Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1931, Page 6

- A6 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHING LUPESCU REMAINS EXILE, SISTER SAYS Denies Paramour of Carol Returned to Rumania. Tells of Pact. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. PARIS, September 5 (NANA).— “BONESETTER " REESE RETIRES | AS MERCY "MIRACLE" WORKER Healed Thousands Quits Practice at 76. Stars of Washington Team Had Kinks Straightened | by Famous Healer. “My sister has made a vow that she ! will not go back to Rumania until her | presence in_ that country Wwill in NO{ pr jonn D. “Bonesetter” Reese, whose way embarrass King Carol.” This was the emphatic statement of Irma Lupescu, sister of the titian- haired Magda, for the love of whom Carol once gave up throne and family. Irma Lupescu, who came to Paris to #ee the International Colonial Exposi- tion, indignantly denied reports that her sister had returned to Bucharest several months ago and was there play- ing a role similar to the one held by Mme. de Pompadour at the court of Louis X1V, “Has Kept Promise.” “Magda has been in ceclusion in Bwitzerland,” she said. “When King Carel judged the moment had come to take possession of the throne they made a pact that she would not stand in his way to a peaceful and orderly Yeign., She has kept her promise faith- fully, although it is costing her a good deal ‘to stay away from parents and friends. “There is no man who can say hon- estly that he has seen Magda in Bu- charest since the return of King Carol.” went on Miss Lupescu, referring to dis- patches that there wes a connection between the departure of Princess Helen, the King's divorced wife, and reports that Carol was building a sump- tuous villa on the Bucharest Champs- Elysees for the lady who shared his exile with him in Prance and Belgium. “But,” she added, “nobody knows what the future may bring!” “It is all nonsense “Where is that villa? 'Nobody knows its location. Bucharest is not so big that news of a palatial love nest would not soon leak out and draw thousands of sightseers on Sunday afternoons. The King is indeed building. But he is re- constructing the royal palace on the Calea Vittorei, which was destroyed by fire several years ago. “Rebuilding of the palace was begun long before the King's return. It has nothing to do with Magda. It is in the heart of the capital and the Queen Dowager Maiie has continuously lived in one of the wings that was not touched by the fire Miss Lupescu was asked whether the 1dyll between the King and her sister had come definitely to an end. Magda Despondent. “I cannot tell” she replied. “All T ean say under the circumstances is that Magda has been extremely downcast and despondent since the separation. She felt when King Carol left on his flight to gain his father’s throne that the great romance of her life had come to a close. She knows that it is the woman who pays in such cases. and that she would be doomed to live in foreign countiies perhaps the rest of her life.” Pressed for the whereabouts of Magda Lupescu, her sister,swho said she had seen Magda only a week before. hesi- she exclaimed. | ul fingers have ministered to the | aches and pains of the Washington ball | team, local college athletes and the a { filicted throughout the country, has re- | tired. | “Seventy-six years old, he has with- Youngstown, Ohio, leaving his healing work to younger hands. The man who labored in the steel mills until 1894, when he realized he had a peculiar gift for relieving the suf- | fering of others, has weakened rapidly | during the past few months following {a protractad illness. | Tgnored Own Health. Having 1gnored his own health while treating others, Dr. Reese today leaves his home only for n daily drive or for |a visit with a friend. As he goes into | retirement, however, he takes with him the homage of his former patients—now his friends and admirers. These in- clude such men as Nick Altrock, Al Schacht, Ty Cobb, Johnny Kilbane. “Battling” Nelson, Fred Stone, Gene Tunney and Lloyd George. A correspondent in Youngstown writes to The Star that “Bonesetter” Reese was reported to be a millionaire and In his retirement lives as simply as when he came to Youngstown in |1887 to work as a steel roller. On h arrival thete he was endowed with the gift of bonsetting which later made him nationally famous, although his healing genius remained undiscovered for several veors, The “gift” of bonsetting Dr. Reese recalls, he has possessed ever since h~ was a boy in his native Wales. He roamed the hills of Wales with an old “bonesetter” and naturalist at the age of 11. When the bonsetter to whom he had attached himself was summoned by farmers or villagers tc set a leg, straighten a collar bone, or mend a limping foot, the young student avidly observed every manipulation of the healer. Like an interne at a clinic, young Reese looked on while his older companion “operated,” at times assis ing, at times asking questions. some- times substituting for his teacher, and always learning. Accident Starts Career. In 1889 while working in the mill | the “Bonesetter” launched his career quite by accident. A fellow employe | suffered a leg fracture. It was a com- { pound fracture and the worker was in | great pain. Working nearby. Reese heard the groans. To relieve his fel- low worker's pain, Reese set the leg, left the worker thanking him. and r turned to his work. The first patie spread the story of the mill man’s bonesetting. Soon other workers in the | mill came to him with fractures, limps. | strains, torn ligaments, pains and | aches ' To