The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 26, 1940, Page 1

B O S D I RN AT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME® VOL. LV., NO. 8398. " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940. PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS RUSH INTO OWN TRAP BUT ESCAPE WORKING T0 GET ALASKA COLONIZED Development Committee in Washingon, D. C., Issues Statement NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN IS NOW BEING PLANNED Finnish, No?v;gian Refu- gees, Others Would Aid Northland WASHINGTON, April 26. — A statement issued today by the Al- askan Development Committee which seeks to inaugurate a nation- wide campaign to support legislation looking to colonization of the Terri- tory of Alaska, said Finnish, Nor- wegian and other refugees in certain war torn sections of Europe can be settled in Alaska under the prov- isions of legislation proposed to Con- gress, The statement further says that undertaking of the development of commerce and mining will be of “in- cstimable importance to the Nation, creating new markets for millions of dollars of products of American in- dustry and agriculture,” The statement also said the Terri- tory is now a weaw spot in National Defense. ALASKA ITEMS ARE CONTAINED IN SENATE BILL River and Harbor Projects Given Approval- Goes to House WASHINGTON, April 26.—Itims| included in the River and Harbors| Bill approved by the Senate yes- terday and sent to the House show 000 in expenditures planned the improvement of Alaska harbors Included are: Seldovia harbor, $75,000; Petersburg harbor, $80,- 000; Port Alexander, $31000; Wran- gell harbor, $189,000; Metlakatla harbor, $120,000; Sit#s harbor, $109,000; Elfin Cove, ,000 and Kodiak harbor, $70,00. FARLEY IS GIVEN HONORS, DINNER IN WASHINGTON Distinguishal_’ubli( Serv- ice Medal Presented Cabinet Member WASHINGTON, April 26.—Post- master James A. Farley has receiv- ed the first Distinguished Public Service Medal of the New York Democratic Club. Presentation of the medal was made at the Club’s anni- versary dinner at which Farley was the guest of honor. Gov. Herbert Lehman and Senator Robert Wagner were among the principal speakers at the dinner last night. Political observers tried to see something significant in the many | prominent names on the General Dier Committee, in view of Farley's avowed candidacy for the Presiden- tial nomination. Practically all of Farley’s fellow Cabinet Members as well as several United States Senators and promin- ent State Democratic leaders and high officials were on the Commit- tee. Postmaster General Farley was henored at the dinner for what was | termed “constructive efforts in build- up the Party's good will.” - e — REV. GRAHAM HERE A guest at the Baranof Hotel and an arrival in Juneau aboard the Princess Lcouise is the Rev. Paul A. Graham. He is a minister in Cordova ' Heiress Wed | | | 4| Mrs. Reginald K. Russell Phonephoto The former Nancy lrene Heinz, of Pittsburgh, heiress to pickle mil- lions, is honeymooning in Palm Springs, Cal., with Reginald K. Rus- ell, of Australia, following thei1 | elopement to Yama, Ariz. GAMBLING CLOSED IN LOUISIANA Gov. Long Makes Final Gesture of Power - Re- prieves Convicled Men BATON ROUGE, La., April 26. | —Gov. Earl Long, who is rvurml:: May 14, made a final gesture of | power today when he ordered all| Louisiana gambling stopped, and also reprieved five of his support-| ers who were convicted of “slug-‘ ging” on the election day when he | was defeated. | Sheriffs throughout the state were given 48 hours in which to| remove slot machines, pin ball tables and other gambling devices. 42,000 Men Are Facing | Shore Leave Unifed States tieef Refurns| fo Pearl Harbor Affer | | had | Minister McKenzie King discussed |landing fields along the road. HIGHWAY REPORT IS MADE itwed 1 International Commission Turns Project Features Over to House WASHINGTON, April 26. — The Alaska International Highway Com- mission report has been submitted to the House by President Roose- velt The report recommends the route | tapping the Panhandle of Alaska.