The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-20
DEATH TAKES
FERDINAND |
OF R0UMAN|A
Balkan Monarch SuccumbS
After Wasting Illness of
Many Months.
MICHAEL. is CROWNED
Order Maintained in Land;
New Regency Takes Oath
of Office.

of Office.
BIZ United Press
BUCHAREST, July 20.-At the
age when most boys are beginning
school. Prince Michael, fair-haired
and frail, today was proclaimed King
of Rounnit.
The solemn ceremonial Of procla-
nation took place a little less than
sixteen hours after the lads grand
father. King Ferdinand, had died
from a cancerous condition whlch
for months had threatened his LIE.
The three members of the coun-
Gil of regents, Prince Nicholas, Pa
triarch Niron Cristea and M. Buz-
dugan, who will have nominal charge
oof affairs of state during the
youngsters minority, took their
oaths.
The president of parliament then
loudly proclaimed the arrival OF
"King Michael L" n
A boy who will not'be years old
until Oct. 81 then came forward to
assume the rule of some 20,O0O,OOo
people.
Dies In Wife's Arms
Ferdinand, his body wasted by his
months-long fight against the in
roads of cancer, died at 2:15 a. m.
today in the arms of his wife, Queen
Marie.
Two Of his children, Prince
Nicholas and Princess Ileana, were
at the bedside almost continually
during the last stage of the kings
prolonged illness.
Prince Carol, who renounced his
rights of succession, was reported on
a motor trip from Paris.
The monarchs grandson, Crown
Prince Michael, son Of Carol and
Princess Helen of Greece, knelt near
tie king as death came. In addition
to Queen Marie of Roumania, Queen
IIarie of Jugo-Slavia and ex-Queen
Elizabeth of Greece were at the bed
side.
News of King Ferdinand's death
swept over Roumania and at once
"a the nation displayed its mourning
crepe.
order was maintained throughout
the land after announcement of the
kings death.
Carol May Be Barred
It was reported without confir-
maation that frontier guards had
been ordered not to admit Prince
Carol in case he should desire to
visit Roumania and look upon his
father in death.
Carols son, Michael, has the legal
right to the throne, as the son OF
the oldest son, but meanwhile the
regency will take command.
Queen Marie and former Premier
v. Bratiano are looked upon as
holding the actual reins of govern
ment and are the dominating
figures in Roumanian life.
The fate of Ferdinand of Rou-
mania was to govern kingdom in
the Balkans during the most turbu-
lent and uncertain years of modern
history. He came to the throne
Oct. II, 1914, a little more than two
months after Europe's armies began
moving in the greatest war in his
tory.
He was accompanied by the beau
tiful woman known throughout the
world now as Marie of Roumania,
an English princess, who slipped in
to the intrigue of southeastern Euro
pean politics so whole-heartedly
that she will finally become one of
the determining factors in the
Balkans.
Ferdinand succeeded his uncle,
King Carol, as King Ferdinand I.
Carol had selected his Hohenzollern
nephew for the difficult task of gov
erning. Roumania had been estab-
lished only thirty-six years when
the war began, England, Germany,
Russia and France creating it in the
treaty of Berlin in 1878.
Gains by World War
Despite the Hohenzollern blood
in Ferdinand's veins, Queen Marie
was able to keep Roumania out of
the war on the side of the Central
powers and finally to join the allies.
That was the biggest thing that
ever happened to Roumania-enter-
ing the war.
It won for Marie's country vast
new areas carved from Russia, and
Marie was honored for the personal
sacrifices and I, diplomatic ability
which enabled her to win new dig
nity and wealth for Roumania,