all Rees> ministered with drawn to the seclusion of his home in | “BONESETTER” to charge fees. Dr. Reese is the only one vested with this privilege. In 1894 demands on his time grew so great the healer was compelled to leave his job at the mills and to devote all his time to “bonesetting.” An instance of Dr. Recse's amazing | powers is reported in the case of the daughter of one of America's leading automobile manufacturers, who sought | relief from a painful injury suffered | si\leral years before and declared incur- | able. | _She came to Reose in a special train, | was wheeled from the train to the home of Dr. Reese. That evening she at- | tended a dance at the home of one of Youngstown's steel manufacturers, dancing for the first time since she ! had been injured. Whether that story is true or not, it illustrates the type of reputation as a worker of “miracles’ that “Bonesetter Reese” enjoys ‘The details of most of the boneset- will REESE. ter's cure: never know. the world probably | Kept Practice Secret. | Modest, reticent, firm in his refusal to b> publicized or to reveal the names of patients and their maladies, Dr. Reese has consistently denied inter- views to newspap: and magazine writers, even refusing to pose for photographs. Only through reports of his patients and his friends have his cases become public. In 1927, when Dr. Reese was returning from Honolulu, the captain of his ship asked whether he could do anything for his limp. “I have limped ever since I was a boy,” the captain explained. ‘The bonesetter called him | into his cabin. A few minutes later, so_the story gaes, the captain, his face | reflecting wonder and joy, emerged | from the cabin and—for the first time that he could remember—walked nor- mally. Fred Stone, stage comedian. suffered | a seemingly incurable neck injury while | riding a horse in the Summer of 1922. | On November 1 of that year he visited | Dr. Reese. He came out, his face wreathed in smiles. “I feel like a dif- | ferent man,” he is said to have de- clared. “I am a new man.” “Ty" Cobb, Babe Ruth and many | other base ball stars have been treated | by Dr. Reese, frequently visiting him. ‘ There was the case of the boy whose | body was paralyzed. For a year his| father saved money to bring the boy to | tated and finally said that the King's|a skill that amezed his patients and Dr. Reese. At last he was carried into | friend was dividing her time among Lucerne and Interlachen and other Swiss resorts. Later Irma admitted, however, that she had come straight from Bucharest to Paris on the Simplon Express. Returning to the relationship between her sister and the King, Miss Lupescu intimated that “so great a love as the couple bore each other could mever be said to have finished altogether.” “Their love,” she said, "is the one great experience of their lives. How can they forget it> They have loved each other ever since they were mere children. you might s Magda was married when she was very young to an infantry officer. She met Carol one night at a ball given at the Military Club, and the King. then only the Crown Prince. fell in love with her. “The rest of the story is known to every- Bods Miss Lupescu omitted to say that her sister had been divorced already from a lieutenant at the time of the ball, and that she ran away from her hus- band with a colonel in the air force, who in turn was to bow before a superior officer when Crown Prince Carol fell in love with Magda. The Rumanian detective, Georges Diaconescu, who was charged by his government to keep a diligent watch over the sweethearts during their so- journ in Paris, has an entirely different story. He maintains that on orders from higher up he investigated Magda TLupescu's career from childhood and found that she was a well known per- sonage in Bucharest military circles. This_information he was charged to convey to Carol in Paris, on behalf of the Queen Dowager, but the Prince would not listen to him. Detective Ousted. “Nobody has ever advanced a satis- factory explanation for the King's in fatuation with Madame Lupescu,” said the detective, who lost his job when Carol returned. to Rumania, and who dares not show his face in Bucharest now that Carol is King. “She is not beautiful, her teeth are uneven, she is fat and has thick ankles, and is not overintelligent. King Carol could have wyad his pick of the greatest beauties ¢y Rumania. Dozens were sent to him by the government with the definite mission to lure him away from Magda Lupescu. They tried their, best, but_he turned & cold shoul- der on them all and sent them packing back to Bucharest.” King Carol, it is intimated in Ru- manian_circles, seems to have given up La Lupescu definitely. The unset- tied political condition of his country would not permit him to bring back the golden-haired Jewish girl without causing a wave of indignation to threaten his newly won throne. Pop- ular sentiment in the royal love tr angle s all on the side of Princess Helen, his divorced wife, who has led an exemplary life, devoting herself ex- clusively to the education of her son, during the years of the King's absence Princess Helen - did not leave the court because of a new gorgeous bru- nette, Cynthia Dimitrescu. with whom Carol takes frequent motor trips in the pine forests that surround his capital eity. (Copyright. 