The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM nad Y VOL. LV., NO. 8392. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1940, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANY CLAIMS ADVANCE IN NORTH DUT(H WII_I_ \ Circus Head to Wed Actress | RESIST ANY | PROTECTION Premier Declares Nation to Fight Aid-Martial Law Effective BULLETIN — THE April 19. — Martial law has been proclaimed throughout The Netherlands by a royal de- cree issued tonight. HAGUE, THE HAGUE, April 19. — The Netherlands will resist with arms any attempt of a foreign power to extend protective help in case nf invasion or any warlike moves. Premier Jandegeer made this declaration today, adding thatmar- tial law has been declared effec- live in a large area of the na- tion already, and will be applied to the entire country soon. The Premier made the broadcast for the East and West Indies pos- sessions as well as the homeland. BRITISH, : GERMANS secReTARY INCLASH “enison 15 First Encounter in Norway WELCOMED Reporfed to Have Tak- | en Place-Nazi Lose — Lonpox. Ami 1oa reuers N@VY Head Refurns from Maneuvers-Lands at Mare Island John R. North Head of the Ringling Brothers- Barnum & Bailey circus, John Ringling North, left, and Ger- maine Aussey, French actress, will be married soon. North, 37, and Miss Aussey, 26, met in France this winter. She now is making a picture in Italy. North was divorced from Jane Donelly of Pittsburgh in 1930, dispatch from Stockholm reports| the first encounter between Brit- ish and German land forces in Norway. | The encounter occurred at Nam-| sos on the coast, 100 miles north of Strandheim. | Cruiser Nashville carrying Secretary The dispatch asserts the Ger- of the Navy Edison was greeted with mans were repulsed. a salute of 19 guns from the Yerba Namsos was picked out by the Buena Island battery today as it British as the latest troop landing|steamed up San Francisco Bay to- SAN FRANCISCO, April 19.—The CAMPAIGN . FUNDS T0 BE PROBED lnvesiigafkfl Ordered Which Will Be Start- ed Immediately WASHINGTON, April 18. — The Senate Campaign Investigating | Committee was today ordered to investigate complaints that “ex- cessive sums of money” are being spent in behalf of some aspirants for the Presidency. Chairman Guy M. Gillette, Towa, said the complaints are from “apparently reliable” sources. Senator Gillette declined to name the candidates or the party in- volved but said thus far only one party is affected. The committee approved the mo- tion instructing Gillette to assign the investigators e LEGISLATURE 10 MEET ON UnionsSign ~ LATER DATE President Signs Bill for up, AIIO“IGI' - Convening Fourth Mon- . . Alaska Area day in0cd Years | b 17 | WASHINGTON, April 19. — resident Roosevel as si Agreement Is Reached for Il e aie e Fishing in Copper River, | Prince William Sound convening of the Alaska legis- lature from the second to the fourth Monday in January of odd numbered years, and doub- led the present fifteen-day SEATTLE, April 19. — Another| limit on special sessions called | by the Governor. step toward the start of the Al-| aska salmon operations has been The ,‘"“ also reduces the time of 'notice for special ses- taken. Martin Hegeberg, Business Agent| Sions from 30 to 15 days. The President gave permis- for the Copper River and Prince sion for the notice to be given point. It is said the Norwegian defend- ers have concentrated at Steinkjer, 30 miles nearer Trondheim. NORWEGIAN DIPLOMATS ARE OUSTED Minister, with Members of Corps and Families, Quit Germany BERLIN, April 19. — Norwegian Minister Arne Scheel, with mem- bers of the Norwegian Diplomatic Staff and their families, left here at 5 o'clock this afternoon on a special trgm. The members of the Diplomatic Corps were given until midnight tonight to get out of the country. This means diplomafic relations between Norway and Germany are practically broken. e e——— PRESIDENT OFF ON VACATIONT0 GA. WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, April 19.—Presi- dent Roosevelt left last night for| his Little White House, at Warm Springs, Ga., ready to return to Washington at once if a new crisis rears up along Europe’s war stained | horizons. Before his departure the President endorsed fully the statement of Sec- retary of State Hull that the United States would look with emphatic dis- favor, on any move toward changing the status of the rich Dutch East Indies in the Pacific. The statement is regarded as an answer to Japanese Foreign Minister Arita who has stated that Japan regards the Neth- erlands East Indies as in her sphere of vital interests. ward Mare Island Navy Yard. | The Nashville carried Edison back |from Hawaii and fleet maneuvers |in the Pacific. ‘The Secretary’s arrival in the Bay | was in rather sharp contrast to his status 27 years ago when he was for a time a resident of San Fran- cisco. Edison was just out of college at the time, and trying to make his lown way in the world. He and a friend had plans for a million dol- lar amusement pier at San Francisco which were rejected by the Board of | Supervisors. | When their plans collapsed, the | young men were broke, and the fu- ture Secretary was forced to move into a “skid row” hotel and subsist largely on saloon free lunches. His inventor father, the late Thomas A. Edison, finally rescued the young promoter, and took him back to New Jersey. The Secretary was greeted by the Commander of the Twelvth Naval District, Admiral Arthur Hepburn, when he disembarked at Mare Island. Three members of the House Appro- priations Committee, Representatives Scrugham of Nevada, Plumely of Vermont and Casey of Massachusets flew from Boulder Dam to join Edi- son in inspecting bay area Naval properties, NO SPLIT, FUEHRER, GERMANS | BERLIN, April 19.