The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” YOL. LV., NO. 8406. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH TIGHTENING SIEGE AT NARVIK TENSION IS INCREASING /IN BALKANS Turkey Is Méé&ing Forces Along Frontier to Aid Allies-Has Pact GERMAMY SENDING MEN, MUNITIONS NEW FRONT Italy Makinfi More Concen- frations, as Are Brit- ish and French The Balkan ci day keyed in a high nervous ten- sion «Turkey, bound to the Allies by mutual assistance pacts, is reported massing troops along the frontier. Unconfirmed reports are also in at Germany is concentrat- d war munitions near the via-Hungary frontiers 1 is said to have bolstered to more than six divisions of infan- try facing Hungary. making Diode- n reported tions in the Italy is a more concentr ansgs Islands. British and French battle fleets have appeared in the Aegean Sea in large forces. OIL OPINION INFAVOROF GOVERNMENT us. Supren—lg_(fiourt Hands Down Decision in Anti- | Trust Cases WASHINZTON, May 6. The Su- preme Court today upheld the deci- sion of the Federal District Court of Madison, Wisconsin, in holding that twelve major oil companies and five | individuais violated the Sherman anti-trust act in conspiring to raise the price of gasoline in ten mid- western states. one of the Government’s major in the current anti-| trust campaign. Associate Justice Douglas dcnvcrr‘(l‘ to two opinion. | siate Justices Robert and Me- | Reynolds dissented, stating that the cil companies were “in a voluntary | cooperative effort to remove evil competition and distress in gasoline” and said the resulting price was not | unreasonable. Three Ships Admitied fo BeSentDown Germans Exultant Over Nazi Aerial Conquest Over Allies (By Associated Press) Germany’s exultant claim of Nazi al conquest over the Allied su- premacy at sea has received sup- port as Great Britain, France and the Polish Naval Staffs in London | each acknowledged losses. | Great Britain admitted the loss of a destroyer off the Norwegian“ coast, the French Admiralty an- nounced the sinking of the 2,400- ton Bison and the Polish omcm,‘ said the 2.100-ton Grom was sunk| by a bomb with 65 men believed} lost. | >es - | Gold deposits estimated to ¥ield | 1,000,600,000 yen have been dis-| covered in deep gorges on the east- ern Taiwan (Formosa) coast, and are being exploited to aid hard- pressed Japanese economy, ‘ OF AMERICAN DANDIES DIES; PICTURESQUE SOCIETY LEADER | continued following the social sea- | life | ring rules and wore luxurious mus- | the coming of the automobile, be | came too hurried for aftérnoon ap- | | bourn, |had kept New York agog. He wore | them to the last. Fairest Picked for Fair Five newsreel camermen, who freauently film beauty, had an oppor- tunity to judge it in San Francisco. Thev nicked Virginia Engels, 23-year-oid Los Angeles girl (right) as “Miss Streamline” and Con- nie O’Connor,-19-year-old San Franeisco girl “Miss California.” Mss Engels will act as official hostess during the 1940 Golden Gate Ex- position and Miss O'Cennor official California hostess. Miss Engels received an additonal award when Joe Pasternak, producer of Deanna Durbin’s pictures, offered “Miss Streamline” a nart in the next Durbin picture. Miss Engels accepted. LAST GHOST OF OLD SCHOOL MONTE CARLO, May 6. — E Berry Wall, 80, New York-born, society leader who was one of the most picturesque figures of the continent for a quarter of a cen- tury, died yesterday after an ill- ness of three days. He had been described as the “very last ghost of the old school of dandies.” Wall recently refused to be patriated because of the war re- and ns at the French watering places. E. Berry Wall, in dress and manner, maintained throughout his the tradition of the dandy which flourished in the nineteenth century and contributed largely to| his fame as a beau of internation-| al society. Gay Clubman Once regarded as the best dressed man in New York, an acknowledged | leader of society, he belonged to| that generation of gay clubmen who raced sleighs to Central Park for a magnum of champagne, pa- tronized bouts under London priz E. BERRY V\{ALL the boulevards. Typical of their| fame was the fact that one New | Year'’s eve a smart Paris restaur- |ant gave as favors a toy chow,| wearing about its neck a Belrv Wall collar, Berry Wall taches. When Fifth Avenue traffic, with pearances in carriages drawn by prancing thoroughbreds, he and Mrs. Wall, the former Lomie Mel- went to Paris, In Europe, Wall's dress lost none as | the days when gentlemen drove coaches down Fifth Avenue.” “He has his own niche in soci-| |of its dazzle and his dance step none of its vitality. His unique| ¥’ the same i ‘yhr-n | F % | he dies there will be nobody to waistcoats, violet spats, spread-| . .o o0 eagle collars and jaunty cravats o % e Evander Berry Wall was born in 1860 in New York City, where his family