The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8+04. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ITALY MOBILIZING AL WAR FORCE Hitler Hurls Defy; Suddenly Breaks Silence ALLIES ADMIT DEFEAT Fuehrer Claims Withdraw- al of Forces Is Con- | clusive Evidence NAZIS MOPPING UP IN NORWAY AREAS Foreign Office Asserts Reich Ready for Counter Blows Anywhere BERLIN, May 3--The Foreign Office, in a statement, declares that the Allies in withdrawing from Andalsnes in Norway admit a “ca- tastrophic defeat” and defied the British to find “success elsewhere.” Fuehrer Adolf Hitler suddenly broke his silence, and reiterated that the present war is a fight for existence for the Germans. | Hitler broke his silence in a speech before 6,000 Army and Alr | Force officers and leaders of the| Black Shirted Elite Guard. \' The Foreign Office said British Prime Minister Chamberlain has | been forced to look to other fields| now to wipe out the stain of Lhn‘ defeat in Norway and is threaten- | ing action in the Mediterranean but “come what may, he will find | Germany is prepared for a counter | blow.” The German High Command| concurrently announced that rapid; progress has been made by the German forces in Norway in a cleanup against isolated resistance.| It is officially acknowledged, however, that the Allies are squeez- | ing the German garrison at Narvik, ! northern Norway. Nor;lay War Is Pradically Ended Now British, Fre_IEH Troops Em-E bark from Namsos | During Night } By GUNNAR KNUTSSON ON THE STEINKJER FRONT, Northern Norway, May 3.—The Brit- ish and French troeps which landed | north of the German held Trond-| heim in the Norway campaign against the Nazi invasion, embarked last night in Namsos harbor and| sailed away. | The entrance of the German troops is awaited at any moment.! perhaps within the next 24 hours.| 1t is believed here the war in Nor- way is virtually finished. EH. KENDALL AND PARTY ON CRUISE | INS.E. ALASKA Seattle Transportation Co. Executive af Kefchikan on Yacht Gene KETCHIKAN, Ala‘ka, May 3—E. H. Kendall, Seattle Transportation Company executive, and his wife; Harry Compson and wife, of Auburn, | and Mrs. Ray Griffin of Portland, Ore., arrived in Ketchikan today on the Kendall yacht Gene for fishing Interview in the Sun - Seated at the wheel of his specially-built automobile, President Roosevelt grants an outdoor pre: ss interview in Warm Springs, Ga. where he spends a short vacation. Seated in the car with the presi- dent are Capt. D. J. Callahas n and a friend, Basil O’Connor. APPLYING - PRESSURE G Mediterranean Resented 'FASCISTS CLAIM THEY " ARE READY TO STRIKE jPrepared to "Go” Minute! Premier Mussolini Gives Word ONITALY ‘ | Massing of—fia_val Strength | ROME, May 3—Reinforcement of | Allied naval power in the Mediter- | ranean was seen today as a move to- | ward apply clarify her “non belligereni status.” The Italians are outwardly caim. ng pressure to Italy to “Proof” That Germans Have Taken Elverum q ‘Radiophoto Fascists insisted that Italy is fully | prepared to act the moment Pre- | mier Mussolini gives the order, but | observers saw some evidence that | this day is not expected immediately. | The fate of the liner Rex en route | |from New York, and other ecrack | g 2 f s& ~ - Film Fame for Her? NA'"ON'S - WEAPONS | |liners on the high seas caused 1 anxiety last night when Genao ship- EMPROVED | ping cireles said British vessels there | have received orders to leave the | England Mediterranean at once and return "01 via the Suez Canal. The | | ST British consul said he knew of no| a such orders. A President Tells Newsmen 1calys vasic war preparations have | been under way several months, with 200,000 men under arms and industry | | working at top speed. May Bring Hatch Bill Ouf Again Petition Circulated fo Gef Techanical Changes Being Made | WASHINGTON, May 3.—Presi- dent Roosevelt declared today at a | conference with newspapermen that all possible technical improvements | of the nation’s offensive and de- fensive weapons are being studied. | When asked about Secretary of | Navy Edison’s proposal made Wed- ‘nesduy that American warships be redesigned to afford greater pro- tection against airplane bombing attacks, the President said, with- out going on record against the suggestion, it presents just another event in the history of national s Measure Again Be- The President said he is striving, | fore HOUSe ! | as always, to prevent the extension | | | | Released by the German propaganda bureau, this radiophoto purports to show German soldiers in the ruined outskirts of Elverum, Norway, which they claim to have occupied. Travelers crossing the border from Norway into Sweden, however, insist the bitterly contested, town is still held by hard-fighting Norse troops. Photo flashed by radio from Berlin to New York, sies |U.S.SHIPS ARE RAKED, No Love Game for Aussies i One Bullet-scarred Craft Arrives in New York from Fight Zone NEW YORK, May 3. — Bullet- | scarred, the American freighter | Flying Fish returned today with an exciting story of how she and | the freighter Charles McCormick had been caught in a furious bat- le between