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Evening star., 1928-09-09
Ahmed Bey Fuda Head Ancient Tribe Comes Into Leadership of
Albania Plans Royal Marriage and Appears Before World Prot
of Mussoni-Creates Cosmopolitan City.

promise anything, everything. 1t has
been asserted in responsible quarters
that he promised all the oil in Albania,
all the customs receipts, the timber
land, the railway and port concessions.
the banking concession, and the very
soil OF Albania in perpetuity All these
things In the future, for two important
things In hand!
After six months of constructive
work, he appeared one day on the AL
banian border at the head of his army.
Again he was greatly outnumbered.
But he commanded hundreds of Rus
sian mercenaries, veterans of the World
War and the Wrangel campaign, who
had been eating their hearts out in
Serbia waiting for another fight He
had artillery commanders from the Ser
bian army He had plenty of money:
he had machine guns.
The Albanian soldier is as brave as
any In the world, but he thinks that
man against machine isn't fair. When
Fan Noli's small peasants and trades
men heard the rattle of these machine
guns, they simply walked home.
The machine gun squad became the
symbol of Ahmed Zogu's regime. After
establishing himself as President he
sent 1t on sort of circus tour through
all the cities and towns The squad
would appear in town one day, camp
in the public square and wait for trou-
BILE. If trouble started promptly, few
cranks of the wheel and all was over.
If not, the Zogu troops would poke
the hornets nest a Bit by means of
local reuuisitions and arrests. If they
produced no trouble, then the machine
guns were routed on to the next town.
After a few weeks of this the ma
tional assembly was very loyal to the
new regime, and Ahmed began paying
his debts. Within two months he had
given a slice of Albanian territory to
Serbia. the prize Albanian oil conces-
sion to a British company and the con-
cession for the national loan and bank
TO Italy.
X X
A HMED had frequently stated in in
"A terviews that he admired America
and wished to take her rs model for
his own country His f1r-> step in this
direction was to vote himself an Ameri-
an salary, $50,000 a year. His second
vas to import 40-piece American jazz
band for state functions and othes.
The cost of that band today figures
as a separate item in the national
budget.
Sleepy old Tirana took on new life.
It is a charming ancient Mahometan
village of some 5000 inhabitants-with
two-story white houses and narrow
lanes irclos9d by white plaster walls.
behind which repose large gardens and
Evening star., 1928-09-09

In June, 1924. Fan Noli's thousands
from the cities and the coast over
whelmed the reactionaries of Elbassan
and the Matt. Ahmed put up no fight
For he lacked two things. And he went
straight to Belgrade to get them.
During the six months exile, Byzan-
tine Witness was building a govern
ment while the nominal government
nourished only on democracy and vot-
Ing and high-minded Harvard principles
of government, was being starved
Ahmed was in touch with Serb, Italian
and British diplomats-and he was
willing to promise. He was willing to
Evening star., 1928-09-09

keeper. between the old Albania and the
new, became more bitter. At the head
of the rebels was the stocky black
bearded priest, Bishop Fan Noli. head
of the Albanian Orthodox Christian
Church.
Fan Noli had been educated at Har-
ward; Ahmed. at Constantinople. 1t
was Harvard against Constantinople,
and Harvard hadn't chance. Harvard
believed in democracy, and voting, and
popular representation, and liberty and
the League Of Nations Constantinople
trusted no man and orty two things
guns and money. u
Evening star., 1928-09-09


