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Evening star., 1940-07-08
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
Attempt Made ToAssassinaie
 Gestapo Head
Shot Fired al Heinrich Him. mIer While Inspecting
 al Copenhagen

LONDON, April 17-The London Daily Mail reports without confir- nation that the Chief of the Ger man secret police, Heinrich Him. mler, has been wounded by a would-be assassin in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 Himmler is said to have been riding in an automobile when he was fired upon.
 The bullet is reported to have struck the secret Nazi police chief in the face.
 Himmler as head of the German Gestapo evidently had gone to the Danish capital to supervise the coordination of German police con- trol of civilian Danish life under the Nazi occupation. Strict Ger man censorship prevailing at Cop enhagen prevented confirmation of the report which reached the outside world by way of Stockholm and thence to London.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
CRIME GANG DISCOVERED,
 CALIFORNIA
Robbery, Murder Alleged 3 Men, Z Women
 Facing Charges

SACRAMENTO, Cal April l7.-- Investigating two recent slayings, Police Sergeant Gamble announced that murder charges probably will be filed against three men and two women, all alleged members of a robbery gang.
 State ballistics experts reported that the bullet from the body of Leland Cash, San Francisco barbe- cue stand attendant, who was slain in a holdup on April 8, was fired from a gun belonging to Mrs. Juan ita Spinelli, fifty. It was reported that she is the leader of the gang who is known as the Duchess" and she handled the money and took possession of the guns after each robbery
 Officers said Albert Ives, 23, ad- mitted shooting Cash.
 Both Ives and the woman admit ted the staying of Robert Sherrod, 19, member of the gang whose body was recovered from the Sacramento River yesterday. The youth was slain because of the fear of his "squealing." 7.
 Mrs. Spinelli's daughter Lorraine, Gordon Hawkins, Mike Simeone, and others are members of the gang.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
Transport Is Reported to Have Been Hit with
 Heaviest of Shells
GERMANS REPORTED
 ROUTED AT NARvIK
Nazi Official Statements
 Claim More Troops Are Landed in Norway
(By Associated Press)

The German High Command to- day officially reports that a British cruiser was hit squarely by the heaviest type of air bomb. and was sunk; transport was also hit and a destroyer was sunk by German bombers on the Norwegian south west coast while on reconnoitering flights
 Later the official report said the destroyer was sunk off the Shetland Islands by a submarine.
 Germans Routed
 Norwegian forces in north Norway are reported to have routed the Ger man detachments there and have taken absolute control of the ore carrying railroad from Narvik.
 More Achievements
 The Germans claim that more re- inrorcements have been landed at various Norwegian localities, all from transports, and under convoy.
 Thistle Is Sunk
 The British Admiralty practically admits the loss of the destroyer Thistle, which was of 1875 tons and normally carried a crew of 5 of- ficers and men. The statement said the craft lis overdue and must be considered lost"
 Silent on Cruiser
 The British Admiralty remained silent on cruiser being bombed and sunk by German aircraft, declining to issue any denials.
 Troops on Move Observers believed that the Brit ish forces landed at Narvik are mov- ing south toward the German Army which is reported moving north from Oslo.
 Describes Bombing
 The DNB, in an official statement. said the British cruiser which sank yesterday, was hit by bombs of the heaviest type and went down im- mediately.
 The DNB also asserts that two other cruisers were hit also by the heavy calibre bombs and with such serious damage that presumably they were unable to return to Brit ish harbors."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
Pacific Blockade
 Forecast
Great Britain May Begin System of Ndvieerfs
 at Coast Ports

