Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1937, Page 6

A—6 G REINOSA REPORTED IN REBELS' HANDS Bitter Battle With Retiring Government Troops in North Drive. BACKGROUND— Spanish insurgents Madrid mine months superior resistance, which has forced them to clean up other parts of Spain first in order to eoncentrate their forces upon cap- ture of Spanish capital. Capture af Rilbao in July permitted rebels # throw more forces against Ma- drd. but loyalist counter-attack robbed them of their eflectiveness. besieging have met Bs the Associated Press. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Border, Auqust 16— Gen. Francisco Franco’s troope pushed into the northern manu- faeturing eity of Reinosa today in a terrific battle with retreating govern- ment troops, said insurgent advices received here. ! Franco’s men, heading for the | morthern port of Santander, were said | t0 have fought their way into Reinosa | enly after flerce house-to-house bat- | tling in the suburbs. As the government soldiers nmeo‘ fom the eity they pumped heavy ma- | shine gun and rifie fire into the ad- YAancing insurgents, an account from Ineurgent sources in Irun, just across | the border, declared. n their “victorious advance” toward | Mrs. Geraldine Spreckels, w ife of Adolph Spreckels, jr., of the wealthy California sugar family, is shown being made up Reinosa, ;ho insurgents reported cap- | ture of an “entire battalion” and 3u\d’ five other government baitalions fled. | Some 40 miles north-northwest lies Santander, the government's last great | stronghold on the north coast toward which Franco's men are headed. Its | eonquest would bring all of Northern | Bpain’s important cities in Franco's £ except territory surrounding Oviedo, to the west, where government troope long have leaguered an insur- gent garrison holding the city. Franco’s soldiers occupied dosens | o amall villages along the road from Agvilar de Campo as they pushed northward to the heights elose to Reinosa. They said more than 1,000 prisoners were taken, Another insurgent eolumn %0 the Bast moved toward Santander along | the road from Burgos. One section was expected to eut westward to join the attack on Reinosa. Still & third | force, operating close to the Bay of Biscay in an advance westward from conquered Bilbao, apparently was marking time before striking at San- tander. Although the government admitted $he loss of several villages close to Reinosa, # said there was trouble within Franco's own ranks at Aguilar dm Campo. A government oulpost re- ported hearing heavy firing and me explosion of hand grenades in the in- in Hollywood by Jack Pierce for her first day before a camera. She recently was given a contract by a Hollywood movie studio. -—A. P. Photo. A.F.L.FIGHTSC.L0. ON 2 NEW FRONTS Will Set Up Councils Among Agriculture and White- Collar Workers. By the Associated Press. The American Federation of Labor intends to start a counter-attack on C. I. O. organizing efforts among agri- cultural and white-collar workers. William Green, A. F. of L. president, announced yesterday he would set up | federation councils in both fields to correlate drives against the Committee | for Industrial Organization, headed | by John L. Lewis. 8o far, there has been no national A. F. of L. organization among either agricultural or white-collar workers. A. F. of L. members in each group | were taken into locals directly af- | filiated with the federation. Applications Rejected. A group of these locals in each fleld | repeatedly has applied for a nnlk»nnh union charter, but the federation hll‘ turned them down on the ground the | unions were not strongh enough for | independence. | Lewis' invasion of this territory with the United Agricultural and Cannery Workers and the United Office and Professional Workers prompted the federation to fight back. | Green said the formation of coun- cils—each to include representatives of all loyal locals—would be the first step toward granting A. F. of L. char- ters to both groups. sel Ciudad de Cadiz, sunk by a submarine uear the Darnanelies yes- | lerday, asserted today the U-boal flew | the flag of the Spanish insurgents. The Ciudad de Cadiz, a ship of 4,602 gross tons, sank within 40 minutes, but the crew of 79 was rescued by the Soveit tanker lelem Avenesoft, ] 38 Escape Tt-rnedo«l Ship. LONDON, August 16 (#)—Thirty- eight men, all the crew of the Pan-' amanian motor tanker George W. McKnight, were landed yesterday at! Goletta, on the Tunisian coast, after abandoning their blazing ship, set afire by bombardment from two un- | identified torpedo boats. | Freight Train Wrecked. ’ DOVER, N. H, August 16 (#) —A | fast Boston and Maine freight train, the Bullet, was derailed 2'. miles | south of here today sa it entered a i siding The Jocomolive and five cars toppled from the tracks. One man Wwas injured. Although shightly burned and bruised. H. N. Shafer of Portland, Me. the | head brakeman, remained at the scene a8 men began cleaning up. | Union Official Dies. OAK BLUFFS, Mass, (#1.—Fred J. Dempsey, secretary-treasurer of the Stage Employers ture Operators’ day at his home. August 50 Union, 16| Green said. general Theatrical and Moving Pic- died yester- | Any Garment Cleaned & Pressed Ladies’ Dresses, Coats Men’s Suits, Topcoats (Fxeept Whites, Ladies’ Faney and 2-Plece) YOGUE CLEANED | | Office Workers' Council. | The office workers probably will set | up their council during the A. F. of L’'s Oclober convention in Denver, A date for the agricul- tural and packing house workers' | | meeting had 1ot yet been set. The C. I. O, meanwhile, said the United Office and Professional Work- ers now include 36 locals, with 22,000 STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1937, members, in 20 citles. Nineteen of these locals, it added, have seceded from the A. P, of L. The United Agricultural and Can- nery Workers claimed a membership of 60,000 in 23 States. Mifty-six A. F. of F. locals, the union aaid, voted to join the C. I. O. at & recent conven- tion. CHINA SEEKS SCRAP !RON AMOY, China (M) 500 FIGHT FOREST FIRE Flames Pulpwood in Maine. BREMEN, Me, Three hundred volunteers and C. C. C. workers last night fought a raging'in tranzporting perishables. forest fire which threatened to engulf several dwellings and hundreds of cords of pulpwood near here. Although the flames had rnchnd neither buildings nor woods, they still were out of control. 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