Medford Mail Tribune
Second
Section
Thirtieth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1933.
No.
Six Pages
PETER, BOY KING,
DENIED PLM IN
Must Be Prepare! to Take
Over Duties in Six Years
Four of Nine Predeces
sors Were Assassinated
By Stewart Brown
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia (UP)
King Peter n of Jugoslavia has the
toughest Job ever set before an 11-year-old
boy.
In slightly more than six years he
must be prepared to take over the
burdens borne by his father, the late
King Alexander, who was murdered
by a Macedonian terrorist in Mar
seilles last fall.
On Sept. 6. 1941, Kmgeter, whe
then will be 18, will assume active
responsibility for & territory of 96.000
square miles with a population of
14.000,000 persons of many different
races, religions and often bitterly
conflicting political opinions.
Four of King Peter's ntne prede
cessors on the throne were assassi
nated, while of the remaining five
only three died in bed during their
rule. The other two abdicated.
Despite the uncertainties and dan
gers of his position, little King Peter
Is hard at work on the difficult task
before htm, as was verified by tho
writer on a trip to this city.
Just at the time most bays are
freshmen or sophomores in college,
King Peter must abandon his studies
and sit on the throne which until his
majority (181 Is being guarded by a
Regency Council headed by his fath
er's cousin. Prince Paul.
To assimilate the necessary knowl
edge to rule his kingdom, Peter is
subjected to an intensive education
al program. A staff of tutors and pro
fessors keep him hard at work on
languages, history, geography and the
sciences. Of all the subjects, he likes
the sciences best.
He Is a antural mechanic, one of
his tutors told the United Press. He
operates his own miniature automo
bile which Is capable of & speed of
35 miles an hour. He has his own
motorboat and several small-scale
airplanes.
MAP OUTLINES WEYERHAEUSER KIDNAP CHASE
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CAUrQgNIA I ' .NEVADA , CVMP 'v
ABOUT WAR PLANS
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Illustrated in this Associated Press map are the kidnaping near Tacoma of George Weyerhaeuser,
9, the abductors' route to Spokane, where the boy was held; his release at Issaquah; the passing of the
first ransom bill at Huntington, Ore., for a railroad ticket to Salt Lake; the arrest and confession there
of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Waley; the flight of a mysterloua tan car and the abandonment near Butte of
an automobile containing $15,000 of the $200,000 ransom monev.
Money His Chief Worry
His worst worry Is money. His
mother. Dowager Queen Marie, put
him on a limited allowance , which the
youthful King found too small for
his requirements.
He asked, his mother for more
money. She refused, saying he must
learn to make economies. To this Pe
ter replied:
"Very welt, I will learn a trade and
make more money for myself."
He did. Prom his spending money
he bought and equipped a carpenter's
shop. He made small objects which
the Queen allowed him to sell to pri
vate persons. The demand is greater
than Peter's time to meet It. Btit now
he has more money.
Peter's day starts at 7 a. m. when,
after prayers, he breakfasts with his
family. After breakfast he walks In
the park with his mother and two
smaller brothers, Tommy and Andre.
At 0 a. m. the young monarch must
lay aside his royal authority and start
school work. He Is prompt to report
for work, but when the weather Is
good he Insists on having his lessons
out-of-doors.
He has 16 hours of lessons a week,
and an additional 6 hours of physical
education. The Dowager Queen Is anx
ious to put her somewhat delicate
son in the best physical condition
before he takes the throne.
Takes Rigorous Exercise
To build up his body he does the
gymnastic exercises of the Soknls
(sort of military Yugoslav Boy
Scouts), rides, swims and sklls. Ac
cording to his tutors he does all of
them well.
His Intimates say the young King
refuses to seize things superficially
and Insists on getting everything
thoroughly and exact. One day he
asked his professor why trees have
leaves.
"To breathe," answered the teach
er. "Then why." came back the quick
question, "do trees lose their leaves
in winter? How do they breathe
then?"
Peter Is Popular
Such stories are legion In Belgrade.
The young King Is immensely popu
lar and everyone sympathizes with
him because of the difficulties ahead
for him. His photograph Is In nearly
every office, every shop window and
every home In Serbia. Not so In Croa
tia where the Croats feel no loyalty
to the son of the king who allegedly
forced them Into an unequal union
with the Serbs.
Every morning Peter faithfully
picks a handful of flowers from the
garden and places them before the
picture of his father. He will let no
body else in the house perform this
task. The boy already realizes the
difficult role he Is to piny and his
meln la serious. Barely does h laugh
and romp about with his brothers as
he did before last year's tragedy.
Oklahoma Infant
Likes His Cigar
Mc A LESTER. Okla. (UP) Most
babies like Ice cream cones or candy
but two-year-old John M. Mullican,
Jr.. will have a clgnr. If you don't
mind.
There's nothing like a good cigar,
or even a chew of tobacco, for him.
The smoking habit isn't exactly
"new" to the boy, his father said. In
fact, he said, the boy began using to
bacco at the age of seven months. It
was his father's pipe.