had extensive real estate holdings for two gcnel‘\llons before him. Wall had a brief business career. He made the acquaintance kings, visited world renowned re- rts with the opening of their| ns each year and dined in the most fashionable restaurants. Leader in Turf Circles He assiduously frequented the races, for he was an ardent ad- mirer of horseflesh, and except at the racetracks, where dogs are barred, he always was accompanied % by a red chow. So inseparable were i Fiest “Xandeps Friso he and his dog, that one was al- | Horse. racing snd: hreedizig wero, ways identified with the other onl of brokerage house in uptown New | York, in the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and quickly lost more than $1,500,000 in one of the stock mar- ket panics, whereupon he decided to retire. . (Continued on-Page Four) | WHELCHEL | ACQUITTED As a young man he opened the first for a time, his chief activity. He' FRIEND OF ALASKA TO BE JUDGE Senator Schwellenbach s, Nominated to Eastern Washington Dist. WASHINGTON, May 6.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt today nominated United States Senator Lewis B. €chwellenbach, Democrat of Wash- ington State, to be United States | District Judge of the stern Wash- ington district Senater Schwellenbach, decided friend of Alaska, who has Alaska Delegate Anthony in all important legislation bene- fiting the northern Territory, was elected to the Senate on November 6, 1934, for the term ending January 1941 ted ator Schwellenbach has been one of the greatest boosters for President Roosevelt and the New Deal D Young Couple Killed; Two ¢ Negroes Held District Anomey Asks for Murder Indictments . Against Ex-convicls | x i STOCKTON, Cal. May 6.—District attorney Clowdsley said today that he might go direct to the grand jury | with requests for murder indictments | | against two negro ex-convicts who | have been jailed on suspicion of the | slaying of Nathan Chinchiolo, 23 and Dorothy Woofter, 19. i The negros, Dewey Clark, 29, and Henry Jones, 38, who were seized in Fresno, Saturday night, vehem- | | ently denied slashing the throats of | |the couple whose bodies were Iound\ {in a Stockton wheat field Friday. A coroner’s report showed that Miss Woofter had been assaulted | Chinchiolo was a member of a prom- | inent Italian family here. | | Their funerals are being held to- | idav. e OF CHARGES Georgia Representative Is| Freed, Conspiracy fo | SellP.0.Jobs | | (xAINESVILLL Georgia May 6. | Representative B. Frank Whr.l(h(-l‘ has been acquitted by a Federal | Court jury of charges that he con- | spired to sell postal appointments. } ‘ The jury was given the case at| |6 oclock last Saturday night and | |returned the acquittal verdict this| morning. Grady Jones, who was accused of | |acting as a go-between, was also a(‘qmtt,ed | once was described | “the last—the very last—of the old school, a grand old ghost from | || STock Quotn'uons | | NEW YORK, May 6—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6'5, American Can 114, American Power and Light 3%, Ana- conda 29, Bethlehem Steel 84'. | Commonwealth and Southern 1% Curtiss Wright 10%, General Motors 54%, International Harvester 56% | Kennecott 34%, New York Central| |16%, Northern Pacific 8's, United | States Steel 59%, Pound $3.44%. | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 147.33, rails 30.79, utilities 24.86. | = D | Heraldry as an art was first lascribed to Charlemagne about the year 800, J. Dimond | AMERICANS W WATCHNALI TAKE TRONDHE!M SEA, LAND | pr— | | & | e ? F ‘5 | i l @ The American freighter Mormacsea was berthed at Trondheim, Norway, when the Germans, with their captured the vort without firing a shot. Mormacsea which sailed unmolested from Trondheim and braved mine-infested waters to return safely German destroyers are shown docked at Trondheim (top) after assisting in the landing A German plane (center, cirsled) is seen flying over Trondheim during debarka- Officers and men are shown on the bridge of the Mormacsea (bottom) wearing life-preserver jackets as the ship moved through dangerous Norwegian waters homeward bound. ENGLAND TO BE INVADED - BYGERMAN FORCES, SAYS LEADING ITALIAN EDITOR usual methodical manner, to New York, of the invading army. tion of the Nazi troops Sweden, Germany In Pad Nation fo Remain Neutral Which Nazi Regime Will Respect | Ansaldo, of Foreign Minister Ciano’s newspaper, today lone to presume that this war very soon will see | many vasion will be in force and never will i i | BERLIN, May 6.