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Evening star., 1942-03-24
Buka Island in SoIomons
Captured, Japs Claim
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC (From japanese Broad
casts, March 24-The japanese
naval ensign was hoisted on Buka
Island, in the Solomon group, March
10. Domei said today in dispatch
dated aboard a japanese Warshlp'
It said the flag was raised after
the landing that morning OF units
of japanese bluejackets at Garcia
Harbor
(Buka. at the northwestern end
OF the Solomon chain, hes east
of New Britain. where the Japa-
nese some time ago established
a base at Rabaul, and northeast
of Australia.
(The Nazi-controlled Paris radio
broadcast report that the Japa-
nese on March 10 also occupied
the island of Bougainville, just
south of Buka. Australian off,
cials announced japanese land
Ing at Kieta, chief port of Bou-
sainville and administrative
center of the Solomons, on JAN
uary %, and 1t later was disclosed
the civilian-deserted town was
taken by the crew Of a single
japanese seaplane)
Imperial headquarters announced
that important military facilities
had been destroyed in a series OF
japanese air attacks on points in
the South Pacific and the Bay OF
Renra1 since March IT,
The announcement said japanese
naval aircraft had repeatedly
bombed Darwin, Broome and Wynd-
ham, Australia; Horn Island, Port
Moresby, New Guinea: Tulagi, Solo,
mon Islands, and Port Blair. South
Andaman Island in the Bay OF
Bengal
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Rumania's War Losses
Put at $4,000 Men
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, March "a
Rumania already has lost $4,000
men in the fight against Russia, and
the people are complaining bitterly
over the losses both of man power
and territory ceded to Hungary, the
Balkan correspondent of the Basle
National Zeitung said last night.
This is only one aspect of the
complicated Balkan squabbles which
may wreck Germany's attempt to
gain more reinforcements in the
struggle, sources with close Balkan
connections said.
They pointed out that King Boris
of Bulgaria still was resisting at
tempts to pit his country against
the Soviet, but conceded there was
a possibility of Bulgaria being talked
into a campaign against Turkey.
The friction Of the already estab-
lished new order in Southeastern
Europe" the National Zeitung's cor
respondent said, cannot be MAIN
tanned much longer.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Fort in MuniIu Boy
Shoots Down Three
Of New-Type Craft

By the Associated Press.
A heavy bombing attack on the
fortress Of Corregidor and Amer
lean positions in Bataan by 81
japanese heavy bombers was re-
ported today by the War De-
partment, which said only slight
damage was inflicted.
Several sharp encounters occurred
In Bataan as fighting was resumed
there. the department said. Three
of the enemy bombers were shot
down by anti-aircraft fire.
American artillery also laid down
q heavy fire on enemy positions In
Bataan, and the department said
Japanese losses were believed to be
considerable.
Text of COmmunique.
The text of the communique, No.
l58, based on reports received up
to l0:30 m. said:
81. Philippine theater:
The fortified island of Corregi-
dor and our positions in Bataan were
heavily bombed this morning by 54
Japanese heavy bombers Of a new
type. Damage inflicted on our mill
tary installations was OF slight con-
sequence. At least three enemy
airplanes were shot down by our
anti-aircraft artillery.
Several sharp encounters oc-
CURED in Bataan between hostile
ground forces. Our artillery laid
down a concentrated fire on enemy
positions. Japanese losses are. be-
lieved to have been considerable,
while our own casualties were slight.
20. There is nothing to report
from other areas"
Last Raid January Is.
The bombing of Corregidor was
the first large-scale aerial attack
reported on that fortress since early
January Intermittent air raids OF
minor character have been made by
the japanese against the island
forts at the entrance of Manila Bay
and on the Observation-Disclosures
ground forces in Bataan during the
last two months, but the last raid
directed specifically against Cor
reeidor was by nine heavy bombers
on January Is, two of the attacking
planes being shot down.
The last attack comparable in size
to the one reported today occurred
January 7, when the department
said at least As bombers participated
in an attack which lasted several
hours.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Jops at Peak Of Glory,
Chinese Spokesman Says
Ry the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, March IA gov
eminent spokesman declared today
that Japan has reached the peak
Of her military glory and the for
tunes Of war now will gradually turn
In favor of the Allies"
Chinese optimism has grown ap-
preciably as result of developments
in the Pacific last week." the spokes-
man said.
Among the favorable factors cited
were Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
transfer to Australia, the successful
voyage Of United States conveys to
Australia, the liaison Of Chinese and
British troops in Burma and the ar
rival Of Sir Stafford Cripps In India
In IN attempt to smooth political
differences.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Commando Army
Reported Plan
OF Macarthur
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOcltted Pfess
LONDON, March 24-Gen Doug
las MacArthur's immediate task is
the formation of an American-Aus-
tralian commando army" for q
land, sea and air offensive against
the Japanese. dispatches from sgd
ney said yesterday.
The Daily Mails correspondent
said Gen. Macarthur would be aided
by "subordinates picked either from
his own proved officers who came
with him from the Philippines or
from Australian commando leaders" !"
Both the Daily Mail and the Herald
listed the following steps as Gen.
MacArthur's likely procedure:
Formation Of a small battle coun-
Gil consisting Of Gen. Macarthur.
1t. Gen. George H. Brett, United
States air chief, and Allied army.
navy and air chiefs; preparation
for mass war exercises to. form one
offensive force; rapid expansion Of
commando training; speedup and
expansion OF army and air cooper
ational training; ruthless elimina-
ton Of red tape, and a series Of
important staff changes in three
services. with a rigid policy of ability
as the basis for promotion.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
kozis Sent to Russia
From Norway, YugosIovio

