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THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1358 Twenty-Nina A we nasmsia s.i. man iviay 501 ALL SORTS By Joe Harrington A Snow Job Newcomers Were Impressed Experts to Quiz Czar's Doctor's Son on Anna Anderson Xenia Fights Arch-Foe office boy with a marine insurance company. His boss was a pompous party who wore a high stiff collar and was thoroughly convinced of his 1 own importance. One day he made young Besset carry his satchel when he rushed to catch the 4 o'clock ferry to Birkenhead. The ferry was eight feet from the slip and the anxious traveler grabbed his bag, vaulted the barrier and with a good leap, landed amidships on the ferry.

He sprawled there face down. He wasn't hurt and arose trumphantly a ing: "Well, I'm here, but I nearly missed "Nearly missed it," echoed a deckhand. "Why, ye dom fool, we're just coming in." QUEST I doubt it very much that I Could find a man to qualify. And measure up in full degree To the man my wife wants me to be. Roslindale.

JOE McKEON. TREMENDOUS TRIFLES You've been travelling quite a while if you remember when mother packed a lunch in a shoe box for that long train ride you took. PEG AND TAB FINN, formerly of Arlington, now have their family roots deeply established j. Greenfield where are bringing 72 up their fine children. 1 1 was about this time of year they made the western trek and the day after they settled in their new home, about two inches of snow fell.

The Finns were surprised when a truck and crew of active young men showed up. They not only shovelled off the sidewalk on both sides of the street, but removed the snow from their front yard, and the others around their place. Tab was convinced that Greenfield gave its residents prime municipal service and remarked about this to a neighbor. Then he learned the property owners were merely getting a dividend. There was a ski jump in this section of 1 the town, and the gang was collecting snow to pack it down.

MECHANICAL MOTHER Brother's In the cellar Developing his pictures. Sister's in the kitchen Devising nev? fudge mixtures. Father's in the parlor Watching television I sneak out and fix the fender Bent in today's collision. LUCILE COLEMAN. HE MADE IT Sir James Besset, a retired commodore of the Cunard Line, and the war-time skipper of both the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, has described his early training on sailing ships in a book published by Criteron, "Sail Ho!" He was a Liverpool youngster- and his father didn't want his son to go to sea, so he got him a job as an 1 am If W' mmwf AP Wirephoiot PRINCESS AND PRETENDER At left is Princess Xenia Romanoff and at right, Anna Anderson, who claims she is the only survivor and heir of Czar Nicholas.

her family was slaughtered, but was saved by a soldier who noticed her moving among the bodies. She has several distinguish ing marks similar to the prin cess, a striking facial resemblance and an intimate knowledge of the Czar's family life. But her mouth is different, and she has at all times refused to converse in Russian. Most damaging evidence against her came when a wom an jaentinea ner as a poor Polish factory girl named Franziska Schanzkowska, who had boarded with her in Berlin. Nevertheless, Anastasia's governess, a family tutor to' the Czar's children and a I childhood friend says she is the princess and heir to all Russia.

Anna is now in her late 50s, her health is poor, memory unpredictable, and she is given ito bouts of eccentricity during which she barricades herself in her room. Yet this is the woman who next month may be named the surviving daughter of the Czar and a distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth. Women'i Newi Service UK mis r. 4 'CW-. COt i 1 fl 4t 4 A derson's claims, but which adjourned indefinitely last May.

Before the adjournment, Serge Lifar, a Russian-born ballet master, had testified that he was certain that Anna Anderson was Anastasia and that she alone escaped the 1918 blood bath at Ekaterinburg where the czar, czarina and the rest of their children were shot down. A court official this week said the Danish government also would be asked, to grant access to the papers of a former Danish embassy official in Berlin, who it is believed may have personal information on the case. A further check on the claims made by Anna Anderson, who now lives in Germany's Black Forest region, will be made by a handwriting expert when the hearing is He will be asked to compare the handwriting of Anna Anderson with that of Anastasia and with that of a Polish farm girl, Franziska Schanz-kowski, which some witnesses have claimed is Anna Anderson's real identity. Further, Russian witnesses have claimed that Anna Anderson speaks Russian with a Polish accent. Because Anna Anderson A RUSSIA'S IMPERIAL FAMILY in photo made Aug.

