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VOL. 42. No. 49. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1940 ***“ Per C0P7
Germans Retreating From Narvik
Exposes Plot Overthrow Yugoslavia Government
Time For Convening Alaska Legislature Changed
AP Correspondent,
Says Germans arc
Retreating Narvik
SOMEWHERE NEAR NAR
VIK, April 17 (/P) — Thursday, j
British marines fighting along-,
side of Norwegian allies have oc
oupied Narvik, the northern ore |
port and a surrounding area and
the Germans are retreating to j
the south, says J. Norman Lodge
Associated Press staff correspond
ent.
He said: “With the driver as
my guide I made my way afoot
to the outskirts of Narvik where
I was arrested by British troops.
I ascertained that the British
I are occupying Bjorksden, a short;
distance this side of the Swedish j
border at Gratanjen and three!
places to the north and south of
Narvik—Elavgaard, Elevegaards
moen and Harstad, the British
landing point. The British ap
peared to be extending their oc
cupation and the Germans are re
treating southward, careful to.
* keep west of the Swedish border |
to avoid internment.” *
Report Liner
Bremen Sunk
With 1500 Troops
UNDATED, April 18 (JP) —Brit
ain apparently concentrated ef
forts by bombing forays to keep
German aerial transports from
using neutral seaplane ports in j
Norway's many fjords and crip
pling the few Norwegian airfields
in the race with Germany to
carve out a solid foothold on the
rocky coast.
In Berlin, authorized sources
k said King Haakon had recogniz
ed the Nazi puppet government j
at Oslo.
The Exchange Telegraph Brit
ish news agency quoted a Nor
wegian survivor of the torpedoed
British steamer Stand iff e as say
ing the liner Bremen was sunk
off Norway with 15,000 troops i
aboard. The seaman, named Ryd-1
ningen was saved when the
- steamer was torpedoed Friday, i
The story is otherwise unconfirm;
*ed.
An exchange of military com
missions between Germany and
Italy, who are already joined in
a military alliance was authorit j
atively announced in Rome as
the first members of the Ger
* man commission arrived.
Strong German reinforcements
continued to pour into Oslo and
it was learned that the coast de- j
fenses in German-occupied areas
' have been strengthend by the ad
dition of guns ranging up to 11-,
inch caliber.
The Berlin radio DJE reported j
that German planes sank a Brit-1
ish submarine on the west Nor-)
way coast.
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Tell Of Successes
On Eve Hitler’s
51st Birthday
BERLIN, April 19 (/P)—Steady
advances with constantly rein
forced German troops and new
blows against the British navy
were reported today on the eve
of the celebration of Hitler’s 51st
birthday. It was officially report
ed that the successes included 3
Allied submarines destroyed in
the Skagerrak and Kategak and
that a submarine also sunk a Brit
ish warship. Transports were also
hit in a sudden German air at
tack north of Narvik. A Norweg
ian torpedo boat was destroyed
at Hardanger Fjord.
A DNB report said troops in
ihe Oslo region were “advancing
slowly and steadily’’ and reach
ed a point about 75 miles north
east of Oslo and in the north,
near Narvik occupied the Island
of Flato, tightening the hold on
the ore railroad between Narvik
and the Swedish border.
Arne Scheel, Norwegian minis
ter at Berlin was ordered to
leave today. The action is tanta
mount to breaking off diplomatic
relations.
The commander of a submar
ine returned to port said a 9100
ton British cruiser was torpedo
ed north of the Shetland Islands
and was destroyed by an inter
nal explosion immediately after
the torpedo hit her.
Report Battleship
Deutschland Is
Ashore Unofficial
STOCKHOLM. April 18 UP) —
A Norwegian reaching Sweden
from Trondheim reported the
pocket battleship Deutschland
ashore at Osjenfjord, northeast
of Trondheim. The vessel is the
10,000 ton sistership of the scut
tled Admiral Graf Spee. There
was no confirmation of the re- \
port,
Bremen Sunk “Is
Old Swindle*
BERLIN. April 18 (IP) — Au
thorized sources said the last re
port that the Bremen was sunk
sounds like “the same old swin
dle” which has been frequently
revived by the British.”
Norway Ministers
to Berlin, Families
Home
_
BERLIN, April 19 UP) — Min
ister Arne Scheel and the Nor
wegian diplomatic staff and their
families left here at 5 p.m. on a
special train and were given un
til midnight to get out of the
country.
Jap Attempt
Seize Indies
is Possi lity
! SHANGHAI, April 17 (/P> —
Thursday, authorities of the Bri
ish, French and American fleets1
said a Japanese attempt to seize
the Dutch East Indies in the ev
ent of a German invasion of the i
Netherlands was a serious pos
sibility. British and French forc
es in the far east are prepared i
for any eventuality.
Ask Protection of
No Government
THE HAGUE, April 18 (/P) —
The Netherlands government in
formed Japan that it would nei
ther ask any foreign govern
ment to protect the East Indies'
in case of the spread of the war 1
to Holland nor would they ac- j
jcept an offer of protection if it
' is made. The Dutch people re- i
ceived with guarded satisfaction
the Hull declaration, although no
official comment was made.
Coincides With
japan’s Wishes
_____
TOKYO, April 18 UP) — The
Hull statement was greeted by
Japan as coinciding with Japan’s'
own wishes. A foreign office
spokesman said: ‘‘Japan hopes
to prevent the spread of the Eu
ropean war to the Pacific.”
