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The Brussels Post, 1961-02-23, Page 2Ka Foretold The Royal . Massacre Petersburg to be, or so they thought, their willing tool, Te blood disease from, whiell the young Crown Prince euee fered was haemophilia. The least, seratelt could bring death since no way had been found to stop the bleeding. One clay the worst happened. A fall in, tile roal gardens ltd to internal bleeding and within a few hours the boy was dying, The doctors could de nothing, The miracle workers et the Court had failed. Then Anna, the Grand Duchess, whispered the magic name of Grigori into the Tsarina's ear, Little girl, left, carries the Winkle Doll by its handy loving-cup ears. Mother and daughter, right, are caught in the craze. Dolls cling to, anything; eyes "wink" 'as light strikes ti.em. Latest Fad From Japan. Spreads East Japan's latest, 'fad took over that country faster than Asian flu. The subject: An inflated black plastic "dakkochan" (embrace- able( doll that clings to its owner with stubby little arms. Now the "dakkochan" or Winkle Doll is being' copied over here. Likened to a baby Martian, the doll has loving-cup ears, a red ' 0" of a mouth and a little plastic skirt. Its wink is an illusion that oc- curs with every change in the angle at which light hits its plas- tic and cardboard eyes. The clot! delirium is spreading to other products. One of them is this blanket, decorated with,a likeness of the iNixikie Doll. it is the- public — you and I — who are the donkeys. We are los- ing our independence to the supermarkets. It is different on a farm — or it used to be. When visitors :were expected it just- meant killing a couple of chick- ens and enjoying their savoriness without regard to week-end, spe- cials. Well, what do you know . . . there is white stuff falling out- side. Our first snowfiurry of the season. Got your car winterized? I just got under the line. HRONICLES GRIARFM121 Starling s. To :Warne; For Tragedy? and Ida Abate of cy, Masa., felt a little scions, They were the only op', eats Who went. to Boston's Logan Airport a few weeks ago to sett their 18.-year-old son Frederiek ebb to Marine Corps recruit training, in Parris Island. "We .joked About it with Fred," Mrs, Abate. 'recalled later, "laughed about babying hull,,' Fred and• fourteen inore eruits,, along with 52 othe,r, pas" sengers and a erew of five, boarded Eastern Airlines Flight 375, a sleek four-engine prop" jet Lockheed Electra bound far philadelphia, Charlotte, N.c,s, Greenville, S,O., and Atlanta, The airplane taxied out to Eton" way 9 and, as the Abates we'vh-, eti from the airport observation, deck, took off over Boston. Hare bour et 5:48 pen. Moments later„ flame erupted in the port ine board engine and the plane slew, ed sharply to the left, nosed. over and plummeted into. 8 feet of cold and -Choppy water in Pleasant Park Channel, Rescuers swarmed • to t h a scene in small boats from five yacht clubs that line the shore. Skin divers plunged into- the muddy water, fast deepening with the incoming tide. They picked up oil-drenched and chill- ed survivors, some of them still strapped in their floating seats.. Others they plucked from the sunken wreckage, burst to bits by the impact. The work con- tinued into the night under searchlights mounted on the beach, Later, the rescuers ran up • the sad toll: Sixty-two dead and ten living, Fred Abate was not one of the three surviving Marines. Nor was there a surviving pilot to talk to Gen. Elwood. R. Que- sada, the Federal Aviation Ad- ministrator, 'who arrived early the next morning to see what had caused this fifth major crash involving the ill-starred Electra. The first discovery by. FAA investigators was a number .of.. dead starlings littering the sun - lace of Runway 9. Then crews, lifting the wreckage oet of the. muck found bits of • feathers still sticking to parts of the planes The bodies. of the' birds were clispatftd, to Harvard, where patledebeiste examined them to leer:hie:0e cause of death, But Mieliiefote their findings were reported; Quesada bc.ieved he . • • knew'. the cause of the-, crash: The Electra had flown directly into a flock of- starlings, and the birds had 'been. sucked into the Electra's turbine engines; caus- ing the plane -to lose power just as it took flight. Who was to lnuw that the strange village lad was one 1.;AY- ta become a fignro of desiny? it was true the boy was a lit- tle wild, Some said lie was too fend of kissing the