Tatiana, Martie and Anastasia. Jobless Star Maria Callas Awaits Peace Overture the Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, the Czarina's brother. Olga was the grandmother of England's Prince Philip, and of the Duchess of Kent Also on the list was the Czarina's elder! sister, Princess Victoria, who was Earl Mountbatten's mother. This genealogy shows the close links the Romanovs have with British royalty, and explains the grave embarrassment that would be felt among surviving royalty, par ticularly In Britain, should Anna Anderson's claim be upheld. All the money and property in Germany given to the seven heirs would also be hers.

Despite the fact that the influential majority of Russian nobility (headed by the grand duchess) do not recognize her, Anna has powerful friends and skillful lawyers. Recently she told an interviewer that she has no interest in the court action. Ever since a Berlin policeman saved her from suicide in 1921, Anna has claimed that she is Anastasia. She maintains that she received severe head injuries when the rest of A chap who goes for simplicity of expression, Bill JRrley of Hingham, gave a nod of approval when he saw a sign at the corner of a small street in East Weymouth: "Off Lake st." Some people think the cold was is warming up a bit, but Herb Lyon insists that every few months Khrushchev and Mao play a game of gin my for a country a point. You can conclude you've reached middle age when you decide it isn't worth while to walk up the subway escalator.

And, of course, the way to beat middle age is to keep looking like your old self without feeling it. "I'm afraid that' rertaih statements of Mr. Bing have closed any door to that." first said. "He's made manv statements that hurt more than the cancellation of rnv rnn- tract, statements that no artist deserves. When the matter was pressed, she refused to say anything flatly.

"You can never tell what happens in life." she said. "When Mr. Bing wants to be a Miss Callas noted, "he is." Asked if she had anv nnpr- atic engagements booked since her dismissal on charges of contract violation. Miss Callas replied: "I hone to sine ooera. hut I have no opera appearances scheduled now.

Isn't it ter rible?" Mom's Cooking Losing Appeal Down on the Farm WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (AP) The practice of eating out is gaining among farm families as well as their city counterparts. Farm officials say that spot checks indicate that farm fami lies spend upwards of 17 percent of their food dollars on meals eaten away from home. This compares with 6 percent in 1935-39 and 14 percent in 1955. Urban families spend more than 20 percent on meals eaten out.

The Agriculture in reporting this development, said increased incomes, increased employment of wives outside the home, a trend toward lightening work in the home, and an increase in public eating places were among I the factors contributing to this I development. By PHILLIP STONE LONDON, Nov. 12 Surrounded by a 15-foot high wall, in 'a 22-room London mansion, lives a frail, lonely woman 'of 84 Her Imperial Highness, the Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the late Czar of Russia. For the past 13 years this incredible woman has not stepped beyond the gates of the "grace-and-favor" dwelling, adjoining Hampton Court, given to her by her distant cousin, the Duke of Windsor, when he was King Edward VIII. Yet she is directing all the legal forces against Anna Anderson, who for 36 years has claimed that she is the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, sole survivor of the murdered czar's family.

This month, in a Hamburg court, the Anastasia claim will be settled. If the court recognizes her claim and some people believe that this time it will it will do so despite Xenia's vow that Anna Anderson is not her niece. Her lawyers say they are confident of victory because they intend to bring dramatic new evidence related to identification by ears. Ears, it will be argued by a leading German anthropologist, are as distinctive as fingerprints, and the court will examine enlarged photographs of the ears of the Grand Duchess Anastasia as a child, and compare them with those of Anna Anderson. Grand Duchess Xenia and most of the surviving Romanovs have always denied Anna's claim.

They are convinced beyond all possible doubt that the five children perished with the Czar. There is also the question of money adding to the intriguing Anastasia mystery. Over the years a legend has grown up; that the Czar deposited a $120 million fortune with a London bank just before his death. This has always been scoffed at by members of the Russian aristocracy but the story persists. In 1933, a Berlin civil court disposed of the Czar's German property by naming seven people as his heirs.

