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Five LoouN DAILY GLOBE SATURDAY. MAY 17, 1S33 Concerning the Russians Boston Johnson Accepts $35:000 For Arm Injury OLD COLONY Continued jrom the First Page The governor called the ses- sion after an eight-hour conference yesterday with New Haven Pres. George Alpert, during which Alpert flatly re-j fused to recede from his position that Old Colony commuter service must end in two I Put Ax to Shakespeare's Mulberry, Leveled House Where Bard Died Natives Still Hiss Parson Gastrell By JOHN HARRIS Globe Political Editor on Europe Tour STRATFORD-ON-AVON-Every tragedy has its villain and this Midlands market town in which William Shakespeare was born and died has a scoundrel who still draws hisses from the natives. His name was Gastrell, Parson Gastrell, no less, a sour-tempered 18th century character who came and i F-l -x i 's I -v I i bought New Place, the house at the corner of Chapel lane and Chapel vmui oxiiiLeare naa puicnasea 1 -i: iivm a loruier lura mayor oi the biggest house in town. i I v.

4 I 'H 1 i v- I When visitors, attracted by the glitter of Shakespeare's literary fame, weeks. The only concession made by Alpert was the line's previously announced agreement to extend for one month, to. July 1, the state's option to buy at "salvage value" the 10-mile Boston-Braintree line. The state's option was granted in a 1247 Federal Cort decree which also permits the New Haven to abandon the Old Colony if losses exceed $850,000 for 12 months during a two-year period. If the option is allowed to expire, the state would have to pay fair market value in the event it desires to buy the line.

The railroad has claimed that losses on the Old Colony soared to $2.2 million last year, and have far exceeded in several nervous years limit set in the Federal Court decree. State Can Ask Audit These are the figures that Fingold's office intend to examine. Under the 11-year-old court decree, the state can demand an audit of the allocation of losses to the Old Colony. Fingold srjd he is aware of this provision and "we are go ing to take every step under the law and the decree of the Federal court to protect the rights of the citizens of the Commonwealth. Top legislative and transpor i.auriS came asking the parson for a chance to see the mulberry tree that Shakespeare had planted in his garden, Gastrell cut down the tree.

Next he got into an argument with the town fathers, over taxes, and he tore down the house. He had another reason: Visitors wanted to see the room in which Shakespeare died. The parson, explained the 1 vellow' tulins and shnwv 3 -x it 9 "LET'S BE FRIENDS'" Col Carl White, Los Angeles collector of customs, tries to make a young member of the Old Eelievers feel at home in a strange land. The little girl was part of the advance guard of a Russian religious sect which arrived yesterday in Los Angeles from Hong Kong en route to Brazil, where a colony for 493 members will be established under U.N. auspices.

In its 350-year history, the group has fled from Russia to Siberia to China and to Hong Kong to escape oppression and persecution. tation officials will meet with Furcolo and Fingold today. They include members of the Public Utilities Commission, M.T.A. trustees, two legislative commissions studying trans- portation, House Speaker John sitfim- mi BUYIH orange yellow wallflowers (called gillies by the natives) embraces three half-timered, two-story structures. One was the dwelling place of Shakespeare's father, a glove-maker, town bailiff and mayor.

Piooms here are small indeed. Adjoining, are ihe rooms formerly father Shakespeare's shop and factory. Only possibly authentic piece is a crude, chest-high e'esk. now much battered. Tradition says Shakespeare used this much-carved desk.

Stratford-on-Avon is a de- lirMful town, about the Mze of Lexington, and the scenery is much like the scenery there, New Englandish. While the place is lovely there are few things, save the place itself, authentically connected with Shakespeare. Besides those I have named there are his grayish-white, fringed gloves in the memorial museum near the memorial theater by the Avon and a worn-away settle (high-back seat) by the fireplace in Anne HaihawEy's thatched home where tradition says young Shakespeare and Anne sat and did their courting. The London stage must have rewarded Shakespeare well, for not only did he have the finest house in town with spacious gardens; but his granddaughter's house near his is a splendid one; so is Hall's Croft, round the corner, where Susannah lived; and the house at the head of Bridge st. where his younger daughter lived, This must have provided Shakespeare a happy, though it was brief, retirement.

A visitor, wanting quickly to "absorb the home area and memorials of Shakespeare, chief ornament of our can do so easily. I left Paddington Station in London in the morning, saw Warwick Castle en route, and reached here, by fast train, in little more than two hours. Best way is to get around on foot. Everything is within a short distance kumidtown, save for the cottages of Anne and Shakespeare's mother, four miles away. You see aiso, preserved by Harvard men, the old half-timbered dwelling (with President Pusey's picture) where lived the, parents of John Harvard.

