Hayward Daily Review, The (Newspaper) - April 26, 1940, Hayward, California Dally Carrier Service Review if AFTERNOON BY In Ashland Gutro Volley Grow Cull Canyons San Kunsell City Mount Eden Tennyson Decoto Vista Newark landa Hayward and Intervening ranch HI PAPER Southern Alameda County's Greatest Newspaper WEATHER Hayward Minimum 44 Barometer 29.80 FORECAST So Alameda County Rain clearing Rain 0.28 Season 28.11 ins Comparative temperatures High Low High Low Los 65 40 Chicago 13 Yuma 55 40 27 NewYork GO 40 New Orleans 09 CO Lowest VOLUME 49 NUMBER GO IT'S THE CLIMATE HAYWARD CALIFORNIA FRIDAY APRIL 20 1940 IT'S THE CLIMATE EIGHT PAGES TODAY V U uu i A KJ jj im TRONDHEIM BATTLE RAGING GERMANS ALLIES RUSHING TROOPS INTO VITAL SECTOR Contest for Control of Bottleneck Of Norway on Nazis Reported Smashing Way North With Forces from Oslo BERLIN high command said Friday that more troops and supplies had reached Trondheim from where a German force is driving Southeastward ing to join a German motorized force sweeping North from Oslo to cut Norway in two at its middle STOCKHOLM Sweden armed forces led by airplanes with machine guns raking the ground hammered their way Northward through Allied defense lines in Norway Friday in a two-pronged offensive up the and valleys 1 In the valley German mechanized units and artillery drove British and Norwegian troops back toward the railroad junction at and in the valley they were reported fighting sharply in an effort to push north of Foreign Legion Rushed to Norway Sent to Rescue Of British Force Near Steinkjer STOCKHOLM f the French Foreign Legion rushed from Africa to hound Norway have heen thrown Into notion on the heim front it was reported day The Legionnaires were being hurried to Steinkjer midway lie- tween British and mari Trondheim lo rescue a Brit- -ish advance guard which for four days under airplane and artillery fire has been holding up a man advance LONDON British ad- vance guard sent South along the Norwegian coast from Namsos to stop a German force of un- known strength has accomplished its mission it was asserted day and left and German armies in position for finish fights on two fronts with control of tral Norway at stake The British advance guard held the village of Maere five miles south Of and the mans were reported digging in at Steinkjer Either side with ments would be able to cut the other off from its base and wipe it out On the Horos front Norwegians held the foothills to the North while the Germans fortified ves just to the South The Continued to page 7 the town at toward I Stoeren and Trondheim Frontier dispatches to holm said the Allied forces were fighting back in a desperate fort to block the German sives toward Trondheim They added that strong British naval and air forces had bombed the entrance to Trondheim fjord in an effort to force an entrance and attack the Nazis in that sector from the sea as well ns from land One dispatch said a British cruiser had fought its way into the fjord Frontier dispatches to papers here an lied force from had marched over rough terrain oil the Fosen peninsula which stretches Southwest from lo attack the Trondheim fjord from the land side The for he hue by their own inji now based a ami arc ho of he air X Safe Leap Means You Pass This Course WESTERN UNION IS INDICTED IN RACING PROBE CHICAGO A federal grand jury investigating alleged bootlegging of in- formation since dissolution of M L News Service Inc Friday the Western Union Telegraph com- pany and 1 S individuals for alleged conspiracy to violate federal tery laws Western Union was named in an indictment with 11 individuals who government charged were attempting to I plant the service Annenberg dis- solved last November LATE NEWS BULLETINS By United Press MORE NAZI TROOPS REACHING OSLO STOCKHOLM steady stream of German troops is arriving in Oslo by airplane and boat Cupt James Murrey British vice-consul at Drammen said day The average German soldier in Oslo is under 25 years old and most seem resigned to death but are hopeful for peace Murrey said AMERICANS WARNED OFT OF BUCHAREST U S legation here has sent letters to all Americans in Rumania advising those who have no compelling reason for remaining to consider the possibility of returning to the United States as soon as it was learned Friday BRITISH BOMB GERMAN TRANSPORT LONDON ministry sources said Friday night that British planes had bombed a German transport ship at and also scored direct hits on a landing party FRENCH LINER TO LEAVE FOR WAR DITTY NEW YORK French liner lie do France was expected to sail Friday or Saturday for war duty A crew of 325 was reported aboard She has been tied up hero since the war began SWEDEN BUYS ITALIAN WARSHIPS STOCKHOLM has purchased four de- from Italy and the ships accompanied by a Swedish motorship arc now at Cartagena Spain on their way to this country it was announced Thursday night The destroyers were made ready for immediate use in an emergency it was said provided they reach the Swedish coast DOWN FROM Sam's navy officials at Lakehurst N J naval air station can easily tell whether three-month course in parachute jumping for enlisted men has been efficient If student lands safely from graduation jump without crashing into oblivion he's com- course successfully Top panel students about to head skyward in navy blimp Right Henry Hopson of Beaumont Texas left and Herbert Garver of San Francisco pack shroud lines to prevent snarling when chute opens Left Sarver gathers chute after jump Bottom student has landed and slips wind out of chute Courses have been held for 16 years Union Wins Raise Halts Strike Vote Shipowners Grant Demand Of Coast Sailors SAN FRANCISCO of the Pacific an- Friday the ican Shipowners association had granted the union demand for a monthly pay raise for men in the offshore trade The agreement halted the union's coastwise strike ballot A partial membership vote had rejected an earlier posal by the employers offering a increase Harry Lundeberg secretary of the announced 2800 men in meetings Thursday in all Pacific Coast ports voted practically against accepting the owners offer Under the current contract ablebodied seamen receive top wages of monthly The increase was asked Lundeberg said in a move to share profits cruing to shipowners through in- creased shipping rates as result of the European war SELLING HITS STOCKS ON WAR NEWS REPORTS NEW YORK Slocks de- over a broad front Friday