The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1941, Page 1

i i | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8696. BRITISH, GERMANS NE DECISIVE BA BIG STRIKE THREATENED BY (10 UNION New Wage Agreement Is| Sought by Auto Workers from General Mofors DEADLINE IS SET FOR APRIL TWENTY Conciliator Believes Ford| Strike Will Be Seffled Before Nightfall BULLETIN—DETROIT, Mich., | April 11.—Gov. M. D. Van Wag- oner announced late this after- noon that the Ford strike is settled. R. J. Thomas, United Auto Workers Union President, said an agreement has ended the strike and it “represents a tre- mendous victory for the funda- mental issued involved: Tt es- tablished the UAW as the CIO spokesman of its members in all grievances and matters pertain- ing to working conditions.” (By Associated Press) The Federal Labor Department | announced receipt of word from the General Motors Corporation that the CIO United Auto Workers Union has served notice of intention to strike | if a new wage agreement is not ‘GContinued on Page Eight | AP AN Drew Pearsos | WASHINGTON — In interpreting i war news from the Balkans the basic thing to watch is the amount of | advance scored by the Nazis in the | extreme south of Serbia and in Greece. Advances in northern Yugo- slavia mean nothing. In fact, the border between north- ern Yugosla! and Hungary was not even fortified, ‘and the Yugo- slav army planned to evacuate that area immediately if its own counter- attacks were rolled back. This of the country—Croatia and enia—once under the Austro-Hun- garian Empire, consists of broad, rolling plains, among the most fer- |° tile in Europe, and similar to the corn belt of Iowa and Kansas. In this section, the Yugoslav gen- eral staff did not even build pill| boxes; and before the war started, the bulk of the army was evacuated south except for a skeleton force to fight a rear-guard action. But in Serbia proper, which is in the south, the army worked fever- ishly to strengthen fortifications- along the Bulgarian border. The Greeks aiso were extremely active. Chief Allied worry was that the Greeks would be forced to fight oni two fronts, and with a much smaller | army than the Yugoslavs. This is the } point where the greatest shock strength of the Nazi army has been | thrown—in an effort to cut through | (Continued on Page Pour) "NO!" WASHINGTON, April 11.—At the conference with newsmen today, | President Roosevelt was- asked FOOD DEFENSE ONE pint milk (quart for child or expectant leafy, e » TWO or more servings of whole grain cereal or vitamin bread. Japanese ArmyNow | In Action Surprise Atfack s Made- Fifty Thousand Chinese Soldiers Are Routed | SHANGHAI April 11.—The Jap- anese Army, in a surprise offensive against 50,000 Chinese troops in the Hupeh Province, drove them out of Anlu. This is according to a Domei, Japanese news agency, report from Hankow. The action is the first fighting reported in Hupeh Province in sev- eral months. Councilman of ‘Anchorage Is in VidoE Hospital VICTORIA, B. C, April 11— Steagdy improvement in the condi- tion of Charles H. Ruttan, Council- man of Archorage, Alaska, is re- FATS and sweets to satisfy appetite. (4 @ PROGRAM . IS ABOUT READY TO BE SPRUNG; CAMPAIGN PLANS BE "SEIZED" ONE serving of green yellow vegetables. or m glasses of water. the defense diet program. By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, April 11. — Al- most ready to spring on John Q Public—meaning you and me—is the food defense program. It will be launched under Paul V. McNut, the Federal Security Administrator, and the Health De- fense Co-ordinator. No. 1 salesman will be Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr., the Surgeon General. He has been selected be- cause he was the medical man who sold the public one of the toughest bills of health ever ped- dled — the national anti-syphilis and anti - gonorrhea campaigns, based on frank facing of facts. The food job is even harder, for poverty and food superstitions have been strong through genera- tions. Reasons or the campaign are these: 1. Surveys by the Department of { Agriculture show that 30 to percent of the people in this coun- try do not receive an adequate idiet to maintain normal health. Much of this can be attributed to poverty. But much also can be blamed on ignorance. 2. A health program is deemed hessential to make the American people fit mentally and physically to face the strain of the defense job ahead, and to ahsorb the shocks that must come in a world as uncertain as tnday’s. ported by his attending physician, and the patient may leave the hos- pital by Wednesday of next week. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 11.—Let's suppose that you were in Wash- |ington in 1928—or ten years later —and you were making your first trip back since then. Today, if stroyers to Great/ Brifain at time and his reply was a flat “No’ whether there was m of transferring more de- ' .will be to present to the public (Continued on Page Five) New Tempo Brought fo Washingfon Life, Also New Names, by Defense trict has changed a lot.” And that is where you would be dead wrong. It might take you a few days more to discover it, but you soon would find out that “national defense” has changed you had a few hours to run over| Washington more than anything the superficial aspects of the na- or tional capital, you probably would! say, “Well, there are a lot of new buildings-thére “are more people, it seems, but T don’t think the Dis-| ‘. since the British took in 1812, Under national defense, life in Washington is hitting ‘& new tem- PRABKCE LR OB B T & e T (Continued on Page Fiwe) TTLE The first step in the program JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL | |,—|9{ I. 4 VESSELS OF FRENCH MAY President Asks Power fo Take Over All Idle For- eign Ships in