The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1941, Page 1

P | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8695. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1941. BER ASSOCIATED PRESS BALKAN WAR NE PRICE TEN CENTS R SHOWDOWN TURKEY PREPARES FOR ATTACK BY NAZIL EVACUATION OFISTANBUL ! UNDERWAY Goverment, Fearing Invas- || ion, Removing Portion of Populafion NOTE OF ASSURANCES NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY Hiiler's Forces Are Said fo Have Slashed Along- | side of Border | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Fears of an imminent German at- tack and invasion of Turkey, neu- tral nation, but ally of Great Britain, is seen today, as the Turkish Gov- ernment made an announcement that it has found it advisable to re- meve a considerable part of the pop=~ ulation of Istanbul. | The announcement of the partial evacuation of Istanbul was followed only a few hours after a Rome radio eeon AirBase Usage ———— R e BERLIN IS AIR RAIDED BY BRITISH Night Atfack Is Officially | Repoited by Nazi Capi- | fal City Authorities TWO HISTORIC CENTERS ARE REPORTED BURNING | Admission TsM ade that Other Structures Hit, Killing Many_ Persons BERLIN, April 10. — The State | Opera House and historic Prussian State Library were burning this morning as the result of incendiary bombs dropped during the night by daring British raiders in an air at-| tack on this Capital City of Ger- many. | 1t is officially announced that two | hospitals and one apartment hcuse were also hit by bombs dropped by the British planes. ] Queen Elizabeth Visits tireless tours of Britain’s defenses. General Sikorski, broadcast reported Germany’s are diplcmat, Franz von Papen, Ambas- sador to Turkey, reiterated ‘assur- ance that Germany has no intention of an attack on Turkey. - : | With Sumner Welles (standing), Undersecretary of State, 8 witness, | Francisco Castillo Najera, Mexican Ambassador, signed & convention i It is admitted that many persons | {were killed and a large number wounded during the air raid. ! The autherities claim 11 British| GENERAL LEE The assurance, however, is not taken seriously by the Turkish Gov- ernment, it is indicated, in view of past assertions of like kind made to ytther nations. Istanbul lies on the European side of the strategic Bosporus, the link between the Dardanelles and the Black Sea, and less than 100 miles from German occupied Bul b | It is officially announced this morning that Nazi blitzkrieg forces have already slashed down through Thracian Greece alongside the Turk- ish border, Settlement l providing for reciprocal use of air fields which will permit American military planes to speed to Panama in the shortest possible time. PROPOSED CHANGE IN ARMY, NAVY BANDS, IS GIVEN HOT REPRIMAN planes are reported to have been shot down during the attack. i THREE PLACES DAMAGED | BERLIN, April 10.—The magnifi- | cent German State Opera House, one of Hitler’s favorite theatres, was| totally destroyed and three palaces| were heavily damaged last night by | the British airmen in what the High iCommand this afternoon acknowl-| edges was the heaviest raid on Ber-| lin since the war began. | | The DNB admits heavy damsge; and also that Emden, Bremen and) g s |several other vital war centers in By JACK STINNETT | northern Germany were also attack- WASHINGTON, April 10. — Rep. ed as well as Berlin. { George H. Bender, the Ohio Re-| Bellevue Castle, the Berlin guest publican editor, publisher and in-|house, of whom the most recent vis- surance man, has a mad on. It!itor was Japanese Foreign Minister| | has to do with band music—not:Matsuoka, was one of the three cas-| ! band music specifically planned by tles that suffered from the air raid. !the new terminus of the ARRIVES IN PB-Y BOMBER Relufns via Sitka from In- spection of Dock Facil- ities in Westward Returning from an inspettion of decking and transportation facili- ties at Seward and Anchorage, and a flying trip to Passage Canal, where Alaska Railroad will be moved in the near WASHINGTON — With = Martin Dies chalking up new records as a statement-maker, an energetic Na-| zi propaganda machine has been flourishing right under his nose.It is the German American National Alliance or Einheitsfront, which many Nazis treat as successor of the Bund. One interesting phase of - the Einheitsfront is the . vigorous co- operation it gives the America First Committee. One of its pamphlets urged that contributions. from $1 upward beé sent to the America First Committee, Board of Trade Builds ing, Chicago, as a part of the ef- fort to defeat the Lease-Lend Bill. Another of these pamphlets, carrying the same appeal for the America First Committee; published also an appeal against aid to Bri- tain, written in the same brand of lavish language which uspally em- anates from Berlin, “Those who shout loudest for IsNearing, Ford Strike DETROIT, Mich., April 10.