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( ) 65-6791 . . Concerning the AMERICAN RESCUR SHIP MISSION, the follow | ing information was obteined at the morgue of the NEW YORK TIMES on February 17, 1941 by Special Agent QS. Loup oy An article in the Jamary 12, 1941 tseue of the NEW YORK TIMES indicated that the officers of the AMERICAN RESCUE SHIP MISSION are located in room 810 of the Fifth Avenue Building, New Tork City. Since Novesber 1940 this mission has been raising funds for the pur~ pose of sending a ship to Marseilles to get Spaniab refugees interned din France and then transport them to Vera Crus. .. - oe . (The article further indicated that last sumer the Mexican Government agreed to accept as many refugees as could be transported and it was further set forth that the Mexican Government had agreed te set aside “400,000 acres of land for this purpose and it was es timated that eat |the time there were 150,000 refugees in France. — HELEN had accepted the organization's honorary chair- Yeanship aud the gpdnsors of the mission in¢luded lirs: D. \ ROOSEVELT, LOUIS.|BROMFIELD, JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS, VAN WYCKR BROOKS, and Mrs, CARRIE CHAP ATT. The article stated that lirs. KLIN De- .% ROOSEVELT had aince kesigned and numerous others had followed her ex- emple. The sponsors had witbdrawn their support from the nissicn on learning that the mission was being administered by the allegedly left-wing UNITED AMERICAN SPANWISH-ATD COMMITTEE, which shares offices with the mission, and whose name appears on the door of Room 810, | Fifth Avenue Building, New York “Sty. ey et _-—, Charges of Commnism have been levelled against the Com . mittee and therefore against the Mission, and the previous week these charges were denied by Mise HELEN RB, BRYAN, Executive Secretary of the Mission, who said: "This organization is absolutely non-politicale It is not controlled by Commnists, nor does it have Communist sup- " " Some sponsors re-affiraed their support and the fund raising drive continued, according to the article, and about $37,000 had al~ ready been collected, the money to be used to recondition and operate. the ship. Esch trip of.the ship was to cost $100,000, according to Mise BRYAN, who stated that a “group of business men bad formed a corporation to reise the larger sum necessary te buy a ship.* oa ai ww