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Hinkle Is Called To Navy Service As Cage Coach
Famed Butler Mentor
Is Assigned to eat Lakes.
(Tony) Hinkle, ersity’s famous ctor, today joined the U. S. Navy as its basketball coach at Great Lakes for
the duration of the war. Coach Hinkle, whose basketball teams have carried Butler to national promi nce in the last 16 years, will take his place alongside : other leading athletic specialists at the largest nayal training station in the world. Other coach been selected f
es reported to have r the eventual 45,000
recruits include baseball's Mickey | Cochrane and {Bob Feller and foot- |
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ball’s Fritz sler ‘of Michigan.
as Net Coach
cellent football and es De it has been his basketball teams— they have won| 221 out of 333 games in 16 years against ‘representaitves of nearly every major conference in which have placed! p frohvt rank: among I'S. assistant . football but the ctors has not
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the following “Butler Unij aid has just cos Hinkle, its football and
is being given Butler as its athletic and program. “The naval midst of a t program _ headi | (Continu¢
New Jersey lgst Saturday. A navy veteran of 20 years, Seaman Profitt was scheduled for re‘: tirement next October. He was an
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Enemy Supplies. Set Afire During Daring “Air Raid" | In Subic Bay.
WASHINGTON, March 4 (U. P.).| —Gen. Douglas MacArthur's tiny air | force, tollowing up his surprise as-
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advance positions on the Bataan battlefront, has'sunk at least four | Japanese ships in a daring attack, |,
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bombers, dive-bbvmbers and fighters, Gen. MacArthu’s dauntless airmen {caught the Japanese: by complete {surprise and caused havoc in Subic Bay, Japan's chief means of supply | for the Bataan front 15 to 20 miles:
, | south.
Near Former U. S. Base
The raid, according to a depart- |: mental communique, was in the vicinity ot Olongapo, a former U. S. naval station, and Grande Island in| Subic Bay, which is on the northwest of Bataan peninsula. Gen. MacArthur's men destroyed, one 10,000-ton ship, one 8000-tonner, and two 100-tonn motor launches.
‘were damaged,” the communique said. {Large fires were started on
island. These wire followed by many heavy explosions among enemy) stores.’ The raid broke a four- gay lull in activities on Bataan peninsula, "| where (Gen. MalzArthur’s forces have ‘been resting after a successful counter-offensive last week that netted them gains up to more than five miles all along the line.
FREIGHTER SINKS IN CRASH OFF E. COAST
-'5 of British Vebsel's Crew
Reported Missing.
LEWES, Del, March 4 (U. P).— The coast gugard announced today that the freighter Gypsum Prince sank in Delaware Bay early today after colliding with the tanker Voco. Pive, members of the Gypsum
‘| Prince's crew were reported missing
‘| Both vessels wire of British registry. The coast guard said the freighter, 3915 tons, was rammed on the port side by the 5090-ton tanker as it entered the bay. Guard officials said Doth vessels were operating under blackout regulations, their lights extinguished. The Gypsum Prince sank within
{ifour minutes after the collision.
Coastguardsmen rescued six men from rafts anc pulled 13 others and ‘the freighter’s captain, Owen Jones, from the wate. : The Gypsum! Prince was owned by
‘he Sitandard Transportation Co.,!
London, and was operated by the! Socony-Vacuun Oil Co.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 08 10am... B. a. 9 11a .
led by Gen Douglas MacArthur, was
|the way departinent announced to-
With only a handful of little P-40, ,| fighter planes to challenge Japan's
FORECAST: Somewhat warmer today and early tonight.
YANKS POUR IN
“American Warships Guard | Convoy, but Trip Is
Uneventful.
