The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1941, Page 1

o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALLIES, GER REPORT FURIOUS C WORKERS FOR FORD 60 BACK Ten-Day Strike at World's Largest Auto Plant Comes to End DETROIT, Mich., April 12.—Act- ing swiftly, following the ten-day strike, Ford Motor Company officials started today to pump life blood back into the giant industrial plant and more than 5000 of the 85,000 workers in the world's largest auto factory, at Rouge River, are' ex- pected to be summoned back to their jobs by Monday. Other work+ ers will follow rapidly as operations are started. Jubilant pickets of the CIO Unit- ed Automobile Workers Union aban- doned the gates of the 1,100-acre factory late yesterday when it was officially announced an agreement had been made and the ten-day strike was over. & WASHINGTON.—Few people out- side the general staffs of Europe realize that Hitler has steadily kept A Los An:ele; draftee, Yukio Honda, American Japanese, is pic- tured being examined by amazed Army doctors at a selective service station after the medicos found his heart on his right side and his liver, lungs and ofher organs not where they should be, either. Despite juxtaposition of the organs, Honda’s health was fouhid to be NO "CONSENSUS” | PRESENT EUROPEAN WAR WILL COME TO ITS END By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 12. — An- | swering the mail orders: Riches No Bar 100 divisions along the Russian border— apparently on guard against his ewn friend and alleged ally. One hundred divisions is a “total of about 1,500,000 men, which is far more than Hitler has ¢oncentrated in the Balkans. This, and other things, indicate the growing coolness be- tween Stalin and Hitler. Among the other thiugs are Rus- sia’s almost complete failure to de- liver cil in anything more than driblets to the German army, plus her failure to come aeross with; promised food shipments. Also it is cbvious that Hitler's drive into Salonika is nothing more nor less than an attempt to fulfill the cld Bismarck dream of a Berlin to Bagdad railway, which means, of course, seizure of the Straits—Rus- sia’s outlet- to the Mediterranean. All of which explains the friend- ship pact suddenly signed between Russia and Yugcslavia, on the eve of the latest Nazi attack. H RESTLESE NAZI TROOPS Hitler was leaning over backward to avoid war in the Balkans in order not to spoil the grain crops of Yugo- slavia and Bulgaria, which he need- ed for food. But the Balkan cam- paign was at least one advantage for him. He was able to shift restless Nazi troops from France and the Low Countries. German troops primarily are home bodies—much more so that the Brit- ish. And while excellent fighters, they go stale when merely on police duty. British intelligence reports from France indicate that German occupation troops had become very restless, and Hitler was glad to shift many of them to active service, | TWISTING THE LION’S TAIL ‘The famous bearded Congressman, George H. Tinkham of Massachus- etts, had an encounter with the Brit- ish at a local hotel the other day,' and beat a‘hasty retreat. I He got into conversation with Hen- ry L. Stimson’s nephew, Captain' Jules James of the U. 8. Navy, who said he was about to leave for Ber- muda to take charge of the new naval and air base. Standing beside trict Attorney of the Third Division, | which divide war obsetvers into two | James was General D. H. Prat(, head of the British tank mission, tuf (Continued ‘on Page Pour) . Mrs. T. R. M, Béntonyille, Ark. This must, I am sorry to say, be a sorry answer, for there is no “consensus” in Washington as to when the war might end. By break- ing your question in two, and giv- ing two extremes of thought, I can give you something . . . but I doubt if you could find any gen- eral agreement here to either con- clusion. 1—The Axis itself has warned (and U. S. Army and Government officials, as well as British officials here and in England seem posi- tive the warning is true) that there will be a big push against the British Isles this spring—that is, between now and the last’ of May. Nazis and Nazi sympathiz- ers think this “blitz” will be suc- | cessful and that it will be accom- plished in as short order as was and France. Thig will, they be- lieve, end the war in its major amphitheater, leaving only the mopping up, consolidation of con- quered- countries, establishment of governments under the “new.order,” ete. 2.