The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 13, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8387. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 — BRITISH MAKE NEW BLAST ON GERMANY Nazi Reinforcements INVADERS | MAKE NEW MOVEMENT Forces Are Believed Flying| to Scandinavian Na- tion Now SEA LANES MINED; 1 GRIP IS TIGHTENED Norwegian Resistance In-' dicated—Querilla Tac- fics to Be Used (By Associated Press) German reports up to noon today state the invaders are tightening their grip on Norway by continued | troop arrivals to reinforce the ex- | peditionary forces and Norwegian vessels in all ports are being seized and manned by the Nazi forces. No explanation as to how rein- | forcements are reaching Norway is given since the British and French have mined the sea lanes between Germany and Scandinavia. Invaders Are Flying Some troops, however, are already known to have been flown to the Norwegian Kingdom. Norwegian resistance to the Ger- man invasion appears to be stiffen- , according to all reports. eat Britain, relying heavily on her air force, is bent on every effort to bottle up the Nazi fleet, not only of warships but of troop ships. Chieftains on Ground Tt is reliably reported that Hitler's chieftains have landed by air in Norway and will immediately take full charge of the invasion forces. The Germans are reported to have strengthened their position around Oslo. There are indications the Norweg- ians are establishing new defense lines and mapping out guerilla war- fare to harrass the invaders. - — MISSING BUNDSTER SUICIDES Alleged Rin;fl_eader of Plof Against U. S. Was in Terrror of Life NEW YORK, April 13, — The body of Claus Gunthers Ernecke, 36, GermanfAmerican bundsman who was accused with 16 other men of plotting to overthrow the Unit- ed States Government, was found hanging today in the basement of a Brooklyn apartment house. Police, who listed the case a suicide, said a note was found with the body, but the contents were withheld. A wide search had been under way for Ernecke since his disap- pearance yesterday, two weeks after the beginning of the trial of the alleged seditious conspirators. He was on $7,500 bail, ordered forfeited when he did not appear in court. Ernecke’s lawyer, former magi trate Leo Healy, said the Ger- man-born bundsman was terror- stricken with threats made against his life as the result of testimony depicting him as the ringleader of the alleged plot against the Gov- ernment. — .- PALMGRENS NORTH Mr. and Mrs. Axel Palmgren of Fairbanks, are bound for the West- ward on the Baranof after a trip to the States. Pa N is. a well known Interior mining man. ——————— Umbrella Man, 71—Fore and Aft These photos of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain |, enain in the country as “long as were made on the morning of his 71st birthday, recently, as he took his customary stroll near No. 10 Downing Street. Spring must have come early to England, for he has discarded his topcoat, although still clinging Two to rubbers and. of course. that famous umbrella Salmon Canneries, af Karluk, Chignik, Will Not CRISIS IS FACED BY RUMANIANS 0il Shipments fo Reich Are Stopped-General Em- | bargo Thought Near | BUCHAREST, April 13.—Fears that German-Rumanian trade re- lations are rapidly nearing a crisis were expressed today as Rumania suspended loading of freight cars destined for the Reich preliminary to imposing an embargo on ex- {port commodities needed for do- | mestic use. | | The suspension of car loadings | followed swiftly the German ac- | tion banning export to Rumania of |a long list of articles, among them, metallurgical coke which is vital| | to the Rumanian -ore industry. | Loading of Danube River oil . barges has been suspended for sev- eral days, but Rumanian authori- | ties said high water is responsible | for the suspension. | German trade quarters called this “high water” pure “pretext.” 1 | StoCck QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 13. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock at today's short session of! the New York Stock Exchange is 6%, American Can 116, American Power and Light 3%, Anaconda 30/ 7/8, Bethlehem Steel 80%, Com-i monwealth and Southern 1%, Cur- | tiss Wright 10 3/4, General Mo- |tors 54%, International Harvester |57%, Kennecott 37%, New York lcentrn.l 16 3/4, Northern Pacific ‘8*, United States Steel 61%, Pound $3.51%. Er i DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 149.66, rails 31.06, utilities 25.24. | turning | J ot Operate;Unions Don't Sign SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 13. —The Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., has cancelled operations for the scheduled season at Chignik ment with the labor unions. because of failure to reach agree- Edward H. Moore, attorney for the operators, said the locals cf the International Machinists failed to appear and draft a working agreement as the deadline was reached for outfitting the supply ship Chirikoff. Thursday the packers announced abandonment of operations at Kar- luk because the deadline for mak- ing an agreement had expired and the time limit was up on outfitting the Chirikoff for that area, Moore said the Chirikoff will not sail now unless it takes part in the Bristol Bay season. Moore estimates the abandon- ment means a loss of 20 to 25 percent