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Russia Reported Watching Hitler Closely, Alert for Threats
Nazi Expansion
In Baltic Attracts
Soviet 'Attention'
Lithuanian Minister's
Visit to Moscow Seen
As a Sign of Concern
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 8.—Reliable Lon
don sources declared today that
Soviet Russia is watching closely
Adolf Hitler's military advances,
alert to the possibility of infringe
ment on Soviet interests.
There has been no whisper of ac
tual conflict between Russian and
German aims, but the Nazi grasp on
the Low Countries, Denmark and
the southern lobe of Norway has
had the natural effect of attracting
Soviet "attention," these sources
aaid.
They pointed out that the Soviet
Union has guaranteed the Baltic
states under her Baltic defense pro
gram and, therefore, is bound to be
concerned over anything bearing on
them as well as on her own Baltic
position.
Soviet Concerned.
Germany's control of the Skag
gerak—Baltic outlet to the North
Sea—and her territorial expansion
were regarded as falling definitely
in this category of interest.
The visit to Moscow of Lithuanian
Prime Minister Merkis, accompanied
by a Foreign Office expert and a
military representative, gave added
weight to reports that the Soviet
was seeking to broaden her Baltic
security program.
This would be in line with
Russia's professed role of a nation
Interested primarily in her internal
affairs and concerned in the in
ternational situation only as it re
flects on these affairs.
The background of Russian sus
picion of Italy and recent assertions
of Soviet circles in London that
Russian and Allied interests in the
Black Sea and the Eastern Med
iterranean are parallel also fit in
wdth this new watchfulness over
German conquests.
Italian-Russian Relations.
Reports from Italy indicated an
Improvement in Italian-Russian re
lations which was expected to re
sult in the return of Soviet Ambas
sador Nicolai Gorelchin to Rome
and Italian Ambassador Augusto
Rosso to Moscow. Russia recalled
Gorelchin because of anti-Soviet
demonstrations in Italv during the
Finnish War and Rosso subse
quently was summoned home.
Soviet circles here have indicated
r distust of the motives of capi- |
talistic Britain in the latest British
Rnd French attempt to make friends
with Russia. But they also have
made plain that if the Allies prove
by deeds that they really are sin
cere there would be no reason why
these governments should not be on
very good terms.
British sources aver that Prime
Minister Churchill's government is
genuinely anxious to gain Russian
friendship, and point to the naming
of Sir Stafford Cripps as Ambassa
dor to Moscow, to meet the first
Soviet condition for better relations,
as an indication of the lengths to
which Britain will go to prove her
sincerity.
42 Girls Are Graduated
At St. Cecilia's Academy
Diplomas and certificates were
awarded 42 graduates of St. Cecilia's
Academy at final exercises last night.!
Msgr. E. J. Connelly conferred
diplomas and awards and the Rev.
Edward Talbot, O. M. I., gave the
commencement address. Lucy Wa
then gave the welcome and Margaret
Yeomans an essay on the Catholic
press. Mary Louise Gill and Alice
Mead also participated.
Eleven girls received certificates
of attainment in the commercial de
partment. Other prize winners were
Laura Elizabeth Mattingly, Rose
Theresa Vallario. Miss Yeomans,
Miss Mead, Catherine Marie Hart
and Margaret Helen Bealle.
Graduates are:
Bealle Margaret H.
Byrne. Elizabeth L.
Callahan. Celes'.a M.
Cinotti. Agnes Rita
Collins. Mary Jane
Drury. Dolores C.
Ellis. Anna Rifa
Fague. Gloria V
Ferguson. Mary A.
Gill. Mary Louise
Hansen. Dorothy M.
Hart. Catherine M.
Hemelt. Grare C.
Herring. Mary C.
Keech. Virginia M.
Keller. Katherine T.
Leapley. Mary M
Love. Dorothea E.
Maloney. Ellen E.
Mattingly. Laura E.
Mead. Alice Teresa
Miller Margaret M.
Mitternieht. Puth C.
Moore. Mary C
McIntyre. Eileen L.
McVeigh. Helen T
Olshefski. Florence A.
O’Neill. Mary E
Peeves. Frances S
Robson. Katheryn A
Schwartz. Mildred E.
Scocca. Olga Teresa
Severn. Alice Teresa
Simms. Regina G.
Simone. Gloria T.
Trainor. Margaret L.
Trainor. Rita L.
Vallario. Rose T.
Wathen. Lucy L
Wedding. Gertrude E.
Yeomans. M. V'.
