Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1937, Page 6

A—6 ¥+ JAIL-BREAK PROBE HELDNOT NEEDED Only Three Convicts Killed and One Wounded Involved, Says Warden. By the Associated Press. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va,, April 30.— ‘Warden C. F. McClintic of West Vir- ginia Penitentiary said today the at- tempted prison break there yesterday involved only the four convicts who were shot by the guards. Three of the four are dead. Quiet prevailed today among the 1.800 other prisoners, many of whom witnessed the dash by the four in a truck toward a prison gate. Machine &un and rifle bullets from the guards’ guns stopped the fugitives, The warden said an investigation would be unnecessary. He added: “It all happened in the daylight. There's nothing to investigate. There is no danger of other breaks being attempted as a result of yesterday's incident.” Prison physicians said there was some possibility of saving the life of Roy Altizer, 22, the only survivor of the four convicts. Prison guards, tipped concerning a plot, shot the men after they had slashed a construction superintendent and broken through the gates of an inner wall late yesterday afternoon. Ralph Richards, 24, and Clifford Stewart, 20, were found dead near the truck, which overturned. Both men were serving terms for robbery. Harry Battle, 38, colored, sentenced to life imprisonment as a habitual criminal, died two hours later. Harry Strealy, superintending the building of a new wall, was slashed with & knife and clubbed over the head as he tried to climb aboard the truck and halt the prisoners’ dash. Warden C. F. McClintic, away at the time, praised the deputy wardens and guards for the “fine manner” in which they handled the situation. He began an inquiry into the at- tempted escape. More than 1500 other prisoners watched the wild dash of the truck | and the fusillade of shot from the yard in which they had been sent for the | afternoon recreational period. They huddled in groups near the sone walls during the firing and not a guard or & prisoner, except those par= ticipating in the break, was injured. Deputy Warden C. M. Stone said !ht| convicts had commandeered the truck from Robert White, a trusty. He said Richards shoved an impro- sed knife into White's back and ed him from the driver’s seat, then drove the machine toward the big in- ner gate 25 feet from the outer wall. The guards’ bullets forced Richards vi; THE EVENING STAR, Battle for Bilbao WORLD POWERS MAY EVACUATE CIVILIANS SOMOR= = ZPLENCIAZ rosTRO 4 ( BILBAD: GUERNICA DUBANGO Y BASQUES IN LAST LINES OF DEFENSE VITORIA 0 S 10715 20 MILES Map below shows how Gen. o (RURN, P&{N seBasTian M (€ N THREE INSURGENT y COLUMNS MOVING TOWARD B8/LBAO / PAMPLONA Emilio Mola’s rebel forces are pushing on toward Bilbao, leaving ruin behind them. pushed their efforts to evacuate their ‘women and children and to spare them from such insurgent air raids as they blame for the devastation of Guernica, BUY THEM § AT THE J —Copyright, A, P. Wirephoto. their “sacred oity,” where 800 died Monday. (In France, Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos told Senators that Britain and HOT ROASTED L to turn the truck from the gate. He shumped over in his seat. Sp;&lill (Continued From First Page.) rtarboard and shot under the sea at 9:45 am, The feat, government officers said, will have the widest of repercussions in naval and air circles, not only in Spain but over the rest of the rearm- ing world. Partisons of a strong air force now may point to the sinking in their arguments against partisans of & stronger fleet. The Espana, however, vas built in 1913—before the days of great armor plating designed espe- clally for protection from the air. Some persons said even Great Brit- #in, with her narrow Mediterranean route to the east, might have cause for deeper reflection as to the pos- sibility of air attack. For today’s news confounded many who have insisted & plane could never sink a battleship. The disappearance of the Espana likewise left the Spanish government with Spain's only remaining capital ghip with 12-inch big guns, the Jaime L Government in Control. It seemingly gave the government the balance of sea power in the civil war, which has raged on land and water since July 18, 1936. The insurgents have the cruisers Baleares, Canarias and Almirante Cervera. The government has the cruisers Miguel de Oervantes, the Mendez Nunes, the Libertad and the Kepublica. The Republica, however, is believed ott of commission, and the Baleares and Canarias are new ships. After the bombing the freighter Broda was reported to have reached Bantander. (Insurgent sources, while not men- tioning the Espana, made these claims, meanwhile: That Bilbao was “un- tenable” and that two militia bat- talions there had mutinied; that ref- ugees were sleeping in the streets; that &n insurgent column was 12!; miles from Bilbao on the road from Du- rango; that the Basques had offered to surrender on “conditions” and had been told: “Surrender to the victor has no conditions.”) The government planes, sent to the aid of the beleaguered Basques by the main Valencia government, struck back at sea while insurgent armies rolled toward Bilbao's “Maginot Line” of trenches from the southeast and east and while insurgent planes blast- ed ferociously at Bilbao’s last lines of defense. Bilbao, a city of near-hysteria, awaited foreign aid for the evacuation of her 300,000 noncombatant refugees of war. (France was reported pressing Britain to aid at once in the rescue of half that number from the proud Basque capital on Spain’s northwest- orn sea.) Madrid Told of Feat. Juan Antonio Aguirre, President of the Basque autonomous republic, noti- fled Madrid of the Espana sinking. It also was announced by the ministry ©of marine at Valencia. For months the Espana had harried the government coast line. Govern- ment planes had made numerous at- tempts to sink her. Early in April she was bombed viciously off San- tander by five pilots, but escaped with & captured coal boat, and the next day turned her 12-inch guns on the Basque coast. Only yesterday she wirelessed a warning that she would fire upon any British merchant ship venturing within Bilbao Harbor. ‘Two other food ships, the Blackhill, bound for Bilbao; the Consett for San- tander, left French ports today. Along the beleaguered, fort-encircled Basque front ashore the 1ien of Bilbao OVERCOME YOUR FOOT TROUB! eh JAMES R. COHEN 1298 N. Y. Ave, Reom A3 Phene NA. 969 A FALK CLOTHES FOR MEN COMBINE BEAUTY With DUTY! And Falk Clothes are so EASY TO OWN the Falk Budget Way ... 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Chilton, Brit- ish Ambassador to 8pain, now at Hen- daye, France) to report urgently whether there is any foundation for believing such action is in fact con- templated by the insurgent authori- ties.” (In Paris, & source close to Premier Leon Blum declared the French gov- WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, @ninefit”was urging Great Britain to Join with France in trying to take 150,000 women and children out of the menaced ¢ity.) “It will be clear from the answer I gave the House Wednesday,” Eden said, “how deeply his majesty’s gov- ernment deplore the bombardment of civilian populations in Spain, wherever it may occur and whoever may be re- sponsible.” His declaration of Wednesday fol- Jowed an air raid on the Basque, “holy city” of Guernica, in which 800 per- sons were: killed. _Wal:shi P (Continued Frqm)figt Page.) APRIL 30, 1837. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, the pres- ent-day aerial bomb cannot sink a modern battleship equipped with heavy deck armor. 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