The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8701. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” FIERCE BATTLE RAGING ON GREEK FRONT NEW TAXES . Salonika, Vital Greek Port, Taken by Nazis (ENTEROF | NEW LINE | ATTACKED Allies in Direct Clash with German Mechanized | Units at Kalabaka : SERIOUS STUATION IS, HOWEVER, APPARENT Ausiraliahs_Afio Engaged on One Flank, Inflicting Heavy l_osses ATHENS, April 17.—The British and Greek forces are engaged in a fierce battle late this afternoon with German mechanized units on a new | line in the Kalabaka Region on the: Grecian front, the outcome of which is expected to prove decisive. { Kalabaka is some. 90 miles within | Greece and near the center of the Allied defense line and the railhead gateway to the lowlands. ik Late afternoon reports”said the Allied defense lines are holding steady but reliable informants make no effort to minimize the seriousness of the situation. On the northeast section of the defense line, Australian troops are reported to be holding the 1ine.in»1' tact against furicus German as-! saults. i One vicious battle is also reported late today as raging at the entrance' of Sarandaporon Pass near Serria and the Australians are also there and reported inflicting heavy losses, on the Germans. —_——a—— | | 1 i ‘r ~ihe WASHINGTON—Through half a century Franklin Roosevelt and Henry L. Stimson have differed on almost everything political. But at the Gridiron dinner the other night, Roosevelt paid his Republican Sec- retary of War one of the finest trib- | utes he has ever given anyone in public life. In paying this tribute, the Presi- dent preached a sermbn which would have made an excellent fire- side chat. The inner circle would have liked it to ‘be broadcast to the | nation instead of restricted to a | limited group. It was a sermon on ; keeping faith—keeping faith with the ideals of peace, and the ideals of | democracy. The Gridiron dinner struck a more | sombre, restiained note this year. A | lot of the usual partisan vitriol was absent, and Roosevelt, noting this | restraint, said in his introducion | that it was all-important in the present state of the world for peo- ple not te lose the ability to laugh. | Humor, he said, was an essential | to everyone in public office, and| he had had occasion to turn down/ one distinguished man for an im- portant post because he completely | lacked a sense ©f humor. i The most important thing in the world today, he Went ongmhs that people should not lose faith. Greece and Yugoslavia logt faith. France must not lose faith. If the nations under attack today lost faith, then all that we hope for in the world today would vanish. The suffering people of the world, he said, must keep faith in their democratic ideals and in their hope for peace. ” It was in this connection that the President paid his tribute to’ his (Continued on Page Four) 7 directions. IT'S BERRY TIME—_spring’s in the air, and strawberries are-on the vines at Hammond, La., where the crop is being %0 help bolster Hammond’s claim as “strawberry capital.” erator cars speed the berries to markets. ¥ ed ek Rerig- BIG BABY BOND POSTER FOR COMING CAMPAIGN HIS RECALL DEMANDED P The Italian government demanded the recall of Captain William C. Bentley (above), assistant military attache of the United States Ewmn- bassy in Rome in apparent reprisal for the action of the United States in forcing the withdrawal of the Italian naval attache from this country. Brifish Snipers Alerfl)r Signals LONDON, April 17.—Snipers are to be posted at Ilofty points throughout Britain to fire at torchlight signals which fifth col- umnists are making to Naziplanes, says the Evening Standard. These enemy agents shine a torch at a safe distance from among trees in a thick wood while; the raider is circling. The bomb aimer drops a stick of bombs in accordance with their ————— Sand painting 1s a religious ceremony ‘for Navajo Indians, and is seldom photographed, - PICKED BY MORGENTHAU| | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April‘ 17.