I even got in an evening show (it was standing-room only) at the big memorial theater Twelfth Night "Some are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon magnificently staged and performed. Then it was overnight at the White Swan Hotel in the square, and back to London early the following morning. Boston Johnson 35, of jWest Concord st.f South End, accepted a settlement of $35,000 in Federal Court yester-j in his suit against the B-sser a Pennsylvania corporation. The case had been on a trial before Judge George C. Sweeney and a jury, Johnson, a native of S6uth Carolina, was injured in 1955 at the Cambridge 1 plant of the company when a 200-pound weight fell 'on his arm.

HIGHLAND LINE jrem the First Page About 1600 daily passengers are served by the Highland Line at 13 stations in Brook-line and Newton, between Trinity pi. and Riverside. Selectman Matthew Brown of Brookline, when advised of the I.C.C. denial of appeals, said ho was amazed that the commission refused to permit a reargument of the case. "I believe we were on valid grounds in submitting our Brown commented, "but apparently the commission summarily dismissed them." The rail service was originally to have terminated on May but the appeals automatically stayed the abandonment until this ruling of last night.

H. H. Harwood, executive representative of Pres. Alfred E. Perlman of the New York Central Railroad, of which the B.

A. is a sub-sidipry, said ho has been advised that the I.C.C. issued a directive that permits abandonment of the Highland Line in 15 davs. M.T.A. to Pry $600,000 The road expects to halt service on May 31, and turn over the line to the M.T.A., Harwood said.

Naturally, the M.T.A. wants the Summer months in which to do its conversion work. Transfer of the ownership of the line at the month's end will be in the best interests of all concerned," he added. The transit system will pay the.B. A.

$600,000 for the road's right-of-way. Cost of the entire conversion project is estimated in excers of $10 million. Construction will begin by mid-Summer. The timetable calls for completion of the job in the Fall of 1959. The only action now that could hold up discontinuance of the Highland Branch service and transfer of the property to the M.T.A.

would be further appeals to the court from the final decision of the I.C.C. Selectman Brown said his board will likely discuss the matter Monday night, but ne declined to say whether he would recommend court action In Newton, Mayor Howard Whitmcre who fought against ending the Highland Line operation, ako is expected to confer on the next step in the running battle. -Wrangle Over Plans Meanwhile. Brookline of ficails are at odds with the M.T.A. trustees over the plans the transit system has for link ing the Highland branch right of-way into the present transit line.

The trustees insist upon building a tunnel to connect with the present Kenmore-sq. tunnel. This proposition is too costly and would result in the demoli tion of several apartment buildings, say the Brookline town fathers. The ICC order also permits the B. A.

to drop a two-mile operation under trackage rights over the Haven Railroad between Newton Center and Needham. The small -amount of freight now carried over the Highland line will have to come in over the main line after the discontinuance, a railroad spokesman said, and firms will have to accept delivery at main line depots. misshV a good movie on 4 I 1, 1a W4) 'CM Jf" 'tr If: if Iff A' kindly woman at Shakespeare's birthplace on Henley two blocks away from New Place, "believed people were idolizing Shakespeare and that was not good for their souls." He must have been a rich parson, for he moved next door into a half-timbered house in which lived Shakespeare's granddaughter and -last descendant. This house which he also owned, still stands. When the townsfolk realized the enormity of the parson's destructive temper they drove him out of town.

They still curse him. Shakespeare's only grandchild, Elizabeth, married twice, became Lady Elizabeth by her second marriage, but died childless. Her house is -filled with period furniture and some trinkets made from the mulberry tree and the lock, a big brass one and key, saved when New Place was torn down. A descendant of the original mulberry tree now grows on the original spot Shqke-speare once planted. It is about eight feet high and, as I saw it, was just breaking into leaf.

Across the street, a narrow one, is the weathered, worn, 12th century tower of the old Guild Chapel, much of its stone shape and carving now obliterated. Shakespeare easily saw 'it from his garden, a few feet away. This prospect is regarded as one of the most thrilling in town because of the legend Shakespeare watched it from his window as he was dying. On the other side, adjoining the chapel, is row of half-timbered, half-plastered, overhanging structures. Here was the school room, still used, in which Shakespeare learned "little Latin and less Greek" but became acquainted with books; and, even more, with the performances of strolling aetors who played in the guild hall.

1 This is on Church a continuation of Chapel st. Turn left now on Chestnut Walk and Old Town sts. toward the delightful Avon, a narrow, winding, grass and tree-bor-, dered stream on which the schoolbovs row. p.nd before you is Holy Trinity Church, a Norman structure seven centuries old. Headstones outside, as is the church itself, are moss-covered.

On the porch gate is the sanctuary knocker, a ring in a Norman figure's mouth, that Shakespeare must have used. You do, too. Inside, battered for it was once used as a garden vessel when the Puritans forced its disuse is the fragmented font in Which Shakespeare was baDtizedi The1 vellum register is opened both to the Latin notation of Shakespeare's birth and his death, both on St. George's Day. In the chancel at the east end of the church, before the altar "at ground-level, is Shakespeare's burial place.

