The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8386. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1940. PRICE TEN CENTS PAIRBOLT TO SAFETY AT MeNEIL Hundreds §(m_rth Desper- ate 25-Year Sentence | Bank Robbers ‘ TACOMA, Wash.,, April 1.—Work- | ing on the belief that two convict-| ed Los Angeles bank robbers who escaped from McNeil Island prison late yesterday might have reached the mainland, a half mile away, during the night, police and sher- iff's deputies in neighboring coun- | ties joined the big man hunt to- day. Posses of between 50 and 75 men searched the island for the men, Arnold Kyle, 29, received in June, and Joseh Cretzer, described as the nation’s number one bank robber who participated in eight such crimes, and was received at Mc- Neil Island in February. The two were under 25-year sen- tences and escaped by climbing in- to a delivery truck and speeding through the gate as guards fired on them | ROBBED SEA{T"Z BANK SEATTLE, April 12—Kyle and Cretzer, escaped convicts from Mc- Neil Island Prison, were under in- dictment here on charges of par- ticipating in the $14,500 robbery | on July 27, 1936, of the Broadway Branch, Seattle First National. They were not tried here as Cret- zer was charged with five bank robberies in California so was prosecuted there. He was arrested last August in Chicago. Kyle was arrested six months earlier in Minnesota. .- Census Tally To Rearrange House Chairs | Some States fo Lose Repre- senfatives-Some fo Gain Others Are Unaffected WASHINGTON, April 12. — The Senate has approved and sent to the White House a bill providing reapportionment of 435 House of, Representatives seats on the basis of new census population shifts since 1930. The reapportionment will cause some states to lose Representatives and some to gain. Likewise, a number of states will not feel the change at all. Yesterday the House passed the measure after eliminating a pro- vision to exclude aliens in determ- ining the new apportionment. Winter Cold Hifs Again; Middle West Crops Hit Hard Clear Info| Cotton Belf as Tem- perature Drops KANSAS CITY, April 12—~Win-| ter, in a late thrust through mid-| continental United States brought | record low temperatures for the| date today and caused uncalculat-| ed damage to fruit crops. At Sydney, Nebraska, a tempera- ture of two above zero was regis-| tered, with snow, and at Pampa,| Texas, a temperature of 13 above| was registered. | Forecast is for an advancing cold wave with freezing weather to the Gulf Coast and northwest Florida. Farmers in southern Alabama feared damage to ripening straw- berries and maturing potatoes. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THIS WAY ‘UP’ ATA M new Curtiss-Wright 21 interceptor-fighter which, its designers minute. In production for a foreign power as a powerful defense against V' _ to carry four machine guns. Its speed is well over fitiyal Norwegian 'Family Escapes German Bombing By Narrow Three Minufes STOCKHOLM, April 12—King Haakon, of Norway, and Crown Prince Olaf yesterday fled from Nybersgund, a town near the Swed- ish border, only three minutes be- fore German bombers raided the town, according to the Swedish | News Agency. | It is reported that several per- |sons were injured by the bombs| and several small fires were start- ed. The entire Royal Family of Nor- ! way is now reported safe at an un- U.S. TRADEACTIVIY BROADENS, WIDE FRONT DENMARK BURIES 12 WHO BATTLED NAZI INVASIONS Rationing Hits Danes and NEW YORK, April 12. — Dun- Bradstreet in the weekly review today reported trade activity broad- ened on a wide front this week over last week. “The industrial markets report- ed increased sales accompanied by a firmer to higher price tendency as extension of the war area in Europe encouraged more liberal coverings in metals, paper, and tex= tiles,” says the report. | The retail volume of business, the Many Other Regula- tions loomiflg report says, averaged six to eleven ‘percenb above last year. COPENHAGEN, April 12—Den- | f mark today burned with military | honors, 12 soldiers killed in the | - - HOUSE PROBERS scattered resistance to Germany's | occupation, and set her national| ‘ face stolidly to the making of ad- | looKI“G I“Io \ justments forced by the war. | SpA"lSH ( Es‘ Reserve stocks are depleted by, + | American Boys Killed So rationing and other new resv.ric-i tions are regarded inevitable as ne- | gotiations continued over details INFLAMES, SKAGERRAK Vessel of la@ Tonnage Is ILE A MINUTE—Shown during tests at St. Louis is the claim, can climb more than a mile a NAZIS CLAIM |GERMAN RAIL 2 SUCCESSES, 1S BOMBED SEA FIGHTING German HH H | BERLIN, April 12 |Assert British Aircraft Car-| oms agency DNs reported. today H H that British warplanes have rier, Cruiser Bomb- [bombed & Girnin Ty siaion in Schleswig-Holstein and intimat- —_ jed if the act is repeated "onw‘v 0((UPM|0N ‘ The agency said it is the first Allied attempt since the beginning | STIL GOING AHEAD {DNB Communication Saysj Some Norwegian Troops | | Have Been Disarmed | BERLIN, April 12.—A communique |issued today asserted that German | warplanes severely damaged a British afrcraft carrier and also a cruiser 125 miles off the Nowegian coast. | | The communique declared light | units of the British Navy were re- | | pulsed in attempting to enter Trond- | bombers, the plane’s designed 300 m.p.h. KARLUK SALMON | heim Fjord by bombing attacks, | F I S H I “ G ]'0 BE apparently issuing from new-won | Norwegian air bases. | It was said the military occupa- ABANDO"ED'1940 tion of Norway is proceeding “ac- cording to systematic schedule” and in the German occupied area of Narvik, northern iron port, opera- tions have “expanded” inland to Packers, Unions Unable to Reach Agreement on Pon vikfs povncn, SeaSOH'S COMI’adS iflgency.’ said a number of Norweg- |ian troops have been disarmed L A LIASE Cannerymen (ome North On April 28 First Workers fo Prepare for Season-Negotia- tions Pending SEATTLE, April 12—Negotiations | continued between the Cannery ers themselves negotiated with us Workers' Union and the canned but they are dealing through at- salmon industry and announcement is torneys who do not have the power made by officials of Local No. _7 to make any agreement and all that the first cannery workers will they say is no.” | leave for Alaska April 28. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 12 —Spokesman for the Alaska Sal- mon Industry, 1Inc, announces abandonment of the salmon fish- ing season at Karluk because of inability to reach agreements with the 12 unions. The employers are continuing negotiations with the Alaska Can- nery Workers' Union and associated groups in an effort to complete contracts in time for the season at Chignik. The plants at Karluk and Chig- nik annually handle from one- fifth to one-third of the pack pro- d by the San Francisco un- ions in that area. George R. Anderson, attorney for the Cannery Workers' Union, said that all issues would be settled in “half an hour if the Alaska pack- 2 with Admiral James O. Richard: fleet, after he boarded the flagshi Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison (left) to have a front-row seat for the first 10 days of the 1940 war games of the United States’ battle fleet in the Pacific. BRITISH MAKE NEW DRIVE ON GERMANS ~ WARFARE IS WAGED BOTH STATION BY BRITISH; REPRISALS THREATENED BY SEA, AR of the war to damage transporta- Far Flung Fleet Encircling tion outside the active combat| 5 % , Scandinavian Coast The site of the bombing attack . @ is in thé northern pavt of Germany in New Action near the Danish border. “If repeated,” DNB reported, “the German air foree wi face e WAST MINE FIELDS new situation.” 