United Press Report Says Barcelona Making Last Stand

HENDAYE--Men and women tonight worked feverishly on concrete gun pits and barricades in Barcelona's streets preparing to fight it out with Insurgent columns moving upon the town of Martorell, barely 10 miles from the capital's suburbs.

A Catalonian decroo closed all factories and most stores, cafes and business places, with the exception of war industries, and ordered all men under 55 and women from 18 to 40 to report to military authorities for assignments.

Generalissimo Francisco Franco's guns blasting a path into the city filled Barcelona with a constant rumble, drowned out at hourly intervals by his bombers which swept upon the city in relays and took and estimated 100 casualties in 12 raids.