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VOL. 43. No. 43. TOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1941. Pct Cb^y
Decisive Battle Developing Greece
Turkey Fears Imminent Invasion By Germany
Roosevelt Reopens Red Sea To American Vessels
BRITISH TROOPS REPORTED
TO HAVE CONTACTED ENEMY
BIG BATTLE IS DEVELOPING
Germans Attempt Advance Under Heavy RAF Attack
UNDATED, April 11 (/P)—Brit
ish expeditionary troops are re
ported “to have established con
tact” with Hitler’s blitzkrieg in
vaders in northern Gre:ce as
Nazi panzer columns knifed clear
across lower Yugoslavia to threat
en Greece in a new direction,
from the northwest. The London
radio said German forces were ad
vancing on Greece through Bitolj
Gap in Yugoslavia, at the bor
der. Apparently in this sector,
a great and perhaps decisive bat
tie between the Germans and
British is developing. The British
radio said the German troops are
attempting to fight th-ir way
through the gap under a heavy
RAF attack.
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Asserts Serb
Army Destroyed
In Berlin the German com
mand asserted the Serb army in
Southern YugaHavia was destroy
ed and Nazi columns are plung
ing northward toward Belgrade
from Nis “in close pursuit of the
Serbs.” Unconfirmed r.ports pre
viously listed Belgrade as captur
od but the command's report in
dicated that the bomb-smashed
capital was still holding out.
Yugoslav C ourt
Flees to Turkey
In Budapest, a semi-official tele
gram from Istanbul said that
many members of the Yugoslav
royal court had arrived at Llane,
Turkey. King Peter is expected
to follow. Peter is the boy king
who seized the throne in a blood
less coup on March 27 two days
after the pro-Axis regime of Re
gent Prince Paul signed the Yu
goslav nation into membership
with the Axis.
Th Swiss newspaper Geneva
Tribune said a dispatch from Ber
lin said that Belgrade had fallen.
Greek Resistance
Is Stiffening
A British communique said
that Nazi panzer forces have
FDR Reopens
Red Sea To
F. S. Vessels
WASHINGTON, April 11 I/P)—
Prn Ho ~evolt reopened th
Rea S t n"d Gulf of Aden to Am
erica" v a 1>. Ho announced gt o
proc •• 'nrc that h has tak
en out th" topper at the mouth
of th ■ rwey so that Ameri
can \ ols may now enter it.
S’ 'all be permhted to go
all t • way to the Simz Canff!
and -i Kawpt is a n u'rH terri
tory. 1 • indicated that ’• M he no
ter.dr cy on the part of the gov
ernn t to explore the question
of wh her supplies consigned to
a n tural might ultimately get to
a bi lli.g rent.
reached Yanitza, 35 -miles north
west of captured Salonika, but
the “resista-nee to the German ad
vanec is stiff' rung in souther;
Yugoslavia.” The British said the
situation in eastern Macedonia,
the locale of the so-called Greek
“lost army” trapped by the Gor
man seizure of Salonika was “ob
scure” but characterized by the
magnificent resistance of the
Greeks.” Previously the Germans
c!r ;m"d officially thst the Greek
ens* wirg surrendered and that
80,000 Greeks were taken prison
ers.
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THEIRS A HYMN OF HOP E—Rapt in their hymns as they pet ready for Easter services—
and the traditional cantatas expressing joy and hope and rebirth—Robert Mitchell's boys choir of St.
Brendan's in Hollywood rehearses with good will.
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Create Office
Price Adm. and
f ivilian Supply
WASHINGTON, April 11 4sP)—
T'-e President signed nn exec
i ive order creating the office of
Pi ice Administration and Civil
n Supply to be headed by Leon
derson. The agency, h said,
. • i up und • flee of
rg -ncy of the White House
1 will continue to emphasize
: election of the consumer, .
Japan Not Use
oree to Realize
Ambitions in East
TOKYO, April 11 (/P) — Prince
Konoye, Premier of Japan, in a
highly significant statement re
i iterated Japan’s southward pol
icy was “purely economic and
peaceful.” He insisted that Japan
will not use force to realize her
ambitions. Konoye made th
statement in a press conference
with Japanese reporters.
