The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 8, 1941, Page 1

ALASKA EMPIR THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY VOL. LVIL, NO. 8693. ALL THE TIME” _APRIL 8, 194 3 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN13 was sent by radio- from Berlin. Gerinan Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (right, fereground) and his press chief, Paul Schmidt (center, holding paper), received newspaper correspondents Sunday morning in the Fore’zn Office in Ber- lin to disclese that German troops had cpened a campaign against Yugoslavia and Greece. This picture Associated Press spot news telemat airmailed to The Empire. INVASION IS FOUGHT ALLFRONTS Heroic Stand ls Taken by | Grecians Against Hard = | Nazi Advances ' FROM IMPORTANT AREA | Hitler's High Command| Admits “Enemy Tough” YUGOSLAVS WITHDRAW | | BRITAIN AIDING GREEK DEFENSE GRECIAN FORCES RESIST NAZI LEGIONS RIBBENTROP DISCLOSES GERMAN CAMPAIGN GERMANS ONMARCH ON YUGOSLAVIA,GREECE DEFENDERS » ARE HELPED MA.RIBOI 7 YUGOSLAVIA 34 o i KRAGUJEVAC SARAJEVO | Reported Arrived BANJA, \\ N\ | -Bayonefs in Use | —Belgrade Fire Bombed ‘ (By Associated Press) | Greece's High Command disclosed | this afternoon that Yugoslav troops | have withdrawn from the Balkans’ “hot corner” zone, exposing the | Greeks’ left flank along the Struma | | River front. | The right flank of Hitler’s armor- | |ed legions are declared to have | knifed 50 miles south to the Aegean | Sea between Greece and Turkey. | The sudden departiire of the Yu- | goslav troops in southern Yugoslavia | = YUGOSLAV TROO PS FACE HITLER'S LEGIONS near the Greek-Bulgarian border is | not explained but the Greeks are | fighting desperately and stubborn- [ly resisting with good results. | Greeks Fight Heroically The Greek communique says: “Yugoslav troops, fighting in south- ern Serbia, have withdrawn, urieov- | | ering our left flank. Our troops are | fighting heroically on the border line | despite this withdrawal and will {continue to fight, defending our | Fatherland, inch by inch.” German Plunge Permitted { Military observers said the general | Yugoslav withdrawl from the border | | sector will permit the Germans to ! plunge, down the broad Vardar River | iValley. the key route to Greece. | Tough Resistance | Hitler’s High Command reports a | | twin Nazi offensive is being kept up | | despite “tough enemy resistance.” | Belgrade, capital city of Yugo- | | slavia, is reported to have been fire | {bombed by Nazi planes last night | for the second consecutive night. | Mussolini’s High Command today | issued a communique stating Italian | | troops have gone into action against | the Yugoslav Army but neither the | | scale nor the result is given. Late this afternoon it is officially announced that the withdrawal of | | “weak screening forces” in western | | Thrace, along Greece's frontier, per- | mitting the Germans to slash through to the Aegean Sea, was car- } Iried out to “avold useless sacri- | fices.” ————— YO at New Front BULGARIAY | GREEKS ADMIT L0SS OF ONLY TWO FORTS SKOPLJE w‘- \\\\ D PRILEP ‘ ’9 (By Associated Press) Defense positions of the Greek forces are being bolstered by a steady stream of British Imperial Forces, including the veteran troops |of General Wavell's Army of the Nile. | The Greek High Command, late | this afternoon, admitted the loss of {two forts under a smashing impact of German Pancer forces. The defenders of the two, forts held out to the last man. Two other forts on the high Nov- rokopi _plateau were attacked by the German forces, the officlal com- munique stated. Affer the Germans had penetrated the forts, fierce sub- terranean gallery fighting took place but the “attackers were finally de- comated and the forts remain in our hands.” Many Nazi tanks were destroyed by Greek gunfire north of Novrokopi when the attack started on the pla- teau forts. Elsewhere Greek forces are count- | i er-attacking the Germans and the | engagement is hand to hand bayonet FROM RAF i ane In one attack of the Germans in the narrow defiles of the Struma {at Night - Daylight | Raids Also Made Valley, the invaders were beaten back by the Greeks and heaps of | | LONDON, April 8 —British bomb- | ers raided Kiel for five hours last Nazi tanks are reported blocking night, raining “hundreds of tons u(\’ the defiles. A very powerful bombs” on its sub- | marine yards and docks. | £ N GERMANY ‘\\\\" ;\E\b}\(\}\n\y\\\\\?