of the salmon pack dis- tributed through San Francisco and the loss of jobs to 500 workers regu- larly employed in the Karluk and Chignik canneries, e e ETHEL JAMESON RETURNING HERE Ethel Jameson, formerly with the Montgomery Ward and Com- pany office in this city, is re- on the steamer Yukon after vacationing in the States for the past few weeks. She will replace Mrs. Robert Stoft at the Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association office here. Mrs. Stoft plans to join her husband at Sitka in the near future. PHILLIPS RETURNS FROM EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION TODAY A. B. Phillips, Superintendent of | the Juneau Public Schools, re-’ turned today on the steamer Bar-| anof. | For the past two weeks, Supt. Phillips has been attending the Inland Empire Educational Conven- tion in Spokane in the interests of accrediting of all high schoois in Alaska. | R There will be two eclipses the sun in 1940, ndin Are La g1 n Norway KING OF NORWAY PURSUED \German Planes Tracing Down Monarch on Present Flight STOCKHOLM, April 13. — The spaper Svenska Dagbladet says | German warplanes are still pur- |suing King Haakon and Crown Prince Olaf from hiding place to hiding place Wherever they stop it is said air raid alarms soon follow. The present whereabouts of the 65-year-old Monarch is not dis- closed but the newspaper said he is forced close to the Norwegian- | Swedish border. The newspaper's correspondent said the King told him at a high- way meeting that “I have not been| out of my boots and have had hard- ly a wink of sleep” since leaving' Oslo last Tuesday. It is reported King Haakon is in good spirits and determined to X "How Nazi Gestapo He Flanked by agents of the dread Gestapo, the streets of Warsaw to a concentration area. s bk Buckner Marriage Disclosed one inch remains Norwegian.” Yesterday, four German bombs exploddd near where the Monarch was and he threw himself in the snow, The planes skimmed the tree tops so close that it seemed that . the pilots recognized the King. EARLIER REPORTS NEW YORK, April 13. —King Haakon, Crown Prince Olaf and | members of the Royal Family Staff, | were bombed four times in the flight from the temporary Norwe- gian Capital to an unknown spot of safety. | This is the declaration made by an American girl in a short wave broadcast from Stockholm. She stated her information came from a Swede who was a member of | the Royal party. Crown Princess Martha and her! three children, Prince Harold and Princesses Ragnhild and Astrid, are reported to have crossed the border previously and are now safe at an undesignated place in Sweden. | - - - | William P. Buckner and Adelaide Moffet{ Marriage of William P. Buckner, playboy bond swindler now about to begin serving an 18-month prison term, and Adelaide Moffett, singer and daughter of the former United States housing adminis- trator, several weeks ago has just been disclosed. Buckner is shown dining with Miss Moffett on the eve of his departure for prison. Suplmaew anna wae linked romantically with Loretta Youne. the film actress. AR “E’;S“ FLY-FLIPPERS TOLD THAT | G“’Y °¥‘ 1940 TROUT SEASON WILL BYBRITISH ~ pr pEsT 1 MANY YEARS Four Messerschmitt Planes = | Shot Down-10 English | Planes Are Gone LONDON, April 13.—The British Air Ministry this morning an- nounces that four German Messer- schmitt fighting planes have been shot down in air fights over Scan- dinavian territory and two more are believed to have been de- troyed. hails meirily: Mr. Pr Presider find themselves Nance Garner. The hailers not, of course, optimistic friends By JACK STINNETT sident” ‘Hello, Mr. WASHINGTON, April 13.— [to several million fly-flippers bott Denmead of the Bureau of Fisheries says that by May, in nearly all states, what should be one of the best of recent trout seasons will be under way. But watch the opening dates. Every | trout state has one, except Maine, where the law reads: The season's| | open “when the ice goes out.” Against this, the Air Ministry| Babe-Baiter: William O. Doug- placed British losses at eight las is undoubtedly the only man planes, two of which made forced ever to move from right-field landings at sea enroute home but bleachers of Yankee Stadium to crews were later picked up by near- the bench of the United States by vessels before the plane wreck- Supreme Court, When the asso age sank. ciate justice was practicing lav in New York and living in West- James J. Sweeney continues to | chester, he used to slip over to mount, Mr. Sweeney, you remem- . r Girls" Club Hostess . . . With Weinie Roas the stadium at every opportunity ber, is the man in the Attorney President’s ‘They due presidential as President of the Senate. Fashion note: Maybe I'm be- hind the times. It wasn't in Hol- lywood and it wasn't in New York {but in a Washington hotel lobby that I noticed two handsomely dressed young women in widow’s weeds, black- veils covering their faces, and on their long shapely fingernails, black nail polish, Pelitics: My admiration for and park in the bleachers, where General’s office who upset the Dis- he, with a hundred othe daily | trict of Columbia’s taxation sys- battle for two years and |spend a thousand dollars or so getting back 88 cents the District had illegally assessed him. It wasn't Mr. Sweeney's first | fight, either. Fifteen years ago, in hometown