WASHINGTON, April 17.--An in- creased blockade of Pacific Coast shipments. from the United States and other countries to Asiatic Rus sia is forecast by British Ambassa- dor Lothian He told the newsmen at conference that there seems to be no doubt supplies are going across Russia to Germany on the Siberian railroad. We shall have to adopt the same procedure we adopted on the Atlantic. that of stopping ships to see whether they are carrying contraband destined for Germany. This probably means the beginning of a system of navicerts on the Pacific"
 Navicerts are certificates that in- section has been approved by British spection has been approved by British band is aboard a neutral ship.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
Presidential Primaries This Year Proving 10 Be
 Of Political Importance
By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, April IT. The Presidential primaries this year are generating political oomph be- cause for the first time in years they are big news. That's because they are making clear-cut decis- ions between men and issues de- spite the fog of confusion that usually shrouds them.
 To you and me and the men who put the news in the news papers, these decisions are news and nothing more.
 But to candidates they look like something else. To candidates they are precious advertising free ad- vertising that can't be bought with money.
 And it is the kind of advertis- ing that has been turned into votes in the home stretch, too.
 It's this way:
 The Presidential primary has been law in some states for a lit tie over 30 years. In that time we have held eight Presidential elec- tions. In five of those elections the primaries had no more to do with picking the Presidential candidates than the village half-Wit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
5TAvANGER
 AIRDR0ME
 E BOMBED
British Officially Announce Attack on German 0e-
 tupied Base

LONDON, April 17--The British Admiralty announced tonight that British warships bombarded Sta vanger airdrome for one hour and 20 minutes early this morning and added that while these forces were returning, one cruiser was hit by a German bomb and re- ceived some damage but continued on her course to her base"
 The announcement also states it is believed that great damage was done to the Stavanger airdrome and German planes there were seen in flames.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17

Melvin Johnson E. 31 and G. feet-4 part-time lecturer in law at Boston University for mer member and coach of the Har- yard crew is inventor, pat entee, and head man of the com pany that makes the Johnson semi-automatic rifle, which threat ems to explode in the middle of the congressional fight about the 1941 appropriation for arms for the U s. Army.
 A handsome, vOluble, 20o- pound giant, Mel shot his first deer in Maine, when only spindly youth of 12 .. with one of the army's famous old Springfield rifles. He never got over the thrill of it.
 Before he was well into his teens, he was an expert skeet shooter |. trick shot with a rifle and few years later. captain of both the Harvard rifle and gun teams. An ace of ficer of the Harvard R.O.T.C. field artillery, he progressed from reserve marine corps lieutenant in 1886 to captain in 1888. He became life mem Der of the National Rifle AssO- citation.
 His 18th year Q935 found him boring over blueprints for blow back type semi-automatic rifle. It was a flop But year later, he was dodging out of the Boston courtrooms at the first hint of re- cess to work half the night on his short recoil'' semi-auto- matic rifle which basically is the Johnson rifle of today.
 In the last year or so, he has
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
Belgium 10
 Be Neutral Turns Down Offer fo Seek Protection of Fran
 eo-British

BRUSSELS, April IT. - Foreign Minister Spaak told the Senate today that Belgium must not de- part from a course of complete neutrality. His statement was re- jecting Allied suggestions that small neutrals seek Franco British protection before it is too late.
 Spaak said that the government will not accept any suggestion which would entail abandonment of the route which the government has chosen, neutrality.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
MURDER SUSPECT
 BEATS JUSTICE

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April IT, An 88-year-old rancher, held as a murder suspect is dead as result of heart attack. The victim was Charles Stalker.
 Stalker and several companions were arrested for questioning in connection with the death of Cashius Foster, a salesman, who was found dead at Stalker's home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
BASEBALL

Only one game was played this afternoon in either the American or National leagues and that was an American leaguer which resulted in New York winning from Philadel- phia by a score of 4 to l.
 The other games were postponed on account of rain or cold.
 In the New York Philadelphia game, Monte Pearson of the Yankees, allowed only four hits. Charley Keller accounted for two of the runs with a homer and a single.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
JOHN GAGE TAXES OFFICE AZ MAYOR
 IN KANSAS CITY
Seven Counei|men EIetted on Cleanup Pledge
 Also InduCted

KANSAS CITY. Mo, April IT, Bands blared as Mayor John Gage, 5, a Democrat and attorney, with seven Councilmen elected on a cleanup pledge, took office, replac- ing the Tom Pendergast's Demo- cratic machine at the City Hall under which a $20,000,000 gambling racket and $12,OOO,O0O narcotics ring flourished.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
Early Morning Tragedy Is DisCIosed-Motive for
 Act Unknown COR0NER'S JURY
 NOW IN SESSION Death Shocks Many Friends of longtime Resident
 of Juneau