MOSCOW, March "a CP,.-Ger-
mans piled reserves into Russian
front positions from areas as far
away as Yugoslavia and Norway to-
day for Adolf Hitlers coming effort
to regain the initiative.
The Soviet Information Bureau
told of scattered actions in which
Soviet troops killed $500 invaders
on the neighboring Leningrad and
Kalinin fronts and recaptured sew
eral communities elsewhere, but its
continued report that there had
been no material changes gave q
feeling Of calm before the storm.
From prisoners, Red Army men
said they had learned many of the
Nazi requirements were German
factory workers only recently called
into military service.
Prisoners Tell Their Stories.
Edward Brunsfeldt Of the 312th
Division said he had been sent from
France to Serbia last July, to Smo-
lensk March 2 and to Vyazma
March 4, and that he began fighting
March IA.
A captured survivor of a German
ski regiment reported defeated on
the central front, Karl Hauper told
the Russians he had been trained
in Norway
Among Germans captured on the
Staraya Russia front was Herman
Reidenbach, who said he was a
Bremen aviation factory worker un-
til he was transferred to the mill
tary service in January. He said
he was rushed to the 18th Army's
position March 5 during the forma-
ton of a new 290th Division to re-
place the original, assertedly wiped
out, that he fought nine days and
then surrendered.
Two settlements in the Southwest
ern combat zone were reported re-
captured in two days of fighting
which cost the Germans heavily, and
several inhabited localities were lib
Grated in another area.
Units operating on one of the
sectors Of the Kalinin front annihi-
AdCSu III A6AIeAlS dOOoV too CAiSLiy
officers and men," a communique
said. Seventeen enemy tanks were
put out of action"
The 18th German Army, fighting
against encirclement in the Staraya
Russa sector of the Kalinin front,
was officially alleged to be burning
both the bodies of its dead and its
imobilized wounded to conceal losses
before Withdrawals.
while retreating from the village
of * the Germans burned go Of
their wounded soldiers the COM
munique said.
ct was not explained how the
Russians would know that such
pyres were used for living men.
Soviet agencies have quoted pris-
oners at length as to losses suf-
fered BY the 18th Armyo
The Russians reported that 1900
GermanS had been killed and 80
blockhouses and machine-gun nests
destroyed in - hours Of fighting on
the Leningrad front, although bat
tie positions generally were essen
tiaIly unchanged.
Evening star., 1942-03-24

Foreign.
Cripps meets leaders Of three In
dian provinces. Page Az
New contingent Of Canadians ar
rives in Britain. Page As
British to send man here to preside
over production pool. Page AS
10 British ships air-sea battle toll,
Italy says. Page AS
Mission going home because o.. s.
can't send arms. Page A-10
Marcelo de Alvear, former President
of Argentina, dies. Page A-1o
Nazi dive bombers hit British coast
in moonlight raids. Page BIS
National.
Rejection of rubber plan by Roose-
welt is charged. Page Al
Macarthur rejected flight by sub
marine. Page Az
Willkie to run again If war effort
lags. Page Az
Religious leaders back bill on post
war aid. Page Az
lo.hour week Is unokescreen Of
labor's foes, Tobin says Page A-3
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Nazis Launch Drives
To Liberate Isolated
Points in Winter Line
Germans Are Reinforced
By HostiIy- roined
Reserves and levies
NJ the A.s1~;at.S pr>x.