By C. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent A NORTH IRISH PORT, March 4 —American reinforcements have arrived in northern Ireland.
thousands of United States troops to Ulster to augment the first A. E. F. (At Washington, the war depart- | ment merely announced that “addi[tional U. S. army troops have arjrived in northern Ireland,” and said that “no information is being made {public as to designation of units or their strength.” | United States warships helped escort the latest A. E. F. convoy to northern Ireland, it was disclosed shortly after it was announced that {several hundred American troops had arrived in London. The new North Atlantic crossing was uneventful, Come From
West The new troops men drawn! from the mid-we states, including Towa, South Dakota, Minne'sota, Nebraska and‘Illinois. One detachment belongs to a famous unit that was known in the last ‘war-as-the-“Rainhow -divisiofi.” +} (The Rainbow division, command-
made up of men from a large num{ber of states and played an heroic ‘role in the first world war.) y
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T0 AID BRITISH FIGHT ON AXIS!
The reinforcements brought many |
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1942
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Tells Love Story
: Caroline Gladys Payne
WASHINGTON, March 4° (U. P.).—The Norwegian legation said ! inday that plans for a Britishi American invasion of northern | | Norway or northern Finland to protect the united nations supply line to the Soviet port of Mur- | mansk have been reported in | Berlin news dispatches to the Swedish press.
|. The first two men off the big, liner | that arrived were the commanding officer and his friend — a soldier of the first world war, Master Sergt. Dorance W. Mann. Both the commanding officer and Sergt. Mann are from Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Announcement of the arrival of {new troops was made simultaneously atl London and in Washington.) | {| Doughboys ‘Want Action’
The American troops then poured (down the gangplanks, many of them taction without much delay in line| | with President Roosevelt's predic-|
the. banks of Clongapo and Grande | tion that there will be American of the mental blackout she report-
(offensive action in the future. There were no ceremonies when (the Americans landed today. There | | was only a personal word of greet- | ling from Maj. Gen. Russell P. Hartle, commander of the American | forees in northern Ireland, to the | commanding. officer of the first | troop transport to dock.
| barked—it took hours to get them 'all ashore—than they were sent off for rigorous training in the rolling! glens of Ulster, which British soldiers say is the toughest seasoning ground n the world.
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TEARS ON STAND
| with Charles Oron Mattingly, her “In addition, many smaller craft | expressing the hope they would see former sweetheart, whom she is
No sooner were the men disem-|
| friend (Mattingly) is in town.
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MRS. PAYNE IN
_ Describes Collapse When She Saw Mattingly Night of Slaynig.
By JOHN L. BOWEN : Times Staff Writer y BLOOMINGTON, Ind. March 4.
—Mrs. Caroline Gladys Payne, un-, der direct examination by Defense
| Attorney Q. Austin East, this mornling told a Monroe circuit court jury the intimate details of her love life
charged with murdering. Mrs. Payne gave her own ‘version:
{edly experienced shortly before the shooting. Dumbfounded When, He Left After her attorney had cautiously ‘led her up to the events of the (night of July 5, 1941, Mrs. Payne told the jury: “The telephone rang at. ; : oh, |—I just don’t know at exactly what time. When I answered, someone said, ‘this is tne filling station. Your I sat down by an open window in the bedroom at the front of the house on the second floor. | “Pretty soon 1 saw Doc's car pass. | I was thrilled. Then I saw his wife. !She looked at the house and smiled and then looked at him. “I felt sick and hysterical and fell on the bed. I came to in the county jail. John Rawlins (chief of police) (Continued on Page Four)
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60 DIE, 1500 | IN PARIS RAID
R. A. F. Bombs Smash Nazi War Factories ‘Like Packs of Cards.’
LONDON, March 4 (U. P.).—British bombers, attacking French industries producing war materials for Germany, $lattened buildings “like packs of cards” in a two-hour raid on industrial targets in the Paris
suburbs during the night, Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair announced today.
(Vichy reported 650 persons killed :
apd 1500 wounded in-the raid.) Describing the uperation as “highly successful,” Mr, Sinclair said R. A. F. pilots reported that several heavy bombs blew buildings hundreds of feet into the air. The raid was described as the “heaviest of the war.” “Our casualties were light,” he said. “In all our operations last night, we lost only two aircraft.”