girls, Well, What .country boy wasn't when Spring covered the Russian steppes with greenery and the gipsy caravans wandered am- ong the valleys? There were rumours that the lad had magic powers, evil pow- ers, Others told hew he cured a child of fever; or of the old Woman who, bedridden for years, had through his prayers walked to church on Easter Day and blessed him as a messenger from God. What was it that made him a saint to some, a devil incar- nate to others? Was he a vil- lage fool or an inspired diplo- mat who almost saved Russia from revolution? Grigori Yefinovitch — later to become notorious as Rasputin, "the mad monk" — was born in a small village in the Tartar district of Russia in the middle years of the nineteenth century. He was a lot brighter than his fellows, and had learned to read and write, an achievement for x.ny working-class boy in those days. When young Grigori was only seventeen his father died and he became a carrier, driving the mail vans. He was twice charged with minor crimes but was never, convicted, and eventually, after meeting a wandering holy man on the roads, went to live in a monastery tucked away in the Asian mountains. Grigori Yefinovitch entered the cloister a riotous ne'er-do-well and emerged a miracle-worker who soon became the storm centre of hatred and affection in his native village. There were tales oe miracu- lous cures; there were also ru- mours of drunken orgies and evenehing parties. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, in the gay and turbulent city of St. Petersburg (now Len- ingrad), the Tsar of all the Rus- sias was living surrounded by a scheming and plotting and de- cadent court. The Tsar was well intentioned but weak; his wife, a hysterical woman, surrounded herself by fortune tellers and charlatans who traded on her possessive love for her son, the Tsarewitch, who suffered from an incurable dis- ease. It was into this situation, al- ready fraught with danger, that Grigori was thrust when one crowd of schemers seeking to out another brought him to St. Super-Jiffy Knit -By Popular Request PRINTED PATTERN Surveys have indicated the in- terest in t e 1 evision viewing dropped sharply during the de- bates between the presidential candidates. There is a solution— the campaign managers should insist the rival candidates wear cowboy outfits. This Dog Star is Bark Perfect With. slow, nleaeured tread canoe the funeral procession, the pallbearers carrying the cofiln, while between their feet trotted a small shaggy grey dog, As the sad little procession ap., proached, a voice could clearly be beard (apparently coming from the coilln), saying in soft, persuasive Vries: "Good boy, Bobby — wait — wait — good boy, Bobby!" The little deg obeyed the com- mands unhesitatingly, Then an- other voice galled "Cute" and everyone began to talk at once tile pallbearers deposited the coffin on the ground, slid off the lid — and out stepped a smiling, remarkably, hale and hearty- looking man in colourful sports shirt, The little dog wagged its taileri hint.tliusistically and rushed togree t This was On the set at Shep- perton Studios, where Walt Dis- ney is filming "Geryfriars' Bob- by," the story of the faithful lit- tle Skye terrier who one hun- dred years ago kept a fourteen- year vigil over his master's grave in Edinburgh's Greyfriars Churchyard. Playing the important title role is a merry little nineteen- month-old Highrand-born pup with a perky expressIdie, appeal- ing eyes and frisky ,tail who, naturally enough, hes » acquired the name of Bobby for life, His inseparable, companion and tutor — the man in the coffin — is Hungarian-born John Dar- lys, now a naturalized Irishman, whose unique stage dog act is world famous. Walt Disney de- cided to sign him for the tricky job of training Bobby. Ten Skye terriers were bought for the film and from that ar- ray of pedigreed talent Bobby was chosen. Quite a large area of Shepp'erton Studios had been wired off for Bobby and his two stand-ins and a large notice warned visitors against talking to or making friends with them. For the first four weeks, John Darlys put Bobby through his, training routine every two hours right round the clock, day and night, It-meant setting the alarm' clock and staggering around out- side with a flashlight, but it was the only way to get the training in the short ,time at their dis- posal. After 'five weeks, shooting began on location in Scotland — and Bobby had to be bark per- fect. He learned to speak