The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today

Generalissimo Francisco Franco unified the Falangists and Carlists into a single party called the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista.

The Non-Intervention Committee agreed to establish patrols of Spain’s coasts. The patrols were authorized to determine the destination of vessels but not to carry out search and seizure operations. Germany and Italy were to monitor Republican ships while Britain and France would monitor the Nationalists. This scheme proved to be ineffective since the Germans could use ships flying the Panamanian or Liberian flags and unload their cargo in Portugal with the complicity of authorities there.

Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that the government would investigate reports that poison gas had been shipped from Germany to Spain.

Walter Young of Canada won the Boston Marathon

President Roosevelt opens the baseball season.

The “Heater from Van Meter” is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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