Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-01-09 | Page 3 | Dancer Pleads for U. S. Aid in Freeing Aviator-Mate from Franco's Custody

Dancer Pleads for U.S. Aid in Freeing O Aviator-Mate From Franco's Custody WASHINGTON. Jan. (UP) Mrs. Edith Dahl, dancer who sent her photograph to Generalissimo Gener-alissimo Francisco Franco when her aviator husband was sentenced sen-tenced to be shot, mad personal per-sonal appeal to the stat department depart-ment today In an effort to get him out of Spanish custody. The Spanish civil war. In which her husband, Harold (Whltey) Dahl, participated as a mercenary merce-nary on the side of the loyalists, has been over for many months. Dahl still Is confined In hospital hos-pital at Salamanca, Mrs. Dahl told R. Walton Moore, counselor of the state department She wanted the United 8tatea to do something about It Moore assured her that the stat department would ask the Spanish government again why Americana who fought with the loyalists and were taken prisoner by the nationalists still are being held. Mrs. Dahl said that there were 10 or 13 American prisoners still In Spanish prisons.