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Evening star., 1940-06-23
Nazis Term Britain
Ripe for Storming';
Poised for Attack
Vulnerable to Blockade
And Quick Air Foroys,
Berlin Quarters Soy
BY the Associated Press.


BERLIN. June 22.-England Is
"ripe for storming," well-informed
Nazi quarters said tonight.
AS tbis view widened in Germany
the days communique told of in.
creased pressure against England
from the air and on the sea.
Nearly 100 bombers roared over
English coast communities last night
in another mass demonstration of
air power. They will 60 back.
The German press emphasized
that adequately based planes need
not fear sea power.
"Setup" for Air Forays.
The news service Dienst aus
Deutschland declared that England
is IAN ideal subject for attack" in
that it is "setup" for quick, de-
structive air forays and for block
ade.
The news service added: England
is being defeated by one of its own
weapons, blockade"
Moreover, every hour Of delay in
the French decision at Compiegne
Forest helped the German Army to
make the French military position
more hopeless, German sources
said.
"The armistice is going hand in
hand with the final collapse of the
French Army" was the way one
press report put it.
Germany is in possession of ex-
cellent air bases along the French
and Belgian coast, Dienst aus
Deutschland pointed out in develop
ing its thesis that England is ripe
for storming"
Trade Declared on 80 Pct.
More than 30 per cent of all i'm
ports and exports of the British
Isles have been stopped since the
entry of Italy into the war and the
collapse of France, it said.
Eighteen ships are now needed to
bring the same amount of food from
Australia that one ship formerly
could bring from Denmark, the news
service continued, while 80 per cent
of the ore import has been halted.
Chickens and pigs must be
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Wedding Of Senator Glass
To Teacher Surprises Capital

Senator Carter Glass of Virginia
and Mrs. Mary Scott Meade, Z high
school teacher of Amherst, Va, were
married in Ascension Episcopal
Church at Amherst Yesterday after
noon.
News of the ceremony came as q
surprise to the Capital, although
there have been occasional reports
that the 82-year-old Senator con-
templated second marriage. His
first wife died three years ago.
Mrs. Glass, who is about so, was
the widow of Robert Amber Meade
of Haymarket, Va, and had taught
Latin and English in the Amherst
School for several years.
The couple obtained . license
Wednesday, according to the Asso-
ciated Press, but made no prior IN.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Three British Vessels
Leave, Laden With Arms
BY the Associated Press.


BAYONNE, N. j., June 22.-Three
British freighters, heavily laden with
munitions, slipped out to sea to-
night after three days of feverish
loading at the Bayonne port ter
minal.
Crew members and longshoremen
worked night and day putting an
estimated 1000 tons of shells, rifles
and gun carriages aboard the Dali
cross, Pacific Shipper and Aracataca.
While Coast Guardsmen, police
and private detectives stood guard,
lighters tied up alongside the three
vessels for the loading. Crew men,
bers did not leave the ship during
the entire stay and secrecy sur
rounded the source of the NUM-
tions and the destination of the
freighters.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
German Arms Works
AT Essen, Bremen
Blasted by R. A. F.
6 Supply Trains Wrecked
British Say; Sehornhorst
Declared Damaged
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, June 22.-The Royal
Air Force slanted countless bombs
down on the great German Krupp
armaments works at Essen and the
big Folke-Wul aircraft plant at
Bremen during last nights far
ranging aerial raids, the Air Min
istry announced tonight.
For an hour and a half British
bombers hammered away at these
and other objectives in Germany
and the Netherlands, touching off
numerous explosions and fires, while
Nazi attackers were carrying out
their third major raid of the week
on England
The admiralty announced heavy
damage was inflicted on the 26,OOO-
ton German battleship Scharnhorst
June 13 off Trondheim Fjord.
The Nazi-held Willemsoord base
in the Netherlands, the Feiseler
aircraft works, the Rothenburg air.
drome and air bases at Kassel and
north of Hamburg were among OBJ
jectives of the r. A. F. along with a
number of other military establish
ments.
Supply Ship Sunk.
In North Sea attack, the Air
Ministry reported British recon-
naissance aircraft sank large
enemy supply ship.
Several hits were reported on the
factory buildings of the Krupp
group at Essen. Direct hits were
said to have wrecked six supply
and ammunition trains between Os-
nabruck and Bremen and near the
town of Rhein.
Violent explosions followed direct
hits on the Focke-Wulf plant at
Bremen, the Air Ministry said.
One salvo of bombs was reported
to have completely wrecked" a
train at Furstenau, northwest of
Rhein
Earlier the Air Ministry an
nounced that Royal Air Force
planes raided Berlin. (The Germans
said the raid, which they described
dS I1ie IlTSI OF Cne war, caused no
material damage. The French pre-
viously reported a raid on the Ger
man capitaD
British officials said the Germans,
attacking Eastern and Southeastern
Britain in waves during the night.
killed three persons but failed to
inflict major damage.
Scharnhorst Waylaid.
British naval and air units, seek
ing to avenge the sinking of the
22,500-ton aircraft carrier Glorious,
waylaid the Scharnhorst, the Ad-
miralty said.
Shortly afterward the Admiralty
announced that large Italian SUBJ
marine, attacked with depth charges
in the Gulf of Alden, had surren-
Evening star., 1940-06-23
French-Axis Fleet
3396 Bigger Than U.S.,
President Is Told
Advisers Also Rote
japanese Navy on Par
With Americas
BY JOHN c. HENRY,
Star Staff CorresDondent-