—Great Britain, its officials and laymen, its sympathizers, ,and. a great many + American . observers think that this “blitz” will not be successful and who, after study- ing the production charts here and in England and Canada as well as those in Axis-controlled lands, say that Great Britain will be ready to take the initiative by the spring and summer of 1942. Holding to the theory that an offensive from with- out will be accompanied by col- lapse and revolt from within the Axis, these persons contend that Harriet C. Aldrich Daughter of rich Winthrop W. Aldrich, New York .banker and director .of several large com- ., panies, Harriet C. Aldrich, above, 13 not content to live the life of & dcbutante. Instead, she has chose’ to devote hervlife to cancer re- search. She is studying ‘at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- | be of long. duration and Dolox, within two years' the world will —— " |be ready for a peace negotiated on WESTER. TO WESTWARD the terms of the democracies. Many Wilbur Wester, manager of the|of the members of this* latter school Gastineau Hotel, left Juneau on the | of thought insert the important Yukon for a short business trip to|proviso: namely, “provided the Anchorage. United States can give sufficient e e aid in sufficient time.” | MRS. KEHOE TO WESTWARD Understand, of ‘course, that these Mrs. J, W. Kehoe, wife of the Dis- | are not two well-defined opinions is a through passenger to Seward on'thé Yukon. Mrs. Kehoe is return- ing to Anchorage from a trip Out- side, - : camps. By war the ‘greater num- ber of Washingtoniahs, big and (Continued on page Six) the drive over Holland, Belgium the British offensive will not have wat| Wounded Soldiers, Sunk “ALL THE NEWS IS CRITICISED BYGERMANS Nazi Soyrce?flaim Presi- | det Wrong on Yugo? slavia, Air Bases By LOUIS P. LOCHNER Associated Press Correspondent |° | BERLIN, April 12.— Authorized | German sources today said that nol within a century has. any states- 'man so completely misjudged the i situation as has President Roose- veit of the United States regard- ing Yugoslavia, 1 1 The President’s prestige has also |- suffered a tremendous . blow re- | garding his arrangement. with the| * 1 Danish Minister in Washington, D. C., over Greenland air bases for the United States. | These German sources also com- mented “that President Roosevelt shrinks from no violation of the law and this is well known. Ac- bases {8 jt legal but until the Danish Gov- ernment announces its position; | Germany will not make known her jown position.” TO REMAIN ON JOB WASHINGTON, April 12.,-—Hen-| rik de Kaufmann expects to'remain here as Danish Minister to the | United States despite any criti- |cism from his German occupied homeland, he told reporters this afternoon. It is known at the State Depart-| ment that he sent a full text of| !the Greenland air base deal and| explanations to his home Foreign' Office. | YUGOSLAV ' TRIANGLE 1S BROKEN Troops Sai&_l; Be Withinf 25 Miles of Belgrade at Noon Today | e, | | BUDAPEST, Aril 12—The Hun- | |garian General Staff announced at | noon today troops have broken through the Yugoslav triangle be- | tween the Danube and Tisa rivers in northern Yugoslavia, about 25 miles north of Belgrade. 3 B AR HOSPITAL CRAFT IS SENT DOWN (Greek Shi*pT—Carryingz | by "Enemy” Planes | (By Associated Press) A Reuters dispatch, dated Athens, says the Greek hospital ‘ship Attiki, wounded soldiers aboard;, has been bombed and sunk by “enemy” planes. The same dispatch also brands as “most exaggerated” reports that | a large number of Greek soldiers, estimated at 80,000, were cut off and | captured east of the Vardar River. 1 cording to information . we luvu‘r ‘I'nts’‘arfangement f ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY., APRIL 12, 1941, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.5.EOE » oy [ Writing in the Oberlin College pub- lication that “marriage shouldn’t necessarily’ demand fidelity and constancy,” pretty Marjorie Myers, New York City, has caused a storm: of controversy on the Ohio school’s campus. Her article has been made the subject of severs! sermons in local churches, U. §. VESSELS SUBJECTTO AXIS ATTACK President';-flion in Op- ening Red ‘Sea Brings Marjorie Myers WASHINGTON, April 12—Presi- dent’ Roosevelts action yesterday in opening the Red Sea pathway and the Buez Canal to American ships | carrying war cargoes, today raised serfous questions as to their possi- ble search and seizure and even at- tack by Axis submarine and airplane raiders. The State Department said any| Gold and silver are called the Suez Canal was blocked at least 10 [Pumpkin colored, swaying, hard- and each such incident would be a separate case to be studied on the basis of facts and declined to discuss the ‘hypothetical questions.” How