The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LVIL, NO. 8707. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941. MEMBEIS_AS§OC]ATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'CAPTURE OF ATHENS NOW NEAR 2 4 14 14 4 L4 L4 (4 ® 04 L4 & & S PR (4 4 14 4 ¢ 8 BRITISH CONTINUE FIGHTING FIERCELY FIGHTING ENDED IN ALBANIA Hostilities Ceased Last| Night When Armistice | Signed in Salonika | FASCIST CLAIMS ARE DENIED BY GERMANS | Italians Did Not Enfer Greece, Says Nazis- | Heavy Loss of Life | (By Associated Press) Mussolini’s High Command lists 6,- 000 Ttalian warriors Killed or wound- ed, including 400 officers, in the Greenland; Mostly lce e Lincol N IAND =] Cape Bewster=— (Continued on page St | WASHINGTON — At an earlier private talk with defense advisers the President was a lot more ex- plicit about protecting U. S. mer- chant ships than he was at his press conference. In the afternoon he merely told newsmen that safeguarding vessels outside war zones was obligatory under the law. He did not indi- cate how far the Government was prepared to go to provide this protection. At the morning meeting | with defense counsellors the Presi- dent supplied the missing link. He declared flatly that the Gov- ernment would go the limit in guarding ships carrying lend-lease supplies to the British in Egypt via the Red Sea, which a few days before he had removed from the prohibited combat area list. If necessary, armed convoys would be provided, and they would be under orders to defend themselves by whatever measures were deemed advisable. “It's my duty, my obligation un- der the law as President to see that our ships are protected,” the President explained, in effect. “Freedom of the seas is still a fundamental principle of the Unit- ed States; no act of Congress has! voided it. Our ships can go any- where on the globe outside of prescribed combat zones, and I am required by law to protect them from attack.” He pointed out that there would be no question about supplying such protection against a non- belligerent country like France or Russia, and he couldn't see why the same rule didn't hold true re-| garding other powers. “Suppose one of our shipswent| somewhere in this hemisphere, to| Newfoundland, for instance, or to| Argentina,” he continued. “Wouldn’t it be our responsibility | to defend it from attack? Certain- ly, it would. Well, the same applies if the ship goes anywhere else in| the world, as long as it stays out| of war areas. 1 “It would be entitled to freedom of the seas, whether its destina-, tion happened to be a port in| this hemisphere or Egypt. And we| g = - i S Newly included in'the wéstern hemisphere defense system, the sprasely settled Danish island colony of Greenland is a vast field of ice with fishing villages and small farms on its fringes. The glacler, which has an elevation of 6,000 to 10,000 feet, overlies an area of about 715,000 square miles, obliterating the topography. The U, S. Army and Navy are expected to begin construction of plane bases immediately. Map shows more important towns, water boundaries and various areas. q “We are facing a greater challenge | intend to see to it that our ships have this freedom of the seas.” | LAST OF ‘MUCKRAKERS, - CHARLES ED. RUSSELL, PASSES AWAY IN EAST Not in Florida /N ) Doreen Roads Here’s a bathing beauty—and not from the southland, either. Sheis Doreen ‘Roads, beauty queen at Bondi Beach, famous resort in WASHINGTON, April 24—Charles | Edward Russell, 20, writer and prom- | inent Socialist, is dead. He turned | to writing at the furn of the Cen- | tury to expose economic and social corruption. Charles Edward Russell turned from a highly successful newspaper career in 1903 to join the “muck- rakers,” the coterie of journalists who for more than a decade exposed J political, economic and social cor- . ruption wherever they ceuld find it. Russell's specialty was the corpor- ations—as Lincoln Steffens special- ized in municipal corruption and Ida Tarbell devoted her attention to the oil companies. The meat pack- ers and the railroads were the tar- gets of most of Russell's attacks. He became a Socialist in 1908, be- ing one of the first of his group to ]make the transition from literary i radicalism to political radicalism. He was the Socialist candidate for gov- ernor of New York in 1910 and in 1912; for mayor of New York City in 1913 and for United States Sena- tor in. 1914. He was nominated by his party as its presidential candi- date in 1916, but refused to