~ ors, seven kings and some two
IA score reigning princes and dukes
\ as a result of the World War,
Europe is about to recognize
new monarch.
BY universal petition" of his people
and by acclamation of his Parliament.
Ahmed Bey Zogu. President of Albania,
has transformed the Albanian Republic
into a monarchy and has assumed the
throne.
The CHIEF European governments have
systematically agreed to the creation OF
the new royal house, Sorely needed to
provide brides and bridegrooms for the
future younger generation OF the rela-
lively few remaining reigning dynastieS.
Credible runnor assigns to the new
King as bride the little Princess Gio-
wanna, daughter of the King Of Italy
Gf the former can manage by royal
fat to disentangle himself from his
present engagement). In any case, the
personality of this new Horatio Alger
hero, who rose from mountaineer farm
boy to a kingly throne at the age OF
"a, is one to provide new excitement
for jaded Europe
A few score miles back from Scutari
on the Adriatic Sea, you come into the
mountains of Matt, one of the most
inaccessible portions of the Balkan Pen
insula. Every half mile or so, on one
of the jagged hills, you will see small
square house of rough stone and plaster
foundation and flimsy wood superstruc-
ture, an affair of two or three rooms,
or perhaps one, the dwelling of peas
ant family
But once in a while you will come
upon big, long house, built in much
the same way, only more substantially.
Its basement offers shelter for the sheep
and cattle and Of the inhabitants hap
pen to be Christian) pigs. Its upper
stories may contain half a dozen rooms
which are ample for the housing of the
lord Of the estate, his wife or wives, his
children, their wives and children, un-
attached uncles. aunts brothers and
sisters of the lord, and a goodly number
OF guests. If the estate is rich one,
the house may contain two or three
beds, of which one is for the master
and one for the honored gueSt-or as
many honored guests as can CROWD
into it.
Such house was the ancestral home
OF his royal highness, Ahmed Bey
zcgu. There is nothing surprising In
this. Over across the mountains In
Nish, Constantine the Great was born
N tavern where his mother was bar
maid And bare hundred miles to the
north stands the four-room stone hut
;the one on the left next to the pigsty)
in which was born his late royal high
ness, Nicholas, King of Montenegro anc
father-in-law of the King of Italy.
x
THE Matt is a true fragment of an
cient teudal Europe, whose socia
evolution was stopped dead by the Turl
and has never changed Ahmed Zogui
father was bey-which simply implies
big landowner, although If you choos
to call hey a prince he won't object
The relation of the peasant to the loca
bey is strictly feudal Ia law and q
spirit. -------
Evening star., 1928-09-09
Phosphorus and Life.

EVERYTHING that lives draws the
elements necessary to its life from
what surrounds 1t or envelops it, I,neSc
elements are found in free stale. Is.
for instance. oxygen or in mineral
forms or water. Two of the funda.
mental elements are carbon and nitro
gen. These. with phosphorus, are in-
dispensable to the maintenance of life.
Phosphorus is found in the state of
phosphoric acid. combined with differ.
ent metallic elengs; in arabic ground
its common form Is phosphate Of cal
CUM
Evening star., 1928-09-09

hunt with dogs. as this matter of stalk
ing large game in that internetted
wilderness necessitates a mastery of
woodcraft possessed usually only by an
Indian or professional hunter.
Evening star., 1928-09-09

These archers motored from Wash
ington to Portsmouth and proceeded
thence by motor boat to Lake Drum
mond. where they had headquarters
during their 1ive-day hunting trip at
Evening star., 1928-09-09

kind with the aid of trained hounds.
They saw only one bear-a big fellow
but he was on the opposite side Of
picturesque lake and out of accurate
archery range.
Evening star., 1928-09-09

Messrs. Sisler and Moffett were un-
able to bring home the bacon-or
rather the bear-because of very un-
| favorable weather and their attempts
to stalk Bruin instead of hunting his
Evening star., 1928-09-09
BY HIRAM MOTHERWELL.

A FTER clearing away four emper-
n ors, seven kings and some two
IA score reigning princes and dukes
4 \ as a result of the World War,
n,irnt,n ic about To recNOf1ize a
Evening star., 1928-09-09
Washington Archers Hunt Wild Game With Bows and
BY GENE DAY.

