Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1942 — Page 5

“AD JAVA DEFENSE

Jap Offensive Rolling Forward in Battle for: Burma Road.

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“amazed” | learn they ‘would | be “permitted to telephone home, “As soon as they got over helt surprise, overseas telephoning became the [great rage among | these men.” {>

‘British soldiers are fighting with the Dutch and the natives in gouthern Sumatra, it was | learned (when wounded from that sector were taken to Batavia. This was th first, intim tion that the British were in the fight against the Jap- ‘ anese and indicated that some of th pore garrison may have to Sumatra. tish |counter-attacks officially rted at Rangoon be |Japan’s all out offensive the Burma road supply line a in a climactic battle still raging on the Bilin river front.

| Chinese Rout Enemy

Fighting continued furiously in the battle after 36 hours of reaseless attack and counter-attack, it WAS repo! , with the Japaneése attempting to mass large forces. at ~bridgeheags they establish by crossing the Bilin. * Enemy losses were repo unusually high as the Japanese poured reinforcements into the front, including troops moved northward from Malaya. Chinese troops, Chungki reported, went inte action on the northern ‘Burma sector by defeating ! [

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Thailand detachments aiding the Japanese. The i forces were reported to be ating toward Chieng-mai, 80 miles inside Thailand, An official Chungking announcement described Generalissimo Chiank Kai-shek’s conversations with Indian leaders as “very satisfactory” and said an agreement had been reached whereby Indian routes would if necessary supplement the threatened Burma road as China's lifeline, Chinese military authorities said the problem of shipping goods from Indian ports directly to China had been solved satisfactorily as a result of Chiang’s visit to India. “Concrete steps have been agreed to whereby a much larger quantity of goods will be transported to China through India than over the Burma road,” they said.

Mine ‘Rangoon Harbor

The Chungking announcement said military authorities in Burma had decided to mine the sea ap-

the Japanese ' force was increasing -its pressure steadily. ' |Another Dutch airdrome, this time|in west Java, was attacked today. (In south Sumatra sm Dutch forces carried on a desperate fight to base the Japanese access to Sunda Straits Between Sumatra and Java, The Dutch Sve that in addition to five bombers shot down out of 24 in an attack on Soerabaja yesterday four more Japanese planes were hit in an attack on an east Java airfield. | British planes laid mines in German coastal waters during the night, possibly in an attempt to trap the German naval fleet in event of an attempted sortie. London revealed that two new rge V class battle-

ships of 35,000 tons are about ready to reinforce the British fleet. Russian fori advanced on the Leningrad front, destroying three enemy battalions and widened the breach in Germany's second defehse line, Moscow dispatches said. Other Red army successes were reported in heavy fighting on the Kalinin and Kharkov fronts.

ASSAILS VICHY REPLY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U.P)).— Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles said today that answers from the Vichy government to this country’s representations -regarding the French aid to axis forces in North Africa were considered .unsatisfac-

tory. Mr, Welles said at his press conference that fresh instructions had been sent to American Ammassador William: Leahy in. Vichy,

DEBATE PENSION REPEALER WASHINGTON, Feb, 19 (U.P.).— The senate began debate on ‘the proposed repeal of congressional today when Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) offered his bill as an amendment to a pending naval measure.

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Declaration of Independence, and}: of Dr. David Hervey - Maxwell, | founder of Indiana University and}

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been and of the exhibits at the world’s fair in St. Louis. When the estate surrounding Golden Hill was sub-divided into lots, Mrs. Parry gave the totem pole to the ehildrerys museum. Mrs. Parry lived at the’ Riley home in Greenfield for several years before the Hoosier poet became famous. A Later she was one of thes first persons to arrange for his appearance as a public reader of his poems. She informed him of a $25 engagement which she had ob-

tained for him at the First Baptist|

Church and the letter telling him about it was found among the poet’s

treasured possessions after his death |

in 1916. Other : celebrities who had been entertained at Golden Hilt were Otis Skinner, Maude Adams, C. W. Post, William Lyon Phelps, William Jennings Bryan, and William J. Burns. { Born Near Rushville Mrs. Parry was born near Rushville in 1855—two years after the birth of James Whitcomb Riley. She was a descendant of George Read, one of the signers of the

one of .the framers of the Indiana constitution, Dr. Maxwell wrote the o al manuscript of the constitu .in long hand. Her| father, Jolin Maxwell, was an Indianapolis businessman in the period following the Civil War. She lived in this city since the age of 5. She and Mr. Parry were married in the old Maxwell home! which stood on N. Meridian St. where the Scottish Rite cathedral now stands. Me Parry was a gold star mother of the first World War. Her son, Lieut. Maxwell Parry, was kileq | in action with the A. E. F. Mrs. Parry visited his grave in France. Rites On Saturday

Survivors are two other sons, Addison J. Parry of Indianapolis and David M. Parry of Evanston, Ill; five daughters, Mrs. Helen P. Fitzgerald and Miss Isabel Parry of Indianapolis; Mrs. Willlam C. Teasdale, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Victor C. Gorton, Chicago, and Mrs. Em-

g | five shots fired through the window.

