Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1936, Page 4

QST TERRORITS, PONTIACDENANDS Ofiy Commissioner Follows Bovernor’s Lead in Move 'z to “Clean House.” BY'the Associated Press. DETROIT, September 3. —While Michigan proceeded apace Wwith an official “house-cleaning” which Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald said was designed to rid the State pay roll of men whose membership in the Black Legion could be ~definitely established, a Pontiac, Mich., city commissioner demanded today that his communty follow suit. ‘The State administration summarily removed 4 of more than 30 em- ployes named as Black Legion mem- bers in a report of Circult Judge George B. Hartrick, who conducted a grand jury inquiry into activities of the night-riding order in Oakland County, in which Pontiac is &ituated. ‘The ousters followed the report by less than 36 hours. Dr. P. V. Wagley, superintendent of & State hospital at Pontiac, said he expected an order suspending as many as a score of his subordinates momen- tarily. Their cases rest with the State Hospital Commission, which has not met since the grand jury made its re- port public. Demand Removal of 50. ‘Meanwhile, 50 or more officials and employes of Oakland County and Oak- land County communities who also ‘were named continued in their public roles, although & citizens’ committee was demanding their removal. In Pontiac, the city commission ealled a special session for next week to receive a resolution being prepared by Commissioner James E. Mahar which will call for a blanket ouster of municipal employes involved with the hooded order. Among those whom the grand jury named as Black Legion members are the city attorney, treas- urer, two assessors, the chief of police and a member of the Police and Fire Trial Board. State employes who already have been removed are Charles W. Cole, Pontiac manager of the sales tax di- vision; Gordon C. MacDougall, branch manager for the Liquor Control Com- mission; Lee O. Brooks, a liquor in- spector, and Albert L. Smith, a clerk in the State liquor store at Pontiac, Active Membership Denied. In the wake of the grand jury report came many denials of active membership in the Black Legion. State Representative Joseph A. Long explained that he joined believing the organization was merely political and said he believed the next Legislature should enact a strong law as a safe- guard against secret terroristic so- cieties. A trial of 12 men accused in the Black Legion “execution” of Charles A. Poole was in adjournment until to- morrow, the jury still incomplete. Seven jurors were tentatively chosen from a panel of 92 during the first two days of the proceedings. Spain (Continued From First Page.) near Biratou, France, killing a farmer. Three more French policemen were wounded during intermittent fight- ing near Behobia International Bridge. Trenches dug by the government forces before their retreat into Irun were turned to advantage of the rebels, who shifted the sand-bag bar- ricades for the protection of Fascist machine-gun crews. Cavalry Contingents Used. The insurgent command brought up cavalry contingents for the first time on the Irun front. Two hun- dred horsemen were ordered to join the rear guard for patrol of roads behind the battle lines. Two government planes tried to bomb the rebel troop concentration, but succeeded only in raising clouds of smoke. A rebel plane blasted a match factory at Behobia, but its bombs fell wide of the government defenses. Government batteries at Fuenter- rabia switched their fire from San Marcial to the Bidassoa River road, but their aim was so bad that 20 shells fell in French territory. French &nflmfl sent an emissary to stop m, Opening a flanking movement, the rebel infantry squelched a govern- ment machine gun nest along the road to Irun with hand-grenades. Desertions Reported. ‘The forces of the supporters of the Madrid regime were depleted by wholesale desertions across the Bidas- 8oa River into this French town. The rebels drove the militiamen headlong into the Spanish town of Behobla from the last line of or- ganized defenses and continued to pour shells and bombs into the dis- orderly columns, Bullets from Fascist rifles and ma- chine guns bounced into French Behobie as the insurgents rushed the government soldiers into the flowing stream. Rebel infantry, still more than 1 mile from Irun, advanced step by step “cleaning up” nests of anipers and machine gun crews. Along the streets of Behobia, squads of Fascists pushed & cautious ad- vance, working their way