On the wall to the left is the famous polychrome bust and memorial placed "by his wife. To the left, now permanently closed, is the arched door to the charnel house. Shakespeare must have seen the eerie shifting of bodies from the grave in front of the altar to the charnel house, for, on his tomb, the words facing the altar, is his famous epitaph cursing the man who "moves my bones." -Thus, custom was broken, and Shakespeare's bones were not moved into the charnel house. The stones, ground-level, beside him, are those of his wife, his grand-son-in-law, son-in-law, and elder daughter Susannah. Visitors must make out the inscriptions upside down, for all face the altar.

The birthplace on Henley st, lovely garden in the rear, Orders in front of bright GREETING FOR RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR Police placards at Midway Airport in Chicago yesterday when States, arrived. All the sign carriers were reported to (AP Wirephoto held back a group of youthful demonstrators carrying Mikhail Menshikov, Russian ambassador to the United be of Lithuanian descent. So. Boston Man Wins $1000 In Ballantlne Contest F. Thompson, (D-Ludlow), Senate President Newland H.

Holmes; (R-Weymouth); Sen. John E. Powers, (Boston), Sen ate Democratic leader; Sen. Charles W. Hedges, (Quincy), G.O.P.

floor leader; Rep. Charles J. Artesani, (Allston). Democratic floor leader; and Rep. Frank S.

Giles (Methuen), G.O.P. floor leader. The Greater Boston and the Quincy Chambers of Commerce held a two-hour emergency meeting yesterday. Four proposals for continu ing passenger service were advanced but not disclosed. It was reported that among them were suggestions that the commuter deficits be subsidized by cities an dtowns served by the Old Colony.

Alpert in a telegram to Thomas M. Hennessey, president of the Greater Boston chamber, said the New Haven wolud consider any recommendation which would allow the branch line to operate without loss. John A. Volpe, Greater Boston chamber vice president who conducted the meeting, said the groups expect to confer with the governor and other state leaders over the week-end. Others at the session were Francis B.

Gummere of the chamber's urban transportation committee, and William G. Brooks, president, William A. Connell, executive secretary, Joseph J. Grossman, treasurer, and John R. Herbert all of the Quincy chamber.

Powers Talks of Subsidy Earlier, Powers told about 200 New Haven employees at a State House meeting that subsidization appears to be one possible solution to the abandonment crisis. He added that Alpert "holds the trumn card" bv tvine the The employees, fighting to "save our jobs," told the senator they will form a com- mittee to collect facts and fig ures to "disprove" the deficit data submitted by the railroad. One employee charged that the New Haven has made it a 2 of CnHv DktrJIn.tftrs. Con, u7 I 1 i Francis J. McNamara, 26, of hands of the state with his 149 South Boston, has federal court injunction peti-won the $1000 first prize in the The injunction, if grant- "Double baseball contest ed the sponsored by Ballantine fJfS crs of Lieht Laser beer jchusetts from interfering with i MX; i X' yJj4V fi 4 7 -i McNamara picked winners: and predicted the major league alS: May 4.

His scores were closer than thousands of other contestants. The contest is conducted bi-wcekly. Other winners: Pete Christopher, 36, of Ipswich, second prize, DENNIS THE MENACE" By Hank Ketcham Martin L. MacCrackcn practice to transfer rundown Leominster, third prize, from the main line Joseph Kustwan, the Old Colony and then al-fourth prize, $125. Other small-locate the cost of repairs to the er prizes will be awarded win-! Old Colony.

hers by mail. I 1 --3f! HOME IN THE U.S. FROM MOSCOW Van Cliburn, Texan pianist, is greeted by his father and mother at Idlewild Airport. Cliburn scored international triumph in Russia. ft lial custcmers those usin; over 233 kilowatt hours a month will experience a decrease in monthly bills under the rate adjustment.

D.P.U. Chairman David M. Brackman. Bulk on Business Users The 80,000 commercial cus- tomers and the 823 industrial' The average househod use is 'uscrs cf Edison will kilowatt hours a month. Join.

Army LIGHT RATES Continued from the First Page The increased revenue will permit the utility to recoup the approximate amount of the wage increase granted Ed- ison employees last year, the D.P.U. said. to produce a return of 5.5 per cent on Edison's investment. An increase in the minimum tillinir frcm 73 cents to S1.13 was also annroved bv the D.P.U. After taxes are computed, me net revenue to me com- pany Will approximate I million, it waSpointed out by I I "filial ml 1l jj the blu? of the rate increase Their share will exceed $2 mil- fnnenmprs it was nnintpH nut.

Edison's rate of return has been declining "more or less steadily in recent years due to increased operating expcnses and the COSt of the SUb-l stantial amounts of additional investments which Edison has been required to make," the 11 i iuuuu. Only one grouplf residen rhfavTestVite enlisted and five were drafted yesterday at the Army Base. They are: kegilar army Lynn-Daniel F. C'Neill, John T. Dion.

cioucMtjr-saivatore p. ciarame- FrcnVrM- a. Fowler. niiTVV iGalanto George C. Santos.

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