The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 1, 1940, Page 2

2 ONE MILLION DOLLARS IS BOUNTY OFFERED FOR DELIVERY, ADOLF HITLER NEW YORK., May 1.—The larg- est bounty ever placed on any man's head, $1,000000 in cash, was offered today lor the delivery rf Adolf Hitler. alive and unhurt in.o the custody of the League of Na tions, The to before “the intends tions to stand trial court for crimes against bounty for the Furenarer 10 of the world.” Mr. and dignity In an interview offer was revealed in a let- the New York Times by Samuel Harden Church, president of the Carnegic Institute, He said he represented a group of Pjtts- burghers who are making the offer in good faith and will maintain it| through the month of May The group which has oflcred the FAILURE OF GERMANS T0 MINE TWO GREAT WATER off Cs his the made in President of offer being capacity as regie Institute the reward offer of reward “in no sense for doubt of suceess., the possibility LANES PUZZLES EXPERTS perts were dumbfounded. The Na not only had left the door wide open but hadn’'t even bothered sprinkle tacks on the floor, JACK STINNETT Ry WASHINGTON, May 1 When the memoirs of this war are writ- ten, our Navy experts will scour them for an answer to the ques- tion: Why, .oh why. didn't the Germans mine the Skaggerak and the Kattegat? When news came that ships of the PBritish navy were plowing through the gray mists of the Skaggerak, nayy men here goge| gled. When NO word came that a single British boat had been blasted to the bottom by a mine, the navy boys couldn't believe their ears and eyes. With the report that the British not only had crossed the threshold (Scandinavians call Skaggerak the “gleeve’) and had swung arvound The Skaw and, were headed down that foyer of the Baitic, the Kat- k'gnt (Lh( cat,; Lhro.n Lhc eg- LOOKED LIKE A T-UP What on earth had the were going to txy for navian coup. With Denmark as through which the British Island of to Bedloe . astonishment Building ed fact in ar in history, Battery The in the Na the the cockeyed w ? IIIIIllIlllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIHIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIiIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, May 1-—If Robert Young received many plaudits from the fans as he does from casting and talent directors, he would be up there with Rooney, Gable, Power and Tracy among the top ten stars of the movies. “People don't appreciate Young enough,” a big studio talent man told me the other day. “We do, though. He's one of the most dependable leading men in Hollywood—the kind that can give authority to his roles, whether theyre comic or dramatic. A lot of times a picture would fall apart without a smart dependable fellow like Young in a key role. Bob's not flashy, but he's always in there pitching.” The tribute, lrnmpj man at a studio whieh doesn’t hold Bob's contract, was deservi I hadn't realized how thoroughly de- served it was until I saw Young in “Florian.” That's the horse picture, in which the Lippizan stallion Florian steals all the bouquets from the human players—partly because a horse can't talk and therefore Florian was spared some of the dialogue the humans had to speak. Despite the handicap, Bob Youngz was “in there pitching,” both in his performance and in his remark- able, steady but certainly not “flashy” horsemanship. as Young is tackling one of his more unusual roles now as Fritz Marberg in “The Mortal Storm™ Fritz is'Bob's first out-and-out screen heavy—and it's Bob's job ‘to make Fritz not teo out- and-out a heel. Tt probably will be a thankless job from the point of view of fans, but the “dependable” Bob is tackling it as an obportuni(y (He holds to the quaint notion that nobody NOW nfif‘\!: reception. charming hostessess give thoughtful guests who bring gifts of icious Ven Duyn Tandjes. Lu.'.u sttentions U excluswely CHOCO!M VAN DUYN CHOCOLATE SHOPS " knows so-much he can't learn more, a notion he applies to every movie task.) Fritz Marberg of the film is & young Nazi who orders the murder of his fiancee as a patriotic duty, who rejects his best friend when their political views differ, and ‘who: believes that what he does is thoroughly right. The character is hot inherently selfish, mean, nor despicable. He loves the girl to the end. He is misled, a vichm of Nazi philosophy, He is a fellow who Was kind and considerate, who ldved his family and friends—until a “sudden flash of patriotism,” as Bob puts it, turned him com- pletely around. His friends and his sweetheart suddenly became enemies to the cause, aind