Discovers Plot
Lei German Troops
fc-.to Yugoslavia
BELGRADE, April 19 (7P)_The
disrc'-ery of a p’ot to overthrow
the government of Premier Cvet
ko ■ r in qu rters
elo-c to him after the announce
rr t that former premier Stoy
adinovicbe was interned in a
mountain fastness under a heavy
guard.
T e sources indicated that on j
the success of the overthrow hing
ed the entry of German troops
into Yugoslavia. Stoyadinovicbe
was taken into custody after a
police raid on his heme disclosed
documents linking him with the
Nazi “fifth column’’ activity sim j
ilar to that preceding the Nor- j
wegian invasion.
Nazis Reported !
Repulsed On
First Encounter
LONDON, April 19 (JP) — A
Reuters News agency Stockholm
dispatch reported the first en
counter between British and Ger,
man land forces in Norway occur
red at Namsos. on the coast, a \
hundred miles north of Trond
heim. The report said the Ger
man forces were repulsed.
Swedish frontier reports said i
Namsos was the point picked by
the British for their latest troop
landings while the Norwegian j
forces concentrated on Steinkjer,!
SO miles nearer Trondheim.
SURVIVES FAMILY TRAGEDY
Eleven-year-old Chloe Davis told Los Angeles police a harrowing
story of the tragedy which took the lives of her mother, Mrs. Lolita
Davis; her two sisters, Daphne, 10, and Deborah Ami, 7; and her
brother, Marquis, 3. Shown in a receiving hospital, Chloe told how
her mother beat the three small children to death with a claw
hammer, then set fire to her hair and pleaded with Chloe to hit
her with a hammer because she corldn’t stand the pain. “I took
the hammer and hit her about 20 times and then the hammer broke”
.. the child was quoted as saying.
Martial Law to
Be Applied To
The Netherlands
THE HAGUE, April 19 </P> —
The Netherlands will resist with
arms ary attempt by a foreign
power to extend protective help,
Premier Jandegeer declared, add;
ing that martial law is already
in effect in large areas and will
be applied to the whole country.'
His words were broadcast to the
East and West Indies possessions,
as well as in the homeland.
Woman Arctic
Explorer Dies
j SAN FRANCISCO, April 18
j f/P)—Mrs. Vashta McClure, aged
| 55, widow of Captain Alfred Mc
] Clure of the Army', one of the
1 few women ever to exp.ore thei
i Arctic, died here today. Before
the World War, then Vashta Dal
| ton, she gained fame when she ex;
plored the bleak area north of
Point Barrow in the four years
she spent teaching the Eskimos i
and living with them. Mrs. Mc
Clure claimed she penetrated far
ther into the Arctic than any oth
er white woman.
"Kid McCoy’ Is
Found Dead
— l
DETROIT. April 18 uP> — Nor
! man Selby, aged G6. the ring’sj
Kid McCoy, was found dead in a
J downtown hotel. The coroner1
said he had taken an overdose
of sleeping medicine.
Selby claimed the world mid- j
| dleweight title early in the cen
tury after defeating Tommy Ry
an. He fought all over the world
and was married nine times. In
recent years he had been a Ford
employee. He made and lost a1
fortune fighting.
Bill Introduced Exempt U. of A.
From Limiting ROTC Units
WASHINGTON, April 18 (/Pi
Delegate Ditnond introduced a j
bill to exempt the University of |
Alaska from the minimum limit
ations on the number of students
in ROTC units.
Date Is ( hanged
For Convening
Alaska Legislature
—
WASHINGTON, April 19 (sP)—
President Roosevelt signed the
bill changing the date of the con
vening of the Alaska Legislature
from the second to the fourth
Monday in January of Odd-num
bered years and doubled the pres
ent 15-day limit on a special
session called by the Governor.
The bill also reduced the time of
notice of special sessions from 30
to 15 days permitted the notice to
be given by telegram or radio
gram.
$963,797,478 WPA
Appropriation
Passes Senate
WASHINGTON, April 18 i/P)—
The Senate passed the $963,797,
478 appropriation for the fiscal
year beginning July first. It now
goes to the House for action on
the Senate amendments. The
sum is $48.437.COO more than this
year’s expenditures but $123,514,
000 under President Roosevelt’s
budget estimates.
President Roosevelt proposed
that Congress accept his budget
recommendation of $975,000,000
for the WPA for the next fiscal
year but grant him or the com
missioner authority to expend
the entire sum in 8 months if nec
essary. He wrote the Speaker of
the House: if the sum is spread
1 over 12 months it would provide
| an average employment for only
j about 1,300.00'y' pery y. Be said
! his hopes for an improved em
ployment business has not been
entirely realized, also because of
the possible effect of war on pri
vate industry, employment has
been difficult. He predicted the
employment volume for all of
next year.
To Probe Expendi
tores Candidates
WASHINGTON, April 19 (JP)—
The Senate campaign investigat
ing committee ordered the invest!
gation of complaints of “excess
ive sums of money” being spent
in behalf of some aspirants to the
presidency. Chairman Gillettee
said they came from “apparently
reliable sources.” He declined to
name the candidates or the party
involved but said thus far only
one party was affected. The com
mittee approved the motion in
structing Gillette to assign in
vestigators.
Allies Take t hree
Latest U.S. Planes
WASHINGTON, April 18 </P)_
Aithur Purvis, head of the Anglo
French purchasing commission,
announced that the Allies al
ready have purchased “huge
quantities” of the three latest
type American military aircraft.
Alaska Highway
Report Submitted
WASHINGTON, April 18 iP>_
Representative Magunso-, chair
man sent to President Roosevelt
the Alaska Highway Commission
report on the feasibility of loca
tion and estimated cost of the pro
posed highway, which he will
make public when he sends it to
Congress.
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