Evening star. [volume], July 25, 1937, Page A-10, Image 10

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If
Surprised While Swimming,
He Escapes Clad Only in
Startled Expression.
BY CHARLES FOLTZ.
ON THE SPANISH NATIONALIST
FRONT UP).—Surprise attacks on the
long Spanish front, where there's
plenty of room for surprises, have
caught many a 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
'aught when the barber was at work.
The barber was caught, too, and he
rnlshed the job before the quartet was
aken to a prison camp. While he
'•as at it he gave the three prison
laircuts.
In the Guadarramas a squadron
f Leftist sappers emerged from the
innei they were digging toward the
isurgent lines to find that an 1n
lrgent surprise attack had changed
ie geography of the front while they
ere underground.
Walked Into Circle of Foes.
They walked out into a circle of
' rmning Nationalist troops.
Then there was the surprise attack
n the Huesca front, when Catalonian
nilitiamen almost captured an in
urgent moving picture cameraman
nd an Associated Press correspondent
vith nothing to clothe them but
tartled expressions.
For hours the cameraman and I
ad been wandering along the insur
ent front lines in the Huesca sector,
'he sun was hot and the trenches
■ ere dusty. Furthermore we were
‘red.
Late in the afternoon we reached
he rums of an old mill, then a for
ced insurgent outpost. Next to the
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
tong, the officer in charge of the posi
lon told us. Matter of fact, there
lad been no action in that sector for
veeks. Swim? Porque no?
So the Spanish cameraman and I
stuck a soldier’s bayonet into the sand
bags of the parapet, hung our clothes
on it and dove into the pool.
I’ll match that swlmmin’ hole in
no-man’s land against any of the
swimming holes I knew as a kid
back home. True, it was between
'he 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
lieutenant 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 I 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. i
Boy Wrecks Two Army Planes
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Youth, 16. ‘Borrows’
Army Plane to Fly
Here? Lands in Jail
Intended to Tell Wood
ring of Invention;
Craft If reeked.
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.
Tlte youth wTecked 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 said he had invented such a
wing.
Three Army planes from Dayton's
Wright Field were at the Cleveland
Aiiport last night. The youth got
into one.
"I can't understand what hap
pened," Balmut said. "The plane
wouldn't go straight. I crashed into
the other plane.
"I never had tried to fly before,
but I've been up in a 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.
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FREIGHTER DAMAGED
LONDON. July 24 UP).—'The British
freighter 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
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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, I
late professor of sociology at Catholic I
University and former editor of the
Ecclesiastical Review, who died July
26, 1936, will be celebrated at 8 a.m.
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.
This is what happened
ivhen Julius Balmut, 16 (be
low), tried to fly an Army bi
plane without permission at
Cleveland Airport. The boy
“boirowed" a National Guard
plane to fly to Washingtori,
but hit another one head-on
in the take-off.
—Copyright. A. P. Wirephoto.
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Salt Lake City Woman Lost
Watch 11 Years Ago.
SALT LAKE CITY, July 24 UP).—
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a gold wrist watch near here today
and took it home to her mother. Mr*.
P. Frontier noticed a familiar dent in
the case, opened it and found her
initials. She had lost the watch 11
years ago.
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7 Major Generals and 9
Brigadiers to Retire
Within 12 Months.
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt will promote at
least 26 Army officers to the rank of
major general or brigadier general
during the next year.
A survey of the Army's high com
mand yesterday showed that, in addi
tion to three major generals who will
retire this Pall, seven of the Army’s
21 major generals and nine brigadier
generals will retire on reaching the
age of 64 next year.
To fill the vacancies the President—
on the recommendation of Secretary
Woodring and Gen. Malin Craig, chief
of staff—will name 10 new major gen
erals and 16 brigadier generals.
One of the mast important nomi
nations to be made will be a new
chief of engineers to succeed Maj.
Gen. E. M. Markham, whose four
year term expires in September. Mark
ham is in charge of rivers and har
bors improvement program and con
struction of big dam projects as well
as chief of the military engineering.
Maj. Gen. James B. Allison, the
chief signal officer, will also retire on
September 30 and Maj. Gen. Arthur
W. Brown, the judge advocate gen
eral, on November 30. Col. Alva J.
Brasted, chief of chaplains, will retire
in December.
The major generals who will retire
during the ooming year include:
William D. Connor, superintendent
of the Military Academy at West
Point.
Pox Conner, commanding general
of the 1st Corps Area, Boston.
George 8. Simmonds, commanding
general of the 9th Corps Area, San
Francisco.
William E. Cole, commanding gen
eral of the 5th Corps Area, Colum
bus, Ohio.
George V. H. Moseley, commanding
general of the 4th Corps Area, At
lanta.
Andrew Moses, commanding gen
eral of the Hawaiian Department,
Honolulu.
Frank R. McCoy, commanding gen
eral of the 2d Corps Area, New York
City.
Retiring brigadier generals include:
Louis M. Nutman, Boston Army
Base; Manus McCloskey, Fort Bragg,
N. C.; Robert 8. Abemethy, Fort Ma
son, San Francisco; Joseph P. Tracy,
the Presidio, San Francisco; John W.
Gulick, Fort Monroe, Va.; Edwin S.
Hartshorn, office of the chief of staff;
William K. Naylor, Fort Benjamin
Harrison. Ind., and A. T. Smith, now
on duty in the Philippines.
Brig. Gen. Perry Miles, now on duty
in New York City, will retire on De
cember 1.
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