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ALL CATALONIA
IN GRIP Os
RED TERROR
(“Terror comparable to the
French and Russian revolutions'*
grips Catalonia, writes Lee Dick
son, International News Service
staff correspondent, in the first
of four articles of conditions in
this war-torn group of provinces,
which many observers believe
will be the site of the next So
viet state. Dickson wrote his
articles after returning to Paris
from a tour of Catalonia.)
By LEE DICKSON
(Copyright. I>3S. by International
N«w« Service)
PARIS, Dec. 2.—Anarchy and
Communism hold all Catalonia,
and particularly Barcelona, its
capital and city of over a million, i
in a grip of terror comparable
only to that of the French and
Russian revolutions.
Few of the facts of present
day, nerve-wracked Catalonia are
so far known abroad. And this
is due to two reasons.
First, a general misunderstand
ing of the term “popular front’’
government as it applies to Bar
celona, and
Second, the strictest censorship
the world has ever known.
Reds Tighten Grip
After the befuddled army gar
rison of Barcelona had come into
the streets on July 19 and been
slaughtered in its abortive at
tempt to subjugate the city, the
extreme radical element of work
ers and laborers took things into
their own hands, and have tight
ened their grip day by day.
The terroristic regime of con
fiscation, wholesale executions,
suppressions of private rights and
property follows as closely as pos
sible that employed in Petrograd
in November, 1917. The Cata
lonian reds are worshippers of
their Russian torchbearers.
The Hotel colon, once the finest
in Barcelona, is now Communist
headquarters. Its facade is dec
orated with huge pictures of Len
in and Stalin, a red canvas
streamer stretched between
them.
The Hotel Ritz Is “gastronom
ical Center No. 1” — meaning a
soup kitchen where thousands are
fed daily. Minor hotels have been
permitted to remain open under
control of Soviet committees.
Bank Accounts Seized
All bank accounts were seized
by the government. In addition,
all public services were sovietized,
so that trains, trams and busses
are painted red and black and
bear identifying symbols.
Each carries the inscriptions
O. N. T. and F. A. I.—Workers’
National Confederation and Iber
ian Anarchists’ Federation, re
spectively—which are all-powerful
and merely tolerate the milder
U. G. T. (Workers General Union)
and the left republicans, headed
by President Luis Companys.
There also are many other red
groups and syndicates, for women,
for youth movements and so forth,
but the C. N. T. and F. A. I. con
trol Catalonia and its formidable
preparations for defense against
the Fascists. Third in importance
is P. O. U. M.—the Trotsky group
of Soviets or power of the Marx
ist Workers Union.
Autos Confiscated
Private cars were of course con
fiscated. Their owners were in
some cases executed, sometimes
imprisoned or perhaps tolerated
pending eventualities—a sinister
position, with all avenues of es
cape cut off. These cars, too, have
been smeared with identifying
initials and Sovietized for “ govern
ment” service.
v No one attempted to refuse sur
render of his belongings to armed
*> “visitors” from the C. N. T. or
’■ F. A. I.—those who were the under
'■ dogs of monarchist regime, who
' felt themselves hopelessly op
pressed by the privileged grandees,
the army and the church, and are
now launching their own experi
ment, beginning with terrorism.
Would Lose Wealth
L LONDON, Dec. 3.—ls King
Edward should decide to ab
dicate and marry Mrs. Wallis
Simpson as “Mr. David Windsor,”
he would lose a great part of the
vast wealth which always has been
at his command.
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Herold Tells Speed
Shown in 6 Yard’
Within three months, the guns*
for the U. S. 8. Maine —the one
which took the place of that of
Spanish-American War fame- -
were fitted up in the Washington
Navy Yard.
This fast piece of work was re
called today by Christian Herold,
of 326 A St. S. E., who for the
past 14 years has been retired from
the Yard.
Mr. Herold, now 72, learned his
trade as a machinist in a private
firm in Washington, starting in
1881, and entered the Navy Yard
in 1900, where he worked in the
bridge mechanism shop, part of
the time working as a leading man
in that shop.
He recalled that when the guns
were fitted up for the Maine the
work went on continuously every
day including Sundays.
Since his retirement he has
been operating an elevator in
a building in the 900 block of
E Street Northwest, although
several times, he said, he has been
offered a place at the Yard again.
He explained, however, that if he
returned at the age of around 60,
one could not be sure how perma
nent the employment would be,
while with the job he has now,
plus his retirement pay, he was
more or less certain of what his
INSULL 'GEM'
FIGHT STILL ON
CHICAGO, Dec. 3 (1.N.5.).