—Capi- tal talk: Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau has picked his poster for the big baby bond campaign that soon is going to be waged. It's a Minute Man (Daniel Chester French’s, I think). Across the pos- ter will be that old fighting motto: “America on Guard.” | 'The pretty Long Island debu- | tante, Sarah Alden Derby, is a secretary in the office of Rep. Jo- seph Clark Baldwin, 3rd. Miss Derby is one of the Roosevelts— the Republican Roosevelts. She's the granddaughter of President ITheodcre Roosevelt, Says Miss iDerby: “I'm too busy with my career to think about either so- ciety or politics.” AN ALDEN YEAR You can always tell when it's spring in Washington, Days or weeks before it arrives, the powers that be get together and select the queen of the Cherry Blossom Festival. Then they go into a hud- dle with the chief of the Weather Bureau and select a date, which is wrong about seven times out of ten. The error doesn’t matter much because whatever ‘day they pick, be it good weather or bad, attracts more tourists than- the hotels can accommodate or the store clerks can serve. The “queen” this year is 17- year-old Nancy Alden (it seems to be an Alden year) Strong. I would almost bet that neither you nor Nancy can name one of her predecessors, Like the cherry blos- soms around the tidal basin, fame is that fleeting. CAPITAL SIDELIGHT Washington is like this: If Vivi- en Leigh herself had come to town she probably would have got a menticn, but nothing like Elaine Elliott, 18-year-old New York girl, got. The reason: Elaine is presi- dent of a New York ehapter of the “Vivien Leigh Fan Club"—is a-dead ringer for Great Britain's contribution to the screen version of Scarlet O'Hara. She’s in Washington trying to get a passport to England so she can “present Miss Leigh with a watch which we have bought from fan club dués.” Knowing “fan club” dues, I was a littie “(Continued on | ugsvven‘ — yindustry in the Cook Inlet metrop- PROPOSED IN (OMING YEAR Administratifilo Ask for; Three and One-Half Billion Dollar Levy APPROVAL GIVENBY | LEADERS IN CONGRESS Drastic Measures Under| Consideration, Morgen- thau Says, for Plan WASHINGTON, April 17,—5801'(’-1‘ tary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau | today announced that the Adminis- | tration with approval of both Demo- | cratic and Republican Congressional leaders, will ask for three billion and one half dollars in new taxes to be| raised next year. Secretary Morgenthau told the reporters the President has approved of the program and at an early date. Wil discuss it with the American people. No details of how the money will | be raised are disclosed by Morgen- thau indicated the Government will tap every possible means of ralsing | taxes despite the former policies of the Administvation, 3 | Morgentha: indicated’ Such dras- | tic means as a general sales ta. payroll tax and other heavy mon raising ideas are under considera- | tion, AXISUNITS REPULSING BRITISHERS Command Declares Terrific | Losses Are Inflicted on Tobruk Sector (By Associated Press) Authorized sources claim the Ger- man and Italian forces have re- | right is the weterfront I:onlevm;rl. X Ly Sarajevo, World War o g View of the city of Sarajevo Subjected to flerce Stuka dive-bombing attacks, the city of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, southwest of “Birthplace,” in Ruins? Here is a view of the important Greek seaport of Salonika, on the Abgean Sea, which has been captured by the Germans. In this picture, the white building is the Mediterranean Palace Hotel. The street at the £o-SSERES T ey TR jevo, the “birthplace” of the first World war (it was here that Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was ruins. Sara- assassinated) is 122 miles from Belgrade, \COAST DEFENSE, CANADAANDUS. | 15 NOW PLANNED Permanenfil;ard Makes' GREAT FIGHT | “ LOOMING IN 5 “o' _G_R EE( E Announcement - Con- Be Fished i ‘Nazi Command Says Forces| ditions Walched This Year " dnaing Bl ove | itions Walche Unions Sign Agreement Locked with Brifish with APA - Negofiaie BERLIN, April 17.—Nazi forces for Bristol Bav Now are conflnuini to advance In‘g;'::e"';ofi; e Join Rermanens Greece and an official announce-| “The board will now devote at- SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April17. Ment says Serri a has been cap-| tention to keeping these plans up to —The Alaska Packers' Association|tured after sweeping across the date to meet the changing condi- has signed a contract with the Aliakmon River. | pulsed repeated attempts of British ' armored cars to break through the Axis ring around Tobruk. The Axis command claims terrific losses have been inflicted on the British. Chignik fo MONIREAL, Aprii 17.