Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1936, Page 4

A—4 AMERIGANS FLEE STRIFE-TORN ZONE fist of Evacuated Contains Names of More Than 130 U. S. Citizens. By the Assoctated Press. " More than 130 more Americans have ‘been removed from strife-torn Spain, the State Department announced late Yesterday “" Of these, 98 were taken from Barce- lona and other ports to Marseilles, France, and 20 from Malaga to Gi- braltar, The American steamer Exeter removed 86 Americans from Barcelona, 12 others arriving at Mar- illes were picked up at various points ! by the British warships Gallant and Gipsey. Twenty Americans taken to Gibral- ¢ tar were carried by the British war- ship Brazen. Consul General John P. Hurley at l Marseilles reported also that 75 citi- zens of other nations had arrived ¢ there, the department adding that they arrived “presumably on the Exeter.”” They included: Germans, 30; Belgians, 22; Swiss, 5; Argen- tines, 5; British, 4; Salvadoreans, 4; Italians, 2, and 1 each from France, Cuba and Austria. Evacuated from Barcelona. The lists follow: Evacuated from Barcelona to Mar- seilles on the steamer Exeter: Mary Starr West and three children, Sewickley, Pa. | Katrine Charnley, Cleveland, Ohio. } Ramon Esteve, wife and four chil- dren, Dallas, Tex. Marjory R. Iddings and daughter, Kendallville, Ind. Robert S. Smith, Durham, N. C. Elizabeth P. Gwynn and three chil- dren, New York City. Mabel F. Ocker, Ardmore, Okla. Mary Wirthead, Ardmore, Okla. Alice C. Quinlan and two children, New York City. S James W. Stakelum, New Orleans, a. Henry Suhl, New York City. Jose Paris, wife and three éhildren, Manila, Philippine Islands. Juan Serralles and wife, Puerto Rico. Gillmore H. Guyot, St. Louis, Mo. Felix Fano (?), wife and one child, 8an Juan, Puerto Rico. Charles G. Quinlan, City. AAnhm’ Leaden, Reardon, Tucson, riz. Ponce, Fontaine Gillespie, wife and child. | Galveston, Tex. Gabriel Leweil, Brooklyn, N. Y. Carl C. Long, wife and child, Bar- celona; birthpiace, Scranton, Pa. John W. Conant, New York City. Keith, Peapack, N. J. Elizabeth McConkey, Ke. (?) Park, (name of town incomplete) N. J. Colorado Woman Listed. Katherine H. Zahnen, Monte Vista, Colo. Martha B. De Fors, Barcelona; birthplace, Roswell, N. Mex. Filomena Chafre and three child- Ten named Dall and (—), Barcelona; birthplace, Manila. Zoila De Requesens, New York City. Bessie F. Robinson, Fredericksburg, | Ve. Eidth (Edith) S. Lowther, Bar- celona; birthplace, Philadelphia. Olga Selby, Barcelona; birthplace, Bweden. Gertrude Netcher, Barcelona; birth- place, Philadelphia, Pa. Dorothy M. Temp and two child- ren, Richmond, Va. Paula Mistaughtica, Puerto Rico. Rita R. Luzg, Vicente De Santos, Puerto Rico. Cun Davila, Puerto Rico. Ana Luisa Rodriques, Puerto Rico. Paula Klein, Barcelona; birthplace, Stuttgart. Alice J. Klein and child, Barcelona; birthplace, Marseille. THE SUNDAY STAR Spanish Refugees Reach Gibraltax Fleeing from Spain’s revolt, Gibraltar in a small fishing The Spanish warshi rebel forts on Moroccan shore. From Madrid | Third Secretary Reports Americans Are Safe in Capital. The State Department yesterday re- leased the following verbatim tnm-‘ | eript of a radio-telephonic conversa- | tion between Secretary Hull and Eric C. Wendelin, third secretary of the American Embassy in Madrid: Secretary: What is the situation | over there? | Wendelin: We have got plenty of people in the American Embassy. They | are safe, All that we know of are| | safe . | Secretary: Go ahead with your de- scription of conditions. Wendelin: We have 148 Americans in the embassy, and 161 people in the embassy altogether. There are 300/ | Americans in Madrid, but almost all | the remainder are Filipino or Puerto | Rican nationals, The government is | holding its own very well, and the | morale of the people in Madrid is | good. There are government troops | to the north of Madrid. These are | the two most important passes to the | north of Madrid. We have food and | water supply and believe we are able | women and children refugees are shown as they arrived at boat. Miguel de Cervantes at Gibraltar as the crew gives the Communist salute with clenched fists. The ship, with two other loyalist vessels, was reported bombarding Photos rushed to London and radioed to New York. 