Mrs. Mullican said the habit nas
not Injured the baby's health.
Some Believe Dictator Re
creating Nation's Military
Strength to Distract Peo
ple From Economic Woe
By FKEDKKICK Ki ll
LONDON (UP) That Germany
believes her chances of winning the
next war are better than in the last
is the impression of competent mili
tary observers.
Since Germany admitted vast se
cret rearmament, Europeans have dis
carded the word "if" in favor of
"when" In discussing war prospects.
But Inquisitive non-Germans, In
gauging the chances and timing of
the next.war, have encountered per
plexities. They have been asking whetner
Germany can expect to win another
war. If she precipitates one. And
they have wondered, even If Germany
could defeat France or any two Eu
lopean powers, whether tho old Allies
would reassemble. Others have been
pondering whether the United States
would stay out of the next Europoan
struggle. The more optimistic have
surmised that Adolf Hitler Is recreat
ing the nation's military strength and
building up a proper martial spirit
merely to distract the people from
ecanomla troubles, without myj in
tention ever to go to war.
Par from being naive, these ques
tions, with variations and enmeshed
In Intricate detail, have also been pre
occupying European statesmen.
That Hitler regards war as an In
strument of national policy has been
admitted candidly in his autobiogra
phy. "My Struggle."
In that book he wrote with equal
frankness of his dream of expanding
the German realm In Eastern Europe,
recognizing that force would have to
bo .used to realize that objective. Hit
ler's advisor on foreign policy, Alfred
Rosenberg, has made clear that It Is
Soviet Ukralna on which a covetous
eye is cast. Hitler has never repudi
ated this plan. And his remarks to
Sir John Simon, British Foreign Sec
retary ,ln Berlin In March made clear
that he regards Russia as the Imme
diate enemy.
Vengeanre War Disavowed
Though his memoirs also envisaged
a German war of vengeance against
France as necessary, he has since dis
avowed these assertions.
By establishing a conscript army of
600.000 and harnessing the bulk of
German industries to production of
I munitions and other materials needed
in wartime. Hitler incidentally has
reduced unemployment and diverted
millions of Germans from an Idleness
and discontent which might have he
come menacing. But Judging by his
own book, this aspect appears subor
dinate to Hitler's paramount aim of
restoring Germany's military might
and her "place in the sun."
Hitler Is believed even by his bit
terest enemies when he says he Is
not now contemplating war. Experts
Insist that he will require at least
several years to train millions of re
serve troops and rebuild the navy to
parity with Franco Involving an in
crease from Germany's present 180,000
to about 600.000 tons of warships.
Time Needed to Win Allies
Above all, however. Hitler requires
ample time to win allies.
Within two years he has made
headway In that direction. He has
succeeded In undermining the mllt
tary alliance between France and her
most important ally. ohmd. He has a
staunch friend in Hungary. Tempted
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by German trade and at least tem
porarily alienated from Prance fol
lowing the Franco-Italian reconcilia
tion, Yugoclavla has from time to
time "flirted" with Germany as a pos
sible ally against Italy. And Hitler
clings fast to his faith that Austria
must and will be united with the
Reich.
Britain remains the big question
mark. Bound to Prance not only by
sentimental ties lingering from the
World War, but also by fear of the
large and growing German alr-forcc,
within striking distance of London,
the British have been torn betweeu
an Impulse to cement the ring
around Germany and a desire to ob
serve neutrality in the hope of keep
ing out of the next war.
Britain In Strong Position
Britain's decisive voice In European
counsels has largely been due to the
balance of power between Prance and
Germany. Indications are that Brit
ain will not voluntarily forfeit this
vantage point in favor of Joining any
continental allinnce.
Hitler consequently may be specu
lating on Britain's possible neutrality
In the next war.
Moreover, Hitler Is said to be con
vinced that the United States will
strongly resist being dragged Into an
other European conflagration, that
isolationism there has Increased and
that America's engagement In the
next European conflict would Hive
Japan an Ideal opportunity for cap
turing lasting supremacy in the west
ern Pacific and on the Asiatic main
land. Including China. Others, hew
ever, have pointed otu that th
United States would almost certaiUij
be involved If Japan were to aid th
, Germans.
Meanwhile, the recent addition o(
Russia to Prance's actual If not yes
formal allies has undoubtedly ad
ministered a setback to Germany's
world position. But tne German Nazi
and army leaders have toyed with the
Idea of a German-Japanese entente
with a view to dispersing the Red
army and Soviet air-force across th
5,000 miles between Russia's eastern
and western borders.
WHEAT PURCHASE BY
GOVERNMENT AWAITED
PENDLETON, Ore. June 14. (AP)
Action Is expected at Washington
soon on the proposed purchase of
3.000.000 bushels of northwest wheat.
The program for the purchase has
been presented to Resident Roose
velt for his sanction, according to a
telegram received here from Senator
Stelwer.
WALTHAM. Mass. (UP) Angelo
Castellana, barber, who was arrested,
in his shop on a charge of possessing
lottcrly tickets, left a half -shaven
customer In the chair to "wait."
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