The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-02
Won H[NDENBURG IS DEAD:
HITLER BECOMES GEAR
86-Year-0Id Idol of Nation
SucCumbS After Brave
Fight for Life.
FLAG AT HALF-STAFF
Bells Toll Slowly at NeudeCk
Where Old Warrior
Sleeps.
BY WALTER X. WILKE
United Press STAFF Correspondent

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Aug. 2.-Hindenburg is dead.
Soldier, statesman and the
one solid rock to which Ger
many chung in the swirling
seas of postwar change, he
passed into eternity today at
9 a. m. e a. m. Indianapolis
time) leaving his people a
legacy of courage and hope
which eXemplified his IS
years of life.
The president died with his family
at his bedside and Germany watt
ing mournfully for the inevitable.
The world awaited the news with
apprehension, specializing on the
effect of Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator,
becoming president, chancellor, and
supreme ruler of the German peo-
pie and German army.
Paul Won Hindenburg had been
dying for months, uremia sapping
his massive frame. To the end,
however, the hero of Tannenberg
fought as he had fought all his life,
pitting his old age against encroach-
ing death.
Flag at Half Mast
At last he gave way, and faded
into coma. Among his last acts
Of consciousness, he summoned his
beloved grandchildren to his bed
side and stroked their heads with
faltering hand Shortly afterwards
he lapSed into his last sleep.
The flag over the Neudeck cha-
teau, gift of the nation to its presi-
dent, f1uttered to half-staff.
The bell in the nearby village
church at Freystadt began to toll.
and the tolling soon was echoed all
over Germany.
The nation will be in deep mourn-
ing until the funeral on Tuesday,
and afterwards.
Hindenburg will be given burial
BETTING a great soldier, under the
Tannenberg memorial near Neu-
deck, which marks the spot where
in August of 1914 he rolled back the
Russians and saved Prussia.
Nation Wills Otherwise
Hindenburg often expressed a
wish to be buried in the small Neu-
deck cemetery beside his parents,
but the nation willed otherwise. 1t
was decided that one of the last of
the really great figures of the World
war, who died on the twentieth an
niversary of its start, should be
buried at the scene of one of his
greatest military triumphs.
The presidents fatal illness was
due to a combination of bladder and
PROSTATE disease whisS1 over the
course of his declining years broke
down his rugged constitution. Seven
months ago physicians pleaded with
him to give in and go to bed for
proper treatment. He would not
yield.
The news was flashed to the ex-
pectant chancellories Of Europe.
which awaited with concern the
passing of the former warrior who
had come to symbolic a restraining
hand in Germany on Nazi excuses
and a force for peace in Europe.
1t is to be questioned, however,
whether history will accord him a
brighter place as field marshal or
as a peacetime president, emerging
from the retirement of old age to
lead his people in their time of post
war chaos.
Hindenburg began to sink into
stupor late yesterday. In the early
hours of this morning the stupor
became deep.
The nation learned of his death
first when forty-f1ve minutes after
his heart ceased beating Paul
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of
propaganda, announced over the
wireless:
Mist ShrOuds Castle
German peoplel Reich Presi-
cent Hindenburg at 9 a. m. passed
into eternity"
The great Neudeck estate was
scene Of peace this morning. There
vas little to show that an event Of
world Importance had occurred
there. Cattle and sheep grazed in
the pastures.
The weather was warm and at
first sunny. After Hindenburg had
died, however, a mist arose as
symbolic Of the passing of a hero
and wrapped itself around the cas-.
tie. From a distance the half-mast-
ed flag was barely perceptible
DALI NOM DAnE EEINC.