The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 7, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. LVIL, NO. 8692. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JU\IEAU ALASKA MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY NAZI BLITZ IN BALKANS STARTS ® L4 GERMANY ATTACKS GREECE, JUGOSLAVIA SMASHES ESBYNAZISFAIL T0 CAPTURE STRATEGIC DISPUTES OF LABOR SETTLED tinue in Steel Industry -No Walkout Seen TROUBLE AT ALLIS CHALMERS IS OVER Agreement Is Repo rted Nearing in Big Bifum- inous Coal Fields (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The United States Steel Corpora- ' tion and the CIO Steel Workers Or- ganizing Committee agreed to con- | B i | | Wage Negfitions Con- | LANDSLIDE SWEESP TWO TO DEATH tinue wage negotiations and thus avert the threat of an immediate : stoppage of the steel company’s The SWOC issued a statement say- - ing that the workers will remain at their posts under the present con- tract until April 15 and any changes in the wages or working conditions agreed upon in the meantime will be retroactive to April 1. The SWOC had previously called a strike for midnight Tuesday. H In Washington, Secretary of La-| bor Francis Perkins told the House Military Committee that she had been informed the difficulties sur- z N Rescue workers are gathered to dig for the bodies of two elderly men, Dave S. Murdock and William P. | Shores, in this landslide which swept their cabin, in which they were trapped by a falling redwood tree, and another cabin to the bottom of a canyon near Mill Valley, Cal. This Associated Press Telemat was air- | mailed to The Empire arriving Sunday. The landslide occurred Friday night and the picture was taken | early Saturday mnrninz Two services—AuocuM Pless and alr mail—are demontsaretd. TURKEY, RUSSIA SILENT 1Both Nation Appear foRe- | main Neutral in Pres- ent Balkan Conflict (By Allodated Press) Turkey, early today, remained neutral as German Panzer divisions stormed neighboring Greece. Official Turkish radio broadcasts declared at noon today that the German reasons for an attack on Greece “do not satisfy anyone.” It is admitted by the broadcaster that very little definite information has come out from Yugoslavia re- garding movements in that country as communications seem to be tied up. Russia Silent Russia, linked with Yugoslavia in POINTS AFTER 2 DAYS NAZI CHIEF BULLETIN—Ierne, land, April 7.—Advices reaching German switzer- heoe tenight said the forces have net captured any steat gie point second day of 750-m’le and Yugoslay The Nazi's heaviest blows are apparently being dealt by their (Ilvr bombers in raids on cities, vay centers, airports and bridges, The same reports asscrt the Allies have carried ¢n an ex- panded war on Italy on the Al- banian frent. SOME SPIRIT, YES! AADVANCE IS ORDERED BY Palm Sumfi Proclama- fion by Fuehrer Be- gins Terrific Action ASSAULTED NATIONS MAKE FINE DEFENSE Belgrade Is—Reponed Air Raided, Left in Flames- Grecians Bold Stand (By Associated Press) With a proclamation broadcast from Berlin early Sunday morning “Soldiers of the East Front your a newly-signed pact of friendship of non-aggression, like Turkey, remain- ed calm but the newspaper Izvesta commented that Yugoslavia’s efl'm—ts‘ to obtain peace “could not help' hour has come,” Hitler ordered the advance on' Greece and Yugoslavia. One Nazi correspondent said the | “storm’ broke, loose in blitzkrieg [fashion” and asserted that border Umon BRITISH ARE FALLING BACK, | SR Strong German and Ifalian Armies Force Withdraw- al from Some Points CAIRO, April 7—British head- |quarters here today said that their | forces were continuing to withdraw from East Bengasi in North Africa, e F60® . WASHINGTON—In the week be- fore his army attacked in the Bal- kans, Hitler's reaction to the Yugo- slav slap in the face has been coming | i rascisis back to Washington in piecemeal | p diplomatic dispatches. Put togeth- M er, here is the story: ! After Hitler signed the pact with,! the now discredited Yugoslav gov-! ernment of Prince Paul, he had | planned the biggest coup of the war It was scheduled for Saturday, ! March 29. On that day his troops were to! launch their attack from Bulgaria | toward Salonika. Simultaneously, | other Nazi troops were to go through | Yugoslavia. Mussolini was sched. o uled to fly to Albania to lead Il charge against the Greeks, while the Italian navy was to sweep the Medi- ' terranean. ;Mussolini’s Forces in Al- bania Claim Victory Over Greek Division ROME, April 7.