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CAROLE LOMBARD IS BELIEVED DEAD

Air Corps Men Also reared HOOSIERS PRAY | CAROLE IS SAFE

Killed in Crash of Air Liner. {Continued from Page One) oust roar. Flames from the burning Schricker Sums Up Feel: wreckage could be seen for miles. | O. E. Savior, purcasing agent at ings: ‘Martyr to This War the Blue Diamond Lead Mine, said he heard the plane overhead a few If She Is Dead. minutes after it left Las Vegas. (Continued from Page One) saw the plane afire against the mountain,” he said room in the Claypool. Miss LomD. Houston, an employee at the bard would not permit them to

“Then we heard an explosion and

mine. said he failed to hear the crash jeave until she shook hands with

but joi t lookers five] ied other OnioGlid leach and introduced them to her

minutes later and still could see the glow against the mountain, mother, Clark County peace officers re-| When the time came for her to cruited Tweed Wilson. steptuagen- togra > arian Indian. to aid in the search. | '* pho Fite With World War Army officers ordered trucks and veterans and others, the muche“jeeps” into the area. photographed Miss Lombard gave Tractors Used them friendly tips on how to be A domen horsemen and a POWer-|..o4 models.

ful tractor were pressed into service. | - The snow-covered mountain is an), A Foman spectator at the State 8000-foot elevation at the lower end | House asked Miss Lombard for her of the Charleston Range, which |autograph. Miss Lombard stopped separates Nevada from Death Valley Ite explain that she had agreed to It rises almost 5000 feet from the | Sign only defense bond recefbts valley on either side |while she was here. But if the

Willard George, Los Angeles fur- Spectator would send her autorier who owns the ranch where Efabh book to “the studios,” Carole Tweed Wilton works, said he saw | would be glad to give it her per. the plane passing in the twilight | sonal attention “as soon as she reand that its tail appeared to be | turned. bobbing up and down in a peculiar Kept Manager Busy manner.

Carole and

This picture, probably the last taken of Carole Lombard and her mother, Mrs. | Elirabeth Peters, was taken in their suite at the Claypool Hotel | a few minutes | | before they | attended the | Indiana War Rally at Cadle Tabernacle Thursday night. Mrs. Peters, a striking brunette, is a native

of Logansport.

Her Mother | GAROLE NATIVE OF FT. WAYNE

Born Carol Jane Peters on Oct. 6, 1908; Preferred Name Lombard.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 17 (U, P)— The world knew her as Carole Lombard. Her friends called her “pete.” Her husband called her “queen.” But she was born Carol Jane Peters, in Ft. Wayne, Ind, on Oct. 6, 1908. She dropped the “Peters,” added Rian “e” to Carol and substituted \ | “Lombard” because she thought it sounded more like a movie actress. Legend says Miss Lombard took the advice of a numerologist when she added that final “e,” but she always uttered raucous laughs when accused of consorting with soothsayers. At any rate, her greatest successes came after that one little ‘| letter was added to her name.

Shet the Injuns

As one of Mack Sennett’s bathing beauties, she made the male movie . |fans look goggle-eyed. As a ripsnorting queén of the horse opera, she took many a pot shot at the injuns and found herself rescued from fates worse than death more times than she liked to remember. In the 20's, when safety glass was only an idea in the head of an engineer, she figured in an automobile wreck which sent slivers of glass into her face and almost disfigured her permanently. Plastic surgery finally removed the scar. In 1931, when the movie makers {looked upon her as a dramatic ac-

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“It seemed to be out of control for a time” he said. “as though someone was fighting in the cockpit Maj. H.W. Anderson. executive officer of the Air Corps Gunnery School at McCarran Field. was in

charge of the searching party

| tress, she married Bill Powell, She

ond her business manager, Otto F | 4 T ki T | | f S b still was his wif later wh : S € a year ia w nkler, carried her pocketbook ae aki ng Oo oO u S: |she first met Clark Gable, on vo

| while she was busy signing receipts and shaking hands with dignitaries. { So when Miss Lombard wanted her | handkerchief she would give Mr Winkler a “yoo hoo” wave and he would flip open a gadget on the side of the purse which contained |possibility of a mid-ocean trap in

