The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8705. “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BOTH ENDS ALLIED LINES ARE CRACKED } Reports British in Dangerous Military Spot " CHURCHILL SILENT ON SITUATION Admits Before House of Commons that Forces Are in Bad Way REFUSES TO MAKE ANY POSITIVE STATEMENT Prime Minister Says Blitz- krieg Forces May Have Occupied Samothraki LONDON, Aril 22—British Prime Minister Churchill informed the House of Commons this afternoon | that he must remain silent about Great Britain’s dangerous military, position in Greece. Churchill informed the members | of Commons that ‘“operations of | many kinds are going on and we' have others. to think of besides our- selves.” Churchill also said that he thought it “not unlikely” the Germans hayve occupied Samothraki Island near the ‘Turkish controlled Dardanelles, the Gateway to the Black Sea. WASHINGTON — Behind the scenes, Henry Wallace played quite a part in the Mexican-U. S. agreement to work out joint plans for national defense. It was Henry’s job, during his trip to Mexico as Vice-President- elect, to put across some quiet di- plomacy with new, President Avila Camacho aimed to smooth out ali U. S.-Mexican problems. This he did, and become completely “sim: patico” with high Mexican officials. However, Henry also Iyroughti back a very worrisome picture of; Nazi activity in Mexico. Being a farm boy from Iowa,! and skeptical about the Zimmer- mann affair during World War I when the German Foreign office turn -H*w (Cherry Blossom Queen Crowned | Senator John Overton, of Louisiana, crowns Nancy Alden Strong Queen of the Cherry Blossoms in the annual Washington, D. C., ceremony at | the edge of the Tidal Basin, An estimated quarter-million persons, greatest erowd in the history of the festival, attended the coronatisn. TREMENDOUS FORCE IS - NOW BEING DEVELOPED { | { RECORDS OF TRIPOLI IS UNDER SIEGE BY GUNFIRE EBritish Poufiflibyan Port| | for 40 Minufes with | 15-inch Shells | | | LONDON, April 20.—Heavy units of the British Fleet pounded the | western Libyan port of Tripoli with | 15-inch shells in a 40-minute bom- | bardment yesterday. This is the an-‘ nouncement made today by thej | British Admiralty. 1 B Troops leave Greece German News Agency Says Harbors Filled with Ships for Evacuation BERLIN, Arpil 22—Harbors on| the eastern coast of Greece are: packed with ships of all sizes busy in moving troops out of the country, | according to the DNB, German news | agency. | The DNB says this lias been de- | termined following reconnnissance" by Nazi planes. | WASHINGTON, April 22.—Gen.| The DNB says motorboats, cutters | George C. Marshall, Chief of U. 8. and small craft of every description | Army General Staff, told the Senate are waiting at Piraeus, port of Ath-| Defense Investigating Committee to- €ns. and all other ports, apparently | day that the War Department has ready to move troops. | “gotten over the hump” after two: The pianes also report that the years of difficulties, is now assem- rcads leadnig to the various ports| bling a fighting force and a “tre- are clogged with columns of troops.| mendous army is developing.” | | 5 Yugosl | 0siav You (an Getas | Gen. Marshall said the War De- i Armies Keep ForYourMo partment is highly pleased with the organization developed and further On Fighfing nFighting | VICHY, April 22. — Yugoslav declared the Army is at the “high- A R Y D E pT | diptomatic quarters here said five Ancient city of Athens, Greece, shown above in excellent views. 1s under air raid alerts. German | RESE 0. oo est morale I have ever seen.” Yugoslavia armies, numbering from 300,000 to 400,000 men, are success- ® | fully holding out in the center of the country against German and (OL.BROWER. g g g | port of Piraeus, five miles away, now in the news following German bombing attack on Pirfeus, are T — and the Athens Nightly Athens bombers drspped ney Seeing Washinglon as Aflwhere | Second of twe articles on | things to see in Washington and how to see them. By JACK STINNETT Greek Capital, Athens, and Port, Piraeus, in N Alr view of Piraeus, five miles from Athens magnetic mines at various points in the harbor ox Piraeus, which is the second largest city in Greece. Piraeus stands on a hilly peninsula. Athens had a great port here in ancient times. In this. view, Mount Lycabettus (Mount St. George) is ~ PEACEWITH | i | CWS Sl i i i seen. U.S.1S AIM OF JAPANESE Foreign Minister Gives| Achievements Indicating GERMANS IN MOVESOUTH, "y ‘__‘M’rft,~ ‘ High Command Claims Capture of Many Towns on Both Coasts BRITISH REPORT THEY ARENOW FALLING BACK Defenders in Retreat from One Section Reported Being Blocked (By ASSOCATED PRESS) Germany's blitzkrieg armies have cracked both ends of the Allied de- fense line formed toward the his- toric Thermopylae Pass, less than 100 miles from Athens and have cap- wured the Aegean coastal towns of Volos and Lamia as well as Ioan- nina, western Greece. Hitler's Command says the’ Nazi columns have trapped the -Greeck forces retreating from Ioanniya. “Falling Back” The British Middle East headquar- |ters reported tersely this forenoon the British troops are falling bask in_the Mount Olympus sector in edstern Greece and “have now oc- - cupfed defense positions south of Lamia,” This may mean the Brit- ish are preparing to make a last ditch stand near the Thermopylae | Gap where 300 Spartans, under King : Leonidas, held off the invasion army led by Persian King Zernes in 48, B.C. Cut Off Retreat The new defense line is appaient~ ly being established in the rugged Lokris mountains below the flat plain of Thessaly. The Nazi Command asserts Ger- man Panzer columns are sweeping westward across the Pindus Moun- }tnmn and effectively blocking the , | Greeks’ main route of retreat south. Mussolini’s command said the Ital- ian Legions are advancing on Greece along the entire Albanian front, NEW LINE ADJUSTED IN GREECE GREEK AREA Nipponese Intentions invited Mexico into an alliance| | Italian attacks. } against the United States, Henry went down to Mexico as an un- believer as far as Nazi propaganda was concerned. But he came back, his skepticism gone. The great mass of the Mexican people and the Mexican govern- ment are sincere believers in friendship with the United States, Henry found. But a small minor- ity, plentifully supplied with Nazi- | Fascist cash, has been doing its best to poison friendly relations. In fact, there were some indica- tions that the Nazis might even go to such lengths as outright sa- botage or damage to the United States in such a way that Mexico would get the blame, thereby stir- ring up animosity between the countries. NOTE—Last year $2,000000 in U. S. greenbacks was taken to Mexico from New Orleans by Count Roberti of the Italian legation, pre- sumably for propaganda purposes./ Count Roberti is the son-in-law of| Ogden Hammond, ex-Ambassador to Spain and a leader of the move to cooperate with Spanish Dictator Franco. GUARDING THE CAPITOL , If you visit the United States Capitol in the near future don't carry an isolationist banner or anything more explosive than a Yukon Is Now il Gloria Swanson Once the most glamorous of si- lent screen stars, Gloria Swanson plans a return to the screen. Miss Swanson, who reached her peak 15 years ago and who is in her 40's, sa.d the only thing that has kept her cff the screen is a good role, MNow, she says, she has found it. Juneau Boundi SEATTLE, April 22—Steamer Yu- ( kin sailed for Alaska ports at 9 o'clock this morning with 187 first class and 57 steerage passengers aboard. Passengers booked for Juneau aboard the Yukon are as follows: Ross Trulinger, Robert 8. Jones| and wife, Miss J. E. Troutwine, Miss Emily SBammons, Palmer G. Lewis, Herbert Leaber, wife and child. John H. Beers and wife, Mrs. Alma | Sehoville, Oscar Engelsvold, Jack Shrophire. { ——ee—— Declares Alaska Is Most Defensible Frontier in Entire World SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.—The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard said that “in Alaska we are far be! equip- ped to defend ourselves n an enemy if ever we are attacked.” The Rev. Hubbard ‘#&s returned from Washington where he turned over to the War Department in- | The territory in their control is said to be a roughly bounded quad- | Is KlllED IN | WASHINGTON, April 22—With-| out a worry about nickels and TOKYO, April dimes, you probably can get as «nree great achievements within 22 — Japan’s | the Belgrade-Nis railroad which is | rangle with one side parallel with | ‘belna “shot up” as the Germnns{ WAR SE(TOR pass. AXISCRAFT - TORPEDOED | Army and Navy air bases in the formation covering his 14 Alaskan | expeditions. He said Alaska is the | most naturally defensible frontier in the werld but it is important the BY BRITISH Territory be completed speedily.-He | turned over his surveys made dur- | ing’ the past ten years of unusuedi harbors that he said would make excellent bases and areas packed | with clay and volecanic cinders which would provide airfields, . BARNETT HERE . Reported Sent Down by Bomber Force LONDON, April 22.