The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1941, Page 1

1 THE DAILY ALASKA M]| VOL. LVIL, NO. 8689. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1941. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” s b >, 1 MEMBER ASSOCIATED P! - IRV U.S. DEMANDS RECALL, ITALIAN ADMIRAL | Hitler Makes Move in Crisis in Balkans | iy INVASION OF YUGOSLAVIA 15 NEARING German Legation Staff in Belgrade Instructed fo Return to Berlin BLITZKRIEG FORCES MASSING ONBORDER Other Nazi Fast Divisions Preparing fo Move on Quick Orders (By Associated Press War alarms reached a vibrant pitch today in the Balkans as Hitler called home the German Legation staff from Belgrade. Diplomatic circles declared Hitler has apparently decided to make war on Yugoslavia and start his in- vasion. This is believed inevitable. Hitler, in a coded telegram from Berlin, called for the withdrawal of the entire Nazi Legation staff from Belgrade with the exception of the Charge d’Affairs and military at- taches. German quarters declared frankly this “withdrawal carries grave im- plications that inevitably war be- tween Germany and. Yugoslavia is breaking out soon.” German motorized blitzkrieg forces are reported massing in large num- bers on the Rumanian frontier op- posite the Yugoslavian town of Bela peb S B S e G S S R {Continued ou Page Six) CThe WASHINGTON.—To insiders, the story behind the clattering head- lines of labor strife is two sharp- 1y divergent sets of basic conditions. 1. Determination of CIO lead- ers, secretly directed by Johd L. Lewis, to use the vast defense pro- gram to entrench the CIO in mass production industries, and to break the unyielding anti-union opposition of such die-hards as Henry Ford and “Little Steel's” Bethlehem and Republic. 2. The jurisdictional jealousies of warring AFL craft unions. In no major dispute recently de- laying national defense has the real issue been hours or wages. It has been a tangle over jurisdiction or union recognition. Thus defense and Labor depart- ment officials have been up against brain-busting complexities of bitter factional hatreds, weak AFL control at the top, leftist obstructive machi- nations and a politics-motivated leadership in the CIO. And on the other side, they have faced hard- boiled employers, determined to make no concessions, regardless of the cost. Not helping the situation, also has been a certain amount of covert anti labor sniping by certain $l-a-year die-hards in the Defense organiza- tion. ’ Knudsen, Hillman, Stimson, Knox, Patterson, Nelson, Stettinius, For- restal, have had no trouble work- ing together. They have had dif- fering views, but they have cooper- ated harmoniously. But some of the subordinate $1-a-year masterminds have engaged in occasional under- cover pot-shooting which hasn't helped the men at the top. BIG JOHN LEWIS Scholarly Phil Murray has the title of president of the CIO, but real CIO ruler is the same John L. Lewis who bossed it until last Nov- ember. Murray never makes a move with- (Continued on Page Four) No. 1 Blonde’ Penny Singleton | Screen and radio star Penny Sin- gleton was named “America’s No. 1 Blonde” by delegates. to the Inter- |national Beauty Show in New York. !Penny as “Blondie” was credited with having kept American men blonde-conscious during the past year, which saw brunettes take the spotlight. RUSS SHIP IS AGROUND INCOLUMBIA Large Craft Piles Up on ledge of Deadly Peacock Spit ASTORIA, Ore., April 3. — The large Russian motorship Voroskii is hard aground on a ledge of the deadly Peacock Spit, just inside the Columbia River Bar. The Voroskii grounded in a high wind during the night and is said to be in no immediate danger but Point Adams Coast Guardsmen hold out little hope of pulling the motorship free. No one was injured when the motorship grounded. The Voroskii, loaded with oil, rags, machinery and lard, was out- bound from Portland for Vladivos- tok. Bar Pilot George Conway of As- toria was taking the motorship to sea. He was still aboard this fore- noon and could not be reached for an explanation as to the cause wf the accident, Thirty-seven members of the crew were taken off shortly after day- break in small boats and taken to Hammond, Ore., where they are being held by the immigration of- ficials. Among 19 crewman remaining aboard the motorship is the master, Capt. Tookareff. EVACUATED CAIRO, April 3. — The British forces have evacuated Bengasi, Li- bya, it is announced officially. The action is described by the British spokesman as a “minor operation.” ——e——— ALABAM LEAVES C. H. (Alabam) Laboyteaux, Sen- ator from Livengood in ‘the Fourth Division, returned to his home on a PAA Electra today. DISORDERS | (By Associated Press) ‘|the Miami to New York flight. - KEEPING UP, - FORDPLANT Outbreaks Take Place Again Today-Four Work- | ers Severely Beaten MEDIATION SESSIONS | ARE BEING DELAYED President Roosevelt Urged | fo Take Action-White | ' House Statement | New outbreaks of fighting oc- | curred today near the strike-closed | Ford Rouge River plant as Gov. M. D. Van Wagoner said resumption of mediation conferences between the CIO and company officials have been delayed. In Washington, House Democratic Leader John W. McCormick of Mas- sachusetts agreed with Representa- tive Clifton A. Woodrum of Vir- ginia, that it is “about time” that President Roosevelt speak