The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 5, 1941, Page 1

.. LVIL, NO. 8691. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1941. M[-MB[-R ASSOCIATED PRESS | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRK PRICE TEN CENTS "r Q@ i - FLOODS IN - CALIFORNIA ARE RAGING High Water in Wake of Lashing Rain Storm SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, April 5— Flood waters in Northern California, in the wake of a lashing rain storm which extensively damaged crops, caused two deaths along the Napa River, inundating sections including the busins district of Napa. The Sacramento River is the high- est of the season and may break over the banks at any hour. Dave Murdock, 69, and William Shores, 170, tree hit their shore cabin and start- ed a landslide in the Tamappais cany debris, N ; Fond Fagerson Is Floyd Fagerson, newly electh City Councilman, returned here last night on the Princess Norah with his bride. The Fagersons were accompanieu by Mrs, Fagerson's daughter. ‘They are residing at the Juneau Hotel at | present. —eo——— There still- are 130 log eabin school buildings in Wyoming. WASHINGTON—The been making some careful studies of how to carry out Roosevelt's promise of a bridge of ships across the North Atlantic to carry sup- plies to England. One result is 2 unique plans for anchoring flat- bottomed scows or barges in mid- Atlantic to serve as refueling de- pots for airplanes. The plan is not yet perfected, and still awaits higher-up approval But here are details of the revolu- tionary idea. Atlantic vessels. Planes can sight an under- ’sea boat at a far greater distance| depth bombs on it. Chief problem is the refueling of these planes, Expensive aircraft car- targets for submarines. However, does not have sufficient depth in the water to be a target for a i submarine torpedo. The scow has ! a draft of only three feet, com- pared with a 30-foot draft by a }» cruiser, and 35 feet by an aircraft Northern Sections Report | Two of the storm victims were | killed when a redwood | They were buried in the Back with Bndé Nav§ his| British experience in the North has shown that seout- ing-bombing planes are the most effective protection for merchant than a surface vessel, then drop riers, requiring three years to build, cannot be used as airplane bases in mid-Atlantic. They are too easy the flat-bottomed scow that section fronting Yugoslavia. MacKINNON, GRAY . \Phonephoto Handeuffed to a Negro prisoner and bound for a four-year term Im Auanta federal penitentiary, Earl Browder, America’s No. 1 Com- ! manist, presented this unusual sight as he was led through Atlanta raiiroad station. He’s wearing a handkerchief mask with holes cut for the eyes. The Red leader was convicted of p'\ssport fraud ‘TwoBandns Kidnap, Rob . TacomaMen |County Emprees Held Up i on Way fo Bank-Rob- | bersTake $6,911 TACOMA, Wash., April 5— Two bandits kndnaped two Pierce county employees and robbed them of $6,911 | in cash and checks and then left them' blindfolded and bound in an isolated area last night. The money stolen included uaoo‘ in cash for the County Welfare De- partment, The victims were Joe Lee, 37 and Gene Ryan, 30. They said they were starting for the bank when they were accosted. ——— Danube Traffic Is Off BUDAPEST, April 5—A Hungar- ian news agency says tonight that Yugostavia has suspended all river traffic on the Danube especially in LEAVE FOR DUTY Spy Ordei red Out Mikhail Gorin convicted of espionage, Mikhall Gorin, above, Soviet agent, was released on probation by a federal judge in Los Angeles and ordered to leave the country within. 48 | houu. ADUWA IS TAKEN BY BOMB NAII . BATTLESHIPS ¢ British Bombers Atfack Brest, Rotterdam, Ruhr | | During Last Night- | LONDON, April 5—The Air Min- | istry reported today that RAF planes fiercely bombed the German battle- !ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau | | when they attacked Brest last nizht and also bombed the oil stores at Rotterdam. | ‘ The industrial targets at R: mx | were also bombed. The attack on Brest was the 49th ' | °f the war and the third since Sun- | day when the British first reported | the presence of big German ships there. i NAZIS MASS 'MORETROOPS, A @ British Blow Up Naz1 Glycerlne Factory T T E—— . glycerine plant which had i | : fixo British blow up the factory dyring thei | " elenn wweep of all war material pla; BRITISH READY TO MEET NAZI ATTA | Jail-Bound, Browder Covers Up: R AF plANES | been turning out the fluid for German explosives is shattered by the blast u | on the Lofoten Islands, £95 prisoners and rescued more than 300 Norwegian ir nlg nts, seize patriots from the Nazi yoke. i e T | | | News of 'thé Day Nhlnd off Norway. The raiders made & SLAV BORDER' BARRAGE BAllOON RISES COAL TROUBLE Serbs Fire on Umdenhfled Planes - Government | Runs Railroads ! AT ] (By Associated Press) | Nazi mechanized troops late today massed on the Hungarian border only 100 miles north of Belgrade as | | Yugoslavia sent thousands of men |to_the border. | Budapest radio reports, picked up |in New York, said that Yugoslav anti-alrcratt guns opened up on sev- | 'eral unidentified planes, and that the government has taken over the railroads. { | King Peter has ordered the mob- | | lization- of ‘“the entire military | might of the kingdom.” TroublesOn Defense Work '~ To Be Probed | 1 | | {Special Senate Committee fo Inquire Info Causes of Defense Strikes’ | WASHINGTON, April 5—Mem- 1 ibers of a Special Senate Investigat- | ing Committee projected an inquiry | |today into the causes of defense strikes in an effort to get produc- tion resumed while management | |and labor iron out their difficulties. | Senator Tom Connally of Texas \told reporters that the aim isa broad | — |inquiry into the oper&txllon of the {defense program beginning April | sy o ] | B a i This barrage balloon, first received at Fort Lewis, Wash., rose over Army buildings at the fort when tested by the balloon squadron. \ It's “low altitude” type, designed for use at 7,000 to 8,000 feet. COLLEGE PROFESSORS RATE HIGH, PRESENT U .S. ADMI“ISTRA“ON | Inspector Said to Have De- | By JACK STINNETT 15. REGULATIONS PERMIT " (OMMERCIAL FISHING | WASHINGTON, April 5. — An- Iswering the mail orders: i A. T. L, Portland, Oregon—I {don't think it has been completely overlooked, but at least you have hit on something that hasn’t been Adolph A. Berle, Jr, one of the prime movers in the State Depart-| ment, was once on the Harvard| and Columbia University faculties; Francis B. Sayre, the Philippines High Commissioner, is from the Harvard law faculty; and Charles '*NEARING END SEEMS TO BE Two Man Commmee Ap-| poinfed fo ‘Edit Con- - | tract’ for Submittal | | NEW YORK, April 5—A two-man | subcommittee representing both the| management and the union in the| bituminous coal operations were| named today to “edit the commc'."‘ and present it in full to the negotiat- | ing committee on Monday. | Dr. John Steelman, director of the | United States Cenciliation Service, | had said earlier that some of the) soft coal mines which have been | idle for nearly a week would reopen | 'Monday or Tuesday. He refused to explain what was meant by edit, but when told by one questicner that it appeared to mean the agreement | was already reached, he replied, “I'm ‘vpakmg your language.” e Man Reporled ‘Runs Amuckin Bendix Planf AR | stroyed $250,000 | Worth of Models BENDIX, New Jersey, April 5.— !The Passaic Herald News, in a copy- righted story today, said that a civ-| ilian employee of inspection in the Bendix Aviation plant ran amok ZERO HOUR NEARING IN BALKANS ‘GERMANY IS READY FOR MOVE Diplomatic @tions Prac- fically Broken Off Be- tween Nations YUGOSLAVIA BEING CUT OFF, FRONTIERS Britain Guards Against All Action with Army, Navy and Air Forces (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) War between UGermany and Yugeslavia appears today to be only a few hours away. The Yugoslav .Government of- figtals admit* the sero hour is af hand and neutrgl diplomatic circles in, Belgrade also assert < the diplematic, stage. of rels- tions between the two countries has ended. An authorized Foreign Office source in Berlin said that for all practical purposes, XYugo- slav-German diplematic rela- ticns have ceased to exist. FOR WAR Premier Gen. Simovic’s Cabi- net held an extraordinary ses- sion, and it is said made all ar- rangements for warfare. Italy, alse German dominated countries of Hungary, Ruman- ia and Buigaria, have sealed their frontiers ready for action. GIVEN MORE TIME In