Wide Areas in Ruins (United Press dispatches from
| Vichy said the bombing left wide {industrial areas of suburban Paris
in ruins. Vichy reported that 200 houses, as well as industrial targets
: firveyed the damage 2nd took plo
tures of damage. As rescue crews dug through the piles of wreckage, the Vichy dispatches said, it was reported that Chief of State Marshal Philippe Petain had decided to proclaim funeral day for the victims as a “national day of mourning.”)
Motor Works Main Target
While one British force raided the Paris area, other R. A. F. planes resumed attacks on German, including Port Emden. The principal French target was the big Renault motor and tank works at Billancourt, southwest of Paris. Bombs also were dropped on the industrial districts of Boulogne-Sur-Seine and Neuilly in suburban Paris. “We cannot allow German production of tanks, tank engines, air- :| plane engines and lorries to go unhindered merely because these (Continued on Page Four)
HELFRICH IS GIVEN ‘SPECIAL MISSION
Leaves Post as Head of Indies Naval Forces.
LONDON, March 4 (U. P).— Vice Admiral C.E.L. Helfrich has ‘been entrusted with a “special mission” and has been succeeded as | commander of the Netherlands Indies: naval forces by J.J.A. Van Stavern, acting rear admiral, it was annotinced today . A British foreign office announcement said Netherlands Indies land forces would be commanded by Lieut. Gen. Hein Ter Pooten, fols {lowing the departure of Gen. Archibald Wavell, former supreme com-: mander of united nations southwest Pacific forces. Gov. Gen. Starkeborghaven Stachouwer will continue; exercising civil authority, it. said. :
WASHINGTON, March 4 u. P). —President Roosevelt, beginning his 10th year in office weighted by the problems of war, went to St. John’s Episcopal church today with the leaders of his government and prayed for Divine guidance.
his first inauguration of March 4, 1933, in prayer at the historic old
church just across Lafayette park
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itus of Groton school, Groton, Mass
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{where the chief executive received
his preparatory education, offer
Following his custom, Mr. Roose~] velt observed the anniversary of
The president, heard the Rev. En'dicott Peabody, headmaster emer-
‘government in reading from: the
and the music reached its fullest
“heart be afraid; and though there put my trust-in him.”
vance ‘notice of the president’s at- _ tendance . at ‘church and only a handful of spectators saw The dis- _ tinguished congregation
A Small Group Joins in Singing ‘America’ As F. D. R. Begins 10th Presidential Year
congregation of cabinet members and ‘other ranking leaders of the
27th psalm: “Though an host of laid against me, yet shall
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rose up war against me, yet will I
War time precautions forbade ad-
The congregation sang a.
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America’s newest war hero is Lieut. Edward H. O’Hare, naval flier, who shot down six Japanese bombers in a recent raid in the southwest Pacific.
SCFLIERS BAC 16 JAP BOMBERS
Smashing Attack in
Southwest Pacific.
WASHINGTON, March 4 (U. P). —Almost complete annihilation of a Japanese attacking force of 18 heavy bombers by a unit of the American fleet and accompanying fighter planes today supported the claims military experts here have been making—that American fliers are overwhelmingly superior to the Japanese. In almost every major air engagement in the southwest Pacific that has been announced the Japanese have come off a poor second with Americans. That was true again in the navy announcement last night of its second successful action in about a month in the Gilbert islands area—2500 miles southwest of the Hawaiian islands.
Face Bombers’ Attacks The communique revealed that an American force—an aircraft earrier, cruisers and destroyers—was operating west of the Gilbert islands “recently” when attacked by 18 heavy enemy bombers in two groups of nine each. The results after engaging the enemy “closely and vigorously”: Sixteen of the Japanese bombers] shot down. Only two American fighter planes lost. Only one American pilot lost. No damage to American surface ships. In addition to that box ‘score; the navy has a new hero—Lieut. (junior grade) Edward H. O'Hare, fighter pilot—who shot down six Japanese planes. It was the largest number of enemy planes credited to one American pilot in any single action during the war.
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MYSTERY ‘FLARES’
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back the enemy. American,
especially in the air.”
have joined Dutch troops in unspecified distance.
