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Last week Rightist President Francisco Franco, after starting up again the offensive against Santander he had to stop to check the Leftists at Madrid, started another drive against Leftist positions 100 mi. east of Madrid and then turned to statecraft, forming a Cabinet of seven ministers, five of them generals. To Spaniards the name of General Martinez Anido as Minister of Interior, in charge of police, meant that any last vestige of possible compromise with Spain's Communists, Anarchists and Socialists had been deliberately wiped out by the Rightists. Martinez Anido was Vice-Premier under the late Spanish Dictator...
...Japanese barracks with their machine guns, then entrenched themselves in nearby cornfields over which four Japanese planes circled around & around, bombing the Chinese until Japanese re-enforcements rushed up to relieve the garrison. Meanwhile wounded Chinese had set off in rickshaws to receive treatment at Peiping, only a 14-mi. run for sturdy Chinese rickshaw coolies. Several of these wounded Peace Preservation Corps heroes were asked by correspondents. "But why did you turn against Yin? Aren't you and he supposed to be pro-Japanese...
...Alpine circuit was a dangerous 352-mi. triangle crossing a 3,000-ft. range to Thun, thence over the 13,000-ft. Jungfrau to Bellinzona, the last lap over 11,000-ft. Scheerhorn Peak and back to Zurich. The German three-plane patrol made it in 58 min. 52.7 sec. of flying time and the Czechs, flying not quite up-to-date Avias were second in little over an hour. Their elapsed time, however, was less than that of the Germans. Meet crowds showed a tendency to cheer the Czechs, jeer the Germans...
...crew of three from Santiago, Chile, radioed it was circling in a rainstorm over the field at Cristobal, C. Z., where it was scheduled to transfer its passengers to a northbound Pan-American Clipper. No more was heard from the Sikorsky. Next day its wreckage was found 20 mi. west of Cristobal, all on board presumably lost...
...same story he had told when police arrested him the next; morning at his poultry farm at Alton, N. H., where he retired after the Speer inquest in 1934. He had spent the night of May 25 with his wife at the Eagle Hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 mi. from Greenfield. He had not worn a long coat that night and did not own one. District Attorney David Keedy called a Keene filling station proprietor to testify that Mr. Elder, wearing a coat "down to his calves," had bought eight gallons of gasoline from him at seven...