Zirkle. Elizabeth M.
Jewish Center to Give
'Evening of Americana'
An "Evening of Americana.” fea
turing the first Washington per
formance of Earl Robinson's “Balad
for Americans,” will be presented to
night. beginning at 8 o'clock, in the
Jewish Community Center.
Benjamin Appel, author of "The
People Talk.” will discuss his ob
servations of public opinion with re
spect to current topics.
Laurence Whishonant and a
Chorus of 30 voices, directed by Dr.
Alfred Manning, will be heard dur
ing the musical portion of the pro
gram. Meade "Lux” Lewis, “boogie
woogie" pianist; “Lead Belly,”
singer and guitarist; the Sophia
Delza dance group and Margaret
Valiant, singing the songs of migra
tory workers, also will be featured.
F. C. Prud 'Homme Dies;
Retired U. S. Worker
Pred C. Prud ’Homme, 64, of 1236
Eleventh street N.W., a retired
Treasury Department employe, died
yesterday in Sibley Hospital.
A native of Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr.
Prud 'Homme served in the Army
during the Spanish-American War.
Afterward he came to Washington,
where he worked as a cabinetmaker
for the Treasury Department.
He was a member of the Woodmen
of the World for more than 25
years The organization will conduct
funeral services tomorrow at 2 p.m.
at the Chambers funeral home. 1400
Chapin street N.W. Burial will be
In Arlington National Cemetery.
His wife, Mrs. Minnie J. Prud
’Homme, survives.
NARVIK.—ALLIES CAPTURE NARVIK AFTER TERRIFIC BOMB
ARDMENT—These pictures were made during the Allied bom
bardment and capture of Narvik. Northern Norway ore port
which fell to the Allies May 29 after being in German hands for
50 days. Top row shows (left) a shell from a British ship land
ing on the waterfront; (right) fires ashore during the bombard
ment. Lower rows show fires in Narvik and warships engaged
in fierce bombardment, which paved the way for landing parties.
—A. P. Wirephotos from Paramount News.
Kirk to Give President
Report on Conditions
In Nazi Germany
U. S. Envoy in Berlin
Roosevelt Guest on
Potomac Cruise
A first-hand report of conditions
in Nazi Germany will be given
President Roosevelt this afternoon
by Alexander C. Kirk, American
Charge d'Affaires at Berlin.
Arriving back in the United States
Thursday, Mr. Kirk already has re
ported to State Department officials
and is to be a guest of the President
this afternoon in a boat trip down
the Potomac River. If foreign de
velopments permit and the weather
remains favorable. Mr Roosevelt
plans to stay on the White House
yacht Potomac until late tomorrow.
Other guests on the overnight
cruise will be Justice and Mrs. Wil
liam O. Douglas. Secretary of Com
merce Hopkins and Mrs. Betsey
Cushing Roosevelt, divorced wife of
James Roosevelt.
Still in abeyance is the question
of whether the President will go to
Charlottesville, Va.. Monday to at
tend commencement exercises at
the University of Virginia. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, jr„ Is to receive his
law degree at that time.
Hoping to leave on the river trip
before late afternoon, the President
scheduled only three engagements
at the White House today.
First to see him was Edward C.
Moran, jr„ of the Martime Com
mission. Federal Loan Adminis
trator Jesse H. Jones was to be a
second visitor and the third was to
be Louis D. Brownlow, the Presi
dents adviser on departmental re
organization.
The White House announced this
morning that Mr. Roosevelt had
signed a joint resolution author
izing the Bureau of Labor Statistics
to make a study of productivity and
labor costs in industry.
Rome
(Continued Prom First Page.)
for service in “action corps” to re
gain that British island for Italy.
Stefani, official news agency, re
ported that French authorities in
Morocco were seeking “by every
means” to suppress “irredentist in
cidents’ which, it said, had broken
out around Fez and Maknes, “well
known center of Moroccan national
ism.”
Another Stefani dispatch charged
that Italians trying to leave the pro
tectorate were "given the run-around
on various pretexts, preventing them
from leaving Morocco.”
The Rome Insurance Guild rec
ommended that life insurance poli
cies be limited to 200,000 lire (about
$10,000) each.
Italian commercial air service to
foreign destinations was curtailed
today as delays in shipping sched
ules and the departure of troops for
the south strengthened belief that
the nation may soon enter the war
on the side of Germany.
An official announcement said
airmail service between Rome and
Rio de Janeiro, which h%s been on
a weekly basis, has been reduced to
one round trip monthly.