from house to, house as government rifles cracked out at them from behind mattress- stuffed windows. ‘The little Spanish village of Be- hobls, twin city to French Behobie across the river border, looked as if fire had swept through the entire town. ‘Nearly every window in stores and hquses along the main street facing the river was smashed. Store fronts were wrecked by the day-long bat- tle. Holes and deep chips gave evi- dence of machine-gun damage to buildings. Batteries of rebel artillery moved up & mile nearer Irun after the ad- vance into Behobid, and gun crews ‘were ordered to stand by for renew- 8l of the attack. Two hundred and fifty French mo- bile guards patroled the international bridges over the Bidassoa to Behobie and Hendaye. Fleeing non-combattant refugees— representing both government sup- porters and Fascist insurgents—re- ceived the same treatment at the hands of the French officials. Many were shipped off to nearby French towns. ‘The bridge itself was jammed—a condition which forced scores of gov- ernment soldiers to attempt to ford the 100-foot ‘river with Fascist bul- lets whistling over :their heads and spurting into the water. The insurgent occupation of Span- ish Behobia came on the heels of the capture of the small settlement of San Marcial, another suburb of Irun. Gaping holes in the battle-scarred ¢ Seven of the 21 men wanted for questionin THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936.° in connection with Oakland County, Mich., Black Legion burning of the c;a':lr:‘munistt W% erstfiducntianall(:agp‘ln ,n:'rmin%?n tg'f’;’?’l’ M 1935, shown after r arrest. ve others were already in jail awaiting trial for et T ! Left to right, front row: Ernest Martin, Albert Schneider and other Black Legion activities. Andrew Martin. Rear: Cecil Nankervis, imon F. Palton, Wilbert Smith and Frank Rodgers. —Wide World Photo, U. S. Pair Held by Spanish Reds SPMN A"] DEMAND Have Close Escape From Death GROWS IN FRANCE Communists Spur Movement Against Blum Neutrality Proposal. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 3.—Vigorous de- mand by Maurice Thorez, secretary- general of the Communist party in France, for aid of the Spanish govern- ment today stimulated a French Com- munist workers’ movement against So- cialist Premier Leon Blum's neutrality stand in the civil war. While a fresh outbreak of strikes roused Rightist circles to fears for the government's “hands-off” policy in the civil conflict, Thorez told 15,000 metal workers at Boulogne: “Peace will not be served by letting 8 friendly democracy like Spain be weakened. The Spanish government must be given means of crushing the rebellion.” Asserting his party desired world peace, Thorez indicated the party would seek to avoid using occupation strikes as & political weapon for the furtherance of aid-to-Spain demands. Some observers feared, nevertheless, that these demands would be coupled by some strikers with their fight for higher wages and other labor conces- sions. Joining the latest series of strikes, 170 workers in a lead mine at Moutiers held out for increased wages. More than 3,000 workers, arms folded in workless occupation of tex- tile and metal factories throughout the nation, demanded better working conditions, shorter, hours and—in some labor unions meetings “planes for Spain.” Whether the strikes would grow to the 1,000,000-worker total that greeted Leon Blum when his Socialist govern- ment came into power was the cause for and conjecture in many cir- cles, U. S. NATIONALS GET NEW HULL WARNING Secretary Appeals Again to 500 Americans to Use Facilities to Leave Country, By the Associated Press. In what may constitute a final warn- ing, Secretary Hull has dispatched a new plea to the approximately 500 Americans still in Spain to leave the country. The State Department revealed last night that the Secretary of State again has instructed the American Embassy and all consulates ih the revolution- torn country again to urge Americans in their districts to “avail themselves of the present opportunity to leave Spain.” Reflecting increasing official impa- tience at the refusal of many nationals to take advantage of facilities made available for their evacuation, the State Department chieftain acted ‘within 24 hours after he had indicated publicly that the United States Gov- ernment was considering the with- drawal at an early date of war vessels in rescue work in Spanish waters. Secretary Hull pointed out that ap- proximately 500 Americans had elected to stay in Spain mainly on account of business or