Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1937, Page 10

NEWSMAN FLEES ~ GUNS IN SPAIN Surprised While Swimming, He Escapes Clad Only in Startled Expression. BY CHARLES FOLTZ. ON THE SPANISH NATIONALIST FRONT (#)—Surprise attacks on the long Spanish front, where there's plenty of room for surprises, have "aught many & man in an embarrass- ing position. During the Bilbao offensive in- surgent troops brought three Basque nilitiamen into camp with their faces overed with lather. They'd been raught when the barber was at work. ‘The barber was caught, too, and lLe inished the job before the quartet was aken to a prison camp. While he as at it he gave the three prison 1aireuts. In the Guadarramas a squadron t Leftist sappers emerged from the innel they were digging toward the | wsurgent lines to find that an in- irgent surprise attack had changed | 1e geography of the front while they | ere underground. Walked Into Circle of Foes. They walked out into a circle of | rinning Nationalist troops. | Then there was the surprise attack | n the Huesca front, when Catalonian | ailitiamen almost captured an in- irgent moving picture cameraman | nd an Associated Pre vith not to clothe tartled expressions. For hours the cameraman and I| ad been wand g along the insur- ent front 1i in the Huesca sector. he sun was hot and the trenches ere dusty. Furthermore we were ireq Late in the afternoon we reached | e ruins of an old mill, then a for- fied insurgent outpost. Next to mei nill the trenches were cut by a cool nountain stream, and it was there hat we forgot about the war. Not a shot had been fired all day | ong, the officer in charge of the posi- | lon told us. Matter of fact, there | 1ad been no action in that sector for | veeks. Swim? Porque no? So the Spanish cameraman and I stuck & soldier’s bayonet into the sand- | sags of the parapet, hung our clothes | on it and dove into the pool. ‘ T'll match that swimmin’ hole in no-man’s land against any of the | swimming holes I knew as a kid | back home. True, it was between the lines, but it could not be seen | from the Leftist advance posts and was under the muzzles of the machine | guns in the windows of the old mill. | Within five minutes the same sol- diers who had laughed at us when we decided to go swimming went around to ask the lieutenant in com- mand if they could go in too. The | heutenant said “no,” and a few min- utes later we thanked him for it. I was in midair in what I had | intended to be my amateur imitation of a swan dive from the edge of the | old mill's dam when the soldier in the observation post shouted. Bullets Hit Water. When 1 came up to the surface the Spanish cameraman was swim- ming for the bank, the machine guns in the mill were spitting out bullets, the riflemen were at their posts and | there were funny little “spats” against the parapets that sent sand showering down into the stream. I don’'t know what stroke I used on the way out, but I wish I could remember. It must have been a rec- ord-breaker. The sprint was a good one, too. It was only when we reached the second line of defense in a dead heat that we realized we were both stark naked and that our clothes had been captured by the gentlemen from Catalonia. | That Leftist surprise attack was successful, both in surprising us and | the insurgents and in taking the posi- | tion. We don't know who's wearing our clothes now. We conducted our own private sur- prise attack on the quartermaster’s supplies and went back to Huesca dressed like Franco’s own soldiers. | pened,” | Youth, 16,‘Borrows’| {Army Plane to Fly| Here, Lands in Jail Intended to Tell Wood- ring of Invention; Craft Wrecked. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 24 —Army fly- ers surveyed two wrecked planes to- day and wondered what to do with Julius Balmut, 16, who police said was responsible for the $10,000 to $15,000 damage. Balmut was in the county jail. ‘The youth wrecked the planes, po- lice said, when he attempted to ‘“bor- row” one of them and take off for Washington to tell Secretary of War Woodring of “an airplane wing which can be expanded or contracted for different conditions of flying.” Bal- mut sald he had invented such a wing. hree Army planes from Dayton's Wright Field were at the Cleveland Alrport last night. The youth got into one. “I can't understand what hap- Balmut said. “The plane wouldn't go straight. I crashea into the other plane. “I never had tried to fly before, but I've been up in & plane for 40 minutes and I've read and studied a lot. I was sure I could fly it to ‘Washington and land it there.” The damaged biplanes cost about $34,000 each. FREIGHTER DAMAGED LONDON, July 24 (#).—The British {reighter St. Quentin advised Lloyds today she is in Valencia, Spanish gov- | ernment harbor, with three feet of water in her hold “due to damage from aircraft,” but will be able to proceed after pumping is completed. The St. Quentin, of 3,500 tons and built in 1915, is owned by Triton Steamship Co. Newport is her home PSYCHOMETRY DELINEATIONS Grace Gray Delong Life Reader Adviser 11 AM to 9 P.M. PSYCHIC MESSAGE Cf 1100 Twelfth St. Corner of 12th and “L” Telephone MEL. 7 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 25, 1937—PART ONE. Boy Wrecks Two Army Planes This is what happened when Julius Balmut, 16 (be- low), tried to fly an Army bi- plane without permission at Cleveland Airport. The boy “borrowed” a National Guard lane to fly to Washington, ut hit another one head-on in the take-off. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. o RITES HONOR MEMORY OF LATE MSGR. KIRBY Anniversary Requiem Mass Will Be Held at Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. An anniversary requiem mass in memory of Msgr. William J. Kirby, late professor of sociology at Catholic | University and former editor of the Ecclesiastical Review, who died July 26, 1936, will be celebrated at 8 am. tomorrow in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception | Msgr. Kirby became a member of the staff at Catholic University as associate professor of sociology in 1897 and remained a member of the faculty until his death last year. He also taught at Trinity College and was the first and only chaplain of Trinity to | the time of his death. The memorial mass will be cele- brated by Rev. Dr. William H. Russell, a member of the faculty and a nephew | of Msgr. Kirby. 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