Floyd G. BetJs, 57, Cadastral En- gineer with the Public Survey Or flee here for the past 20 years, shot and killed himself early this morning in the woods near his home on the Glacier Highway four miles from Juneau.
 A coroner's inquest was to be held at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon by U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray, but every indication was that the death was a suicide. Friends are unable to advance a motive tor the act, which has shocked all who knew him. He left no note.
 Mrs. Betts called on neighbor, Mrs. Fred Crowell, at o'clock this morning and told her Floyd had left the house an hour before and that a gun was also missing.
 Neighbor Heard Shot
 According to Mrs. Crowell's &C., count to Deputy U. s. Marshal Sid Thompson, Mrs. Betts. told her her husband had appeared unwell recently and had acted strangely. She said that yesterday at the same time he had arisen, dressed in old clothing and started out into the woods, but that she had sensed something was wrong and talked him into returning to the house.
 When Mrs. Betts told Mrs. Crow ell about the gun being missing, the latter was alarmed, for she had heard a shot at 6:30 o'clock this morning.
 Not telling Mrs. Betts of her fears, Mrs. Crowell called Jay Will Hams to make a search.
 With Ken Nelson, who stopped at the Betts home every morning to drive the Cadastral Engineer to work, Williams secuted the ter ritory near the Betts house and found the Engineers body several hundred yards from the house.
 Betts was lying on his back about 300 feet from the Glacier Highway A single shot from 30- 40 calibre Springfield rifle which lay at his side had torn a great hole in his head.
 Williams noted that only one set of tracks, Betts' own, led from the house to the body.
 Powder Burns
 Reconstructing the tragedy, it appeared that Betts had placed the rifle against a tree root and, hold ing it with his left hand, pulled the trigger with the right. He fell over backwards, the gun falling with, him. The head was badly powder burned. Betts hat lay on a stump few feet away.
 Williams and Nelson returned to Juneau and summoned Deputy Thompson, Commissioner Gray, pr. w. P. Blanton and Don Skuse.
 One empty shell was found in the rifle chamber No others were found.
 Betts, the senior engineer on the Public Survey staff here, was to have gone to the Westward next Tuesday at the head of a survey crew which will work on the Kensi Peninsula all summer.
 He worked h the Kenai last year and was a great lover of the outdoors and of field work. He had travelled over Alaska from the farthest Aleutians and Point Bar row to the Canadian boundary.
 Besides the widow here, he is survived by his mother and other relatives in Oregon and Califor- mia. There are no children.
 Betts was born March 6, 1887, at Custer, Neb. He was a member of the Elks Lodge, having joined in 1881. He was also a member of the Eleven O'Clock Club.
 The body is at the Charles w. Carter mortuary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
TR0NDHElM AIR RAlDED
 BY BRITISH
Airdrome Is Successfully Bombed : Large Fire
 Reported Started

LONDON, April 17-The British Air Ministry announces that Brit ish warplanes carried out bombing attacks on the German held port of Trondheim and also the seaplane bases nearby.
 The attack was made last night and the "Trondheim airdrome was successfully bombed and large fire was seen to break out
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
RIFLE INVENTOR SHOOTS AWAY" "RED.TApE" OF AN
 ORDINANCE OF U. S. ARMY
By JACK STENNETT

WASHINGTON, April 17. - Note to Readers: No city in America, not even New York, presents such personalities as the Nations capital. Senators, Ambassadors, cabbage heads and kings; thugs, buns, Jugs and ministers, and princesses and queens; soldiers, sailors, D.A.R.; lobbyists, lawyers, lit- erati; rOgues, ranchers, Presi- dents and spies-all are here. To know them all, to under stand them all, would be to know what makes the wheels of Washington go round. Per- haps it cant be done, but let's try.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
ROOSEVELT I

ROOSEVELT I
 The first was 1908, when eyery- body knew Teddy Roosevelt was going to pick the Republican can- didate and his man would win. That's the way it turned out. The primaries had nothing at all to do with it. It was a convention job
 Came 1912. The primaries had a chance for the first time to register a clear-cut decision. And they did. Teddy Roosevelt whipped his former protege, Taft. in the primaries. and Wilson had the edge on the Democratic side of the fence.
 But the Republican convention ignored the primary decision, picked Taft. Roosevelt, encouraged by the showing and the advertis- ing he got in the primaries, ran as an independent. That won for
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
Taku Is Now
 Juneau Bound