Airline service to Haifa, Bagdad
and Bassora also was suspended and
officials said that planes will fly only
as far as Rhodes until further no
tice. The Rome-Sardinia steam
ship line also suspended service.
Amid emotional farewells from
their families, a train load of
soldiers, recalled to duty, left Rome
for Naples this morning.
Departure of troops for the south
Nazi Speedboats a Combination
Of Stukas, Human Torpedoes
Tactics, Much Like Those of Dive-Bombers,
Require Quick-Thinking Crews of Nervy Men
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 8—The German
speedboats which are sent after
British warships in the English
Channel combine the advantages
of the daredevil tactics of the Jap
anese “human torpedoes" and the
fearful German “Stuka" dive
bombers.
These “mosquito boats.” which
were used to attack British ships
covering the evacuation of Allied
troops from Dunkerque in the bat- j
tie of Flanders, actually are noth
ing more than floating torpedo
tubes.
Their sole function is to punc
ture and destroy larger ships in
swift surprise raids in enemy har
bors or in confined sea areas. Hu
man hands direct the torpedo from
its tube almost to the side of the
enemy vessel, the boat itself being
aimed at the target and sent rock
eting toward it until the torpedo is
released.
These boats are built with but a
fraction of the material needed for
other worships and, like many other
German products, originated more
came less than 24 hours after the
appointment of 74-year-old Marshal
Emilio Debono to command the
“south army group.” Military cirles
interpreted the designation as
meaning his command would in
clude the one Italian Army which
has been stationed in the south and
the two which are in Libya.
New armament grants went to the
air force, which was given $380,
000.000 for expansion in the next
three years, and to the navy, which
got $80,000,000 for sea and shore
armament.
Duce Expected to Make
War Speech Monday
BERN, Switzerland, June 8 UP).—
Fascist Italian sources in Switzer
land reported today Premier Mus
solini would make a speech “offer
ing peace or declaring war,” prob
ably on Monday.
A peace offer, they said, was the
strongest possibility, but they sug
gested it would be tantamount to an
ultimatum to the Allies, with only
a few days allowed for considering It.
The same date for a Mussolini
speech was set as a "rumor” by the
pro-Italian news agency, Telepres',
which has headquarters in Geneva
and is used as a vehicle for Fascist
opinion abroad.
Catastrophic Blow
Held Axis Policy
BERLIN, June 8 (/P).—Authorized
German sources declared today the
German-Italian policy in the Eu
ropean war is governed by a single
thought—“How can England and
France be struck in the most catas
trophic manner?”
These sources added that Ger
many and Italy are working in close
co-operation. They said neither
country places its own interest in
the foreground but "both have only
one desire—namely, to deal an effec
tive blow at England and France.”
Italian Tanker Fede
Puts In at Tampico
MEXICO CITY, June 8 (/Pi.—The
Italian tanker Fede, en route from
Beaumont, Tex., to Naples with 57,
000 barrels of oil. put in at Tam
pico today in response, her captain
out of economic than strategic con
siderations.
The speedboats carry crews of
12 to 15 men who are capable of
bearing up under the nervous strain
of dashing under tremendous speed
into the very shadow of the war
ship with the torpedo ‘‘at ready,”
releasing it at the last possible mo
ment to insure maximum accuracy.
The small boat then careens
aside in the style of the “Stuka”
planes and streak away to a safe
distance.
The drivers of these mosquito
boats are recruited from three prin
cipal sources: The ranks of Ger
man motorboat racers, North Ger
man fishermen and members of
canoe clubs of Sudeten and Aus
trian Germany who are accustomed
to the swift transit and quick
thinking required in mountains
rivers.
The gasoline consumption of the
small boats corresponds to that of
two medium-sized automobiles. A
mother ship for the darting speed
boats accompanies them with their
munitions and fuel supplies. The
mother ships permit a widened area
of operations. ^
said, to radio Instructions to make
quickly for a neutral port.
Port authorities said two other
Italian cargo boats, the Dora and
Alabama, were reported steaming
for Tampico Harbor from “some
where in the Atlantic.”
Four German ships have been tied
up here since the start of the war.
Sailing From Shanghai
Reported Postponed
NEW YORK, June 8 (JP).—'The
German official radio station in
Berlin said in a broadcast picked up
here by N. B. C. today that the
Italian liner Conte Verde, now tn
Shanghai, had postponed its sail
ing indefinitely.