German land and sea forces and Allied warplanes near Bergen last month. | Hit by German Fire | Capt. Wollaston, veteran of the United States Navy during the | World War, declared the ship had | been hit accidentally by bullets | from a Norwegian battery which - e Players who led Australia to victory in the Davis Cup tennis champion- ~ WAR FIRE Peggy Diggens of the European war to other areas. He indicated that he had made WASHINGTON, May 3. — Repre- | | ship last year are now engaged in a grimmer game, war. Adrian Quist (aiming machine gun) and Harry Hopman, members of the Royal Mel- NEW WAR ~ PERIL IS ~ NOW SEEN | Concentration of Troops, Warships, Planes in Mediterranean ' BRITISH AND FRENCH NAVAL SHIPS ASSEMBLE Turkish GoWMakes Ar- rests of German Es- pionage Suspects ATHENS, Greece, May 3. — In« | formation reached diplomatic quart« ers diere said Italian troops, warships |and Italian fighting planes are be- | ing concentrated in large numbers |on the Dodecanese, Italian owned |islands, in the eastern Mediterran- |ean, approximately 400 miles air- line, northwest of Alexandria, Egypt. | Concentrations are reported es- | pecially heavy on the island of | Rhodes. | | | ALLIED CONCENTRATION ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, May 3.— British and French naval forces have arrived here in concentration. The official announcement says: “The British and French naval fleet, with cruisers and auxiliary {craft have arrived at the eastern |end of the Mediterranean.” It is recalled that Prime Minister Chamberlain made the statement vesterday in the British House of | Commons that Allied fleets were be- ing assembled in the Mediterranean in view of the present possibility of Italy entering the war, perhaps lin- ilng up with Germany. ANOTHER MANEUVER ANKARA, Turkey, May 3.—Franz von Papen, German Ambassador to | Turkey, is authoritatively reported today to have béen called on an ur- | gent summons to Berlin for a con- | ference with Fuehrer Hitler. Von | Papen, it is said, leaves on tonight's train. Official information from Istanbui says Prof. Hans von Osten, well known archeologist, and four other | Germans, have been arrested on sus- | picion of espionage in spreading German propoganda. o had been taken over by the Ger-:B. (_ GASOI_I"E (Gove sentative John J. Dempsey of New | Mexico today filed a petition t"i wrest from the House Judiciary | Committee the bill extending the | so-called “Hatch Clean Politics’ law. | The petition which required 218 sig- — - D VO'I’E (ASI‘ I" |natures, was made up within fifteen | | minutes. ‘ Dempsey predicted also that the 2 pR E(I"IS | committee will be asked to reconsid- | | er its vote tabling the measure. The | | vote was secret but it has been re- of A"(HORAGE}porbed as fourteen to ten favoring| | the tabling. He said after conferring | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 3.— |10 was of the opinion that tellers| Results of last Tuesday's primaries, pag mistakenly counted the vote and | first and second precincts °°"‘"given just the opposite count. | > bined of Anchorage, are as fol- . oo B . |lows: . Two Men, Bitter Enemies| Democratic ; | Timond 448, Grigsby 214, Roden\ for Years, Muss Each | with members of the committee that | 1148, Boyle 228, Sheldon 199; Hesse | Other Up in Hotel Discovery of Louella Parsons, the movie columnist, Peggy Diggens of New York has been given a screen test. A bright screen fu- ture is predicted for her. | his intensions plain at a talk yes- | terday with Prince Colonna, Ital- ian Ambassador . to the United States. rmor, Editor in Fierce Go Washinglon Underground mans and was firing on British i | warplanes. “I was on the bridge,” he said, “and saw everything that happened.” | Crew Differs With Skipper Sixteen of the 48 members of the crew, however, were equally em- phatic and signed a statement that their ship was raked accidentally by one of the Allied planes. The incident occurred on April 12 ot 5 p.m. The log also reported that on April 16, the McCormick I E i i s Explained; Capital of I . a"on s oney- om ed‘was caught in a spray of machine | gun bullets which cut the mast , |stays and wire rigging. The Mec- and the pedestrian traffic in them Cormick has been unreported re- bourne Regiment, are shown during training maneuvers near Mel- bourne, Australia. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 3—Now I on a rainy day around quitting|Centy. but it is believed that she know what they mean by Washing- a1y~ haavise A Ban o ithe has taken shelter in a Norwegian ton underground. A y X 5 fjord. No city in the country, without|> eets. e | lTlo one was injured on -either a subway system, is so honey- 1 | ship. " * 120 ABOVE combed with tunnels, catacombs, % } condults and below-surface pas-| But the catacombs that nobody sages as the nation's capital, It's knows are made up of the system 202, Rivers 216, Coffey 335, Brown-| [ JACKSON, Miss. May 3. — Gov. ell 236, Taylor 173, Burchette 164,| Are Repo"ed i Paul B. Johnson, 60, and 63 year old Egan 239, Hatton 108, Horning 299, | Mississippi editor Sullens, bitter enemies for years, fought and rolled on the carpets of a crowded down- town hotel lobby last night until pulled apart. Both emerged bleeding. from the battle | stitches were taken in cuts on Sul- | lens’ head. Sullens is the editor of the Js son Daily News. CANADA PREPARES Huntley 153, H. H. McCutcheon 263, S. J. McCutcheon 193, Nut-| beem 39 and Smith 164. Republican | Humpheries 81, Miller 60, Reed 33, O’Neill 117, Chamberlain 42, Mur- ray 72, Anderson 112, Peterson 104, |Selby 102 and Wilson 87. 