out on the strike situation. | The House Military Affairs Com- ! mittee today decided to start an |inquiry into the Defense Program and also strikes next Monday. At the White House, Stephen Early, Presidential Secretary, said President Roosevelt is “waiting and | [watching” the situation. | | Pour negroes were severely beaten by union pickets near the Ford plants and three pickets were struck | by an automobile as it ploughed its way through a fighting group. | The mediation conference was | | postponed until State Police and | union leaders can reach agreements | |as to details for the passing of non- | productive workers through the ! picket lines. | state Police said the union leaders ‘agreed to permit construction work- | 'ers employed in the aircraft engine {factory within the Rouge River plant to reach their jobs. The plant is scheduled to start initial produc- tion of engines on defense orders | sometime in June. | ——.—— | BIG PLANE 1S MISSING; 16 ABOARD Eastern Airlines Transport Unreported Since Morn- ing in Florida DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., April3. —An ' Eastern Airlines transport plane, carrying 16 persons, is miss- ing and is hours overdue on a storm-beset run from West Palm Beach to Daytona Beach. Heavy rains and high winds with clouds lay across the belt of the state along the route. The plane was last heard from when it left West Palm Beach at 8:16 o'clock this morning on a one- hour run to here, the next stop in Tentatively listed among the 13 passengers is the famed surgeon, George Crile, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. James M. Cox Jr., daugh- ter-in-law of the former Governor of Ohio. . Arthur Dix, Daytona Beach Air- port Manager, seid apprehension was felt first when the plane failed to make the usual radio report from Mebourne, half an hour out on the flight. The plane has a crew of three. ———— WASILLA MAN THROUGH Wasilla merchant E. A. ?roden-j berg is a southbound passenger on Balkan(Clue & " George M. Harrison Eugene Meyer George Meany In an effort to settle labor disputes before they can disrupt the national mediation board, with Clarence A. Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin and director of the selective service system, as chairman. Besides Dykstra, the members named are William Hammatt Davis, P. Graham, president of the University of North Carolina; George Meany, general secretary of the A. F. of L.; George M. Harrison, grand president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; Philip Murray, dent of the C. I. O.'s United Mine Workers of America; Walter C. Teagle, Roger D. Lapham, president of the American Hawaiian Steamship company; Eugene Meyer, publisher " Cyrus Ching, vice president of the United States Rubber corporation. . BILLFORB Of Conflict Is Reported ltalian Forces fo Replace German Occupation Army in France (By Associated Press) Possible clues to Germany's in-| tentions of invading Yugoslavia | came this afternoon from Vichy, France. Rumors are generally circulated persistently that Italian troops are! expected to be sent into German occupied France to relieve many| Nazi units of the Germany Army of | Occupation. This freeing of the Occupation forces, the rumors assert, will per- mit the German forces for serv- ice “elsewhere.” YUGOSLAVIA | | i the lease-lend bill into effect. signature, NOWUNITED, "SOUPEE.EE, SOUPEE” IS BUGLE CALL THAT ‘GETSSOLDIERS HAPPY FACING WAR Croafion Peasant Party Leader Joins New Gov- ernment, Vice Premier (By Associated Press) It is announced early today from Belgrade that Viadimir Macek, Croatian Peasant Party Leader, has By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 3. — 1If there’s anything in the world that sounds better to a hungry soldier than “Soupee-ee, Soupee, Soupee,” it’s the bugle call that means “Mail { From Home!” "Roosevelt Establishes This 11-Man Defense’ Mediation' Board); Speaker Sam Rayburn (D.-Tex,) (left) and Vice-President Henry A. Wallace (right), signed the seven billion dollar appropriation bill in Washington, providing the President with the requested sum to put The bill was then flown to President Roosevelt vacationing aboard the Presidential yacht Potomae for his entered the pro-British King Peter's new Government of Yugoslavia, as Vice-Premier. The announcement makes it cer-) tain that Yugoslavia is now a unit- ed nation under threat of war. Previously, Germany asserted Yu- Twice a day, in camps from San Diego to Newfoundland, it rings out, and the boys cluster around their company mail orderlies—try- ing to appear nonchalant and “who-gives-a-whoop” but all strain- ing their ear drums to catch the goslavia was torn by internal dis-|ce)l of their names that means a sension among the Croats, SIovenes jettor from home, ‘from the best and Serbs. girl, the wife, or the pal that's left behind. FUR BUYER SOUTH Back of all this is the modern |story of “the mail must go Lawrence Ketchum, Seattle fur|through.” It may seem a little buyer, is a passenger on the south-: more prosaic than in those days bound steamer Yukon. Ketchum is When the Pony Express rode its enroute to Seattle after a business Way through a band of yowling In- the Yukon today, bound for a trip Outside, trip to the Westward and will stop dians or the early mail-plane pilots. in Petersburg on his way South, iwho took