Italian Liner Ordered
To Return to Santos
BUENOS AIRES. June 8 OPV—'The
Italian liner Conte Grande, en route
to Italy from Argentina, has been
ordered back to Santos from which 1
she sailed last night, a representa
tive of the line disclosed today.
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Services Announced
i
The Rev. Horace E. Cromer, min
ister at Emory Methodist Church
will return from Westminster, Md.,
where he has been attending the
sessions of the Baltimore Annual
Conference, to preach at 11 o'clock
tomorrow morning on ‘'Words.” The
young people's choir will sing, “The
Heavens Are Telling." by Beethoven,
and "Bless the Lord. O My Soul,” by
Ivanoff. At 8 p.m., Dr. Cromer will
peach on “The Family Altar.” The
young people's choir will sing. Rum
sey Beery will sing the offertory
solo "I Walked Today Where Jesus
Walked,” by O'Hara.
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See Fear Whipping
U. S. Toward War
Anti-War Mobilization
Meeting Is Told to Turn
Back on Bogey Stories
Two presidential aspirants—Sen
ator Wheeler of Montana and Nor
man Thomas, Socialist leader
joined hands last night in a common
plea to keep America out of Europe’s
war.
They headlined a list of speakers
at the closing Anti-War Mobilization
meeting which jammed the Raleigh
Hotel ballroom with more than 1,200
peace enthusiasts.
Senator Wheeler, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Presi
dent, charged that the ‘ mad wgr
hysteria” gaining hold in the United
States was “created in New York
and the city of Washington.”
He declared that “we will not de
stroy Hitler by going into this war,”
and characterized Hitlerism as “the
expression of brutality and violence
that breeds on economic catas
trophe.”
Points to Method.
“Wipe out the cause of that catas
trophe, the failure to build a sound
and prosperous economy,” he said,
"and we will wipe out Hitler.”
Senator Wheeler scoffed at the
term “all aid to the Allies short of
war,” adding that “you can’t put
your shirttail into a clothes-wringer
and then pull it out suddenly while
the wringer keeps turning.”
He declared the “exaggerated
propaganda to make gifts or loans
to the Allies” is the work of “war
mongers” in the United States who
“recognize these are important steps
that must be first taken if they are
to get this Country into the war.” |
Senator Wheeler called on his
audience, vhich included listeners
to a coast-to-coast radio broadcast, i
to face "realities instead of bogey i
stories about air bases from which ■
giant hordes of planes will bombi
New York, St. Louis and New Or
leans.”
Mr. Thomas characterized the
President’s outline of the possibili
ties of Hitler air maneuvers should
his forces win {he current European
war as a “tourist schedule.”
Sees Master Ambitions.
He further declared that Presi-!
dent Roosevelt, who has been en
thusiastically supported by the So
cialist party head in past.years, is
“subconsciously raising fear" so
that he might “become the master
of the Western Hemisphere.”
Mr. Thomas said Senator Rev- t
Holds of North Carolina is “the man |
who comes nearer being a Fascisr
than any one I know” for his anti*
alien legislative proposals.
The Socialist called on the Presi- 1
dent and Congress to take steps
immediately to care for 1,000.000
European refugees by the estab
lishment of camps and colonies for
the war victims. He declared that
he had seen tentative figures to
support the contention that such
a total could be cared for, includ
ing transportation, for one year on
less money than the cost of two of
this Nation’s largest battleships.
This move he placed in a five
point program of action. Other
suggestions included the protection
and advancement of the cause of
democracy by "keeping America out
of the European war, in which she
would lose millions of her sons and
all of her democracy without ac
quiring the wisdom or ability to save
Europe any better than in 1918”;
i avoid hysterical armament econom
ics, protect civil liberties and plan
for a larger national defense by
conquering poverty.
Other speakers included Repre
sentative Burdick of North Dakota,!
John T. Flynn, economist and news
paperman; O. K. Armstrong, mem
ber of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee of the American Legion; Miss
Dorothy Detzer, executive secretary
of the Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom; Frederick
J. Libby, chairman of the National
Council for the Prevention of War,
and W. L. Borden, associate editor
of the Yale Daily News. Bishop
Paul Jones of Antioch College pre
sided at the rally.
Vote on War Asked.
The group yesterday afternoon
passed resolutions asking that Con
gress remain in session during the
war emergency, and "that it give the
people the right to vote on any war
they are asked to ght."
Representative Burdick said he
could stop the whole “performance”
of this Nation's entering a European
war if Congress would pass one law.