They in cluded Grand Duchesses Xenia and Olga, sisters of the Czar, Princess Irene of Prussia, the Czarina's younger sister, and KENTUCKY ST A BR0WN-F0RMAN BOTTLED IN i. t- -V-. give flavor one fifth True IGHT DISTILLERS BOND EXCLUSIVELY! a i. 6, 1903. Children are Olga, GRAND DUCyESS Anastasia in photo made in 1914.

previously testified that she last saw Anastasia's uncle, the late Grand Duke Phillip of Hesse, in 1916, efforts will be made to determine whether he ever went to the czar's castle at Krasnoje Selo in that year as a special emissary of the German government. In addition, medical experts will be asked to examine scars on Anna Anderson's feet to determine whether they are the result of bayonet wounds inflicted in the cellar assassination at Ekaterinburg. Of) SUNLINERS. or LOgan 7-4100 urn: NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) Soprano Maria Callas, admitted her dismissal from the Metropolitan Opera had her without a single operatic engagement thte season, left the door unlatched today for a peace offering from the impresario who fired her.

Miss Callas indicated that Met General Manager Rudolf Bing would have to make the first move to soothe her ruffled feelings, and it appeared that such a step was being taken by a Chicago booking agent skilled at dealing with tem-j peramental artists. Harry Zelzer, head of the Allied Arts said he would meet in New York today with Miss Callas, whom he termed "A little tigress." She denied at a press conference last night that she had any plan to see Zelzer, who already has conferred with her and Bing separately once before. Rehashes Battle "I feel that this is none of anybody's business except mine and Mr. Bing's," she said. The Brooklyn-born soprano called the news conference, she said, just to "drink a toast" with reporters who have been writing about her during this difficult period.

But then she proceeded to regale them with a rehash of her now-celebrated battle with Bing, who flred.her summarily last week while she was in Dallas. Statements Hurt Miss Callas began by saying she absolutely would not return to Bing's operatic family. Then she hedged. She said she could not make any such firm committment as stating flatly that she would not return to the Met, where Bing recently signed a new five-year contract. i "5 A.

IraSlSISi JM i 11 HAMBURG, West Germany, Nov. 12 (Reuters) The next chapters in the story of Anna Anderson, the 57-year-old woman who claims to be Anastasia, the only surviving daughter of Czar Nicholas II, may be written in the United States or Canada. The West German newspaper Der Mittag today reported that a German lawyer is planning to fly to America soon to take court statements from people in the United States and Canada who either knew the czar and his family, or have other information on the case. At stake are the claims of Anna Anderson, who for nearly 40 years has contended that she is the only survivor and heir of Nicholas II, who was murdered by the communists in 1918. The paper said that in New York the lawyer will seek interviews with the son of Glebbotkin, the czar's personal physician.

In Canada, similar interviews will be sought with Princess Olga and with Dmitri Von Leuchtenberg, son of the late Duke of Leuchtenberg at whose castle Anna Anderson stayed during the 1920's. Other witnesses will be interviewed in London, Duessel-dorf and Berlin, the paper added. The. statements involve a civil court hearing here which was called to test Anna An State Certifies $2 Million for Handicaped Aid State Tax Commissioner Joseph P. Healey today an nounced the certification of $2,257,820.12 for distribution, from income tax receipts for special school aid payments.

The Commissioner said that 236 cities and towns of Massachusetts will share of this amount, while four regional school districts of the state will be receiving the remaining $10,150.86 This represents the total amount due the cities, towns and regional school districts for state aid for special for mentally retarded and physically handicapped children for the school year ending June 30, 1958. Commissioner Healey added that the amount being distributed today brings the total amount of income tax collections distributed in 1958 to all municipalities to VI the certified amount, Boston's share will be 917.84, Springfield will receive $134,565.56, and Worcester's share is $105,607.07. i HNTUTJTIl6HTIOUONlSCT 1 NON-STOP i JET-PROP i 5 HOWM-FOtMAN DrtTJLUS The same fine Old Forester in its new 1958 decanter 12:45 pm 3:00 pm 5:45 pm breakfast lunch bors tf'otimu innw ALSO NON-STOP HEW YonK -ilii I 9-ri to FLORIDA radar-guided PACKAGED IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT. When you Old Forester, you give and the rare that characterizes this one fine whisky. For there i but Old Forester, gift of distinction.

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