HYDE PARK, N. Y. June 22-
Awaiting details of the French
capitulation to the German Italian
axis, President Roosevelt and de-
tense advisers are becoming alarmed
at prospects of the totalitarian
powers acquiring sudden supremacy
OF the Atlantic, it was learned here
tonight.
In the face of conflicting and un-
verified reports Of the whereabouts
OF the main body of the French
fleet, the possibility Of its surrender
as a guarantee necessary for con-
tinuation of the war against Great
Britain" Is considered disturbingly
close to reality.
Some of the French ships already
may have sought refuge" from cap
ture with the British but for pur-
poses of American defense problems
advisers to the President have laid
before him an alarmingly simple
arithmetical picture of the axis ma
tions with a combined sea power
one-third greater than that of the
United States. The rough figures
indicate that should the British
Navy also fall into their hands, their
superiority over the United States
would be in the ratio of two and
one-third to one.
French and Axis 1873, British 100.
Estimating the British naval
strength at the top index figure of
100, they rate the French at the
figure so. the Italians at so and the
Germans at 80. Actually, on ton
mage and ship statistics, the French
might be rated slightly higher, but
even at the lower figure it is seen
that composite of French and
axis strength would be indexed at
1873 to the British 100. And even
though parts of the French fleet
escape capture and are merged into
the British strength, it is evident
that any material addition to the
German-Italian sea power will bring
them dangerously close to equality
with Britain.
AS for American strength, in its
present Atlantic Pacific disposition.
it Is indexed at 100 in the Pacific as
(See HENRY, PAGE A-12)
Evening star., 1940-06-23
1000 Trapped Leeionnoires
Defy Nozis to Capture Fort

gionnaires Lies Joyeux"- joyful
ones-and keep as far from the forts
rs possible.
Nazi swastikas have flown for five
days over the nearby forts of Pont-
arlier and LIE Larmont Mountain
several miles to the north, which fell
to the Germans without a struggle
after Premier Petain of France an
nounced he was asking the Germans
for terms of peace.
The German commander at Pom
tarlier received a telephone call
from the Legionnaires at lie Joux
and L'Ecluse inviting him to come
and get u.s.
The Germans are still trying. But
their commander Is not answering
Csc LE0IONNAfRNe, PaSe A-0)
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Burgin Is Renominated
In North Carolina
BY the Associated Press.


