The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1942, Page 1

' Nippons Are Repulsed On Batan Pen pA THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 3 s “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8995. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1942 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS APANESE WITHDRAW IN NEW GUINEA HEAVY LOSSES, ARE SUFFERED BY JAPANESE | | large Force_l—hrown Back | by American-Filipino | Defenders - | ATTACKS REPORTED T0 | HAVE DWINDLED TODAY Skirmishes Take Place af| Three Widely Scat- | tered Points WASHINGTON, March 30—The War Department reports that Jap- anese attacks on Batan Peninsula | have dwindled after being repulsed with heavy losses. Hostile air raids ) however, were continued by day | and night on the American fortified | island of Corregidor, the com- munique reported, adding that one Jap plane flying at 27,000 feet wns} downed by anti-aircraft shells. | On the southern island of Min- danao, local skirmishes were report- | ed between patrols at three widely scattered points, indicating con- tinued Allied jabs at the enemy in that sector. | The Japs were reported to have | thrown a heavy force at the de-| fenders of Batan, but the Ameri-/ can-Pilipino troops took heavy toll| of the invaders, forcing them to’ withdraw. Fighting in this battle contirued throughout Saturday and Saturday night, but died down av.‘ daybreak yesterday. g | WASHINGTON—After three months of temporizing with native Fascist champions, Attorney Gen- eral Francis Biddle is finally going to get tough—on direct personal orders of the President. Roosevelt directed Biddle to take vigorous legal action against cer- tain factional leaders who have been publicly denouncing the war ag- ainst the Axis and in some instances actually expressing pleasure over Jap victories. Complaints have poured into Washington from parents of boys in the armed forces demanding that these domestic foes be jailed. But Biddle demurred on the ground of “preserving civil liberties.” Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FBI agents arrested Robert Noble, rabid Los Angeles Fascist leader, on ser- ious charges involving statements| concerning the war. Despite the FBI's evidence, Biddle ordered Noble released. This brought down a storm of protests on Biddle’s head that steadily increased as the hostile op-! erations of these elements became bold®r and more outspoken. Still Biddle refused to allow either the FBI or federal district attorneys,| who were champing at the bit, to crack down. Finally White House advisers, alarmed over the situation took | the matter direct to the President. They laid before him a mass of evidence dealing with Noble. Father Coughlin, Francis P. Moran of] Boston, Gerald L. K. Smith of, Michigan and Charles B. Hudson! of Omaha. One document shown Roosevelt was the March issue of Coughlin’s| weekly publication which declared .that a “world-wide sacred war’, was declared against Germany nine years ago. The publication also at- tacked aid to Russia, dgnounced the British bombing of French plants making Nazi supplies, and con- tained such statements as: Unless the German forces can (Conttnued op Page Four) | Battle on Ledge Brandishing a mirror, Mrs. Edna policemen who attempted to keep her from jumping onto an iron picket fence in front of her apartment, and forced her into the net below. because her son had jeined the army a year previously and married and had not written to her. 1S NEW BATTLE GROUND NOW Japanese, fifiied in Aus- ' fralian Drive, Concen- ‘ trate Elsewhere - BIG DRIVE IS MADE " FOR GATEWAY T0 INDIA ‘Chinese Veterans Recap- .| ture Villages Near i Toungee Sector (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Jaan, seemingly stymied in her drive towards Australia by floods BURMA ROAD ground and according to late after- |noon disatches, the going there is becoming harder and great ferocity {is manifested The big drive is a determined ong | for possession of the gateway to India and cn the opposite side is spparently an all-out offensive by the Indians themseives in view of } the cffer of Great Britain for post war freedom iu return for fuill Egbert fought off New York City Officers finally grabbed her They said she was grief-stricken Hitler Starled Fight 31 Months Ago; Today BULGARIA . LINED UP “FOR AXIS Premier Declares Destruc- tion of Bolshevism Is Necessary BERN, March 30.