Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1921, Page 18

18 JUGOSLAVIA SEEN AS FUTURE POWER Being Welded Into Real Na- tion, Serb Envoy’s Re- call Shows. BY HERBERT COREY. Each hundredth man in the United States is a Croatian, according to some statisticians. Usually found in the neighborhod of steel mills or iron foundries. Husky, enduring. frugal fellows. _Prolific, patriotic and perse- vering. Once apon a time they saved their money and went home at_the end of seven years' hard labor. Now they stay here. Life in the Balkans has been a bit hectic during the last decade. t is why Slavko K. Grouitch, Jugaslavian minister to the United Statds, is going back to Serbia in the next few days. He has been a very minister, indeed, but he is a and there are but 20,000 Serbs in the United States. Inasmuch as i8 now a part of Jugoslavia, quitd as much as is Serbia, it is prob- ablejthat he will be replaced here by a droatian The Jugosiavs seem that this is only fair. deduction to be made from this is that Jugoslavia is being into a real nation from an gation of states whose one tie e MEaL of Dlood. Thers ars other evidences. Prince Alexander of Ser- bia, it is reported, is to marry Prin- ocess Mary. who is the only daughter ot George and Queen Mary of England. Events in the recent past have inclined the average reader to regard the average royal marriage as of the same relative importance as the watermelon crop in Ireland, but the average reader is wrong. A roval e in European diplomacy is a sort of an underwriting of the se- curity of a country. The two persons most concerned are sometimes consulted in about the same fashion in which a pair of proud par- ents copsult with the son and heir as! to the college he will honor. into the conversation, but with a very limited right of veto. The Prince of ‘Wales has thus far evaded the matri- monial halter. Princesses have been picked for him, but he has refused to ratify. It is a safe bet, however, that wheri he marries the lady will be a princess. He may vamp peeresses and lebéians, but in Westminster Cathe- dral he will stay inside the blood lines. How France Is Affected. If & marriage has becn arranged, then, between Prince Regent Alexan- der of Jugoslavia and Princess Ma of England it means that the two £0, ernments have been consulted. Down- ing street has looked over Jugos! and has decided it wi sleeve status—Great Britan is form- ing a sort of an informal political alliance at the time the royal bonds are being welded. It is what a rude American would call good politics. Her friend and ally France is being nudged out of a control she has been aiming at in cegtral Europe. France has been the bes the little entente. which of Jugoslavia, Czec friend of the practical sort and has been recip- rocated. The little entente is a fairly sound affair. The three countries are fertile, well mineraled in spots and populated by a sturdy, hard-fighting, - dound-hearted peasantry. Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were carved out of what was once Austria-Hungary. ‘The Jugoslavs were never on the best of terms with either Bulgaria or Greece. Neither was Rumania. “So the formation of the little entente was in accordance with the rule of t Balkans, which is to prepare for war in times of peace. Not many months ago the outlook was stormy. Jugoslavia was not on good terms with Italy. thanks to 1¥Annunzio and the Fiume affair. France and Italy were growling at each other a bit. Then Prince Charles of Austria-Hungary played the part of peacemaker. The dear fellow didn't know it, of course. With that keen acunfen so often displuyed by princes rmanic bloo: tness the latest nce of William Hohenzollern, who fhas secured possession of the DutcB goat by selling off a bit of the Eistoric estate at Doorn in which he has Been permitted to hide his dimin- royal head — Prince Charles thought that all he had to do was to showf himself in his former domain to tart’ the sturdy yeomanry rallying around him. He could practically see them rally. according to all aceounts. But when he got there he found that to the ma- jority of those who were once Austria- Hungarians he was s popular as a billygoat in a parlor. The big entente fussed and parley-vooed a good deal, but the little entente began to roll up its sleeves. Its leaders announced that if Prince Charles did not catch an early train out of there they would come over and cntch him, and after they caught him the game law would be declared off on Austrian rovalties. Italy—which is a most practical and commonsense country- little entente. So. C to Switzerland. The Swiss, according to the latest reports, are to give him the royal razz. iAn Important Assurance. event seems to have produced and ghe little entente in general, and Jugoflavia in particular: which is a fact gthat must rile Prince Charle wherf he spells it out in the pape Frange and England likewise sup- portdl the little entente. 