The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8389. v.]UNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANY MAKES NEW MOVE IN NORWAY Fomenting War in Me Nazi Troops Embark fo Occupy Denmark DEEP PLOT UNCOVERED BY POLICE German Nazis and Russian Communists Said fo Be Involved CIVIL STRIFE IS PLAN OF ENERGETIC FORCES Frustration of Scheme Is| Believed Accom- plished MEXICO (,ITY, April 16.— Responsible sources declare that a small army of German Nazi and Russian Communist agents have joined forces in Mexico to foment a civil fundamentally aimed at the { xico, Aimed At U. S. B This picture, radioed from Berlin to New York, shows crowds gathered around the Norwegian Parliament at Oslo as Europe’s war threatened to engulf Norway—a threat that suddenly materialized in Germany's as- Crowds Gatlwr in Oslo as War Crisis Mounted ‘N AZI FOR(E CUTS NATION, WAIST LINE i Rush Special Train Through Defenders fo Strate- glc Point IHREE IMPORTANT CITIES ‘ STILL HELD BY INVADERS Brifish Confinue Air Raid- ing Stavanger-North ‘ Is Abandoned | BULLETIN—BERLIN, April | 16—~The DNB, German News | Agency, reports that troops ! have blown up the Norwegian | broadcasting station at No- German trcops which occupied Copenhagen and other parts of Denmark today are shown as they em- parked from the harbor there. This photo was transmitted from Berlin to New York by radio. Traveling | by ferry, the trcops landed at Gjedser and with an armorcd frain procceded norih todden, 50 miles southwest of Oslo, which during the past few days continued disseminat- | war which is ’ | United States and Latin Am- erica. sllmlltlon of an “armed protctorate” of \urv\m and Denmark. First Piclures of Germans in Denmark According to German censor-approved caption, this picture, radioed from Berlin to New York April 10 shows German troops on the march on an unnamed road in Denmark as they took over control of that nation without resistance. Surrenders fo Germans After Surprise Atfack This nlrflew of the harbor of Oslo, whhh spent a night cowering under air raids designed to emphasize (‘erml.nys demands that Norway come under her “protection” as Denmark had done, shows a portion of the Norwegian harbor that finally surrendered to the Nazi forces, e p—— | of these agents but are con- fident the conspiracy can be frustrated before there is any Among the aims of the ecivil war, aimed at the United States, is to divert the American peopie | from entering the European con- | flict to aid the Allies Also, should the United States become involved, the agents planned to use Mexico as a base for submarine operations. The German Legation spokes- man in Mexico City made a flat denial this afternoon that Ger- | | | armed arising. | o | | | | | | | | Faeroes Islands Occupied 5 Is Reported to Have Landed LONDON, April 16—A British expeditionary force has been landed {on the Faeros Islands, Danish pos- | session, between Scotland and Ice- {land. This was the announcement | made this morning by the British | Government. Britishers, 27YearsOld, Called Now Proclamation Must The class is the last affected by | King George's proclamation of last | January 1. The class is expected to bring the Army to approximately 2,375,000 men. Capt. Tom Ness today brought in British Expedmonary Force the ‘halibuter Emma with 12,500 pounds of fish which sold to New English Fisheries for 7.5 and 5.55 cents per pound. | Government officials said the ‘ Mexicon Secret Police have un- ‘ | covered evidence of the activity ~ FORCONSO By J. J. ECKLES ‘ Becretary to Delegate Dimond WASHINGTON April 8.—(Spec- ial Correspondence)—The recom- | mended combination of the Bu-| item of principal interest to resi- dents of the Territory in Reorgani- zation Plan No. 3, transmitted to | Congress on April 2 by the Presi- | dent, | Under Reorganization Plan No 2, which became effective last year, | the Bureau of Fisheries was trans- ferred from the Department of Commerce to the Department of | the Interior, and the Bureau of Biological Survey was transferred rwm the Department of Agriculture he Department of the Interior, whlch, as explaincd by the Presi- dent, “ concentrated in onc department the two bureaus re- - GETTING Fl By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 16—Sec- retary of the Navy Charles Edison is seeing rare sights. A crack spy couldn’t see half as much. A gob the greatest maneuvers the Pacific fleet has put on. And the Pacific shore cutters, the Secretary plunged into the middle of one of those U {S. Navy's maneuvers that must forever by a mystery to the people |who foot the Navy bill. He was| aboard the Navy flagship “Penn- mander of the United States fleet. HE’LL SEE ALL SHIPS | The Pacific fleet maneuvers are' | 1939, lincrease efficiency, LIDATIONNOW sponsible for the conservation and utilization of the wildlife resources of the Nation, On thc basis of ex- perience gained since this trans- fer, T find it necessary and desir- able to consolidate these units into Purposes of the plan of Govern- ment reorganization, of which this is part, as set forth in the Act of Congre: approved April 3, are agencies according to major pur- poses, reduce the number of agen- cles by consolidating those having similar functions and by abolisn- ing such as may not be neces- sary, and to eliminate uwrlapping and duplication of effort. Those | particular purposes which appear to be objectives in the consolida- tion of these two bureaus are in- ((‘ununueu cn va Three: SECRETARY OF WAR'S RST HAND INFO ON FLEET ACTION known as “Problem 21,” or may not mean that the Navy has come of age. But no matter | what, Secretary Edison is going to have a chance to get his sea-| cruiser, to airplane carrier, to sup- marine, to what-have-you. He'll largest army forge that the United States has stationed anywhere off the continent—25,000 men. He'll come back to the United| U.SS. Nashville,' |one of the newest and latest and States on the to reduce expenditures, | consolidate | which may | Bristol Bay Negofiations Underway Packers, Unions Meeting- Discussing Contracts for Season contracts but it was not announced what results were attained. | The negotiators are | again today. George R. Anderson, attorney for | the various unions, criticized the | packer’s announcement in closing the Karluk and Chignik canneries for this season, saying he belleved the operators did not want to pack, with or without union agreements. .o — _BRITISH (RUISER meeting Navy Crafi—Lgis Sharply, ' then Sinks, Says Ger- man Siatemem { BERLIN, April 16 —The German High Command announces that a | British cruiser was attacked and !sunk by German bombers late ves- | about the probable loss of life. The High Command also asserts | that a British amphibian plane was NAZIS IS CLAIM British Min |sler Makes ~ BOMBED to yard-arm for the way they did| their jobs. In the vicinity of San Francisco, (Continued on Page Five) LONDON, April 16.—Donald Cross, British Minister of Shipping, told a questioner in the House of Commons ing anti-German broadcasts. I STOCKHOLM, April 16.—Rushing an extra train through a disirict |held by the Norwegians, German | troops are reported to have reacied Storlein Heights, three miles from the Swedish border and 50 miles east of the port of Trondheim. If this is true, it indicates that Germany has gucceeded in cutting Norway in half at the narrowest walst. It is said that the Norwegian rail« way employees apparently received false information and believed the train was a fast Norwegian troop special and let it go through, thus many is participating in any such plot. reau of Biolp;zlcnl Survey and the|a single bureau to be known as passing the fortress at Hegra. B Bureau of Fisheries, both of which| the Fish and Wildlife Service. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 16. bureaus have extensive functions Purposes of Plan —Packers and union negotiators! HOLD THREE CITIES in Alaska, will undoubtedly be the| | conferred yesterday on Bristol Bay BERLIN, April 16.—The German High Command in a communique | declares that the German forces are still in possession of Bergen, Trond- heim and Stavanger on the west coast of Norway notwithstanding tremendous assaults by British nav- al forces. The communique declares that anti-aircraft defenses in the three occupied cities have been strength- ened because of the repeated air attacks of the British. | The British, according to the ! communique, made an attack on (the Stavanger airfield area last night and an undisclosed number of Norwegians were Kkilled, a number 'of houses were destroyed but little military damage was done. 1 NORTH NORWAY GONE BERLIN, April 16.—So far as Ger- man newspapers are concerned, northern Norway has apparently | ceased to exist since the Bitish fleet closed in on Narvik. War maps published in the news- papers today show only southern | Norway, as far north as the port of | Trondheim area, which is most | stoutly held by the German forces now in Norway. NAZINAVY i i working his eight bells on the same | legs. terday off the Norwegian coast. 4 ships, won't see one-third as much. That's the way the Navy| The announcement says the navy FOR(E ARE | o Secretary Edison is, so to speak,|planned it. In mid-Pacific, he’l craft listed sharply, then went down. | {asf Class Undef ng §|in the crow's nest during one of| transfer from flagship to light-| The communique says nothing BEING LOST i # fleet is heart and soul of the|see the great “attack on Hawail.” [ Register, Duty United States Navy In chart-room and on the bridge, (also downed. | ¥ Safling from San Pedro the|hell observe every move in one| g # other day, after checking that new |of those “holy of holies"—a grcuuu S SH'pMENIS PARIS, April 16.—Premier Rey- | cnuf,)er:rnzl: ';':f:‘lsl::rs:fl“”:‘f:yx:; breakwater which makes it pos-|fleet maneuver. U ds naud told the Prench Senate today ordered to register by May 25 under(“ble for the big ships to come| At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, anerl !hll: Czermlarl;y has l;:st,’lg' offlch: within hailing distance of the off- |the battle’s over, he'll inspect the DESIINED FOR reckoning, 30 percent of her naval the conapsiption: program, o rgm : strength, including one-fifth of her cruisers and one-fourth of her de- stroyers in the fighting in Norweg- ian waters. today, that the British has “suf- ficient evidence” to show that ship- | e e sylvania,” called the “big flag” by |fastest of the Navy's light-heavy H S " ments from Los Angeles, California, EMMA SELLS HERE the boys who chew our salt-water, | cruisers—but not until he has sat| Charge - nas uttl- in the United States, and from | because it's the floating castle of |through the “critique” and heard | . . " South American ports, destined for Admiral James O. Richardson, coni- | the admirals praised or hanged| (lent EVIden(e Vladivostok, were intended for Ger- many. Cross stated that all practicable steps are being taken to detain the shipments.