The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-08
By LEMUEL F. PARTON


Graying, handsome austere, just
turning so, he is the smallest Of die
tators-130 pounds, five feet, six
inches tall. He was a Napoleon adj
dict in his youth, but is said to
have abandoned such attitudes and
interests in later years. Of remote
basque ancestry, he is the descend
ant of wealthy Paraguayan FAM
lily, educated for the army at home
and in Paris. He entered the Gran
Chaco war as lieutenant colonel,
gained a generalcy in a year and
emerged as national hero.
The u. s. A. has a stake in
his new dictatorship. When he
entered his brief turn as minis
ter to Washington, he lunched at
the White House and was ex-
tended generous credits for the
rebuilding" Of Paraguay.
"Extrasensory perception" has
been fading rapidly after its sudden
burgeoning of two years ago, but
here it is again, with Professor J.
Expert Studies HI ' nries+ l ~
Mental PoWers Duke univer-
OF Girl Marcel sity. making
Faith Hope Charity Harding, the lit
tie Pennsylvania girl who has been
calling the future the way a pool
player calls his shots. Now AZ years
old, she has been making bull's-eye
prophecies since she was 10 months
old; so naturally they get Professor
Rhine on the job.
He has kept right ON running
his parapsy Geological laboratory
at Duke, since his 2,5OO, 900 tests
of University students there con-
WINGED him Of the reality Of mem
tai telepathy, and the possibili-
ty of our peeping into the flu
ture, as well as into the minds
Of our neighb0rs. He said it
would take 1000 digits to ex-
press the mathematical degree
Of improbability in his tests.
Professor and Mrs. Rhine began
exploring the spook world when they
were getting the doctors degree at
the University of Chicago. Among
other such phenomena they exam
ined the feats Of "Margery," the
Boston medium and reported that
the whole game was base and bra
zen trickery." They repeatedly have
assailed fake occultism. AS to men,
tai telepathy, they lay it on the line,
but they're still working on the
prophecy business. They started the
latter inquiry in April last year.
For the last year, knowing OBJ
servers of European war and poll
tics have warned the world to keep
sharp eye on Col. Gen. Walther
Army General ; xon 0ia ooTa
Gets Credit for mander in
Nazi-Russ Deal chief of the
G m a n
army. His tracks usually lead in
the direction of the next German
lunge, and, controlling the army, he
makes as well as executes decisions.
General Won Brauchitsch is a
member Of an old east Prussian
feudal family, conservative by in
stinct, education and tradition, but
politically malleable. A distin-
guished officer in the World war, he
hated the republic, but went along
with it, alternating his stiff-necked
Junker colleagues, and became head
Of its armed forces. From 1922 to
1882, he delivered many scholarly
denunciations of bolshevism, but,
perhaps more than any other one
man, put through the interchange Of
officers, technicians, fabricated
goods, munitions and raw materials
between Germany and Russia dur
ing this decade.
Weighty opinion from the 9TH
er side is that General Won
Brauchitsch, rather than Hitler.
G0ering or Rosenberg, schemed
the Russo-G German deal and
forced it to conclusion through
his unquesti0ned hold ON the
army.
To him is also attributed the plan,
the decision, the timing and the |
start of the drive into Poland. In
several instances there have been
indications of hostility between the
general and Goering, with the bet
ting on the former, If it ever comes
to an open break. The general was
born in Berlin in 1881 and has been
in the army since his early youth.
He is handsome, imposing and bril-
:iantly educated, within the limits Of |
the old army caste, and has EN-
ployed power In q manner to make
him an ace exhibit in DIR. Rausch-
ning's revolution Of nihilism."