—The British 1 Admiralty announces that British Naval aircraft torpedoed and sunk a 10,000 ton tanker and also a 10,000 Traveling man J. 8., Barnett haston ammunition ship carrying sup- arrived from Seattle and will be in | plies to the Axis forces in the Bal- Juneau calling on his trade for sev- | kans. s eral days. He is staying at the Bar- anof Hotel, ——ro—— BLACK ARRIVES ——r—-— LEONARD SMITH HERE Leonard Smith, Nome representa- ‘Two 10,000-fon Vessels. |1U. 5. Observer with British '\ Air Force Dies in Air- _ plane Accident | WASHINGTON, April 22, — Col. jGernld Brower, 47, United ' States military air observer, has ‘been killed, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan War Department says “in an air- plane accident.” Col, Brower was assigned as an observer with the British Royal Air Force in the middle east cam- paign. The State Department said the cablegram received from the Am- leru:ln Legion in Cairo related that | Col. Brower was killed Sunday at | El Obeld, 250 miles southwest of Khartoum but no details were | given, ——l 1 MISE RULAFORD IS TO WORK AT SEWARD Miss Gene Rulaford, daughter of much for your money here as any-| where. The District of Columbia; |is no_land of milk and honey, but| | ConBress has put a stoppage on| | some of the common rackets which, |drain the tourists of their shekels. | Hotel prices aren’t cheap any- ‘where along the line, but if I had, |all the money in the world to spend, I wouldn’t look for the MOST expensive hostelry. I'd prob- |ably check into the Willard. It's 'a_comparatively modern hotel, but he past six months” should con- vince the United States that her intentions’ are strictly ' peaceful, Foreign Minister Matsuoka told the reporters on his return today from conversations in Berlin, Rome and Moscow. Matsuoka said the three achieve-| ments are the three-power psctl among Germany, Italy and Japan; Japanese recognition of the Nan- king regime as the “basic govern- ment” in China, and the recently gm:“';‘ a mx;:"d;:‘u“‘;‘;‘; er'::‘ar::;\slgned Soviet-Japanese neutrality s som i . pact. |the days when Senator Douglas|” gowever, in answer to a question | congratulated President-elect Lin-|ypnether Japan contemplated a jooln with a hearty handshake 1% non-aggression pact with the Unit- Iz’,“;&f‘,“m:by; E;:‘a; B:D‘ot "L“):ed States, Matsuoka replied: n idon't know.” dpend the night. It isn't. Remem- T i ber that I'm prefacing this whole| column on the fantasy that money}oDu“A Io SAIL . FOR NORTHLAND EARLY START—AT NOON | isn’t anything. The next day, I would be up SEARCh bright and early—about noon—and Preighter Oduna, of the Alaska start on a list of tours. Beginning Steamship Company, leaves Seamej with the $1 tour around capital|tomorrow morning for Alaska ports city, T'd branch out to the Arling-|according to advices received by ton Cemetery and the tomb of the Agent Horace O. Adams. | Unknown Soldier—to old Alexan-| The Depere is scheduled to sail dria, which was once one of the|from Seattle for ports in Southeast young nation’s great seaports—to and Southwest Alaska on May 5. ———————— cigarette lighter, or you may wind up in the brig. Tightest police re- strictions ‘since World - War days CUKTIS HERE Traveling man T, R. Curtis arriv- soon will be put into effect at the (Continued on Page Four) ed in Juneau on the Columbia today A, C. Black, well known traveling man throughout the Territory is staying at the Baranof Hotel after and is staying at the Gastineau | grriving from ‘the South on - the Hotel. j steamer Columbia. tive in the 15th Session of the Ter- Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rulaford of ritorial Legislature, returned to Ju- Jjuneau, is among the passengers on neau today after a several weeks'|the steamer Mount McKinley en- trip to Seattle. Smith will leave for his Nome home on the next available PAA plane, route to Seward, where she has ac- jcepted a position as stenographer with the Army Transport Service. Mount Vernon, where a fellow named George gton lived and tilled & great plantation, died' and was buried—to the Great Falls| ltmd will be here for several days. AT BARANOF Registered at the Baranof Hotel, Frank Sjursen, traveling merchan- dise broker, has arrived in Juneau Change in Defense, Says Report Tonight ATHENS, April 20.—British forces in Greece have completed “adjust- ment” of their line “without serious interferences of the enemy who were roughly handled wheneve: mt.” This is the official announcement |made by the British in a communi- que tonight. * U. S. FORCES TransporlTland 2,000 Soldiers of Various - Units in Two Days MANILA, April 22.—The movement to the Philippines of forces from the United States, principally Coast Ar- tillery, Air Corps and infantry de-- tachments has been heavily increas- More than 2.00q soldiers have been ianded here during the past two days. from transports. Brifish Make Complefe BEING SENT, PHILIPPINES