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VOL. 43. No. 45. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, April 16, 1941 Per Copy is*
Climactic Battle Rages In Greece
Fishermen’s Union Signs Agreement with Packers
Four Killed In Shooting In Kentucky Coal Fields
GERMANS CRACK POINT OF
V-SHAPED ALLIED DEFENSE
CAPTURE TOWN OF PHLORINA
UNDATED, April 15 (A5)—Hit
ler’s blitzkrieg invaders cracked
the point of hte V-shaped Allied
defense line in Greece and cap
tured the key town of Phlorina,
in a drive from Bitolj Pass. They
forced the British and Greeks to
retire to the deeper front in the
center, it was acknowledged in
Athens. Hitler’s command report
ed that Nazi troops occupied
. Ptolemas and nearby Kozane, 40
miles south of the Albanian and
Yugoslav border junction. If true
it means that the Allies have
suffered at least a forty mile set
back before taking their new
stand near Ptolemais.
Destroy 30 British Armored Cars
Thirty British armored cars
were reported destroyed in Yugo
slavia.
Pursue Serb Army Renmants
The Germans said that German
and Italian troops were speed
ing in “pursuit and encirclsment”
of the remnants of the Serb army
which was said to be putting up
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localized resistance in the Mo- ;
■star and Sarajevo sector, on the1
' right flank.
British Have Better Success
I The British announced better
success in stemming the Nazi on
slaught. British troops, they said,
hurl d back, in a series of as
saults, German panzer columns
in the Mount Olympus sector of
\ eastern Greece.
Nazis Advance From Left
Athens dispatches said the
Nazis were advancing on the
Aegean kingdom, on the left after
occupying Phlorina, the north:rn
most hinge of the old Allied de
fense line. The Greeks are bat
tling the Germans near Ptole
mais.
Report Yugoslavs Ask Armistice
In Rome, Italian newspaper
circles received a Berlin report
that Yugoslavia asked an armis
tice of the Axis, but there was
no immediate official confirm- 1
ation.
BATTLE RAGES ALONG ENTIRE
LENGTH OF BRITISH LINE IN
GREECE- FATE IN BALANCE
UNDATED, April 16 i/P) — A
w:de open battle flamed along
the entire British front in Greece.
The Germans acknowledged Hit
ler’s blitzkrieg invasion was meet
ing with “stubborn” resistance,
after previously asserting the Al
lies were in headlong retreat.
“Our troops are now in contact
with the enemy along the whole
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<)f our front in Greece,’ ’the Brit
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ish middle east command said.
It was apparent that a climactic
struggle is developing which may
decide the fate of Greece.
Capture Hundreds of British
DNB news agency said hun
dreds of British prisoners, includ
ing engineers from the English ‘
midlands, Australia and New Zea
Diagrams Of
Navy Found
In Jap Book
WASHINGTON, April — The
office of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities said that
a 1941 edition of a Japanese pub
lication diagramming American
Naval vessels, has been seized in
California.
The seizure is said by Chair
man Dies to disclose “cause for
alarm.” It is reported by the Com
mittee that an investigator said
the edition has been in the pos
session of a Japanese in Los An
gel's. Data of this country’s air
force and air bases is also said to
have been in the volume printed
in Japanese.
land were captured by Nazi in
fantry in hard fighting in the
mountains.
British quarters in Athens said
that German panzer spearh ads
executed savage thrusts 'bi't de
dared that nowhere had they ov
ershot the new Allied defense
line.
Situation in Yugoslavia Is Bad
Tha apparent collapse of Yugo
slavia was coupled with the 65
mile German break in northern
Greece and gave a darker turn
of events for the Allies. How-!
ever, in the eleven-day-old bat
tle of the Balkans, London con
ceded the situation in Yugoslavia
was bad.
Germans Take Sarajevo
The Germans reported the cap
ture of Sarajevo in central Yugo
slavia where the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand touch
ed off the World War. They de
clared that “thousands of Serbs”
surrendered. The British like
wise acknowledged that pressure
of Nazi panzer divisions, striking
on the allied right flank and pour
ing through lofty Siatista Pass to
easier terrain into the south, was
increasing violently.
HOW YUGO PACT BROADENS WAR FRONT
Dotted line indicated military front which extended across the Balkans as result of alginments of
the Yugoslavia government at Belgrade (1) with the Axis. Map indicates possible German attack
routes down the Struma valley (2), the Vardar valley (3) or through Albania (4) where dotted line
follows Turkish Thrace (5) and where the Turkish troops massed to guard against possible invasion.