family reasons in spite of Tepeated urgent warnings that they flee the country while avenues of escape still were open. THREE REBELS DOOMED BARCELONA, Spain, September 3 (#)—Cataionia’s grim Court” today sentenced the first 5 of 25 Fascist rebels who are being court= martialed aboard the prison ship Uruguay. Three of them must die. The condemned men were Col. Jose Llamas Quintilla and Capts. Ana- taslo Torres Chacon and Fernando Comdr. Fernando Perez Parra was sentenced to life imprisonment. Comdr. Manuel Lopes Caparros was declared insane and ordered to an asylum. ground confronted the triumphant in- vaders before they could move finally into Irun. Socialist militiamen plant- ed hastily-prepared charges of dyna- mite in the fields separating the rebel lines and the city. Machine gun crews dragged hastily- assembled pieces into the holes and prepared for a new assault. LOYALISTS TAKE HUESCA. MADRID, September 3 (#)—Gov- ~ A vivid account of adventures that befell two young Americans in war-torn Spain is given here. Rob- ert J. Clements and his brother Sterling, of Cleveland, faced death by a firing squad after being thrown into jail in the Communist town of La Campana, but were re- leased by Fascists and made their way to Gidbraltar and then to Na- ples. Robert J. Clements is well known as a writer under the pen name of Wellington Brundage, BY ROBERT J. CLEMENTS, ‘The travel agencles in Paris sald that Spain was just the place to spend a fortnight. And San Sebastian was peaceful along its sempiternal blue bays. Burgos was somnolescent, and even Madrid was stately and calm. One day there, when we tried to enter the Palacio Nacional the civil guards told us that the palace was closed to civilians for reasons meas- ureless to man. ‘This was a warning. But the call of Andalusia with its stucco huts and naked hills was overpowering. Se we decided to brave the Midsummer July heat of Southern Spain. Sat- urday night, July 18, we boarded the Seville-Andalusia express despite the notice in the station that the com- pany could not guarantee service on southern lines. At dawn we open our eyes, s bare plain. The train had stopped. Every one awake and walking about the compartment, adding s babel of dia- lects to the sound of escaping steam. Looking out of the window we see a sign near the tiny station: El Carplo. Revolution Causes Delay. “Why the delay?” we ask & man behind us, nervously rolling a cigar- ette. “It is the revolution,” he says. The day becomes tropical, and pretty soon all drinking water is gone. The engineer drains the boiler for the sake of the thirsty passengers in mid- afternoon, and some one produces olive oil, cakes and bread to eat. A hot, sticky night in the train; by by morning every one drinking the dangerous (if cool) well water of the village. We strike off in the morning to the highway some miles away and finally find & truck willing to take us to Cordoba. At the city limits guards searched us_thoroughly, our baggage as well. We learn that a bus is to leave for Seville in the evening, and, as there is no American consul here, we de- cided to head for Gibraltar via Seville. We have a walt of several hours. Safety Is Assured. My brother and I go to the military commander to get passes authorizing us to proceed southwest. The huge barracks are crowded with excited people, but the commander is smiling and calm. As his adjutant composes and stamps the necessary passes, he gives us assurance of our safety, and is sorry that our trip must be altered, speaks with fervor of the beauties of Andalusia, which we are to see next time. Our bus starts, stops at the town Eclja—and there we stayed for sev- eral days at the hotel. There was o traffic permitted through to Seville. After five days in this old town news comes that Carmona was in the hands of the rebels and that we could proceed to Seville, where there was an American Consul. We hire an old Paige taxi for the trip, making the necessary demarches at the military commandery. At Carmona we have the usual guns pointed at our taxi. - We are asked who we were and what we wanted. “Pues, the taxi can't pass, because the Carmona bridge has been burned by the Loyalist peasants. And you can’t pass, for we, the Loyalists, have taken the town back this morning.” ‘We decided to circle Carmona by & lonely road to the north, and to continue on to Seville. Two hours up the lonely carreters, we are in the hornet’s nest of La Campena, & Communist village faithful to Leftist Madrid. Some 500 yards from town & crowd of 200 armed peasants spring out