The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 4, 1941, Page 1

TH “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8662. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1941. MbMBER ASSOCIATE[LPBLSS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIA MASSES TROOPS ALONG FRONTIER Balkan Crisis Awaits Nex U. 5. PLANE STIMULATES ATTA(K ON BALLOON DIPLOMATIC ACTION NEXT BIG THREAT Severahce flelations with Bulgaria Expected Within 24 or 36 Hours WAR DECLARATION MAY THEN BE MADE German Troops Keep Mov- | ing from North, with Equipment, to South (By Associated Press) The crisis in the Balkans moved nearer to a breaking point today as British sources declared relations might be broken off within the next 24 hours with Bulgaria and pre- sumably this will be followed by a | declaration of war, | A high neutral source in Sofig quotes British Minister Rendel as| saying he has now decided to sever | British relations with Bulgaria with- | in the next 24 or 36 hours. It is | said Rendel has full freedom in any | action concerning the rupture which | ___ may ignite the long expected bonfire | in the Balkans. Uncontirmed sources said British | Royal Air Force bombers have al- ready been sighted flying high over Bulgaria. i Reports from Sofia said the mass | movement of German troops from | the north continues, lines of Nazif (Conunued on Page Six) | WASHINGTON—Basic fact to be remembered about the increasingly dangerous war situation is that Hit- ler has to win this spring or not at all. That is why he is placing all his chips on a four-front offensive, in which Britain will be the object | of attacks from the sea, the Pacific, the Balkans and Spain. What will be the outcome no ex- pert can even guess, but here is the * way the swiftly-changing war arena shapes up at present: THE FAR EAST Japan probably will not risk war with the United States. She is too weak from long years of fighting in China, and her navy is not what it's cracked up to be. So when the zero hour comes Japan will probably con- | fine herself to raiding shipping around Singapore, which is of vital importance to the British supply stream, also to American tin and rubber supplies. Japanese feints toward Australia may keep a certain number of Brit- ish warships out of the Mediterran- | ean, disastrous at a time when Brit- ain will need every possible ship. What worries Japan most is the large number of U. S. submarines based at Manila—about 60—and the secret maneuvering of a large part of the U. 8. battle fleet “somewhere in the Pacific.” Whereabouts of these ships purposely is kept vague, but they probably could get to Sing- apore in less than a week—and the Japanese know it. A strong U. S. hand in the Pa- cific can keep Japan in check—but also it carries grave risks of war. ITALY There is increasing evidence of a cracking Axis. The conference be- tween Franco and Mussolini is one symptom. Apparently Hitler knew nothing about this conference in advance;nor did Mussolini know any- thing about the conference between 'MILITARY LOSSES OF icott 32%, New York Centrat 12%,) PROTEST SEATTLE BLACKOUT 'FIRE RAID ONCARDIFF LAST NIGHT 'Waves of Nazi Planes| Swarm Over Port in Wales for 5 Hours 'CITY REPORTED T0 BE PARTLY IN RUINS Incendiary Bombs as Well as High Explosives Are | Showered on Locality (By ASSOCIATED PREESS Germany's luftwaffe alnckod the | port of Cardiff last night in a five | | hour long hail of incendiary bombs |described by the British officials as | one of the greatest fire raids of the | . . . % | war. Seattle’s proposed city-wide blackcut test to be held March 7 as a ; At the same time, British bo‘“b{xr\‘ graphic national defense gesture met with opposition recently as | pounded Cologne in a terrific at- groups of women pickets marched back and forth in front of the City- | tack. | County Building carrying signs displaying their' protests. Above, | Dispatches from Cardiff, in Wales | pickets out to impress their opposition on Councilmen who passed |0 the Bristol Channel, said smok- | the unusual orditance. Sign at 1fL reads: “No dress rehearsal for i‘.“‘"m't“’("x:‘ll:’;gif'[‘:]{f':‘I'l“ il of de- | fascism. Blackouls are staged for destiuction and war." R LR S A U. S. Army plane begins a dive Cabinet Unit, Defense Plans, Is Indlcaled §0pposition fo Lease-Lend edsure Draws White House Statement The toll of dead or wounded was | not immediately estimated. During the night wave after wave of Nazi warplanes swept Cardiff \nlh {fire bombs and high explosives | {and so great was the destruction and re p(uh-d death and wounded toll that the American Red Cross l\l\h!‘(l (ambulances, doctors, nur a TWO DECIDED ASPECTS ™ | ;Nazl Mission - Gives Pacific |.omomon e |today he mmuht a “g:(y'd many ef- forts to confuse, mystify and inject o'e Tur e | peison in Lhe defense setup is now ‘gmng on.” | ‘These efforts, he mentioned, prob- lably related to opposition to the |lease-lend bill. Anyway, the above rcply was giv- jen at the White House when Ear jwas quesiioned by reporters nmt‘ |President Roosevelt would create a | new Cabinet unit to supplant the - - SEC Head a Judge This s’ the first o two’ wr- ticles cn what Washington ex- perts think Haly has lost in a non-military way through the collapse of its war machine in Libya. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 4. Atl | Army and Navy, the generals and admirals read the nsws from Libya and shake their heads over. an' Italian imilitary catastrophe—but at the Department of Commerce| . | the statistical "experts look at the, 0"0mafl Elefe record and say, in: effeet; “What et nt chiefs in the Defense Com- 8 break for Italy.” | _ (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) on Office and Production Man- It was this amazing difference; It is officially reported that a! agement. .of opinion that sent me to prod-/ German Mission has arrived in An-| ugtig perfectly natural,” Early said, | ding through the records and kara and delivered to Turkish Presi- «ijat when the British Aid bill pass- checking with the men who know.!dent Inonu what is believed to be a es, President Roosevelt will act with From a military point of view, special message from Hitler. an advisory group cof his cabinet results in the capture of the whole This message, not confirmed, is|;his is nothing new, in that the of Cirenaica (eastern Libya) by said to be assurances the Nazi troops president has been doing this righl,! the British are too obvious and are not planning to enter Turkey. a1ong and will continm' to do 50.” have been rehashed too much to! Turkey is however reported speed- | ik bear repeating here, ix‘ng reinforcements “o the frontier of | In addition to her loss of m)h-\Bul"ana and warships are also con- tary strategic position, a Bm,l;‘centratmg at various “frontier” portion of her African army and|Points. Declares If Bill as Now vast war supplies, Italy also lost HAS BLAZE, OONHOU N N H R Drawn, Is Passed, U. S. foBe lnvglllfd in War nean. She lost Bengazn, her mnm‘ base in eastern Libya, with lLs Largest Laundry in C:IvI ' Probably Damaged from | v.sumaron, maren «—sen | al.or Alexander Wiley, Republican of | Wisconsin, announcing his opposi- Officials Informed German Troops Not fo Enter Jerome Frank Jercme Frank, chairman of the Sceurities and Exchange Commis- sion, has been nominated by Pres- ident Roosevelt to be a judge of the U. S. circuit court of appeals, succeeding Robert P. Patterson, who resigned to become undersee- retary of war. beautiful harbor into which she had sunk millions of dollars in u-n- provements, She lost Derna, called| “the Pearl of Cirenaica” because, it was one of the few, and un-| doubtedly the most beautiful, gard-| en spots in all Libya. She lost; colony, when she lost the plnms above Bengazi. Except for a sim- ilar area around Triploi, capital of Tripolitania (western Libya),| the colony's 630,000 square muas are mostly barren plateau,’ rolling | $ s desert, an occasional oasis and| 5'000 '0 10’000 three or four camel trails. There !tion to the Administration’s British are trackless wastes of sand in| FATRBANKS. Alnsks, March 4—| | Aid legislation, asserted that “if we Libya that would make our own'Th“ Fairbanks Laundry, largest in put our fleet in the Atlantic as a southwestern deserts seem like the city, was partly damaged by | branch for Great Britain, Hitler blooming gardens of Eden. |fire yesterday noon. The origin is! may goad Japan” in to attacking the |not known. Damage is estimated | United States. probably from $5,000 to $10,000. , Senator wfley's expression cnme! half of the arable land in this vast NEW YORK, March 4, — Clos- Mild temperature, 20 above zero, on the fourteenth dav of the debate | ing quotation of American Can stock today is 84%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 78%, Common- wealth and Southern . %, Curtiss Wright 8's, General Motors 42%; International Harvester 48, Kenne- Northern Pacific 5 7/8. United States Steel 57, Pound $4.04. Y DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 12116, rails 27.37, utilities 19.16. - - AN ECONOMIC MILESTONE But that isn't the reason the ex-| perts of the Commerce Departmer.t|Delped the firemen to quickly stoP on the lease-lend bill. see the loss of Libya as a boon to, the flames. Declaring that Congress has “no Italy. This is the point: Great| N AR 5 s SRR right” to pass the buck of directing | Britain has, partly, at least, iv-| AD American - Automobile Asso-|the foreign policy of the United | 1e-| | | moved from the Italian neck one Cciation poll of 5000 momflfi'sfimtes to the President, Senator ! barrage balloon in practice sessions Deciding that “Jeanie With the | patch from Belgrade |are under way for an armistice be- | | | in simulated attack on a dirigible being used at Fort Lewis, Wash, as a s until real balloons, due soc™ That's arrive. SETTLEMENT _NOTREACHED ~ ORIENT CASE 'Japan Give?Ffirihef Time | for French Reply - Indo- ‘ China-Thailand Dispute | Somethin’ TOKYO, March 4-—~The Dome: news ' agency indcated today that Japan, for the second time, has