids made too much noise, she would frighten them into silence by shouting, “Silence in the ranks!” And she followed this with such a stream of strong language that Paul’s father had to dismiss her. a a LIKE all Hindenburgs, Paul, shortly after a term in a civilian school, went to a cadet school to be trained for the army. Soon he was transferred to the Central cadet school in Berlin and had the honor of being made a page ,to Queen Elizabeth, widow of King Frederick William IV of Prussia. In 1864 Prussia made war on little Denmark and Paul Hindenburg was all afire for active service, writing his parents that it was time the

Hindenburgs smelled powder in battle once more. But the 16-year-old warrior was kept at his books and his drill. He was 18 when he was made a second lieutenant in the Third regiment of the foot guards. IN 1866 Prussia made war on Austria, and this time Paul saw active service. In the battle of Koeniggraetz, he and his company charged a battery and captured five guns, the young officer being wounded and glorying in it. He was with the army which, by forced marches, swept into hostile territory. He was with the army, wearing the Order of the Red Eagle with swords, when it marched under Brandenburg gate in Berlin. With his regiment he was posted to the city of Hanover, which, as a result of the war, had fallen to the Prussian state. The Hanoverians at that time were bitter against Prussians, and young officers had to behave very circumspectly. But Paul grew to love the town, so that in after years he made it his permanent residence, and still counts himself a Hanoverian by adoption. But he was not to remain there long this first time, because in 1870 came the war with France, and the second lieutenant saw very active service. He took part in the sharp-ly-contested battle of St. Privat in which 70 per cent of the officers of his regiment were killed. His immediate superior now became colonel of the regiment and Hindenburg was made his regimental adjutant.

Weight: 302 pounds. He grew one inch since his last birthday and increased in weight twenty pounds. Physicians say that if he continues to grow through puberity, he will become the biggest man in the country, a disordered pituitary gland is the cause. His parents are opposed to treatment, because Walter is normal in every other respect. He is in his first year at high school, where he has an extra-sized desk, plays basketball with ease, because he can almost reach the basket does well in his studies and has no difficulty in everyday life except when he forgets to stoop while entering doorways.

EXPERTS EXAMINED IN VINCENNES RATE CASE Fight on Commission’s Order Is Continued in Federal Court. The Vincennes Water Supply Company’s battle against the Indiana public service commission’s rate reduction order was continued in federal court today before Albert Ward, special master in chancery, with more technical experts taking the stand. The case opened Monday when the water company introduced five technical experts, all of whom were cross-examined closely by George Hufsmith, assistant state attorneygeneral, who is representing the commission. Ward said it was probable that testimony wiU be heard here for several days and thrit the hearing then will be shifted to Vincenness to save expense of bringing wit-> nesses here. v #

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T~'ORTUNE came his way. He was in the great battle of Sedan, where Emepror Napoleon 111 was captured. He took part in the siege of Paris. He was especially fortunate when the Germans decided to proclaim King William I of Prussia as emperor of Germany. The ceremony was to take place in the famous Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. Kings, princes, archdukes, great generals and statesmen were to be present. Hindenburg was ordered to attend as a representative of his regiment. He thus was in at the birth of the German empire. Many years later he was to be one of the leading figures in the death of that same empire. He' saw a Hohenzollern reach his apotheosis. He was to see the grandson of that Hohenzollern sneak away under the cover of the night to cross the frontiers into Holland and live an exile far from the ruins of his army and his empire. But Hindenburg, despite the most crushing defeat ever suffered by an army in modern times, stayed with his beaten and hungry men. Next. The early years of a Prussian army officer and his rise to the general staff. . . . His dislike for the future Kaiser Wilhelm II . . . Voluntary retirement from the army at 64 . . . The year 1914 and an old soldier is recalled to stop the Russians on the eastern front, which he does amid terrible slaughter.