| Representative Warren G. Mag- nuson, of Washington State, Chair- man of the American Commission, who prepared the report, said he been informed by President Roosevelt that Canadian Prime the highway at Warm Springs ear- lier in the week. The report declares that the In- ternational Highway is feasible and would improve the [riendly rela- tions between Canada and the United States, develop rich Al- aska resources and facilitate air- plane travel by establishment of The report stated there are no serious engineering problems in- volved | It is further said the highway would open a vast new territory to settlement Magnuson also declares that the survey made in 1933 indicated that only about $14,000000 would be required for the building of the| highway and he believes an ac-| ceptable formula could be worked | out with the Dominion of Canada| for division of the costs involved. | / As British Land OUTSTANDING NORWEGIAN AIRMAN, EXPLORER, KILLED AT 0SLO BY NAZI FORCES T P STOCKHOLM, April 26— Capt., In January, 1933, Riiser-Larsen Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, outstanding| headed an expedition into the Ant- Norwegian airman and explorer, |artic and was rescued from the | was killed in the first fighting at|ice with two companions, by a| | | Oslo's Civil Airport when Germany imvaded Norway, is the report re- Now IA | ceived here from the Norwegian iTclcszrapn Agency. Among other exploits, Riiser-Lar- | 1 sen accompanied Capt Roald TE | Amundsen and General Umberti Reject Wage increase of §1.50 Month-Demand- | LETTER NAZI ing $10 Advance SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 26. —Sailors Union of -the Pacific membership who stopped work in west coast ports yesterday met and voted “practically unanimous- | 1y” to reject wage increases of $7.50 a month offered by employers. Secretary Lundeburg of the Sail- ors Union announced that they de- By JACK STIN? WASHINGTON, April 26 —Head- | winds that forced the westhound Atlantic Clipper into Bermuda re- REVEALS SECRETS OF U.S. mand a raise of $10 a month. He |said the sailors will continue tak- |ing a strike ballot authorizing the Pacific Maneuvers | cently blew the top off a leak in United States naval secre leak that leads to Nazi Germar Norwegian whaler. Riiser-Larsen, according to the | Norwegian Telegraph agency's dis- ipalchA declined to accept German | demands that he surrender the| Oslo Civil Airport and was killed by the German invading officers when he resisted. BERMUDA CENSORS FIND WROTE THAT authority that, persons already into custody—but that: “We do | deny.” some person o have been taken there always not confirm or 15 | 1T'S AN ILL WIND— ed at Narvik HONOLULU, April 26.—Forty-two thousand men and officers of the| United States Navy are back in| Pearl Harbor today and looking| forward to ten days’ shore leave| after being at sea participating in | war games. The fleet filed into the harbor last night led by the Pennsylvania with powerful searchlights playing Northland Is JuneauBound SEATTLE, April 26.—Motorship Northland sailed for Southeast Al- aska ports at 3 o'clock this after- noon with 64 passengers aboard, the following for Juneau: John Chudeck, Harry Lown, Harry McKinnon, E. Gruber, George Crawford, Melvin E. Holbrook, Mr. and Mrs. F. A, Hill, Raymond King, M. McNeilis and Roy Wennstrom. Manhvafi;;—D;e Changed fo May 10 Due to conflicting activities, the Martha Society Mother’s Day Tea which was to have been on May 11 in the Parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, will be held and his stay in Juneau is indefinite, May 10, it was announced today. negotiating committee to call a walkout unless demands are met. Able bodied seamen now get $7250 a month. —————— BOY, SIXTEEN, KILLS YOUNG SCHOOLMAT Robert Heineman Admits Shoofing Edith Sydner in Family Home ABINGTON, Pa., April 26-—Rob- ert Heineman, sixteen, admitted to Assitsant District Attorney Groshens that “he shot and killed Edith Snyder, sixteen, a classmate, as she sat in her living room last night studying her high school lessons.” She was shot through the heart | from the front porch. The youth confessed when con- fronted with a threatening note the girl had received some time ago which was signed, Bob. The note read: “If I don't see you at the end of the fifth period someone will die.” The girl screamed when shot last night and died in the arms of her brother, Edwin, who was nearby. — .- Major J. W. Powell made the first boat trip down the turbu- lent Colorado River, through the| Grand Canyon, in 1869, The story has not been told. It's | This is artist Louis Biederman'’s conception of the landing of British forces at Narvik, Norway’s northern ore port. Under protection of heavy guns of the warship at left and planes overhead, a long line of life boats makes its way toward the rocky side of the fjord (right) while troops already landed head inland. Top center, & Nazi plane falls in flames. Germany denies Britain has recaptured Narvik. Convided as Flogger for Ku Klux Klan Atlanta Garage Owner Is Found Guilty - Given | Maximum Senfence ATLANTA, Ga., April 26.