The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 15, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ,ALASKA, TUESAY. APRIL 15, 1941, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS l VOL. LVIL, NAZIS (RACK ALLIED DEFENSE s MAY CALL MORE U.S. MEN TO “COLORY’ "NATION I§ | Reviews New Ay (4KILLEDIN FIRSTUNITED STATES BATTLESHIP IN 18 YEARS COMMISSIONED KEY TOWN | NOWEACING CSOFTCOAL " CAPTURED EMERGENCY MINE AREA | B NALIS ' Dangerous Sifuation Is Twenty Others Wounded (Florina Is Taken in Drive | Voiced by Secrefary ! in Morning Gunfire- | South from Strategic | of War Stimson Cause Unknown ‘ Bitol; Pass ' (IVILIAN NEEDS MAY ot oat e il Tour men thin ' BRITISH, GREEKS ARE BE SUBORDINATED . FORCED BACK, GREECE merning ar resulted in the wound- ing of more than 20 others. Ik A4 Officers said thcy could not de-| — ' Warning Given Army Plan- Panzer Cqumn; Repqued ning Further Extensive Hurled Back in Mount Program of Training Olympui Seclor termine immediately what Jed to the % « CI WASHINGTON, April 15.—Secre- By ASSOCIATED PRESS) shooting which took place near the mine which had not stopped opera- | tions in the general shutdown due to the wage dispuie, \ Patroiman Guy Harrell, of Mid- | dlesboro, Ky., said the battle started on the road leading to Fork Ridge tary of War Henry L. Stimson today Coal Company’s mine about one Hitler’s blitzkrieg invaders have solemnly warned the Senate In- cracked a point in the V-shaped Al- vestigating Committee the United ! lied defense line in Greece and are States is now facing a “dangerous ! | reported to. have captured the key emergency that may be very pro- town of Florina in the drive from longed.” 2 Bitolj Pass and forced the British Testifying as the first witness be- and Greeks to retire deeper into the fore the new Defense Investigating zenter front. T mile from the Tennessee state line.| Committee’ headed by Senator Har- Hitler's ind He said motorcades of miners as-| ts the Nasi teooth Ve GecupiRd HiokimA £ w8 WY )&...‘ 1 . P T _sembled there last night and headed | toward the mine, ! Tcday's dead include C. W. Rhode, ! 45, President of the Fork Ridge Coal Company; E. W. Silvers, VicesPresi- dent and Treasurer of the Company, ) Gen, John J. Pershing 8til] spry despite his80.years, Gen- eral John J. Pershing, A.EF. com- mander in the World War, arrives at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for & demonstration by 14,000 soldiers tion and if this 8 trie, it means the | Allies have suffered at least a 40- mile setback before taking a new tand near Ptolemais: The German headquarters claim at least 30 British armored cars have been destroyed in the thrust. Onslaught Stemmed On thae-right flank, the British report better success in stemming the Nazi onslaught. The British claim they have hurled back a series of assaults by the German Panzer col- umns in the Mount Olympus sector in Eastern Greece. Greek Statement The High Command at Athens said the Nazi forces are advancing in ry S. Truman of Missouri, the War OO0 oL SehiEl one miner and & former, Tefineasce | Department head indicated i t :e- ! " chicies.. ighway . Eatrokpan, i | nearby to Koalani, 40 miles south of the future, preparations 1 ¥ it.he Albanian-Yugoslav border junc- | | made to meet this emergency -M[ the nation’s civilian needs may be further subordinated to the mili- tary program to expedite the pro- duction of war supplies. Secretary Stimson did not say just how long he thought the danger period might last but he declared 1 VacesGolo HOPKINS TO Wages Go llp MI For Workers - HAVECHARGE Steel Plants LEASE - LEND Hundreds of Thousands of Will Make Purchases of: Men fo Get Ten-Cent | War Materials-Appoint- | At colorful ceremonies at the Brooklyn Navy Yard the $70,000,000 battleship North Carolina was commissioned, the first capital ship commis- sioned by the Navy in 18 years. This was the general scene on the quarterdeck of the fighting eraft during the ceremony. & ¢ ILORS GERMANS ADVANCE, | ALBANIA UNDER' CHEERS F DOWN (Continued on Page Eight) #a N : Dree Peoncn an Hour Increase 1 ed by Pres. Roosevelf , e A g -t el Robert