The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 8, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE WS ALL “ALL THE | THE TIMNE” VOL. LV., NO. 8382. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1940. } PRICE TEN CENTS MEM—BER ASSOCIATED PRESS COAST OF NORWAY MINED BY ALLIES German Transport Is Sent Down By British TORPEDO GERMAN VESSEL British Desilr;)yer Sends - Craft Down Off Nor- | wegian Coast NAZI SHIP FAILS T0 HALT AT COMMAND Af Least Onfiundred and Fifty Lives Believed 1u Be Lost BULL N—ARENDAL, April 8.—A British submarine torped- ced the German transport Rio De Janerio, sending approxi- mately 300 uniformed Germans | to death. This is the repert received here as rescue ships, laden with survivers and bodies reached various Nerwegian perts. It is said there were 500 Germans on the troopship and why the vessel was so close to Norway's coast is not revealed. Gunfire is heard again tonight at sea, but poor light fails to give the source. The Nazi steamer Krata has sent cut a distress call. German submarine. Top, the 50 1atch closed ready for diving. The \RENDAL, Norway, April 8.—At least 150 Germans and 80 horses were lost when a British submarine fired two torpedoes into the German steamer Rio De Janerio, four miles off the Norwegian coast. Wishermen said that it was report- ed that mere than 300 Germans were aboard the vessel which they said failed to halt when the submarine crdered the craft to heave to and then fired the torpedoes when the ToDelay R.A.F. Plane Sinks a U-Boat | Chese two pictures, made from a British bomber, record the sinking of 0-ton U-boat is taken unawares, her plane dropped four 250-pound bombs Stinnet Tells One Good Reason for Greal Britain Her Clipper Line By JACK STIN WASHINGTON, April 8—Note to AMERICAN Craft, Mid-way Across Pa- cific for Russia, Re- turns fo Port CAPTURE BY BRITISH IS BELIEVED FEARED Warning Issued from Em- bassies at Washington Calls for Move TACOMA, Wash., April 8. — The American freighter Wildwood, which docked here late Saturday, turned back in mid-Pacific while headed for Russia with a cargo valued at $4,500,000. We had been warned by Embas- sies in Washington, D. C. to pro- ceed no further,” F. R. Claek, Pres- ident of the American Foreign Foreign Steamship Company sald The 8,000 ton freighter is believed to be the first American ship di- rectly affected by Great Britain’s blockade. American shippers have been warned that the British have alrea taken two Russian ships to Hong- 2 and the Wildwood might be the next vessel to be seized by British warships now in Orlental waters. > BRIDGES TO GET REVIEW OF HIS CONTEMPT CASE Tornadic winds accompanied by a driving rain sw:pi through Pierra Tornado Wredks Fishing Village Part, La., leaving four known dead, two missing, 25 injured and many others believed buried in debris of he devastated fishing village. Rescue workers are shown searching for bodies in the wreckage. FAMOUS JEWISH EDUCATOR, - DR. CYRUS ADLER, IS DEAD; PUBLISHED BOOK ON NAZIS 1 PHILADELPHIA, April 8.—Dr. Cy- rus Adler, 76, famous Jewish educa- tor and publicist, died yesterday at |his home here Cyrus Adler, son of small- a Noted Stage Actor Takes Last Curfain | e William Faversham, Lead- ing Man for Many Fa- 2 NATIONS 'TAKE BLOW - ATGERMANY \Western Sem of Scandi- navia Denied Use of Warring Reich 'BRITISH, FRENCH { IN JOINT ACTION Flow of Ore fo Be Stopped | IsPlan-Is Ad of Reprisal LONDON, April 8— The British |and French governments announce that three areas off the Norwegian |coast have been mined. | This is said to be the first move to deny Germany use of territorial waters for shipment of vital Scan< dinavian iron ore to Germany. The areas reported to have been mined are off the Stadtlandet Pen- insula, also Bud and Vestfjord. | The action is said to be i re- prisal for Germany’s brutal and il- legal campaign against shipping of all nations in which 150 vessels have been destroyed with nearly 1,000 neutral lives lost. The Bud and Stadtlandet Penin- sulas are on the west coast of Nor- way, both south of Narvik, the Nor- wegian port for the loading of Swed- ish ore. ‘The mines are intended presum- ably to block German ore ships from using the waters close inshore for passage to the Reich. Stadtlandet 1s about 128 miles north of Bergen, the farthest point south in Northern Europe at which United States ships are now allowed to call under the neutrality law. Bud is about 80 miles farther cemmand was not obeyed The Germans started jumping verboard from the steamer into the icy waters of the Skaggerak and many were picked up by nearly small craft going to their rescue. 