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VOL. 43. No. 41. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1941. M
Nazis Attack Yugoslavia & Greece
Greek Infantry Withstands Two-Day Nazi Assault
Germans Detain Clerk of U.S. Embassy In Berlin
GERMAN BLITZKREIG TURNED
ON YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE
FASCIST AIR FORCE TAKES PART
Yugoslavia's Transport and Communications Disrupted
Yugoslav Peace Effort Arouse Sympathy Soviet Russia
NEW YORK, Sunday, </P> —
The National Broadcasting Com
pany reported tonight of hearing
the Berlin radio announce that
Germany has been at war with
Yugoslavia since early Sunday
morning, Berlin time. The short
wave radio carried this proclaims
, tion from Hitler: “Soldiers of the
East front, your hour has come.”
Invasion Not At
tack Greek People
BERLIN, Sunday, t(/P) — A Ger
man radio, broadcast early today,
Hilter’s order to the German
army to march into Greece. The
order said the German invasion
was “not an attack against the
Greek people.” At the same time
it said Germany was unable to
endure the Yugoslavian attitude
and Germany was reacting to the
mistreating, “attacks and mur
dering” of Germans in the Serb
kingdom.
Greek Troops
Withstand 2nd
Day Nazi Assault
UNDATED, April 7 {&)—*Greek
” troops are reported to have with
stood violent new assaults on
the second day of Hitler’s inva
sion of the Aegean kingdom,
while in Yugoslavia, the target of
twin Nazi thrusts, the Germans
claimed advances of from 18 to
25 miles. DNB said Yugoslavia’s
whole transport and communica
tions system was “fatally disrupt
ed” by swift blows of the Luft
waffe. The direction of the Ger
man advance in Yugoslavia was
not given. Nazi troops massed at
the Rumanian frontier have been
within 50 miles striking distanc?
of Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital.
Greek Infantry Holds Fast
Athens dispatches said that
Greek infantrymen were holding
fast amid furious attacks on nar
row Macedonian mountain pass
es littered with German dead and
the wreckage of ten Nazi tanks.
The Greek command said the Ger
man Palm Sunday invasion was
stopped with the loss of only a
single fort.
Yugoslav Artillery Fire Albania
Dispatches from Bern quoted
the Yugoslavia radio as saying
that Yugoslavia artillery opened
fire along the Albanian frontier,
preparing to attack Italian-held
Albania.
Belgrade Object Heavy Bombing
The Germans said Belgrade
was subjected to the fourth
heavy bombing attack during the
night' and was left aflame. DNB
quoted the Bulgarian air com
mand as saying that Yugoslav
bombers attacked the open cities
| of Sofia and Kustendif, Bulgaria,
i killed several women and child
ren.
Hitler’s command listed tncmy
plane losses as opening with say
102 including 35 bagged in aer
British Await
Nazi Offensive
On 7 Fronts
UNDATED, April 5 UP) — Au
thoritative sources in London
said Germany’s spring attack “is
obviously about to b gin.” The
source said the Army, Navy and
Air force are on guard from at
tack in one or more of 7 direc
tions: 1. Against Yugoslavia, to
protect the G rman flank. 2. For
a drive on Suez, against Greece
through Salonika with intention
to close the M diterrancan. 3. Ag
ainst Turkey. 4. To sweep thru
Spain to seize Gibraltar. 5. Inva
sion of England. 6. Invasion of
Ireland or 7. Invasion of Russian
Ukrain.
ial combat.
Italy Joins Hostilities
Italy joined the hostilities with
the Fascist air force. They re
ported bombing the Yugoslav
naval bases at Split and Cattaro.
German Reasons Not Satsify
Turkey remained neutral as
G rman panzer divisions stormed
into neighboring Greece but the
official Turkish radio declared
the Germans had given reasons
for the attack which “do. not sat
isfy anyone.”
Peace Efforts Arouse Sympthy
Russia, linked with Yugoslavia
in a newly signed pact of friend
srip and nonaggression, likewise
remain.d calm but the newspap
er Izvestia commented that Yu
goslavia’s efforts to obtain peace
“could not help but arouse the
sympathy of the Soviet Union.”
Greek Force Nazis Back Bulgaria
An American radio correspond
ent for the CBS at Ankara re
ported that Greece counter-at
tacked Hitler’s invading legions
and threw the Germans back at
one point onto Bulgarian soil.”
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CHINESE STREET SCENE —Through Shanghai streets move members of Shanghai Bene
volent Cemetery association which during 1940 picked up 29,440 bodies—mostly those of starved infants.
Germans Detain
Clerk In U.S.
