Word: georgieff
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Master Mind. In addition to the three accomplices of Assassin Vlada Georgieff who were caught fortnight ago in France, the Jugoslav and French detectives working on the case last week got track of the murder gang's "master mind." He proved to be the onetime Croat Deputy they had suspected from the first, burly, square-jawed Dr. Ante Pavelitch (TIME...
...Government for 48 hours suppressed films of King Alexander's assassination. All U. S. newsreel syndicates had their films snatched at Cherbourg or Le Bourget, air field. When pressure from French public opinion grew too strong, the Government released in France a carefully cut version. It showed Killer Georgieff on the running board of King Alexander's car but suppressed footage proving that he got there with the greatest of ease because the police cordon was scandalously inadequate...
...finally permitted to put their cans of film aboard U. S.-bound ships. Meanwhile Fox Movietone had received word that their films, aboard S. S. George Washington, were apparently the best. They showed more clearly than others the smart sabre work of Lieut.-Colonel Piollet as he slashed down Georgieff. Also Fox cameramen were alone in getting unobstructed pictures of the killer on the running board as he blazed away. To beat all rivals to Manhattan, Fox decided to risk sending a $50,000 plane out to try to pick up their film from the George Washington 600 miles...
Starting on page 18, TIME presents King Alexander, Louis Barthou, Colonel Piollet, Assassin Georgieff and Queen Marie as caught by Fox Movietone in the supreme crisis of their lives...
...save their reputations, the French secret police, assisted by the Jugoslav police, had uncovered by the week's end, the following "facts": Alexander's assassin, hacked to pieces by police sabres and bullets, was a fat young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO. The weapon with which the murders were committed was a huge ungainly Mauser automatic pistol of the latest type which sprays 20 shots like a machine gun. In his pockets Kalemen also carried...