—Husky | Henry Cawthon has been convicted of one of nine flogging cases and |given a maximum penalty of 12 months on public works, six months’ jail sentence and a fine of $1,000. The jury found the garage own- |er guilty of assault and battery in beating P. S. Oney, CIO textile {union organizer. | Cawthon is pictured by the state |as Chief of the Ku Klux Klan “wrecking crew.” o HORSE RACING NEWS TAKEN UP BY GRAND JURY Indictments Are.Returned an official secret, confined to in- ternational circles, U. S. naval in- ‘This is a phase of the censorship | and mail seizure situation that has in Chicago - Federal telligence and perhaps the Fed-|been overlooked A |eral Bureau of Investigation. All| Not until a man (or woman) I.aWS VIOlaied | will offer mhcommem only shf\flhad come under suspicion could| | irritating Washington stymie: “Just | an i investigatin, espio- say that we refuse to confirm m"naze ::n::;ve:;,w u;;tivngizes pl}:mu CHICAGO, IIL, April 26. — The | deny.” der the United States mail, | Federal Grand Jury investigating But here it is, from one of those| 1It's another side of the Di(rlurn;tht’ use of wire and radio services newsman’s delights: “ordinarily re- | that critics of British high-hand-|in_dissemination of horse racing liable sources”; The Atlantic Clipper winging west out of the Azores, fought headwinds that would have driven | Columbus’ armada back to Spain. | All that happened was an alarm- |ing depreciation of the gasoline supply—but the skipper, figuring that safety was better than sor- row, put in at Bermuda for fuel The British government there, ever on qui vivre, called its dis- | banded censorship staff from bask- ing on the beaches and riding bicycles in the warm winter sun. | Within an hour or so, 1,628 pounds lof mail had been taken off the Clipper for censorship. More than 800 pounds of it was mail from Germany. { Among this was a letter from| some Nazi somewhere that left the British censors gasping. They | forwarded it by cable to the) United States naval intelligence department here. The context of that letter left| no doubt in any one’s mind. U. S. naval secrets were being sold through some foreign espionage agency to Germany. Investigations were started im- mediately and I have it on high cdness (some even have called it hijacking) regarding the U. S.| mails have ignored I don’t say that the British mrj |any one else) are privileged to| tap one single pipeline of foreign | communications bearing an Amer- ican stamp, but I can't help re- peating that it's an ill wind that| doesn't blow somebody somo-} | thing. i 1‘ | IT'S HAPPENED BrFORE | This is merely history repeating | itself, In the World Wa:, ® was| Great Britain that pointed the way | to disclosure of the Zimmerman | | notes, which allegedly built up a' pretty big case against Germany's interest in the affairs in Mexico (supposedly to distract the United States from intervention in the Eu- ropean war). . Again, it was Great Britain that uncovered the reported per- fidy of one Mr. Franz von Papen, attache of the German embassy. Mr. Von Papen, so the story goes, had" negotiated for sabotage of certain U. 8. industries and water- ways. For years Von Papen was (Continued to Page Three) information today returned three indictments charging the Western | Union Telegraph Company and 18 individuals with conspiracy to vio- late the Federal laws. THIRTEEN ARE FLOWN T0 MINE Thirteen Canadian miners arriv- ing aboard the Princess Louise left Juneau this afternoon for aris-Taku mine at Tulsequah, flown [to their destination by Alaska Air Transport, Johnny Amundsen, AAT | pilot, who is doing the flying said | that it would probably be necessary to make four trips. | Other trips by AAT today were | made by Shell Simmons in the | Lockheed this morning when he | flew four passengers to Hirst-Chi- | chagof. They were: Harley K.John- | son, .Alexander Laiti, Raymond | Domlon and Hans Loberg. Ed Littlefield was flown to Sitka, R o8 2L iy Banks of all classifications in the United States on June 30 1939, numbered 15,082, ALLIESFALL | " BACKFROM ONESECTOR Admitted " First Trick” Lost | by British, Norweg- ian Forces ‘ GERMAN PLANES AIDING | ADVANCING NAZI FORCE }Bombs Dro—pp—ed on Ships in Oslo Fjord—Craft Are Set Afire LONDON, April 26—The Allied forces, for the third time in as many days, fell back before Germany's campaigners in Norway whose flying columns have driven swifty into the heart of the Norwegian Kingdom. The British War Office admitted the new setback came after the Bri- tish conceded they had already lost the “first trick”, The British War Office said, “lim- ited withdrawals had been forced by strong mechanized German fore- es aided by low flying alirplanes south of Dombas which is the rail- road junction point south of Trond- heim and lying 50 miles north of Ringeby which was reached yester- day by the Westernmost Curman| columns. \ Establish Air Bases The British-Air Ministry announc- ed that Allied air bases were today established In Norway and the air fleet has began on a vigorous offen- sive action against the Germans. It is unofficially reported that British Air Force planes bombed oil tanks of German occupled bases in both Norway and Denmark. It is officially reported that oil tanks south of Oslo have been bomb- ed and bombs have been dropped on four large German ships in Oslo Fjord and fires started aboard. Antiaircraft gunners of the Allies account for the loss of eight Ger- man planes shot down, place undes- ignated, ALLIED EFFORTS STOCKHOLM, April 26.