RALEIGH, N. c., June 22.-End-
ing one of the bitterest disputes in
the States political history, eighth
district Democrats renominated
Representative w. o. Burgin today
over c. B. Deane of Rockingham in
a second primary. The renomina-
ton is equivalent to election.
Returns from 1876 of 204 precincts
gave Mr.. Burgin 20,739 votes and
Mr.. Deane 1913.
Mr.. Burgin and Mr.. Deane were
in q close run-off primary two years
ago. After weeks of charges and
counter charges and an investiga-
ton by the State Board Of Elections,
the fight was taken to the courts.
However, when it appeared that the
extended court fight would not be
decided by election time, the dispute
was submitted to a board of arbitra-
tors, which declared Mr.. Burgin the
nominee.
The Burgin-Deane fight was the
only district or Statewide contest
in today's second Democratic pri-
mary, the other races having been
decided In the first primary or by
the withdrawal Of runners.up.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
War to Continue Until Six Hours
After Notice Of Accord With Duce
Terms Are Hard
But Honorable
Bordeaux Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BORDEAUX, June 22.-The
French government announced
officially late tonight that France
and Germany had signed an
armistice providing hard but
honorable" terms.
If the terms had not been
honorable, France would have
been ready to fight on in her
colonies" French sources said.
The price Adolf Hitler de-
manded for peace, however, will
not be announced officially until
after France reaches an agree
ment with Italy and the cease
firing order is given.
In a heavily censored dispatch,
it was disclosed that the govern
ment remains for the moment at
Bordeaux, the provisional capital
From that headquarters Official
spokesmen said fresh French
troops" were holding Arm along the
Alpine frontier-beating back at
tacking Italians from Mont Blanc
to the sea despite the menace of
German pressure from the rear.
Spearhead Pushed South.
The Germans were pictured as
pushing a spearhead down the
Rhone Valley behind the frontier
defense forces, slowly, steadily, de-
spite valiant resistance.
The high commapds night COM
munique indicated that while the
fighting was less severe. it continued
in local combats all along the
front.
The Germans apparently were
pushing forward with advance and
scouting units.
A war ONCE spokesman said the
tired poilus are continuing a des-
perate but not useless fight"
Their resistance during the tense
hours in which emissaries of their
government discussed with the Ger
mans the terms of armistice was
said to have enabled France to hold
out for the soldiers peace" which
Premier Petain demanded.
Cease Fire Order Waits.
There was no cease firing order.
Apparently the troops must con-
tinue to hold their lines until six
hours after agreement is reached
with Italy.
Not until then, government
spokesmen said, is the armistice ef-
fective. 1t was understood, too. that
the terms of the armistice will not
be disclosed until that time.
Along the western half of the
front, the Germans were reported
to have made no new advances
south of the River Loire. Eastward,
however. they pushed ahead over a
wide front. On narrow plain be-
tween the Loire and Cher Rivers
stiff French resistance had slowed
or stopped Nazi columns.
Scanty information available in
Bordeaux on the position of the
remaining French troops in parts
of Alsace and Lorraine. along the
German border, indicated they are
not completely cut off from the main
French armies. Contact was be-
lieved to be maintained along deep
valleys through the mountains bor-
dering the Swiss frontier.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
By the Associated Press.

BY ire Associated Press.
A $4,000 900 900 warship construc-
ton program to make the American
Navy the greatest assemblage of sea
power the world has ever known
was voted by the House yesterday
after scarcely two hours debate.
Meanwhile, a $1,768 .9l3, ,908 emer-
gency appropriation for the Army
and Navy received final congress
sional approval, bringing the total
of defense appropriation measures
up to now to $5.377 ,522 ,o58. In addi-
ton, numerous items intended for
defense purposes have appeared in
routine supply bills.
The bulk of the $l,768.913 ,908 ap-
preparation will be used for Army
planes, tanks, guns and other NUM-
Evening star., 1940-06-23
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LES VERRIERES, on the French
Swiss Frontier, June pa thous-
and desert-toughened fighting men
of the French Foreign Legion. with
their backs to the Swiss frontier,
held two mountain forts today for
the fifth day against heavy German
assault.
They are cut of from other
French troops. Completely sur
rounded, they fought on as a Beau
Geste-and because fighting is the
tradition of the Legion.
The forts where they have re-
pulsed attack after attack are lie
Joux and L'Ecluse, across the from
tier from this usually sleepy Swiss
town. The peasant folk call the L.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Measure Libera|izinq
JobIess Pay Among
10 D. {. Bills Passed
Legislation Will Cut
Pay Roll Tox From
; to 2.7 Per Cent
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Ten District bills, including legis-
lation that will iberalize the local
unemployment compensation law,
were rushed through the House
and Senate last night before the
weeks ADJOURNMENT for the Re-
publican National Convention.
Hurriedly these measures were
engrossed and put in shape for the
signature of President Roosevelt,
the final act needed to make them
law.
The bill revising the Unemploy-
ment Compensation Act, which had
been booted around for several
months, completed its legislative
journey just before the House took
a short recess late in the day..
Fight Fails to Develop.
Delayed in its passage through
the House, the measure faced even
a more serious obstacle in the Sen
ate in the form of a rider tackled on
at the insistence of Senator Tydings,
Democrat, of Maryland. The threat
ened fight over this amendment
one that exempts cooperative asso-
Citations of farmers from payment of
the local income tax-failed to de-
velop. however, and the bill was
- ~Y~111a Y(11I -.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
House Votes $4,000,O00> 900
For Worlds Greatest Navy
Measure for 'Two-Oceon' Sea Force
Adopted After Less Than Hours Debate

