The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 1, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8687. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1941. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS GERMANY, ITALY MAKE DEMAND ON U.S. Violence Flares in Two Labor Disputes YUGOSLAVIA --- DOUGHTY LITTLE FIGHTER RELEASE OF MINERS IN 9 SECTIONS ON STRIKE Old Agreen;e—lfi Expired at| Midnight-New Contract | Being Worked Ouf SHOTS EXCHANGED IN HARLAN €., KENTUCKY Police Battle with Pickefs in Milwaukee in Back o Work Move | (By Associated Press) Violence flared quickly today in Harlan County, Kentucky, as picket- ing of the bituminous coal mines | started while negotiations are being conducted in New York City. Rep- | resentatives of the mine owners and CIO United Mine Workers Union are | working on a new agreement for 330,000 miners in eight States and the Appalachian region. The old contract expired last midnight and the miners have quit work. One mine guard, but who is. de-. scribed as a picket by officers, was | shot and wounded at one Harlan | County mine early this morning. President Roosevelt 1ast night urg~ }h'" UNITED STATES ARMY ed speedy settlement of a new agree- ment. More Violence Flares i New violence also flared at the gates of the Allis Chalmers Manu- facturing Company in Milwaukee where police again were forced to use an armed fortress to break the (Mantinned an Page Seven) Chhe " | | | SN S L f ) WASHINGTON—Interesting com- { parisons might be drawn from the behavior of the highly cultured,| over-civilized Prince Paul, recently | forced out of the Regency of Yugo- slavia, and the behavior of the rough, uncultured peasants of Ser- bia. In fact, similar comparisons; might be made with France, pos- sibly even with other comfort- loving people . Inside story of Prince Paul was that during the last war he went to England, while Prince Alexander, (later assassinated as King at Mar- seilles) struggled with his men| over the Albanian Alps on the terrible retreat of 1915. During that war Paul was asked many times to come back and don a uniform, but he remained in Ox- ford. He loved music, -arf, poetry, peace. He hated discomfort. And when Hitler demanded that Yugo- slavia join the Axis, Paul preferred to take a chance on a peaceful fu- ture even if under Hitler, There was nothing corrupt about‘ Prince Paul (though this could not be said of certain Cabinet Minis- ters). He merely repelled against the thought of picking up his gov- ernment and living a hand-to-| mouth existence while a temporary capital was set up in the moun- tains of central Serbia or on the plains of Macedonia. Accarding to one diplomatic dispatch, the lack of plumbing in Monastir—where the new capital may be established — was especially repugnant to him. On’ the other hand, Serb peasants knew both hardships, and what it was to fight in the last war. Of all the peoples who suffered from 1914 to 1918, none bled and died for their country more than the Serbs. Exactly one-third of the pop- ulation was lost in those. four bloody years. And the most significant thing, about their decision last week was| swaniliiucd o Page Four) e (To mMar_keI in Porlsmoulh» | Portsmouth, England, housewives, carrying shopping bags on their e way to market, pass fresh wreckage in the city which was hammered LIFE UNDERGOES BIG Capital Queen Nancy Strong When the Cherry Blossom festival 1s held in Washington, April 5-8, this year, Nancy Strong, daughter of Lieut. Col. A. G. Strong, will reign as queen. AL U T R B Y SIMMONS HERE Lester Simmons, Pioneer Sand and Gravel representative, arrived in Juneau from the south on the steamer North Coast. He is stop-| ping at the Baranof Hotel. e There are about 235,000 horses! in Colorado valued at $10850,000.) \ CHANGES;MANY TRENDS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 1. — So changing that a lot of the old- timers have very little jump on some of the trainees. “Just what are some of the changes?” I asked a colonel through whose hands almost all new regu- lations pass. “Man, man,” he exclaimed, “I tell you. There are literally hun- dreds of them. Think what hap- pens when the cavalry = becomes mechanized, when tank corps and parachute corps and ski corps are set up. The widened use of the semi-automatic rifle alone calls ! for changes in drill regulations, ichanges in firing range regula- { tions.” i {* The Colonel's right. The further| |1 dug into the changes in our| Army, the more complex l.he; story became until it was a mass| of detail that would have even a straight-thinking old top sarge i dizzy. But without going into all that, these changes seem to fall I‘mw various trends and the trends can be demonstrated. ¢ INFORMALITY PREVAILS | For instance, the Army, without, relaxing its emphasis on duty and| the prompt execution of orders, is probably more “informal” than it ever