—The British efforts to bring about a split be- | tween Hitler and the German peo- ple is the “most stupid phase” on the British war policies, Propa- ganda Minister Goebbels said to- night in a radio address on the |eve of Hitler's birthday. He said the unity between the ‘!"uehrer and German people of the |Reich was of the greatest strength and the “German people laugh at such efforts being made by the British.” Williams Sound Fishermen's Union, announces the membership has ap- proved agreements = covering all territory under the union’s juris- diction. The agreement concerns the Copper River area and covers 450 gillnetters and purse seiners, The agreement provides for a 17 per- cent wage increase. The agreement also embraces 250 trapmen in the Prince William Sound district and provides the same conditions as granted the Al- aska Fishermen’s Union with the 1937 wage scale effective. Both unions are affiliated with the CIO. The Copper River is the scene of the first salmon fishing and with the season opening May 15 most of the men engaged are leaving at once. Will Purge Norwayof Nazi Filth Winston Churchill Wel-| comes Survivors with Caustic Statement LONDON, April 19. — Winston Churchill, British Director of land,| sea and air forces, told survivors of the destroyer Hardy that they are the ‘“vanguard of the avmies which we and our French Allies will use this summer to purge and cleanse the' soil of the Vikings, the soil of Norway, from the filthy pollution of Nazi tyranny.” Churchill spoke in welcoming about 100 back from Narvik where the Hardy was grounded in a battle on April 10. The survivors made their way ashore and maintained them-’ selves despite German occupation of the port. They were finally rescued by another war vessel. by telegram or radiogram. ik Yugoslavia Plot Nipped; Arrest Made Former Premier Inferned in Mountains-Had Lin- ed up with Germany BELGRADE, April 19.—Discovery of a plot to overthrow the Gov- | ernment of Premfer Chitkovic is | reported in quarters close to him. Following the announcement for- | mer Premier Stoyadinovicbe was |interned in the mountain fastness under a heavy guard. | Sources indicated the success of the plot to overthrow the Gov- ernment of Yugoslavia hinged on the entry of German troops into the country. Stoyadinoviche was taken into custody after the police had raid- ed his home and discovered docu- ments linking him with a Nazi “fifth cdlumn” activity similar to that preceding the invasion of Nor- way by Germany. New Adivity, ‘Western Front PARIS April 19.—Tonight's French communique reported sharp encount™ ers between French and German re- connaisance parties in the Moselle and Bries river areas. It was reported that one German plane was brought down inside the French lines and another was forced down out of control on the Western Front behind enemy lines. of | - Investigating Campaign Expenses These senators, pictured in Washington, constitute the committee checking up on all campaign expenses. Left to right, Charles W. Tobey, Miller, of Arkansas; Guy M. Gillette, of Iowa, chairman; and Clyde M. Danish Officers Disarmed After Nazis Radiophoto (ransmitted from Berlin shows a group of unarmed Danish officers advancing through a Cop- enhagen street under protective custody of armed Nazi soldiers who now occupy the little kingdom. FCC'S PROBLEMS TOUGH: FREQUENCY MODULATION CAUSE OF ONE HEADACHE Nazi Troopsfl | Being Flown Info Norway Report Indicates 2,000 Soldiers Landed Daily | by Invasionists } LONDON, April 19—A Norwe-| gian Government official arriving here today by plane, estimates that Germany is flying 2000 soldiers daily into Norway, | Scandinavian observers estimated two days ago that about 60,000 German soldiers are on Norway soil. ARMED MENROB U. 5. MAIL TRUCK | can | grunt basso to the overtones in a By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April the poor Federal Communications Commission. arithmetic isn't even A-B-C com- pared to the problems that James Lawrence Fly's commission has to solve. Take Frequency Modulation — hereinafter referred to as FM. Even the name sounds tough. If you are not up on your radio news, that’s the new method of high-frequency, static-less, high- fidelity radio broadcasting and re- ception, developed principally by Major Edwin Armstrong, the man who gave the world the super- heterodyne. About all you and I have to know is that “High-frequency” means broadcast and reception in the upper megacycles, as op- posed to standard amplitude modu- lation, which {8 broadcast and re- ceived on the lower-bracket wave- lengths, or frequencies. Even the dub knows what “static-less” means, “High fidelity” means you broadcast anything from a fiddler's upper register—and the right sound will come out in the business end of your receiver. | IF THAT WERE ALL LITTLE FALLS, N. J., April 19.