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Evacuated by
French Forces
"Heavy Allied Pressure
Drives Vichy Troops to
Positions Outside City
By Harold Feters
Beirut, June 21 (U.R)
French troops have evacuated
Damascus, it was announced
officially tonight.
The announcement said
that Vichy troops were or
dered to evacuate the ancient
city because of heavy enemy
pressure and in order to avoid
fighting in the narrow streets
and bazaars of the oriental
metropolis.
The announcement said
that French troops fell back to po
sitions outside the city.
An allied column has been fight
ing just outside Damascus for sev
eral days and late yesterday opened
fire on the city with artillery bat
teries, starting a number of fires.
Vichy Report
(A Vichy report said that the Bri
tish had renewed their attacks on
Damascus, virtually surrounding the
city and that Gen. Henri Dentz,
Syrian high commissioner, had re-
I ported that the situation there was
"dangerous
Damascus is believed to be the
oldest Inhabited city in the world.
Its principal thoroughfare "The
Street that is called Straight" was
famous before the time of Christ and
is mentioned In Biblical passages,
The city also is a Holy center for
the Moslems.
Along with the evacuation of Da
mascus, authorities announced that
another British column is driving
Into Syria. This is a motorized col
umn, advancing on ancient Palmyra
from the Iraq frontier.
Drive on Palmyra'
Palmyra is about 100 miles from
the nearest point of the Iraq front
ier and lies about 140 miles due east
of Tripoli, terminus of the Syrian
branch of the pipeline from the Mo
sul oil fields.
The announcement did not indi
cate eactly how far Inside Syria the
British column has advanced.
, (Turkish sources have persistent-
1 ly reported that a British motorized
force is advancing into Syria from
Iraq but there has been no official
confirmation from London or Cairo) .
Cairo, June 21 VP) The RAP mid
dle east command announced today
that the British fleet's air arm had
attacked shipping in the harbor of
Beirut, Lebanon, scoring four direct
hits on a large jetty and hitting "i
ship believed to have been a sub
marine." The attack was yesterday, the
RAF said, and came while RAF
filers were attacking armored fight
ing vehicles on the Damascus-Bei
rut road, destroying "a considerable
number" of vehicles.
Axis War Economy
Held Strengthened
Rome, June 21 (IP) Authoritative
sources said today the war economy
of both Italy and Germany had
I been strengthened in agreements
reached In Berlin which put "arm
ed forces in position to meet new
tasks."
The agreement, they said, was
reached by committees which met
in the past fortnight. Details were
kept secret except for the disclosure
that they were largely concerned
with war supplies.
Economic, financial and monetary
problems connected with the Ital
ian-German occupation of Yugo
slavia and Greece also were solved.
an Informant said.
Yugoslav King
Arrives in England
London, June 21 (IP) Accom
panied by his prime minister and
other ministers, 17-year-old King
Petar II of conquered Yugoslavia
arrived in England at 4:45 a. m. to
day and it was understood the
Yugoslav government in exile would
' be established in London.
The party, traveling by plane,
was greeted by the Duke of Kent,
brother of King George VI of Eng
land.
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British Stage
Great Raid pn
Invasion Ports
RAF Offensive Continues
In Waves 24 Nazi
Fighting Planes Downed
London, June 21 ffl The
air ministry announced to
night that at least 24 German
fighter planes had been shot
down during two KAF onen
sive sweeps over northern
France today.
The British acknowledged
the loss of one bomber and
three of their own fighters in
the day s operations, which
began early and continued late
in the evening of this longest
day of the year.
In the big attacks British fighters
accompanied heavy bombers in at
tacks on the "invasion ports" of the
German-held French coast, the at
tacking planes roaring out over the
channel in waves and their bombs
exploding on enemy targets with
earth-shattering reverberations felt
on the English side.
Raid Objectives
The forays have twin objectives,
informed sources said:
1. To continue pounding German
held bases and , ports, in, northern
Europe.
2. A campaign of attrition against,
the luftwaffe which they said was
highly successful, with a record of
48 planes shot down In a week 10
of them in today's sweeps alone.
Observers said British planes fill
ed the skies over the channel In
what appeared to be a non-stop as
sault on the nazi-held "invasion
coast line of France.
