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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
BY DIR. FRANK THoNE

I'm the anarchic wars that shook
l. the Middle Ages, mobiles lead
ing opposing forces sometimes used
to employ their testers as messen-
gers when communication with the
eenemy vas necessary. Their abil-
ity to amuse, their reputed mad
ness, their often real deformities,
gave them an immunity that not
even the sacred person of a formal
herald could always be Jul of.
1t is even SO in the world of
plants. Winter still is camped sui
lenly 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 brother
hood. to serve notice on him that
his conqueror, the sun, is marching
northward and will not be denied q
way for the comelier cousinship of
violet and anemone and trillium and
all the rest that come in his train.
TINE skunk cabbage really has
Il become the victim of an I'M
just persecution. True, it does not
have a foul odor, but, like its ami
NAL 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 undertake 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
S
In the boys and low places of
the woods, all you will find of the
skunk cabbage just now are it's I'M
couth 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 come much
later, and fill the spaces between
the trunks during the breathless
DAYS of summer.
Later still, in autumn, you will
find the knobby, spiky fruit-balls
knocking about on the ground I'M
derfoot.
NEXT: Singers of the Frosty
Dawn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23

just before his mother rocked him
to sleep, one of the things the future
general saw was the town illumina-
lions in honor of the Polish rebels.
That baby was destined years later
to overrun Poland with his armies.
THEN his father was sent to
n Cologne on the Rhine, where
troops had been sent to overawe the
working classes who just we're be-
ginning to become Socialists.
Fate held a queer future for this
baby, whose fathers 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 Ger
man 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 brighten
them into silence by shouting,
Silence in the ranks!"
And she followed this with such
a stream of strong language that
Pauls father had to dismiss her,
y n =
r IKE all Hindenburgs, Paul,
IL shortly after a term in a CT
william 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 w of Prus-
STA.
In 1864 Prussia made war on lit
tie Denmark and Paul Hindenburg
was all afre for active service, writ
ing his parents that it was time the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
EXPERTS EXAMINED IN
VINCENNES RATE CASE
Fight on Commissions Order Is
Continued in Federal Court.

The V~incennes Water Supply
Company's battle against the Indi-
ana public service commissions 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 attorney
general, who is representing the
commission.
Ward said it was probable that
testimony will be heard here for
several days and that the hearing
then viii be shifted to Vincenness
to save expense Of bringing Wit
nesses here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23

Y UPE VELEZ has a couple of
IL dogs, which, aside from be-
ing 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 inter-
viewed.
Miss Velez, is it true that you
and John Gilbert are pretty
chummy again?" she was asked.
ooh, I have lots of friends" she
%countered.
But r you friendlier with
him than the rest?" persisted the
reporter.
Say, have I ever told you about
my dogs?" she queried.
kTISS VELEz said she and her
4VA 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 diminu-
tive Mexican star was stumped
when asked to spell her sisters
real name, Reina.
Il guess you spell it 'r-e- Oh,
Just call her Queeny," she said.
Reina is the Spanish 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.
u I go, I go by
Gplane, in this country and in
Europe" she said. "This was
Queeny's first air trip and she
didn't get airsick, but 1 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 eye
brows on her visit here as she was
minus her "wisecracking'' dogs.
Her brows are a couple of streaks
Of black pencil, slanting upward.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23

Hindenburgs smelled powder in bat
tie once more.
But the 16-year-old warrior was
kept at his books and his drill. He
was 10 when he was made a Sec
ond lieutenant in the Third regi-
ment of the foot guards.
I'm 1866 Prussia made war on Aus
l. tria, and this time Paul saw &C
tive service. In the battle Of Koen-
iggraetz, he and his company
charged a battery and captured five
guns, the young officer being wound
ed 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 I'M
der 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 Hanover
ian 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 be-
came colonel of the regiment and
Hindenburg was made his regi-
mental adjutant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
BY MILTON N
European Manager, NEA Service
mnnurirht 1920 NEA Service Inc