— The United Auto Workers have accepted the three point proposal for the set- tlement of the strike ‘against the (Ford Motor Company. The proposal was submitted by Gev, M. D. Van Wagoner who laid | the agreement. before both sides of Ithe controversy. JOHN McCORMICK TO TAKE DRAFT POST WEDNESDAY iSucceeds Tony Karnes Who Is Leaving North for . California John McCormick of Juneau will ibecome Alaska Selective Service Di- war,” it said, “. .. are usually old!rector on April 16, next Wednesday, men steril biologically, and even'succeedlng Anthony E. Karnes, it sterile of all dreams and memories! was annouunced today by the Gov- of life. Their senile bodies, their ernor’s office. ~ cold, calculating brains, frequenily| Karnes, formerly Territorial Com- find compensation for their lost'missioner of Education, will leave for youth in hatred and false ambitions California with his family. for glory or gold; and ‘their con-| McCormick, a member of the Leg- science is hardened like their ar- islature for the past two sessions, is teries and their hearts.” |a native of Gastineau Channel, hav- The Einheitsfront also has been ing been born in Douglas. He is ac- active in drumming up asudiences tive in veterans’ activities. for America First speakers, such — - as Colonel Lindberg. When Lind-| . ed to ! Brazil 'Has decided to grant fu- bergh was schedule speak in ture - mir R e eided POTES Leopold Stokowski, the eminent conductor who resigned after more than two decades with the Phila- | delphia Symphony orchestra to see| that the American Army in train- | ing hits the proper note. | Congressman Bender surveyed the | conductor’s plans and pronounce- | ments, gulped twice and rushed off| to tell his colleagues what he| thought of it. What he thought| ran like this: ¢ | “Leopold Stokowski, well-known orchestra director, is conducting an experiment with an_Ax'my&n.nd at Fort MacArthur, Cal. He proposes| to revolutionize military music and| to send soldiers into biile forma- tion to the tune of mobile musici- anship. Mr. Stokowski hag informed the nation’s press that Army bands| should go into battle in tank for- mations and armored cars. Mr. Sto- kowski "also believes that bands| should be removed from battleships because there is not room for them. “Under the Stokowski plan, a band - could play throughout a battle either in motion or stand-| ing still, and Mr. Stokowski fur- ther says that ‘these bands could be very effective in motion for| adding cheerfulness and morale.’ | NEEDS A TANK nation that they cannot laugh. The new band would have ome piccolo player, eight saxophones in various flats, two cornets, a half dozen trumpets, trombones, tubps, drums and so forth. Mr. Stokowski is ap- parently at work at the present time figuring out some kind of a tank to hold this assortment of Army entertainers, “He even has @ “Proposal for bandsmen on horseback and de- scribes the band formation as one _— ' Wepunied on Page Seven® 1 | Building American Bases | | future, Brigadier General John C. H. | Lee, Commander of Port of Embar- | kation for the Pacific Coast, landed | in Juneau in a Navy Patrol bomber |from Sitka late yesterday. 1 | General Lee, who stopped in Ju- | neau overnight about a week ago | when he flew north from his home {base at Fort Mason, California, to ! inspect the Westward ports, return- |ed to Juneau by way of Whitehorse, Skagway and Sitka. He will be in Juneau today with his party and| will fly to Seattle tomorrow on a southbound Lodestar. Conference With Talley Stopping at Fairbanks before con- tinuing down the Alaska Railroad . to Anchorage, the General confer- on Large Danish Island |rea"vieh seajor 5. 5. Taliey. Area | WASHINGTON, April 10. — Tmt‘Engineer in charge.of Army con- United States will establish air bases | Struction ‘in Alaska, and met Col. in Greenland to “protect Greenland |Richard Park, North Pacific Divis-| and for the protection of the West- {fon Engineer, stationed at Fairbanks. ern Hemisphere,” under an Ameri- Col. Park and Colonel Otto F. Ohl-| can-Danish Agency agreement sign- | 500, General Manager of the AlflSkB“ ed yesterday by Secretary of State | Railroad, accompanied the General Cordlel Hull and Henri De Ka,m_‘w Anchorage, and then returned tol man, Danish minister. | discuss details for the change of the De Kauffman signed as the high- terminus of the Alaska Railroad est ranking Danish official despite| from Seward to Passage Canal. the fact that Denmark is occupied Army Day U.S. Airm;n To Have Base In Greenland Agreement_ls—Signed for| {by German forces, and since the Danish Government cannot now ex- |ércise her sovereign rights over her The complete force of planes, “from |the largest bomber to the smallest | pursuit ship” stationed at Fairbanks, |Ladd Pield, was in the air for the “No wonder Army men and band| musicians are so purple with indig-| Territory, | The move is within the scope of celebratino of Army Day, March 7, the Monroe Doctrine, President 58id Gen. Lee. The Army man waid is intended to make sure Greenland | &round the Interior city came in for | remains a Danish colony. | the spectacle. The ships flew in for- | | Presidential Secretary stephen]mau‘m’ he said, and “gave a very | impressive sight” The Infantry Early said the agreement was con-; | sumated after information had been;“eld guard also turned out for the| received that German planes were | occasion. ! flying over Greenland. At Anchorage the following day ———.—.