tions, but part will go for Navy
needs. including a start on construc-
ton OF 68 new fighting ships.
The Navy expansion bill swept
through the House with a chorus of
Ayes" on q voice vote. The exact
number of new ships proposed in it
is a military secret, the measure
cloaking this by providing only for
1856 900 tons of battleships, 200 900
tons Of aircraft carriers, 420, 900 tons
OF cruisers, 250, 900 tons of destroyers
and 10000 tons of submarines.
There have been unofficial esti-
mates. however, that completion of
the program. together with other
naval construction already author
lied. would give the United States
a fleet of 6l8 warships capable of
tSee DEFENSE. Page A-10.)
Evening star., 1940-06-23

nouncement of plans for the cere-
mony, which was at 4:30 pm. Only
members of the bridal party were in
attendance.
The Rev. Ze Barney Phillips, rec
tor Of Epiphany Episcopal Church
here and for many years chaplain
Of the Senate, performed the Epis-
copal ring service before the altar,
banked with Easter lilies and ferns
and candelabra which were 4 part
Of the brides ancestral silver. The
Rev. John Wellford, rector OF As
cension Church, assisted in the
ceremony.
Because of the Senator's recent
illness, the couple planned to defer
= wedding trip to Lake George, and
from the church here went to his
(seS GLASS, Pare A-2.)
Evening star., 1940-06-23

as read over the British broadcast
ing facilities, follows:
His majesty's government has
heard with grief and amazement
that the terms dictated by the
Germans have been accepted by the
French government at Bordeaux.
They can not feel that such, or
(see CHURCHILL. Page A-6D
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Food Stomps-Fur Coot
Swap Brings Indictment

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June "a
Federal indictment in a case in
volving exchange of food stamps
for a fur coat was returned by q
grand jury here today.
Six other indictments involving
fraudulent use of food stamps were
returned. Federal Attorney Jim C.
Smith said the four men and three
women under arrest were among
the first in the Nation facing GRIM
inal prosecution for food stamp
violations.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Terms Withheld
Pending Talks
With Fuscists
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK, June % (Sun-
day. P.-The French and
Italian peace emissaries will
hold their first meeting today,
the British radio reported in
= broadcast picked up here by
the Columbia Broadcasting
System listening station. The
broadcast said, however, lit
seems that two or three days
will elapse before a settlement
Is reached. Meanwhile, it ap-
pears the French Army is re-
pulsing the Germans and even
counter attacking"
Evening star., 1940-06-23
British Victory Is Only Hope
Of Liberation, france Is Told
Gen. De GouI|e Seeks to RoIIy Forces
In England to Persevere in Conflict

y Assoc Press
LONDON June % Sunday)-Prime Minister Winston Church
ILL., expressing British and
German arstce appealed today all
wherever they to aid the British fight against Germany
the only hope of Frances eventual restoration liberty
Declaring that the British could feel that
ee independent constitutional government could
have submitted the German armistice Mr. Churchill appealed
Frenchmen government ito aid
to the utmost of their strength the forces liberation
which faithfully resouey assuredy
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Pon-Americun PurIey
In Havana Next Month
BY the Associated Press.