By the AssOclateC Press.
LONDON, March 24.-Rein-
forced by hastily trained reserves
and fresh levies from the Balkan
states, the German Armies were
reported on the move today in
massive thrusts aimed at liber-
ating nearly isolated key points
in their winter line which have
borne the brunt of the Russian
offensive.
The Berlin radio stressed the Nazi
counterattacks on the central sec
tor-presumably to gain spring.
boards for fresh drive against Mos
cow-and reported that in 48 hours
fighting Soviet forces, encircled de-
spite tank support and heavy artil-
lery fire, lost 5000 killed and sew
eral hundred prisoners
Moscow reports described this ac-
tion as futile attempts to break
through our lines" But the Rus
sian news agency Tass acknowledged
that companies and battalions" Of
air-borne German reinforcements
still were being brought in to REIN
force the 18th German Army
trapped in Staraya Russa.
Tass reported, however, that de-
spite these efforts the Germans were
suffering heavy loses and that the
290th Infantry Division had been
all but wiped out.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
korgenthau Asked
End Of C.C.C., N.Y.A.,
Byrd Reveals
Recommended Abolition
To Economy Committee
In December, He Says
By ]. A. O'LEARY.

Secretary Of the Treasury Nor
genthau was the first to suggest
the abolition of the non-defense
activities of N. Y. A. and c. c. c.
to the Joint Congressional Econ
omy Committee, 1t was revealed
today by Chairman Byrd.
Appearing before the Senate Ed
ucation and Labor Committee in
support of the McKellar Bill to
accomplish that purpose, Senator
Byrd read motion he said Mr.
Morgenthau offered at an executive
session of the joint committee
December Is.
Senator Byrd testified that at
meeting of the Joint Economy
Committee November IA, the Treas
ury head gave figures separating
the amounts N. Y. A.. and c. c. c.
and the once of Education are
spending for defense training. All
three of these activities are in the
Federal Securities Agency.
The report filed by the Joint COM
mittee December "a, Senator Byrd
said, embodied, with slight changes,
Secretary Morgenthau's suggestion
that N. Y. A. and c. c. c. be
eliminated and that the defense
training functions Of these two
agencies and Of the once Of Ed
ucatim be carried forward under
one agency.
Not Signed by Smith.
Secretary Morgenthau and Budget
Director Smith were both made
members of the Joint Congressional
Committee. Senator Byrd said the
budget director very properly" re-
fused to sign the report because
he represents the President. The
Presidents budget had not yet been
(See ECONOMY, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-03-24
81 Jap Planes Raid Corregidor;
Fighting Is Resumed in Botoon;
Foe Bombs Port Moresby Again
n New Airdromes
Reported Built by
Nozis in Bulgaria
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, March 24.-Ger-
man engineers have supervised
the construction Of "a new air
dromes and so landing fields in
Bulgaria near the Turkish
frontier. Tass reported today in
a dispatch from Istanbul.
Further German and Bull
garian troops were said to have
been moved to the border, and
strategic highways were being
pointed toward Turkey.
Tass charged that Bulgarian
ruling circles cast avid eyes at
certain Turkish territory and
would willingly become tools Of
German military provocation In
the Near East"
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Matsuoka Reported Named
Jap Envoy 10 Holy See

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 24.-The Paris
radio broadcast a report today that
Yosuke Matsuoka, former Foreign
Minister, had been appointed Jap
anase Ambassador to the Holy See
while Cardinal Morelli would be
apostolic delegate to Japan. The
broadcast was recorded by Exchange
Telegraph.
The American-educate Mat
suoka, largely responsible for Japan's
alliance with Germany and Italy,
has been out OF office since last July.
No Cardinal Morelli is included in
lists Of the College of Cardinals.
Matsuoka received instruction in
the Christian Bible as youth
studying in California and Oregon
and in his English speeches quotes
freely from the Bible.
He had a long talk with Pope Plus
XII last April 2 when he visited
Rome in the course OF tour Of
Germany, italy and Russia.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Interior Department
Funds Cut 81 Pet.
By House Committee
TotoI Of S162,634,845
Urged: Cooperation
Of Agency Commended
By the Associaten Press

