The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-15
FRISCO EDITOR
IN the WAR ZONE
Bill Shepherd Finds Erstwhile
Sloboda Owner at
Monastir
TELLS OF WARS START
BY VIM. C. SHEPHERD
limited press Staff CorrespondcnN

(Qnttcd Press starr Sorrcsponucntl
MoNASTtR. Serbia, Dec, s6.-
thy Mail. when No. IS Polk 81.
ratified down In the San Francisco
earthquake. the newspaper plant OF
Sloboda was destroyed and Naldi-
mir Midsor. the editor. was pennk
less.
So, after III years In California.
he came back TO Serbia and-here
he Is In Monastir.
There's only one interesting thing
about Vladimir Midxor and that will
come later. Ills talk. which | have
heard this evening In little cafe.
Is full of Information of an out OF
the way sort.
I'm a school teacher now" he
said. In a little country school.
get $50 month and have 20 pay
my own board. hut school hasn't
been going anywhere In Serbia for
more than a year. The money was
needed for war. had IS pupils
and | used TO teach them reading,
writing. arithmetic and Serbian his
tory"
Tells About Start Of War
~
who started this war by shooting
the crown prince OF AUSTRIA"
Yes. II was: Gabrielle Prinsip.
His father is rich commission
merchant In Herzegovina and Ca
hrielle was bright young student.
lie didn't know that the shot he
fired that day would start world
war.
"fie was too young TO be execut.
ed and he's In an Austrian jail
somewhere.
.Ill bet. tho. he doesn't know
what trouble his shot caused. The
Ausfrians would keep Il away from
him. My nephew went to school
with Gabrielle and knew him well
He was fine. intelligent young
fellow and he knew. as all the In
telligent young Serbs knew, that
the crown prince OF Austria intend.
ed 10 invade Serbia as soon as he
came into power.
No Chance for His Life
Gabrielle had a good time AZ
Ssmlin. across the river from Bel
grade. for n month before the as
sassination at Sarsievo.
He gave parties. and Il came out
az the trial that he divided $4,000
with pals who were to help him.
lie knew what he WAS expected
10 do The crown prince OF Aus.
tria didn't have single chance for
his life that Sunday In Sarajevo
lie vas a dead man IS soon as he
entered the town.
If one OF the conspirators
missed him another was bound 10
get him. IL just happened that the
royal automobile came Gahrielles
way.
Tells Of Life In America
Midzor used TO be a secretary OF
one Of those Slavic lodges which.
from time to time, march thru the
city. carrying iettered banners no
one can read and celebrating holl-
days few Americans understand.
Every year be used to go TO Chi
cago TO = the convention OF the
: Slavic lodges.
He was always a part OF the con
vention parades OF Slays. Checks
and other queer Balkan people who
spend most OF their time In the
mines OF the United States and
who mystify Americans whenever
they come to the surface and dress
up In their Sunday clothes.
Knows All About v. 8.
The interesting thing about Mid
yor IL that. little as Americans
. know OF slavs. Midzor and many Of
HIS brethren know a great deal
4 about Americans.
Every Fourth OF July. Midzor
used to print his paper. Sloboda. in
! red
And his Fourth OF July edition al
ways carried a translation OF the
Z American Declaration OF Inde
yendence, In full.
In Serbian, Sioboda means Lib.
erty.