—Stefani, Italian news agency, today said Mussolini's | Pascist armies in Albania have frus- Shortly after this, the air blitz trated an attempt of Greek troops to against England was to begin. However, when the chucked their Axis pact out the | make contact with Yugoslav forces Yugoslavs in two days of bitter fighting. Stefani alleges that the Italians window, Hitler was forced to re- lvm,ually wiped out a Greek division arrange his tactics for attacking of three regiments. Salonika. And the Italian fleet wa.s virtually destroyed. As a result Hitler was so beside himself with rage that he would not speak to Foreign Minister von Rib- bentrop for two days. NOTE: It was von Ribbentrop | who had given him assurances thnt the Yugoslavs would go thmuzh | with their Axis agreeement, and who now made Hitler a fool in the eyes ot the world. PESSIMISTIC SIDE That is the optimistic side of the south Euorpean picture. Now let’s look at the pessimistic side. Hitler is a man who nurses hatred, but who never lets his tantrums get the better of his military judgment. He fumed and raged at President Benes for nine months before he (Continued on Page Four) To Build 5 Tankers At Tacoma WASHINGTON, April 7. — The | Navy Department today announced that an award has been made to the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Cor- poration at Tacoma, a contract for the construction of five gasoline tankers. The cost of the tankers is estimated at $2,000,000 each. SHORTAGE OF CANNED SALMON IS PRICE TAKES ADVANCE BRITAIN ASKS FOR 50% TAX T0 FIGHT WAR Budget Mak—es_lntcme Tax Exemption Smaller than $480 LONDON, April 7.—Britain called upon her people, rich and poor, to- day to pay a 50 percent income tax for the financing of the war under a record budget which is estimated at about $16,828,000,000. This budget is called a “domestic axpenditure” because the figure does not take into account the material to come from the United States un- der the British Aid Bill. Tax exempt income under the act is lowered by $40 to $480 a year for wage earners. - et — 'LEACH TO FAIRBANKS +E. R. Leach, Mergenthaler Lino- type representative, who was in Ju- neau for several days from his headquarters at San Francisco, left captured Debra Markos, fall of the Ethiopian capital without a fight. been captured in Eritrea since March 25 by Imperial Forces which are drawing closer to the Red Sea port of Massaua, The British explained the Libyan situation in a communique, which .sald “In the face of continued pres- sure by strong German and Italian SEATTLE, April 7-—Foresecing a forces.ythe w%thdmwn] of our ad- FORESEEN; More than 10,000 Italians have | possible nationwide canned salmon, the Association of Pacific Fisheries discloses that the combined stock of all varieties now/ on hand is only 363206 cases and, no likelihood of increasing the sup-| ply appreciably until July. The amount of canned salmon on' hand has been lessened by some| major sales in a single month. Last year, at this time, the un-| lsold supply amounted to 1006.32& cases. The wholesale price has advanced‘ from 35 to 45 cents a case since tbe packing season ended. A HECIONVOTE GIVEN, HAINES HAINES, Alaska, April 7.—At the | municipal election here last Tues- day the candidates ‘and votes cast are as follows: For City Council—George Jolhe Sr. 47, Walcolm Miller 68, William Sparks 39, J. H. Chisel 30, J. W. Bwets 63, Clarence L. Lyons 42, Stephen Sheldon Jr. 52, O. B. Mackan 56, William Price 29. The| seven highest were elected. | For School! Board, , three-year aboard the Mount McKinley fer the shortage of yanced troops from selected areas | | of concentration is proceedmg MATSUOKA, MOLOTOFF MEETING Japanese Forelgn Minister| in Conference with Russian Premier MOSCOW, April 7.