50 that there | in the Balkans instead of the o long until world war. q -, perhaps, ugosiavia is a s pustry for a roffal princess to marry into may be fofnd in the recent adoption of the consdftution. Lots of good judges thouffht it could never I But it h Jugbslavia is made u crbial Croafa, Slovenia, Bos v and Pontenegro. In the good old days they §were all more or less antago- nisti§ in spite of the tie of Serbian bloodcommon to them all. The Croats and @Slovenes, under the Austrian monafchy, had fought the others. Theygare of different religions. too, and §hey take religion hard in the Ins. The leaders of the various wished to preserve their state jties. When it came to adopt a lans were offered. ic, involving the five states as federated in the Jugoflavian kingdom. The other was for gation-wide statehood, in which the iflentity of the states was to be mergld in that of the kingdom. Prime Miniger Pachitch fought for this lat- ter flan, and it was adopted at the g of the Jugoslavian parlia- ment¥a few days ago by a majority of fojty. kingdom is to be divided into departments, each under a prefe and in turn divided into sub- prefeftures, each of which will elect memfiers of parliament. The first par- t to be elected in the new king- or that which has been func- hold-over—will take of- Already a plan for the new state by means of issue in the United States has ached. It is asserted the se- offered will be ample, as the js states are not heavily in debt. and Slovenia will likely repu- the hangover debt from the de- ustria-Hungary. was for a time hostility be- Serbia proper and Croatia. The s, basing their demands upon fighting record of their coun- 5. o of their own. Zaghreb. the capi- a, iz a beautiful town. Its and museum are especially in_ con- tents. This ancient feeling seems to e submerged, however, and . when Prince Regent Alexander 'visit- .ed Zaghreb unannounced not long ago and wandered incognito about town in a fmotor car he was cheered away his departure by a throng ‘of 20,000 had gathered at the railway sta- He gets | CROWDS WATCH LIQUOR BEING TAKEN FROM CAR Rumrunners Calmly Take Load Into Cumberland in Broad Daylight. Special Dispateh to The Star. - CUMBERLAND, Md., June 11—Cum- berland’s bootleg liquor supply for the over-Sundey trade was further replenished between 3 and 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, it s reported, when a large touring car, with side curtains up, and carrying a Pen sylvania license, made one of the district. The reported load came fro Pittsburgh. The delivery was made in an alley entered from North Mechanic street. between the Cumberland Laundry plant and the McAvoy building, when a number of heavily laden handbags, suit cases and a trunk of bottled goods were taken from the machine by several foreigners and natives and placed in the cellar of a near-beer saloon on Baltimore street, also con- ducted by a foreigner. Approximately a hundred people saw the proceedings, including & number of young women. While the foreigners were In a hurry and ap- peared scared, the drivers of the tour- ing car were in a jovial and happy mood and joked with the crowd, with jests and laughter over their mis Sion. They bid the crowd “good-by’ when they drove away. The car came slowi echanic street, which is torn up ith repaving work, with the c {ionts of the car covered with blan- ets, while the occupants posed as tourists. It was with difficulty the car could get in the alley. and street workmen bore @ hand in help. Later it became known in the neighborhood | what was going on back in the alley und scores came to look on. The alley’ was soon filled with sight- seo It is estimated by a former liguor dealer that at least $5.000 worth of intoxicants were in the car. Moonshine liquor was widely dis- tributed in the city Saturday night and could be obtained in various iplaces. For some time bootleggers ive adopted the method of bringing {moonshine in milk cans from the stills to local dealers. The milk cans are carried any time during the day into these near-beer saloons as sup- posed buttermilk. Some bootleggers oven splash milk on the outside of the can. Quart jars are also used by coun- try moonshiners. who paint the jars white outside to represent cotfage cheese, in hauling it to Cumberland. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md. June 11 cial).—The annual (Spe- closing exercises +10f the Sandy Spring High School were | the assembly hall at the |S iheld in school last evening. Prof. D. W. Powers, principal of the school, was in charge. The address to the gradu- ates was delivered by Dr. George H. Reavis, assistant state superintendent of schools. The graduates were Margaret Elwanor Brown. Mary Vir- ginia Carroll, Maud Howard Williams, Dalton Edgar Erwin,-Joseph Elliott Janney and Marshall Nichols. Mrs. Nettie L court from Joseph Andrews. understood to rges desertion. s the co to award her the custody of their two children. Mrs. Andrews At the annual closing exercises of the high school at Fairland, this county. graduating diplomas were presented to Maria A. Santinie, Mary E. Hobbs. Annie M. Miles, Ma: Downs, Catharine E. Harding, W. Johnson, Delma L. Bryan and 2 R Rich. Addresses were delivered by Dr. Walter Adams, Odorian W. Boby and Wilson G. Johnson and the pro- gram also included essays and other features. The exercises were in charze of the principal, E. B. At the annua) closing exe the Rockville High School. t in the grammar school and primary de- on the honor roll: Second grade— Hamilton Earp, Isadore Steinberg, Preston B. Norris, Robert Maddox, Edgar Gartner. Earl Weaver, Herbert Beall, Valentine Wilson, Bernard Vinson, Worthington Pumphrey, George Lamar, John Gandy. Clark Coupard, Jane Welliver. Margaret White, Elizabeth let Ricketts, Edward Schaeffer, Law- rence Matthews and Frances Lambert. third ~grade—Charles Brewer. Car- ville Hemp, Theodore Mason, Carl R. Tuckea, Ethlyn Brown, Hazel Ben- nett, Leona Harmon, Mary F. lIsrael, Annie B. Knight, Mary Soper, Virginia Beall, Somer. ville Dawson, William Nicholson, Leonard Nicholson, Bernard Welsh, Lillie B. Bohley and Evelyn Bates Fourth grade—Mildred Ward, Virginia Erewer. John Brewer, Martha Wil- |liams Willia Bouic, Aniceto C. Cara- {tallo, Aylene Coupard, Adriam Fisher, Julia Montgomery, Urna Poole, Lowry Riggs, Willlam Steinberg, Fairfax Walters _and John Willson. _Fifth grade—Carl Ramey., Jack Spates, Robert Stowell, St. Clair Brooke, Ruby Gott, Susie Gowan, Betty Has- sclblatt, Ethel Mathers. 'Sixth grade —Anita Lamar, Catherine _ Beall, Catherine Dawson, Loretta Hunter, Helen Ramey, Catherine Shaw, Lever- William Mason, Sarah liam Welsh and William | Mason. 'Seventh grade—Viers Buck, lizabeth Davis, Jean Ray, 'Bliza- beth Robertson, Betty Willson, George Bates and John Hickerson. Christian Church, marriage here this afternoon of Miss and Frank Winstead of Washington. IDECKER GUILTY, OTHERS IN FAMILY TO BE TRIED of His Double Carries Life Term as Punishment. WARSAW, TInd. June 11.—Mrs Lydia Decker and her two sons, Fred and Calvin, will probably be tried soon on the charge of murdering Le- a twenty-year-old Elk- Virgil Decker, nineteen years old, terday by a jury and his punishment fixed at life’ imprisonment. Virgil, according to the state's contentiom, | committed the murder as part of a plot to obtain $24,000 insurance. Lovett, it is alleged, was picked as the murder victim because of his re- semblance to Virgil Decker, the plan being to murder Lovett and then identify his body as that of Decker in_order that the insurance money might be collected. County officials sald they would at- tempt fo obtain an early trial of the three members of the Decker family still under indictment. Virgil prob- ably will be held here until the trials are completed. Mrs. Decker was not informed until today of Virgil's conviction. She ut- tered an exclamation, but made no comment on the verdict. Virgil li tened to the jury's verdict last even- ing without emotion and refused to discuss it. FALL FROM TREE FATAL. Mrs. Martha Enight of Irvington Killed in Gathering Cherries. Special Dispateh to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., June 11— Mrs. Martha Knight, a well known resident of Irvington, Lancastér coun- ty, fell from a cherry tree Thursday while gathering cherries, and her neck was broken. She was sixty-five years of age and is survived by one daugh- ter, Mra, Roney T 7 27 7 72 2 down North {3 2% 2 Andrews of this| county has filed suit in the circuit! here for an absolute divorce | lLie a resident of Pittsburgh. The bill | partments were announced as being ! Montgomery, | Thomas Mobley, Anne M. Offutt, Vio-} Mary Fisher, ) 722 Rev. O. C. Barnes, pastor of the. officiated at the! 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