has been. There’s the matter of the hand salute. A very recent regulation reads: “When off duly :and when you are not in a (mili- | tary) camp post or station, the sa- lute is optiona)l unless you are ad- dressed by an officer.” No more of that jerking to sa-‘ lute every time you pass an officer on the street, unless you just feel that way about it. There's another order which il-| lustrates this point: “During the present emergency (gun) ' salutes! and honors usually rendered Army| officials will not be given. unless requested by those, officials in ad- vance of their arrival at any camp, post or station.” | In -other words, if the general |wants to hear the guns boom in salute on his arrival, he has to ask for it. THE NEW FASHIONS ' PULILED ON 4 Propaganda Guns Today e | 1o Join with Turkey in . |country is in a state of turbulence.” # (those in Poland shortly before Hit- | rapidly is the United States Army | wouldn’t know where to start to| GERMANY IS - SLAVACTION Turned Full Blast on Balkan Nation NO ULTIMATUM BEING | SENT LITILE KINGDOM fRussia Mak_e—s_Suggesfion‘ ‘ ‘ [ | i | ! | \ | Definite Neutrality (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) German prepaganda guns are to- day turned against Yugoslavia with |declarations that the Balkan King- dem is ridden by an “uncontrollable |gang of inciters doing their work in which German Nationalists are in- sulted and molested and the whole It is claimed the outbursts rival |ler's military juggernaut invaded the country. Criticism only came from author- |ized quarters in Berlin and for the | first time, Nazi quarters admitted they were unable to make further comment on the political events in Yugoslavia as such an uprising |against Germany was heretofore | never made. When the Berlin sources were {asked whether this view meant the situation between Germany and Yugoslavia was now hopeless, the Nazi spokesmen said not necessarily, then followed with a long list of al- leged charges against Yugoslavia. Early today it was reported in Belgrade that the new Yugoslavian Government was seriously conside.- ing joining the Turkey-Russia de- claration of neutrality. These sourc- es said such a move had been pro- posed by Russia but ignored by Re- |gent Prince Paul who was ousted |last week. No ultimatum has been sent to (Yugoslavia by Germany. Nationals |of Germany and Italy continue to !evacuate and the new Serb govern- | ment continues defense plans. | ———————— 1 Siberian " Fish Pad Is_BrokenJ TOKYO, April 1.—Five northern fishing sites formerly used by the Japanese Nichiro Marine Industry Company are reported to have gone to Soviet fishermen at an auction at Vladivostok. Tokyo newspapers term the re- sults of the bidding as “most un- bearable” and said it is expected the Japanese will conduct negotia- tions with the Soviet Government| in some appropriate manner. The sites mentioned were sup-| posed to be included in the treaty for fishing rights off the Siberian coast and some sources claim terms of the treaty are broken. . BRITISH TAKE CAPITAL CITY FROM ITALIANS Asmara, Capifal of Fascist Held Eritera, Capitu- EOMARO! ||||BUDAPEST, PAPA &;Lufl NORTHERN PLAINS offer few barriers to invasion, but moun- tainous areas to the south af ford good detensive positions ¢z SN AN GRS .;\‘ VA ZNGREB ™ s suso™ N { Alll I} THE IRON GATE, where a i f well placed sunken vessel could J|f block tratfic on the Danube. CATE TURNU X LIV E ’4 LAY LANDING OF BRITISH i é; ot A troops in Greece was signal = i i that Britain is ready for a i . - e .| showdown in the Balkans. i " COR Z 0 100 150 200 . illfs i Yugoslavia, a baby of the last war, has come into the current war news by fighting aganist an invitation to join the Axis. Map shows Yugoslavia's position in relation to further possible developments in the Bal- kans. Broken arrows mark a route German troops could take through Yugoslavia to get at the British and Greeks. Yugoslavia has over 1,000,000 men under arms, it is said, vH'OES K“.l { She Wants Privacy AMENDMENT ] 2_ LAWS Insurance :Not Exempfed from Bid-Mine Lease Tax Unchanged «° Veto of bills which would have amended the Territorial bid law and the mineral tax provisions was announced today by Gov. Ernest Gruening, In a veto statement, the Gover- nor said he had dis_appmved the Sally Keith mineral tax bill, written by Rep.| Jesse B. Lander of Fairbanks, be-!| “ghmtgou; S!HKQK?