Explosions Heard
Two British planes were said to
be missing from the combined bomb
er and fighter squadrons one a
bomber and the other a fighter
whose pilot was saved.
Bomb explosions could be heard
clearly across the mist-shrouded
strait as the British bombers sand
wiched between a strong escort of
fliers carried out an evidently In
tense assault.
PGE to Purchase
Butte Light Co.
Washington, June 21 (U.R) Re
quest has been made by the Portland
General Electric company of the
federal power commission for au
thority to buy the Butte Light and
Power company, Scotts Mills, Ore.,
for $20,000, subject to certain adjust
ments. The Butte company operates In
Marlon and Clackamas counties, in
and around the community of Scotts
Mills. It serves about 200 customers,
the application said, and buys about
85 per cent of its electric energy
from Portland General electric.
The application states that cus
tomers will receive a substantial re
duction in rates if the merger is
approved.
The proposed merger has been ap
proved by the Oregon public utili
ties commissioner in accordance
with terms of a purchase agreement
of May 15.
Turkey Bound to
Neutrality in War
London, June 21 () A
day the Uerman-lurkey treaty contained a secret clause bind
ing Turkey to benevolent neutrality in the event of war be
tween uermany and soviet Russia.-
The clause, which would bar the
Dardanelles to Russian war or sup
ply ships if the soviet union fought
Germany, was said by this source
to have been forced on Turkey by
"terrific German pressure like the
rest of the declaration of German
Turkish friendship."
This source said he was told by
well-placed Informants that Ger
many insisted on the Turkish pact
as a prelude to what he called
"big moves" in eastern Europe In
volving Russia,
These moves were slad to be re
garded by the Germans as necessary
to Insure their eastern frontiers
against trouble and leave them free
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gness (top), San Diego, Calif.,
and Lieut. Howard J. Abbott
(bottom),, Osceola, Iowa, com
manding officer, were aboard
the missing submarine 0-9, the
navy department announced in
Washington. Associated Press
Photo.
Soviet Creates
Wreckage Zone
By Hubert Uxkull
Helsinki, Finland, June 20, 10:50
P, M. (U.PJ Russia Is hastily creat
ing a 60 mile "zone of devastation"
along the German-Lithuanian fron
tier refugees reported tonight as
Finland's middle-aged men were
called to army duty under a gen
eral mobilization order.
Travelers arriving here after hav
ing escaped across the Finnish gulf
from Esthonla said that Russian
authorities had evacuated entire
populations of several coastal dis
trlcts is Esthonla, Latvia and Lith
uania and had arrested many "un
desirables."
On the Lithuanian frontier, it
was asserted, Russia was destroying
bridges and railroads and burning
or blowing up houses and entire
villages to create its "devastation
zone."
Anti-aircraft guns suddenly ap
peared on the tops of higher build
ings in Helsinki and many motor
trucks and private automobiles were
commandeered.
A general mobilization order Is
sued last night sent all reservists
up to the age of 44 years to the
colors at once.
rne mobilization posters were
displayed at all street corners, the
glaring white of the paper attract
ing bystanders.
reliable foreign source said to
to launch a "death blow" against
England.
Highly-placed sources in London
have said they expect a German
effort to land such a blow within
the next three months.
if tne Dardanelles, the narrow
strait between the Mediterranean
and Black seas, were sealed against
the Russians they would lose their
readiest connection with Britain,' a
possible ally of the soviet in any
Russian-German war.
This would Isolate Britain from
Russia, in fact, except by difficult
land connections through the mid
dle east and by sea through the
Arctic.
Fascist Agencies
Ousted Except
Italian Embassy
All American Officials in
Axis Lands to be Return
ed to United States
Washington, June 21 (IP)
The United States today or
dered all Italian consulates in
the United States closed and
all Italian consular officers re
moved from American terri
tory before July 15.
Undersecretary Welles, at
the same time, announced
that the United States embas
sies in Berlin and in Rome
have been instructed to make
arrangements for the return
to this country of all American con
sular officials in those two coun
tries, but at the same time to cate
gorically reject allegations made
against them by the nazi and fas
cist governments.
