SPAIN a. ^ The taking of Barcelona today was drama that turned into sheer spectacle. When morning broke over the Catalonian capital, the Franco troops were waiting in the outlying districts^ hile && fighting detachments closed the last gap in the armed circle around the city. The question was - Would Barcelona resist, fight to the end? Would the metropolis of two million have to be taken by bitter fighting from street to street? The suspense was heightened by one strange state of affairs - strange for Barcelona. Quiet, silence. For weeks the city had been accustomed to the incessant crashing and terror of sijy bombs. For days it had been under artillery fire, a rain of explosive shells. But during the night the cannon ceased and during the morning not a bomb was dropped - a strange hush, o.s of peace or of greater horror. Would Barcelona fall in a final prolonged orgy of blood and fire? During the morning the headlines were - resistance to\ the endl The organisation of Communists and Anarchxs £ together for a last minute defiance.^nd the Barcelona testes* If I j I I! ■i: SPAIN - 2 broadcasting station flashed this flamlng proclamation:; -The City," it declared, "will be defended inch by inch, street by street, house by house." And the Communist-Anarchist broadcast concluded with these defiant words:- "Every man and woman is fiercely determined not to yield a stept" ^Such was the drama of suspense when at noon, Spanish time, the Franco commanders gave the order - and a squadron of army T>« 11^1 into a broad spacious avenue that leads to the Plaza Cataluna, the central square of Barcelona.^ With machine guns pointed, the armoured cars made a dash at top speed. In brief minutes thqy sped along the broad boulevard and reached ( . ■ \ the ^laza Cataluna - andrnot a shot was fired, not a sign of resistancel Instead, houses everywhere hung out bedsheets for white flags, ^d'^wdisplayed the Franco colors, the traditional A. k red and gold of old Spain.^ Following the armored cars. Franco regiments marched through the principal streets. So^far from encountering b and resistance, they trooped along with military bands blaring - just a parade! And they were received with a wild ovation. SPAIN - 3 And so the drama of suspense turned into sheer spectacle#^he Communist and Anarchist defiance k£*4sheer talk just broadcastHaving announced that they»d defend the city to the bitter end, (|the embattled Reds made haste to get out before the insurgent troops closed the last line of escape And instead of resisting to the last drop of blood, the capture of Barcelonaa fiesta to the last ounce of lung power* It doesn11 seem hard to explain. The population consisted of a fraction of Left partisans, who got away if they could, also an element of Franco supporters - these on under-cover during the time of the Left regime. They of course shouted their heads off with joy today. In between the extremes of Left and Right were the great bulk of the people, who didn't carfone way or another. They had lived in terror and hunger, incessant bombings and food supplies running low. What they desired above all things was an end to the bombing an dlthe coming of food. / Tod^y, the Franco armored oars and marching regiments were followed by long SPAIN - 4 lines of bread trucks, streaming through the streets for the instant distribution of food. Instead of bombs. Franco 1#** bringing bread. So you can understand the fiesta in Barcelona today The azKnxxxltHTex* scenes witnessed can best be described first hand. I have here a sheaf of dispatches from, the United Press eorrespondent^i who made the entry with Franco today, and here's what he writes:- "At the great Plaza Cataluna thousands surged forward. Girls ran from houses to embrace the incoming, troops. Women weeping hysterically ran into the streets to crowd around our automobile. An old woman kissed the hand of a Nationalist officer with me. Men ran alongside shouting, 'Viva Spansl Now we're in Spainl meaning, that they had never considered it Sps-i*1 while the Leftists held the city. In the Plaza," continues the United Press , - kp hard bitten men had tears correspondent, "officers I knew j cirls and women so nearly • ., -t-Vtpv ?