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TIIUKSDAY. DECEMBER 19, !)S3 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON burls to Hear Anna Anderson's AppeaB As Anastass IS SHE A.NASTASIA? In Hamburg, West Germany, Mrs. Anna Anderson, photographed here, still claims lo he Anastasiii, (laugh ler of the late Czar of Russia. She is shown here in a 19S5 photo (UPI) By CAY BROCKDKOFF United Press International S ',1 Sliss Anderson asked a Berlin Within a month or two, a , . . . ... Hamburg court is due to give i magistrate to toss out the car ailing 62-year-old Anna Ander-i ,,.cl: w"t and declare her the derson what may be her I r'h tui h?'r- g" ?ec. 27. 1941, last chance to legally prove she 20 " Pearl Harbor, the is Anastasia, daughter of the maBlstrale sa,d n last, murdered czar of Russia. Anna Anderson, insisting al- In January or February the!ways sne wa Anastasia and state court of appeals is ex- du esuapcu auve irom ner lam pectcd to hear her final argu-!"ys executioners, tried to ap The Berlin magistrate issued i it was too big a question for i Anna Anderson has scars she : a 400-mile trip to see Anna An-1 On May 15, 1961, Judge Back a writ naming heirs. But in 1938 his court and advised both sides claims are souvenirs of the Bol- derson in her Black Forest i en rueti Anna Anderson's claim For three to fight it out in a full hearing in a state court. . . . j mina - nan inunana, uie iiuuac , n , , . , nnna ftnacrson lirsi auracicu f u i,. M nt .o.ra lappeu vaniiy u" l ,,;jnn. ! shevik firing squad's bayonets. Miss chanzkowska, the House house, guarded by Leonberger dogs. four fierce of being Anastasia "was not substantiated by indisputable 'Little Helpers' Of Adolf Hitler Slated for Trial FRANKFURT, Germany (UPD Twenly-two alleged "lit tle helpers' 'of Adolph Hitler go on trial here tomorrow accused of complicity in the murders of an estimated 2.5 to 4 million peo ple in Nazi Germany's grisliest death factory Auschwitz. Although West German courls have convicted more than 5,000 persons of war crimes, the trial of 22 guards, doctoi s and offi cials of Hie infamous concentra tion camp in Poland is the big gest ever staged by German authorities. . The millions who died at Auschwitz most of them in gas chambers were killed In the camp between 10'KI and 1945 be cause they were Jews, commu nists, gypsies, anti-Nazi Poles, Soviet prisoiwia f war, or just plain "enemies of the Fuehrer." Most Arc Small Fry Most of the accused in Ihis flial were small fry in Ausch witz. The Poles in 1M7 hanged two of the three camp com mandants, Rudolf lloess and Arthur Liebeiilienschcl. T h c third and Inst, Richard Bnor, died of ciictilatory failure last June 7 in a Frankfurt jail while awaiting trial. The Poles also tried III) other KSS troopers who helped lo run Auschwitz. Of the total, 21! were executed, one was (reed and the rest sentenced to jail terms of from three to 15 years. The Frankfurt trial, staged al (he huge city hall chamber to accommodate some 120 news men, the 22 accused, their de fense attorneys and court offi cials, is expected lo last from six lo eight months. The opening day will be de voted to reading a condensed version of the indictment an indictment four times longer than Ihe Bible. The trial will then be d jounicd until after the Christ mas holidays, when the court will begin to work its way through prosecution tiles and no volumes of pre-trial testimony. Eventually, about 230 wit nesses are expected to lake Ihe stand to testify lo the methods of horror thought up at Auschwitz. Delay in Transfer The trial was delayed until now because investigations ol Nazi crimes in the immediate postwar period were in Allied hands and there was a delay in transferring all records lo Ger man authorities, the case lor the trial began building in l!l.rll when a Frankfurt newspaper man, Thomas Knielka, obtained some Auschwitz records from a Pole in Wroclaw who found them on a street after Ihe Nazi Iroops retreated in 1945. Knielka took the records lo l'ranklurt Prosecutor General Fritz Bauer who began a probe that in volved Ihe interrogations of l.iilHl persons and testimony covering 17,000 typewritten pages over a period of five years. Only nine of Ihn 22 accused arc in custody, headed by Karl lloeckcr, 51, adjutant lo tile last Auschwitz commander Richard Baer. He was released hy Ihe British as a prisoner of war in 1940 without being delected as Bner's adjutant. He had been working as a cashier (or ihe Uicbecke Savings Bank. Another Charge A r I h u r llrcitwicser, 5:1, a former Polish attorney, was sen tenced to death hy I lie Poles, later pardoned and released in 1959. lie had been found guilty of having mistreated prisoners as head of Ihe clothes depot at Auschwitz. Now he is charged with helping lo kill 1.000 camp! inmates wilh Zyklon B gas. Al-! Hie Hitler mcnt, and if the court turns her down, Miss Anderson may be finally defeated. She could appeal to the West German Su preme Court but only to com plain of a legal error, not to show new evidence. Thus could end a 25-ycar court battle that technically in volves only $1,125 in two Ger man banks but reportedly con cerns a fortune of millions in addition to the question of Anna Anderson's true identity. The late Kurt Vcrmehren, Miss Anderson's attorney until he died in a car crash last year, said that between $58 million and $112 million sits in a Lon don bank, waiting for the heir of Czar Nicholas II. Amount Is Secret Gordon Davics, a director of London's Barings Bank where money was deposited hy the czar bclore ne, nis wue, nis son and daughters fell before a Bolshevik firing squad on July 17, 1918, refused to discuss the amount it holds. "We will pluck the fruit from Ihe tree when the lime comes, says Carl Wollmann, Miss An dcrson's current lawyer. "Right now, we