All Agencies Closed
In addition to Italian consular of
ficials, Undersecretary Welles an
nounced that the Italian govern
ment had been requested to remove
all agencies and organizations of the
fascist government, with the excep
tion of the Italian embassy here.
"" All 'German' consulates in " this
country were ordered closed last
Monday, and Berlin and Rome im
mediately retaliated by ordering
United States consuls out of Ger
many, Italy and occupied countries,
Italian consulates at Detroit and
Newark were ordered closed several
months ago, on charges by the state
department that they had engaged
in improper activities.
Inimical Activities
The German consular officials
and employes were directed to leave
for activities inimical to the welfare
of the United States. Welles in a
a note to Prince Colonna, the tal-
ian ambassador, said that "the con
tinued functioning of Italian consu
lar establishments in the territory
of the United States would serve no
desirable purpose.'1
After French
Somaliland
Vichy, Unoccupied France, June
21 (P) The French said today that
the British had sent an ultimatum
to French Somaliland demanding
that the colony join the de Gaullist
movement and fight on the British
side or be starved out by blockade.
Vichy sources had told earlier of
increasing British and de Gaullist
pressure against the east African
colony on the Gulf of Aden Sur
rounded by the British conquered
Italian colony of ' Eritrea, British
Somaliland and Ethiopia, now vir
tually free of Italian rule.
(Britain, too, holds sea suprem
acy in that area, strategically lm
portent because French Somali
land's capital and principal port,
Jibuti, Is linked by rail with the
Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.)
The French in a double protest to
the British through their Madrid
embassy and to the American gov
ernment through their embassy in
Washington, declared:
"This ultimatum, without prece
dent In history, means condemna
tion to a slow death by famine of
a population, living in a land to
tally uncultivated, with the lntcn
tion of forcing it to declare a re
bellion against the fatherland."
Moscow Women
And Children Leave
Helsinki, Finland, June 21 UP)
Dispatches in the Finnish press
from Russia indicated today that
women and children perhaps are
being evacuated to some extent
from Moscow and other large cities
as well as from some Lithuanian
towns,
(An Associated Press dispatch
from Moscow yesterday said all was
quiet there.
(The Vichy correspondent of
Swiss newspaper, Tribune de Ge
neve, quoted Swedish sources as
saying that reported evacuation of
children from Russian cities was
explained officially as summer va
cations.)
Missing 0-9 And Sister Ship The United States submarine 0-9 lies at its pier In Boston navy yard
with its sister ship O-10. The navy reported to 0-9, recently recommissioned after lying idle for 10
years-, was overdue after a test dive off the Isle of Shoals off Portsmouth, N. H. Associated Press
Photo.
FDR 's Message
Given Germany
Washington, June 21 (P) Sumner Welles, undersecre
tary of state, announced today that he had transmitted to the
German government, a copy of President Roosevelt's message
to congress branding the sinking of the S. S. Robin Moor "the
act of an international outlaw." The message was sent to
Hot Weather
Rules in East
(Bt the Associated Press)
The almanac listed the official
arrival of summer today but folks
in the sweltering eastern two
thirds of the nation vowed it had
sneaked in with a full head of
steam some time Wednesday.
Fans and ice cube freezers did
extra duty from the Dakotas to
the Atlantic where temperatures In
the 90s were general yesterday.
And "more, but hotter" was all
the Chicago weather bureau could
offer. Forecasters said the spell
would stay on for two more days
and grow In severity.
A cooler mass, the bureau said,
was expected to move in from the
north Pacific coast or western Can
ada early next week, bringing scat
tered showers. Some showers and
thunderstorms were expected today
in North Dakota and parts of the
central plains.
In the south where the air was
heavy with moisture, heavy show
ers developed yesterday. Browns
ville, Tex., had a fall of 2.28 Inches
in 12 hours. Amounts were heavy
at other points along the Gulf
coast, in Florida and scattered in
land regions.
The mercury surged to 105 In
Phoenix, Ariz., the highest in the
nation yesterday. Yuma, Ariz., had
104 and other highs included 95
at St. Louis, 93 at Chicago, Cleve
land Memphis and Albuquerque,
N. M.; 92 at Boston, Philadelphia,
Washington and Kansas City, and
9: at New York, Oklahoma City
and Minneapolis and St, Paul.