—The DNB an-| nounced today that an exchange of | letter between Hitler and King Gus- taf of Sweden “affirmed a completc agreement over the future politica |attitude” of the two nations toward |each other. The DNB says the exchange of lef- ters occurred during the latter part | of last month. The Swedish letters emphazised the desire to remain neutral and the | German spokesman said this neut- I ity will be respected. - GAME ON TOMORROW The second game of the Gastin-|down Mr eau Channel League is scheduled‘d&tion. or| for late tomorrow afternoon evening when the Douglas Elks will meet for the first this season. Douglas was seen in action last night, .but the Elks will strut their stuff for the first time, and time e H These pictures were taken from the Sabofage Is One Danger of Panama (anal Assistant Chief of Staff of Army Makes State- ment in Address ROME, May 6.—Editor Giovanni in his weekly broadcast said that “everything causes great efforts of Ger- to invade England. The in- the conditions be more favorable to WASHINGTON, May 6 Brig. the attackers.” Gen. George V. Strong, Assistant g Chief of Staff, War Plans Division declared the greatest danger to the r Panama canal wbotage “which Strong said this sabotage could be “blowing up a vessel in ihe locks, which might be dropped 5 or the dams might be time bombs on the I DENOUNCED Objection Raised fo Pro- posed Change of CAA -Harsh Talk ‘ POPEPRAYS FOR PEACE | offlciai made nis talk | before the Society of American Mili- tary engineers and in his address he further said a new set of locks | would improve the National Defense situation fifty percent. > The WASHIN(:TON May 6.—House Minority Leader Joseph Martin of Massachusetts denounced with stinging words President Roose- velt’s proposal to transfer the Civil| Aeronautics Authority to the Com- merce Department. The New England Republican tock special exception to the Chief Ex. scutive’s plan to abolish the A Safety Board coincident with the projected transfer. Martin said the President’s plan would set the entire aviation in- dustry back at least five years and ROME, May 6.—Pope Plus offered o prayer Sunday for the return of peace to the nations tormented by bitterness and the spirit of venge ance. | The Pontiff made his peace appeal would retard the National Defenss during elabgrate ceremonies in honor Program. Martin called upon the of Italy’s two patron Saints, Saint House of Representatives to vote Catherine of Vienna and Sainl Francis of Assissi Roosevelt’'s recommen- He said he was hopeful | The ceremony was held at the Ba that prompt non-partisan action jlica of Saint Mary over Minerv would defeat the proposal in the As the Pope drove from th T can in his automobi persons knelt in the ceive his benediction Italian troops presented arms as| th? vatican party passed. str House and save the aviation indus- try from what Martin called “fur- ther embarrassment and disruption at the hands of political bureaucra- ar ol | to re- | the 1800 ton de | while convoying | of 219 officers and men British | forty | Alpine 1 FORCES IN ACTION NOW Making Prestige Lost Withdrawal BRITISH DESTROYER BOMBED, SENT DOWN Hitler Is Sending Alpine Troops to Northern Part of Norway Effort to Counter n TED ASEOCI (By PR The British naval and land forces reported tighten 1 |on the beleague )00 German soldiers in S | perate effort c r ot of | prestige suffered by the irawal | from Southern and Central Norway The British Admiralty announces stroyer £ n by Gern allied tre The Afridi ca to the botto s out of Namsos, crew seventh since the war s The British Al istry ar es that two German bomber an attack on a British convoy h been shot down Dramatic Stuff Hitler has dramatically d troops over a e trek through alm n | mountains in an attempt to aid the German force at Narvik, will be over a narrow gometimes a mere path The German High Command re- ports further blows againsi the Brit- ish Navy and asserts that one battle- ship was squarely hit off Narvik German Claims Denied ‘The British Admiralty denie ficlally the German cla The_trek country voad, ims Satur that a British of 30,000 tons and also a cruiser were sunk off Namsos. Berlin announces that troops sents to Narvik are for the purpoese of conducting a mop-up campaign - Lost British Defachments Are Located Are Cut 0fo When Allies Abandon Southern, Cen- fral Norway Fight BERLIN, May 6--British detach- ments cut off from the main - pediionary force the Allies abandoned the Norw \ port of Namsos, have been spotted by air- plane scouts. The detachments north of Namsos, - > Baseball Today The folloy played this afternoon jor Leagu are in the region ng ar g the two Ma« National League Cincinnati 8 New York 1 American League Boston 5; Cleveland 8 Chicago 2; Philadelpt Detroit 6; New Yor - BARGE SINKS According to word received here, a barge carrying all of R. J. Som-~ mers Construction Company equip- ment for Craig-Klawock project ov- erturned causing the loss of about $12,000. Containing two trucks, a steam shovel and other equipment, the harge leaked and sank on the west vust near Hamilton Island. - - The origin of insurance has been ascribed to the Emperor Claudius about 43 A.D.