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. aml mle MESSHELLER QUITS RESCUE HP DRIVE ‘Acts After Own Inquiry Into ‘Red’ Charges—Two College | | Presidents Also Resign i a Heien “Kener announced yesterday | } ‘that she had resigned, ‘‘grieving,”’ \y8 ‘ae honorary nationa) chairman at, j the American Rescue Ship Mission, ' ‘for which she waa instrumental six {months ago jn obtaining the spon: ” | forahip of Mra. Eleanor Roosevelt: and other outstanding figures. | Since Mra. Roosevelt resigned ,quietly on Dec. 17, writing that, i“there are other groups serving the | ‘famine purpose with which I would ‘be happler to be affiliated,” Miss j Keller has been investigating the, evidence that she bad been tsed ae le front for controlling figures more s interested in communism than in- the avowed purpose of the ship mis- ‘ lion ‘to rescue Spanish republican ;tefugees from France. “On account of my handicap," she wrote yesterday, “J am a alow - worker.” Her companion and intermediary, - explained that - Miss Keller approached Lhe resigna- - Polly Thompson, thon with travail of heart. ‘Miss Keller truated her heart.’ she aaid.- In her examination of vi- dence Miss Keller emphasized H she re-encountered the handicaps of ndness and deafness, which hatovercome during a half - ” ee fas als i abated 100-6) century with a courage that won + jnternational reape af as these handicaps that her friends warned her had been exploited. For that reason, in resigning, ahe apalo- | gized for staying longer than others. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, president of Vassar College, there- upon revesled yesterday that he and Dr. Roswell G. Ham, president of Mount Holyoke College, had re- signed last month, Dr. MacCracken had suid after Mra. Roosevelt re- signed that he would “stand by Miss Keller as iong an she le antis- fled of the need.’ Dr, Ham had wea satisfied that t “funds would not be deflected to other purposes." They realgned later, however, in & joint letter that the American Res- cue Ship Miasion auppressed. Meanwhile Miss Kelter had meade two efforts to satisfy herself by questioning the controlling figures in the Spanieh Reacue Mission. One interview was on Jan. 23 and the other on Feb. 3. Miss Keller asked Questions, Misa Thompson commu. nicated the answers by a system of ; finger telegraph. A stenographer , took a record of the dialogue, vo At both the first and the seoond , interviews Miss Keller found the : ’ answers vague, contradictory oF -levasive, but thought that might be due to the complexity of the subject -[and the difficulties of communica- tion. &o she ordered the entire tranecript done Inte Braille ao that She might read it with her own finger tips and take It apart slowly. Yesterday she issued the follow- ing declaration: “The past few fow weeks I have made * CLIPPING Fre: Tie > wr. OY. TIKES pare FEBS 1941. POAWARDED SY YO YS DIVISIO... oe