More British Ships
Sunk by U-Boafs
Berlin, June 21 IP) Six British
merchantmen and a catapult plane
equipped auxiliary cruiser all to
gether 52,900 tons of shipping
were sunk by submarines recently
in the north Atlantic, the German
high command declared today. .
It reported that bombers, attack
ing last night off the Humber es
tuary, sank a 6,000 ton freighter
and damaged two other large mer
chant vessels.
Draft Objector
Quits Faculty
Ncwbcrg, Ore., June 21 (IP) Ed
win A, Sanders, serving a sentence
at the federal road camp at Fort
Lewis for refusing to register for
the draft, has mailed to Pacific Col
lege his resignation as professor of
English and German,
President Emmet Oulley of the
Quaker institution said today the
resignation doubtless would be ac
cepted by tho college board.
Hans Thomsen, German charge
d'affaires, along with a note which
said
"I am directed by the president of
the United states to transmit to you
herewith, for your Information of
your government, a copy of a mes
sage addressed today by the presi
dent to the congress of the United
States.
"Accept sir, the renewed assur
ances of ,r.y high consideration."
A strong note demanding that
Germany make full reparations for
the sinking was expected to follow.
Welles told reporters that this de
mand would be made as soon as the
proper compensation had been de
cided upon.
It was considered a foregone con
clusion that this nation's official
representations would Include a di
rect warning against any further
molestation of American shipping.
The president withheld any indi
cation of the means which would be
used to make his forceful declara
tion effective. In this, he adhered
to his established policy of keeping
the axis leaders guessing.
Russian Children
On Scientific Trips
New York, June 21 (IP) The Mos
cow radio announced today in a
broadcast heard here by CBS that
1,500,000 Soviet school children
would leave large Russian cities "to
participate in various scientific ex
peditions." CBS said there was nothing In
the broadcast to suggest that these
mass "expeditions" or "excursions'
were In the nature of evacuations
Neither, according to CBS, did the
Moscow radio mention foreign pol
icy or defense In Its "review of to
day's press."
Experts Will Discuss
Needs of A irport Here
Qualified authorities on question of governmental con
trol, requirements for army air bases and facilities needed to
secure air mail and passenger service, will be the principal
speakers at a public luncheon to be
held at the Chamber of Commerce
for the discussion of Balem's air
port problems and tho prospects of
obtaining an army air corps can
tonment here.
Assurances have been received
from the district offices of the Civil
Aeronautics Authority and the air
corps that representatives of those
branches of the federal service will
be on hand to speak and answer
questions concerning desirable de
velopments here, with particular
emphasis on the land needs for an
adequate field.
United Air Lines, which has an
application pending before the CAA
for establishment of passenger and
mall service here, will be represent-,
Nazi-Russian
Showdown Near
Ankara, Turkey, June 19 (Delay,
ed) (IP) A fighting showdown be
tween Germany and Soviet Russia
in "days, , not weeks" unless Russia
makes drastic economic concessions
was predicted today by a military
attache of one of the axis-signed
powers mobilizing alongside the
nazis.
Taciturn Soviet diplomatic sour
ces in Turkey declared meanwhile
that Germany's reported demands
for control of Russian grain and
oil production would be impossible
to grant. They added grimly that
the red army was not afraid of a
test of strength with the nazis.
All along the frontier men with
guns are on the march again, re
peated reports reaching here Indi
cated. Axis satellites Rumania, Hungary
and Slovakia have been reported
brought to a virtual war footing,
with demobilized reservists recalled
to the colors and towns given pre
cautionary blackout Instructions.
Against this gathering weight of
men and arms, It was said here, the
red army has been moving Into its
central defense zone from Kiev in
the Ukraine to Minsk, back of the
old Russian-Polish frontier.
Word reaching hero indicated the
red army also was strengthening Its
positions in the far north on the
basts of reports that the Germans
have as many as six divisions near
Pctsamo, Finland.
A Reuters, British news agency,
dispatch from Istanbul today said
passengers arriving In Turkey from
Rumania reported clashes already
occurring along the Rumanian
Russian border between Rumanian
soldiers and the red army. Reuters
said there was no confirmation ol
these reports from other sources.
