The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1941, Page 1

- R | - 0 4 N THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVlI., 8698. IUNEAU ALASKA, MONDA\ APRIL 14, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRbb £ PRICE TEN CENTS PACT SIGNED BY JAPAN, RUSSIA BRITISH BLITZKRIEG " DIVISION OF HITLER DEFEATED| First Direcmgagemenh Greek Front, Success- ful for Defenders YUGOSLAV ARMY IS ALSO MAKING 600D NaziHigh Command Insists that Many of “’Enemy Forces” Capmred (By AE'SOLIA‘I‘ED' PRESS) The British Infantry has met and hurled back the “Adolf Hitler Divis- ion” in Northern Greece is the an- nou Allied-Yugoslay Army is, reported cement from London, while @he’ Announcing the Balkan War l l l i | [ FOUR KILLED IN SING SING PRISON BREAK Armed Convicts Shoot Way' Out of Infirmary - Cap- tured Few Hours Later: OSSINING, New York, April 14— Two long term convicts who shot | their way out of the 8ing Sing pris-“ that cost four lives, were captured | a few hours later today in the woods | across the Hudson River. | The two gray-clad convicts were ! still armed with smuggled guns with | which they and a confederate, later { slain, had broken prison and kilied | a prison guard and an Ossining po- ! licemen when they were cornered cn a slope of Mount Hood Palisades. ' Interstate Park Patrolman Wil- liam Mullen, experienced wootisman, | member of the Park’s police and one of 52 peace officers trailing the fu- gitives, flushed them in underbrush on infirmary in a sensational break | . EBelgrade Bombed as Nazis Invade Yugoslavia GERMAN FORCES 'NEW MOVE NOW MADE, FAR EAST Neutrality A—gr_eemenl Fin- (- ally Puf Across by } Two Nations ASSERTION THAT BLOW ' AIMED, UNITED STATES | Tokyo NewspaperDedares | Adion fo Possibly | Follow on Pacific § MOSCOW, Aprii 14.—Soviet Rus- |sia and Japan, long time duelling | Pewers in the Far East, have joined - | portentious as the non-aggression | accord between Berlin and Moscow counter attacking the Nazi hlitz-' krieg invaders in the mountains, 130 miles southeast of captured Bel- grade, capital city of®¥ugoslavia. ;xn 1939, which preceded the Ger- The German division hurled- back by the British infantry, is ‘described by the Greek military authorities as the “force of the elite schutsstaffel blackshirt group originaliy formed to guard Hitler.” Heavy losses were inflicted the German Division, according w British advices. The battle apparently was fought in the territory Florina, Greece, and the Bitolj Pass in southwest Yugo- slavia. Yugoslav Army Active London Military Headquarters de- clare the Yugoslav Army has counter attacked the Germans on both sides of the Moravia River, southeast of | Belgrade. The Yugoslavs located thel German column at Topola. The de- "(Continued on Page Six) “The \ % Ao S Al %60’ ‘WASHINGTON—Much has been said about certain big industrial and labor elements obstructing the de- fense program for their private gain. But theirs is no monopoly. Various others not in the public eye also are throwing “me first” monkey-wrench- es into the defense machinery. An amazing such instance that escaped general attention occurred in the House of Representatives on the appropriation of $150,000,000 for defense housing. Prompt enactment of this bill was of the utmost urgency. With hun- dreds of thousands of defense work- ers packed into overcrowded, make- shift quarters, the problem of hous- ing them is acute-in the extreme, and Roosevelt personally had asked for the $150,000,000 /bill to rush completion of numerous projects. The House Appropriations Com- mittee quickly approved the measure and shot it to the Rules Cemmittee Radiophoto Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (right) stands by as an aide reads Hitler’s message to his “Armies of the East” to correspondents in Berlin, Hitler, announcing the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece, | declared he was unucklng. not tho native populntmnl. but the British. | GOVERNOR ASSAILS LOBBY, SOME MEMBERS OF RECENT LEGISLATURE IN MESSAGE Famous Titled “A Message to the People (of "Alaska,” a statement’ by Gov.