run. Expelled From Party A year later he was expelled from the party for advocating the entry of the United, States into the World War, which his party vigorously op- posed. In 1936, however, when the party split into right and left wings, the rightists invited him to affiliate jonce more. He did so and became head of the right wing Socialist group in Washington, D. C. He was a personal friend of Presi- ‘dent Woodrow Wilson and corre- sponded frequently with the White | House when he was in' Europe be- |fore this country entered the war. { With Russell out of the Socialist | party, Wilson appointed him to the BILLIONS IN TAXES NEEDED [ Income Tax May Be Made | Six Times Larger than | | Before in New Sefup | WASHINGTON, April 24.~~SFcl'e-! tary of the Treasury Henry Morgen- thau asked Congress today to appro- priate three and a half billion dol- ‘lars for greater defense produedon,} {and asked Congress to reduce its non-defense spending as much as| possible to safeguard against profi- | teering. | Secretary Morgenthau told the House Ways and Means Committee: than at any time in the history of | the Republic, a challenge that calls for much greater response than has yet been made.” i | Morgenthau made no specific re- | commendations about how these new taxes should be raised, but said oth ers would present the Treasury _ viewpoint, | 'These Treasury proposals are re-| ported to provide steep increases in ‘\Lhe income tax, surtaxes, and may | ‘rorce many persons to pay six times | as much income tax as before. It will also put either new or addi- tional taxes on soft drinks, liquor.} cigarettes, gasoline and many other commodities. Natis Demand Hangings for Former Kings Wholesaleae—cutionsAsk- ed for Rulers Driven from Thrones BERLIN, April 24—At least one | German newspaper today called for wholesale death for the batch of royal personages driven from their thrones by Hitler's war machine, recalling the “Hang the Kaiser” cry during the World War. Thus the Berlin newspaper‘&woelr Uhr Blatt demanded “to the gal-! lows with these deserters” in a print- ed headline over the photographs of King Peter of Yugoslavia, King Zog of Albania, King George of Greece, ex-King Carol of Rumania, King Haakon of Norway and Prince Bern- hard of the Netherlands. 2 German Navy (raft Damaged Baflléships.l%zked inv Har-| bor_at Brest Reporfed 1 | | i I i | 'FOR DE_FENSEF Any natio (left), commandant of make the “big sticks.” gers are shown with portable fire extinguish- ghting a forest fire in southern New Jers Bl:eech of ; Confidence n can feel a certain confidence in her future behind guns this size. Explaining details of the 16-inch rifle is lot A . the Watervliet, N, Y., arsenal, where they Looking into the breech is New York’s Lieut. Gov. Charles Poletti, who is also chief of the State Defense Council. More than 1,000 y- | | | Gen. A. G. Gillespie 'MANY ATHLETEES CALLED ONDRAFTLISTS, SOMEARE ALREADY IN U. 5. CAMPS By JACK STINETT WASHINGTON, April 24 — An- swering the mail orders (matters mostly military.) L. D., Columbus, O.—Army offi cials here tell me that the first Major League baseball player U come in under selective service & Gene Stack, Chicago White ; rookie pitcher, He is now at Fort Custer, Mich, There are other base Ouf of Duty by Bombs LONDON, Aril 24.—~The 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst “is believed to have been put out of commission by Royal Air Force bombers” and it is practically ack- nowledged that her sister ship, the | ice were playing any favorites at athlete or a college star. Every camp is going to have its ath- letic teams to match against other camps. This is an important phase of the entertainment and morale program by which Army officials hope to make that year's training something that all the young men will be eager to dive into. Conse-| quently, I think if selective serv- county were degtyuyux. NAZI FORCES CONTINUEON TOWARDGOAL Report (laims Invaders Only 35 Miles from Capi- fal of Fallen Greece REF MAKE DESPERATE STAND, NORTH SECTOR Stuka Dive Bombers Keep Hammering at Trans- ports — Confusion BULLETIN — BERLIN, April 24.—The German Army is in full control of the railway and high- ways approaching Athens by way of Thebes and the Nazi forees are reported late today to he only about 36 miles northwest of the Greek capital city, as the crow flies. It is only a matier of hours, it is claimed, befote Athens will be captured. . (By Associated Press) ¥ The British Expeditionary Forces are reported still fighting desper- ately in the Thermopylae sector, 100 miles north of Athens in what is apparently a rear guard action to check the German blitzkrieg armies until the main body of the British Expeditionary Forces have'embark- acres of pine and oak in Cnm.