from the roadside, covering us with shotguns. Up the road at & owe our lives. The townsmen con- tinue .to cover us. It is no pleasure to be under aim of 200 nervous shot- An American passport means noth- ing in this situation. One is left or right, and the right wingers were on the spot. Back to the square where our car is parked. Once again we are unfor- tunate. A small scout plane flies low over the village. It was a rebel pilot. We are immediately associated with the plane and become wool-dyed ene- mies. An hour later we were led to the jail n the square. In our jail were nine men and one woman—a Madrid stenographer try- ing to reach a dying mother in Cadiz. She had been stopped as we had been. Some of the populace felt that we should be killed immediately to avenge themselves in advance. However, others felt that we should be held and that other landowners (Fascists in their eyes) should be rounded up as additional hostages and notice served on the rebels that, if they should attack, we should all be killed. This js what was done. However, the two men who rode off to deliver the note were held themselves as hos- tages! Warning Thrown in Window. ‘The alcalde came several times to see us. He was the town doctor. He was & red-faced, perspiring little man and not unintelligent. One evening a stone was thrown through an open window on the op- posite side of the entrance. A paper around it penciled: “If the Fascists come, all the Fas- cists in La Campana will be killed or burned at the first alarm.” The following Sunday, class hatred boiled over. The forgotten man of La Campana was recalling himself to memory. Every 10 minutes for over four hours, from 8 till noon, some new landowner or suspected reaction- ary was thrown into our jail. By noon there were 40 of us in the sin- gle room there. Late that afternoon we were re- moved to still another detention home just on the other side of the square. Perhaps the restrained pathos in our letter caught the committee when they, too, were somewhat saturated with cognac. 3 La Campena was s village of serfs. Probably not one of these had any idea what communism or fascism meant. And yet they were flying the red flag on their buildings, not so much through loyalty to the govern- ment as through proletarian hatred of the small land owner. Second Week Uneventful. The second week drew to a close with nothing happening. August 2, Sunday afternoon, at 10 minutes after 4, the church bell struck twice. That meant something was coming from Carmona, and Carmona was in the hands,of the rebels. The other prisoners were inside sleeping. I decided not to wake them. Going to the window I looked out into the street and saw worried peo- ple slamming their doors shut, and men running toward the plaza sleepily grasping guns. Outside & voice called, “They've seen Fascist motor lorries coming from Carmona. Many! Many!” After & quarter hour of rifie and shotgun fire, we heard the outburst vf steady machine gunning in the square, After two hours’ firing abated and some one started to toll the bells of Santa Maria. This we took as a token of surrender. Then the sniping started. Some one pounded on our door. We hastily held council on what to do, opened the outer door, It was the rebels. Two of them hurried in, giving us their - salute. We were prisoners? “Come on out.” They were looking for us. The next day we started out by & bullet-ridden bus to the city of Seville, center of the movement, perfectly normal externally, but the people were suffering. Algeciras was quiet, but the port customs were completely disor- ganized and on leaving our baggage was not even opened. Gibraltar was really worried. It was here we got the Conte di Savola for Naples. (Copyright, 1036, by the North American . Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) ITERVENTN B INSPAN SFEARE Desperate Gesture Likely if Either Side Appears Near Defeat. .. By toe Associated Press. PARIS, September 3.—Danger of & “desperate gesture” to spur foreign in- tervention may make the final phase of the Spanish civil war the most menacing to the peace of Europe, in- formed observers agreed today. Close followers of the situation be- lieved acts of reckless consequence must be regarded as distinct possibil- ities when either side has its back to the wall, There were growing indications— threat of dynamiting the rebels held in the Alcazar at Toledo, reported death of hostages at Irun—that no mercy is expected by one group or the other at the hands of the victor. 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