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{cast as one of her leading men, Wed Gable in 1939 She divorced Powell on the conventional charges of mental cruelty

and on March 29, 1939, she mardrop depth charges and the roar of ried Gable, who already had a

e-Witness Says

The Victims

LAS VEGAS, Nev. Jan 17 (U. P)—The 22 persons aboard the air liner which crashed last night were:

PASSENGERS

AFFRINE, M. BR, corporal Air Corps. BARHAM, JAMES C. sec ond lieutenant. Air Corps ‘ BELEJCKAK, A. MM, sergeant, Air Corps. BROWN, HAL JR, second lieutenant, Air Corps. COOK, FREDERICK P sergeant, Air Corps. CROUCH. ROBERT E_ first lieutenant, Air Corps. DITTMAN. FRED ERICK, Air Corps, rank undetermined. DONAHUE, KT. second lieutenant, Air Corps. GABLE, MRS CLARK (Carole Lombard) Hollywood. HAMILTON, LOIS. Detroit, Mich. NYGREN, ROBERT F. first lieutenant, Air Corps NYGREN. EDGAR A. sergeant, Air Corps (brother of Lieut. Negren). NELSON, CHARLES D., second lieutenant, Air Corps PETERS, MRS. ELIZABETH. Mrs. Gable's mother, Hollywood SWENSON, STUART L, second lieutenant, Air Corps. TELLKANK. MARTIN W, private, Air Corbs. TINCHMAN, DAVID. sergeant, Air Corps. VARSAMINE, private, Air Corps WINKLER, OTTO, press agent, Hollywood. CREW JILLIANIS, W. C., pilot. ILLETTE, MORGAN A, co-pilot. GETZ. ALICE F hostess

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The U. S. Army today informed local TWA representatives that any information regarding the plane carrying Carole Lombard | would have to come from the War | Department. Not released was information on the exact time of departure here and the names of other passengers. It was learned, however, that twe besides the Lombard party boarded the plane here, but got off at St. Louis,

She arrived at .Cadle Tabernacle | with her mother, Movie “Crar” Will Haves, Governor and Mrs. Schricker and Bugene Pulliam, executive chairman of the Indiana Defense Bond Savings compaign.

Charmed Cadle Audience

Miss Lombard charmed her audi- { ence at the Tabernacle. When Chairman Pulliam said | Mr. Haye the movie “Czar” was | not the “big bad wolf* he was sup- | posed to be, Miss Lombard turned {to Mr. Hays and nodded her head and laughed, as if to say: | “That's what Mr. Pulliam thinks.” No one in packed Cadle Tabernacle applauded more loudly when the Culver Cadets strutted their stuff at the beginning of the rally. And Miss Lombard sat in rapt attention while a Negro monologist entertained the vast throng. Her eves revealed that one artist was admiring another.

Enjoyed Schricker's Quip

| Miss Lombard really was tickled when Governor Schricker told of the “dirty politics” which had involved the selection of the person to introduce Miss Lombard at the rallv—and how “to settle it all” the Governor issued an executive order to naming the Governor as “official

{ introducer.” | When Miss Lombard rose to speak {she said: “This has been a wonderful day— Led the Singing

| “I was invited to bring my Hoosier relatives to this rally. But if I had brought all of them, there wouldn't

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U. P.). have been any room for you folks.”

—Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces)

today fought stubbornly against a fierce Japanese attack by infantry,

And then she led the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. In one ior two places she stumbled over the i words. The crowd stumbled with her.

artillery and aircraft directed by) “What & i rt " \h : ! i swell sport,” sa e superior enemy forces against the dy in the second row. center. right wing of their northern Bataan, The crowd belonged to Miss Lomprovince lines. bard. The American and Filipino troops, the War Department communique) admitted, are greatly outnumbered | by the Japanese assault troops. 4 heavy Japanese attack | indianapolis—a penny coin machine against the right flank of the called “Bomb Hitler."