PIPES OF PROGRES S—These seven stacks are < arnegie-IHinois '“stove " ich preheat air to
be shot into blast furnaces where n ore, limestone and coke are melted to produte pig iron When it
has readied a heat of 2,600-drgi s fahrenheit. mc.ten pig iron is run off through sand-filled troughs
into giant lau.es that hold from CO to 100 tons of the metal.
FISHERMEN’S UNION RATIFIES
AGREEMENTS WITH ALASKA
SALMON INI). FOR 3 DISTRICTS
RAISE PAY AND IMPROVE CONDITIONS
■SEATTLE. April 15 <(/P) — The ,
Fishermens’ Union ratified agree
ments with the Alaska Canned
Salmon Industry, governing 3
districts under the Union’s juris- ■
diction. Unionists said that the
substantial pay increases gained
under the agreements sets a new
record for labor accord, before
the opening of the fishing season.
Captain William Hecker, Seat
tle union agent, said releases, al
lowing men to go to work any
time, were granted for the- west
ward district where the season
opens first at Kodiak Island and
southeastern Alaska.
The new pact covers a variety
of rates of pay. A 20 percent in
crease- of $22.50 mon-thy was
granted to all men paid on a
‘wage basis in Kodiak and west
ward districts, and a 3714 per
cent or $15 monthly increase for
their receiving a percentage of
the pack in these districts. All
classifications in southeastern Al
aska wer granted an increase of
$22.50 monthly. Cook Inlet re
ceived a flat ten percent increase.
Hecker said working conditions
were also improved.
After ratification, union mem
bers adopted a resolution urging
the industry to consumate as
early as possible, agreements
with additional CIO unions in
cluding cannery workers, union
fishermen, machinists and other
units.
4 MEN KILLED 20 WOUNDED
KENTUCKY SOFT COAL FIELDS
INCLUDE 2 COAL OFFICIALS
UNDATED, April 15 (/P)—Gun
fire in the southeast Kentucky
soft coal fields killed four men
this morning and resulted in the
wounding of more than 20 others.
Officers said they couldn’t deter
mine immediately what led to
the shooting, near a mine, which
had not stopped operations in a
general shutdown due to a wage
dispute. Patrolman Guy Harrell
of Middlesfooro, Ky., said the bat
tie started at a road leading to
the Fork Ridge Coal Com
pany mine, about a mile from
the Tennessee line. He said mo
torcars of miners assembled there
last night and headed towards
the mine.
The dead included C. W. Rhod
es, aged 45, president of the Fork
Ridge Coal Company; E. W. Sil
vers, vice president and treasur
er of the coal company; a miner,
and a former Tennessee high
way patrolman.
The outburst in the coal fields
came quickly after wage increas
es for hundreds of thousands of
the nation’s steel workers avert j
ed a threatened strike against the
industry. Many small steel mills
following the lead set by the U.
S. Steel Corporation & other big
producers are granting wage in
creases of ten cents an hour.
U. S. To Have Air
Base in Greenland
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WASHINGTON. April 12 —
The United States will establish
air (bases in Greenland to “pro
tect Grrenland and for the pro
tection of the Western Hemi
sphere,” under an American
Danish Agency agreement sign
ed by Secretary of State Cordell
Hull and Henri D? Kauffman,
Danish minister.
De Kauffman signed as the
highest ranking Danish official
despite the fact that Denmark is
occupied by German forces, and
since the Danish Government can
not now exercise her sovereign
rights over her Territory.
The move is within the scope
of the Monroe Doctrine, Presi
dent Roosevelt said, and the ag
reement is intended to make sure
Greenland remains a Danish col
ony.
Presidential Secretary Stephen
Early said the agreement was
consumated after information
had been received that German
planes were flying over Green
land.
NAVY SIMP IS
PLACED IN SERVICE
NEW YORK —The first battle
ship commisioned by the United
States Navy in 18 years took,
place April 9 with sober and col
orful ceremonies aboard the 35,
OOO-ton North Caifjlma at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The commissioning ceremonies
took place on the quarter deck
of the new craft, attended by
1,500 specially invited guests
headed by Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox, and was held under
wartime restrictions with special
police, Marines and sailors on
guard.
Secty. Knox said: “We axe fore
shadowing with this ship, the
greatest navy the world has ever
seen.”