IF any motion picture company Sc
lected the environs of our National
Capital as the setting for some new
4 movie entitled When Archery Was
Evening star., 1928-09-09

hobby, the two archers finally made q
target and began to practice once q
week on the Mall near the Smithsonian
Institution-the same plot used by the
original Potomac Archers and reserved
by the Government for that express
purpose Other archers became inter-
ested in the target-shooting contests.
Evening star., 1928-04-07
BALTIMORE "PRINCESS"
CHOSEN FOR FESTIVAL

Special Dispatch 20 The star.
WINCHESTER, Va. April 7.-Miss
Margaret Talbot Stevens, one Of the
chief directing heads Of the pageant OF
the Fair Of the Iron Horse, held al
Ealethorpe. Md. last Fall. win be "Prin-
cess Baltimore" at the Fifth Annual
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival
here late this month or the first Of May,
il was announced today By Ray Robin
son. director general Miss Stevens Is
known among railroaders as Aunt
MARY" although she is stfn said 10 be
IN her early 20s.
Miss Carrie Daniel Harper, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Harper, Lynch
burg. viii represent the twelfth Virginia
senatorial district, having been appoint
ed BY Senator z. Thurman Boyd. MisS
Nancy Mofett, daughter Of State Rep
regenta.aYe and Mrs. w. Stuart Moifett
Of the twenty-fourth Virginia district
and student Of Sweet Briar College, VIII
represent that district. Miss Ann Lotn.
6aEgFter OF State Senator and Mrs.
percy 10th, viii represent Augusta
County. Va.
Nest Virginia princesseS appointed ny
Serlator A, l. Hen1lick include Mlss
Janet Hall, daughter OF Rev. Dr.. and
Mrs. Hall, Moorefeld, representing
HARDY County, and Miss CazeDe Far
rock, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs, Frank
2, Parrock. kingwood, representing
Preston County.
Evening star., 1928-04-07
BOYS CHUM REVEALS CLUE.
Describes Man Who Inquired Way TO
Missing Lads Home.

Los ANGELES. April 7 R.-The
story told by small chum of 9-year-old
Walter Collins, of q short, bewhiskered
man who inquired his way TO the COL
hns home. was relied upon by the police
today as their strongest clue in the sup
posed kidnapping of the boy.
That man, Walters playmate, 12-
year-old Lloyd Tutor said. reSembled
one Of the two suspected former con-
victS whom the police are seeking in
connection with the case
Young Tutor told the officers that on
Friday, March 9, the day before the COL
lins boy disappeared. man driving q
touring car, stopped at the curb and
inquired the way TO the Collins home.
unteered TO carry the message.
NO, want to give IL TO him myself,
he quoted the man as saying. I'm
after his hide"
The ennity of the ex-convict suspects.
the police believe. had its inception
within the walls Of Folsom prison where
Walters father. Walter ]. S. Collins, Is
serving his third peniteatiary term.
The elder Collins wrote 70 Los Angeles
authorities that in connection with ms
duties IN supervising the work OF some
other prisoners he had incurred the
hatred of a gang Of eight, who believed
he had reported them to the guards.
The Tutor boys story further dove
tails into the case since suspect
one OF the two of the gang OF eight
who have been released from Folsom
is known 70 be driving touring car
like that described by the youngster.
Evening star., 1928-04-07
Working or Loahns