| | Ernest Gruening concerning the re- | cent session of ' the beglslature is being released throughout the Ter- ritory today. The message is as follows: The session of the Fifteenth Ter- ritorial Legislature just concluded brings out more clearly than ever 's Dead "the basic issue that confronts the people of Alaska. That issue is. | whether Alaska shall be built up) {for the people of Alaska in con- | formity with American principles 'and standards, or whether it shall | continue to be governed for and iby outside interests whose sole con- jcern is to take out of Alaska as 'much as they can, as fast as they i can, and to leave as little as pos- Dr.Cannon Classmed More | Stars than Any Other Person in World within a mile of the shore point from | which they had fled after forcing a | fisherman to ferry them across the | river. | The convicts, Joseph Riordan and Charles McGale, both under hf‘n- tence for robbery, appeared dazed' when Mullen stepped out from be- hind a tree on the slope below them. The dead are John Hartyde, pris-| cn-guard; John Waters, 30, serving a' term for armed robbery; James Fag- an, 36, Ossining patrolman; MeGov- ern Miller, 35, convicted of rape, and who was in the infirmary for treat-| ment of & heayt disease. Miller col- | lapsed and died from excitement when Riordan and Waters, who, feigned illness to get intc the infirm- | ary, suddenly pulled out smuggled guns and ;hot prhon guard Hartyde, | DURAZIOIS CAPTURED BY ? SLAV FORCES i British Informahon Minis-| try Says Greaf Seaport | Is Taken Today (By Asso¢iated Press) | " sible. \ Alaska's Organic Act adopted in ;an earlier day (1912) created a | Legislature of 16 Representatives ;nnd eight Senators. With a major- ’ny vote required to pass any meas- ure, four Senators can 'block any legislation. Under the Legislature's’' jrules'a two-thirds vote Is required lwhenever it is desired to speed ’leslshtlon by “suspension of the rules” and two-thirds are also re- quired for acceptance from one | House by the: other of a measure 1aner the 50th day. In practice this works out so that THREE men In| | the Senate can block any leglsln- ;uon And that is why outside jed interests with their private pur- 1 poses to serve can control the three men out of 24, for a rule to place it before the House for immediate action. But in the Rules Committee this emergency bill struck a mysterious snag. Something stalled it for ten days, while Army, Navy and Defe of- ficials tore their halr in pless rage; and while legions of, def workers and their families shi in unsanitary -shelters. The story behind this delay borders on the fantastic. MIGHTY ICEMAN A Pascagoula, Mississippl, iceman was the cause of it gll. - His name is H. F. Gautier and he plus his Con- gressman, William MColmer, were Continued on Page Pour 'nie Jump Cannon, 77, of Harvard, i i ko ANNIE JUMP CANNON In public affairs things are not i ‘always what they seem; there s | the accepted story, the account as | it appears 'in most newspapers, the official record, the version that . becomes part of the sehool history i text book. And there is the reality, whlch is often quite different. Now 'in this great crisis, at this his- | toric moment when democracy is challenged as never before in its " history we should not deal with anything but the realities. There {is not time. The hour is too seri- “It is later than you think.” ' Two Classes of | tors It was the will of the . Lobby i | (Continied from Page Seven) CAMBRIDGE, April 14.—Dr. An- most famous woman astronomer in the world, died here’yesterday. She classified more stars than any other person in the world. She had recorded, according to their spectra, almost 400,000 stellar bodies; and discovered more than 800 variable stars, five novae,.and one spectroscopic binary, or double star. lornln Dover, Delaware, Decem- ‘0“5 ber 11, 1863, she was the daughter of Wilson Lee Cannon, a builder of | ———— (Continued on page Six) | situation. They have but to win' The British Ministry of Informa- tion, this afternoon, announced “there is good reason” to believe the Yugoslavs have captured Dur-' azzo, the big Adriatic seaport, 25 miles west of Tirana, captial of Al- bania. | It is known the Yugoslav !oroea routed Italians encountered on the march to the sea and then kept “gloriously progressing” toward the | Adriatic. CHAPLNSUED BY WRITERFOR FIVE MILLION, Suit Claims Comedian Used Idea for ‘Great Dictator’ | Without Payment NEW YOR.K April 14 .—Konrad | Bercovici, writer, filed a five million dollar suit against’ Charles Chaplin in Superior Court today ehnrulng[ the comedian used the author’s idea ! in the film The Great Dictator,| without reimbursing him with eith- er credit or payment. ————.eeo London physicians’ stethescopes frequently are used to listen to| ticking of delayed . action bombs, before they are removed. Here is an serial view of the Yugoslavian capital city ‘of Belgrade. Altho P?