United Press
by the opening of a new front in
The bombing attack, which British Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair said would be followed up by more raids and eventually by attacks with American planes on Germany, may be of great importance in future relations between London and Vichy and between
‘Weather Bureau Balloon
Dropped Them.
State police today cleared up the “mystery flare” situation. i Don F., Stiver, police direcior, said that three flares reported dropped from the air near an Indianapolis defense plant last Thursday night came from a “free balloon” which the weather bureau had sent up for visibility tests. Mr. Stiver said the investigation led police to believe that the planes reported in that area last Thursday were which the police determined on authorized flights, : the CA, and the will - continue,
Vichy and Berlin, which has been Sying 10 squeess he Breteh wid collaboration or military co-
American expeditionary forces numbering several hundred men ar« rived in London from North Ireland,
The battle of Java was being waged with bravery and determination by Dutch forces, aided by American, British and Australian units. But there appeared to be little doubt that it was going against the defenders in the long run, unless unexpected reinforcements can reach apse "tk “amis me parked, igi indicated.
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lery units blasted the Japanese lines. But tonight's communique for the first ‘tifne acknowl edged that “the enemy succeeded in making some headway, at some points as a result of their numeriesl superiority,
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Invaders Reported Gaining at Most Points i in Island; American and . Australisn Artillery Blazes at Foe. ;
By W. H. MeDOUGALL * United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH ALLIED FORCES IN JAVA (Via Teléphone to
U. P.), March 4.—Japanese invasion forces surged forward in Java despite bitter American, Dutch and British opposi-
United nations soldiers lay in ditches along the fighting
futile anger at enemy planes -
roaming the skies almost unchallenged. United nations air support apparently has collapsed in front line acreas I visited, and Japanese control of the sea approaches to Java is stronger than ever.
Japanese air superiority for I
lay in a roadside ditch with our soldiers this afternoon and
no allied plahes: appeared to
challenge the enemy fighters and bombers thaty were blasts ing the highway in frent of us. Americans Aid Fight ,
There: are: Americans, Tnelading 5 CHIN Tories suttt” and British and Australians fighting beside the valiant - Dutch in Java, and tonight they know how it was with the
and. of Singapore-—men who
fought on with virtually no help from their own planes. Although the Dutch were scorching the earth as never Again Show ‘Superiority in| before in the path of the Japanese, and sending all possible reinforcements into the battle, the enemy ‘was advancing with fatalistic disregard for casulaties: - : The Japanése were inflitering through the green jungles flanking the highways and battering allied air bases, includ« ing the field near Bandoeng military headquarters. :
Allies Battle Fiercely
the Japanese are having it all
The allied forces, desperately trying. to match their | eight-ton tanks against Japanese 10-ton tanks with heavy cannon, are fighting stubbornly and ‘sométimes. throwing
British and Australian Arti
Only in the area of Soebang, which marked the farthest Japanese approach toward Bandoeng, were there definite reports of allied advances. There, the British were said to
pushing back the enemy an
Half of the.village of Soebang, about 40 miles inland and : (Continued on Page Four)
Allied. Offensive. Indicated: By Blow at Nazi War Plants
By JOE ALEX MORRIS -
Foreign Editor
British bombing raids on German-operated war fattories in Paris area today indicated the determination of the. strike with offensive power at a time when the Russians might be aided
nations i ol a ets
in the Far East threatened to submerge the island of Java.
On the War Fronts |
We, JAVA: Allied forces in bitter battle with Japs, but lack of air support forces defenders back; enemy cons trols sea approaches. IRELAI*D: American reinforces ments arrive in northern Ireland several hundred American’ from Ireland arrive in London.
PARIS: R. A. F. bombers blast N war plants; 650 dead, 1500 injure
PHILIPPINES: Gen. Douglas Arthur's fliers sifik* four
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BURMA: Jap bombing attuthe 3 newed on Sittang river tront, dicating new enemy "drives *q Rangoon and Mandalay.
RUSSIA; Red army pushes
erward of defonss on norm