Liner To Portland
Portland, June 21 (U.R) Reports
today said the liner President Jack
son of the American Presidents line
would arrive here next week for
conversion Into a troop transport.
The big liner was launched a lit
tle over a year ago at Newport
News, Va., and was placed in com
mission late lost fall.
ed at the meeting by E. s. Maroney,
manager of operations for the com
pany at Portland.
Particular consideration will be
given to the need for acquisition
of 150 acres of the William Brown
farm at the south end of the pres
ent field, and possibly somo acre
age northwest of the port for ex
tending runways to meet army re
quirements and provide spaco for
needed auxiliary facilities for a mo
dern airport. The present field em
braces a fraction more than 300
acres, acquired at a total cost of
$34,900.
Besides designated representatives
of service clubs and other civic or
(Concluded on pnse 7, column 6)
440 Feet of
Water Crumples
Vessel's Shell
Probably Impossible to
Salvage Diver Which
Will be Grave for 33
Portsmouth, N. H., June 21
(P) Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox signified the
"probability" today that the
33 officers and men who "died
in line of duty out there"
aboard the pressure-crushed
submarine 0-9 would make
their graves under the 440
feet of water where they now
lie.
Returning to the Ports
mouth navy yard after an in
lnspection aboard the submarine
rescue ship Falcon, 18 miles off
shore, Knox declared:
"I would say that at that depth It
is highly improbable that a salvage
attempt would be undertaken."
He spoke even as an Intrepid navy
diver, George Crocker, was still be
low In the deepest emergency dive
ever undertaken in the North Atlan
tic. Crocker faced the possibility of
three hours below, and five hours in
a decompression chamber, for the
sake of five minutes of work on the
deck of the sunken 0-9.
No One Left Alive
Knox said, in response to ques
tions, that the accident to the 23-
year-old 0-9, which lay idle for ten
years before it was recommissioned .
on June 1, would not affect the fu-
ture use by the navy of the old typs '
of undersea craft.
"There is every probability that
there is no one alive down there,"
he added. "These men -died and I
assume that they are dead In a
hazardous line of duty."
Knox said that If it was decided
that salvage was impossible "some
form of service" would be performed
over the watery grave.
Knox had voiced almost similar
thoughts before leaving for the
scene this morning.
"At that depth," he said, "It is
impossible for divers to conduct sal
vage operations so far as we now
know."
"A Terrible Thing"
"It is a terrible thing," Knox add
ed, "but everything that can be done
will be done. I will go to the scene
if there is anything I can do to
help."
In Washington, simultaneously,
navy men said they thought an at
tempt would be made to salvage the
23-year-old 0-9, recently recommls-
(Concludcd on page 7, column )
Prinz Eugen Hit
In Sea Battle
London, June 21 (IP) The 10,000
ton German cruiser Prinz Eugen
was hit and badly damaged by a
salvo from the 14 Inch guns or tho
British battleship Prince of Wales
before It escaped to Brest in the
great naval battle In which the
German battleship Bismarck was
sunk. It was learned today.
Tho salvo was said to have set
the new German cruiser, raiding
partner of the 35,000 ton Bismarck,
afire "like a ruddy fireworks show."
It was the battle baptism of the
Prlnco of Wales, 35,000 ton British
drcadnaught and sistershlp of the
new King George V.
A cruiser of Germany's Hipper
class, believed to be the Prinz Eu
gen, has been reported by the Brit
ish at Brest with the 26.000 ton
German battleships Gnclsenau and
Scharnhorst. All have been tar
gets of repeated British air assaults
on the nazl-occupled French port.
Senator Harrison
Growing Weaker
Washington, June 21 (IP) Aides
of Senator Pat Harrison (D., Miss.)
gravely III In Emergency hospital,
reported today that he was growing
weaker.
Latest word was that his temper
ature was abnormally high and that
ho was unable to take nourishment.
Dr. Sterling Ruffin, the senator's
physician, said shortly before noon:
"The senator appears to be losing
ground. Ho Is not as well today as
he was yesterday."
Harrison, president pro tempore
of the senate and chairman of the
financo committee, has been in a
critical condition since an operation
Monday for an intestinal obstruction.