had to be treated as such You can see that Pritz Marberg is a “key character,” whose projection will be vital to the drama in which Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Irene Rich and others are also involved. You cah see why theéy put the “dependable” Bob Youpg in thé tole. . ©Ome of the supporting characters in “The Mortal Storm” is Maria Ouspenskaya--and there’s another “dependable” of the movies. The actress is, of course, a genius, her mobile face a parade ground for marching or creeping emotions. She was the triumphant choice for the small “key” role of the dinner hostess in “Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet,” she was: radiantly successful in “Love Affai” she was no teven shaken from her niche by the ‘Y-flfim’ flnumema)mes of so unhappy a film as “Beyond To- high peace Church said that he saw nothing to prevent the ial He pointed out that an| assassination. ' He said that he personally did not the plan’'s to Germans been up to? They must have known | for weeks, maybe months, that they the Scandi- springboard, they could have poured | troops endlessly across that narrow elbow into Norway and Sweden. | the North It’s hardly more than a ferry boat| ride, ahd between ribbons of m"“*‘devplope navy | pe could not cut, it would have been| ploded at the slightest touch. as safe @ ride as from New York’s| 5 For| folks | at this one most | sent me The new ‘mines erided that, to the wch 'Ih»rrs no real an- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY I, swer there but there is an inter- | esting phase of this mining busi- | ness which a study of World Wa reports and maps brought out, That is, that the business of 1 ing mine-fields is about 10 per- cent mines, 90 percent bluff. Don't take this as an underesti- | mate of the value of the mine menace. But the undersea garden much more with the “tulips of death” the warring npations would each other believe. This bluff is part of the gamie. The Navy Department has a col-| "r-rllun of amazing maps. Solid| is than have | turn him over to the League of Nu-'ping squares, oblongs and triangles show “announeced” mine areas. Herc, aid the Allies or the Germans, are | mined seas. If you don't want your ship blown to smithereens, keep ouf. But on these self-same maps | is a smattering of pepper and salt| and these spots show the areas ACTUALLY mined. That's what I mean by 90 percent bluff | MADE SKIPPERS WARY | For example, the whole of the| Baltic was supposed to be mined| |in the World War. Actually there| was a scattering of mines through- | |out this inland sea which could only have (actording to the ex- | perts) “nuisamce value.” Some oc- casional destruction was enough 10| make captains wary of the whole| area. The announced | the World War were of staggering proportions. From the western | coast of France, below the En-| glish Channel to the northern en- | trance to the North Sea, there was hardly an important channel that wasn't mined. But many of these sections had only a scattering of “death tulips.” One section mined thoroughly was the 230 miles from Scotland | to Norway, where the United| States and Great Britain in 1917 and '18 laid 70,000 mines to make | | & Maginot line of the entrance tol Sea. This project was possible because the United States | d a new mine that could| at great depths and ex- mine areas in laid three | been | mines | nards, | soup years, the Germans had cutting cables on Allled | emptying their deadly 'n-1 slicing them in half for kettles and punch bowls, | ‘4‘\(, 'ENT ON BLUFF | That greatest of all mining ef- forts taught warring powers a new | technique but naval authorities w-i day are agreed that it has not| been duplicated in the present war. | | And the consensus is that there i | more bluff now than there was in| the World War. | There are some experts here J\\]lo say that the Germans had ‘mod reason NOT to mine thé Skag- | gerak and Kattegat. The Skaggerak | is deep (well over 1200 feet m‘ | some channels) and the Kattegat | ‘ls narrow. In both ‘the currents are | | tierce. Also, it is said, the Nazls\ | wanted to leave their only chan {nels to the outside world open.