Reme, however, Italian spokesman Virginio Gayda said the Axis Powers have given Yu- geslavia a few more days to make peace and escape a ter- rific attack. BRITISH PREPARE In London, it is asserted that the Army, Navy and air forces are on guard from attack in one or more of seven directions against Yugoslavia and will also meet any German flank attack on the Suez Canal, also against Greece through Salonika with the intention of closing the Mediterranean Sea against Tur- key. They are also prepared for any sweep through Spain to seize Gibraltar, and an invasion of England and Ireland. [KODIAK WATERS ARE CLOSED 10 ALL SHIPPING | Executive Order Establish- | es Naval Defensive Sea Area Reservation of a Kodiak Island Naval Defensive Sea Area was ef- fected by an executive order of President Roosevlt on March 22, Th reserve, from which all ships are barred, lies between the ex- treme high-water mark and the three mile limit in front of the pres- ent naval reservation at Women's Bay. Another withdrawal announced in the Federal Register is an air navi- FoR | sation site withdrawal of 591.55 acres carrier. U W. Eliott, of the National Resourc-, Furthermore, in the mhuvfly AT WOMEN s BAY | I" Gu(lm WMEM'rrenuoned for a long time. That es Planning Board, also is a Har-| 1ast night destroying machinery and | P€ar Kenal. storm-free summer months, flat-| Lieut. Commander J. Simpson | is, that although the legal profes-| 4 gooulty graduate. Clarence secret models valued possibly as high R - R bottomed barges would experience|MacKinnon ,in charge of the local | Under 1941 National Park regula- | Sion is the best passport to COn-| puygire gelective service director 85 @ quarter of a million dollars, | |MISS SARGEANT I8 | | ress, the college professor rates| ;g cnajrman of the new. National setting back production in some BACK FROM VACATION office of the 13th Naval District, left on the Denali last night for duty at the naval station at Women's Bay | near Kodiak. Also leaving for Women’s Bay on the Denali was Douglas Gray, called | |tions just announced, commercial fishing will be permitted in Glacter Just about B*’é:g’:d . pune W"L”;;' ' Bay National Monument under spec- | Omes to getting a prominent ap- CAIRO, April 5—A Reuters dis-| |1 regulations, PeC | pointment in the present admin- patch reports the British forces have| prqg istration (and this has held true| | pecting for minerals will be occupied Aduwa, Ethiopid, import- permitted in the monument as| | from the days when lheINew fienu couldn’ little trouble from weather. They would be subject to attack from the air, but on the other hand each would be defended by its own scouting planes, and if it were sunk the cost of replacement would be larticles as much as four months. It was said that the man swung, Miss Florence Sargeant, x- mouth’s President Ernest M. Hop-| Metal housings weighing about ten | technician for St. Ann's Hospi | kins is in the ‘Office of Production|Pounds, in each hand until ove.-.‘hu returned from a month’s vaca- Management. Nelson Rockefeller’s PoWered. The plant makes precision | tion to Vancouver, B. O. She arrived among| {last night on the Canadian Pacific Defense Mediation Board, is Wis- consin University's President. Dart-, t market town and strong natural Kirrde ten) insignificant. into active duty from Naval Reserve a0 usual. was in ergarten affice"{or: coopdination el | instruments for aviation, N ethior tho' barges and: Ehatr acs|Mietis. Grey, sofi'of U. 6: Commis- |defense; 80 mbles eouth of Agmara. e I1ist them all even it T took & week | 311 10F SO Ne T o etween | them Darts for the secret bombsight. Princess Norah. ; o companying. planes would be eon- sioner and Mrs. Felix Gray of Doug- R Ol e T | The word “curfew” is taken' off and didn't do anything but the American republies is full of ‘The FBI and the Bendix officials T w |would nelther confirm nor deny the| The diamond isthe Nirdest natu-' —_— _|las, is on a year's leave from the (Continued on Page Four) Fish and Wildlife Service, ‘The steel industry is taking steps to avert a shortage of nickel from two French words few,” meaning “cover the fire.” “couvre check the record, but even a super- ficial glance proves the point. I (Continued on Nze Six) story. | ral substance known.