L.T. - SUNOCO^., MONDAY. JULY £Ot 19 ?;^. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: At this moment the fair land of Spain is shut off from the rest of the world like a huge volcano raining with fire and surrounded by a sky-high wall. Not a train, not an auto­ mobile, not a horse, can pass the land frontiers. Not a boat can enter its harbors or land a living soul on its wide stretch of coasts. And — inside those rigidly closed frontiers, re­ bellion runs red and fighting is ruthless, tainty. The government has screwed down on the news the most rigid censorship in history. Since Madrid controls the radio and all wires, it is obvious that only favorable correspondents are in Madrid. Most of the revolution, on the other hand, seems to be in Andalusia (Andalooseea), and other southern provinces. WhatTs its all about? To begin with, of course, an uprising of the Right with a strong Fascist tinge. What has actually happened can't be told with any cer­ LEAD - £ The condition is nothing more or less than mem civil war against the Leftist government headed by President Azakaj (Athanya). Vihen last February's elections put him into power, with a strong Leftist Radical majority, he decided to drop the turbulent burden of the premiership and .step up into the safer and easier job of the presidency. To an extent that took him out of partisan politics—- *^v -tOl , As we had occasion to observe last Wednesday, this trouble has been brewing for a long while. Naturally, the Royalists and fc+w* Fascists were only biding their time for 'an attack on the government,. On the other hand, the extremists among the peasants and workers were also-becoming discontented. They were disappointed because their Leftist government was proceeding too slowly • They wanted what they wanted when they wanted it. Thus we have the contrast of the rich landowner .facing the distribution of their huge .estates among the peasantry; the peasants furious because the|j were not turned As 'premier, Senor Azana feftirisc on able to handle the over night. LEAD - 3 situation. When he became president, the job fell into less experienced hands. So we had the serio-comic spectacle of three in Madrid in as many days. in Madrid Ostensibly, ^as we have heard and read, the head of the revolution is General Francisco Franco. At any rate, hefs the actual commander of the rebel troops^^ But today we hear that the real man behind the rebellion is a fat, slovenly young lawyer editor, who isn’t in Spain at all.' He’s em enii* across the grantijgrxfemgjte French border in swanky, expensive Biarritz. The sword is the sword of Franco, but-the brain behind the sword is that of the dynamic dictator-maker, Gil (Hil) Robles. We used to hear a lot about this fat little man now in Biarritz. He was the leader of the Right Wing, the white hope of the monarchists, the Catholics, the rich landowners. All his life he has been a violent opponent, of the Reds and all other factions of the Left. Ever since he left school, he has been preaching that democracy was played out, denouncing parliamentary decadence. In short, he’s a Fascist of the Fascists. Only a few who are able have the right to rule, says Gil Robles. Such LEAD - 4 is the brain behind this revolution. Nov; let’s examine the man who wields the sword. Person- ally, General Francisco Franco — brother of Franco the flyer _ is a jolly little fellow, stocky, with merry eyes. He’s a Spaniard of the Galician type, olive skin, black pompadour, quiek of movement, alert. As a soldier he’s tops. It was he who was called out to crush the rebellion of Nineteen Thirty- Four, a rebellion of the Leftists against the Rightists, who were then in power. His handling of that situation game him so much influence that he was talked of as the next dictator of Spain. There’s an ironic touch about his present activities. When the Leftists came into power a few months ago some of their leaders talked of exiling or demoting General Franco. He was obviously a dangerous figure. But he was too good a soldier, too able a general. So they left him where he was. In xact when the disorders broke out in Morocco, it was General Franco whom they loaded into a plane and told: "You go settle their hash." He settled it by joining’em — joining the rebels. One of the grapevine theories from Morocco is that the LEAD-- 5 Foreign. Legion is at the bottom of the revolt. The new govern­ ment recently ordered a "purification of the legion." The col­ onial commander-in—chief