—Bulgarian Pre- mier Bogdan Philov has declared in a speech that Bulgaria is ready to fulfill her task with the Axis. He said destruction of Bolshevism is necessary for the establishment of a new orcer in Europe. The Havas news agency sends this report to Bern from Sofia Several days ago it was announced that 200,000 Bulgarians have been massed and are ready to move on Russia and are now on the way to the border in support of the Axis. E. J. COWLING AND MRS. COWLING LEAVE ON WAY TO WATERFALL E. J. Cowling, well known Juneau contractor, and Mrs. Cowling left Juneau Saturday on their way to Wrangell from where they will take a small boat to Waterfall. Mr. Cowling has a contract to construct a number of new build- ings for the Nakat Packing Com- pany at that place and they expect to be away about six months. WAITING ROOM SPACE DOUBLED BY AIRLINE Waiting room space for the Al- aska Coastal Airlines, at the foot of Main Street, is being doubled by building operations that are now underway by the owners. The new enlarged waiting room will provide ample space for passen- gers and baggage while waiting for or amvin.g on planes, war assistance now. Chinese veterans on the eastern ,'Toungoo wing of the Burma line | | are reported to have recaptured |several small villages from the Jap- anese. Counter thrusts are being | made by the invaders and fight- ing is reported at close quartes The Chinese have seized mortars heavy guns, horses and other war materials. . Casualties are reported | heavy on both sides. | - i | Thirty-one months ago today, Hit- I N D |ANS AR ‘ | ler sent his Nazi legions through the | | | Polish frontier and started a war. | GATHERED |N | Are Conlinuing (By Associated Press) | Today that war has spread from | | Western Europe to the Mediterran- | |ean Basin, and to the fight of | tangled sea and air power in an all- | out effort by Hitler to break the | deadlock on the 2,000-mile Russian front and on the blizzard-swept Arctic seaway to Murmansk. | Today, the Germans acknowledged in New Guinea and mounting lcsses of warships and planes, is making Burma the main battle- | ,:7“ U. S. Grenade Tosging Ch;ll‘;lp { © inspection of a U. S. camp in the Commonwealth of Australia. San Francisco. that one of Hitler's precious de- | stroyers had been sent down in a battle with a convoy on its way to Russia, but the Nazi communique claimed the sinking of a 10,000-ton ! | transport loaded with tanks and| = = @ ¢ ——o munitions. | NEW DELHI, India, March 30— And on another front, fighting col- 'Indian leaders are debating tonight | umns of British Imperials in Libya | in secret on the British propcsals | struck at German and Italian posi- |to grant India a Dominion status tions behind the Tmimi El Mechili | after the war even as Sir Stafford line. In Saturday night skirmishes|cripns appealed to the millions | in Libya, it was reported that highly po 1agio to accept’ the proposal mobile field guns were tutned on| ains Offer of Dominion | Status After War | | | the Axis positions. plank | SR 4 “Our proposals are definite and | Rome reporf that lar, + bat- . e reported that large alr bat-| oo 1¢ they are rejected, noti tles are raging in Libya, tha - o 6 Ly, thae Ge will be done until after the was the radio statement to he man fighter planes had destroyed & four British aircraft. Wa%, £ In the Mediterranean battle, new |the Indians Allied posts at Tobruk and Malta. | Executive Committee of the All- ———— | India National Congress, chief po- | litical party of the Hindu Popula- INDIA woulD |liberated on the proposals at such length that it appeared unlikely z | the decision will be reached until |later in the week. In the meantime Sir Stafford lCnpps continued to interview the i ((ouchables‘ the lowest Hindu castc W — e Dominion—Could | NEW YORK, March 30—Closis quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | Se(ede stock today is 1%, American Cat | |60, Anaconda 257, Bethlehem Stee’ | NEW DELHI, India, March 30.— 597, Commonwealth and South- Sir Stafford Cripps has announced 'ern 1, Curtiss Wright 7'%, Inter of freedom for invasion-threatened 3si. New York Central 7%, Nor- “r‘t‘“" has been proposed for creation ¢nery pacific 5%, United States ATN BB Wit |Steel 50, Pound $4.03%. ion, he said, which would be a dom- : v inion within the British empire, but | The fellowing - are todsy's Do which would have the power Lo Jones averages .mduslrmls 100.04, rails 25.08, utilities 11.54, hombing raids were reported on the | At tonight's secret session, llion. and the Moslem League, de {individual leaders, including Pre- T T mier of Bengal, Dr. Ramji Ambed- | kar, leader of India’s 50,000,000 un- that the British War Cabinet's plan national Harvester 42%, Kennecoti It would form a new Indian Un-| DOW, JONES AVERAGES secede, Are Delibefilg on Brit- i he viaduct there, and two old cruis- Marine Sergt. Everett R. Aikman, of West Chester, Pa., is all set to toss a 21-ounce fragmentation grenade as he shows how he hurled one of the hand bombs 227 fcet, 9 inches, to exceed the official record by more than five yards. Aikman throws with a stiff wrist, shifting his weight to his right foot to get more force into the toss. Raidon $t. Kazaire (alled Big Success; Britishers in Atfack Haled as Heroes to “wreck docks, and kill anyone within 100 yards.” Tt was rammed into the main gate dock of the Nazi base in Occupied Fran - SIX LEAVE FOR SITKA ON ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES Those leaving on tne Alaska Coastal Airlines this afternoon are Vincent Yakapatz, James D. Brown |Mrs. Albert Brookman, Irene rookman, Mrs. D. Smith and homas F. Townsend. The plane is carrying mail both o AT atin eement were sunk | ' A0 from Gilks, 854 4 making he round trip this afternoon. (:‘FO(& the canal channel. i) ji . & nformed quarters acknowledges N ™ % ad wobably a large percentage of cas- SOME JINX, HEY? ialties an risoners, but pro- | gt ol m‘i g';m & aat ! coees.