| ‘Ma_\be these guessers are right. | But history will' have to prove it ‘Lu the na\y pc I ;KRAUSE-(OVI(H CASE EXHAUSTS - VE_E RE LISTS 11 Tentatively Seateéd on Jury fo Hear Damage Suit in Court late this afternoon in District Court in_an effort to complete a jury to hear the suit of Edmund J. Krause against John L. Covich for alleged libel. The regular jury panel was ex- hausted this morning. A special ven- ire of 16 was run through, then a second Of 10 ‘and a third of seven. Both sides in the case have now exhausted their peremptory chal- lenges and 11 are_telitatively seated, 50 that person qualitying will be the lzm member of the jury. Krause accuses Covich of writing 2 lettér which deprivel Krause of ‘work’ in_Bristol' Bay Jast year. | Tentatively seated on the jury i Mrs. Fred Schneider, J. R. King- horn, Mrs, * George Getchell, Mrs, Don Parson, Albert Pasquan, Thetma Bodding, George A. Fleek, Mrs. C. E. Rice, Arthur Adams, Henry C. Gor- ham and Mary mqerl.eest APRIL WEATHER : INJUNEAU I§ ~ ABOVE NORMAL More: Sunshine Had Dur- ing Month With Lit- tle Precipitation The weather for the month of April was much warmer and had more sunshine than normal, with precipitation_little more than half the usual amount, to the umrl is- sued wdly by the Juneau Weather | Bureaw Qmee ‘ The mean umnen\};flt’ for the month was 45.4 degrees, 4. above the - normal umpenture sparsely planted | | tor, | able. | fight for the four House seats M.s. ! votes. MENOLALERS e, WIN VICTORY ™ peacy pEcsion 1ST DIVISION Weary Deliberafors Dis- missed After More | than 50 Hours | A jury which heard the damage| suit of Charles Lesher again Charles Waynor was dismissed Judge George F. Alexand o'clock this afternoon after it had | been unable to reach a verdict after more than 50 hours of deliberation The case went to the jury Monday and the weary men women had been discussing. it Vot from 22 Precincts Give' Democrats Three fo One Lead (Continued from Page One) A4 Audi- as did for complimentary vote, Humpheties, unopposed at noon and H. C. Miller, Ketchikan, was lead- e ing Trving McK. Reed for nomina-| 11 Court this afternoon Jury Fore-| | tion for Highway Engineer, but gy g ; scabterlng returns from the Fourth {udge thegjucy Jwas hopelessly dead- Division indicated that the out-| o< B B A A evenly divided come was Still in doubt and prob- dhihaked Ty Lasher ably would not be decided until| .o o" e L the complete returns were avail- 4 X to for a last summer tried again at| Frank Barnes, Wrangell can- neryman, was unopposed for Sena- tor, ahd was among the leaders in ! his party primary. In a 12-cornered Arnold Robert | Rosalie Jr E Worley Mildred Hermann seemed certain of nomination, polling 698 votes to lead the House race. Steve Vuk ovich was second with 458, Wil- lam L. Paul Jr, third with 411 and Grant Baldwin fourth with 375 in Okmulgee Has More Folks Greenland, an area of 827275 square miles, would just about fit over the states of Texas, New Mex- ico, Colorado, Kansas, Net A North and South Dakota . has a total population of 16630, slightly less than the last official population.) of Okmulgee, Ckla. Of these, 408 are Danes, the rest Eskimos and half-| breeds. The whole interior of Greenland is covered with ice, in some places a | mile-and-half thick. Its western |shore (the habitable area) is divid- | ed into two inspectorates. Godthaab is capital of the southern; Godhav: n‘ of the northern. |Corps operators 1ldays in iently |candle to Okmulgee's by 1940. ALASKA GOES U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) ' DEMOCRAT!( REPORTS SAY Overworked Communica- tion Slow Down Terr- forial Returns Although Alaska Comunications operato: offic- today labored ur ther Alaska’s prims t turns from wester interior and noe: 'M points or a few scatterin returns had been received at press time this afternoon. The Sig here reported to- the heaviest traffic Forecast fer Juneau and vicinity, Intermittent light rain late tonight ature tonight about 40 degrees ‘orecast for Southeast Al Intermitten light rain tonight Thursday; slightly warmer tonight over the north portion; mod- erate northerly winds over the north portion and moderate south- easterly winds over the south portion. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate southeasterly winds from Dixon Entrance lo S but creasing in the vicinity of Dixon Eptrance; moderate changeab! winds, mostly southeasterly from Sitka to Kodiak. beginning at 4:30 p.m., May and Thursday, minimum temper- Moderate easterly winds, and LOCAL DATA Barometer ‘1emp. Humidity Wind Velocity 2996 53 41 wsw 2 37 5 w 54 27 E Time 4:30 pm. yest'y 4:30 a.m. today Noon today Weather Pt. Cldy Clear Cloudy over-wc '3 to 1 re- RADIO REPORTS TODAY 3:30a.m. Precip. temp, 24 hours 33 0 36 .02 15 o 0 36 07 06 12 Lowest temp. 31 ax. tempt. hours 3:30a.m. Weather Cloudy C! Rain, Pt. ("l(l\ Clear Cloudy Rain Rain Cloudy Rain Pt. Cidy Clouly Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Fozg Station Gambell Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage Behel St. Paul Dutch Harbor Wosnesenski Kanatak Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan ince Rupert : George Seattle Portland San Francisco day as one of rears i the reports received, cight from the Fourth Division | Valdez, from the Tihrd lly inconclusive, the Democratic trend so prevalent in the First was found in both Divisions R. E. Sheldon was leading Frank A. Boyle in the Auditor’s contest but F gains th were not suffic- stror 0 overcome the form- “‘v‘ L Division margin. Valdez Third Divisign precinct to Arnul 21 majority Senator Victor C. Rivers also led \’V:HHm A. Hesse in the returns from [the Fourth but not erouzh. ta,dis- turb Mr. Hesse Hess h at River in close In\l n of five. While precincts and on were nati Valdez by the WEATHER SYNOP! A low pressure de 7elops Southeast Alaska and another low 1t 400 miles off the coast of Ovegon. Unusually high pressuic was situated south of the Aleutians. The weather was fair over most of Southeast Alaska and the Yukon Territory with light frost in the cxposed areas this morning. Moderate to heavy rains occurred over the northwest Pacific states and light rain over the western portion of Alaska and the Bering region. Juneau 2.—Sunrise 5 a.m., sunset centered the southern pressure a was over of St Rl > lead En- Miller the ou ubtiul for Highwa itcome of that 8:50 p.m, ale price of all outgoing prod- = is taken for government. There's other ta u no Umanak i eitlement and one of the northern in the world. Up there, in summer, the gardens grow radishe: broccoli, lettuce and sometimes nip: but no parsley Unlike spots T could name, Green- land admits that its weather is al- ways uncertain, Dense fogs blot out the sunshine while vour back i turned. The rainstorms hell- benders. And the blizzard well just Aretic. The people est and intelligent D R e R S IT'STIME TO CHANGE YOUR THINNED - OUT LUBRICANTS! § CONNORS MOTOR CONPANY boats that visit Gréenland from May to November. The main social func- | tion is kaffemik-—coffee party T“i the Greenlander, it's cocktails at the For Ne roesl I Ask Science Ritz the most northern most tur- is are are kindly, jovial, hon- srime is so close unknown ‘that there’s not a policeman in the land. The only drunks are sailors who come on the to There’s nothing like a piece of well - chewed horse - radish hoarseness, and a small bag of tea placed on the eye will rout a cold To stop the flow of blood, saturate the wound with turpentine and cas- tor oil. When cows “come fresh” on grass in May, their butter is good for chapped hands. Although there is not yet a sure- fire cure for rheumatism-—which in- cludes virtually every ailment Irom a crick in the neck to a strained knee — the negroes have found a “preventive.” Just carry an Irish potato in your pocket or a buckeye in the vicinity of your chest and youll never be bothered - for Greenland costs Denmark about $150.000 a year But if somebody doesn’t send boat up there this summer, Greenland’s population won't hold a blubber 1941 - HUNGARIAN CONSUL of Zoltan Baranyai of Chicago as Consul General Hungary for Alaska is announced MEMPHIS, Tenn. May 1.—Deep |south farm negroes, afflicted with a “misery,” like their medicine on the unique side Here are some remedies”: Appointment of of their “home Julianshaab is its most southern | town, From there it’s only a seven- to-nine hour bomber flight to the | coasts of Canada, northeasern Unit- ‘ ed States, and Great Britain. One of my sources says it about 60 settlements; another says has about 175. Take your pick. The Danes and a few of the Es- has | xn a letter received by Collector of | Customs James J. Connors from ‘ ‘Washington. D BOUNTIFUL BOUNTY Wolf and coyote bounty claims l“amcuntn‘e to $3,840 were certified |peach trees leaves, cover them with yesterday by the Alaska Game Com- | A ball of camphor gum tied about SUB-STATION {the neck and resting on the chest will cure neuralgia. | To ease a sick headache, drink a cup of catnip tea. And to check nausea or constant vomiting, crush Bids for operation of postal sub-station here will be received up to 5 o'clock tomorrow afternooq, according to an announcement by Postmaster Albert Wile. - Dallv Empire classifieds pa) water and drink the concoction | A third special yeniré was drawn | The case will | some later date. Serving on the jury were Penaldson, E. M. Richard: Mogseth. John V. Ritter, Mr. Fraser, Joe Reidi, Mr Thibodeau, J. J. Connor Whitesel and Mrs, J. F. making this the warmest April in l 44 years of record. The next warm- est. April over this 44-year period ‘ was that of 1912 with a mean tc coldest April was that of 1927 with| WhO is Goi ng fo ]'ake 34.0 degrees, The highest tempera- ture for the month was 64 degrees on the 25th and the lowest was 30 W f h I I I d trémes for April are 69 and 13 y degrees. s The totdl precipitation for the V’\%I?]