The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 21, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. LVIL, NO. 8704. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRI ALL THE TIME” APRIL 21,1941 BER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS THRUST DEEP IN UNITED STATES, CANADA MAKENE ROOSEVELT, KING HOLD: CONFERENCE AgreememTeporied Fol- lowing Seven-Hour ¢ (LEANUPR AID DEBRIS m—— 5 2 RUINS LEFT BYBLAZES | IN8STATES i Devasialinfiries of For- est Fires Leave Thou- | T0 GREECE WPACT PANZERS IN MOVEDOWN BIG VALLEY ; German Columns Proceed- ing Toward Athens Along 60-Mile Front Talk atHydePark | ! = . | sands Charred Acres 0-M PRESIDENT,—PIEEMIER . TINY SPARKS FANNED | ALLIES RETREAT T0 T0 BOLSTER DEFENSE ‘ INTO FIERCE I‘MMES1 | SHORT_DEFEIN LINE b § Hundreds 67Homes, Also' | Major Battle Expected fo P | Farms and Farm Houses | Be Fought in Moun- of Articles-To Speed Up Production HYDE PARK, N. Y., April 21.— iy mobilization of North Am- erica’s resources, calling for an in- terchange of defense articles by the United States and Canada, has been agreed upon by President Roosevelt ‘and Canadian Premier W. Mackenzie King. The plan is designed for the dual purpose of hastening aid to Great Britain and other democra- cies and defense of-this hemuwu&i The agreement was announcedin a joint statement last night after (Continued on Pag Reported Destroyed (By Associated Press) Thousands of acres in eight | eastern states are charred ruins !today as the aftermath of a devas- tating series of forest fires that { consumed sun-dried countrysides like cordwood. Tiny sparks became | raging flames under the double spur of brisk breezes and tinder-like trees, shrubs and grasses were de- | voured as well as hundreds of | homes and scores of farms and | farm houses. i A fortnight of unseasonable warm ‘dry weather is blamed for the | seriousness of the situation and THE ‘BRAINS’ tored German fighting plane, lant 1 after it had been shipped fro s perts have been examining its parts with the utmost care, N plant in California, ‘Mts.. FDR Speaks to Bntam OF A MESSERSCHMIT T_Here is the instrument panel of a two- a Messerschmitt 110 model, which was reassembled at the Vultee m England where it was shot down. Aviation ex- ote machine guns in plane’s nose. WARNINGS ARE GIVEN fain Barriers (By Associated Press) Hitler’'s rampaging Panzer col- | umns are today reported less than | 150 miles from Athens, thrusting | south along the 60-mile wide plain |of Thessaly in central Greece as !the Allles acknowledged they have : fallen back again to a shorter de- | fense line. | Apparently the next major stand jof the British and Greeks will be * | made in the southern mountain bar- irviers guarding the appoach to ! Athéns, vetween the Gulf of Corinth |and the, Greek port of Lamia. The British Middle East Head- ! quarters said the British withdrawal |1s “in conformity with a movement e el b s R |the several hundred individual » it | blazes that flamed with the larger 1 Wh::bf ::'?lfr:ek Army is fighting e 2 - roaring fires. : on the Iy nk." P A | Dozens of fire fighters were BY Australian and Now Zealand ’ g{,a oL || |felled during the terrific battling $r00p4 hitve exaaplen “hrilliao: aear A | with the various fires and at least j guard agtions and inflicted a heavy [ British Army Engineers aid in cleaning up debris after air raids on | ope rors resulted. PR |t ch s Bt the Tomtie o The hardest hit areas were Cen- Drew Pearson London. In some cases they use acetylene torches, as these two en- |tra] and Southern New Jersey, Se(retary Of_ CO mmerce , broadcasting station declares the od gineers are doing in the shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral, where 68 homes were gutted, with Makes POIH'Ed s'a'e- now. d;‘m ec;ine has not blfen brok- Robert S.Alles property damages estimated at over f:‘n:o w:uyerlnhx:zn the :‘fi’: Dl:‘oz; ¥ ML, MKirley TSOUDEROS | $1,000,000. Other states with blackened tree | stumps and marked by pdths of fires are Massachusetts, New York,! | ments, Defense NEW YORK, April 21.—Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones declared “thrown in still more reinforce- ments of both mechanized and in- fantry units, also aircraft. In some mountainous sections the Germans ~G > WASHINGTON — There is only | one reason why Secretary Frances Perkins continues in the Cabinet as head of the Department of Labor. That reason is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Though it’s an inner circle secret, Miss Perkin's resignation has been on his desk for more than a month. Why he hasn’t done anything about it in the face of widespread de- mands for a stronger Labor Secre- tary, including some from his closest \’ advisers, is known only to him. Intimates attribute it to the Presi- dent’s inability to give the gate to old friends, no matter how much they embarrass him. For a long time Miss Perkins Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia| and West Virginia. In West Virginia some 150 blaz- es were reported up to mid-fore- | teday that although defense activity {is “better than good” there is na'gunfire of the Allies.” room for American complacency. The German High Command says i The Commerce Secretary spoke' Allied reverses have seen the Ger- ] at the annual luncheon of the Asso- mans break through the northern ciated Press. He coupled his report' mountain defense on the Mount of progress of defense over the past Olympus and JToannina front and year, with two warnings. i have captured Larisa, Trikkala and “If aggressor Nations are success- are storming down the plain of {ful, our generation is apt to see' Thessaly toward historic Thermo- little of tranquility and if we get pylae, the control point for the ready for defense bf ourselves, let Greclans railroads through central ; - |us be sure to do a good job." | Greece. The German Command says 4 i Secretary Jones added: Maybe we the Nazis control Greece from Sal- g |can't be invaded but we might be-|onika to Volos with Hitler himself |come isolated economically and that directing the German blitz from a |inevitably leads to war. Trade out- ' raflway car, somewhere in the Bal- lets cause most of the wars.” | kans, — ., | The German High Command claims Nazi mechanized forces are ' | have been mowed down by terrific RunsAground In Narrows| Is Escorfed fo Juneau by Coast Guard Hemlock- Diver from Sitka After lying careened aground on a mud bank at the southern end of Wrangell Narrows for almost 11 hours, from Saturday- night to ! noon today. F GREECE ~ —— e (’PREMIER OF Heads New Cabinef - De- clares Greeks Will | GREE(E 'I'OOK "Fight to End”* i Greece, succeeding Alexandros Mor- | {izis who committed suicide at his | Franklin D, Roosevelt chats with Surgeon Commander John %dlry.l.il, :‘Mhed to the British battleship Malaya as the First Lady {spoke in New York at the first of a series of international radio pro- grams sponsored by Friends of Britain, Ine How fo See National ; seemed unaware of her unpopular-; ity. But in recent months it ap- parently dawned on her. To give| the President freedom of action to replace her (a degree of sincerity in | marked contrast to certain of her former colleagues), she tendered her | resignation. His failure to name a successor cannot be attributed to lack of material. Three top-notch New Dealers of proven ability are avail- able—Solicitor General Francis Bid- dle, who was chairman of the orig- inal National Labor Board; William H. Davis, vice-chairman of the Na- tional ‘Defense Mediation Board, who has had extensive experience; in the labor fields; and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York. Meanwhile, the President*has handling of defense labor disputes.' She is under strict orders to certify ' immediately to the Mediation Board all cases recommended by OPM chiefs. Purpose of this is to end her Conciliation Service's domination of her decisions on whether to certify a controversy or not. POET-POLITICIAN | Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish is one of the great poets ' of the country. but he also is no slouch as a politician. The House committee investigat-’ ing migrant labor has been particu- larly interested in the problem of overcrowding in defense industry Sunday morning, the Alaska Steam- ship Company vessel, Mount Mc- Kinley, arrived at Juneau this morning, 24 hours late on her schedule. She was escorted here by the Coast Guard lighthouse tender Hemlock. With 190 passengers aboard, the| northbound vessel, according Lo: stories of passengers, struck a bar | at a turn in the Narrows at ap- proximately 10:30 o'clock Saturday evening. “Then it seemed that we were| off our course and the shipseemed to stagger into the left bank of| the Narrows. The tide was very low,” said one passenger, “and the ship ran aground for half her length, touching the shore hard and fast from the bow to the middle of the ship. The deck %lanted so, much that it was hard to walk on! it.” No Shock Other passengers said that there was no shock when the ship struck, explaining that when the McKinley first hit the bar at the turn the speed of the vessel was consider- ably lowered. Capt. Arthur Ryning immedi- ately sent out radio messages tell- ing of the position of the Mount McKinley and Ketchikan head-! quarters of the Coast Guard sent| out the cutters Nemaha and Hem-| lock from Ketchikan and. radio=d, $ < | (Continued ov Page Eighi) | paign against us.” ‘afternoon, called on his Greek forc- home last Friday