tOQpYIlEnIs 1885, NEA 0EAA4CEs III
DERLIN, Feb. 23.-Never for a
ID 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 Won
Hindenburg,. who ros from genera
tons of monarchists, regretted his
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. 1t
stands him in good stead now, as
he runs for reelection.
A stout Lutheran, he has con-
ceived a great friendship and adj
miration for DR.. Heinrich Brue-
ming, Germany's Catholic chancel-
lor, and has backed him to the
limit. Socialist leaders in Ger
many'S government are bosom
friends of this grizzled, 8~4-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 an
cestors were east Prussian MOBILES at
about the time the HohenzollernS
were beginning their climb to Prus-
sian 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 we're the
BeneckendorffS, with whom the
Hindenburgs intermarried.
+ =
TNHEY did not always win. Some
Il times they were hammered to
s~mithereens, as in the battle of
T~annenberg about 500 years ago,
a defeat they were to avenge in
1914 when their descendant, Paul
Beneckendorf Won Hindenburg, was
to win his battle of Tannenberg, one
Of the greatest victories of modern
times, with a dreadful slaughter of
the Russians.
The Beneckendorf Won linden
burgs, 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 intermar-
ried and formed one great ruling
caste.
TXTHEN Prussia began to be a
w great going concern under the
Hohenzollerns, the Hindenburgs
naturally became soldiers in the
PruSSian army.
One of THESE was young Lieuten-
ant Won Hindenburg, who married
in 1845 and to whom a son was born
on Oct. 2, 1847. The boy was chris
tened 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 re-
belled.
Paul's father took to the field to
campaign against them. But the
Poles took Posen and one night,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
GIRL YIELDS BOTTLE;
RESCUES WRONG MAN

Chicago Miss Hats Attack on Her
Father" Then Finds Him in Bed.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 23.-Anne Berd-
nick, 81, saw two men outside her
window fighting with a third.
Its father" she gasped, and,
picking up a milk bottle, ran to
his aid. She beat off the two as
sailants with the bottle and the
third man muttered his thanks and
ran away.
Back home she found she had
been an unwilling good Samaritan.
Her father was sleeping peacefully
in bed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS
LAUNCH ROGERS BOOM
Humorist's Name to Be on Ballot
for Presidential Nomination.

Humorist's Name to Be on Ballot
for Presidential Nomination.
By United Press
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.-Will
Rogers, famous humorist, had COM
pleted a tour Of the world today,
and found upon his arrival here by
airplane that Democrats of Cali
fornia 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 illustrated Daily
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 term
inal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
SOVIET WARNS
ARMY OF new
WAR DANGERS
100000 Soldiers Ordered
on Watch Against Ter
ritory Grab.
FEAR WHITE RUSSIANS
Czarist Sympathizers in
Far East Suspected
of Plots.
BY EUGENE LYONS
United Press STAFF Correspondent
cartwright. 1892. by United Pressl

MOSCOW, Feb. 23.-Soviet mill
tary forces numbering more than
100000 have been warned by the
war Office to prepare to defend So
Wet territory against seizure plots.
The warning came in a war Of
flee manifesto signed by Commisar
of War Klementi Voroshilov and is
sued at the peak of the nations
celebration of the fourteenth ami
versary 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 sup
porting Japanese occupation of
Manchuria where Japanese and So
Wet interests are involved.
white guards (czarist exiles) sup
ported by certain groups of i'm
perialists, 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 at
tack on the Soviet. They are or
ganizing bands of white guards for
the attack"
The warning aroused intense en-
thusiasm throughout the nation.
The armed proletariat" was eulo-
gized 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 slo-
gan of Dictator Josef V. Stain:
I'VE 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 e
garded 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,
V~ladivostok, and for portions of ST.
IBERIA.
Russia, in. event of attack, could
mobilize an army of 63s, 900 actives
and 4,528,000 reserves. It's 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 100000, 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 $3.50, 756
reserves, top Soviet Russia in total
strength.
The white guards, former men,
bers of the imperial regime in Rus
STA, are bitter foes of the Soviet. Re-
Gently they have given support to
japanese military activity in Man
churia.
When Manchuria declared its in
dependence from China, it was an
nounced that White Russians, who
are present there in considerable
numbers, would be granted citizen
ship.
Subsequent movement of Soviet
troops on the Siberian frontier was
explained as being necessary be-
cause of the danger of attack by
white guards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
SUPPORT is PLEDGED
ANTI-H0ARDING DRIVE
State C. of c., HOOsier Legion Posts
Promise Aid to Campaign.