'Hull Gets First-Hand News New York | Aide by Phone ERIC C. WENDELIN., Americans are in the Embassy—160 of them. Secretary: I deeply appreciate your work there. ‘Wendelin: We are doing the best we can. We have had the most whole- hearted co-operation from the Ameri- William L., and Francis L. Talbot, to remain here rather comfortably for | can people themselves. We are very Barcelona: birthplace, Chicago. Virginia L. Braddock and two chil- dren, Barcelona. Mrs. Butler Franklin and three chil- dren, Barcelona. James C. Jouers, Jacksonville, Fla. Eleanor Eddy and child, Barcelona. Helen Devoe Allen and child, Barcelona; birthplace, St. Louis, Mo. Harriet G. Hobble, Barcelona; birth- Place, Plymouth, TIl. i Flora E. Hobble, Barcelona; birth- place, St. Marys.‘ Parita, Il Robert Ernest Shaw, Barcelona; birthplace, Pratt, Kans. Ruby S. Beach and child, Barcelona; | birthplace, Rome, N. Y. Leave on British Ship. Additional Americans not previously reported evacuated from various points | | until the situation changes and has to Marseilles: On British warship Gallant, July 24. Litchels A. Emptage and Archie Dudley Emptage, New York, N. Y. John T. Fitzpatrick, Ica, Pa. On British warship Gipsey, July 24: Bernard G. Gottlieb and Eugenie Gottlieb. Walter W. Cook. Miss Margaret Jean Clarkson and William R. Clarkson. Chandler R. Post, Campi, Mass. Mildred Knapp Kendall. Alston Hurd Chase, Melrose, Mass. On British warship Gallant, July 25: Miss Priscilla Wrightson, Chevy Chase, Md. Evacuated afternoon of July 25 from Malaga to Gibraltar by British warship Brazen: Miss Agna Anters, New York. o Luis Kantor, New York. Miss Patricia Ywker, New York. Miss Elizabeth Healy, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Matez, New York. Miss Marietrice McDermott, New ‘York. G. Robert A. Conquest, New York. Mr. and Mrs, Walter B. Boyce and Miss Lillian Boyce, Boston, Mass. Gladys Bowler and Miss Ann Fair- child Bowler, Noroton, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bush, and Charles Bush of Dorchester, Mass. Massachusetts Man. John Stevens of Provincetown, Mass. Miss M. Rie Hallinan of Chicago. Robert McKinley of Pittsburgh, Pa. Misses Isabelle C. Barry and Made- leine Maguire, both of Boston, were evacuated from Malaga for Gibraltar, July 21. The department issued another list giving the names of 12 Americans who had reached safety at Saint Jean de Luz. The addresses in the United States of eight of them were not noted in dispatches to the department. The 12 were: Rubio and family, Manila. Mrs. Keefeloder and two daughters, Brooklyn, N, Y. Miss Morrison, school teacher, New York City. Following whose addresses in the United States could not be learned: Miss Weinstein, Dr. Hildburg, Frank -8. Lade and wife, Pauline Nesgre, Sid- ‘ney Heldberg, Florence Jovenco and Porpinadio Dican. o} | at least two weeks. The Socialists and | Communists are in control. We under- | stand Americans were evacuated on | | the Exeter from Barcelona, but have been unable to get in touch with the embassy at San Sebastian. Understand | the Oklahoma is at Bilbao. Suggest it stand in readiness to proceed to San | Sebastian or any other point Mm | Bowers may advise. Americans Believed Safe. ‘We have no detalls as to conditions in the south of Spain except Valencia, or anywhere in the north of Spain ex- | cept Barcelona. We do not believe there will be any immediate effect on Americans, unless returning fighters run wild after a decisive victory. We have taken precautions. The embassy has made all preparations to hold out food and other provisions which it feels will last for at least two weeks. We have received every possible as- | sistance from the government and es- pecially from police headquarters. I wish to record the fact that the gov- ernment has done everything in its power to accede to the requests we have made of it. Secretary: Are any Americans at- tempting to leave Madrid for the sea- coast? ‘Wendelin: The connection is very poor and I cannot hear what you say. It is the same with the con- nection with Lisbon They can hear me but I cannot hear them. Secretary: Where is Schoellkopf? (Walter H. Schoellkopf—first secre- tary.) Wendelin: He went on leave to Eng- land the 1st of July and returned to San Sebastian on the 19th and to the best of my knowledge I believe he is in San Sebastian with the rest of the staff. No Outlet to Coast. Secretary: Are any Americans able to get down to the seacoast from Madrid? ‘Wendelin: No. There is no con- nection with the seacoast anywhere. No means of leaving Madrid. The only way would be to evacuate by airplane which would be utterly unfeasible. All railroad communica- tions are cut. We have also investi- gated railroad communication to Por- tugal and found it impossible to send Americans out by that route. Have you heard from Mr. Bowers? Secretary: Yes, we have. We were in telephone communication with Bowers last night. He is well and safe. He is at