1931. by $ N he North American Newspaper ) "LRAIL VETERAN DIES W.R. Rncl:ey.r ;‘:rm;r Treasurer of Cumberland Valley, Expires. CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., September 5 () —W. L. Ritchey, 76. for 23 years treasurer of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, now part of the Pennsylvania svstem, died today. H- was born i Baltimore and entered the Cumberlan Valley's auditing department in 1873. He retired in 1925. “Peace Day” for Belfast. Belfast, Ireland, has decided to turn Armistice day into Peace day. The de- cision was made by the Belfast Educa- tional Committee in response 10 & grow- ing public demand for an annual day on which peace would be extolled. espacially _in the public elementary sehools. Programs given on the anni- versary of the end of the World War will consist of praises for peace instead of reminders of war. Bixty-seven-vear-old John Carmichael of Glasgow, Scotland. who remarried recently, awoke next morning to find his gecond wife dead and himself twice & sadower in 24 hours, 3y ! fellow workers. | When Reese came home from work he found crowds waiting for him. Un- til late at night he worked, dismissing patients convnced they had forever | parted with their pains, disorders and | deformities. i Practice Legalized. | In 1891 members of the medical pro- iffissml\ in Youngstown, doubtful of the bonesetter's cures, sought to prohibit ! him from practicing. A counter protest | from patients, friends and cured crip- | ples caused the Ohio State Le ! to pass a bill conferring upon | Reese the right and authority to | tice the “profession of bonesetting, 'BUSCH ATTACKED " ON BEER PROPOSAL | Letter of President Scott of Busi- ness Men's Prohibition Move Given Out. The Board of Temperance, Prohibi- | tion and Public Morals of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church today made pub- | lic a letter from Richard H. Scott, resident of the American Business | Men's Prohibition Fcundation, to Aug- { ust A. Busch, prominent brewer, attack- {ing him for his campaign for the | Teturn of beer. “Mr. Busch, if you and your beer could stabilize Germany, then we | might invite you 2nd your brewer friends to stabilize America,” Mr. Scott | wret. | “Granting, for the moment, that your figures are conservative, that re- legalized beer:might pay the Govern- | ment $400.000,000 in taxes, might pro- { vide employment for 1,250,000 persons, and might consume 3,000.000 tons of coal, 3,000,000.000 cubic f-et cf gas 80.000,000 bushels of farm products, this_outstanding question arises: “From what source do you think the money would come to pay the wages | cf these men, to purchase this coal, | gas, raw material, and to contribute $400.000,000 in taxes? “The true answer can be given in a single sentence: “The people would have to pay for your restored beer prosgerity. { © “Every dollar of the wages you prof- | fer the unemplcyed would "have to { come from the people, from the mil- | lions who would pay for the beer you would sell with money that would thereby be diverted from legitimate business and the purchase cf whole- some necessities and refreshing lux- | uri | TAX FRAUD IS CHARGED Meredith Caldwell of Nashville Is Named in Warrant. { NASHVILLE. Tenn., September 5 (4 ~-A. V. McLane, United States district attorney, disclosed today that a war- rant charging an attempt to evade the income tax law has b2en issued against Meredith Caldwell, Nashville financier !and a brother of Rogers Caldwell, for- mer investment banker now under vari- ons indictments for the collapse of his financial Houses. W. Poe Maddox, assistant district at- { torney, who prepared the warrant, said | the charges grew out of an entry in Caldwell's {ax return for 1929 whereby | the Government claims a loss of $8.000. | . | “Missouri Waltz" Composer Dies. BOONE. Iowa, September 5 (&) Lieut. John Eppel, well known orches. tra leader and composer of Boone, died Friday in a Government hospital at Santa Monica, Calif. He had been il with tuberculosis. He was leader of the Camp Dodge and Camp Cody Bands jduring the World War. Among his compositions was the “'Missouri Waltz. British Plan Australia Meeting. TORONTO, Ontario, September 5 (/P).—The British Empire Service League today decided to hold its 1933 convention in Australia, providing con- ditfons at . that time rmit. Earl Jellicoe, admiral of the fleet, said he was strongly in favor of meeting in Australia, nd the bonesetter's presence. He talked to | the boy while his deft fingers roamed | across his shoulders. Suddenly he| pressed a bone, there was a click, the boy winced with pain and in a few mo- | ments walked out with his father. i Honored by Wales. | In 1926 Dr. Reese was conferred the | degree of Druid, highest honor that | could be paid him by the Welsh people. | Only two American people hold that | degree. At the ceremonies telegrams | of ratulations poured in from | and from | abroad. 'BLADENSBURG ROAD | PAVING JOB FINISHED, i | New Surface From 15th and H: Wide Enough for Six Lines t‘ of Traffic. i Werk on the paving of Bladensburg road from Fiftcenth and H streets northeast to the District line was com- pleted terday, Capt. Herbert C. ‘Whitehurst, District Highway Engineer, announced. The new thoroughfare is 60 feet wide and can accommodate six lancs of traffic. Work also was finished ¢n the pav- ing of Fourteenth street in front of the new Commerce Department Build- ing. This completes the paving pro- gram adjacent to the District Building and the new Commerce Building. Paving of New York avenue from | Florida avenue to Bladensburg road | northeast will be begun Tuesday. This Job will cost $195,000. | IMMIGRATION SOLVED, | DOAK TELLS D. A. R. Says It Took Americans Long Time | to Realize Alien Inflow Menace. By the Associated Press. | BRISTOL. 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