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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Frozen Dinners
MADERA GIANT
Ripe Olives
INALLE T 3
Dill Pickles
WHOLE KERNEL
iioi Kne up couege lor a jiu a enough to balance theory with
J""' ' " I'luic.ssionai nc a , practice. "Field work " job ex
make $400 a week in a few pcrieiue. is often part of Ihe
years He was al the lop of curriculum. As for lin.inces. do
the class but now he s being yu kmx lna, $;;0.oiki,ihh:i a year,
fchorl-sig Mod. sei ns,e 0 enable UKi.noo bright
ltmiHld I... - 1 appreciate Mr. kids like you to attend college.
i , ',7 , ii.hi.oi. i Boes unclaimed ' W rite to the
But Id rather gel a icad-slait office of Kducilion. Wash., IVC.
... ii ....sioi-os " .ui . mum lor info on scholarship!
now I m only a slock clerk, hut ctl. '
I'm learning the roix-s ol de- i
parlmenl-store work. Four years i
irom now l It be worm more lo
loans.
Christmas Stamps
Have Record Sales
WASHINGTON i ITM-Chi-ist-mas
postage stamps may have
record sales this ear
' ' " The Posl Office Department
The Council: Ronald is rush-: said Wednesday a Mirvov in
Ing to be the man of Ihe house, I seven cities Seattle. Indianap-
the store than the fellows who
bono up on business in text
books. Besides,, my mother can
breathe easier (inancinlly, now 1
Ihnt I'm self-supporting. Why
be a burden?
but he'd do well to slow up long
enough to hash things out with
oilier men, Mr. W. and a college
guidance counselor, for in
stance. "Make haste slowly,"
said Emcror Augustus 'way
oils. Minneapolis, New York
Philadelphia. Richmond and
Memphis showed lh.it sales
of Ihe holiday stamp will be 50
per cent higher this year than
last.
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