when told, to sit; die for his ,country, dig under a door, jump In and out of high windows, lie down on his screen master's grave and look sad and, most difficult of all, to follow his trainer by a round- about route long after he was out of sight. This they practised in parks at ever greater distan- ces ,until Bobby never failed. When this was done, he was ready for work. Bobby " had a transportable kennel in the caravan or on the set, so that he could rest (like any other' star) between takes, He was groomed every day; in- cluding having his eyes ,and teeth cleaned, visited regularly by a veterinary surgeon — but didn't at all like being made, to work in wet weather! Chief's Flat Head Goes Back Home For more than a century the odd shaped Skull of a famous American Indian chief named Concomly has been preserved in a • special case in a British naval hospital. Now it is- being returned to the United States at the urgent request of the citizens of Astoria, Oregon — an 86,981 = square- mile state which was held joint- ly by Britain and the U.S.A. un- til 1846 when it became Ameri- can territory. Why is the skull going back? Because in 1961 the people of Astoria plan to 'bury it in a 'me- moeial during the 150th celebra- tion of their city's founding. Chief •Cancornly Was the head of a tribe of Chinook Indians who gave great help t& the Ame- rican explorers, Lewis and Clark, which enabled them to survive the terrible Oregon winter of 1805, Following the chief's death, in 1829 in Oregon, a Hudson's Bay Company official found the skull — easily identified because he had a very flat head -teused by excessive binding in childhood and shipped it to Britain as' a curiosity. "1-,et him be fetched at once," the Tsarina demanded. They lourfci the Man a little drunk and certainly very hilarious, in the midst of an orgy, In the holy name of the Tsar they ordered that he accompany them to the bedside of the dying Prince. A startling change came over the company. The gypsy violins became silent; the dancers ceas- ed their wild gyrations; the e mad monk, es he is now known star- ed with dark luminous eyes into the faces of his visitors. "The boy will live, I, Ras- putin, have willed it!" With these words he followed them to the royal palace. No one knows whether Ras- putin was a hypnotist, a holy man, or an unscrupulous black- guard seeking an d finding strange power. All that is re- corded is that from the mo- ment he uttered these words, the boy rallied and soon recov- ered from an illness his doc- tors had diagnosed as fatal. This incident set the pattern for all that was to follow. Mir- acle followed miracle and the peasant boy from Siberia soon became the virtual ruler of Rus- sia. Many sought to overthrow him, in fact twice they succeed- ed in persuading the Tsar to ex- pel him from the Court, but each time the sudden illness of the Crown Prince led to panic, Rasputin's immediate recall and the. Crown Prince's immediate recovery. Another illustration of Raspu- tin's strange powers occurred when Anna, the Grand Duchess, who had plotted against him, was badly injured in a train emash. She lay unconscious, life was slowly ebbing away, as Rasputin gazed at her and commanded her recovery. Once more, in spite of doctors predicting death, she lived. The Tsarina --stood by her friend's- bedside, and saw this happen. Seiiing Rasputin's hand she -covered it with kisses. He looked at her, then called out in a loud voice for, all to hear: "While I am alive and with you, all is well, but if I die your son will die, your `throne will totter and Russia as we know it will cease to be". The climax came swifter than any had anticipated. Rasputin's power exceeded that of , any statesman in Europe or Asia. His word was law and the Tsar- ina saw him es almost the em- bodiment of divinity itself. His enemies - grew in numbers and strength and then came the fatal night in December, 1915. Army leaders, diplomats and members of the Russian aristoc- racy worked out a skilful plot to poison Rasputin. Prince Yussa- pov, scion of the Royal House, posing as Rasputin's friend, was to be the assassin. But, after drinking enough poison to kill ten men, Rasputin - was still alive! His assassin then felled the monk with a round of revolver shots. Half an hour later, Rasputin rose to his feet and struggled to escape from the basement room in the Prince's palace to which he had been lured. At sight of the man he had be- lieved to be dead, the Prince panicked and, after