are not inter- eslcd in the money. We arc in li..sled in establishing her identity." The story of Anna Anderson- Anastasia began unlokl'tm in Hamburg district court in 1957. Various versions have be.n told, lncrid Bergman acted one nut on the screen and Lili Pal mer another on the stage. I"i 'ir stories and those of Wollmann, Vcrmehren and Baron Guenther von Beren-Berg-Gnssler, lawyer for the House of Hesse, which claims kinship lo Ihe slain czar ina, agree only up lo a point. That point is July 17, mm. and the place Ekalei ienburu, on the near side of Siberia. Shot In Basement In Ihe basement of a wooden house the czar, his wife, children and servants one of the chil dren being Princess Anastasia, 17 were mowed down by a Bolshevik firing squad, lushing because n( Ihe approach of loy al troops hoping to rescue the czar. No one disputes those basic facts. What is disputed is the stnrv Anna Anderson tells. According to Miss Anderson, Anastasia survived Ihe slaugh ter, suffering only minor wounds, and in a series of grim adventures got awav and went into hiding. According to Von Rcrenbcrg - Gosslcr, Anastasia died. The $1,125 comes into the case this way: Royal Names Appear On Nov. 22, 19:17, some royal names cropped up in a Berlin magistrates' court. One of them, Princess Irene of Hesse, sister of the slain Czarina, asked Ihe court lo specify just who were (he Czar's heirs. She was inter ested in some money Ihe Ro mnnnffs had in Ihe Reichsbank. controlled national ter his release from a Polish ! prison, he worked as a book keeper in Germany. Another typical charge is that against Oswald Kaduk, 57, ac- i cused of drowning 12 inmates in a water barrel, lie worked as a medic in a West Berlin hospital alter serving a 9-yoar prison ; ; term imposed by a Soviet mill i tary tribunal. ' bank. Bank, lliller. and Ihe Mendels s o h n Jewish bank seized by iie Family Council i mint nit': Th Family counrll romldi t-rm I tatmt, ihtir rlrrcYiiit.il. thrri, eriliora ami , F.rli tlilr l umnui' or a LimMy dmirrrmrnl pm-nl. runnl Ijj CniiiHil drali nh irtli,inv i, ,,.,, mt -u,,,r,r,u t tuill.lirr M11 Itft atln tnr 1 worker. Alma Denny, tcopyr'iht b Ornrtai Fraturva ;orp) to tllfl minor. 1 illtrd by Mr. T. W. He has a keen back in Ihe Year One i aim imgui to oc in couege. : way around , . . semesters ..0,0.. ,H.. IU l.llll """-. snur( sav Mr. T. W. Maybe it's none of my business but Ron was my son's pal and best friend right through high school and I've followed his progress. Since his mother is a widow, he may need a man's angle and mine is llial a hoy who's thai brainy should The long via 8 college may prove to be the I ,..,,. t,, Hill, Hon, that is, speed you lo uliii;e your full potential iu industry, 1 make you not only self-support, mg but self - lullilling. Such an attainment would make your mother breathe even mure con tentedly Some pointers- Nowa days most ptiili'ssnrs get stu dents noses out of hooks long Women Best at Choosing Colors i ( OltONAIlO, Calif. HTM -City Manager Have N. Wilt knows today that choosing col- ors is a woman's prerogative j even when it comes lo police cars. 1 Will wanted the cars beige because it would show Ihe dut less than the current black and white combination. "Reige is a duty color even alter it's washed." retorted Coiincilwuman Helen King "Green is one of our city's of ficial colors. I believe we should I have green police cars." I By a unanimous vote the i council overrode Will and called for bids on two green police ' cars. i Green cars, Mayor William A. i Scavey added helpfully, "can ' hide better in clumps of bushes." peal lo a higher Berlin city court in 1950. She was opposed in court by the daughter of one of the heirs Briton's Marchion ess of Milford Haven. The mag istrate threw up his hands, said announced herself as Anastasia in a mental hospital after being pulled, an attempted suicide, from a Berlin canal. Polish Peasant scars in a 1918 explosion at a v.orld War I gunpowder plant where she worked. Anna Andsrson speaks excel lent English, French and Ger man but poor Russian. The Von Berenberg - Gossler says j Hamburg district court judge the woman pulled from the ca-1 sald the litlle Russian she spoke nal was Franziska Schanzkow-1 was no more than an intelligent ski, a Polish peasant girl who woman could have picked up in vanished into the slums of Bcr- post-World War I Berlin, lin just before the canal inci- District Judge Heinrich Back dent, en of the Hamburg court made Miss Anderson edged open the front door and shouted, "I have nothing to do with the court." But she finally allowed the judge an hour's conversation, all in French. "Now, I wish only to die in peace," was Miss Anderson's comment. But she did not give up the fight. She appealed. Today, this mystery ihroud- ed woman lives almost a her- Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev ' for permission to go to the land ! she calls home to die. Wollmann will not say if he has new evidence. Von Beren berg - Gosslcr says he is ready, and that the House of Hesse I continues to fight Miss Ander 1 son's claim because the family regard it as an attack upon their honor. tt rA ........ tun unm nr Hionev : i am duuiuiitcu iu ..... I Hlfl a lite ileal uje iiomici ui - -i , Judge Rules ! Unterleneenhardt. She suffers , state," says the defending law- Backen said he learned little i from the acute infectious dis- j ycr, "that my clients will re from his talk with Anna Ander-1 ease of erysipelas. Following nounce all claims down to the son and after three years in- her "to die in peace" comment, last penny should it ever be vestigation, he made his de-1 there came silence and then established that there is a for cision. I rumors she might ask Soviet tune involved in this case." 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