SEATTLE, April IT. = Steamer Taku is now enroute to Juneau and wayports with freight and passengers. A. M McDougall is the only passenger aboard booked for Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
4 HaIibuiers
 Sell, Seattle

SEATTLE April 17.-Halibuters arriving and selling here today were all from the western banks as follows:
 Northern 40,000 pounds, 33S and 8a4 cents; Sea Bird 28,000 pounds, Sc and 8lA; Tongass 36,000 pounds, 9h and 87s cents: Seymour 40,000 pounds, 8N cents pound straight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
PRICES ELSEWHERE

At Prince Rupert today l38,000 pounds of halibut were sold for 870 to and $50 cents a pound.
 At Ketchikan the days price is 7.80 and and 6 and cents,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, April IT. - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6ss, American Can 1l5A, Anaconda 30A, Common wealth and Southern Is. Curtiss Wright 1O3s, General Motors 5sh, International Harvester 56B. Ken necott 36A, New York Central l6h, Northern Pacific 8h. United States Steel 61h, Pound S3.48.
 DOW, JONES AVERAGES
 The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials l48.35, rails 3O.59, utilities 24.86.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-17

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-19
SPEAK OUT NOW, GARNER URGES
Announce Regardless Of Roosevelt Desires He Taunts
ALL STUNG BY PRESIDENTIAL BEE


WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Vice-
President Garner is putting the
bee on fellow candidates to fol-
low his example by announcing
for the presidential nomination
regardless of whether President
Roosevelt seeks a third term.
He has suggested to Postmas
ter General Farley and Senator
Wheeler of Montana that if they
wish to court the favors of Dame
Democracy they ought to give
her an opportunity to ''cuddle
up" without fear they will run
if Roosevelt comes into the pic.
ture.
Report has it that only a few
minutes before the Jackson day
dinner in Washington, Garner
twitted Farley about his half and
half candidacy and suggested
that he address the assembly as
Fellow Candidates.
Farley did exactly that and got
a great burst out of the hundred
dollar-a~plate guests. However,
Garner people do not accept this
little pleasantly on the part of
Farley as any indications that he
is call out" for the nomination.
Nor has Wheeler made any
statement which even approx
mately rivals the 48-word state
ment by which Garner put him
self on the dotted line.
Of course, it is not dumb poll
tics for Mr.. Garner to try to get
more candidates in his corner
Several candidates, taken in the
mass, would constitute a solid
"stop Roosevelt bloc.
That would be more soup in
Gamers bowl, because at present
he is, willy nilly, stop Roose-
welt" movement all by himself.
Eccles To Senate?
A little sister to the third tern
mystery is whether Mariner S.
Eccles, Federal Reserve Boarc
chairman and inventor of part Of
the New Deal, will run for the
Senate in Utah.
Senator King, foe of much o.
the New Deal, is VI for re-elec.
ton. Several possible candidates
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-19
TRANSPORTATION
SIS. Cuba Brings 50 Passengers

SIS. Cuba Brings So Passengers
Steamship Cuba, of the P. and
o. SIS Co., arrived yesterday
afternoon o'clock from Havana
with 1913 passengers, Sc first cabin
and three second cabin passengers
for Key West; SIS first cabin and
four second cabin passengers for
Tampa.
On the manifest of the ship
was listed the following items:
For Key West, seven tons of
freight, one automobile and three
sacks of mail; for Tampa, rs tons
of freight, one automobile and 90
sacks of mail.
The vessel sailed for Tampa at
5 o'clock with the following pas
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-19