A great man. lately interviewed.
informs the awe-Struck multitude that
he's In love with toll: throughout the
long and golden day, at some fine task
he works away, he burns the mid
night oil. He sleeps as little as he can,
for Slumber is a loss TO man. 1t eats
up precious time: so many useful things
10 do. so many triumphS are in view,
that snoring is crime. II one is
built that way no doubt this plan is
useful to the scout determined TO sue
ceed: he may accomplish many things,
and gain a wreath and walk with kings,
and earn much chicken feed. 1t may be
he'd accomplish more II he would so to
bed and snore as other people do; II he
would sleep eight hours or nine his tri-
umphs might be doubly fine. and multi
piled by two. The great man might be
greater yet If he would cease to plan
and sweat in search of fame or loot,
and sit beneath his banyan tree and
Quaf a Stoup of ginger tea and smoke
task. but when it's done want to bask
in my large easy chair: enjoy the COM
forts Of my home. and read book and
idly comb the SandburS from my hair.
In union hours I'm not shirk. but
when it's time for quitting work lay
my Swatter down: I'd toll no more to
gain a throne. scepter or an extra
bone, or win world renown. Perhaps
the busy great men think they can't
afford TO sleep o wink while they can
keep awake: but they get stale like
other wightS who keep a-going days
and nights. and that's a great mistake.
WALT MASON.
fConyrirht. 1881
Evening star., 1928-04-07
ARMY PLANS BROAD
TACTICS PROGRAM
Most Elaborate Series Ever
Held in Peacetime Set
for Coming Season.

The most elaborate series of peace
time military maneuvers ever conducted
In this country will be held during the
coming Summer and Fall, according to
plans made public today by the War
Department.
The operations will be participated
in by Army units stationed in the
United States and its possessions, and
will bring together the various branches
of the service. The reserve force of the
country also will be brought into action.
Army-Navy Joint Operations.
The operations range from Army and
Navy joint exercises before the i'm
portant sea entrances to the country,
demonstrations separately and jointly
by the Air Corps. Cavalry. Artillery and
Infantry down through the National
Guard organizations to the citizens
militar Y training camps where more
than 10000 young men will receive
80 days training, many OF them being
introduced to military life for the first
time.
The defenses of Long Island Sound,
which guard the eastern entrance to
New York Harbor, will be the scene of
intensive Coast Artillery battle practice
some time in June.
Chesapeake Bay Defenses.
The problem OF defending the en-
trance to Chesapeake Bay. behind which
lie important commercial industries
and the Capital of the Nation. will be
worked upon by joint endeavOr of the
Air Corps, Coast Artillery and Navy.
These exercises will take place between
May 8 and % and will bring into play
the great 16-inch guns of the railway
artillery as well as the heavy coast de-
Tense guns in the permanent fortifica-
tions. 1t will be the most extensive
peace time practice in which the rail-
way artillery has ever engaged.
Air Corps to Cooperate.
The Air Corps will cooperate in prac-
tically all Of the exercises. but will con-
duct bombing practice and other prob
lens independently. Maj. Gen. Ben
jamin d. FoulOis, assistant chief OF the
Army Air Corps will conduct the inde-
pendent exercises in various parts Of
Field, Va. May /. there will be Ave
day battle practice of concentrated Air
Corps units for the development Of fight
tactics for both attack and pursuit
aviation and the bombing of targets
Similar exercises will be conducted by
Gen. Foulois at Fort Bragg. N. c.. May
7: Fort Benning. Ga. May 9-10; Fort
Still. Okla. May 16; Fort Riley, Kans.,
May 10. and Fort Leavenworth. Kans.,
May %.
Fort Leonard Wood. formerly Camp
Meade. in Maryland will be the scene
of maneuvers in which will be utilized
all types of motorized forces. Many
new developments in motorized imple-
Evening star., 1928-04-07
THE STAR FILES P. O. STATEMENT
Clrculation Of Past Six Months.


Statement ownership management circulation Of
Evening published daily Sunday Star published
Editor Theodore Washington
Washington publisher Evening Star
B. president Washington D.
trustees Frank b.
p
w. Adams Beale
Adams Howard
K. Philip
H Kaufmann Miranda Noyes
Newbod Adams Howard
Miranda
Greenwich and Barbara K. Murray Dunkrk. NJ Y.
bondhode other security holders, hold
mortgages other
securities,
Circulation Figures
Of the publication sold
months ended March 81, 1928:
Average Net Circulation.
Daily Sunday.
................. 10O,24 1089l5
Circulation of copies -
service etc) .................... 1,56 873
Total Average Net Circulation ........ 1012so
(Signed) FLEMING NEWBOLD.
tSeal) YOUNT.
Notary Public
Evening star., 1928-04-07
'COL. L.EASTERBR00k
|SCA|EF CHAPLAIN
Military Leaders Attend In
StalIation of Veteran at
War Department.