American and Philippine troops in the Bataan peninsula is now in Clark Gable had read the local

progress” the War Department re- | Coin Machine Co. of America's ad ported. ported by aircraft and artillery. told Carole to bring him one of the “The assailants greatly outnum- machines from Indianapolis for ber the defending troops. However, | their game room. Shortly after she our soldiers are stubbornly contest-|arrived, Miss Lombard called the ing the attempted advance.” company and they sent her one. The Japanese are supporting She was to take it back to Hollytheir frontal operations by sending weod with her. small infiltration groups into the a hills and jungles in efforts to get behind the American lines and also ELECTRIC LEAGUE

have claimed their forces have] made new landings on the Bataan] shore in Gen. MacArthur's rear.

S TA M Pp C L U RB SETS Adequate electrical appliance

servicing and research during the

DATE FOR EXHIBIT war were discussed by the Electric

The annual stamp exhibit of the League of Indianapolis, Inc, meetIndiana Stamp Club will be next ing at the Antlers Hotel last night. Saturday and Sunday in the Hotel! New divisional directors, who will Antlers ballroom. | elect league officers next week, were The exhibit, which will display 200 choser at the meeting, presided large frames of stamps and covers over by Dan C. Hess, president. from all nations, will be open to the) The directors are C. E. Chatfield, public. A banquet and stamp sale|director of the manufacturers’ diwill be on the program. On the ex-|vision: Paul D. Loser, appliance hibit committee are Mrs. Albert | distributors; A. J. Callaway. supply Eiteljorg, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Co- joboers; H. W. Claffey, contractors; burn, Mrs. Floyd Shockley, Mrs. W.| Ivan C. Frakes, motor repair; C. H. H. Wheeler, Mrs. Horace Currier Domhoff, large dealers; George W. and Mrs Lillian Meeker | Ferling, maintenance engineers; Stamp Club officers are Sheldon H. Wilson, oil heating, and A. C Book, president; Dr. A. W. Fray, Crandall, utilities.

. = ® With Carole Lombard on the ill-

“This attack is well sup-/in a theatrical magezine and had]

which the Japanese might, learning of the presence of an individual force of ships, concentrate a fleet in strength. > It is necessarily a secret business. American policy is based on the idea that it is best to keep the enemy guessing and waiting, for instance, for overdue submarines to return. That is one reason why it can not be said how many Japanese submarines have been sent to the bottom.

On Guard Against Surprise

The Japanese will not be aided, however. by the news that the destrover force, working closely with patrol planes of the fleet, has accounted for its share of Japanese

tremendous underwater explosions comes back. The destroyers are equipped with listening devices which detect the presence of submarines, If they hear one, an‘ emergency signal is given. Immediately the area is peppered with depth charges while heavier ships in the force break formation to maneuver against the enemy. If need be.

All Remember Pearl Harbor

Again, it may be one of the scouting planes which spots a submarine. Again: Depth charges, though lighter ones than the destroyers carry. ‘The destroyers, called by wireless, rush in to drop their own. The men carry with them a re-

submarines since the sneak attack] on Hawaii Dec. T. | Vigilance Jn the fleet could hardly be intensified, but it was made known today that Allied forces throughout the world, including the mid-Pacific area, were taking extra precautions against a possible surprise Axis move, timed to coincide with the current Pan-American conference at Rio De Janeiro. In connection with these precauHons, foreign broadcasts heard here reported Japanese concentrations in the Marshall Islands, 2400 miles south of Hawaii. Belief was, that if the Axis made any move at the moment, it would be intended to lower American prestige in the Rio De Janeiro meeting, and that simultaneous Japanese and German thrusts might be made.

Poised for Midway Blow

membrance of Pearl Harbor—and grimly, relentlessly they are demanding payment in blood.

attacked us the way they did,” an officer told me. Said another officer: “Once the United States Navy gets a taste of fighting in its mouth it will be the best in the world.” Dawn shows over the Pacific. Silently on the waters dark warships drive on their course; destroyers.— the scouts—skirt swiftly along at the side, and planes wing out still farther in search of the enemy. Men Sieep in Relays Messages fly back and forth; every unit of the task force is funetioning as cone tremendous, deadly unit. The sun climbs higher. Planes come back; planes go out. There is a flurry of action on the fringes of the task force—the rumble of