— Three heavily armed men using an imprisoned station agent as a shield, robbed a mail truck at the Erie railroad depot here and es- caped with a registered mail pouch that contained $19,500. Two of the men carried revol- vers and the third had a machine- gun. The bandits herded four men into a room, tied them with wire and ransacked the mail. e e “ Attorney R. E. Robertson re- turned to Juneau last night from Sitka aboard the southbound Northland. | Now there’s no argument that all this would improve broad- casting and reception. The FCC would be only too glad to admit that, if there were nothing else involved. But there are “knowns” in the problem that produce “un- knowns” in any answer you work out. For instance, there are TWO schools of FM thinkers—the wide band and the narrow band. Ma- jor Armstrong and his troops be- long to the wide-band army—and they say that they need licenses (Continued on Page Five) designed to keep politics clean by 19.—Pity | Junior's home-work In | ALLIES LOSE THREE SUBS ANDCRUISER {Nazi High Command Gives Hitler Birthday Gift of Fresh Claims 05L0 TROOPS OF " GERMANS ADVANCE | Norwegian Destroyer Sunk North of Narvik, Is Berlin Report BULLETIN—BERLIN, April 19—The German High Command anncunces that in a raid on | of New Hampshire; John Ey 1 } British transports just off the | | | Reed, of Kansas. Norwgeian Coast tonight one ship was hit by a bomb of heavy calibre. The location is not other- wise disclosed nor is it stated the ship was sunk. > Conquest BERLIN, April 19.—Steady ad- vances, constantly reinforced Ger- man troops and new blows struck at the British Navy are reported by the German High Command on the eve of Adolf Hitler's fifty- first birthday. | 1t is officially reported that suc- | cesses of the German forces in- | cluded three Allied submarines de- |stroved in the Skagerrak and Kat- | tegat; a German submarine sink- |ing a British warship, and several ! transports being hit by a sudden attack of the German air forces. | The success also includes the sinking of a Norwegian destroyer | north of Narvik and destruction of the Norwegian hangar at an undesignated fjord. Oslo Troops March The official reports also declare that troops in the Oslo region are advancing “slowly but steadily” and have reached a point about 75 miles northeast of Oslo. In the north, near Narvik, the German High Command insists that the island of Flato has been occupied, thus tightening the hold |on the ore railroad between Nar- | vik and the Swedish border. The commander of a German | submarine has returned to port and declares that a 9,100-ton Brit- ish cruiser was torpedoed north of the’ Shetland Islands and destroyed by an internal explosion immedi- aiely after the torpedo hit her. Unanimous Confidence In Reynaud French Premier Given Ex- AL | ceptional Voleby |, itount s Korway i ncc Deputles | cated in the Trondheim area be- tween the British-Norwegians and Germans. It is indicated the Germans are | moving in busses behind motor- | cycle patrols accompanied by small | tanks. PARIS, April 19.—The Chamber of Deputies tonight gave the Gov- ernme: of Premier Reynaud a unanimous vote of uf)r}fidcn;fle‘ 504| one report says that Tonsberg to 0. The on was a public one at the mouth of the Oslo Fjord, vtollomn a ..chL debate on ('ov';'surrendered to the Germans yes- | ernmental policies. | terday. The vote contrasted sharply with| S e - the one-vote margin on confidence INVADERS given on March 22, the day after Reynaud took office. \German Troops Are Oper- ating Now Along Baseball Today Glomen River The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two Major Le: 50 BERLIN, April 19.—The German News Agency claims that German thoops operating along the Glomen |river, near the Norwegian Swedish border, have pushed 65 miles north Other game postponed by rain. of Kongsvingor. This would place | the German advance guard near the | town of Rena in east central Norway. e' | The Nazi agency said that a milit- Destroyer Und e | arized orce | of 800 was operating A"a(k o' Bombs |on the east side of the Glomen, while a motorized force of 17,000 Germans was pushing northward along the LONDON, April 19.—The British|west bank of the river. Admir: disclosed today, with the| The Berlin account said that arrival of the 1400 ton destroyer | mechanized units were being left at Eclipse at the English base, that the |each town passed by the main col- | craft was damaged by a bombing at- | umns. | tack several days ago. | - VUKOVICH RETURNS Masquerades were the' fashion| Steve Vukovich returned to Ju-- at the court of King Edward III neau last night on the Northland tional League New York 0; Brooklyn 12. St. Louis 0; Chicago 5. Other games postponed by rain. American League Philadelphia 3; Boston 7,1. Detroit 0; Cleveland 4. Washington New York 5. Bl S R of England about 1340. after a business trip to Sitka,