THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Java Afire with Fierce Japanese Invasion Drive
By United Press
Allied Headquarters, Java, March 5-A great battle raged all over Java today, with Japanese invasion armies closing a pincers on the capital of Batavia, striking to within 30 miles of Bandoeng military headquarters and fighting to isolate the Sperabaja naval base.
Attacking tirelessly and in overwhelmingly superior numbers behind their tanks and under fleets of their dive bombers, the Japanese in western Java have captured Krawang, 40 miles east of Batavia; Purwakarta, 40 miles north of Bandoeng, Netherlands Indies high command headquarters, and Tangerang, the communique, admitted
In eastern Java, it was added, the enemy was advancing continually and had captured Solo, about 80 miles west of the naval and air force base of Soerabaja, and Bodjongoro.
Fight Superior Forces
Throughout the island, Dutch troops and the American, British and Australian forces in their support, including a Texas artillery unit, are fighting a raging battle against the numerically superior enemy forces, the communique reported.
The communique revealed that the Japanese had raided Tjilitjap, on the south coast—a port whose strategic importance had increased immeasurably because it is the last harbor at which reinforcements might be disembarked in comparative safety.
Dutch and other Allied troops are fighting heroically, the communique said, against the Japanese including their light, mobile advance units which continue infiltration across plantations and through jungle. Two Jan Bombers Down
Two Japanese bombing planes were destroyed, and two more probably destroyed, out of a fleet of six which bombed Bandoeng today.
British Hurricane fighters raided a Japanese occupied airdrome at Kalilidati, shot down a crack enemy navy plane, damaged another and machine gunned several Japanese planes on the field.
Two Hurricanes were lost but their pilots escaped, one slightly wounded.
Big Ten May Scrap Schedule
Chicago, March 5—(UF)—In an effort to co-ordinate its program with that of service teams, the western conference may scrap its 1942 football schedule, it was reported today as Big Ten athletic directors met to discuss war-time policies.
Big Ten football schedules are drawn in advance from three to five years, but a powerful conference faction purportedly favors delaying fulfillment of some gridiron commitments until after the war.
"We have pledged ourselves to cooperate in providing competition for service teams and entertainment for the enlisted men," a spokesman said, "and there's no better way to do it than by meeting Army, Navy and Marine teams during the coming football season. Under the schedule as drawn now the number of contests with the service teams would be limited, so it may be necessary to postpone for the duration some of our regular conference commitments."
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20 Hostages Die In Payment For Murder of Nazi
Vichy, March 5—(UP)—Paris was placed in official mourning by German occupation authorities today for a German soldier who was killed Sunday.
The British radio, quoting Rome advices from Berlin, said that 20 hostages had been executed for killing the soldier. Twenty more are to be executed March 16 unless the killers are found.
Gen. Ernst Schauamburg, deputy German military governor, ordered the entire city to observe mourning for the Nazi soldier on the occasion of his burial today.
Movies, theaters and other amusement places were ordered closed throughout the day.
Germany, at the same time that it denounced the British bombing raid on Paris Tuesday night, announced that 40 hostages, to be executed for killing the soldier, would be picked from "Jews and Communists" and that the trial of seven "Communist terrorists," six of them minors, would proceed at Paris today and would end tomorrow.
Explosion In Iowa Ordnance Plant Kills 13
Burlington, Iowa, March 5—Army authorities estimated today that "about 13" men were killed by an explosion that rocked the $60,000,000 Iowa ordnance plant at the midnight change of shifts.
Col. O. M, Jank, commanding officer at the plant, said that the death toll had been fixed tentatively at 13 "on the basis of all information we have received so far." More Than 20 Injured
Two hours earlier, Jank had reported the number of known dead at seven but said the figure might be greater and that "it may take three or four days to determine the exact number." More than 30 were injured, some critically.
SPORTIN' AROUND---sas City. In the Big Six Oklahoma has finished her schedule with a mark of eight wins and two losses and rests at the top of the heap. Kansas is in second place with seven victories and two defeats and has one game, the tilt with Missouri tomorrow night, remaining on its schedule. If the Jayhawkers win this game they will be tied with Oklahoma for the championship.
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Names of the victims were not released, but the coroner's office reported Hartzell Popejay, Fairfield, Iowa, had died at the Burlington hospital.
Jank said the blast was in the process building in one of the "load lines" and was similar to one which claimed 13 lives at the plant last Dec. 12.
The explosion occurred at 11:55 p.m.
"In the darkness, we have been unable to determine the details of the explosion," Jank said, "but we intend to begin an investigation at daylight."
The officer reported that only one building was affected by the explosion.
To Investigate Today
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The Mercy and Burlington hospitals at Burlington, six miles east of the plant, reported 31 injured workers had been brought to them for treatment and that some were in critical condition. Additional injured were said to be at the plant hospital. State highway patrolmen from
The Aggies have an edge in respect to offensive-defensive margins but this might not be considered. In 10 games the Aggies averaged 37.4 points a game offensively and held their opponents to 21.1 points a game for a margin of 16.3 points a game. Creighton on the other hand has an offensive average of 42.4 points a game for nine contests and their opponents have tallied 29.4 points. If Creighton hopes to equal the Cowboy margin of victory the Bluejays must defeat Drake by 46 points. In their first clash Creighton defeated Drake 60 to 25 at Des Moines.
As a result of a Big Six ruling passed two years ago Kansas would be selected as the team to continue in the play-offs. This ruling states that the team with the greatest offensive-defensive margin would be selected as the Big Six representative. At present Kansas has an offensive average of 59.4 points in nine games and a defensive mark of 38.9 points. Oklahoma on the other hand finished with an offensive record of 44.6 points a game and defensively allowed 39.0 points a contest. Under no conditions, providing Kansas comes through victorious tomorrow night, could Oklahoma place a claim as the logical representative of the Big Six.
In the Missouri Valley Oklahoma A. and M. has completed its schedule with only one loss on its record. Creighton has one game to play against Drake and likewise has just one loss. If Creighton wins this game, as they certainly should, a tie would result. The Missouri Valley has no by-law covering a means of determining the conference's play-off contender and a mix-up might ensue.
Another point which might affect the team to be selected is the two-game series which the Oklahoma Sooners and Oklahoma A. and M. have coming up March 6 and 12. If these two teams split this series this should clear the road for Kansas to enter the Western play-offs unmolested. If the Sooners would accidentally win both games this would make even a more conclusive case for the Jayhawkers. The one situation which might complicate affairs, and the one which is most likely to happen, is for the Aggies to win both games. This would give the Cowboys a definite right to have a play-off with Kansas if the Jayhawkers win the title.
throughout southeastern Iowa were called to the scene to handle traffic.
Burlington police and firemen joined in administering first aid to the injured and carrying them to hospitals.
U.S. Pilots Outwit German Bombers
German bombers have developed tricky defensive formations and a withering crossfire.
Quick thinking by many American pilots of the Eagle Squadron, even in the heat of split-second aerial battles, often brings down the bombers. One story is told of an RAF squadron that attacked a flight of enemy bombers. As each Spitfire dived, the attacked
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Instead of following the bombers as they dived, the Spitfires began circling in the opposite direction but in the same line of descent. Each time around the Spitfire and the bomber met twice enabling the RAF pilot to train machine gun and cannon bullets that frequently sent the bomber crashing.
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