further shots, finished off his victim with a rubber truncheon. He then pushed the body through a hole on the ice-covered river. Bttt the scheme failed. Ras- putin's body was found a few days later. His assassin was ban- ished from court and kept a prisoner on his country estate. Rasputin was given a state fun- eral by the Tear that was the last word in magnificence. Rasputin was dead and soon the Crown Prince was to die and his parents, the Tsar and Tsarina, were to be massacred by the butchers of the Revolution. tie, Itasputirt, had foretold it all. Was he a madman pursuing power, or a man of wisdoin Whe tried to save Russia from the Revolution that engulfed her? 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It will have to be done but I quail at the thought! 'Nuff said at the pres- ent. What you should find more in- teresting to read comes from the pen of Vance Packard, in his latest book, "The Waste Mak- ers." So far I have read only the review. Actually he doesn't tell us anything we don't already know — if we stop to think about it. What he does do is point out the foolishness of al- lowing ourselves to be influenced by advertising, to the extent of buying new gimmicks when what we already have are prob- ably far more satisfactory. Mr. Packard says manufactured goods today are not meant to last. Potato peelers to refrigera- tors are put on the market in new styles just to induce peo- ple to buy — to keep up with the Joneses. Don't we know it? Keep in fashion or you night as well be dead, sort of thing. I find there is anether way in which everyday living is more or less governed by advertising —that is, by supermarket week- end specials. What I would like to know is why all chain stores offer the same "specials" 'on the same days. What one has to offer the others have too, whether it's beef, Lamb, or poultry, So your week-end roast isn't always what you choose but what the stores want you to buy. Housewives with a deep freeze don't have to worry but for small families without that luxury it's a case of take what's offered. If you have a freezing unit in your "frig" you can get around it keeping more than one kind of Meat on hand — but there le a limit to what a freezing unit will hold.. What I would like to know is how 'this sameness in "`"specials" comes about. You find the same thing in department stores, ljdea each Stere and supermarket have its own secret agents or is it -a combine where each store agrees on what shall be put on special' for that day or week? It all 'savours a little tdo much of the custom of holding a carrot before the donkey. And Of course A familiar figure is lost to the rural section of Ontario — Mr. Moses Zener, of Toronto. Even, as far back as 30 years ago, far- mers living within a radius of 50 miles of Toronto, and who kept poultry as a sideline, would think something was amiss if they did not get a call from Moses Zener several times dur- ing the year. Mr. Zeiler was a gentleman of the Jewish faith who bought and sold live poul- try — and. I do mean gentleman. He was a shrewd businessman always courteous and oblig- ing — even if he did try to make you believe he was losing money by offering 'to buy hens at the price he offered. However, when he made you an offer you could either take it or leave without giving offence. And another thing in his favour — if Moses promised to come on Tuesday he came. If not he would phone and let you know. And he cer- tainly knew how to judge and handle poultry. Many a deal we had with Mose Zener through the years and we were always more or less satisfied. We could hardly blame him for low prices if the market was glutted with poultry or if we happened,to be selling at the wrong time. And now poor old Mose is dead, killed in an accident last week on Highway 27, involving a car and the pick-up truck he was driving. We were truly sorry to hear it, We liked Mose Zener and we found him inter- esting and well-ieformed. He told us Many things abaft Jew- ish- customs and gave us a first- hand account of the wedding when one of his daughters 'got married, If I remember rightly it was a three-day celebration. If it was cold when Mose tailed he would -often come into the kiteheri to get warm and have a cup of tea. In summer he WOUld stand atotnici in the barn and talk as long as we were willing. I am sure many farrilers besides ourselveS Will feel badly that Mr. Zeiler met death in such a tragic way. 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