“;" 22;:;:{;:13 cause of insertion of an alleged New York night club en iner, “tricky joker” by Senator O. ED,! (med for $12,600 by her former Cochran of Nome. As originally, manager, Jack Parr, replied that | he tried to assume “absolute con- drafted the bill would have shifted trol” over her private life. He from the lessor to the lessee Of| wants 87,200 for a broken contract, productive mines the responsibility 5,400 for a loan he claims he made. of making tax returns and paying She wants a bill of particularg arrangement would apply only to! leases “hereafter made.” emergency clause was attached, for all leases that may be made in the taxes due the Territory. { Called Discriminatory 90 days after the measure’s becom- In the Senate the bill wasamend-, ed on motion of Cochran by the insertion of two words, which pro- vided that the lessee-lessor tax “The result,” the Governor's| s ppralse statement said, “is to nullify the purpose of the bill for all leases now in existence, and, since no v U. 5.-Mexico Sign Trealy On Airfields Document Provides for Re- | ciprocal Use-Taken for Defense_Purposes WASHINGTON, April 1. — The United States and Mexico today signecd a convention providing for reciprocal use of airfields. ‘The convention permits American military planes to speed to the Panama Canal Zone are in the |shortest possible time and if oc- ! casion demands, to land on Mexican airfields for any purpose. The convention was signed by Sumner Wells, Undersecretary of State and Francisco Castillo Na- Jjera, Mexican Ambassador. . Present at the signing of the con- vention were American and Mex- ican military experts who formed the committee to draft the plans for mutual defense measures for de- |fense of the Western Hemsiphere, | The convention will now be sent il.o the Senate for ratification and also to the Mexican Congress for similar appropriate action. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 1. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine lswck today is 4%, American Can 87%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 1.|Steel 77, Commonwealth and South- | ing law. Instead of simplifying the present procedure of tax collecting it would complicate it by making it incumbent on the Treasurer lates Io English | CAIRO, April 1.—Official sourc- es of the British Headquarters, Af- —An appraisal fixing the value of ern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, General the estate of Mrs. Mary Hume, wid- Motors 42%, International Harvest- ow of the pioneer Alaska salmonfer 48%, Kennecott 33'., New York packer, at $289,000, was filed wdly[Central 13, Northern Pacific 6%, rican campaign, announced today that the capital of Italian held Eri- trea capitulated today. The Army's going in for com- Pm. Six) 1Contied ol No further informatioh was given in the Superior Court with the will. Mrs. Hume died last December at the age of 83. The will provides gifts of $53,000 to relatives, $80,000 henceforth to verify the date upon which the lease was entered into. It would, of course, exempt the ‘u to just when Asmara, capital city, ell. g overwhelming majority of lessors, i (Continued to Page Two) to charities and income residue to go to Mus, Priscilla Shan, a niece. | United States $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 123.26; rails, 28.78; utilities, 19.55, Steel 57, Pound AXIS CRAFT ~ ISREQUEST Identical Notes Are Sent fo | State Deparfment, | Also Embassies RIGHT T0 SEIZE SHIPS IS HEREBY CHALLENGED {No Mentionmde Regard- | ing Sabofage, Which IsCharged by Govt. WASHINGTON, April 1—Ger- many and Italy have demanded the United States Government release the three score or more of German, Italian and Danish ships seized over the weekend by the Coast Guard and other military units, and taken under “protective custody,” also that the government release the crews. It is learned reliably that the de- mands are made in notes to the State Department and the Embassies of the nations involved. Neither the State Department nor the Embassies will make any public comment. Italy are reported to challenge the right of the United States in taking possession of the ships and also taking into custody the crews of the seized ships. It is also reliably reported that the notes make no mention of sabo- tage, the grounds the Government gave in taking possession of the ships. MEXICO TO TAKE OVER AXIS SHIPS Twelve German, Malian Vessels at Tampico and Vera Cruz to Be Seized MEXICO CITY, April 1.—Reliable sources this afternoon sald the Mexican Navy has ordered the Vera Cruz and Tampico to place twelve German and Italian ships in the harbors under “protective cus- tody.” The Mexican gunboat Quertaro, which has been patrolling in the Gulf of Mexico, is reported steam- ing toward Tampico with 100 Mar- ines aboard. Nine Italian ships and one Ger- man ship are in the harbor at ‘Tampico. The Quertaro will remain there with steam up as a precautionary measure against any attempted dash to the open sea. Two Axis ships are in the harbor at Vera Cruz. HANGAR OF NAZI LINES TAKENOVER {Peruvian Troops Occupy Airport Where Junkers Prepare fo Fly LIMA, Peru, April 1.—Peruvian | troops today occupied the workshop and hangar of the Lufthansa-Ger- man Airlines at the Atambo Air- unknown destination. Marines and Customs Guards at * port where two Junkers airliners began preparing for a flight to an