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Uncle Sam Sends Warships to Spain
COL LINDBERGH TO CONFER WITH HITLER
Spanish Insurgents Wrest Control Northern Sector
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REBELS ARE GAINING
CONTROL; BLOOD IS
RUNNING STREETS
More Than A Thousand Lives Taken In
Last Five Days Is Report Of Spain’s
Bloody Civil War. No Abatement.
(By The Associated Press')
UNDATED, July 21—Thousands of Spanish insur
gents striking in the wake of machine gun attack by
lowflying airplanes which surged over Basque provin
ces of Navarre and Guipuzcoa, Tuesday night, Spanish
time, wrestling northern control from the Leftists. The
casualties in the two provinces, including the city of
San Sebastian, where the defenders were raked with
airplane fire, is reported to be more than fifty.
At the United States summer embassy at San Sebas
tian, Ambassador Bowers and his staff were subjected
to the recent Sunday attack. The Popular front Mili
tia. withdrew to the mountain, apparently intending to
shell the city of San Sebastian, as the rebels poured in
to the provinces and civil governors fled to France.
The insui’gents declared martial law and assumed
complete power.
French correspondents reaching Bordeaux from
Spain, said that the northern rebel army reached with
in thirty-five miles from Madrid. Heavily armed peas
ants and workers marched under the Popular Front
banner against the entrenched rebels in several cities.
The government at Madrid reported the situation
of the rebels at Cordova, in Southern Spain, as desper
ate, that they are asking the insurgent chieftains for
aid. The civilian militiamen threw a protective circle
around Madrid, as conditions grew more serious.
Twenty-four Spanish Carabineros and an undeter
mined number of rightists were reported slain in the I
clash between Pamlona rebels and government forces.
Near the French frontier at least three hundred are re
ported dead from fighting near Barcelona, where planes
have been doing effective work. It is indicated by re
ports that the rebels held complete control of Spanish
Morocco, a partial power over La Linea, Alge Ciras,
Cadij, Grandada, Malaga, Cartengena, Barcelona and
other points.
UNDATED, July 22—Spanish pitched battles on
scattered fronts, punctuated Spain’s bloody civil war
as the government sought to quench the rebellion, whi
ch is estimated to have taken at least one thousand lives
in the past five days. Bullets peppered the San Se
bastian summer residence of American Ambassador
Claude G. Bowers, as two thousand armed miners from
Bilbao, including loyalist and leftist attacked the rebels
who seized the town. Disorders are reported from
throughout Northern Catalonia.
Paris and United States Embassies tried unsuccess
fully to communicate with Ambassador Bowers, due to
communication lines being cut by insurgents.
A dispatch from Rabat, in French Morocco, said
loyal troops backed by the Cruiser Lepantes guns, repor
ted that they had seized Almeria, a southern Spanish
port from the rebels after a general engagement and
heavy bombardment.
At Ceuta, Spanish Morocco and Barcelona the Un
ited States Consulate announced that all Americans
there were safe. Cathedrals and other religious build
ings at Barcelona were requisitioned by the provincial
Greist at Barrow
Feels Scared Yet
Indian Attacks
•OLD TIME FEUD
Relates IIow Other Eski
mos Disappeared When
Out Hunting Trips
(By The Associated Press)
B ARR AW, July 22—Arctic coast
Eskimos imagination was fired by
the recent tundra robbery, they
reviewed strange tales of an In
dian tribe dwelling in the un
known far interior valley, mixed
with stories of legendary people
were accounts of massacres be
neath Northern lights and of men
vanishing i-n desolate wastes.
The robbery revenge, coast
dwellers blamed to an old fued
between Eskimos and Indians
from South -of Baird Mountains.
The whites blamed the Indians
who were driven from Canada by
the Royal Canadian Mounties,bo
at least a part of the recent year
depredations. Whites and Eski
mos alike, felt apprehension fn
their safety.. A few Point Bar
row Eskimo families are known
to be camped near the mountain,
about three hundred miles south.
Dr. Henry Greist recalled that
six years ago two Eskimos left
Wainwright by dog teams for a
short interior trip and were nev
er seen again. Eight Eskimos
trailed their camp and found
tracks, convincing them that the
missing men were victims of an
Indian raid and taken prisoners.
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Italian Troops
Enroute Home
From Ethiopia
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, July 21, — Italian
troop ships left Libya Monday
night carrying the first units of
40,000 troops home from the Eg
yptian frontier and toward duty
on the French border. Withdraw
al of the troops was Italy’s an
swer to the British recall of,
home and Oriental fleets from
the Mediterranean.