HAVANA, June 22.-Assistant Sec
retary of State Rodolfo Miranda
said today the American con-
ference called at the suggestion of
the United States would be held here
next month.
Miranda said he could not give the
definite date, but well informed
quarters said 1t would be after mid.
July,
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Eight Reds in Jail
After Fist Fights
By the Associs ted Press

BY the Associs ted Press.
ROCKFORD, ILL.,, June 22.-Eight
men and women attempting to dis
tribute Communist party literature
were escorted to Jail by police today
after q series of fist fights broke out
on the Courthouse Square. No one
was injured seriously.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Condition Of Taylor
Continues Serious
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FLORENCE. Italy, June q. -
Myron c Taylor, President Roose-
velt's personal representative to the
Vatican, continued in a serious
condition here tonight.
The statement of his condition
was issued after three physicians
held afternoon consultations,
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Taft Woos Distoff
Votes With Bridge
And Style Show
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June o.
Senator Taft of Ohio will try
next week to win delegates by
teaching them bridge and show
ing them the latest styles. His
managers have arranged for a
series of bridge lectures at his
headquarters every morning for
the entertainment of visiting
women.
A style show, with gowns
shown by professional models
and featuring a Martha Taft
dress, has been arranged for
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
BERLIN, June %. - France
made a final surrender to vic
torious Germany tonight, sign
Ing in the Compiegne forest a
peace based on the broad dictate
laid down by Adolf Hitler.
It was an armistice still con-
ditioned, however. on a second
capitulation-to Italy-and to-
night men fought on in a con-
flict that was a war no longer.
It was an agreement that will
bring a real armistice only after
the French have made their
terms with Premier Mussolini.
Six hours after the notice of
this second armistice has been
received by the Nazi high COM
mand, the guns will cease to
speak.
In the same old railway car in
the Compiegne Forest where the
Kaiser's delegation bowed in defeat
to Marshal Ferdinand Foch on
November II, 1918, two ranking
generals at $50 pm. Q1:50 am.
Eastern standard time) put pens
to the French surrender of 1910.
Take Plane for Italy.
The weary French delegation took
plane almost Immediately for an
undisclosed city in Italy to begin
their conversations with Mussolini.
This French surrender at an old
and bitterly remembered scene of
German defeat-the railway car in
the forest-was signed pv Col. Gen.
Wilhelm Keitel for Germany and
by Gen Charles Huntziger for
France.
Just what France had agreed to,
at the end of a short and bloody
struggle which in 43 days left half
her country in German hands, was
not disclosed pending the italian
negotiations.
But when Hitler took his oio tate
to them yesterday he stated in a
preamble to his detailed terms
three broad conditions that must
be met. France was to agree to:
Halt any form of resistance.
Give guarantees" to Germany
to help her wage war on the his
toric French ally. England.
Submit to new" peace in
Europe which would be designed
above everything to help to wipe
out the wrong done to the Ger
man Reich by force" in the last
war.
The Fuehrer was not present at
today's session.
Germans Still Advance.
Even during the last hours of the
solemn discussion in the shadows
Of Compiegne Forest, the French
armies were being pursued by Ger
man forces in the field
The fact this struggle might GO
on for agonizing hours seemed plain
in the terms of the German COM
munique announcing the capitula-
ton:
The cessation of hostilities Is
not connected with the signing Of
the treaty. It will follow six hours
after the Italian government has
notified the German supreme COM
mand of the text of the Itaio-French
armistice treaty"
While the Berlin press took very
reserved tone toward events in the
Forest of Compiegne, Propaganda
Minister Goebbels' newspaper Der
Angriff gave an insight into the
status which the Nazis believe
France must occupy in the new
Europe"
"Compiegne," the paper said, was
the end of an entire order of the
economic and sociological system Of
the French Republic.
After this war France will make
the first step into a new age which
the young authoritarian states of
Europe have long since taken. The
responsible men of France ought to
(see ARMIsTICE, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1940-06-23

Despite the action of the Bor-
deaux government, he said, a
victorious Britain will Cherish the
cause of the French people and
pointed out to them that a British
victory was "the only possible hope
for the restoration of France and
the freedom of its people"
The Prime Minister'S statement,
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Weather Forecast

Cloudy. slightly warmer today: tomor-
row fair, rising temperature. Tempera-
lures yesterday-Highest, rs, at 3 pm;
lowest, 81, at S am.
From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full details on PAGE Az.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

(See LONDON, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1940-06-23

The Evening and Sunday Star is
delivered In the city and suburbs at
75c per month. The Night Final
Edition and Sunday Morning Star at
85c per month.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

(See CABINET, Page A-14)
Evening star., 1940-06-23

(See BERLIN, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1940-06-23

(See G. o. p, Page A-30
Evening star., 1940-06-23

(See DISTRICT, Page AID
Evening star., 1940-06-23

(See HENRY, Page AID