“That law would provide," he said,
“that before we could conscript men
to -go to battle for the cause we
espoused, we would first conscript
wealth enough to run the war and
pay for it.”
The mass meeting concluded a
day of conferences and congres
sional interviews in which more
than 400 delegates participated.
The session was sponsored by seven
national peace organizations.
Berlin
_'Continued From First Page.)
hits with heavy bombs on a cruiser.
Authorized sources said that three
days of continuous assaults had
proved France's so-called Weygand
Line is ‘'unstable,” and the German
war machine was reported attacking
simultaneously at four points in an
effort to smash stubborn French re
sistance.
Adolf Hitler’s own newspaper,
Voelkischer Beobachter, said the
drives were developing in the regions
of Abbeville, Amiens, Peronne and
the Oise-Aisne Canal. The thrust
southward from Abbeville was aimed
at the Important west coast port of
Le Havre, while the other three
pointed directly at Paris.
The onrushing German units,
strongly supported by the dreaded
“stukas” (dive bombers) were said
to be encountering massed French
forces everywhere along the impro
vised Weygand defense positions. I
However, informed persons said, the |
French positions no longer consti
tute a major obstacle.
Air Force Has Major Part.
The Nazi air force was said to
have played a major part in yester
day's German gains along a front
extending more than 60 miles east
ward from the English Channel.
Allied troop concentrations and
traffic lanes both immediately be
hind the front and in the hinterland
were the main targets of ’'successful'’
raids, the spokesman said.
German warplanes also showered
the French port of Cherbourg with
-ombs. he declared, while Essex and
other regions on the southern and
southeastern coasts of England were
.(gain "visited” by Nazi bombers.
(An N. B. C. correspondent in
Berlin reported today that a spe
cia1 German communique said
the harbor at Cherbourg, France,
was set afire last night by Nazi
bombing planes during a series
of air raids on vital French cit
ies.)
Volkischer Beobachter said the
Fiench were fighting "bravely and
stubbornly to hold their lines.” but
said the German attackers never
theless were making headway.
The French were quoted as sav
ing they were withdrawing from
advanced positions.
The high command failed to tell
a public clamoring for news how
far the German drive had carried.
Weygand Given Credit.
German war analysts, amplifying
official reports, said Nazi attackers
had found the French line along i
the Somme-Aisne front “spongy."
They agreed, however .that the
Allied commander-in-chlef, Gen.
Maxime Weygand, had made ex
cellent strategic use of available
terrain in mapping his defenses.
They explained that the chief
characteristic of the French line
was its ‘'mattress-like'’ ability to
absorb blows, yielding at the point
of impact but slowly bringing the
thrust to a halt.
Action along the Somme-Aisne
front absorbed public attention al
most to the exclusion of develop
ments further east, where the high
command said German forces were
pressing close to the main Maginot
Line defenses south of Saarbrueck
en.
The press asserted that Frence
had greatly weakened her forces
along the Maginot Line to bolster
the troops holding the Somme-Aisne
front.
German summaries of the latest
raids over German territory by
British bombers disclosed a con
centration of activity south of the
Ruhr and east of Luxembourg.
It was from this vicinity that the
heaviest drive in the now completed
Belgian campaign was launched.
Eyes Kept on Italy.
The average German kept one
eye focused on the western front
and the other on Italy, whose en
trance into the war at the side of
her axis partner is generally be
lieved to be only a matter of a
short time.
Considerable significance was at
tached to reports that Italy had or
dered her merchant vessels into
neutral ports. It was recalled that
immediately before the opening of
the Polish campaign last September
German ships were ordered to take
a similar course to avoid falling into
the hands of the British fleet.
There was not the slightest official
hint in Berlin as to when or how
Italy would act.
News that the United States liner
Washington had been directed to
omit a call at Genoa to pick up
refugees and to head for Lisbon in
stead was received here as a hint
that the United States recognizes
the existence of a more tense situa
tion in the Mediterranean.
Dr. C. E. Davis Elected
Brethren Moderator
By the Associated Press.
OCEAN GROVE. N. J.. June 8 —
The Church of the Brethren's Stand
ing Committee elected Dr. C. E.
Davis, president of La Verne (Calif.i
College, moderator at its 154th an
nual conference session yesterday
to succeed Dr. Rufus D. Bowman of
Chicago.
An annual benevolence budget ot
$235,000, subject to approval of the
delegates, was voted. A monthlv
expenditure of $3,000 also was ap
proved by the committee which held
a closed discussion on the question
of conscientious objection by young
members to military service.
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