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Lé ' -- many, careful inquiries about the Ameyican Rescue Ship Mission be- _ cauge I have been troubled by newa- paper charges and private accusa- tichs connected with Its activities. As the result of thia investigation I conclude that I am not equal to keeping track of the endless hap- penings, complications and rival- rles which surround the mission. “On account of my handicap I am 4 siow worker. Ili was because my heart was plerced by the plight of the Spanish refugees that I tried to help them. But now I find the extra effort for the mission too heavy e@ burden in addition to my Nfe's work under the American Foundation for the Blind. There- fore 1 am resigning from the Ameri- ean Rescue Ship Mission altogether. “My affectionate interest in the refugees remaine. It grieves me deeply that circumstances did not leave me free to do what I should like to for them, but I shal] rejoice at whatever js accomplished in the rescue and rehabilitation of those heroie champions of Spanish free- dom.” The resignation of Miss Keller jeft the American Rescue Ship Mis- sion under the effective leadership of a group that split off last year from the original Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign of Bishop Francis 3. McConnell and Harold L, Ickes. The group that formed tha pres- ent American Rescue Ship Mission was custed from the original &pan- ish Relief Campaign for apparently preferring to help Communist ropagands rather than relief and or sahotaging the afforta of their associated liberals to get Bpanish refugees to eafety without regard to politica. Until Mre. Roosevelt's quiet res- jgnation caused an upheaval, the American Rescue Ship Mission had sa executive secretary, during its firat seven months, d Bieden- kapp, recognised aa one of the fore- 1m eta e in thia country. ‘o# the quiet tide of resigna- sa "Sherover says, the Lovcemmaj]] not’ rho Gotti The cave way {n Decemfer 10 | the present execut Tetary, Miss Helen R. Bryan, formerly aec-' retary of the Institute of Race Re-' lations and local secretary of the American League for Peace and: Democracy until it dissolved under the Impact of charges of Com munist control. : Miss Bryan recently reviewed the Met of members of the executive committee of the American Rescue Ship Mission and indicated which were “‘very active’ and which “ac- tive.” She rated as ‘'very active’? Helen Simon of the American Youth Con- gress, Herman Shumlin, theatrical producer, and Ernestina Gonzalez of the United Spanish Women's Front. As “active,” she marked Mildred Rackley, former relief sit-downer who later served with a medical unit in Spain; Leverett Gleason, promotion manager of the magazine Friday; William E. Dodd Jr., DBD. William Leider, trade union law- yer; Dr, Louis Miller, former chair- man of the medical bureau of the American Friends of Spanish De- mocracy, and Professor T. C. Schneirla, one of the seceders from the original Spanish Refugee Re- Hef Campaign Y~ +n jt undertook to suppress apparent Communist tactics. Among those whom Miss Keller ations of the American Rescue Ship Mission were Mise Bryan and Dr. Edward K. Barsky, former chief of the foreign medical service in Republican Spain. The chief arguments to reassure Miss Keller, however, were carried by Dan Gill- mor, editor and publisher of Fri- day, and by Miles M. Sherover, who had occasion to deny repeated charge of Communist propaganda when he was purchasing agent here. for the Spanish Republican Govern- ; ment. | E i. 4 Hy i 14 i 4 LY latest ship, the Loveen, which the American Reacus Ship jon now roposes to send to blanca in rench Morocco to ta away & joad of auch Spanish ugees as may have escaped there from the French mainland. He sald it was not practicable, as proposed wih an earlier ship, to get into Marseille for those most in danger. A salling date of Feb. 26 was set in advertising yesterdsy that pro- posed to raise $100,000 for the trip. f this amount io not raised, Mr.|: i.