Fuenterrabia, near San Sebastian. Please give my best wishes to the staff and Americans there at the Embassy. Have you anything else? Wendelin: The military attache of this Embassy is in close touch with the military situation and does not believe there will be any serious trouble—only that after a decisive de- precautions. A battle on about 50 miles to Madrid. Practically all ¢ overcrowded in the Embassy, but the women, children and men are co- operating to an extraordinary degree. Secretary: Give my best wishes to the members of the Embassy and to the Americans and tell them we will keep in touch with you ard co-operate | with you in every possible way. REFUGEE BROADCAST Persons Fleeing Spain to Be In- terviewed on Radio. A special trans-Atlantic broadcast, in which refugees fleeing the bloody Spanish civil war will be interviewed from Hendaye, on the French side of the border, will be heard over Station WJSV from 9:45 to 10 a.m. today. Dan Brigham of the Paris office of the New York Times and G. H. Van- ackere, French representative for the Columbia Broadcasting System, will question the refugees. 100 REFUGEES IN FRANCE Sloop Arrives at Saint Nazaire, but Can’t Land Passengers. SAINT-NAZAIRE, France, July 25 {#)—A sloop flying a Spanish flag on her masthead and a red flag at her stern anchored here tonight with 100 Leftist refugees from Spain. Port authorities told them they would have to spend the night aboard the ship, pending questioning by gov- ernment officials. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. : Spain (Continued From First Page.) to the refuge under the protection of | Popular Front soldiers. | Mrs. Bowers, who earlier was re- | ported {ll, was described as improv- ing and not in need of medical at- tention. More than 150 American refugees remained inside the embassy at M drid, awaiting evacuation. Their sit- uation was reported to the State De- |pnrtmen! as “satisfactory” with no serious trouble expected unless troops “ran wild” in the streets., LIBERALS REPORT GAINS. Rebels Driven Out of Southern Cities, Government Says. MADRID, July 26 (Sunday) (#).— The Spanish Government, in an in- ternational broadcast early today, claimed the nine-day old rebellion was .clenrly dominated by loyal forces and | that rebel centers would be seized | within & few days. Albacete, key city in the southeast, was captured from revolters last night after a heavy aerial bombardment by government planes, the administra- tion of Premier Jose Giral Pereira asserted. The important southern cities of Cadiz, Seville and Cordoba were sur- rounded by the Liberal regime's fight- ers, the government declared, adding that victory at those points was cer- tain, The fall of Albacete, dominated by | Fascists for almost a week, reopened | | communications between Albacete and | the cities of Murcia, Alicante, Car- | | tegena and Valencia. Continuous Bombing. & government announcement tonight. Liberal officials moved immediately to consolidate control of their loyal forces in the southeast provinces. ‘The insurgents surrendered after two days of continuous bombing by loyal fighting planes, the government de- clared. The bombardment was con- centrated on rebel intrenchments and the city itself was completely spared, the ministries of war and communica- tions said. All towns in the province were re- ported quiet. The population of Al- bacete greeted government forces en- tering the city with shouts of “Viva la republica!” - ‘The leader of the rebel himse! forces killed 1f. Only the rumble of an artillery bar- rage directed against rebel forces on the northern slopes of the Guadar- rama Mountains disturbed the quiet of the rugged region 60 miles from the capital. Resting and consolidating their po- sitions, the Liberals sought to solidify their control over three jagged passes which attacking Pascists sought vainly to penetrate in bloody clashes during the past three days. 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The other 22 of the country’s governmental sub- divisions were firmly in the hands of Leftists, officials declared. In the Northeast and Southwest, marching columns of loyalists neared the objectives of a projected series of assaults on rebel strongholds. ‘Three separate movements plunged toward Zaragoza—already reported raked by aerial bombardments. Con- verging columns moved in from Mad- rid, Valencia and Barcelona. Seville, where Jocal militiamen defied rebels who attempted to dominate the entire territory, was the destination of a fast-moying army of reinforce- ments in the south. (The shipment of 11,000,000 francs, approximately $660,000, to