In the presence Of Mai. Gen. Charles
p. Summerall. chief Of staff, other high
Army officials and several per-
sonal friends, Chaplain Edmund p.
Easterbrook was formally installed in
his new office as chief Of Army chap
lains, with the advanced rank Of
colonel, at the War Department this
morning. The oath Of Office was ad-
ministered by Judge Advocate General
John A. Hull.
Col. Easterbrook fills the vacancy at
the head Of the Chaplains' Corps occa-
stoned by the retirement Of Col. John
T. Axton on account of disability. He
represents the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and began his military service
as chaplain in the I'd and 202d New
York Volunteer Infantry during the
Spanish War of 1893. In 1900 he vas
appointed chaplain in the Regular
Army, and served with the 18th United
States Infantry in the Philippines dur
ing the insurrection, with the 69th Coast
Artillery in France during the World
War. and subsequently as senior chap
lain Of the American forces in Germany.
Since his return from Germany he
served as post chaplain at Fort Monroe.
Va. until February, 1927. and then as
Houston. Tex, to date.
He was born in England in 1865. and
is graduate of Torquay College. Eng
land. and the Drew Theological Semi
nary. Madison, N. j. In 1921 he re-
ceived the degree of d. D. from the
College OF Puget Sound. Wash.
Evening star., 1928-04-07
ESCAPES WAR INJURY,
KILLED BY GANGMEN
State Police Officer, Ex-Soldier,
Shot to Death by Ice
box Bandits"
By the Associated Press.


PUTNAM, Conn. April 7.-Un-
Scathed as a member of a machine
gun battalion which had active service
in France. Irving H. Nelson, State
police officer. was killed by bullets of
fugitive ''icebox bandits" Today search
for the Slayers centered at Dudley,
Mass. where they abandoned an auto
mobile.
Looking for men who fed in an auto
mobile after running gun fight with a
motor cycle oficer in Springfield. Mass,
Nelson stationed himself at a cross road
last night in Pomfret. Conn. when he
ordered a car to stop, six shots were
fired at him. Two took effect.
Nelson's home was in Putnam. Dur
ing the war he was a member of the
lo2 Machine Gun Battalion. 26th Divi-
sion.
In Springfield Cycle Oficer Raymond
Gallagher was knocked from his ma
chine by car he had ordered 70 stop
Fourteen shots were fired at him and
he fired three. The car he was stopping
had been stolen in Worcester. Mass. II
was the same one which Nelson tried
later to stop, and which was found at
Dudley
Gallagher was looking for "icebox
bandits" who have been locking clerks
in iceboxes after robbing stores.
Evening star., 1928-04-07

ments of war will be tried out under
service conditions for the first time.
Cavalry maneuvers will be held in.
Texas. where at separate times the en-
tire 1st Cavalry Division and the 2nd
Cavalry Division win be utilized. The
dates of these two maneuvers will be
determined by the commanding general
of the 9th Corps Area.
Four elementary problems involving
communication have been worked out
for troops in the principal Army corps
areas and in the Philippines, Panama
and Hawaii. The generals commanding
these areas are to determine the dates
for the exercises.
In addition to the Citizens Military
Training Camps which will be held in
various parts of the country during
July and August, the National Guard
of each State will hold annual encamp-
ment, and training camps will give
instruction to members of the Officers
Reserve Corps. The service schools Of
the Army. conducted for postgraduate
courses in each branch of the service,
will be filled with officers
Evening star., 1928-04-07
ORATORy WINNERS
INCREASED BY TWO
D. c. Private School and vir.
ginia High School Sc
Iect Contestants.