'TOM RYAN SNAGS. " BIG KING SALMON Tom Ryan, oldest and most en- thusiastic of Juneau strip fisher- | men, caught his first salmon of 1940 yesterday at Auk Bay. The Cole 86, Duker 38, McCain 111, - AthDivision FAIRBANKS, May 3. — Thirty | precincts, of a total of 170, count complete of last Tuesday's pri- mary, give the following totals: Democratic Dimond 1,163, Roden 699, Grigs- |by 369, Boyle 448, Sheldon 789, | Hesse 609, Rivers 574, Nordale 898, Stevens 268, Gordon 662, Henton 489, Herbert 520, Lander 522, Loftus 496, Olsen 204, Rogge 672, Sorri 512, Spencer 429. Republican Cole 305, Duker 91, McCain 352, | Congress, | Building and down |a mystery-writer's undiscovered de- light, The capitol itself is center of a spider-web of tunnels and steam- pipe conduits that finger their way to the House and Senate of- fice buildings, to the Library of the Supreme Court the capitol’s backyard to the Botanical Gar- dens. Deeper down under the capitol and the cluster of buildings there are the railroad tunnels that run from the Union Station. There’s hardly a government office building that doesn't have its tunnels connecting with an an- Necking Has of tunnels that run from the cen- | tral heating building and carry the| big steam mains out to all official | sections of the city. The smallest | of these are four feet wide and| over six feet high; the largest eigit | feet wide and seven feet high. Five | steam mains lead out of central heating and these are locked against the walls and ceiling of the tunnels, Steamfitters, working in pairs, are making inspection tours up and down the tunnels 24 hours a day—but there are four and a| half miles of tunnel in the system and you could spend hours down, there without seeing a soul. The capital’s underground is not Time, Place BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 3.— The typical co-ed of the typical State university of a typical state has a typical ambition. The co-ed is Joan Barr, 19, sophomore from Rochester, N. Y. chosen as ave age for Indiana University in a campus election sponsored by the Arbutus, yearbook. riage and a home,” she says. Joan |is five feet, five inches tall, weighs 118 pounds and has blue eyes and “I'll take mar-| DISPUTE NEARS SOLUTION Now Temporary Compromise Is- Reported Reached- Premier Acts VICTORIA, B. C. May 3. —Premier Pattullo announces that a tempor- ary compromise has been reached with the major oil companies in British Columbia’s gasoline dispute. EHe said that under the agreement | gasoline will be sold at a base rate of 25 cents a gallon, with a spread for retailers fixed at four cents. | Pattullo’s statement was made fol- |lowing a conference between repre- sentatives of the oil industry and Dr. | W. A. Carouthers, Chairman of the | Fuel Board. The Premier said that | the compromise agreement would have no effect on possible proposals at the special session of the Legisla- | ture next week. | It is reported that Premier Pat- | tullo will ask for the Government's entrance into the gasoline business. At Vancouver, Mayor Telford charged that oil companies at Seat- | tle had halted his plans for import- |ing gasoline from Seattle. The oil companies countered with an offer to bring gasoline from Seattle in their own trucks. i e e | Agreements between employers | and workers in Sweden's paper, wood | pulp, sawmill, textile and machine and cruisig in Southeast Alaska.| OTTAWA, May 3. — Contracts| ¢ . g 3 They plan to go Northward as far awarded by the Department of big king weighed 26 pounds and is| Humpheries 349, Miller 129, Reed X’ & Dew or a sister building.| o " 1\ Washington tour, but if blonde hair. She likes Clark Gable, | industries assured labor peace in as Sitka for a few days and catch|Munitions and Supply during the |belleved to be the largest caught 279, Jonss 192, McDonald 234, Car- All dn all, there probably are ., 1oy the right people, like Bette Davis, Hal Kemp's OrChFSU‘dvilMOA The agreements covered small fish enroute. past week totalled more than twelve S0 far this year. penter 162, Colbert 267, Estes 184, miles of these alone—but there’s )., p padie, Chief Engineer, you dancing, swimming and football. | wage increases, as well as certain The Gene is the remodeled yacht|million dollars, the Department an-| Ryan was about to give up for Hurley 250, Johnston 300, Karstens nothing mysterious or eerie about = 0 RO YO “Necking,” she says, “has its time|supplementary wages because of Cango, which was gutted by- fire.|nounces in an official statement, the day when the big one struck.|141, McKanna 176 and Murton 183. them. They are lighted and tiled (Contunuca on Fage Four) and place.” higher living costs, il