Mrs. Hessie D. Parry is shown visiting the grave: of her son Lieut. Maxwell Parry - at the American Cemetery, Oise-Aisne, France, Lieut. Parry was in the air corps ‘during World War I and was killed July 15, 1918, at Chateau-Thierry, Mrs. Parry went to France after the war to visit the grave. She was met by Gen, John J. Pershing’ and "given a military escort. Mrs. Parry gave much time and money during her life to civie, religious and [charitable organizations.

ry also leaves several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Funeral services at 11a. m. Sat-

urday at the Flanner & Buchgnan.

mortuary will be private] Burial will

mert Daniel, Cincinnati. Mrs. Par-

be in Crown HN cen ry.

Doubt Local Marine Among Hoosiers Feared Captured

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of communications at the time of the attack. : “From available lists and information up to or near the time of attack,” the navy bulletin read— “those persons not otherwise accounted for are presumed to be prisoners of the Japanese.” Another Indianapolis man, Mortland | Cochran, a -chief machinist’s

{mate with the navy, was reported

as a probable. prisoner.’ Mr, Cochran’s wife, who lives at 2137 N. New Jersey St., received word from him last week, when a message from him to her was picked up by the United Press listening post in San Francisco, | In Best of Health message said that Mr. Cochsa (was a prisoner, somewhere in proper. He and others from were reported by him to be , She best of spirits and health. | fact, the whole tone of the message was so cheerful that it was received . in America with some skepticism, the thought being that it might be propaganda. Mrs. Cochran has not heard from her husband since. er Hoosiers listed by the navy and | presumed to be prisoners, because of the difficulty of maintain ing communications at such troublous times, were: Navy—Lowren Augustus Arnett of Sullivan, seaman 1st class; Anthony Nicholas Iannarelli of Elkhart, pharmacist’s mate 2d class; Francis Marion Raymer of Rochester, coxswain, and Clinton Jerald Cramer, Greensburg, and Markle Tobia Smith, Dublin, both radiomen 1st class. Marine Corps—Sergt. Walter A. Bowsher Jr. of Leesburg; Corporals Robert Lawrence Brown of Hamd and Floyd Henry Davis of ille, Walter John Kruczek of East Chicago and Max S. Gaff of Albion, rivates Rirst Class Gus Jim us of Gary, Jack Edward of La Porte, Dick Leon Reed South Whitley, Norman MaxReeg, La Porte, and Neil Or-

ville; Earl R. Row, Greens- ; Henry R. Sanders and RayJ. White, both of Terre Haute;

D. Spurlin,: Shelbyville,| and Kenneth R. Edmonds, Muncie. The civilians were doing defense construction work on {Wake and Guam Islands.

oN PAYNE JURY

Court Waits as Accused jn Mattingly Slaying Powders Her Face.

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dering a one-time roomer at her home who later became her fiance and political protege. He is Charles O. Mattingly, who entered Indiana university in 1923 and was graduated in 1926. After Mattingly’s graduation, he remained at Mrs. Payne's home. She, meanwhile, had received a divorce from Earl Payne, a state senator. She devoted most of her time to helping Mattingly in his political career. Ultimately he was appoint ed secretary to the Indiana public service commission and later became its chief attorney-examiner. The Payne-Mattingly romance cooled in 1939. In May of the following year, Mattingly married his secretary, Lurayne Oberholtzer. On July 5, 1941, the Mattinglys paid a visit to the home of friends, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nickas, at Bloomington. As he sat with his back to a window in the kitchen of the Nickas home, Mattingly was fatally wounded by The prosecution accuses Mrs. Payne of firing these shots.

The State’s Case

In support of that contention, Mr. Tackitt will tell the jury that: (1) Mrs. Payne’s right shoe perfectly matches the plaster cast of a footprint under the window through which the bullets were fired. (2) Ballistics tests prove that the five bullets fired through the window were fired from a 38-caliber Colt automatic seized shortly after the shooting at Mrs. Payne’s home. (3) Three witnesses will place Mrs. Payne at .or near the Nickas home on the night of the killing. - In answer to this material evidence, the defense will claim that Mrs. Payne was of unsound mind on the night of July 5 and therefore is not “criminally responsible” for “the alleged offense.”

May Call Colleagues

A multisyllabic tug-of-war between alienists has been assured as a third-act feature of the trial. Both prosecution and defense psychiatrists have tested Mrs. Payne’s sanity and they are expected to be called to the stand after all other evidence has been presented. Neither side has indicated the order in which witnesses will be called, but the prosecution expects to place on the stand several members of the public service commission staff in Indianapolis. They are expected to

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