The bickering over Samuel In
sult's shirt studs and cuff links
continued today.
It was reported, however, that
the deposed utilities czar and
Mme. Helene Coyimzoglu, his
hostess during his exile in Greece
in 1933 and 1934, were near a
settlement of her claim for the
jeweled doo-dads.
Her attorney said:
“There is only a difference of
about $2,000 in the amount we
ask and the proposition they
have made.”
The attractive, brown-eyed Athe
nian matron threatened to sue the
aged Insull for $60,000, declaring
Insull had told her the jeweled
trinkets were worth $40,000, and
demanding in addition immediate
payment of $20,000 she said Insull
had bequeathed her in a will exe
cuted in Athens while she was
helping him hide from Federal
process servers.
Mme. Coyimzoglu returned to
New York last night, but declared
she will be in Chicago Saturday,
if necessary, to start court proceed
ings.
The amount offered Mme. Coy
imzoglu in settlement was not
made known, but it was learned
the Insulls at one time during the
series of conferences offered her
$4,500 and said they couldn’t
scrape up any more.
Insull has said he would gladly
turn the baubles over to Mme.
Coyimzoglu, but they are in a safe
deposit box in Paris, and he can’t
afford a trip to Paris to get them.
Swing Time
MUNICH (I.N.S.)—The Bava
rian wood cutter, Leonhard Sch
mid, sang so well while swing
ing his axe that his voice is now
being heard over the Munich
radio station.
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NEW MARK SET
BY CHEVROLET
Chevrolet’s domestic production
for the calendar year of 1936
passed the million mark during
November as Chevrolet celebrated
its 25th anniversary as a pro
ducer of motor cars. The com
pany reports that this year’s do
mestic sales set a new all-time re
cord.
Domestic production for the cal
endar year up to November 20
was 997,695 cars and trucks, with
an additional estimated 24,991
carrying production to 1,022,686
through the end of the month,
officials of the company declared,
which, when export production
of 81,8171 and Canadian produc
tion of 40,439 is added, aggregates
a grand total of 1,144,996 for the
calendar year through November.
Since November, 1911, when
Chevrolet came into being, the
company has manufactured a
total of 12,250,275 passenger cars
and trucks.
Engineer Institute
In Joint Sessions
The Washington section of the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers will meet with the Bal
timore division in joint session De
cember 14 at 8:15 p. m„ at Mary
land Hall on the campus of Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore.
A. F. Bang, superintendent of
operations, and Dr. S. K. Waldorf,
test engineer, both of the Penn
sylvania Water and Power Com
pany, will be the principal speakers
and will direct their remarks to
a discussion of the progress toward
lightning-proof transmission lines.
A dinner will precede the meeting.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936
Railroad "Talks
Turkey" to Turkey
TURKEY, N. C., Dec. 3.—Be
cause Turkey isn’t what it used
to be and has quit patronizing
the railroad, this Thanksgiving
town of 200 persons became just
a flag stop on the railroad today.
The Atlantic Coast Line closed its
station.
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AIR CADETS TO FLEET
Seventeen Naval Reserve avia
tion cadets, recently designated
naval aviators, will be detached
from Pensacola, Fla., and ordered
to active duty with the aircraft
squadrons of the fleet on«or about
December 11, the Navy Depart
ment announced today.
The new aviators are Selden A.
Converse, of Carrington, N. Dak.;
Everett T. Peabody, Georgetown,
Mass.; Edmund O. Carmody, Los
Angeles, Cal.; Ralph L. Copeland,
Brewer, Me.; Emersdh D. Ger
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Eoff, Norman. Okla.; Robert L.
Erickson, St. Paul, Minn.; Robert
E. Ewers, Seattle, Wash.; James
R. Gilmore, Hamilton, Ohio; Ro
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Frank H. Holt, Stockton, Cal.;
William F. Eadie, Evanston, Ill.;
Harold D. Nunn, Amarillo, Tex.;
Calvin Y. Dyer, Stockton, Cal.;
Lauren W. Hawes, Natick, Mass.;
Pliny G. Holt, Stockton, Cal., and
John P. Sager, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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CHESTER. Pa., Dec. 3.—Harry
Slurth, 57, who was paroled from
prison six months ago and
turned over to a rescue mission,
showed his true faith today. While
cleaning out an old bureau Slurth
found an envelope containing S2OO.
He turned it over to the head of
the mission.
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