‘h it had been d»chmgd an gpen . | rity before hostilities broke out. Belgrade was promptly bomhéd-by the azig ax they invaded Yigoslavia |man_invasion of Poland, The signing of the neutrality pact refiGreece. ‘The German war muchine, massed in neighboring Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, struck 5 in an attempt to wrest from the British their lust foothold on the continent. I I A lv S E N D S Amerlcans Ketuge n Dalkans ANOTHERNOIE ABOUTSHIPS Fasust Prince Dellvers "Further Explanation of ltallan Viewpoint'’ ‘TON, April 14——It,aly| today dellvered a new note to the United States in connection: with | the selzure of 28 Italian merchant | ships on charges of sabotage. The note was taken to the Stanr- ! Department by Italian Ambassador | i Prince Colonna. The contents were | not disclosed, but an Italian embas- | sy official said the note was in fur- | | ther explanation of the Italian point | 1 of view concerning the seizur2 of v.ne | | ships, ———.ee—— OUT ON VISIT |. Mrs. Lance Hendrickson is south- | bound on the Mount McKinley on | a visit to relatives and friends in | the States. | — f Seeks ;260 000,000 | | Camille Gutt Belgian minister of finance and war, Camille Gutt is pictured as he arrived in New York by clipper| plane. Hle is reeking release to the Relgian . government - in - exile of! $260,000,000 in French gold held in *he U. 8.,:which he says is owed to, Belgium by France, Hirst-Chichagof, south onfthe Mount MecKinley on a vacat/ ——.—— It ‘takes about 45 gallons of water|Jones averages: l {to fill a bathtub of average size. Tails 20.06, utllities 1862, o e I German troops invaded Yugoslavia, | \["l:nmty. numbering at least sixty, were invited by U. S. Minister | Arthur Bliss Lane to take shelter in his Belgrade quarters (above). | MORE FUNDS ASKED FOR AIR CORPS War Depa_rl_mwenl Appro- priafion Bill Asks for $128,161,000 WASHINGTON, April 14—Presi- dent Roosevelt today asked Congress ,for a supplemental appropriation of ‘8’123 167,000 for the War Depait- {ment for the fiscal year starting next July 1. The appropriation includes $289,- |000.000 for the Army Air Corps, > BIGGS GOES SOU'I'II William H. Biggs, storekeeper at is a passenger ) trip of several weeks. | ended 24 years of strained Far East- {ern relatiohs and 'is welcomed by {the Communist party and news- | papers as clearing the way for po- |litical and economic cooperation | without however binding Russia to ' | the Axis. The pact was signed by Soviet “ Premier Molotoff and Japan’s For- eign Minister Matsuoka and is re- j2arded by observers as rivalling in "importn.nce the nonaggression ac- cord of 1939 between Germany and Russia. | The accord pledges each Nation { to remain neutral in event the other | s made the “object of hostilities on the part of one or several | parties.” oy Pclicy Expressed ‘The pact fits into the general pat- tern expressed by the Soviet Union cn the policy cf peace and neutral- ity in the midst of the expanding war, The Pravda, Communist Party or- gan, said the pact and the accom- | panying declaraticn. pledging re- | spects and integrity as regards Man- ! choukuo and Outer Mongolia, “clears | the way for regulaticn of other un- {sclved questions between the Soviet | Union and Japan.” | ment paves the way for a settlement | concerning the rights and privileges {of Japan fishing in grounds of the Far Past. | The pact is effective for five years Iand pledges the two powers to re- |spect each other's “territorial in- i jtegrx'.v Americans in Belgrad BLOW 10 U. §. 3 TOKYO, April 14—The new Jap- lOonunued on Page hm GreekHaven s vIEWS ISTANBUL, April 14, Well informed diplomatic sources esti- mated that 12,000 Greek soldiers and 20000 Greek civilians have { taken refuge in Turkey, principally from the Thrace region. — e l Srock Quorarions ! NEW YORK, April 14. — Closing| \AcHINGTON, April 14.—Secre- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ;... of State Cordell Hull declared stock today is 4%, American Can toqey the Russiam-Japanese neu- 86 3/4, Bethlehem Steel 73, Com-! trality pact “could be overestimated” monwealth and Southern %, Cur-/pu¢ the policy of the American Gov- tiss Wright 8, General Motors 40%, arnment remains unchanged. Says Russia]pan Simply Reveal Situation- No Surprise International Harvester 44 3 “ Secretary Hull ailsc said: “The Kennecott 32'%, New York Central sgreement seems to be descriptive of 12%, Northern Pacific 6, Pound the situation in effect and that has $4.03, United States Steel 52 7/8." |existed between the two countries |for some time in the past, there~ ' DOW, JONES AVERAGES | tore comes as no surprise, alt The following are today's Dow, there existed a doubt 'whether industrials 11889, two Governments would of, wayld: not agree to say it in writing." TurkeyNow yyy Gives |in a neutrality pact that may be as . | third 4 The Pravda also says the agree- 3. OF TREATY