‘\"'(";(’)‘Nh'l\?\'l 1 N month amounted to 3.32 inches, o0 DCTRON. May Ak item: President Roosevelt express since 1032, The largest amount of | oo = 0 G O precipitation occurring in a 24-hour |GIEIEE VHS HOW 4 Hterest period was 094 inch on the toth- | IR P O CHeeniard. A LUK, ‘The ‘wettest April of record (o) Greenland belongs w0 Den EHp St wap 1017 with 1“”["’ "~ 'mark. Greenland is in the western es. 'No snow fell at Juneau durine pemisphere might be included the ‘month. H in lands in which the United States There were seven clear, five part- would resist foreign invasion should lng_tht month, Out of a possible Also some situation might develop 4315 hours, the amount of sunshiog | similar to that in the Virgin Tslands eceived was 2067 hours, or 48 in 1916 when the United States told percent. The normal amount of the Danes they would be mizhty ‘The prevailing wind direction was 000,00. The Danes thought so, too. drom the south with an average hourly velocity of 6.6 milgg. The maximum velocity for a sustained from the northeast on the] 10th. ng)ll. fog occurred on tht 13th D WRANGELL, Alaska, May 1—This city cast the largest primary election vote yesterday in history with a to- tal of 370 of which 14 were absentees. | Wrangell Precinct and all but seven | of the B4 votes cast at the Stikine | Precinct, i Van H. Fisk, nominee for Repre- and Frank ‘S. Barnes, unopposed Sénatorial candidate on the Republi- (kimo high-mucky-mucks live in can ticket, were given virtually un- ' wooden houses, The rest in huts. |animous support in the Wrangell s Wrangell Precinct The whole of the island (if youl The Demgcratic vote in the Wran- can call a hunk of land like that! |gell precinct follows: has two monthly news- | | Dimond 171,. Grigsby Rudemmpc They are printed in Green- Rivers 100, Gilmore 49, A. P. Walker | 'The summers (but don’t park your | 29, Dock Walker 64, Anderson 21, |parka) last from April to September. Baronovich 35, Cain 15, Clausen 27, .Moslh the whole summer is day- vis 41, Doelker 3, Douglas 18, Fisk | light. There are flowers then . . fi Cormick 24, Nelson 5, Peterson 8, With some of its better glaciers ‘Shattuck 23, Sampson 4, Such 1-jlunning from 25 to 50 miles across, ! ‘Walmer 28, \Gleel.lan(l is the home of the ice- | flk!ne Precinct (Democratic) | bergs that float down the Labrador yle 36, Sheldon 8, Hesse 27, Rivers | North Atlantic, Gilmore 14, Walker (A, P) 15, It's also the home of the auk. Ditto Wnlke‘ 14, Anderson 10, Bar- the eider (for eiderdown) ducks, vich 13, Cain 5, Clausen 11, Davyis | | seals, reindeer and snow-going jack- # 4, Jones 3, McCall 2, MeCormick | the world's polar bears that are not Nelson 8, Peterson 4, Shattuck 7, |in zoos. Sampson 3, Such 1, Walmer 7. | i 40 | {Doogan, William Schmitz D perature of 440 degrees, and the Charge-Uncle Sam degrees on the first. Previous ex- which is the least rainfall for April dbproval of people of the United | Was 1900 with 1137 inches. While oy The Germans take over Do ly cloudy, and 18 cloudy days dur- the Monroe Doctrine be invoked stinshine for April is 37 percent. |smart to sell them to us for $25.- perlod of five minutes was 27 miles RETURNS The Democrats polled 2 to 1 in sentative, on the Democratic ticket, | iund Stikine pregincts. Flowers and Icebergs |66, Boyle 121, Sheldon 23. Hesse 40, landish, which is outlandish Eskimo. | 383, Jenne.32, Jones9, McCall 6, Mc- | lots of them . . . about 400 Kinds. i Dithond 51, Grigsby 26, Roden 19, | current to worry skippers in the ). Doelker. 1, Douglas 7, Fisk 56, Jen- | rabbits. It also has a good share of f _ SHIP AT ATTU Hunt, Fish, Pay Taxes | | Tts principal industries are whal- | 1 ‘lhb, sealing, hunting, fishing The Biological Survey ,vessel| mining cyrolite in the min m Bear last night reached Altll‘lnglut Cryolite is an almost trans- nd, most westerly of the Aleut- |lucent mineral, among the by-prod- G e castward, | ucts of which is aluminum, [@¥pecting to reach Juneau about the | The prices of everything in Green- fend of May. land are fixed. One-sixth of the -TODAY'S BATHROOM IS ELEGANT BRIGGS Beautyware Fixtures in color cost but litlle more than white and they're just grand. ON DISPLAYI B RICE & AW AllLERS co. 5 3z ,in‘...: AW L O mission. lowly. 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