<ere embraced by a in their eyes as they hysterical that they could hardly speak." SPAIN - 5 The United Press dispatch goes on with this characteribtic detail - that when crowds of children ran to greet the Franco regiments, they immediately ashed for something to eat. And the grown-ups, after they had done their bit of cheering and embracing - also asked for food. That!s the story of today*s historical capture of Barcelona, a Spanish fiesta of food instead of bombs. The fleeing Republicans are retiring to the tip of the Catalonian triangle, and there they say they *11 continue the defense of the province. The Left government has established a swift pursuit to prevent the organization of a new defense line SPAIR - 6 But meanwhile the Leftists - it > p n-iMv, „ -u j -uxses o.re maicing a new gesture. Lord comes that an uprising is being organized within Franco territory, an Anarchist uprising, Th.ey say itTs all ready to start, just awaiting the order from Republican Premier Negrin. That order is being delayed we hear, because Negrin doesn't /* conspiracy. In this he is supported by the Communists, who are want to grant »n.':)nrty power to the Anarchist leaders of the ( A willing to fight shoulder to shoulder with the Anarchists from time to time, but don't agree with their ideology. Even with Barcelona falling, the Reds do love their ideology. FOREIGN Rome tod&y heard about the fall of Barcelona from the familiar orator, Mussolini. He axmounced the Franco victory in a speech to the Homan populace. "Spain has now been freed from the tyranny of the Reds," is the way the Duce described it. He hailed the fall of Barcelona as. an Italian victory and this creates something of a dilemma Mussolini opponents, They*ve been emphasizing Italian intervention in the Spanish Civil V'ar, and^the raore^ttiey emphasized ttasfc the larger the bill Italy may feel justified in handing to Franco. The Roman crowd today hailed Mussolini with shouts of ’’Nice, Savoy, Corsica, Tunis, Djiboutil” the familiar cry for French possessions. And that was merely vocalising what the rest of the world was wondering about - with Franco victorious in Spain, what new demands will the Fascist powers make. France has this very much in mind, and in the Paris Chamber of Deputies today Foreign Minister Bonnet made some .i:i; ll pertinent declarations. He told the deputies that France i if Hll FOREIGN - 2 ^^aacacc^^gsains^ltcilian domination in Spain, And furthermore that if a war should come, France and Great Britain will he united hy a military alliance. ^In time of war,^ proclaimed the Foreign Minister, "all the forces of Great Britain will he at our disposal and all of ours at the disposal of Great Britain." Bonnet’s declarations were followed by a vpte. The Deputies decree^- okay. Ttfesy'^fave the government a vote of confidence. CEILE The earthquake picture in southern Chile teco.es clearer tonight, as disrupted communications are restored. The quake fcwt* -£e disaster M the worst in Chilean history. Devastation throughout an area oStarty thousand square miles, and the death list is estimated at^tv.enty thousand^ The picture shows us four cities in ruins, shaken down by the violent tremors of the earth. Belief is being rushed with every resource at the command of the government, and today President Roosevelt cabled the Chilean president offering any help we can give. It isnft probable—that much will bo- neededj for the southern nwn T»nnnur> problem in - sl la^gc■,a^d, off^alent ways ^^^^^T^gfa^plane is taking off from Panama tentsfcg, one of those flying fortresses of the army. Sfc- isgound for the earthquake region of Chile, etiid"hee-Aboard emergency medical supplies. That was announced at the White House this afternoon. CAVALIER I have here an interesting bit of comment on the loss of the CAVALIER. Herle^e^rites me that *o has done quite a bit of flying in tl^rth. Some years ago he Vi&s in a plane thut was forced down by extreme cold, a freezing condition in the gas tank, and he wonders whether the CAVALIER wasn’t forced down by the same cause. "In northern cold," he writes, "you've got to guard against water in the gas tank. If the gas is allowed to run low, water will form by H condensation. Do"fekierofoiio yeu uitiub keep the gab Undr pr&tifry In the loss of the CAVALIER we were told that the carbureter froze, and this might have been cause^a^ water that had condensed in the gas tank. Such is the opinion of aarthTO^tyag5 titinkcv ECCO ^T/TOV/N iirifl bgrwight ^ comment .cbout nirh tanhuirc Wr&iiQFQ.U Captains of the tanker fleet of the Sun Oil Company # are proud of the^ ~^Cloit of their fellow skipper of Standard Oil. | And th^ tell me that the BAYTOV.H was built in the Sun shipyards CAVALIER - 2 at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. I am tQ-id that oil tanker officers and men are the best paid in the United States merchant marine. The tankers are the only American vessels that pay their ora way. Of the ships that pass through the Panama Canal, thE tankers make up one-sixth of the number and one-third of the tonnage. It takes an exploit like the rescue of the CAVALIER survivors to focus attention on the great day-by-day work that is being done by the American tanker fleet. HAGUE In Philadelphia today the United States Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction against Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. Organisations like the C.I.O. and the American Clvxl Liberties Union charged in court that Hague was suppressing free speech in Jersey City - the familiar charge of Hfe Jersey ChVfcy dictatorship. And now the Court of sustains the injunction to stop Hague from stopping meetings. There's nothing so fist as an anti-climax, and *** a complete anti-climax is, just having something all over again. The first trial of James J. Hines began ®ith a blaze of headlines. After all sorts of dramatics,, it ended in a mistrial, and now is ^on again, without much blaze of headlines^myself didn't feel the impulse to mention it yesterday or the day before, while ^ they were picking jurors.^ Today the proceedings began in earnest, with Prosecutor Tom DeT-ey and Defense Counsel Lloyd Stryker making their opening addresses. During the first trial, there was a rush to get into the courtroom, the place jammed with spectators. Today, the court had no circus aspect at all, only a mere score of people looking o, ^The proceedings were the same as before, with District Attorney Dewey copiously presenting the case against Hine-,) the charge that he was political fixer for the Dutch Schultz policy mob ^sometimes getting as much as fifteen hundred dollars a week. Defense Counsel Lloyd Stryker repeatfif^his familiar contentio that the prosecution witnesses were trying to frame Hines,^**, KXECUTIQI3S At Sing Smg today there was joyful pandemonium in the death house, v,ith the prisoners yelling and cheering and singing. From two young men there were exclamations of gladness, while three others remained plunged in gloomy silence. Governor Lehnan today made a decision in the case of the five youths sentenced to death for the murder of a policeman in a robbery. He had before him pleas and petitions, pointing out that the young killers were merely products of vicious slum conditions. The governors verdict spares the lives of two of the five. y,Mrfc He says there 1 s no doubt of the guilt of the other three, but the two he points out were convicted on state!s evidence. The testimony v/as given by twro accomplice^ turned Wien the ne*s got to Sing Sing, the other innates of the death house.-brolce into wild Jubilation. T^e tv.o rfiose ~ t £ a oX&tsx mruQ lives were spared were stunned^hipeless and silent. drunk k) Its: ‘‘—J -Cu^rx^t A. Mer«l=sr^»-fM44**io!i weather story. At Somerville Massachusetts, the temperature sank to six above zero, when a man was noticed strolling down Pritchard Avenue. Was he clothed for the weather? He wasn't clothed at all, not a stitch — just a nudist in a blizzard. All the protection he had against the cold was inside of him — a lot of firewater. He was arrested, charged with drunkenness, and the judge may send him to the cooler to get warm WOLVES Up in northern Ontario Joe La Flamme is a v,olf Joe, a big French Canadian educates timber wolves until so tame a fcoodle dog is a roarlng lion by comparison> of Joe La Flamme extended to the Sportsman's Show in Boston, and he received an invitation to exhibit a pack of his tamest and best—trained wolves* So Joe selected eleven big grey fellows with long fangs — but oh so gentle. The Canadian wolf tamer was in such a hurry to show his pets in Boston that he *x* elected to fly down from the north. And today Joe is explaining that his wolves are all right. It's aviation that's wrong. There's something about flying in the sky that doesn't appeal to a timber wolf's temperament. They took off with eleven wolves in the cabin,^md *x*iLfcjc right off the bat one of them got hold of a pair of Joe La Flamme's best moccasins and instantly tore them to pieces. However, explains Joe, even a dog might ^hew up moccasins.^ They were flying at three thousand feet, and it must have been the altitude that caused the trouble. Two of the wolves got into a fight• They were chained to the sides of the cabin, but somehow they got at each other, and were foiling around at death grips. ixxxwtx trainer. they are The fame __________ n WQLVHik one slashed a.nd mangled so badly it probably won't live. The other nine ^ent vkildj trying to ^oin the fight. Chained to the walls of tiie cabin, they snarled and howled and bit and tugged — almost pulling the cabin apart. It was one wild pandemonium of struggle^, and wolves — flying at three thousand feet. T.siagine the feelings of the pilot. Joe La Flamme, the big French Canadian landed with his pets at oudbury, Ontario, and decided to take the baggage car of a railroad train for the rest of the way to Boston. no more avlation^^E5% hopes to show the Bostonians how gentle and sweet-tempered his wolves really are.