took his orders literally. He cleaned out the legion, root and branch, removed a lot of officers sus­ pected of being politically disaffected. The answer of the legion was to turn upon the government. As for the details of what is happening now in Spain, it*s anybody’s guess. The government announces that it is "master of the situation "5 that one thousand rebel officers have been arrested. In the next sentence it admits that rebel strong­ holds in Madrid are being bombed from the air and bombarded with artillery. There seems to be more than a slight contradiction there. From Morocco we learn that the rebels have been conduct­ ing mass executions of government supporters. Castles crumbling in Spain. TUGfr&LL 1 % na-s ooatqc. When one disaster after another swooped down upon the farming regions the first word from the government was "Millions of acres will have to be abandoned." And that meant "hundreds of thousands of farmers would have to be evacuated from the districts in which they lived^~removed A and placed on better soil." Now the tune is different. Doctor Eexf^srt Tugwell has been making a survey of the stricken areas. After a four day trip through Minnesota, the Dakotas and Wyoming he apparently reverses himself, "It is^t abandonment we have to fcxx think of," he says, "it's conservation and adjustment. It is true that on some farms the prospect of facing life seems impossible. But the Resettlement Administration now believes there is no farming district in the United States which will not continue to have some kind of agriculture or other. With a change of farming methods, by developing water resources many of those who live in the drought regions may find new opportunities right where they are." TUGWELL - 2 - The situation in the West is still acute. Goverrifflent offiCj-alb no'w doubt whether the eighty—five million dollars available will be enough. The immediate urgency is for loansj money grants to farmers, work relief projects with which they may sustain themselves. Sorry news keeps coming from various parts of the country but it is not as it was. In some places the badly needed rains have been so torrential as to flatten the crops. However, a touch of optimism comes from a new source. Railroad officials predict that the ruin of some thousands of farms will bring prosperity to other thousands. Where rain has fallen bumper crops are in sight. For those of course there will be bumper prices. FARM JOURNAL POLL Political experts and editors today have been discussing that FARM JOURNAL poll. I just learned one peculiar fact that has not been generally mentioned. Up to the conventions at Cleveland and Philadelphia, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Landon were running neck and neck in that particular straw vote. It is only since those conventions that the Kansas Governor took a spurt. I’m not going to repeat a lot of figures to you. But a substantial majority of the farmers among whom the poll was taken, are fo.* Landon. Sixty point three for the Kansas Governor; thirty-nine point seven for the President. Landon1s percentage is fifty-four point seven; Roosevelt’s thirty-six point three. Lemke way down two point seven. Norman Thomas only six—tenths of one per cent: and two point seven hadn’t made up their minds. £.7^ of the farmers still sitting on the old rail fence. This is the fifth such piece of research, made by the FARM JOURNAL, reflecting opinion in farm districts. EISELE Here’s one that ought to raise the self-esteem of the \ ladies, if indeed it needs raising. A woman has^won a prize as the best country newspaper Edit correspondent in America. tUri.liw.nafTT'H, Tiaar-ft-iw the second year in succession that this particular prise has gone to one of the. Sterner sex. The winner for Nineteen Thirty-Six is Mrs. Susan Prawley Eisele. She won in a field of three thousand, six hundred. Mrs. Eisele runs a weekly column in the SENTINEL of Fairmont, Minnesota. She is described as a typical northvfest farmerTs wife. In addition to being the crack newspaper correspondent of the year, she is a model housekeeper-. She does all her home work, has a splendid garden and a profitable poultry yard. It*s no idle honor that she has won. It means two hundred In cash, a trip to New York and to Washington. In Country journalism this prize, established by the COLNxRY HOME MAGAZINE, is the equivalent m In rural newspaperdom of the Pulitzer Award among the large city papers. Otey y<a*iyi I W**' prize was