By the Associated Press.
The House Appropriations
Committee today recommended
a 81 per cent reduction in the
Interior Departments funds for
the year starting July l as COM
pared with this fiscal year.
It reported for House action a
$l62 ,634. .345 supply bill, representing
a reduction of SIS, ,466,435 from cur
rent year appropriations and cut
Of $l7,682 ,421 from budget estimates
The Budget Bureau originally
trimmed the departments estimates
approximately $4,000 900, and after
Pearl Harbor the department itself
suggested a slO000,0Oo reduction.
The committee then cut of another
$4,000 900
Most Of the committees reduction
was in funds for the Bureau of
Reclamation. which were cut $l3,-
702 200 below budget estimates. max
ing the total recommended $22, ,462,-
240 below current year appropria-
tions. 1t placed emphasis on its
action Of continuance of power
projects for national defense.
Other Substantial Cuts.
Other substantial reductions from
current appropriations and budget
estimates included:
Bonneville Power Administration,
construction and operation. $31 ISL
500 below current appropriations and
$1,043.00 below budget estimates.
Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1851 :
B57 below current appropriations and
$7l8,095 under budget estimates.
National Park Service, $9287 ,4l0
below current appropriations and
$140, 800 under budget estimates.
The committee pointed out that
its reductions from last years ap-
propriations represented "a drastic
cut" in funds Of practically every
bureau in the department.
Department Commended.
1t commended the department for
"its voluntary cooperation in ef-
fecting reductions after the declara-
tion Of war.
1T Is significant" said the COM
mittee in its written report, that
this is the first department of the
Federal Government that his volun-
tarily requested such a decrease.
The committee made a general
cut of 1876 per cent in budget esti-
mates for travel expenses, the cuts
ranging from per cent in defense
items to complete elimination in
several cases.
While the committees reductions
were the sharpest made In some time
in any regular supply bill. House
economy bloc members said the 140-
page bill contained many items that
could be trimmed further by House
action.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Summary Of Todoy's Star
situation Of Guthrie resignation

Investigation OF Guthrie resignation
may be dropped. Page Az
Congress amazed by stories of lucra-
tive war orders. Page Al
Selective service system already al
locating man power. Page Al
American technicians busy turning
Eritrea into arsenal. Page Al
Reduction of 31% in Interior funds
asked by House group. Page As
Army places strict curfew on enemy
aliens. Page AS
Price ceilings placed on refrigerators
and typewriters. Page b.
Washington and Vicinity.
House votes pay raise for firemen
and policemen. Page B-1
Blackout funds awaited by D. c.
institutions. Page B-1
Union representative urges speed on
housing bill. Page B-1
Miscellany
Births and Deaths. Page Bis
Natures Children. Page B-13
After Dark. Page BIS
Marriage Licenses. Page B.5
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Aussie Pilots Learning
Types of U. S. Aircraft

By the Associated Press.
CANBERRA, Australia, March
24-Australian pilots have been at
tached to American air squadrons
to familiarize themselves with the
faster types Of American aircraft.
Air Minister A. S. Drakeford said
today.
He said they would be transferred
back to Australian units after q
short period.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
2 Waves Of Flyers
bIost AustroIio's
New Guinea Bose
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE. Australia, March
24.-Japanese airmen made their
second big attack in two days on
Port Moresby, outer island out
post of Australia's northeastern
defenses, sending over two waves
of bombers protected by hghter
planes today.
The pompers nrst centered their
attack on the New Guinea port s
airdrome in a persistent effort to
rub out combined Australian and
American air forces which have
made Japanese positions in this area
so costly to maintain.
Then they attacked targets near
the town while Navy Zero fighters
sought to drive of defending planes.
No Casualties In Raid.
Prime Minister John Curtin. who
announced this, the only military
action On the whole Australian
front today, said no damage or cas-
ualties so far had been reported from
the raid and added that one of the
raiders was damaged by anti-air-
craft shells and probably was un-
able to get back to its base.
Following yesterdays strong at
tack in which 10 heavy bombers
dropped 81 bombs about the Port
Moresby airdrome, 1t appeared the
Japanese were concentrating their
remaining air strength in the north
eastern island area to knocking out
this objective.
German broadcasts Of Jap
anese reports declared Port
MOresby harbOr had been made
useless for embarkation purposes
by yesterdays bombing. Three
transports leaving the harbor
were declared to have been sunk,
two capsizing Immediately and
the third turning over soon
afterwardJ
Port Moresby, on the south coast
of New Guinea, is about 800 miles
across dangerous Torres Strait from
the bleak Cape York peninsula of
the Australian mainland.
Reef Extends LOO Miles.
1t is a sort of northern anchor
OF the Great Barrier Reef defenses
of Northeastern Australia. These
coral reefs, which skirt the Aus
tralian coast at q distance varying
from few miles to about l25 miles,
reach for more than 1900 miles
from north Of Sydney almost to the
Fly River mouth in New Guinea.
The narrow, dangerous passages
through the reefs have been re-
ported mined, and as long as the
Australasians and Americans hold
Port Moresby with strong air
forces passage around the northern
end for an attack on the northern
Australian coast from the east by
sea is barred.
The japanese, from their landing
places at Lac. Salamau and Finsch-
haven on the northeastern New
Guinea coast. have been reported
moving inland up the Markham
River, possibly for an attempted
land attack on Port Moresby from
the north, but there still was no
further word of this expedition to-
day.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Podgett in Army Soon

