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Medford Tribune Section B MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1960 Pages 1 - 8 Legal Authorities Continue To Debate Identity of Woman Claiming Royal Title Editor's note: Followinr is the final dispatch in a series dealine with the mystery of Anastasia royalty or peasant. By ROBERT MUSEL Hamburg, Germany - (LTD -The woman who calls herself Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia is either one of the world s most tragic figures or one of the world's great im posters. The civil court here has been engaged for more than two years in trying to deter mine which, and a decision may not come down for anoth e year or more. When it does, both sides hope it will bring to any end 27 years of intermittent liti gation and finally solve the mystery of the girl who tried to commit suicide in the Land wehr Canal in Berlin 40 years ago this month. MERLIN ESTEP On Republican Ticket Attorney General Candidacy Filed Salem - Merlin Estep, 48-year-old Salem attorney, has announced his candidacy for Attorney General on the Re publican tictcet in the ' May primary elections. He was born on a ranch in Montana and, after being forced to quit school at the age of 13, was self-educated until he entered Willamette University in Salem, where he earned his law degree.' He has engaged in the general practice of law here since 1950, being well-known for his work in the field of con stitutional law. Estep said that he believes the Attorney General should take a leading part "in bring ing about modernization and clarification of Oregon's com plicated and confused law per taining to criminal practice and procedure in our courts." To neutrals she is known as "Mrs. Anna Anderson." She claimed, while a patient in an institution after the at tempted suicide, to be the only child of Czar Nicholas II to survive the massacre of the entire immediate R' manov family by Bolsheviks in a house at Ekaterinburg in 1918. Over the years her oppon ents including most of the blood relatives of the Czar and Czarina - and her sup porters have divided violent ly over her claims. "A fantastic hoax," said Prince Vasili Romanov, a cousin who was a childhood playmate of the real Anas tasia. Anastasia's tutor, Pierre Gilliard, wrote a book about Mrs. Anderson titled: "The False Anastasia." His wife, who was Anastasia's govern ess, rejected the hospital pa tient. But in this most singular of mysteries there always seems to be an affidavit to counter an affidavit, like a legal game of chess. Tatiana Botkin Mel- nik, daughter of the physician to the Czar, swore under oath that Mrs. Anderson was the Anastasia she played with for ten years. According to Dr. Kurt Ver mehren, the attorney for Mrs. Anderson, so did Princess Xenia of Russia, a cousin who married an American. I And so it has gone for near ly 40 years One thing is certain the interest in Mrs. Anderson was heightened when she further claimed that her father con fided to his four daughters that he had deposited five million rubles for each' of them in the Bank of England before the 1914 war. At the current rate of ex change 20 million gold rubles would be worth about $16,- 800,000. Thus began what many in sist is only the legend of "Romanov gold." It is implicit in Mrs. Anderson's case that a fortune exists. She blames it in part for the refusal of "my relatives" to acknowl edge her. But the Romanovs and Hesses have made ex haustive inquiries in the Brit ish banks and have failed to find any trace of this money. Witnesses on two continents have been interviewed in the present action filed by Mrs. Anderson to have herself de clared the Czar's heir in place of Barbara, Duchess of Mecklenburg. There have been five scien tific comparisons, involving anthropmetry or body meas urements between Mrs. An derson and the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Four held Mrs. Anderson was not Anastasia, one decided she was. Prof. Otto Reche, dean of German anthropologists, was directed by the court to make an overriding judgment. After examining 200 pic tures and other momentoes of Grand Duchess Anastasia and visiting Mrs. Anderson, he filed a 62-page report in which he said that Mrs. Anderson is the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Back Stairs: Ike Eyeing Departure Cordy Returns from Studies in Florida Clifford B. Cordy, county horticultural agent, returned last week from Florida where he had been attending the University of Florida at Gainesville. Cordy, who left Medford last September, has completed requirements for his doctor's degree which will become ef fective June, 1961. His dis sertation was on "The Effects of Kind of Rootstock and Kind, Length and Location of Interstock on Pear Tree Per formance and Fruit Quality Cordy received his master of science degree from Michi gan State college. Here's Why Fish Are Slippery "Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer." The truth of this bacame apparent when I asked, "What makes a fish slippery?" Many said, "A fish gets slimy from being in the wa ter." Then they would go on to explain, "anything in water whether it be a fish or a clothes pin, gets slimy. That's one reason why a boat has to be 'lifted' frequently to have the hull scraped. Once they get slimy it's not long before they get so encrusted with barnacles and everything else, they might even sink." Another man told me, "When a fish gets about so slimy it will rub itself against piling or rocks to get rid of it. Otherwise the fish would become so loaded down with marine growth it couian t swim." And so on, reasons that seemed obvious but were far afield. How a fish gets slippery is more complicated than the above explanations would in dicate. The obvious reasons are not the real reasons. Many serious scientists have asked and wondered about this same problem. From Fish It was noticed, early in the investigations, that some fish are more slippery than others. Some even become more slimy after they are caught. It was apparent that the so-called "slime" was not the result of the water action in which the creature lives, but that the material was ex uded from the body of the fish itself. How the "oil" or slime got through the scales was a puzzler for awhile but the microscope and careful observation finally paid off. It was found that certain scales, arranged on either side of the fish's body, were per forated with tiny holes or pores through which oozes the slimy matter. This mucous is sues forth as needed and spreads vover the exterior of the fish. This lubricates it and causes it to be slippery. The idea is much the same as the grease that is rubbed on the body of a swimmer who is going to be in cold water for a long interval of time. The grease does two things it protects the swim mer from the cold, and allows the body to slide through the water with less resistance. Does Sam The slime on the fish's body does the same makes its passage through the water easier, and to some extent it protects the body against' in jury, preventing the growth of fungus. Once a section of a fish's body loses the slime, fungus finds a suitable place to start. Whether we call this ma- trial, mucous, slime or just plain slippery ness, it's all the same. It is lubricating oil to a fish whose "crankcase" has to be filled all the time, for once the "poor fish" leaves his abilty to secrete the slip pery material, he loses all in terest in world and earthly things. 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This is a symptom not uncommon in outgoing chief executives, as they yearn for the day when they can move about as "free men." Roughly translated, this means without Secret Service agents, reporters and photographers. Eisenhower's new confer ence remarks last week about what he intends to be doing a year from now lose a lot in the reporting. He said he would be loafing on a sunny desert, shooting qail in Geor gia or perhaps just sitting in a rocking chair. It is most difficult, how ever, to convey by written word that bursting joy with which he spoke of the future. His smile was from ear to ear and a sudden, inner sun shine lighted up his face like a powerful spotlight. Reporter after reporter re marked about it leaving the conference. "Man, did you see him light up on that question about what he would be do ing a year from now" was the comment heard up and down the halls of the old State Department Building where the conferences are held. 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