—Reports trickling from the frontier indicate that yesterday's attack against Den- esfort represented a supreme Allied effort to pierce the entrance fortifi- cation held by Nazi troops at Trond- heim Fjord. The move was seen as an attempt to get naval forces into a position to fight jointly with the combined land forces north and south of Trondheim before the German col- umns are able to contact each other and combine their forces inside the Trondheim region. On the whole, the Allied troops appear to stand a much better chance of checking the Germans’ spectacular thrust which was plain- ly aimed at such a consolidation of their outer forces with the Trond- heim garrison. e FAULKNER SAYS NORWAY CUT OFF FROM INGUIRIES Alaska Vice-Consul Has King's Proclamation- Funds Are Raised H. L. Faulkner, Vice-Consul of Norway for Alaska, who has receiv- ed many inquiries from Norwegians who have relatives in Norway about the possibility of communicating with them, explained today that it is impossible to get any accurate information regarding conditions in Norway at the present time so far as communications are concerned The Consul General at San Fran- csico has not been able to receive ‘communications from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On April 16 the Consul General received a memorandum from the RCA Communications, Inc., which read as follows: “Effective immediately code and cipher prohibited in messages to Os- lo and all parts of Norway under German control. At the present time traffic for the following places cir- ROROS TAKEN, THEN RETREAT IS NEXT MOVE Dazzling Exfibifion.;-liqm- ning War Move- menf, Made MOTORIZED FOR(ES GET OUT OF SNARE British, Norw_egian Armies Gain New Ground in Trondheim Area STOCKHOLM, April 26.—Re- ports reaching Swedish news- papers indicate the Allied and Norwegian forces on ihe front belew TronZheim have inflicted considerable losses on the Ger- man advance units and have forced them back to a point five miles south of Roros. The Allied forces are coming down the Glomma Valley from the concentration peint at Stor- en and have brought light artil- ‘lery into action, e ROROS TAKEN QUICK MOVE STOCKHOLM, April 26. — The Germans late yesterday suddenly abandoned Roros a few hours after they had seized the Norweglan town in a dazzling exhibition of lightning war movements with a motorized force, and began digging in at Tolga, 15 miles to the south in the Osterdal- en Valley, This is the report Swedish news= paper correspondents have radioed here. The Germans rush on Roros in an apparent effort to reach Trondheim, They advanced about 125 miles in less than 24 hours. ‘The sudden retreat is ascribed to need for hasty fortifications which the terrain at Roros was unfavor- able. Another cause appeared regarding the British advance south in the Gudbrandsdalen Valley to the west which threatened to outflank the Germans extended positions and the invaders believed they had rushed into a trap of their own setup. One correspondent declares the British have broken through at Storen and are now in a position to block any German advance to reinforce Trondheim on the west coast. BOMBS ARE DROPPEDON BRIT. CRAFT German High Command Announces Much DamageDone BERLIN, April 26—The German High Command reports that war- planes have damaged small British warships and transports and also destroyed harbors facilities of the Allies at several points in Norway. Eleven airplanes of the Allies are also reported to have been shot down over Norway territory. The High Command also states that Allied planes raided Oslo dur- ing last night but no damage was done. It is admitted that several war- planes on the west coast of Norway were damaged early today when bombs dropped on an airdrome. e e Newlyweds Return Today‘on Princess Robert Cowling, accompanied by his bride, the former Mary Jean- nette Whittier, returned on the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Louise. The newlyweds were greet- ed at the dock by many of their friends. They have spent the past ‘l‘ (Continued on Page Three) weeks honeymooning on the Coast and in California, # R—