, are in the picture. Utah has
adopted a general primary since
King was nominated last, so it
poses a new strategy, both for
himself and his opposition.
A constellation of minorities
might stop King in a convention.
but In a primary it simply would
divide the opposition and virtual
ly assure his nomination. That is
the picture Eccles sees.
Our information is that he has
authorized certain prominent
Democrats in Utah to determine
whether he can have the field to
himself against King. If he can,
and further research indicates he
has a fair chance to uproot King.
he will enter the race, so our in
formant has it. He won't enter
the field just to divide the OPP
position to King, who has proved
himself a formidable candidate in
times past.
Defense Attacked
Reactions in Congress indicate
that President Roosevelt, the
army and the navy have not
worked the best possible strategy
in seeking more money for naval
and army upbuilding. There is
far more unannounced opposition
to the increased defense program
than finds its way into print.
Strategic tumble number one
appears to have been the scheme
for saddling the defense program
with the burden of a special de-
Tense tax. Members who were not
bold enough to come out in the
open and fight defense program
i of itself are finding the tax
scheme platform from which to
hit at both.
| Further, there were samples of
wrath at what some members felt
was an effort to hide a $4,000
900 appropriation to begin a de-
velopment of Guam as a more
useful military base. 1t didn't
show up in the budget. Not until
Admiral Stark, chief of naval op-
erations, was testifying before the
House Naval Affairs Committee
did it pop out.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-19
FOUR TIE FOR
FIRST in BOGIE
FEATURE EVENT AT cOUN-
TRY CLUB ATTRACTS
MANY WOMEN

The weekly Blind Bogie tourn-
ament at the Country Club yes
terday found the largest number
of players competing for the
prizes that have played this sea-
son.
There were four tied for first
posltiOn-MiSS Elizabeth Sharp
ley, DR.. William Kemp, r. Colt
of the Casa Marina, and Robert
SpOttSwood The winning num-
Der was u.
Three tied for second position,
with the number IA. The trio
was John Pinder, Melvin Russell,
and r. NJ. Mahoney.
Glenn Price turned in the low
gross score of the day-a very
fine 70.
Summaries:
Elizabeth Sharpley, 112-4-72i
DR.. Kemp, 84-12-72; R. Colt, 81
l5-72; R. Spottswood, 79-7-72;
John Pinder, 84-10-74; Melvin
Russell, 84-10-74; r. M. Ma
honey, 80-6-74; B. Grooms, 101-
22-79: c. B. Cole, 99-20-79; Pc
ter Schutt, 100-18-82; o. Nc
Aloon. lO3-25-78; Curry Harris
89-6-83; Glenn Price, 1870
Alton Parks, 81-8-73; Mrs. R
Colt, l04-25-79; L. Plummer
95-20-75.
This year more than ever be-
fore the women golfers have
taken an interest in the tourna,
ment and almost every week one
of them carry off one of the tor
prizes. So far three of the win.
ners have been Elizabeth Sharp.
ley, Mrs. E. B. Caulkins and Mrs
A. c. Graves.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-19

colder, with cold wave in north
and central portions, temperature
l8' to "a in north and around
25' to 80 in central portion to-
night; Saturday fair, colder in
south and east portions.
CONDITIONS
Pressure is moderately low
this morning in Atlantic and Pa
cific coast districts; while the
strong western high pressure area
now overspreads most of the re-
mainder of the country.
Precipitation, mostly in the
form of light to moderate snow
has occurred since yesterday
morning from Gulf coast districts
northeastward over the Atlantic
States, and there has also beer
light to moderate snow in por-
tions of the Plateau, Rocky Noun.
tain, and Plains States, and up.
per Mississippi Valley and Lake
region, and light rain in extreme
southern Florida and on the
north Pacific coast.
Decidedly colder weather ha:
spread southwark and eastward
with subfreezing temperatures ir
the middle Gulf coast, and read.
ings below zero southeastwaro
into Tennessee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-19
MIAMI QUINTET
PLAYS TONIGHT
PLAY LIONS CLUB IN EXHI.
BITIoN FOLLOWING MA
RINE-NAVY TUSSEL
BY URIC GWYNN. JR..

Tonight at the High School
Gym, local basketball enthusiasts
will witness what is promised to
be one of the most exciting cage
games ever played on a local
court, when the Key West Lions
Club, local league champions,
clash with the Westminster Pres
byterian Church five of Miami.
This game will get underway at
$50 o'clock.
AS a forerunner to this event
the age-old traditional rivals,
U. S. Marines and Navy, will
meet each other on the floor.
Both of these quintets are we'll
matched and an interesting game
should result from their playing.