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS LAUNCH ROGERS BOOM Humorist’s Name to Be on Ballot for Presidential Nomination. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.—WU1 Rogers, famous humorist, had completed a tom* of the world today, and found upon his arrival here by airplane that Democrats of California have begun a movement to nominate him for President of the United States. Fred W. French, member of the Democratic state central committee, was in Sacramento today, according to the Los Angeles Hlustrated Dally News, to notify Secretary of State Jordan that a petition will be filed to place Rogers’ name on the ballot. Rogers refused to comment upon politics when he stepped from the plane at Grand Central air terminal. M

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JAPAN STAGES WEIRD FARCE IN MANCHURIA Henry Pu Yi, Feeble ‘Boy Emperor/ to Be Puppet on Throne. ‘COME-ON’ FOR LEAGUE Commission of Inquiry Will Be Expected to Believe Weakling Is Ruler. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrippst-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Behind the curtain of smoke rising from Shanghai, one of the weirdest farces in international history is being staged in Manchuria to hoodwink the League of Nations commission now en route to China. The hero of the peace—in reality, the badly frightened dupe of the conspiracy—is none other than puny Henry Pu Yi, “boy emperor’* of China. If Nippon’s plans run smoothly, when the commission arrives in

Man c h u r i a some time in March, Manchuria no longer will be Manchuria, but the “independent” state of Anjuo, “Land of Peace.” And its ruler will be Henry Pu Yi, restored to power in a sudden and spontaneous fit of love and loyalty on the part of his adoring subjects. At least that is the set-up the international commission of investi-

gation will face, according to reports, when it makes its belated arrival. The Japanese apparently will have withdrawn, leaving the destiny of the new state in the strong hand of Henry Pu Yi. Henry Pu Yi now is about 24 years old. He is frail, mentally and physically. His eyes are weak, his body is weak and his mind is anything but Brobdingnagian. When you talk to him, he has a pathetic way of looking at you wistfully through an enormous pair of round smoke-specs as though he doesn’t quite get you. His father was Prince Chung, brother of Emperor Kuang Hsu. “The Old Buddha”—as the wily, stubborn, scheming empress dowager and Boxer queen was called—was his great aunt. She was notoriously the most persistent back-seat driver the world of statecraft ever knew. And as no other Manchu of her time was permitted to have an opinion, little Henry is said to have been born so completely without one that he never has had any since. Emperor When Year Old Nevertheless “The Old Buddha’* and Emperor Kuang Hsu died suddenly and a little mysteriously almost on the same day, and Pu Yi, then a teething baby about a year old, ascended the dragon throne of his ancestors. The title of the colicky infant was Emperor Hsuan Tung, Son of Heaven and Lord of Ten Thousand Years. But the revolution came in 1911, and the lord of ten millenniums found his time cut to fortyeight months. At the ripe age of 5 years, therefore, the sickly little victim of hard luck found himself without employment, more than that, he and his entourage were virtually prisoners in the heart of Peking, at times almost without funds. For China always was stony broke and every year the annuity to the imperial family was trimmed a little more. Yet all the time he was thu center of intrigute. Now one Chinese clique would seek to use him as a pawn, now another. Finally, his life in danger, he escaped in disquise to Tientsin, where he lived until he took up quarters inside the Japanese compound. Prisoner of Japanese In recent years he virtually has been a prisoner of the Japanese, Nobody knew just where he was. It was said his life was still in peril and that it was to protect him that he was allowed to live in the Japanese concession. But, it is pointed out, if the Chinese wanted to kill him as humble Mr. Pu Yi, what won’t they try to do to him as lord of Manchuria? This question already is said to have occurred to Mr. Pu Yi himself. Those about him insist he does not to be president, kin, emperor or anything else of Manchuria. AH he wants is to be let alone, well rid of pesky plotters who try to use him for their own dark purposes. Unknown in Manchnria Pu Yi is a Manchu, but not a Manchurian. He is as unknown in Mukden as he is in Milwaukee. Manchurians who have escaped Japanese jurisdiction to south ot the great wall and are free to talk, say they don’t want Pu Yi any more than he wants them. Such, in brief, is the story of the future “dictator,” to whom, dispatches say, the league’s commission shortly will be introduced by way of proving that the Japanese have not interfered in China, either territorially or politically. Hardboiled Henry, the Manchurian Mussolini, will be there, cracking the whip. Nabs Auto Theft Suspects Noble Tetter, 1010 Sterling avenue, gave chase Monday night when his automobile was stolen, and captured Jack Williams, 1019 North Rural street, and' Ted Mickey, Rawles. Tex., who are held by police on vagrancy charges under bond of SI,OOO each.

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