———— the infantry forces were turned out | ZAVODSKY RETURNING | fOF parade. ! Jack Zavodsky, Juneau, pioneer, Late yesterday Major R. H. Wylie, who has been spending several Superintendent of the Army Trans- months in the south, is returning port Service, who arrived with the L il Roosevelt said, and the agreement that miners and people from miles 'BR“‘SH SUB here aboard the Tongass. " (Continued on Page Seven) l U. S. Troops, Sup Her Polish Allies *Free Polish leader; lifts wire netting Quéan Elizabeth: fnspects a camoufiaged gun position of the Polish forces in Scotland during one of her out of her wi)gs To Be Moved at Once, Overgeas Pos_s_essions RAFMAKES | ATTACK ON NAZIFORCE British Bombers Surprise German Columns Near Saloni@,_(ireece ATHENS, April 10, — British bombers, in a surprise attack ir broad daylight today, inflicted heavy casualties by assaults on Germar columns of motor transports anc trocp concentrations at Axiopolis, Greece, about 30 miles northwest of Salonika, This is the official report made by the British Air Force hendquarters. P R Baranof Now Enroute North SEATTLE, April 10—Steamer Bar- anof sailed for Alaska at 10 o'clock this forenoon with 168 passengers ahoard including 56 in the steerage. Juneau passengers aboard the Bar- anof are D, D. Hull, Raymond Isaac- son, Mrs. H. R, McLeod, Mary Rice, C. H. Kyle, Lars Larson, D. W, Al- bert, Rufus Bean, Miss Mae McFall, Miss Joan Coy. SENDS DOWN " ITALIAN SHIP LONDON April 10—The Admiralty reports that a British submarine tor- pedoed and sunk a 12,000-ton Ital- ian ship and damaged another in an attack on the heavily guarded con- voy in the‘Céntral Mediterranean, WASHINGTON, April 10.— The War Department disclosed today that all Army passenger and freight transports have been diverted fto move troops and supplies between the United States and overseas pos- sessions and bases. Undersecretary Patterson an- nounced at the same time & complete censorship has been clamped on all military information regarding movements of forces and supplies 0 all overseas bases. Twenty-six combination passenger ind cargo ships and freighters of the Army are stated however to com- yise the Army transport service _ hifted to the new assignments. 12 Vessels Sell, Seattle SEATTLE, April 10.—Halibut ar- rival, catches and selling prices to- day are as follows: From the western banks—Aleu- tian, 40,000 pounds, 12% and 11 cents a pound, From the local banks—Argo, 15,- 000 pounds, 11 and 9% cents; Di- ana 10,000 pounds, Dawn 7,000 pounds, Blanco 6,000 pounds, all selling for 11% and 9 cents; Des- tiny 9,000 pounds, Aegi? 7,000 pounds, Lloyd 5,000 pounds, all sell- ing for 11 and 9 cents; Faith Sec- ond 15,000 pounds, 11% and 9 cents; Arne 11,000 pounds, 11 and 9% cents; Alma - 11,000 pounds, 10 3/4 and 9% cents; Angeles 13,- 000 pounds, 11% and 9 cents. —— eee —— BLIMP (RASHES LAKEHURST, N. J. April 10— The L-2 Naval training blimp crash- ed this afternoon in a swamp, 300 feet south of the Naval Air Station. None of the crew of four are reported to have been injured, ALLIES GET READY FOR BIG SMASH Greek Armmponed In- fact Preparing for De- cisive Blow af Nazis REINFORCEMENT OF BRITISH AT FRONT Flame Throwers, Tanks, Armored Cars Arriving from African Area (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Greece’s own struggle against the Germans took on a slightly brighter uspect today as military quarters in Athens declared the Greek army re- mains intact and will “deal a decls- ive blow at the German invader,” with Alffed support. Battalions of British flame throw- ers, tanks and armored cars, ncwly arrived from the African front, are reported rushing north from Peira- ceus, Port of Athens, for a decisive battle with Hitler's Legions, as the five day old battle of the Balkans neared a showdown. A British radio broadcast early this afternoon said Balkan news reaching London is little more than a trickle but it seemed clear that the Germans during the past 24 hours are still making headway. German Report The German military spokesmen in Berlin asserted that more than 80,000 Greeks have been captured in the sweep through Thrace and the final number will be much greater. Athens denies any such number has been captured 8s a large part of the Greek forees in Thrace had been withdrawn southward. BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS Advices reaching Bern, Switzer- land, one of the few remaining out- lets of uncensored news in war- ridden Europe, says British trans- norts and supply ships are taking fresh reinforcements to Southern Greek ports. German press dispatches indicated that a British Expeditionary force, estimated at 300,000 men, is masser in the vicinity of Mount Olympus 60 miles southwest of Salonika, rear the Aegear Sea coast. 4 Other reports said the British are completing a defense line stretching across the Greek Peninsula from a point south of Salonika to the Al- banian port of Chimara on the Ad- riatic Sea. BELGRADE 0CCUPIED BY NAZIS German Forces Mafch Info Bomb Shattered Capital City of lu_goslavia BERN, Switzerland, April 10.—Un- confirmed reports reaching here from Belgrade, Capital City of Yu- goslavia, are that the city has been entered and 1 now occupied by Nazik forces. It is claimed the city is practical- ly destroyed, streets still littered with dead, as the result of the attack by German dive bombers. e s TERRY COPSTEAD HOME el Terry . Copstead, son of Mr. and Arnold Copstead, was_ dis- missed . from St. Ann's;Hospjtal 10~ Jm after recelving medical care. R +* 4