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Show Murray Eagle, Thursday, February 1 I SAW MURDER GF CZAR'S FAMILY Writer Gives Only First-Han- d Account of Russian Royal Tragedy. New York. Gleb Botkln, son of the personal physician to the lute Czar Nicholas of Russia, has written for the North Amerlcnn Itevlew what lie describes as the only first-hand account of the murder of the Itusslan royal family at Ekaterinburg, on the night of July 17, 1918, by a Bolshevik firing squad. Botklu's story, he asserts. Is the version of the massacre told to him by the mysterious "Princess Anastaslu" whose arrlvnl In America two years ago created a sensation, which was heightened by the fact that she never Rave public confirmation to the claims made by her friends that she was the youngest daughter of the czar and the only survivor of the massacre. "I not merely believe her to be Anastasla I know that she Is," declares Botkln, whose childhood was spent as a playmate of the czar's children, who accompanied the royal family on the first stage of Its exile, and who, since his arrival In American In 1922, lias made a livelihood as artist and author. Ills father was among those slain along with the czar, czarina. Prince Dolgoroukoff, and the grand duchesses. Saw Czar Shot Through Head. "She tells In detail of all the events preceding the shooting on the night of July 17, 1918," he relates. "Her last recognition Is that she saw the Commlsar Yonrovsky shoot the emperor through the head. She herself hid behind her sister Olga. Then she heard Olga scream and lost consciousness. "She came to herself in a pens-an- t cnrt, traveling along the highway with two men and two women. She was covered with wounds and for a long time remained semiconscious. Enter It was explained to her thnt the two men were umong the P.olshevlk shooting sqund and accompanied the bodies of the victims to the forest. They noticed that Anastasla was alive and In the night preceding the cremation or the bodies, stole her and brought her to their farm. From there, taking along their mother and sister. s Build New Arena for Bull Fighting Madrid. Spain. The 1930 bull fighting season will be Inaugurated In Mudrld In the old Plaza de Tores, but In April the new plaza will be dedicated. The new arena seats 2C,00 persons, or double the capacity of the old one, and one of the first fights to take place therein will he a benefit for University now city (Cludad Unlversltarla) under construction. New York. Charges that the Fascist government has Imprisoned and exiled thousands of Its political opponents without trial, subjecting them to extremely Inhuman treatment, are made by Francesco F. Nitll, nephew nf the exiled former premier of Italy, nnd himself an scaped prisoner from the rocky penal Islands oft the north African toa.t. In an article In t lie North Amerlcnn Review. Nitti's article Is presented ns a part of hi forthcoming book, the amiouneeii'ont of which has aroused igotous Fascist opposition to Us publication and caused Hip olllces of the publishers both In and New York to be put under police guard. Nlttl, once a Rome bnnk executive, was urrested, he says, with 3,(k) other antl FusclMs In Rome during the first two weeks of Fas 1 1 1 111 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 11 I I I I SHE BELIEVED 1 Rockefeller Money Aids German Science Goettingen, Germany. The new home of the Institute of mathematics of the University of Goettingen, the construction of which was made possible by a gift from the they started on the same night In a in a southwestern direction. After weeks of weary travel they reached Rumania. "There Anastasla married one of her rescuers and gave birth to a son. Soon afterward her husband, Tehalkowsky, was killed in the streets of liuchurest. Annstasia's son was taken away from her and placed In an orphan nsylum where he Is said to hnve died. Anastasla made her way to Germany, where slip wanted to find her god mother, Princess Irene of Prussia. Arrived In P?rlin, she threw herself from a bridge In a fit of despair, but was rescued by the police. Since she refused to answer a single question, she was placed In an Insane asylum. It was there that she was recognized by Russian visitors who had known her In childhood. They obtained her release from the asylum in lD'JZ" At the Instigation of h)9 sister who had visited the young woman then known as Madame Tchalkow-sk- y In Berlin, Botkln went abroad In 192G and was Instrumental In bringing Anastasla to New York. Leeds Oppose Her Fight Here she was received as the euest of Mrs. William B. Leeds, the former Princess Xenia of Greece, a distant cousin of the czar. But later, Botkln chnrges In cart Rockefeller foundation. 1 l:! I, ANNOUNCEMENT! , Goet- tingen, widely known as 1 , "the mathematical center of the world," has thus acquired the most modern Institute of the kind of all German universities. I I I 111 111 I 111 1 1 1 1 1 PJ(o)P) 1 the North American Review article, the Leeds took the side of other distant relatives who were claiming the considerable fortune left by the czar In England, Germany and ne Do you believe in reincarnaFinland. tion? She Well, when I get through "They readily admitted her Identity," he says. "But somehow the with 'em they never come back. policy of the Imperial family prevailed. Anastasla was not to be HARD TO FIND officially acknowledged. Anastasla left the Leeds Long Island estate suddenly, spent a short time In the tiny studio apartment of John tt. Calter, New York newspaper man, then found haven for a year with friends In Garden City. U I., relates Botkln. For the with past year she has been living memMiss Annie Burr Jennings, a ber of an old New York family, in her suburban home. .O.I.T0U,aX THIS HEW PRICE MAKES THE WHIPPET THE LOWEST PRICED SEDANS OF ALL 4-BO- lands, and this was found to have four errors, the last of which are Willie Paddy, will you buy me being cleared up more tbun thirty an y machine? years later. Father What In the world do An Uland Without a Country. machine? you want with an "Soon after the treaty was made