S.Alles — . S [ s st phekinie u L ar i B Finds Greeks Evacuated i Gemans near Prolmuis - (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Wage increases for hundreds or Hepkins officially in charge of pur-{ thousands of the Nation's steel work- chasing and acquisition of war ma- ers averted a threatened strike terials for all countries benefitting . against the industry according to under the Lease-Lend Act. an official announcement today. | Deals with other countries which Many small steel mills, following invclve consideration for the foreign| the lead set up the United States policy will be handled by the State Steel Corporation and other big Department. | producers, are also granting wage A sl ey L] L] Mopping Up | pporEct HER SHIPS Serb Army, vugosIaVia’ -WABHINGTON‘ April 15—Presi- | dent Roosevelt said today the United States will protect its merehant ships wherever they go, so long as| In countering the British claims »f having repulsed the Nazi thrusts in the Mount Olympus sector, {Hit- One Sector But Too la'e '0 Give Ba“le |ler's command deglgres the Gesman B | forces are pursuing the British in the retreat south of Salonika. ! The Germans report the British vear guards are pictured as attempt- ing to slow the Nazi steamroller WASHINGTON — Defense heads | | _are worried lest the U. S. family . medicine chest be hard hit by the (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | A Reuters dispatch says the Ger- {mans are moving toward Klusura,; | Albanian town near Tepelini on the Greek western front, and it is also | claimed the Greek forces have with- drawn from Corfzza sector, taken by “extensive destruction.” last Saturday in southeastern Al- bania. Etwcpde e The German High Command says, o HElp the “enemy withdrawal from the| i Corizza sector was not discovered for | ) 124 hours after it began' and all ut-i tempts to hinder it by pushing for-| izza without any German assistance | _ {and is now driving toward Greece ward motorcyele brigades proved fu- | . i’vhmunh a gap torn in the western | R e n fo’(emen's sefl' 'o Mediterranean war. To offset an expected shortage and price rise, | they are discussing a plan to set up | an import control similar to the ex- port control now in effect on certain strategic materials. For many years the drug industry has been dependent upon foreign sources for such essential items as | belladonna, from the Balkans; nux |l vomica from India; quinine from the chincone tree grown mainly in Java; opium from poppies grown in Turkey and Jugoslavia; and gum arabic from the acacia tree in the Sudan. ! Virtually all imported bontanical | drugs can be grown in the United - States, but low pre-war prices made tile." Mussclini’s Command asserted the | Italian' Ninth Army recaptured Cor- | {Both German and Ialian it unprofitable. Now, with shipping 5 i {they do not enter any combat zones, : ol Anierl il e helf of the Allied defense liny | . ind - roclaimed 1 1i Confetti and paper filled the air as residents of Brisbane, Australia, welcomed erican sailors who re- C e. | z:z:)l‘::s t‘l"]‘e"{) besco‘?:c::‘:“ s:riaous FOI‘CeS En("dmg Rem RcL 3 e e R cently arrived there on seven warships of the U. 8. naval squadron in Australian waters. The crowd which o7 O o e Fron' Desp"e Gel'mal‘l | shortage of these drugs plus soar- | nanfs of Defenders | turned out was described as the largest in the city's history. : Reports fo Contrar Y ing prices and profiteering. SIO(K ouo]-A“o"S | e Sy s D T BRI Ry S SEEKI“G i e— 4 Authormx learned that n':emlyf. (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | . TN | railroads looked ar‘ound, ln'..‘ | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) out of 'ms ?ment :{e;m cl;sreeok In the campaign in Yugoslavia, i r' es |n|s o They would be willing to stake| . ARMISI'(E o“E 1 | g 4rablo—trariapoeted If & the German High Command says| NEW YORK, April 15—Closing @8 @8 Wty ai as Sy e Dad s 4 ;clfl,;‘;t?l(::mge::l:;":m’: g:munmudd!