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, March
"a (P.-Don Padgett, outflelder
purchased by the Brooklyn Dodgers
from the st. Louis Cardinals last
December, has been called by his
draft board and will be indicted
by the Army April /, 1t was an
no,lnced today. Padgett left today
for his home In Bostic, N. G.
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Score Of Italian Aliens
Rounded Up on Coast
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
YREKA, Calf, March 24.-Flying
squadrons of F. B. I. agents and
local officers rounded up a score
Of Italian aliens and seized guam
titles Of contraband in Weed, Calf :,
yesterday.
Enemy aliens picked up included
several veterans OF the Italian Army
Evening star., 1942-03-24
Readers Prefer The Star

The Stars afternoon and evening
circulation Is more than double that
Of any other Washington newspaper.
It's total circulation In Washington
far exceeds that Of any Of its contem-
poraries In the morning or on Sunday.
(R A..>>Ek>I Rs...
Evening star., 1942-03-24

(see ECONOMY, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-03-24

(see LABOR, Page A-60
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-03
Peace Committee
Given New Name

The Tacoma Emergency Peace
committee viii hereafter be known
as the Committee for World Peace
and will support the method OF
negotiation as the only means OF
winning an early. just and sndur-
ing peace. according 10 Robert J.
Pearsall Of the executive board.
The membership In unanimous
In the belief that widespread social.
economic and political reconstruc-
ton will be necessary TO maintain
a just world order. and study will
be directed along that line" said
Pearsall Other detectives include
defense OF civil liberties and the
United states constitution. and OPP
position 10 all trends toward to-
tAlitarianism. intolerance toward
racial and minority groups. and un-
reasoning hatreds.
Stanley 7. Shaw IL the newly
elected chairman. Lila Foltz viii
serve as secretary. and Rex \.
Roudsbush as treasurer. Mrs.
Alice Mexican. Mrs. Harry Nelson.
l.. y. hastrude and n. J. Pesrssil
head various committees. A peace
library viii BE- built. study groups
will b. organized and public meet
ings held In the Y.W.cA. club
room the first and third Friday
evenings Of each month. beginning
Feb. 20.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-03

Of the road I saw one group
wearing red fczzcs. prc~uma-
bly, Egyptians or Arabs.
In various villages small parties
joined up under direction Of local
leaders. Many carried palm and
pineapple fronds to shelter them
selves from the scorching sun.
Two little boys pulled a home
made trolley on which they had
placed a big bag of rice which they
guarded as II IT meant life or
death to them and perhaps II
will.
Many women carried tiny babies
on their backs and some carried
the much priced Westminster
Ginning clocks that are popular in
native villages.
SET u. p. CAMERAS
Travelling in an automobile with
news reel men. I arrived - the
Johore Bahru causeway at q time
when the light was excellent for
Photography. The film men stop
ped and set up their cameras.
A flight Of "a enemy planes
appeared overhead. speeding
straight for the causeway.
Three Of us dived for a fox hole
that had been dug for one man.
We covered the hole with a sheet
of quarter-inch steel which have
more comfort than protection.
Just then the japanese dropped
their bomb loads and the whole
earth seemed to shake.
Two fellow shelterers muttered
words starting the
little yellow"