xsah won by a^man. ttiny fee "Oay 1 tha%‘^ie second MISSING SHIP One of the puzzles of the great War that has never been cleared up ^probably never will be, is the mystery of the CYCLOPS. Uncle Sam's ship CYCLOPS was in Nineteen Seventeen the ultra-latest modern thing in colliers. She was a nineteen thousand tonner, with the most elaborate machinery for coaling warships on the high seas. -On March fourth. Nineteen Eighteen, she weighed anchor at Barbados and sailed out into the broad Caribbean. She sailed to vanish completely %£ hi any other vessel in all the history of the sea. If a ship founders or is wrecked, some of her remains invariably a lifeboat, a grating, a fragment of x one of her boats. From the CYCLOPS nothing was found. Could she have been destroyed by a raiding German U-boat? The records of the Germany Navy contain no such Information. In the navy departments of all the great powers, the disappearance of U.S.S. CYCLOPS Is a subject still •occasionally argued during the talkative watches of the night. All this becomes pertinent, because a^modern, up-to-date — — passenger vessel is today missing in those same waters. Shefs not MISSING SH 2 I a large craft, but she did carry twenty-two souls, thirteen passengers and a crew of nine. Three of Uncle SanKs coast guard vessels are still quartering the waters of .the Florida Straits and the Gulf of Mexico. Overhead a coast -guard plane is searching far and wide. Three gunboats of the Cuban Navy have been ordered j.roin Havana to plow the Yucatan ChannelEvery passenger liner, every freighter, every frui^^pia^^^a those seas is on the lookout for the missing NUNCOA. Ax Has she become one of the tragic mysteries of the seas? Actually, the search has been going on for several days. Until it was supposed that she might have met A foul weather. NxAxxxxini^ixxxAHxmsxxKEXKiixHHxiimxjKaHxxxxxx But today somebody looked up the weather records and discovered a curious fact. Not a single storm occurred on the course that the NUNCOA should have taken. She left Georgetown in the West Indies on July fourth, bound for Tampa, Florida. Nothing but bright skies and calm seas have been reported from th^tApart^^ from either the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico. Moreover, she is —— or was — a modern era!t only tnree yeais old and absolutely seaworthy. Of her thirteen passengers, nine are Americans, four Britishers. HURLIIMC- Thirty good lusty New York Irishmen went out to play a ^nineteen of them were injured. "Tush, tush, that's nothing," they exclaimed. "Just a few scratches." Actually, five of them were quite seriously damaged. All of them, as soon as they recovered consciousness, insisted on getting back into the game and playing up to the last’ mx second of the last minute. places outside of Ireland. It's called "hurling". There are fifteen to a side. The weapon, or club as th^7 prefer to call it is a piece of hard, seasoned ash, three feet long, ending in a are bound with iron just to make them softer, X suppose. The ball is somewhat smaller and softer than a baseball. The idea is to catch trftdri in the crook of the hurley and hurl it shoulder, a leg or a head, happehs to come in contact with those The game in question is one you won't see in many j) 0- broad, sharp Jgook "hurleys". Most of them / A through the goal posts either _ end of the field. If an arm iron bound, hurleys, it's just too bad / t The referee recognizes only two fouls. If you sock an opponent from behind with your HURLING - 2 hurley push him with your hand, that's against the rules. Everything else goes. A mere wallop in the head, if delivered from in front, is perfectly legal. Another peculiarity of this delicate pastime is that no substitutes are allowed unless a player is actually and per­ manently unconscious. One of yesterday's victims was on his back, senseless for ten minutes. When he came to, his face was a mass of scars, but he wouldn’t heai’ of being taken out of the game — in fact he couldn't hear at all, for Ms head rang like the Great Bell of Moscow’. As a sample of the casualties, one left full back named McCarthy got a four inch cut over his head. It took six stitches to mend it and everybody said: "Why, that's a mere scratch; a mere six stitches t11 In short, the affair was described as a pleasant Irish Sunday afternoon. One side composed of men who formerly lived in County Cork. The others were from Tipperary. And SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.