Embassy Berlin
WASHINGTON. April 5 i/P) —
S eretary Hull ordered represent
a'ions made to the German For
eign Office after th: disclosure
that Stewart Herman, a clerk at
t! American Embassy in Berlin,
v. x detained ‘‘apparently without
pi ior notification or explanation
1 the embassy” and released af
' r several hours of qu stioning.
OfitciaJs here considered it a
1 reach of diplomatic courtesy.
\uffoslav Frontier
c
Are Sealed
Saturday
j
—
j UNDATED, April 5 (/P) — War
between Germany and Yugaslav
I ia appeared only a few hours
away and Yugoslav government
circles said the zero hour is at
hand. A neutral diplotmat in Bel
grade declared that the diplomat
ic stage of relations between the
two countries has ended. Author
ized foreign office sources in Ber
lin said that fur all practical pur
poses German and Yugoslav dip
lomatic relations have ceased to
exist. Premier General Simovic’s
cabinet held an extraordinary
session.
The frontier with Germany, It
aly and also the Nazi-dominated
countries of Hungary, Bulgaria,
and Rumania were reported seal
ed.
At Rome, however, spokesman
Virginio Gayda said that the
Axis powers have given Yugo
slavia a few more days to make
her peace and escape attack.
Call For Condition
Of National Banks
WASHINGTON, April 7 iff>) —
The Comptroller of Currency is
sued a call for the condition of
all national banks at the close of
business on April 4.
Carv Grant
Gives $3(10.000
To Relief
HOLLYWOOD, Cal.,— Friends
said that film star Cary Grant
will donate $300,000 to the Brit
ish War Relief Fund in the pledg
ed salary of his last and forth
coming pictures.
Grant said he would give all
the salary he receives for play
ing the title role in the film ver
sion of “The Man Who Came to
Dinner” to British relief. The
actor already has given to the
relief the salary he received for
his last movie.
Grant is to make at least $150,
000 a picture.
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ANGLO-AMERICAN HUDDLE
U.S. Ambasador John C. Winant (right) who succeeded Joseph Ken
nedy as America’s diplomatic representative in London, chats with
Prime Minister Winston Churchill in this cablephoto as they ar
rived at a pilgrims Luncheon at which Churchill charged “NOT only
German U-boats, but battle cruisers have crossed to the American
side of the Atlantic.
British Advance
On Addis Ababa
CAIRO, April 5 (/P) — Soutb
africa forces are advancing up
on Addis Ababa from the south
east and crossed the Awash River
90 miles from the capital. Ad
vices said the Germans and It
alians weTe advancing east of
Zengasi, Libya, but are being sue
cessfully held and the situation
is well in hand.
NAVY PLANE CUTS
OFF WOMAN’S HEAD
PENSACOLA. Fla., — Com
mander W. D. Sample, executive
officer of the Naval Air Station
here said that the two ensigns
whose plane had killed a woman
faced possible court martial.
“This is a horrible case,” he
said.
Mrs. Robert Phillips, 35, mo
ther of four children, was decap
itated when a naval plane swoop
ed low over a group of workers
in a turnip field near Roberts
dale, Alabama.
Sampson said the ensigns were
Joseph Thompson, 23, and Paul
Brown, 22. They returned to the
air base in Pensacola after the
tragedy and reported the case.
They are held under arrest in
their quarters.
Sheriff Stuart said that the air
men apparently dived the plane
toward the field workers to fright
en them. He added the state will
withhold action until it sees what
the Navy does.
Claim 718.000
Tons In March
UNDATED, April 5 OP) — The
German High command reported
that more than 718.000 tons of
British shipping was sunk in
March by her sea and air forces,
SILVER PURCHASES
FELL BEHIND QUOTA
NEW YORK—The Unit d Stat
es government purchased 203,
100,000 ounces of silver in 1940,
| least of any of the seven years
since the federal silver purchas
ing policy has been in effect.
Und r provisions of the silver
purchase act the Government ag
reed that one quarter of the to
tal monetary value of the gold
and silver stocks should be in sil
ver. Enormous additions to the
gold stocks has prevented any
progress in 1940 towards meet- .
ing this provision.
The percentage of silver to the
total has declined during 1940
j from about 18 percent to 15’a
percent.
Even if no more gold was add
ed to the stock now on hand
■ $22,000,000 it will be necessary to
purchase a further 2,535,000 ounc
es of silver to reach the goal set
by the act.
World production of silver in
1940 is estimated at 278 million
ounces. United States produced
66 million ounces, Mexico 84Vfc
million, Canada 25 million, South
American 32M* million, and all
other countries 70 million ounces.