-. freighter from Alexandria, Egypt. via the Red Sea, the Pacific and Panama Canal to an Atlantic port— one importer got four-fifths of the stock. The remaining one-fifth was distributed among his competitors. This in effect gave him a corner on gum arabic, as, according to De- fense experts, he obtained what German and Italian troops are speeding a “pursuit and encircle- ment” of the Serbian army remnants {which are said to be putting up only {localized resistance in the Mostar Sarajevo sector. ———.——— ;quot.auon of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can /86%, Anaconda 22%, Bethlehem ,8teel 71%, Commonwealth and | Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8, Gen- eral Motors 40, International Har- ester 45, Kennecott 32%, New York Central 12, Northern Pacific 6, thing big in return. What could Uncle Sam offer? Uncle Sam| looked around. Goodness knows,| ‘he did have land. West of the | Mississippi there was more land| ' landLead; Is Second jof. REPORT TONIGHT BUDAPEST, April quarters here said Yugoslavia | through luftwaffe observations, have i discovered undisputed proof the ! British are preparing to make a 15—Official | hasty retreat from Greece. is |than any one ever had drcamed‘undcrswod to have asked for an behavior is the most shameful crime | armistice, The request was made by | ever perpetrated on an ally.” So the “biggest real estate deal‘the new Yugoslavia Government| The sources assert that “England’s A London radio broadcast this | Onll fo La. Purchase amounts to a three years’ supply. lPauli"e Monroe to :"nogid States Steel. 51%, Pound since the Louisiana Purchasc” on Germany but none of the eve-|afternoon declared however, “strong Under an import oo:nut;ol -:ll.:fi- ey | By JACK STINNETT nutshell. . Back in 1850, Uncle wmst mnd in progress. It lnvlt:lw: ning newspapers published any- British reinforcements are now mov- ers would be treated e; e . . . i g 5 e | vast lan grants on oné hand, thing regarding the reported move. ing up to the front lines in G L Government would be able indirectly Tea(h |n callforn'a DOW, JONES AVIIM[!!S WASHINGTON, April 154—0verx Sam_needed transportation mum.ngreemenc to complete vast rail- PSS S, ) ——evo——— to keep a lid on price kiting. The following are today’s Dow,| = ... .o Interior building— than anything else. The Wood-|yoad systems on the other. When { Jones averages: Industrials 11859, eating Iron Horse looked like a the history of this era is fully! BOB DYER RETURNS |ALEX HOLDENS LEAVE iwhere you can hardly turn n.l light on without. a written permit| pretty good bet. It might even be 21500 miles of high iron, the) from . the Secretary — Secretary| 2 improvement on the Pony EX-| il geates gave away 168 mil- sition for next year with Miss Ruth . Harold L. Ickes is writing finis|press. iv.nov oniy might be able 1ion acres of land. That was about . universities have begun , Oregory of Los Angeles. | Vita Food Products representative [to one of the greatest eras in to get the mail through as fn?vf—lme equivalent of all the Atlantic and Defense experts say that if M‘l Miss Monroe has been English with headquarters at Ketchikan, Hal| American history, the era of west-| it- might be able to carry some seaboard states from Maine to instructor here for the past five Finch, is a through passénger on ihe, ern railroad expansion. freight too. ” i Mol B (Continued on Page Four) , years, | North Coast bound for Sitka.’ 1 will try to give it to you.in a | The men who manipulated the (Continued on Page Sevep) Miss Pauline Monroe, Juneau.rails 27.95, utilities 18.56. ON MONTH'S VACATION {High School instructor, has ac- e : 'cepted an exchange teaching po- ENROUTE TO SITKA DOMESTIC DRUGS written, it will fill volumes. For! Meanwhile the situation has re- vived interest in domestic produc- tion of botanical drugs. Several state Returning from a short combined vacation and business trip outside,] Mr .and Mrs. Alex Holden and Robert L. Dyer, personnel manager |their son Sandy will leave aboard* for Seims-Drake-Puget Sound, is on | the Princess Norah tomorrow bound. the northbound North Coast enroute | for Victoria to visit relatives there, - - to Sitka. With Dyer was his wflei:md also in Seattle. They will Teturfix > & and son, Peter. to Juneau in about a month,