| 1OS ANGELES—In 38 basketball rhe former American destroyer, 8ames playéd . between SOuth“yll sampbelitown, was fitted out as a California and UCLA sipce 1932, ime bomb with five tons of high|Southern Cal has triuthphed 36 -xplosives, a charge heavy enough | times, - £2% ese to an internment center in | LONDON, March 30, British ommandos, sailors and airmen who aided the Nazi St Nazaire rrioay nignt returned home to a heroes’ welcome, amid acclaim hat their dock shattering attack vas the most brilliant and daring 3ritisi amphibious cperation since he famous World War raid on Zee- | yrugge Mole, Belgium. The attack appeared to attempt | o duplicate the World War coup vhich ciosed the U-boat base at Zeebrugge on April 23, 1918, when 3ritish naval units under Admiral 3ir Roger Keyes blew up a sub iarine filled with explosives unde: sub base at . Australian Minister for Army, F. M. Ford (left), chats with two U. S. Army privates from Texas during an This official Australian picture was the first commercial transmission to be sent on the newly opened radio picture circuit from Melbourne to ustralia NG ¢ Ve JAPS WEEP "ATFORCED EVACUATION One Woman_Eollppses in| Group Taken from Puget Sound Island WINSLOW, Washington, March| 30—An elderly Japanese woman col- | lapsed as the army loaded more | than 200 Bainbridge Island evacuees | abcard an especially chartered fer-| ry boat today, and the sight touched off a sudden loud burst of weeping among the crowd which until then had kept emotions pent | up 1 Members of an army first aid squad said that the woman suf- fered a stroke. She was cared for in an ambulance aboard the craft | which was enroute to Seattle where a train waited to carry the Japan- | Manzanar, California | Another aged Japanese woman was too ill to walk and was c ried aboard the boat, the Eagle-| dale. Large groups of white boys| |and girls skipped their classes ot the island high school to bid fare- | well to their ex-schoolmates |the ferry landing ->e - at! JAPS LOSE VOLUNTARY - EVACUATION | SAN FRANCISCO, March The last cflance is gone for vol-| untary evacuation among more| than 100000 West Coast Japanese “frozen” in their home communi- thes. 30 | insula FLOODS PUT NIPPONS IN GREAT ROUT Other Footfiaas Threaten- ed by U. S.-Austral- ian Air Teams RAIDS ARE RESUMED ON DARWIN, PORT MORESBY Many Enen{fifimbers and Planes Reported Lost in Recent Battles (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) On the invasion arc in North Australia, the Japanese have made a 27-mile withdrawal in New Guinea from Markham Valley bases, just ahead of floods rolling down the mountain side, while other Jap footholds and their sea communi- cations are threatened by the grow= ing strength of the American-Aus- tralian air team. Japanese airmen struck at Dar- win on the Northern Australian mainland again, and three navy fighting planes of the invaders in- sffectually raided Port Moresby. For Darwin, it was the eighth raid of the war, and for Port Moresby; = the twenty-second. Australian _Air Minister Drake Forde reported that one-tenth of Japan’s cruiser strength was crip-~ pled in the battle of approaches in recent weeks as the Japs jockeyed for positions to launch an attack on Australia. . He said that the Japs have lost 48 bombers and fighters and that 15 more of the Jap planes have been damaged. BLOWS ARE STRUCK BY R.A.FORCES Springtime_OTfe nsive of British Begins on Ger- man Sections LONDON, March 30.—Blows in Great Britain's springtime aerial of- ensive fell last night on German shipping off the Norwegian coast. This British action is announced this morning but without detail. Last Saturday night, the official tatement says raids were made on Germany's big Baltic port of Lub- eck and Royal Air Force bombers also struck down two intercepting planes. All RAF planes returned safely. Kh;rms Surrounded By R_e! Army LONDON, Mar. 30—According to a dispatch from Vichy, a radio broadcasting report heard there - iid that Kharkov, the great steel ity of the Donets River Valley, has been encircled by the Red Army and practically all retreat has been ut off for the defending German A drastic new Army order re- forces. quires them to remain where they| are until the Army meves . them| further inland. The freezing edict, under which violators are subject to severe pe: covers all Japanese in Military the Coastal area, approximately 150 SIS T A JUNEAU COUPLE WED Carl Larson, and Eva Kuki, both - of Juneau, were married in Doug- living las this afternoon by U. S. Com- Area Number One on|missioner Felix Gray, Witnesses were Nick Lokovich miles deep into Washington, Orve- and Mrs. Leon Constantine. gon, California and the southern part of Arizona, 3 .- - BUY WEFENSE STAMPS