Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1937, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, WASHI TON, D. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937. HOAX S BLASTED. HALBURTON SA1S | Story Czar’s Daughter Lives | Disproved, He Claims, by Executioner. Recounting how he exploded the ru- mor that Anastasia, youngest daugh- ter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, is still living by interviewing Peter Ermakov, one of her executioners, on his death bed, Richard Halliburton, globe trotter and raconteur, addressed a packed house at the Masonic Temple Audi- torium last night, Halliburton related how he sat, in January, 1936, with an interpreter in | the squalid om in Sverdlovsk, Si- beria, where Ermakov was dying, and | heard the tale of the Romanoff massa- | cre blurted forth. Sverdlovsk, he new | name for Fkaterinburg, where the | Toyal family was imprisoned after the | Bolshevist revolution, was named for | the man who sent the assassination | orders. Trio Chosen for Job. | Ermakov, according to Halliburton, and two other men, Yourovsky and Vagernov, were chosen to do the “dirty work.” Telling the royal (i\mlly; they were to be moved, the three al- | lowed them to get dressed and then | shot them in cold blood. Anastasia fainted and was not hit by the bullets —she was heaten to death with a mus- | ket butt The rest of the tale, of how Ermakov stripped the bodies, burned the clothes, | then burned the bodies and scattered | the ashes from the back of a truck over the s pes, was vividly described by the lect who told of hov the dying man concluded his story by say- ing, “If anybody in Am a wells you he knows a Romanoff, tell them this story of how their ashes wee strewn | across the plains with a shovel from | gasoline tins in the back of a truck.” In more humorous vein, the widely traveled author told of how he made the tale of tl e flying carpet come true to Prince Ghazi, now King of Bagdad, | when he and Moye Stephens flew their | plane, Flying Carpet, to the former capital of the Turkish Empire. Flew Fiesal's Son. 16-year-old son of King Fiesal ho helped Lawrence free Arabia, had always wanted to i i an airplane and brought home an “ om school so that his father would | give him what he wanted—to go up | with Halliburton and Stephens in their plane. After an extended tour of lower | mia during the day, the 1axec 1n zooms over the city, which the you I nging by waving to the peop Quizzed further on his Russian in- Halliburton the story certainly ought as he was summarily bounced out of Russia following the Ermakov interview The lecture was of the Zeta Beta CI ‘World Caravan G nder the auspices Sorority of the HILLCREST ADMITS l 37 BOYS AND GIRLS Annual Report Discloses 91 Re- ceived Care at Institution in 1936. girls and 18 bo; edmitted to Hillcrest, W: City Orphan Asylum, during according to the annual report of the managers of the institution. Dur= Ing t 22 were discharged, in- cluding 18 to parents. The total num- ber cared for during the period was 91. Work at the asylum has moved steadily forward, Mrs. James H. S.| Cox, recording secretary, said in her | annual report. “We feel a deep per- sonal satisfaction in the knowledge | that Hillcrest is serving the city of | Washington in a great humanitarian | way," she said. “This is made possible | through the efforts of our Board of | ‘Trustees, our Board of Lady Man- agers and each member of the staff.” A summary of the activities of the Educational, Museum and Grounds Committees also was included in the ennual report, | The present officers of the Board of | Managers of Hillcrest are as follows: Mrs. R. M. Kauffmann, first directress; | Mrs. Fernando Cuniberti, second di- rectress; Mrs. George M. Morris, cor- cretary; Mrs. Cox, re- retary; Mrs. Lewis W. stant secretary; Miss Julia . treasurer, and Mrs. William M. Hannay, assistant treasurer. Nineteen Treasury Employe Robbed. Eugene F. McGillicudy, Treasury Department employe, of 930 Sixteenth street, was robbed early today of $28 by two colored men who held him up at the point of a knife in the 1600 block of K street, according to police. How Horses Got to America. The skull of a horse has been found in & mound built by the Sioux Indians. Horses first came to America on ships of white men. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dinner, N. F. F. E. Local No. 2, National Press Club, 7 p.m. Meeting, Anthropological Society, room 42, National Museum, Tenth and Constitution avenue, 8 p.m. Meeting and show, District Chapter, Catholic Daughters of America, Wil- lard Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Meeting, Progress Club, La Fayette Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Dinner, Junior Board of Commerce, La Fayette Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Meeting, Columbia Historical So- ciety, Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, El Dorado Club, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Georgia Avenue Business Men’s Association, Edwards’ Cafe, 5200 Georgia avenue, 8:30 p.m. Dinner, Cole Class Club, Brightwood Park M. E. Church, Eighth and Jef- ferson streets, 5 p.m. TOMORROW. Luncheon, Electrical Institute, Carl- ton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Zonta Club, Y. W. C. 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