night. Tsouderos has also been named | Minister of Foreign Affafrs, Min- ! isted of Finance and, Provisional | Minister of Economy in the Cabinet formed by Admiral Alexander Sak- | ellariou, as Vice-Premier. ' The new Premier declared the Greeks will “fight to the end” and “fight until the Balkans are cleared of those who led the infamous cam- | | Fight fo End, Requests King (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) King George, in a broadeast, this es to fight “to the very end.” (AA INSPECTOR HERE | ON WAY 70 SEATILE | L K. McWilliams, senjor aero-| nautical inspector of the CAA, and! stationed at Anchorage, arrived in! Juneau on the southbound Alaska last night. ‘ The inspector and his wife, are| stopover passengers in Juneau and will continue to Seattle in' a few days. Official Announcement Is Made Regarding Sud- den Death, Morizis ATHENS, Aprii 21.—Premier Mor- izis, whose sudden death was an- nounced last Friday night, com- mitted suicide by shooting himself at his home. This has been ofticisi:y announced by the Greek Govern- ment. Morizis was only 55 and had been leader of the fighting Nation for only 80 days. Funeral services were held late last Saturday afternoon. Transports Of British Senf Down BERLIN, April 21—Five British transports, totalling 23,000 tons, sail- ing from the Isle of Crete, are re- ported to have been sunk by a strong German air force, It is said this statement is made by authorized Nazi sources, Capifol on Nothinga Day,_Th_aI Is --- Almost By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Avril 21.—Inthe ilast few weeks I have had many you can in any other city in the requests for information about, “What should I do in Washing-| ton?” Judging by the mail, there are! going to be more tourists in Capi- tal City this spring and summer than ever before. I don't mean judging by the great number of queries that have come to depart- ments of the Government that have anything at all to do with direct- ing - visitors within the District of Columbia borders. That means there probably will| be between 2,375,000 and 3,000,000| visitors in. Washington this year. The average has been around/ 2,250,000. So I'm going to divide my an-| swer into two columns and lead gton on Nothing a Day.” Of course, there is no such thlng‘ as that. But if you pay transpor- tation in and out, make arrange- ments for moderate room and! board, you'can spend a long week-| | call end here without putting out an- other penny and see more than| United States. | To begin with, if you arrive ati Union Station with no advance| information as to where to stay,| the Washington Board of | Trade. It has a hotel and room information service, ranging from/| single rooms in private homes fo| splendiferous hotel suites, If you| drive into the capital in a car and| want to check with the Automo-| bile Association of America xlhe; AAA), you probably will get the same information. With that done and three days| to spare and every hour to fill| (without cost), you look up your Congressman or Senator. Why?| Because he can see to it that you; get passes to the House and Sen- ate galleries in the Capitol—and| special passes to the White Housu] (10:30 am. to 12 noon). If you| don’t know any Congressmen, you still can see the White House| 16 German Planes Are Shof Down Brifish Refil~ Air Battle Over Athens - Large Formation Fought (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The British Headquarters in Ath- ens reports 16 German planes were shot down Sunday, 14 of them over Athens, in a single battle. The statement says the planes were in a “very large formation and consisted of dive bombers, fighters and other classes.” Several other raiders were crip- pled, the British statement asserts. The London radio broadcast says seven British planes have been lost in warfare over Greece. e CROSSON COMING Joe Crosson, General Manager of the Pacific Alaska Airways, is a pas- senger on the northbound Douglas, House (10 am. until 2 pm.) but (Continued on l;ni? Seven) due to arrive here from Seattle this afternoon. | driving south‘“far beyond Larisa; pursuing the retreating British and i Greek troops.” The Greek communique, however, | declares the new defense line is holding doggedly under the violent assault and no where have the Ger- mans knifed through it. GERMANY - PLANNING NEW MOVE | Demands Free Passage of Troops Through Spain to Attack Gibralfar VICHY, April 21—It is reported ‘here that German terms, brought {from Paris by Otto Abetz, German i Ambassador there and to be given to Spain for operations against Gi- braltar, close to the western end of the Mediterranean and the strong British fortress. It is indicated a movement might start south within a the most, possibly vlth!’z'n g ah ! !