4 : ARE SAID T0 BE LAID Mllnelf’v(?r S 'Large Nazi Ammunition Carrier Blown Up~Sup- ply Vessel Damaged LONDON, April 12—Amid reports of a raging war at sea along the far flung Scandinavian coast, with new warplane successes, Great Britain has bulwarked her air and navy drive against the Nazi conquest of ,Norway with the sowing of vast | mine fields. | It was announced officially here today that British fliers ranging over the sea lanes from Germany's Baltic coast to Oslo Fjord during the night, blew up a large ship, appar- ently an ammunition carrier of about 8,000 tons, in the Great Belt of Denmark. Farther north, British fliers are reported to have heavily damaged a 5,000-ton Nazi supply ship. The British Admiralty gave notice of having mined four areas in the North Sea ,at Skagerrak and the Kattegat, in a move to block Ger- man traffic between the North Sea and the Baltic except through the Kiel Canal. It was also announced that British fliers had bombed a German sea- iane base on the Baltic coast and 1 ammunition ship in a line of eight or ten vessels was “blown up vith such force that attacking air- raft were rocked by the force of > explosion.” - TOWNS ARE SET AFIREBY NAZI BOMBS Hamar, Eldrum Reported in Flames-Other Sec- son, Commander-in-Chief of the p Pennsylvania at San Pedo, Cal, —eee Although no definite’ contract has been signed, 21 men will be Trade pa(l sent north for shipyard and can- Signed Now 1939 contract will remain effec- | tive. | nery work preparations near Cor- Roosevelt Lauds Congres-| dova on a retroactive agreement, V. C. Naves, union business agent said. Under an agreement, wages and | hours negotiated for the 1940 cou- |tract will be effective from the |time the present wages start and if no new agreement is signed, the "Cactus Jack' "(adusHarry”(areyfivives OnOld Time Game, Polilits‘ Apparently Bombed and Then Sinks STOCKHOLM, April 12.—Sinking of a vessel of considerable tonnage in the Skaggerak has been wit- fions Air Raided STOCKHOLM, April 12. — Both Hamar and Elverum, to which the Norwegian Government first fled from Oslo after the German in- vasion, are reported to be in flames from incendiary bombing of Ger- man planes, Other Norwegian towns are re- ported to have been bombed. Heavy columns of smoke are seen from the border, sauth of Oslo, " Garner Tip nessed from Stromstad, Swedish coastal town. The ship was apparently heavily bombed and was seen in flames, sinking later. ATTACK SWEDES BERLIN, April 12—The con- trolled German newspapers launch- ed an attack on Sweden for giv- ing refuge to Norwegian Parlia- ment President Hambro and other Norwegians who are claimed to have given out false reports on British successes. D% The reason for sending men north | as the rain. o Comm un |Sf Se(fefs Bk, - ’ will be to prevent a delay in the By JACK STINNETT “Golly, what a bunch of thileves| 0% BeAVY GsntoRsding is herd. w Id " B 'I' ld Sloflal Adlon on Pow- start of cannery operations. | WASHINGTON, April 12—Into|they had around Tammany in 5, ouldn € 10 | ’ the office of “Cactus Jack” Garner | those days. Even Pop had a fran- tads | erful Instrument |the other day came -Cactus Harrg" | chise. It was for a two-mile horse- WASHINGTON, April 12—Max-| . H | carey. car railway through Pelham Bay well Wallach, of Detroit, testified| WASHINGTON, April 12.—Presi- | om r Ing | it sty :’ark‘_ P?p”:s-t is up and charged; today that his son Albert and sev- dent Roosevelt signed the bill to- |y shat Carey was in-town, mako|d0-cent fare. ~ i S E EUROPE eral other boys who Went into the day cxtending the reciprocal trade ling his return to the stage after | “Scems like there Was 8 S s ks Spanish Civil War under auspices program for three years. H 20 ‘years. He wanted: to sealanddian in those days thatyoupquidn’s of the friends of the Abraham Lin- President Roosevelt said Con- s o 'or chat with the Vice-President, charge mo ...t-}?:\,n‘ five cents on coln Brigade, were killed to con- gress had demonstrated a determ-| whose chair he occupled for thag| 80y street railway, so Pop was ARE WAR“ED ceal Communist activities. ination to retain “this powerful in- | “Mr. Smith” movie. called up to Albany, umbrella and Wallach told the House Commit- strument of promoting our nation- Bicisln 1 e v wha GARINT | tee investigating UnAmerican ac- al well-being and strengthening| s ep the two got to reminiscing and “They put him on the pan, told —_— tivities that the boys were killed the foundations of stable peace.” | out of that came a remarkable ex- | him he'd violated the law, and Pop ]’hose Sw“ch i "g Irade at a camp near Barcelona. | During the last six years thei Jampl(’ of how life goes 'round and isnys_ I'Nn'.