Support of the Indiana Chamber
of Commerce and the American Lee
gion posts of the state has been
pledged Richard Lieber, state direc-
tor of the Hoover withdrawing
drive.
William H. Arnett, managing
director of the state chamber, put
the facilities of his organization be-
hind 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
cooperation from all posts through
out the state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
PLAN 0RATORY 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 award
ed in two age groups, n for the
high school class in the ages of
16 to 10, and the other in the col
lege class of 20 to 25.
Fhe event is being sponsored by
the Bethel Mems Club in COLA
boration with the Kirshbaum Cen
ter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
Unknown in Manchuria
Nabs Auto Theft suspects

Noble letter, 1910 Sterling avenue.
gave chase Monday night when his
automobile was stolen, and captured
Jack Williams, 1919 North Rural
street. and Ted Mickey, Rawles.
Tex, who are held by police on
vagrancy charges under bond Of
81. 900 each.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
70 ENTER EPWORTH
LEAGUES INSTITUTE
Three Glasses will Be offered a
Meredith Place M. f. Church.

Record enrolment of seventy
registered Monday night in the
midwinter institute of the Epworth
League of the Meredith Place M. E.
church. Three classes will be of
fered. They will run four nights,
ending Thursday.
Glasses 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. Hen
ninger.
DR.. o. W. Fifer, district superin-
tendent, will speak tonight during
the assembly period. The Rev. H.
M. Reynolds, passor of the church,
is dean of the institute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23

Man c n u a
some time in
March, Man
C huria no
longer will be
Manchuria, but
the "indepen-
dent" state of
Anjuo, Land
of Peace"
And its ruler
will be Henry
Pu vi, restored
to power in a
S u d d e n a n d
spontaneous fit
of love and
loyalty on the
part of his
adoring b :
jects.
At least that
is The set-up
the inter a
tional commits
sion of inVeSti-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
STAGES
WEIRD FARCE
IN MANCHURIA
Henry Pu vi, Feeble Boy
Emperor to Be Puppet
on Throne.
'coME-oN' FOR LEAGUE
Commission of Inquiry Will
Be Expected to Believe
WeakIing Is Ruler.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-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 vi, hoy emperor"
of China.
If Nippon's plans run smoothly.
when the commission arrives in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23
HINDENBURG HONORS HIS PLEDGE
Iron Man of Germany Keeps His Vo0us to Republic

This is the second Of six exclusive
stories on President Paul Won linden
burg, Gernany'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 Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23

Next. The early years of a
Prussian army officer and his rise
to the general staff. . His dis
like for the future Kaiser Wilhelm
III . Voluntary retirement
from the army at 81 The
year 1914 and an old soldier is
recalled to stop the Russians on
the eastern front, which he does
amid terrible slaughter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23

FORTUNE came his way. He was
= in the great battle of Sedan,
where Emepror Napoleon III 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 en-
peror 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 lead
ing 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 en-
pire.
But Hindenburg, despite the most
crushing defeat ever suffered by an
army in modern times, stayed with
his beaten and hungry men.
The Washington times., 1932-02-29
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The Washington times., 1932-02-29
Bv HAZEL LIVINGSTON

Sage in it Ken should
have married Peggy. He gave
Peggy his confidence. They
must have had lunch together.
Or perhaps they went riding
somewhere.
She put her hands over her
aching eyes, and in the dark
reddish light that filtered
through her fingers she could
see Peggy's piquant little face,
her fluff of pale hair, her dark,
bright eyes E.
Slowly, painfully, she went
over it all in her mind. It
was nothing, really. {. Ken
certainly had the right to talk
to Peggy Sage If he wanted to.
Was she going to be one Of
those jealous, nagging wives?
But it was so hard. IF he'd
only told her first :.
The ache in her eyes craNled
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knot in back Of her neck. She
sat, hunched in the chair.
Thinking . e. Trying to think :.
She didn't hear Ken come in.
He stood in the doorway, look
ing at her morosely.
what are YOU moping
about?" he wanted to know.
ECOltinued Tomorrow
The Washington times., 1932-02-29

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