‘; SINGAPORE, HIGH PEAK Large Force of Ausfralians with Guns, Machines Arrive Today SINGAPORE, April 24—A ‘great” transport has arrived here bringing formidable reinforcements of men, guns and various machines of the main body qf the Australian forces. The Imperial forces reached here last February 18. Australian-manned bombers roar- ed out 100 miles to sea and convoyed the huge transport, as they circled overhead, through Singapore's pro- tective mine fields, then in front of the powerful harbor fortresses to the naval base dock. With the new arrivals, Lieutenant General Bond, Commander of the British land forces in Malaya, said the defense, in terms of men and guns, is now nearing its peak for the time being. CROWDRIOTS WHEN ""LONE EAGLE" TALKS Seven Knocked Uncon- scious Ouiside Rally of ed in southern Greece. German aviators describe the scenes in the various Greek harbors as the wildest of confusion as Nazi Stuka dive bombers rained death and destruction on troop-jammed British transports. Berlin sources asserted that at least 160,000 tens of transports have already been sunk. Acknowl Damage The official Greek communique acknowledged .assaults of screaming Stukas inflicted “considerable dam- age to ships and other installa- tions.” While the fall of Athens that will end the Battle of the Balkans, ap- pears imminent, authoritative quart- ers in London insisted the BEF troops are clinging stubbornly to the defense positions in the Ther- mopylae zone. It is in this historic sector the Germans claimed yester- daay the Panzer columns had smashed the British rear guards and plunged on toward Athens. The British spokesman declared that reports the British flank had been turned is without basis and said this s very “doubtful.” German Statement Hitler’s High Command gives out few details regarding the climax of the struggle made and makes no claim of a major drive through the Allies last ditch of defense. It is admitted thousands of Germans (Continued on Page Six) NO EXODUS - ATATHENS | . REPORTED America First Greup | fonet . NEW YORK, April 24-—Rioting broke out last night outside Man-| hattan Center where Col. Charles A Lindbergh was scheduled to address | a rally of the America First Com-| mittee. | Populace Apparently Re- signed fo Fate Although King George Flees (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) battleship Gneisenau, was badly | damaged several nights ago during the British raid on Brest, where both ships were docked. { The statergent is made by the all, it would not favor the ath- Men and women were kicked and | Official dispatches from Athens ball players, football men from college and pro teams, and ath- {letes in a dozen other fields on the draft lists. It is merely the law of |letes. A baseball player or foct-| ball star who draws around $20,- 000 a year in the professional field beaten and seven were knocked un- said that despite the gloomy “tid- conscious when a hundred men and'ings from the battlefront” there s women appeared bearing signs de-f“o indication of a mass exodus of MONOPOLISTS | diplomatic missi hich Ma notographer| Sydney, Australia. Doreen has DF fon which went to|p e ShePeat e N ving | averages that has resulted in mo, bio D¢ WOrth 8 lob to the A\ uncing Lindbergh. They were at-|th Eihs froms e A Look Magazine Pl i copper-colored hair, brown |Russia under Elihu Root after the too. Think how many youngsters B 8 e population from the Greek Cap- _~ was making a shot of hard-work-| .’“: stinds .7°1‘:t four inches | overthrow of the Ozar in 1917 to r;;}::: given by "cl:use down” flying{more of these beingfcalled to date.! wong be happy to_enlist if they tacked by the crowd ‘iul City. % ing OPM Priorities chief Edward this country’s _ | Br! airmen, who stated wrrmulselecuvc service officials say that 1d Lindbergh made his talk, stating| King George the Second and his i sz bbb o ke B T el ot 4 try's respects to Keren- o0 &0 done to decks and_ there fs no excoption made, merely| U4 be 1B the same company With|,, /"y, British wanted this nation' Government fled yesterday and ar= \ \Conunued oo Page Four) Pt == e 1 (Continued on Page Eight) nrmamenu: because 4 man is a professional (Continued on Page Seven) to enter the war in Europe. rived safely on ¢he Tsland of Gr& O