Word: valencias
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...season notable for shows of U. S. child paintings, uninhibited, fresh and progressive, Manhattanites last week had a good look at the present state of child art in Spain. Displayed at Lord & Taylor's department store were about 1,000 drawings and watercolors by Spanish children, collected in Valencia and Madrid and shipped to the U. S. to raise money for the Spanish Child Welfare Association. In charge of the exhibition was a gnome-like, darting little Austrian-born Spaniard named José A. Weissberger, who describes himself at present as "a nobody," having been an insurance solicitor...
...VALENCIA--Three members of the crew of the British merchant ship Penchames were wounded seriously today when the vessel was bombed during an insurgent air raid on Valencia. The decks of the British ship were damaged badly by the Insurgent bombs...
...circulation came from French secret service agents in Rightist territory, made a rattling good story on the Quai d'Orsay. Hot-tempered, hot-tongued General Yague was reported as having said that if Generalissimo Franco had as many members of his family in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia as have certain Rightist commanders, presumably including General Yague, these cities might not have so greatly suffered. General Yague was said to have added with typical Spanish braggadocio that to win the war there is no need of "General Franco's foreign entanglements" and that the Germans and Italians now helping...
...first time ships of the Rightist Navy took an important role assailing Leftist land positions, bombarded 25 miles of coastline, including strategic Castellon de la Plana, while Valencia was bombed from the air. Rightist warships seized a fleeing coast guard vessel aboard which were found eleven minor Leftist leaders, quantities of gold, silver and art objects...
HENDAYE--Loyalists tonight hastily removed non-combatants from the city of Castellon de la Plana on the Mediterranean, 42 miles north of Valencia, as fleets of Insurgent warplanes sped down the coast blasting a path for Generalissimo France's offensive to isolate Madrid from the sea. More than 450 aerial bombs were reported dropped on Castellon during the last 24 hours while other squadrons dumped bombs on Valencia, Sagunte, and Oropesa...