Spunky Odysseus

Odysseus Pangalos, youthful son of that ruthless autocrat, Dictator-President Theodore Pangalos of Greece, arrived last week at Belgrade, Jugoslavia, and rushed to extract one G. Skiades, Greek merchant, from the toils of the Belgrade police.

The police were thrown into a hectic muddle. On the one hand, potent Dictator Pangalos had telegraphed imperiously from Athens, demanding the extradition of M. Skiades for embezzlement. Per contra, young Odysseus Pangalos passionately informed the police that M. Skiades had not embezzled, but had instead given shelter to a Greek maiden who, Dictator Pangalos was resolved, should not marry Odysseus.

Odysseus testified that he had married the girl in the merchant's house, that it was from this cause alone that his enraged father demanded the extradition of kindly Hymen Skiades.

What to do?

To the hesitant Belgrade police the possibility of international complications loomed appallingly.

Suddenly came a wire from Athens. Moody, impulsive, Dictator-President Pangalos ordered Odysseus to hasten with his bride to London, there to assume the duties of an attache at the Greek Legation.

The extradition of M. Skiades was reported quashed. Friends advised him, however, not to return within the clutches of Pangalos pere.