set a time limit on the reply of France ito proposals for a settiement in the French Indo-China border dispute |wllh Thailand. Dcemei says Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka is believed to have told French Ambassador Henri lleL a “final answer is expected Wedmsday noon and if an answer is ved, the news agency sug- g('.'ll'd that a fifth conference be- | tween Japanese officials and French | delegates to the Japanese sponsored | peace conference be held immedi- | ately on Wednesday night to discuss | a modified plan to be advanced by Japan in settlement of the dispute.” |" At the conference today between Matsuoka and Ambassador Henri no dL.lu’lll(‘lll was l!'JLh(‘d GREE(E 0 ~ RECEIVE AID OF BRITISH Hiah Officiéi's"Workinq Out Plan to Resist Any In- ARMISTICE RUMOR NOT -vasion by Germa"y CONFIRMED W S Jeanne Park Light-Brown Hair” was over- worked on the radio air waves, a Wichita, Kan., newspaper held a contest to name a beautiful Jeanie with the “dark-brown"” hair. So, meet Jeanne (Jeanle) Park, the winner. Miss Park is a t.l.lented singer and hopes to land L3 job in Hollywood. (Eden and Gen. Dill, Chief of the, |Imperial forces, are in Athens and | lare reported- to be working out a| plan with the Greek Oavemmenl.} leaders to rush aid to Greece in the | cvent of a German invasion. | These official advices give an em- | phatic reversal to the reports from | Swiss sources that an armistice is |being discussed between Italy and| Greece | S S CARRYON | LONDON, March 4. — Nearly, There fs, however, no confirma-|500 Methodist churches, more than Swiss Ageri& Says Talk of Agreement Between lfaly | and Greece Spreading A Swiss telegraphic agency dis-| reports “in- conversations creasing preliminary tween Greece and Italy.” |of her weighty economic mill-|Showed principal “pet peeves” t0 | Wiley in his address to the Senate, [tion of the report even from any 200 of them in London, have been| t Move by British JON ACTION OF . SOVIETS IS BIG RIDDLE Reinforcing Units on Prul River as Rumania Mob- ilization Keeps Up | BULGARIA IS HANDED BRISK KREMLIN NOTE [Action of Allowing Nazi Hordes to Pass Through Country Is Dangerous (By AhSO( lA'l‘Ll) PRESS) Soviet Russia is still Number One riddle in the European war. 1t is reported that Russia is mass- ing troops on the Prut river fron- tier facing Rumania as Rumania’s mobilization continued under super- vision of German Staff officers. Russia’s diplomatic rebuke to Bul- garia in permitting Nazi legions to overrun her country, today injected uncertainty in the situation. Berlin officialdom shrugged off the Kremlin’s remonstrange, declaring it was none of Germany’s affair: In London, British authorities de- scribed the Russian note to Bulgaria as a mere formal “protest” and there is no indication, the British spokes- man said, that Russia stepped out o her role of defensive neutrality. Russias note to Bulgaria expressed the opinion that the action of per- nitting Nazi hordes to overrun the sountry “jeopardizes the framework of peace in the Balkans.” The note further says the “Soviet Government cannot share the opin- ion of the Bulgarian Government as o correctness of opening the gates o Hitler’s legions, consequently Rus- sia cannot support Bulgaria.” e ——— BIG BREAK TOMORROW, IS REPORT Britain o Severe Relations with Bulgaria-U. §. Takes Chame SOFIA, March 4——Brlu.sh Min- ister Rendel tonight informed Unit- ed States Minister Earle that Great Britain is breaking off diplomatio relations with Bulgaria tomorrow. U. S. Minister Earle immediately started preparing to take over cus- tody of British property through« out the country. Nazi troop movements through Bulgaria toward the Turkish and Greek frontiers continued to swell in volume hourly. British planes are photographing the country in preparation for bomb- ing action, ———— Roosevelf Enters 9th Year Term WASHINGTON, March 4.— Franklin D, Roosevelt, only President in America’s history to attain a third term, entered his ninth year as Chief Executive today. Although the occasion is unique, nothing was planned in the way of observance. The President merely plugged away at routine matters devoted stones. |be: (1) road “hogging”; (2) driv-|said he believed the bill as ,,ow‘ou\ersoumes and diplomats are wary‘dflmaged or destroved by air raids| prllurllytodrlenn aid to Brit- | nhroughout Britain but church ‘Wh por ers who cut in; (3) careless pedes- drawn and if it becomes a law will |about making comment 45 it may be | t 5 : st Sl 7. trians; (4) inadequate direction impair American defenses and this Just a move to throw “some fation | work has cumm?ed almost with- signs; (5) lack ‘of parking space. Jmumry may be involved in war. ;ull its guard.” fout interruption. The United States sold Soviet | Russia $56,638,000 worth of goods in 1939, Exports to the USSR, in 1940 totaled '$100,000,000. the Jugoslavs and Hitler, British strategy has been to con- T (Conttoued on Page Four) 'lhc President is suffering " (Continned on P-ze Seven) from a severe cold in the head. i