2 VESSELS MAUNA LOA Juan Trippe: Heres’ an inside story SENDING CUT SMOKE AGAIN Hawaiian Volcano Starts Overdue Eruption— Crafer Glowing HILO, April 8—An airplane flight discloses that a fissure four to five miles long has op- ened in the side of Manua Loa and lava has started flowing l down the volcano in the direc- | SENTDOWN, SEA BATILE German and Brifish Sea- men Survivors Land- ed, Norway Port | HILO, Hawaii, April 8—Smoke bel- OSLO, April 8. — A Norwegian ,,uo grom the red glowing Mauna echooner hios skt (% Lillesand | crater in the first erupticn since with between 40 and 50 German a"d]‘December‘ 1935, when rivers of lava British seamen aboard and also h‘“*appronched within 12 miles of a dozen bodies on the deck following | ,ore e yoicano is 45 miles from a battle in the North Sea in whflchjmlo' a British vessel and a German sub- | E tion of the Kau desert on the side opposite Hilo. marine were sunk. According to the crew of the| schooner, two submarines attacked | a British vessel. So close was the schooner to the scene that she was damaged slightly from the explosion of a torpedo. Lillesand is on the southeast tip of Norway. —— - TWO ARE KILLED, MYSTERY AFFRAY 8—A mysteri- | SEATTLE, April ous double shooting took the lives of John Zolatun, Russian, and Dav- | id Jensen, both 45, Saturday night. The two bodies were found in the Zolatun home. | Relatives said the two men had known each other but not inti- mately. | Coroner Mittelstadt said Jensen| was apparently shot first and Zo- latun then discharged a shotgun|the House Committee probing un-i,,jes the waves but it looks now as with a stick while holding thel muzzle against his body. Mrs. Zolatun, who was visiting friends, said she had never seen Jensen before . The eruption began shortly after midnight. Four columns of smoke rose from the crater and soon there was a red glow around the crater’s mouth. | Dr. ‘Thomas Jaggar, volcanologist, | who predicted the previous eruption, isaid last year that another “out-| | burst” was overdue. Dies Staris New Drive Ninety Subpoenas Served- Communists, German- [ American Bund WASHINGTON, April 8—Chair-| Iman Martin Dies announced that American activities, ordered 90 sub- poenas served during the past week-! end in a general drive against the Communist Party and German- | American Bund. you ought to know. Commercial aviation people in Warchingten are saying that the one | big reason England is making so much fuss about the United States’ continuance of weather broadcasts in the Southern Atlantic is not fear Germany will profit by the news— but their grim determination to heold your Pan-American Airways back while their competitive hands are tied by the war They even say that all that mail trouble at Bermuda was just one more effort to make your eastward hop an obstacle race. | They point to the British Lion’s squawk at our putting Coast Guard | weather observation <l\ipf directly { under your route to Horta after you had been driven off the landing) | rights they had granted#u in Ber- | muda. | And they point to the Allies’ dis- !tress at continuance of weather | broadcasts from Horta, Italy, Spain| and Portugal — information that | couldn’t possibly be a military se-| 'cret. | | ONCE UP ON A TIME— I England certainiy has some his- toric precedents to worry about. In {the 40 years that followed 1820 | American clippers stple a march on | world shipping that made the sea-| going English seasick. | Those old clippers, for which your | 1 modern ships are named, Mr. Trippe, | used to make five trips over thou-| |sands of miles of ocean while the| | British were making Zour. | The “Sea Witch,” 9 days out of} |at San Prancisco, a trip that never had been made in less than 150 days The “lightning” logged 436 miles in one day and knocked all other speed records into a cocked hat 1 It took a Civil War and the ad- vent of steam to break the back of | American supremacy of the seas. You can bet any Britisher who knows i his maritime history hasn’t forgot- ten now. Is it any ‘wonder, then, that the | British are looking on the achieve- ments of these modern clippers and feeling pretty green? Britannia may if, before this war is over, Ameri- jca’s rule of the transoceanic airways will be so firmly established that no (Continued on Page Four) town merchant, saw a need for Jew- ish scholars whose studies could be made sccially uable to the Jew- ish people, and devoted his life to| that end. He was the head of two| institutions of learning, Dropsie Col-/ lege for Hebrew and cognate learn-| ing in Philadelphia, and the Jew- ish Theological Seminary in New Highest Court Grants Peti- tion of Coast CI0 Chieffain 4 WASHINGTON, April 8—The Su- mous Women, Dead "north. ! NEW YORK, April 8—William | MAYBE COUNTERACT Faversham, 72, leading man for COPENHAGEN, April 9.—Between Maude Adams and many other fa- 90 and 100 German naval craft, mous women stars, died yesterday Mostly armed trawlers and coastal as the result of coronary embolism, Craft minesweepers, are reported to in a Long Island rooming house not D¢ on the way north from Germany far from the luxurious mansion in the direction of the Skagerraw. preme Court of the United States has granted the pefition by Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast CIO chief- tain, to review his contempt of court conviction for sending a telegram to Secretary of Labor Perkins in which he criticized a decision made by the Los Angeles Superior Court. By the decision he claims he was deprived of the freedom of speech. Bridges was convicted in a Los Angeles Court and given the alter- native of paying a $125 fine or serv- ing five days in jail. The California Supreme upheld the conviction. SUPREME COURT REFUSES REVIEW Court York. i In 1807 he helped found the Amer- ican Jewish Committee and became | its chairman after the death of Louin‘ Marshall in 1929. He was co-chair- man of the