\‘&%o [ \\\\\ \ | BY VETERANS ;Engagemefils Are Being \J\\‘&::'"“ VN‘T\{{\\‘Q ' Gen. Wavell'sArmy of Nile Fought Hand fo Hand R ) Y SALONIKA GREECE AR .Fivg/German columns have attacked Yugoslavia.in a battle plan designed to split the Yugoslav army and to drive & wedge through Greece. From 12 to 15 German divisions (1) were striking at Zagred from the Hungarian border. Two moterized divisions and one infantry division (2) were driving toward Belgrade from Szeged while three German divisions (3) were reported driving at Belgrade from the Rumania front- ier, 50 miles away. The main German thrust (4) was directed at Nis, from Bulgaria. German troops also from Bulgarin were attacking Allied forces in the Struma River Valley (5) in Greece in a drive on Sal- onika. Spot news telemat of Associated Press airma’led to The Emnire. SOME TARGET e % pe 2 Nazis Are Suffering The Air Ministry said attacks on : i |the ports of Bremerhaven and Em- | 'g osses den were made during the night and | daylight Drald.s whl‘z‘:h h;d h“ ob-§ ectives enm tl Low . et *suscessut. - ey | Turkish Broadcast Declares Germans Fought Down Countries, were successful. They | | also reported the loss of five British iplanes in the day and night offen- | sive, and acknowledged spotting tar- These Yugoslav troops marched through Belgrade on maneuvers recently. They stand at battle positions now awaiting the attack by German troops whé were told by Adolf Hitler, “Solliers of the East Front your hour has come.” The invasion started Sunday morning. This is a spot news telemat of the Associated SKOPLIE IS | 'gets in the bright moonlight. British Isles last night, blasting many scattered points in England, German bombers spanned the | in Initial Attacks (By Am’IJl Press) An official Turkish radio broad- Press airmailed to The Empire. WASHINGTON. — The national mystery as to why the long Allis- Chalmers strike was not certified to the new National Defense Medi- aticn Board before rioting broke out can ncw be clarified; also why the coal mine dispute was not certified before the cperators and United Mire Workers deadlocked. The an- swer lies with Madame Secretary Perkins and John R. Steelman, chief of her Conciliation Service. Miss Perkins was sunning herself in Arizona, and when she finally left for Washington by & leisurely rail route, her office could not reacn Wonnued on Page FOUL) Pofential Shorfage in Skilled Farm Labor Is « Worr!in_g Two Officials By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 8-—Secre- tary of Agriculture Claude R, Wick- ard and Federal Security Chief Paul V., McNutt have a new worry —the potential shortage in skilled farm labor. I say “potential” but there are‘ already enough straws in the wind| to cause the gentlemen mem.loxv:di and their staffs to give serious con-| sideration to the problem. | With the lend-lease bill already a law and money appropriated to ! finance it, it seems certain that the | United States is not going to be | come “the arsenal of democracy’ | but the bread-basket. of a larg | I!ed before long. " (APTURED, | SAYNAZIS Important (fi_ Both Indus- frially and from Mili- portion of the embattled world.| 'arv S'andDOin' E Farm products already are ear- BERLIN, April 8—The Germans marked for Great Britain, unoccu-|cjaim tonight their troops in 5“"5 pied France, Greece and China.|garia and Rumania have advanced | Spain and possibly some of the|to Skoplie, important industrial and i | military center in Yugoslavia and occupled countries may have to be;pout 100 miles northwest of Salo- | |nika. The city commands the stra-| So what? So those agricunu,a”teglcnuy vital Vardar River Valley. | sections not burdened with exces-| The German spokesman declared | sive surpluses .already are going to|there have been no clashes with the have to hoe a row and produce.lm'““h in this area and uugge*tedI Secretary Wickard says the groups that “perhaps they have not re-| most likely to feel the pinch of ceived the invitation sent to come skilled labor shortage first are the OUt and fight.” ' | dairy farmers, the . T T and the big truck fm misers) American railroads added more . streamlined trains in 1940 than flnl any other year. (Continued nn page. 8ix) cast declares the German forces | have lost heavily in the initial as- sault against the Balkan allies. The broadcast says that if the Yugoslavs and Greeks are able to make contact in Albania, the Ital- ians will not be “able to save fen | percent of their forces there.” ‘ Unofficial Yugoslav sources state the Yugoslav troops have seized Scutaria in Albania and are driving | southward in an apparent “squeeze” operation to drive out the Fascist troops. If Mary Anne Baird (above) is a fair sample of what to expect, a lot of camera enthusiasts will have an exciting time April 27, when the | Third Annual Beach Beauty Contest for Amateur Photographers wint | be held at Long Beach, Cal. She will be one of 200 swim-suit-clad girls parading on the strand and posing for pictures, officials said, Scotland and northern Ireland. g | ritis } | e ——e——— . | Libyan Port Is Reported fo| REPORT le | . | | Be Occupied by Ger- | | man, Halian Forces ls 0((UPIED (By Associated Press) | It is officially announced by the; /have occupied the Libyan port of ed reports tonight said the German |Derna, 175 miles east of Bengasi, ¢ .o have occupled the Yugeslav |last week because no longer ad-| vantageous to hold. {rauroad._.._._—_ makes the claim that in a normal all trucks must be able to nego- year is produces one out of every tiate a three percent grade at 30 - e - | Derna ls | v | | | Axis that German and Italian troops | gyDAPEST, April 8—Unconfirm- from which the British withdrew ;v of Nis on the Sofia-Belgrade .~ Aroostook County in Maine, Towa has a law requiring that seven potatoes grown in the U. S. miles an hour.