—Comple- | tion of plans for military and naval | defense of the eastern and western | coasts of Canada and the United { States, is announced by the Canad- | tions,” the official announcement unions affiliated with the Mari- The High Command announces $a¥s: | time Federation of the Pacific jor the drive is aimed at the east flank | the annual fishing expedition to Of the re-formed British-Greek de- Chignik. fense line. wubra" Mk Is ' Negotiations. are now underway The German advance is claimad for contracts to cover Bristol Bay to have carried the Nazi forces FI “ R '“ d | fshing, | nearly. 70 miles southward of tne nally keiurne —_——e— —— | frontier. in this sector, west and | GOING TO ANCHORAGE northwest of Mount Olympus.Ear- 05 ANGELES, April 17.—Bor- Mrs. Frank McDermott and chil-'lier reports said the advancing Ger- ! rowed April 23, 1909—returned Feb- dren are leaving this weekend for man forces had come to grips with rygry 24, 1941. Such is the entry Anchorage to join Mr. McDermott! the British force south of Mount|gon g Los Angeles public library who is associated with the lumber Olympus and the engagement pook. Checked out by a man, it was would probably develop into & ma- left inconspicuously on the library olis. l.ior military engagement. | desk. FREE SPEECH IS RIGHT OF PRESS, FDR ‘President Tells Nation’s Editors There Will Be No News Control WASHINGTON, April 16.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today told the na- tion’s editors that so far as he is concerned “there will be no gov- ernment control of news unless if concerns vital military informa- tion.” In a letter to the American So- ciety of Newspaper Editors’ annual that free speech is the undisputed possession of the press, magazines, motion pictures and radio and so far as he is concerned “it will re- toric center of Berlin on April 9* | main there for that is where it belongs.” —————— MRS. CHITTICK RETURNING Mrs. Rex Chittick, who has been south several weeks, is returning to her Juneau home aboard the Taku. s dLR0R smoul No ong has any aceurate idea of = NAZI FORCES ATTACK FOR EIGHT HOURS Uncounted Tons of Explos- ive, Fire Bombs Drop- ped During Assault MORGUES PACKED HIGH; HOSPITALS ARE JAMMED Blocks on Blocks of Wreck- age Smouldering-Scene Almost Unparalleled LONDON, April 17. — Hundreds of Nazi planes roared continuously over London for eight hours last night and early today to drop un- counted tons of high explosive and fire bombs in the heaviest air raid of the present war. 3 Morgues are piled high with the dead and hospitals are jammed with the injured. ¥ on blocks of wre the deadyand wounded nor the' amount of property damage in the already battered British Capital City but no one doubts the in- tensity of the attack. Thousands of explosive and fire bombs fell on the city. Observers compared it with 'the tierce raid on Coventry and said it was worse than anything seen in London during the height of the Nazi assaults last autumn. Lord Is Victim Lord Stamp, the Government's Economic Adviser, and his wife are among those killed. His body has been recovered but searchers are still burrowing in the debris for the body of Lady Stamp. Death strugk the Air Raid Serv- ice men in all parts of the cily. Members of rescue squads were killed. One bomb exploded directly ia “front of a fire truck as it was speeding to a scene of fire and | the truck and men were blown up. Firemen on a high ladder, pour- |ing water on a blazing building, were killed when a bomb hit the foot of the ladder. Fire watchers on a church were (Continued on Page Seven) BLOW IS MADE AS | 'REPRISAL" ‘Overnight Atfack on Lon- don Struck Because of Berlin Attack April 9 BERLIN, April 17—~The German Air Force delivered the overnight attack on London as a “reprisal” blow, and the German newspapers declare this afternoon that the blow (was the “biggest air raid of all | times.” | Returning observers said London {was blanketed this forenoon with i thick clouds of smoke, broken only convention, the President declared by flames. | The German High Command calls' | the attack a “reprisal for the Eng- ,lish destruction of the cultural his- and threatens increasing retaliation ifor every future British attack on the residential sections of Germany. | one returning German fiier de= |clared the retaliatory action W’ “perhaps one hundred fold,” con~ firming Hitler's promise that the bombing of German towns' will' be* repaid 10 or 20 fold,