France was reported from Le oBurget on the arrival of a Spanish plane,) Oviedo Held by Rebels. Oviedo, chief city of the Asturias, was reported from Le Bourget on Col. Aranda, who seized it after pre- tending to lead Liberal defense units through its streets. Fighting in the Guadarrama Moun- tains yesterday resulted-in the death of 2,000 Fascist soldiers, prisoners taken near Zaragoza declared. The energetic defense of the Liberal troops threw the rebel attackers into confusion resulting in extreme diffi- culty in evacuation of the wounded. The capital itself became increas- ingly calm with the majority of effort directed toward organization of the defending forces. MADRID FALL SEEN. WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 26, 1936—PART ONE. REBELS MALT ADVANCE 60 MILES NORTH "7 |OF MADRID v Map indicates yesterday’s d war. passes through Guardarrama R goza. Rebels controlled 28 of conceded. Rebel Leader Says Hunger Will De- feat Capital. WITH NORTHERN REBEL FORCES AT VERA, Spain, July 25 (#).—Col. Luis de Villaueva, com- mander of an important Spanish rebel column here, claimed tonight that the Fascist forces had closed all the exits to Madrid and that the fall of the capital was assured with- in a week from hunger and thirst. The army under Gen. Emilio Mola, he declared, now was holding a sta- tionary position 60 miles from Madrid, and had plugged up the last means of exit from that city. The revolters’ artillery shelled San Sebastian, Spain’s Summer capital, intermittently throughout the after- noon. The harbor of the city, now in the hands of loyalists, assumed an international appearance, with two British and two French destroyers and the United States Coast Guard cutter Cayuga anchored there or shuttling refugees over to nearby St. Jean de Luz, France. Two Ger- man “pocket battleships” were ex- pected tonight. When the Cayuga steamed into the harbor and dropped anchor, the crew promptly removed the hoods from her guns. The Popular Front government's | militia clashed with rebels only a mile and a half from here, with slight casualties reported. Scattered encounters occurred elsewhere in the |north as the second week of civil warfare started, but for the most part the fighting forces used the national holiday of Santiago to bulwark their positions, DISTRICT G.IRI. SAFE FLEEING BARCELONA | Miss Wrightson Cables Father She Reached Marseille on British Warship. Priscilla Ann Wrightson, Chevy Chase, Md., girl whose grandfather led the fight against yellow fever during construction of the Panama | Canal, was safe in Marseille, Prance, last night after being evacuated out | of the Spanish civil war danger zone | in Barcelona. Willilam D. Wrightson, her father, year-old daughter at noon yesterday B aeenes e o = —— Spanish War at a Glance HELD BY REBELS — HELD 8Y GOV’'T w2222 DOUBTFUL evelopments in the Spanish civil Rebel forces, viewing with apprehension the fortified ange, halted their advance upon Madrid. Loyalists attacked rebel forts at Ceuta and government troops left Barcelona for northeastern rebel stronghold of Zara- 50 provinces, the government —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. after her arrival in Marseille on the British warship Gallant “She said all was well,” Wrightson reported. His daughter had been staying in | Barcelona with her cousin, Lynn W. Franklin, United States consul gen- eral at the Spanish Mediterranean port. Miss Wrightson is the granddaugh- ter of Gen. William Gorgas. Also evacuated, on the American steamer Exeter, were Bessie F. Robin- son of Fredericksburg, Va., and Mrs. of Richmond, Va. . YOUNG DIES IN UTAH Been Ill Month. SALT LAKE CITY, July 25 (P).— Col. willard Young, 84, son of Brigham | Young, famous pioneer leader of the | following a month'’s iliness. a week’s celebration of the 89th anni- of 15 Hesketh street, Chevy Chase, | versary of the arival in Salt Lake Val- : said he received a cable from his 20- | ley of Brigham Young and his Mormon | | followers. Dorothy M. Temp and her two children | Son of Mormon Leader, 84, Had | Latter-Day Saints’ Church, died today | | Death came as all Utah completed U. 5. AIDS FAMILY OF SLAIN SPANIARD Destitute Wife of Consulate Employe Killed on Duty Gets Help. By the Associated Press. Distressed at the slaying in Barcee lona of a Spanish employe of the United States Consulate, while he was seeking to protect American citizens, the American Government moved yes- terday to give financial assistance to his destitute wife and children. Secretary Hull cabled instructions to American Consul Lynn W. 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