The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-10-26


=. H. noo'"- this sum and coun-
son. IT. try-wide hunt for him
was at once begun. His wife and
father were arrested, charged with
completely in the kidnapping. Mrs. Robin
son, however, was said to have protect
ed Mrs. Stoll to the best Of her ability
and it was she who returned the abb
Quoted woman to her relatives, aban-
doning her crazy husband.
In Detroit one Edward Lickwala,
youth with a police record, was ar
rested for attempting to extort $1,000
from Edsel Ford under threats Of death.
He was promptly indicted by federal
grand jury, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to serve ten years in the
Leavenworth penitentiary.
MYTH overpowering pomp and cere-
w mony Alexander /, assassinated
king Of Jugoslavia, was laid to rest
with his fathers, the founders Of the
Karageorgevitch dynasty. Nearly every
nation on earth was represented at the
funeral rites. King Boris Of Bulgaria
and King Carol of Rumania were there,
as was President Lebrun Of France.
King Victor Emmanuel Of Italy was
represented by the duke of Spoleto,
and Chancellor Hitler of Germany by
Gen. Hermann William Goering, premier
of Prussia, who flew from Berlin. Eng
land sent Prince George, now duke of
Kent. Other notables present were
Prince Cyril of Bulgaria, delegation
from Poland, Foreign Minister D. Maxi
mos of Greece. Foreign Minister DR..
Tevfik Rustu Bey of Turkey, Foreign
Minister DR.. Eduard Benes Of Czecho-
slovakia, Foreign Minister Nicholas IT.
tulescu of Rumania, Prince Nicholas of
Rumania, and Undersecretary of JUS
tice Karl Karwinsky of Austria, with
many others.
Belgrade was thronged with many
thousands of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes. One entire village of 900
peasants arrived from Herzegovina,
picturesque crowd many Of whom had
sworn not to shave for three months in
token of their grief.
For two days Alexander's body lay
in state in the palace while the people
passed by the bier. Then it was re-
moved to the cathedral for requiem
high mass, after which there was two
mile procession to the railway station.
From there the body was conveyed to
Topolo, So miles from the capital, and
inferred in the family mausoleum.
FRENCH police having caught three
of the companions of "Kalemen,"
really Tschernocemskz, who slew Alex
ander and Louis Barthou in Marseilles,
the authorities of half dozen coun-
tries were making progress in unravell-
ing the assassination plot.
From the confessions Of those cap
tured and from the investigations Of
the police of France and Belgrade it
was learned that Kalemen was a no.
torious Macedonian terrorist named
valda Georgeff Tschernocemskz who
killed two Bulgarian political leaders
several years ago. He and his asso-
ciates in the plot were directed in their
murderous work by mysterious mas
ter mind" and the authorities assert
this man, whom the assassins knew
as ''the DOCTOR" controlled the activi-
ties of several distinct terrorist bands
who were ignorant Of one another's
moves.
DR.. Ante Pavelic, described as the
leader of the Croatian terorists,
and Eugent Kvaternik, his aid,
were arrested in Turin, Italy Just
as Alexander was being buried in Jugo-
slavia. Kvaternik was known as the
delegate" and was supposed to have
acted as liaison man for Pavelic, MAX
ing contact with the Marseilles as
sassins.
The police had hunted them through
out Europe. Kvaternik was trailed as
far as the village of Etaples in France,
where the trail was lost. Pavelic, how
ever, was known to be in Italy, and
the search turned there. on the theory
that the two would get together.
Continental police were still hunting
for Maria vjoudroch. blond siren, who
is supposed to have struggled into
France the murder weapons. and Gus
tav Perchec, alleged to have conducted
the Croatian exile murder farm" at
Janka Bufta, Hungary, where the as
sassins held target practice.
Premier Doumergue's French cabi-
net was considerably changed as a re-
suit of the. tragedy in Marseilles. AL
bert Sarraut, minister Of the interior,
and Henri Cheron, minister of justice,
resigned and were replaced respective
ly by Paul Marchandeau and Henri
Lemery Laval was made minister
Of foreign affairs to succeed Barthou
and his place as minister of colonies
was given to Louis Rallin.