Council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (1929-31) and served on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University in Jeru- salem and on the National Execu- ‘ tive Bard of the Boy Scouts of America. He was the founder, Sec- | retary (1892-98) and President (1898- 11922) of the American Jewish His- torical Society. | Publishes Book | | Internationally recognized as a | spokesman for his co-religionists, Dr | Adler in 1933, as chairman of the | American Jewish Committee, pub- lished “The Jews in Nazi Germany. The book presented so much docu- mented data dealing with Nazi at- | tacks on the Jews that it hecame / TORNADOES HIT TWICE, LOUISIANA known as a “white book” on the | subject. ON NLRB ORDE zilsm as Four Knowfiifiead, Many where he once lived Faversham made and lost several fortunes. He was born in’ London. During the past several years, Faversham played in a few movies including “Becky Sharp.” Faversham was married three times. He is survived by two sons, Phillip and William, Jr. i >—ee — F.Holzakfe ~ Passes Away B VANCOUVER Frank Hol of the Gu C., April 8.— yrmer accountant enheim company in | Alaska, died suddenly today in a hotel room here. It is said he had been in ill health for the past three Republic Steel Must Rein-! state Employees Who Went on Strike WASHINGTON, April 8—The Su- preme Court of the United States today refused to review the National {New York, around the Horn, docked |y o0 " pejations Board's order di- | recting the Republic Steel Corpora- tion to reinstate 5,000 or more Ohio employees who participated in the| 1937 “Little Steel” strike and left in effect the Circuit Court order sustaining the reinstatement orde of all of the strikers except 40, who were guilty of violence. The Republic Steel Corporation is suing the CIO and affiliates for $7,- 500,000 for damages in connectior) with, the strike. > — - CROKEN GOES SOUTH Howard K. Croken, for the past seven years attached to the Signal Corps office in Juneau as opera- tor, left for the south on the Yu- kon, He has been transferred to the Seattle office. Adler described Na i dence of a national inferiority com- plex” but argued that “prejudices must not be fought merely with ap- peals to passion and resentment however justified passion and re- sentment may be.” At Peace Conference After the World War Adler went to the Paris peace conference with | Marshall. They presented there the pleas of the Jews for recognit of | their minority rights and privileges (in the nations formed or recon- structed under the Versailles pact In 1930 Dr. Adler formulated for a League of Nations commission a plan to settle the trouble between Jews ‘and Moslems in Jerusalem over the |use of the Wailing Wall, a Hebrew shrine reputed to be the last vestige |of the Temple of Solomon. The ap- proach to the wall was owned by the Moslems and there was bloody riot- ing over ihe right of the Jews, en- route to the wall for prayer and lamentation, to traverse that section |of the Holy Land. Moslem-Jew Status The League took a hand in the = (Continued on Page Seven) | years. e — . y Injured, Properly Dam- | - | age Reported Large SRussi a N ow Citizens and relief agencies toiled today to clear away the tangled de- bris of a tornado which left three dead and 25 seriously injured and property damage estimated at half | M a million dollars, New Sedlon miles distant, killed at least one per- son and another is missing 1 Hok ol Heavy damage was done in both storms which struck early yester- HEH il wis 'Reported Building Perma- Six square blocks in the busines “ent lme c'ose 10 Man_ ! choukuo's Border AMITE, Louisiana, April 8. Fortifying | Another tornado at Barataria, 100 jarea were flattened here. ESTEBETH IS IN WITH TWO. | The motorship Estebeth came in/ TOKYO, April 8.—A dispatch to from the island run Saturday Bf—;Lhe newspaper Asahi from Ksinking, ternoon shortly after 5 o'clock, Manchouquo, says Soviet Russian bringing in two passengers. | forces are erecting permanent ‘for- | Arrivals were Gus Jordan from tifications which extend to within Tenakee and Antone Iverson from three miles of Manchoukuo's border | Hoonah, ! with Outer Mongolia. DEEP PLOT ISLAIDTO GT.BRITAIN |Planned Dyn?'niting Dan- ! ube River fo Prevent ! War Be Carried South ! BERLIN, April 8. — Authorized | German sources revealed today that idetails have been received from for- eign correspondents describing what is claimed to be a gigantic British plot to make the Danube impass- able to carry a war into the Dan- ubian Basin in Southeastern Eur- ope. ‘hese official sources claim the plotters planned to send half a doz- len barges, loaded with dynamite, up the river to blast the channel and blow up bridges. It is alleged that more than 100 British Army, Navy and Air Force men were arrested by the Rumanian police before they had time to go through with the plot. These advices assert that the chief plotter is the English Vice-Consul at Bucharest, who it is claimed is actually Chief of the British Secret Service in Rumania. MANY VISIT ((C CAMPS YESTERDAY The CCC open house yesterday at Montana Creek and the Juneau crewhouse attracted about 100 visi- tors to inspect the Corps’ quarters, to see some of its work and to par- . take of coffee and doughnuts,