From the Marshall Islands the Japanese could strike at Midway. Johnston or Palmyra Islands or at Samoa, south of Palmyra and nearly 3000 miles south of Hawail. They might strike at Free Frencih Tahiti in the Society Islands 1430 miles east of Samoa, which is in the Panama Canal route to the Far Pacific. Johnston and Palmyra have naval and air stations. Midway is the key to the defense of Hawaii. Japan has strong bases in the {Marshalls and in the Carolines to the west. It is believed that planes based on the Marshalls attacked wake Island. The Japanese have established themselves in the Brii-jsh-mandated Gilbert Islands, 500 miles south of the Marshalls, and are believed to have seized bases in

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depth charges: ships wheel into position. Then—with another enemy blasted to pieces—the scouting goes on. . The men sleep in relays, watch in relays. They check and re-check. They practice with the guns, drill until they are team-perfect in a Navy which puts its emphasis on gunnery. Not only first string gun crews. but second-string crews— and third, In event of casualties those guns will be fired as long as there are men to fire them. FIVE DIE IN TRAIN WRECK LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan. 17 (U. P) ~Five persons were killed, in-

“The Japs will rue the day they |

house built: to her specifications. She furnished if with easy chairs and ankle deep rugs and a bathroom lined with mirrors. In this country house she spent most of her spare time, while Mr. G. tinkered in the barn with his temperamental tractor. Between pictures they took hunting trips, wasted entirely too much energy denying they were about to be divorced, and managed to live the most normal lives possible in abnormal Hollywood. Nobody here ever had known a girl with such energy as hers, nor talked with a woman who spoke so frankly on any subject, profane or otherwise.

JAPS 60 “ALL OUT

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port of Fernando Po and “stole” three Axis vessels, one of them an Italian ship, in.a quick attack while the enemy officers were ashore.

RUSSIA—Dispatches to London i said that fighting was in progress | in the suburbs of the great Ukraine | industrial city of Kharkov, which the Red Army was believed to be | encircling. The city of Orel also { was said to be about to fall to the | Russians who were driving back {the enemy in the entire central { area, including the Mozhaisk sec-

BATAVIA —Japanese planes | again bombed the Ambona naval | and air base and struck at an air- | drome in Celebes, but the Allied High Command now organized un- | der Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell and { Admiral Thomas C. Hart was described as ready for a finish fight against any new invasion thrusts in the East Indies. CAIRO-—British captured Halfaya Pass in eastern Libya seizing 5500 prisoners and releasing many forces for their attack on Gen. Rommel's army 350 miles to the west.

CLAIM MISSIONARIES SLAIN CHUNGKING, Jan. 17 (U. P.)x— An official Chinese communique | reported today that the Japanese | had murdered American Presby-

IN PHILIPPINE DRIVE

cluding four soldiers, and 21 in-|terian missionaries, including the jured, 16 of whom were soldiers, Rev, and Mrs. D. H. Thomas and

when a switch engine collided head-

of the Gilberts. - Silent always, and by ghostly, the United State fleet with its thousands of American men, pursues its steady rig-zagging course, maintaining a constant watch on| the approaches far outside Hawaii

| fated air liner was a souvenir of hd to the Pacific Coast of the

| homeland. Like Firemen Awaiting Alarm

To put it in the words of one officer of the action-hungry American

“We're like a bunch of firemen sitting around playing checkers while waiting for the alarm to go loft.” What they're itching for, waiting for, is the signal for a head-on, hammer-and-tongs set-to with the Japanese fleet. And they have some sleek powerful ships to ride with when the alarm nds. They are stripped (and primed for action. a

As they scout the Pacific, their |decks and interiors are cleared of |all unnecessary equipment, planes |are poised on their catapults, and ‘guns stand ready for firing.

Action Quick if Sub Is Seen

Occasionally a sharp-eyed lookout shouts out: Usually use he has sighted a plane—mostly Sometimes because of a hostile submarine, If it is a hostile sub, the action is swift. Secondary batteries cut

on with a Missouri Pacific pas-

| Miss M. Burkwall on Hainan Island, off the southern coast of

the Ellice Islands, 250 miles south | | senger train at Perla, Ark. night,| ——_ im

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