Willie To find "X" in my alIt was found that Cagayan islands, gebra of which the principal Island has an area of 40 square miles ana a CAUSE FOR WRINKLES population of 250, had been left as an island without a country. This was corrected In 1900. Last year the question of who owned Palmas Island, near the Celebes, was set tied by an arbiter's award, giving it to Holland. Another error has been found In the northern line dividing the Philippine Islands and Taiwan (Formosa), but this does not Involve actual territory. "England has been administering the seven 'lost' Islands off Borneo, giving them the little attention they need. Ou Toganak Is a ligni house marking the entrance to Sandakan harbor, the most Impor taut port on the North Borneo coast The provision of the old Spanish and British treoty has been found Impossible or ruinii nient because 'nine nautical miles off the const,' creates an hnpossl ble surveying problem, due to the sinuous curves of the Borneo coast. She Y'ou go to college, don't Yield Coconut and Turtle Eggs. you? This suit looks this He No. "So an Imaginary line has been because I slept In it last night. drawn across the ocean and it is way, specified thnt all the Islands and CAN'T FOOL US rocks north of this line, nnd this means most of the group known as the Turtle islands, will go to the Philippines. In addition to Toganak there are Grent Bakkungnan. Lnngann, Llhiman, Bonnn, Baguan, nnd the Mnngsees lying north of Mangsee channel. "Although the Islands are uninhabited nnd very difficult to reach, because of the barriers of coral which surround them, natives go to them regularly to gather coconuts and turtle eggs. "The Turtle Islands, as they are locally called, and the Mangsces, He along the southern edge of the Sulu sea and are as far south of Manila as Charleston. S. C, is south of New York city." Recent Convention Between England and the U. S. Fixes Boundary, Oft 1930 contribution to economical impressive transportation KisWillys-Ovcrland'- s reduction on a great car with a great future PHILIPPINES TO GET LOST ISLES ..... y Seven "lost" IsWashington. lands will be reattached to the Philippines by a recent convention between England and the United Slates fixing the boundary between North Borneo and the Philippines archipelago. "Mislaying Islands In the Philippines Is ensler than it would Beem," says a bulletin of the National Geographic society from Its headquarters In Washington, D. C, "because there are approximately 7,000 Islands In the archipelago, distributed over an area equal In length to the distance from Pulat-ka- , Fla., to Mackinaw City, Mich. "l'agnnak, most Important of the seven 'lost' Islands, Is only a mile Some of the others are long. merely clumps of trees on smnll rocks or coral patches. None Is luhablted. "Before the Spanish-Americawar, Spain had made a boundary treaty with Great Britain defining the line between Borneo and the Philippine Islands as nine miles off the Borneo coast. Enter came the treaty by which Spain ceded to the United States the Philippine is- INTO FASGISTS SENT THOUSANDS Nephew of Former Italian Premier Charges Government With Inhuman Treatment. 1 13, 1930 EXILE WITHOUT TRIAL cist power In 1920. He was never shown a warrant for his Imprisonment and never brought to trial. Within two weeks he was ordered deported to the penal Islands for five years, although no specific charge wns ever filed against him. At least 29 members of the Italian chamber of deputies suffered the same fale, be says, before the entire body of 2'HI ant Fascist deputies wns summarily ousted from their elected positions. The entire body of political prisoners was subjected t Innumerable hardships, he declares. On occasions 20 prisoners were crowded Into cells built for six or seven. "We lacked eu-- sufficient water for wnshiiig," he says. 'The food wns beyond Imagination putrid macaroni, cooked In water aud mixed with boiled worms. P.y paying outrageous amounts we were able to obtnln dried figs and onions. We slept on the floors, on mattresses stuffed with wood shavings, two of us on each mattress." 1930 1 I I WILLYS-OVERLAN- D, TOLEDO, OHIO Easier to Bear "Here comes Mrs. dabble. Nora had better tell her Pin out." "Won't the still, small voice of conscience reproach you?" "Yes, but I'd rather listen to the still, small voice than to bers." Stray Stories. Manx Herring in Danger The government of the Isle of Man fears that the famous Manx herring Is doomed to oblivion. The tecent decision of a large curing station to move from the Island to the Shetland Islands apparently is the last blow. The Manx herring Industry has been declining since early In the Nineteenth century, when at least 3,X0 of the Islanders were engaged in the In dustry. The present number Is very Tba Only Original "What are the seven wonders of the world?" "My wife's first husband was one and It doesn't mu'ter about the others. Into Insignificance." They sink Florida Times tnioii. small. All Ha Knew "Are the fish biting?" "I don't know," replied the weary angler. "If they are, they're biting A lazy man Is not prodded by hU conscience. It's lazy, too. 'ueh other." i "1 don't even believe that girl hus Plan War on Anti Canberra, Australia. special a heart." "Say, don't tell me thnt. boy, with campaign Is planned against white sha dresses nnts, the pests held responsible for those the destruction of 20,1X10 telephone wears." nnd telegraph poles annually, riamnce to hrhlep. harbor SOON REACHED works and public and private build logs. TJ, i 'i m , ,-- '- "'Ie," "what abaht turuln rahnd an' wulkln' backwards for a spell? You're getttn' the V. O. but I'm getting all th blluklu' bullets." Too Good to Ba Trua Plumber Well, here we are! And we haven't forgotten a single tool. Householder You've coin.-- to th wroug address, though. Madrid Bues llumr. its 5- - -r m v Mi n wv Si What Ha Got At the recent gntherlng of Y. C's In London the following story was told: A wounded man was being carried across No Man's land on the bark of a perspiring comrade. 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