U. S. WASHINGTON, April 11. — The request of President Roosevelt for power to take over foreign ships has aroused Congressional speculation that the Government might com- mander 14 French vessels, including the giant luxury liner Normandie, | now tied up in New York harbor. | One Administration leader, asking not to be quoted by name, said it .would be sound procedure to take over French vessels. He predicted it would be possible, as perhaps the first step taken, after the proposed authorization is approved. ! Yesterday the President asked Congress for broad statutory auth- | ority to take over any “foreign own- |ed vessel lving idle in our ports.” | 'This authority, the President said in his message, would be subject to payment of a just compensation for |such vessels taken over. | Last Tuesday the President, at a | conference with the newsmen, said he was going to recommend legisla- tion to permit purchase or charter of 39 Danish ships taken into pro- | tective custody by the Coast Guard but the language used indicated this | move was not limited to Danish | ships. CONSUMERS ARE TO BE ~ PROTECTED Price Adminisiration Is Set { Up-FDR Signs Executive ' Order - Names Head ; ‘WASHINGTON, March 11.—Presi- (dent Roosevelt has signed an Ex-| | ecutive Order creating the office of | {Price Administration on Civilian | Supply. The 'President then announced this administration will be headed | by Leon Henderson. The agency is set up under the office of emergency management, |the White House said, and will con- (tinue to emphasize protection to | consumers. NaziPlanes ' Again Raid . Birmingham ‘Brifish Indusirial Centers | Object of Heavy German . Atacks Last Night LONDON, April 11.—Coventry and iBlrmlnghnm were among places at- |tacked by German bombers last BELIEVE |night in raids which the British { Government acknowledged as caus- |ing considerable damage and prob- ably heavy casualties. i | It is the second raid on Birming- ham and the hig Midlands industrial | centers in as many nights, | Coventry, still recoveting from the devastating raid of November 14,' was bombed heavily Tuesday night. | ' Damage at Birmingham included |explosive and fire bomb hits on a {movie theatre and on three air raid jwarden posts, . MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS @ Q@ @ L4 Nazi Tanks Roll Info Yugoslavia in Invasion W" i into the Balkan nation to a distance of 18 to 2i is picture, first from the new theatre of war, was radided from Berlin to New York, then to San Francisco {rom where the Associated Press sent it by air- mall to The Emnire. A bermans Se__izg!gosléi_ias Invasion Starls German soldier (right) stood guard over these Yugoslav soldiers (left), taken prisoner shortly after the Nazis launched the invasion of the Balkan country. This picture, first from the new war sector, was ra- dioed from Berlin to New York, then to San Francisco from where the Associated Press airmailed it to The Empire. THOUSANDS CELEBRATE END OF BIG STRIKE # Jubilant at the end of the 76-day Allis-Chalmers strike, several thousand CIO workers formed a parade at Milwaukee;’ Wis.; after ratifying a settlement reached at a Defense Mediation Board conference in Wash- ington, D."C. This telemat airmailed to The Empire by the Associated Press. AR CLASH D DEVELOPING NORTHERN GREECE IS FIGHT AREA Blifzkrieg Forces Attempt- ing fo Advance Through Gap af Bifolj - 'ROYAL AIR FORCE SHOWERING BOMBS Expedition;ry— Forces Re- ported Ready fo Make Desperate Stand (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The British Expeditionary troops are reported to have ‘“established contact” with Hitler's blitzkrieg in- vaders in northern Greece as the Nazi Panzer columns knifed clear across lower Yugoslavia to threaten Greece in a new direction in the northwest. A British war broadcast in' Lon- den sald the German forces are ad- vancing on Greece through the Bi- tolj Gap in Yugoslavia at the der. Apparently, in this sector, a decisive battle between the Germans and British is developing. The British broadcast said the German troops are attempting to fight their way through the gap un- rer a heavy attack by British Air | Forces, Fate of Belgrade One report says the Serb Army in southern Yugoslavia has been ‘“de- stroyed” by Nazi columns plunging northward toward Belgrade fromi Nis. Another report says the Serb Atmy is being “pursued.” 3 i Unconfirmed reports previously ! listed Belgrade as eaptured by the & Germans moving out from Rumania but today reports indicate that the bomb smashed Yugoslavian Capital City is still holding out. » Late this afternoon a Swiss news- ) paper in Geneva printed a dispatch 8 |from Berlin stating that Belgrade has “fallen.” A British communique said Nazi Panzer forces have reached Yan- itza, 35 miles northwest of cap- |tured Salonika, but “resistance to the German advance is stiffening in southern Yugoslavia.” ‘The British communique says the situation in eastern Macedonia, where the Germans claim to have trapped and captured the Greek ¥ East Wing of 80,000 soldiers is still &9 obscure. " 2 (roaf Sfafe " Calls Back Own Troops Revolted General Appeals to Soldiers to Stop Fight Agt_lfllst Axis BUDAPEST, April 11— General Sladko Kvaternik, newly proclaimed premier of the independent Croat State, said today he had appealed to all Croat regiments now serving in the‘Yugoslav Army to return im- mediately to Zagrab. Observers said such an appeal might be regarded as calling Croat troops, thousands of whom are fight- {ing against the Germans and Itals ians, elsewhere to revolt against the Serbs. Leaders of the new State are Viad~ imir. Macek, leadér of the Creat "' Peasant Party, and Gen. Simovie,” ' 1 Vice Premier. Simovie is reported to have broadcast a msssage asking ail ' members of his party to support the - new government, \ | Y