\, s:x':'(ll»-;m'n‘; know tlk:e f i h A The Detroit man said his son Government has concluded 22 re-| STOOKHOLM, April 12—HeaVy wound. John Nance Garner, the|1aW. For years I have been on the i went to Spain in February of 1937 c%procal _trade agreements with for{cannonnding was heard at swm-‘son of a westerner, becomes a big bench l?m ].”. ”“.d,, wa say that rom Relc fO "|es '0 and was last heard from in July €ign nations. ‘smd last night from the direction| pojitician. Harry Carey, the son no one stree vxl‘ul\m,vt\m‘u_panj/ can Be Unneu"al On investigating, Wallach said (ONGRESSME" . mf-df:; nbo L:(;]a,b]ebl‘epflns comes a westerner. . | armpanies not belng abie to chare BUCHAREST, April 12. — Ger- ;\e ledarned from some of his son.; rocinbl; hark ! Mr. Garner, no doubt, could gl\e;"ve cents cach? Well, gentlemen, Many has notified southeastern riehds i hat a group O i ; % ¢ s @ spades at | Iway s - Famgdbod o . PASS ALASKA ' ——=——— i 1o death at.the polticn e |, Lo le THTAY e OV by moving 10 swit trade o “It was because it was known| | 2a but Carey Pere would have given |, ...\ . . yoy can look the Reich to the Allies will be that efforts were being made in| 'I'Ax ME AS“RE Mr. Garner a tun for his money. |10 [ icies o incorporation. considered as unnettral. their behalf and they thought it| “Pop,” says Harry, “was one of [ ar "0 YN you want to, This is the reliable report from Jestid B poier fo Kl theot, Xagtier | old Richard Croker's Tammany | .. A.:“‘\ issue an order that 81l southeastern European capital than Jet them come back to let! WASHINGTON, April 12. — The| 1,08 ANGELES, Cal. April 12 |district leaders in Brooklyn and . y,ousands of poor people who cities and the warning was given Americans know what the Com- genate has passed and sent to' e temperature at :o‘.).n Lgday was |@ Judge of the court of special|\jje tnoce railways have to get off| b 8 German news bulletin. munists were really doing inSpain” | the White House a bill authoriz-|g3 and three more days of abnormal | S€55100S- 'ai the end of the first mile, in| It s also stated that the Reich Wallach declared. |ing transfer to the City Treasurer neat is predicted. | torrential rains and bitter cold, as reached an understanding with Mrs. Walther Selby of Chester- of Wrangell, Alaska, a $6,092 town, Maryland, testified that har imposed by the Federal Courts of | WARM AT SEATTLE son Vernon went to Spain in Sep- | the Territory on the Diamond K.| -SEATTLE, April 12. — At noon tember of 1937 and failed to re-| Packing Company. | today the temperature was 67 de- turn also. She said she has been| The company had failed to pay grees and before the day is over is unable to learn what happened fo|that amount in license taxes and expected to beat yesterday's 73 de- him, was consequently fined, | grees high. CARRIED AN UMBRELLA “He anticipated Chamberlain by about 50 years—used to wear a high silk hat and carry an um- brella, rain or shine. Only differ- ence was he used it all the time— used it to keep the sun off as well ! > ] |and transter to the other compa-|the Danublan nations, particularly ny’s railways just to comply with|Yegarding river shipping, which will a silly law, then I guess Il have De safeguarded. the matter up with the It is reported, without confirma- | to take | vote: l_, troops at Odessa, about 25 miles (Continued to Page Two) from Rumania's eastern border, tion, that Russia is concentrating .