Boston, Mr. Sweeney figured he'd get into politics. With only $13 in his pocket, he set out to smash the Democratic machine and get himself wit repartee with Babe Ruth. legal “How we woud shout” sa The G. D. K., girls' club, enter- | the Associate Justice, “when the | tained with a weinie and marsh- Babe would shake his fist at us or mellow roast last night at the Taise his cap and grin Elmer A. Friends’ summer home _Sarterial item: Presidential Can- on the Fritz Cove Road. | didate Paul McNutt is the best- About 10 couples went out late pressed man in the capital—never| |in the afternoon and returned to puts on a suit that hasn't been }Iawn last night. Two huge bon- freshly pressed. fires were enjoyed, as well as the ~Man of title: Persons visiting fine weather and bright quarter the Senate halls or cloakrooms of- moon. ‘lben are startled when some 0ne‘ «Conunued on Page Seven) merely are paying him his| kept up a running barrage of rifle-|tem because he was willing to do| these Polish Jews form a pitiful column as they march throu; Most of the men are elders o to flee when the former Polish capital was captured by the rds Polish Jews FE 3 gh ed | | | f the community who refus Nazia. SWEDEN IS PREPARING FOR FIGHT ‘War Resources Being Mob- ilized for Defense of Neutrality STOCKHOLM, April 13—Fearful | of involvment in the present in- vasion of Norway by German, and | the widening conflict, the Swedish | Government today made urgent preparations to fight, if necessary, | to defend her neutrality. Airfields are blocked off to pre- vent airplane landings. Bomb proof shelters are hastily eonstructed. The Nation is mobilizing all war resources, | 1 being | Mail from Germany Is Opened Now British Forestalling Any Chance of Exports Get- | ting Info U. . ‘ LONDON, April 13.—British of- ficial sources disclosed that a sys: tematic search of American bound | | | “fiow do you do, mail on neutral ships has begun. |Sea. TERRIFIC AIRFIGHT KEEPS UP Challenge fo Hifler's Con- quest of Norway Is Blazoned Out BERGEN IS BOMBED, ALSO KRISTIANSAND Losses Admitted by Both Sides as Furious En- gagements Waged BULLETIN — LONDON, April 13. — The British today struck anew in an effort to blast away the German foothold on Nor- way. British raiders bombed the German held airfield at Stav- anger, southwestern Norway, and it is believed extensive dam- age was done on the hangar and aircraft on which mechanics were seen working. One German warplane was shot down in flames. (By Associated Press) Bitter war in the skies has mark+ ed Great Britain's challenge of Hit« ler’s conquest of Norway. Lightning thrusts in the air are announced by the British and these are continuing against the Germans in Norwegian waters. Three successes were scored yes- terday by the British Air Forces. A munitions warehouse was bomb- ed and blown up at Bergen, on the Norwegian west coast, which is held by the Germans. Warships and supply ships were machine gunned and also bombed and German staffmen and aircraft personnel reported killed or in- Jured. Kristiansand Attacked Alrplanes of the British force also made an attack on Kristiansand, southern Norway, which is in pos- session of the German invaders. During this attack a German flying beat was damaged and a German destroyer was raked with machine’ gun fire by a British bomber which made a safe escape from German fire. British and German announce- ments are conflicting regarding the price paid by both sides in alr en=~ gagements. Fighting Furious Claims of furious fighting, hows ever, is made by both sides. The British claim that one of their planes, in the attack on Bergen, was forced down at the scene but of-4 ficially state eight of their craft were ™ shot down, two making a forced landing later far out on the North It is also said four German This disclosure was revealed when | planes were shot down at Kristian- The search is imposed in order - | U.S. MINSTR REPORTED SAFE | ACROSS BORDER ‘Mrs. Harriman in Sweden | —Unable fo Reach Nor- wegian Officials WASHINGTON, April 13. — Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, 70, United States Minister of Norway, ie- ports she is safe and in excellent | health at the Swedish border town of Helges after a series of un- successful efforts to reach the headquarters of the Norwegian Government, which keeps constant- ly shifting. | tionment commissioner. Mr. Sween- to Stockholm, Mrs. Harriman talked with Fred- elected appor- erick Sterling, American Minister | by telephone, ac- State Department., They whirl around to mail of German origin was searched sand. staring at John aboard the American steamer Man- | are hattan [ German accounts make no men- tion of the Kristiansand attack but said 10 British planes were shot being premature about the Vice-| to catch German exports by par-| down in the raid on Bergen. ‘The prospects. cel post | German loss was two warplanes. The German communique also states one British plane has been shot down at Narvik, northern Nor- . way and one in a raid at Stavanger, Belgium Prepares Defenses Army Mounts Guards Over Various Places-Ten- sion Increases BRUSSELS, April 13. — Belgiume took precautions today “because of ~ the general tension” i The Belgium Army has mounted guards over Government offices, - cording to advices received by the raqio stations and airfields in the | Brussels area,