ever, it is generally recognized under | language newspapers in ‘the U. S. day abéard an Egyptian liner. msteltlle's transportation system a8 | trackless trolley motor . bysses Internatienal law that they would be subject to seizure. llet-ridden Messerschmitt fightirg plane, shot down over England, arrives at San Pedro, Calif., via for delivery to the Vultee Aircraft Company for study by its engineers. “They hoped o' learn some- about German construction methods, i Gmpus Tenpet NAT| FORCES NS IN BATILE FLICT IN PROGRESS RTS STUDY GERMAN PLANE i instrument types, armament and engine design. e : ATTEMPT T0 MAKE DRIVE Germans TFyEg to Bring Climax to Struggle in Northern Greece = | ATHENS, April 13. — The Nazi | Panzer forces appeared late today | to be forcing a climax to the strug- | gle in the battle for Greece. Tne Greek High Command an- nounces officially the Germans are desperately attempting to smash their way through the Allied lines in the Florina sector. It is admitted that notwithstand- ing the heavy assault “the enemy has not reached the main defense in northern Greece.” The cffic.el announcement says the British Lombers are effectively and steadily pounding the Germans |and their action “has thrown great | | confusion into tire advancing Nazi | columns.” 1] | Ports, Ships 'Hammeredby Nazi Bombers oy | President and Early ‘This picture was taken on the ‘White House yacht, Potomac, ane chored at Pt. Everglades, Fla., as President Roosevelt made his “Jackson Day” address, post- poned from January. The address was broadcast.” Standing behind the president here is his secretary, Stephen Early. Mr. Roosevelt has returned to Wasaington following his fishitg cruise. | i Portsmouth, Bristol Under-_ SUEZ (ANAI- | go Heavy Atfack from | IS BI.O(KED | German Luftwaffe | 1 BERLIN, April 12—The German | FOR pER'on Luftwaffe heavily assaulted Port {mouth with numerous heavy ex- plosive bombs and thousands of in- | ka1 ! cendari s was . announced nere toany. | Sunken Freighters Stopped Bristol was also attacked for sev- | . Lachi B ik saents i Traffic in February | The claim was made that 24,000 | f {tons of British merchantmen were | or Ten Days sunk and another large vessel dam- | Apse. | JERSEY CITY, April 12. — The inoble metals because they do not days in February by three sunken ! rust. freighters in the channel leading to I the vital waterway. This is accord- There are over 1000 foreign ing to passengers arriving here to- also said there had been Axis raids ’ Benjamin ‘Pranklin invented day- "on 'the canal previously. light saving time. e S BOTH LAND, AIR FORCES IN FIGHTING {Clash Occufi_al Monastir | Gap in Grecian Flor- | ina Sector Today BRITISH AIRPLANES \ POUNDING NAZIS Serbians Reporfed Dissoly- ing in Move Against Croafian Section (By Associated Press) \‘ The Allied and German armies are meeting in a mighty battle in the Florina area in Greece, 16 miles south of Bitolj, at Monastir Gap. | This is according to a British radio | broadcast this afternoon. In northern Jugoslavia, Nazi units, according to the German High Com-~ rections erroheoulfy been repdrt . | several days ago but which is still holding out and is the goal of the invaders. ¥ | 'Details of the great battle at Mon- astir Gap are still lacking up.to noon today but is raging furiously tween not only land forces but Brit- ish and Nazi aircraft. = Yugoslavia resistance to the Croat- ian section has collapsed and the “Serbian army is dissolving.” British bombers are pounding the |Germans in southern Yugoslavia 'and northern Greece. This is ad- 1 mitted in Berlin. | The German High Command as- | serts the German forces have driven , deeper into southern Yugoslavia and { have occupied Debar and Ochrida, /thus joining the German forces which smashed through from the }mt, In the north, the German High Command announces the capture of Ljubljana, with a population of 153,000 and an important railway center, SIMOVIC | GOES ON ~ MIsSioN ;Yugoslavian_iremier Re- | ported Hurrying for Con- | ference at Moscow | BERN, Switzerland, April 12— | Advices ‘received here claim Yugo- | slavia Premier Gen. Simovic has left suddenly on a mission, presumably | to Moscow. i | Only last Thursday the Red Star, Iorgnn of the Soviet Army, said the | Soviet-Yugoslav pact is “valuable ! because the Soviet Union always fulfills its international pledges.” 'STREET CARS " RATTLE LAST TIME, SEATILE SEATTLE, April 12.—As this city's seated street cars rattle over the - city’s rails shortly after midnight | tonight, a quiet Easter morn will |bring a complete transformation the place of the cars. The German report is that the