off in a blinding sleet Walter C. Teagle ~ Roger D. Lapham defense program, President Roosevelt has named an 11-man’ Philip Murray chairman of the New York state mediation board; Fr: head of the C. I. O.; Thomas Kennedy, vice presis former president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; | of the Washington Post, and ISMAYOR AT - ANCHORAGE Over One Thousand Votes | Cast Tuesday - Cam- paigning Mild | | | | | MYSTERY | | | | A stream of voters, casting more than 1,000 ballots, marched to the polls during a warm spring day !on Tuesday to elect Willlam Stolt, | business man, Mayor of ‘Anchorage over Clyde R. Ellis, corporation law- yer and former United States At- ! torney. Councilmen elected out of a field of six, including a woman candi- | date, were M. W. Anderson, incum- bent; Thomas S. Bevers, former | Chief of the Fire Department; and |Ed MCcElliott, grocer. | Selma Smith was elected to the School Board. The referendum to build aschool gymnasium carried nearly 5 to 1. Mild campalgning marked the election with both candidates for Mayor standing for extending the power lines to the rural sections in contrast to the policy of the last council to confine them to the city limits. LOCKEN PETERSBURG MAYOR PETERSBURG, Alaska, April 3. —Ed Locken was elected Mayor of Petersburg Tuesday, defeating the present Mayor, Peter Jorgensen, 4 to 1. storm—but if it does, it'’s only be-| Councilmen elected were Knut cause the struggle of the individusl Thompson, Andrew Johnson and must always seem more dramatic' Charles Johnson. than the battle of an organization.| Mrs. Elsie Rhodes was elected to the School Board. FEW CITIES EQUAL IT About 400 residents cast their | ballots. To illustrate the point, let's just take the problem—the modern, up-| to-tomorrow problem of the APO| woME Alaska, April 3.—Edward (Army Postoffice). Already there, ,,qorcon was elected M t the are postoffices in 56 Army camps,| A o s Ak 9, "| election held Tuesday. serving 1,003500 men (by mid-| | Others elected were: Eric Nelson, summer, the number will be at'y B oconnor, A. J. O'Leary, B. least 1486,000). Only five cities in| the United States serve as many‘g"em;:;c‘:l‘}d S‘ ".’,h fi:&mfic‘x persons with mail—but wait. Clerk; L. M. Sullivan, City Attor- Postoffice officials, after years po..'y g McCloy, City Treasurer, of surveying, figure that only two!,.q" genn Rude, géhwlymrecwr ; persons out of five in the United i L i ; States use the mails. That's be- cause of infants, illiterates, in-| ~ BRADFORDS LEAVING valids, etc. But there are none of 2 these in Army camps. The train-| 2 M. Bradford, accompanied by ces, regular Army and National his two sons, Curtis and Elliott, are ELECTION AT NOME —_——— ILLIONS SIGNED |WM. STOLT ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 3.—| FASCIST NAVY OFFICIAL NOT WANTED HERE Governmefl akes Re- quest that Admiral Lais Be Summoned fo Rome ACTION IS TAKEN IN SABOTAGE CONNECTION Secrefary of State Hull Fol- lows Out Orders of Roosevelt WASHINGTON, April 3,—The United States today demanded the immediate recall of Italian Naval Attache in Washington, Admiral Alberto Lais, on the grounds he is connected with the sabotaging of Italian mer- chant ships in this country. Secretary of State Cordell Hull has sent a note to this effect to Italian Ambassador Prince Col- onna on orders of President Roosevelt. The note delivered to the Ital- ian Ambassador declares that Admiral Alberto Lais is “per- sona non grata with this gov- ernment as a Naval Attache of the Royal Italian Embassy in Wi » The note further stated the action Is taken because of var- ious facts and circumstances that have come fo the attention of this government connecting Admiral Lais “with commission by certain persons of acts in vio- lation of the laws of the United States.” Secretary of State Hull said he could not take up at this time the question of similar ac- tion which might be taken against any other Italian or German officials in this country. - DEATHIN HUNGARY 'Premier Pal Teleki Eithet | Suicide or Stricken with Sudden Heart Attack (By Associated Press) According to unofficial advicey early this afternoon, Yugoslavia'i little neighbor, Hungary, is facing |a crisis, The unofficial advices state tha Hungarian Government has re- signed after the mystery-tinged death of Premier Pal Teleki, 62, known for his personal pro-Brit~ ish sympathies. ¥ | Friends of the Count at first as- serted Teleki had committed sul- cide but they Hungarian Foreign Office declared however, that he died as the result of an attack of the Heart, ¥ Although Hungary is a member of the Axis Alliance and dominated by Germany, Count Teleki won the sobriquet of the “Great tight-rope Walker” and was viewed by Hum- garians as in the role of a man striving to keep the balance with Germany just short of yielding completely. BT T N HOLDEN MAKES COAST FLIGHT On a flight to the Coast this morning pilot Alex Holden carried five passengers in the Lockheed Vega and is expected to return this afternoon with three. Lisle Hebert and Gil Rich were passengers to Sitka, A. E. Goetz for Pelican City, Guard men are 100 percent mail Passengers out of Juneau today PRESS RGN 0N Bl Gl s Sl sy ___|aboard the Yukon, after being in wwenunuea on Page Beven) Juneau for several days, Ronald Thompson for Hirst and Jack Littlepage for Chichagof. <