He appeared optimistic regard
ing United States and Japanese
relations, but acknowledged how
ever, that Japan’s membership in
the Axis and the continuance of
the China conflict were obstacles
in the path of a completely am
icable relationship between Tok
yo and Washington.
Man Reported
Runs Amuk In
Bendix Plant
BENDIX, New Jersey, April 5
— The Passaic Herald News, in a
copyrighted story said that a civ
ilian employee of inspection in
the Bendix Aviation plant ran
amuk destroying machinery and
9 cret models valued possibly as
high as a quarter of a million
dollars, setting back production
in some articles as much as four
months.
It was said that the man swung
metal housing weighing about 10
pounds, in each hand until over
powered. The plant makes pre
cision instruments for aviation,
among them parte for the secret
bombsight. The FBI and the B n
dix officials would neither con
firm nor deny the story.
PEPPER DEFIES
ALL AGGRESSORS
MONTREAL, Canada — Sen
ator Claude Pepper, Democrat,
of Florida told Canadian officials
that the* United States and Can
ada are what he termed “grown
up” and that they may have to
face the world alone. Said Pep
per:
“We defy the monsters who
would crush all the fine things
out of our life. We shall throw
back the beast that Laps at us
all. We wmi destroy his power
and return the world to an era
of progress.”
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build bumpers for V. S. warships—fenders w oven of ra.iau v. itft
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side, prevent damage from piers or other vessels. Turose and Kruk
learned their trade as youngsters in l*oia>ul.
TURKISH GOVERNMENT FEARS
IMMINENT GERMAN ATTACK
PART ISTANBUL EVACUATED
Germany Reiterates Assurance Will Not Attack Turkey
UNDATED, April 10—^Fears of
an imminent German attack on
Turkey, neutral ally of Britain,
was seen by the Turkish govern
ment in an announcement that it
found it advisable to remove a
considerable part of the popula
tion of Istanbul. The announce
ment followed only a few hours
after a Borne radio broadcast re
ported that Germany’s ace diplo
mat, Franz Von Papen, and am
bassador to Turkey reiterated the
assurance that Germany has no
intention of attacking Turkey.
Istanbul lies on the European
side of the strategic Bosporus,
the link between the Dardanelles
and the Black S a. It is less than
a hundred miles from German
occupied Bulgaria.
Army Intact For
Decisive Blow
UNDATED. April 10 </P)—Nazi
blitzekrieg forces have already
slashed down through Thracian
Greece alongside the Turkish
frontier. Greece’s own struggle
against the Germans took on a
slightly 'brighter aspect as mili
tary quarters in Athens declared
that hex army remained intact to
“deal a decisive blow at Ger
man invader with allied sup
port.” A German military spokes
man in Berlin asserted that more
than 80,000 Greeks were captur
ed in the sweep through Thrace
and that the final number will be
much greater.
Mechanized Divisons from Africa
The British radio said that Bal
kan war news was reaching Lon
don in little more than a trickle
but it seemed clear that the Ger
mans were still making headway.
Battalions of British flame
throwers, tanks and armored cars
newly arrived from Africa, are
reported rushing north from Pir
aeus, the port of Athens, for a
decisive battle with Hitler’s leg
ions. As the five-day-old battle
of the Balkans neared a show
down, unconfirmed rumors cir
culated in Budapest, that bomb
scarred Belgrade was entered by
Nazi troops.
British Reinforcements Arrive
Advices reaching B:m, one of
the few remaining outlets for un
censored news of war-ridden Eu
rope, said that British trans
ports and supply ships were
bringing fresh reinforcemnets to
southern Greek ports.
British Line Across Greek Pen.
German press dispatches indic
ated that a British expeditionary
force, estimated at 300,000 men,
was massed in the vicinity of
Mount Olympus, 60 miles south
west of Salonika, near the Aeg
ean sea coast. Other reports said
the British were completing a
new defense line stretching ac
ross the Greek peninsula from a
point south of Salonika to the
Albanian port of Chimara on the
[ Adriatic Sea.