Sidwelrs Friends School, 1911
street. and the Lovettsville High School
Of Loudoun County, Va. announced the
winners of their respective school finals
in the Fifth National Oratorical Con-
test today, to add two more names to
the ever-mounting list of contenders for
forensic honors in The Stars area Of
the contest
Arthur Meigs, l6-year-old son of DR..
Edward B. Meigs, 1896 NJ street, will
represent the Sidwell School In It's
specified group meet Of the private and
parochial schools district series. and
Katherine E. Rickard. 17-year-old
daughter Of w. c. Rickard Of Lovetts-
vile. vii speak for the Loyettsville High
School In the assigned group meet Of
the Virginia schools district
Legal Career Preferred.
Young Meigs won his school finals
with an Grafton on THE Constitution
as Basis Of Americas Importance" in
which he developed one OF the assigned
themes, THE Present Significance of
the Constitution" Arthur is president
of the junior class at Sidwells, and al
though his father is a psychologist. the
young orator himself is ambitious to be-
come lawyer. When he completes his
high school course at the Friends
School, in 1929. he plans to enter
Princeton University to prepare himself
for his chosen career
Miss Richard captured her school
honorS with her speech on The Con-
stitution as the Bedrock of Americas
PreSent-Day Power and Happiness" In
her Grafton Miss Rickard elaborated on
the same assigned theme which Meigs
chose. She is Secretary-treaSurer of
the junior class at the Lovettsville
School. Following her graduation from
high school this young lad proposes
to launch out upon a business career.
will Give Grafton Again.
The Sidwelrs School champion will
deliver his grafton again when he enters
the group contest in Friends Meeting
House, 1909 / street. the third of the
groups series Of the private and pa
rochial schools district. At that time
he will compete with the champions of
the Dewitt Preparation, School. Emer-
son Institute. Gunston Hall and the
woodward School for Boys. The win
ner of that competition will receive the
right to contend for the championship
of the private and parochial schools
district and cash award Of $40. along
with a place in the The Star finals.
Miss Richards next battle in the
contest will be fought In the fourth
group meet of the Virginia district.
when she will compete with the rep
resentatives of the Hillsboro High
School. the Leesburg High School. the
Round Hill High School. the Waterford
High School and the Lincoln High
School. The cash award offered in
that competition will be The Stars
standard group meet prize of $40. and
the winner win receive also the right
to compete In the Virginia district
finals for the championship of that
district and the consequent right to
enter The Star finals.
Evening star., 1928-04-07
LITER" Granted One Years Suspension
To Prove His Innocence In Murder Case

testimony of Jaouets widow who was
also charged with murder.
For eight years Bujardin has been
serving the sentence and attempting re-
peatedly to have the case reopened and
now he has finally succeeded.
A special officer in the states attor-
ney's Office was ordered by the Prussian
cabinet to investigate the case. He
found numerous errors in the proce-
dure. These were explained on the
ground of the disordered conditions
prevalent after the revolution.
A years suspension was granted to
Buiardin so that he might prepare his
case unhampered.
Evening star., 1928-04-07
EXPANSION PLANNED
BY MONTGOMERY BODY

spee3sl Dispatch 10 The star.
ROCKVILLE. nd, April THE
,so1,gomery County Civic Federation
has sent Invitations 10 the large num-
bry OF up-county community Leagues,
oarent-teacheT aSSocls Ions and other
civic organizations W send representa-"
tayes OF its monthly meeting in the
Rockville fire engine house MONDAY
evening
Organizations not now members oi
TIE federation viii be urged 70 afaliaA,
a,ad George H. Lamar, chairman oi q
committee recently named by the teo~
GRAFTON W make q survey 0f county gov
eminent. has announced that ne y1ll
ask that the committee VI 10 ne en"
IsTgec.