A drop in prices on the dam bourse ket sold American issues pii re- ports of German successes Norwegian war Considerable realizing ed in leading issues notably steels Bethlehem Steel joined the decline closing stock ages were 30 industrials 147.73 off 20 rails off 0.29 15 utilities up 0.09 and C5 stocks 49.49 off 0.26 Volume was shares 820.000 Thursday Canadian dollar was 85 cents up Black Bishops Annex Ninth County Title Berkeley high school's chess team apparently found the er too formidable Thursday to make a scheduled trip to Hayward to play the Black Bishops of ward high school So Coach Carl Ekoos boys won their ninth Alameda County High School Chess league title by forfeit Arrangements will be made next week to play the San cisco champion team for the Northern California title ward teams hove won this title seven times in the past nine years also three state championships The San Francisco contender is expected to be Lowell high school Unions Ordered To Show Records Not Exempt From Trust Laws Ruling FRANCISCO eral Judge A F ruled day that unions and their representatives are not exempt from law provisions He directed representatives of Oakland and San Francisco locals of the United Brotherhood of of L to present their records to a eral grand jury studying anti- trust law practices in the San Francisco bay area building in- dustry Friday's court decision follows recent Indictments by a federal grand jury which alleged acy to violate laws on I lie Part of contractors and union officials as part of the ment's drive to break up building industry monopoly A special meeting of the tive committee of the Alameda County fair has been called for the evening of day April 29 HAYWARD EGG PRICES Quotations by Poultry ers of Central Large Medium Small Norse Defenders Battle Nazis 30 New Citizens to be Honored In High School Rites May 23 Plans for a patriotic program in connection with the annual pre- of high school to made American citizens were being developed Friday by MIDST OF IT Frederick A Sterling U S Minister to Sweden whoso problems have grown to major size with Nazi invasion of Scandinavia He'll aid evacuation of Americans Westbrook Instructor in ship subjects She announced that Superior Judge S Victor who re- cently gave the address for the annual banquet of the Federated Improvement clubs will give the chief address for the citizenship program The ceremony will lake place at the high school the evening of May 30 men and men who recently have received their final citizenship papers in Alameda superior courts will be honored They have studied such subjects as English American history and the in Evening high school classes under direction of Mrs and Joseph M Santos Four or five cases of area residents seeking citizenship are still pending in the superior court Mrs Weslbrook reports and If the court acts meanwhile the umber of HO may lie increased She Is informed thill the superior now behind with Its docket Frank 1 Ageler 54 Yrs Here Dies Frank Joseph Ageler resident of for years was j found dead in his home at 1121 A street early Friday ing Death apparently was caused by a heart attack suffered in his sleep Mr Ageler was widely known I here and was prominent in the Hermann Sons lodge He was a nativo of Switzerland aged years His wife Mrs Louisa died in 1927 A nephew tian Wioderkehr survives neral arrangements are pending here Mr Ageler was a past president of Hermann Sons member for Ilii Tile May ceremonies will of presentation of rings ers and high school certificates to the new groups will he asked to in I ho WOMEN TOLD OV IX BOOKING are figures and figures but men are loo interested In the sical type according to Mrs ence Seller former western University dean of men lobs for women In the field are she told Temple University iors There are for accountants and Radicals Rule Over SRA Office Here Is Revealed Shakeup Goes Ahead Union Stages Protest and tion of the Alameda county ion of State tration was opposed Friday by he and man's union led liy Harry Bridges according to Oakland press dis- patches It was reported the men are joining in protest over discharges o[ members County Municipal Workers from the SRA staffs in Hie comity A protest mass Hireling was scheduled for noon Friday in Oakland Rod Plot Here Meanwhile asserted by a former employe of Inn Hayward SRA office that the staft was largely dominated by bers of the union edly Communist or radical in pathy This source old re- porter Friday hat when ho Hayward office was wo years ago It was seized on as a Communist op- port unity control lie cultural sit.imtiou In Southern county Tim normally lias between mill 1000 clients largely farm laborers Although hut two dismissals of Hayward staff have been announced officially in Oakland observation in the office shows that the staff now at work is but 11 fraction of its former strength of- 40 to 50 men and women The Hayward dismissals reported are those of Mrs sky supervisor and Eugene rick supervisor of placements for he Hayward office Studied B C Willford administrative assistant to Walter Chambers in Oakland Friday saying that a study the Hayward office lias been made by his three assistants He was placed in charge of the county SRA purge it of radical dominance i Continued to page i Held In Letter Threat Worthington Is Nabbed by FBI In Mail Charge OAKLAND reau of Investigation agents day an ested G rover Won Illusion 44 Oakland on a charge of ing a threatening loiter to George W Carter The complaint was filed with U S Commissioner ker More typical Norwegian soldiers on the front oi Oslo by Germans who this week in the Anglo-Norwegian forces aiv reported ID favor the in widespread guerrilla fighting Mr Carter who lives Woods avenue said here that arrest of Grover ton former Hayward resident at an Oakland hotel j he was employed Mr Carter said he had a which he was written hy Mr Worthington and contained a vague threat to kill him lie said the letter reached him January and that he referred it to Postmaster Anthony 1 Foster who in turn referred ii lo postal inspectors and the V R I The incident is said to have lowed Mr Carter's success in ing a lot which had been by Mr also after between of I be Carl or and families divorced wife Mrs Lena lives at 1288 Woods avenue near Carter home She lo received the letter firm by mistake and turned It over to Mr Carter The charge against Mr Is presumed lo be based on alleged Illegal use of the mulls