—Japan’s trav- | eling Forelgn Minister Matsuoka went to the Kremlin after his ar- nval early today and was received by Premier Molotoff. 1t is understood Matsuoka will re- main here for three days at least but aroure sympathy of the sovietr NORTH AFRICA but that the East African forces had | 120 miles | northwest of Addis Ababa, after the | { { | Edith Bell (above), 19, of San Diego has been chosen to typify the spirit of the aircraft industry. She is displaying an exhaust manifold made in San Diego. Miss Bell won 34 beauty and dramatic contests in Kansas, where she was educated. MASS PRODUCTION IS QUALITY; AMERICA IS DOING IT IN DEFENSE By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 7, — Not |since the days when manufactur- ers first performed the miracle of rolling automobiles off & continuous | | production line has there been so much talk of mass production as has been raised by national de- and plans to return to Tokyo on | MS€. Thursday by a special trans-Siber- | ian Express. Sr— PURKEYPILE FLIES It was big, unexcitable Knudsen, chief of production man- agement, very much in the pink in spite of the strenuous duties of 1. W. Purkeypile, of Poorman, was | these days, who told me the other term—B. A, Barnett 53; one-yesrl-n arrival on the Mount McK!mey‘day that in his opinion the lay- Westward and to Fairbanks in the' term, Blanche Horner 31, Fred Mc- Sunday afterncon and immediately | man misunderstood about “mass {1eft for the interior by PAA Electra. 1productlon e 4 Interior, : ‘ Rae also 31, “Bill”| land. He called “My favorite definition of it,” he said, “is that it is not a matter of quantity or mass at all, but of quality—of raising the production of each item to the greatest de- gree of perfection. “I remember years ago when Leland was president of Cadillac. He took three of his cars to Eng- in a group of British Engineers. He tore three cars down, put all the parts together and mixed them up. The engineers though he was crazy; told him he never would get thos (Continued on Page Five) those, “'guns“on’ the Yugoslavian bunkers” were quickly stlenced by the German artillery. The first reports reaching Berlin Sunday, however, said the Yugoslav front was virtually cut off from communication with the outside world and Nazi shock troops en- | countered heavy machine gun fire 'from camouflaged Yugoslav bunkers on the heights flanking the Mur River. Second Day Battle | Greek troops are reported to have withstood violent assaults today on the second day of Hitler’s invasion jof the Aegean kingdom while in. | Yugoslavia, target of the twin:as- | sault, in the Nazi trust, the Germans | claimed to have advanced from 18 to 125 miles. \ The German news agency, DNB, 'says the whole of Yugoslavia's trans- port and communication system is “flatly” disrupted by swift blows. The direction of the German ad- vance into Yugoslavia is not ‘given but Nazi troops have been massed on the Rumanian frontier, within 50" miles of striking distance of Bel- ‘grade, the capital city of Yugo- | slavia. { Greeks Holding Fast | Dispatches from Athens early this afternoon said Greek infantrymen |are holding fast and furious attacks in the Macedonian mountain passes ' |which are littered with dead and ! wreckage of ten Nazi tank corps. | Last night, the Greek High Com-~ mand said the German Palm Sun- day invasion had been stopped with the loss of only one single fort. Belgrade Bombed | The Germans claim Belgrade was subjected last night to four heavy | attacks by Nazi bombers and the | city was early this morning reporled | to be in flames. | “Continned on Page Five) Noble Deed ~ Brought Up By Grecians ‘Athens Newspapef ‘Shows Up Mussolini by Ask- ing Aid from Hitler ATHENS, April 7—~ The Greek newspaper Sestia today declared that “sixty million Italians were unable to defeat the Greeks and the Fascist Nation was forced to call on eighty million Germans to help them. 3 “That makes 140,000,000 Jis & noble deed.” nation of 8,000,000, This certainly R W