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Lindbergh Talk
Berlin Germany
cp,y The Associated Press)
BERLIN, July 21, — Adolph
HJlcr and Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh will meet, a reliable source
id today, probably Wednes
day or Thursday.
Arrangements have been com
pleted this source disclosed, for
C l Lindbergh to visit Ger
m, n July 22 and 23. General
Hern : nn Wilhelm Goering, Air
Minister is expected to be offi
cial host and the noted Ameri
can will see the Reich’s leading
airplane factories, airports, the
Olympic Stadium and Olympic
Village.
Work Is Behind
Naval Program
(By Ttie Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 21, —The
Navy Department disclosed Mon
day night that work on 49 of the
79 warships comp. ; ing its build
ing program, was behind 1
ule-, with the result that only 25
are now scheduled for comple
■ on before the end of December.
Vrresl of Chinese
Consul As Spy
Is Announced
(By The Associated Press)
SEORL, Korea, July 20—Head
quarters of the Japanese army
in Korea, announced the arrest
of Sung Ping Yu, Chinese consul
at Seishin on a charge of military
espionage. Several of Sung’s
followers in Seishin, important
port in northeast Korea also were
arrested.
Lindbergh on Way
(By The Associated Press)
COLOGNE, Germany, July 22
Colonel and Mrs. Charles Augus
tus Lindbergh are here enroute
to Berlin, in their new cabin
monoplane. They lunched with
state and city officials.
government as “institutions for people”. The formation
of a “Red Committee’” was reported in Madrid.
LISBON, July 22—A Portugal radio broadcast from
Seville said that the rebels planes bombed and sunk
three Spanish ships while bombarding Cadiz.
TWO UNITED STATES WARSHIPS
SENT TO SPAIN IN ATTEMPT
SAVE AMERICAN CITIZENS
[naliilitv of SjKiin Guarantee SalVt\ l o
Americans Prompts Sending of The
U. S. S. Oklahoma and Quincy
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21—The United States
government directed two warships to move immediate
ly into Spanish water to evacuate this country’s fificen
"hundred and eighty-two citizens who are now in bloody
Spain, if found necessary. ...
This action was decided upon by Secretary Hull
after a lengthy conference with Admiral W a II.
Stand ley acting Secretary of the Navy, vvh i d or
jders diverting two ships. They are the but’' "a Ok
lahoma n >w at Cherbourg, France, as ■
! shipmen’s training squadron; and the United S.
Quincy, the Navy’s newest ten thousand
British war vessels are standing by off S • n ■
reports told of a bloody battle in front of the A
Consulate. i ho Quincy cleared do As on n .■ ,■
iusir orders, and started full steam ahead for Spain,
j with about eight hundred men and the si ip arm d w th
.eight inch guns, The Oklahoma has about twelve hun
dred men and fourteen inch guns.
While the death toll of the rebellion is mountin
no Americans are reported hurt as yet, bin many a e
unaccounted for.
Comer Smith To
Resign As \ iee
c
President Plan
I
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(Uv The Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, July 21, —
Dr. Francis Townsend said after
a meeting held yesterday of the
National Board of Directors,
that Gomer Smith of Oklahoma,
would resign as vice-president of i
the Townsend Movement.
“In the near future he has
promised to resign,” declared the
originator of the $200 a month
old age pension scheme.
—
Admits to Shooting
Of His Wife
(By The Associated Press)
TIFFIN, Ohio, July 22—Prose
cutor Flynn said that Joseph
Perryman, aged 42, a real estate
operator, confessed to the shoot
ing of his wife Margaret, aged 53,
to death, in a lonely woods July
14th, because he wanted to “be
free to run around a little. Yes
I must have killed her, but I
can’t understand why, even tho
she sort of tied me down.”
First Cleanups
Anchorage trea
Were Received
PEAK I>; AUGUST
Rain In Interior Dispelled
Danger Water Shortage
And low Production
(By The Associated Pressj
ANCHORAGE, July 22—Gold
nuggets and dust from interior
placer fields trickled into the
local banks from the first of the
season’s cleanups, Winfield Ervin
the banker said, the first virgin
gold received was worth approx
imately seventy-five thousand
dollars and came considerably in
advance of usual times, and fur
ther said that the peak would be
reached late in August or early
September. The banks are for
warding the nuggets and dust to
the United States assay office in
Seattle.
O. S. Sullivan, internal revenue
collector, said that the recent in
terior rains have dispelled the
danger of a water shortage for
placer operations and also said
the mines in the interior are go
ing full blast.