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Purdue University's athletic director and football coach "Mal" Elward resigned to join the Navy. On Feb. 26 the university named Guy "Red" Mackey athletic director, and Elmer Burnham football coach.
Duncan Electric Company, on land purchased in 1937, built a one-story factory north of Elmwood Avenue in which to make aircraft instruments for the war effort. [Later the factory housed overflow Purdue students.]
George R. Durgan, former Congressman and long-time Lafayette mayor, now secretary of the Indiana Public Service Commission, died at 70.
The Tippecanoe County Historical Association opened its museum in the former Moses and Eliza Fowler home at Tenth and South streets, and dedicated it on June 28.
By now Tippecanoe County had registered 4,260 men between ages 20-44 in the third Selective Service Enrollment since August, 1941. Board 1 registered 1,920 in Lafayette; Board 2 registered 2,340 in West Lafayette.
Lafayette's first commercial radio station, WASK, went on the air at 6 a.m. with "Rhythm at Reveille," a farm-oriented program. Joseph Spring was general manager. [BACKGROUND: The Lafayette Leader of March 21, 1947, contained a long WASK history when the station added FM broadcasts to its AM programming.]
Tommy Dorsey's popular dance band played a concert in the Hall of Music, then for a Union Ballroom dance with singer Frank Sinatra one of the band's several stars.
A Circuit Court jury convicted Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Leslie of flogging Longlois School teacher Constance Davis after Davis reprimanded Danny Leslie, 11, in an incident on Feb. 27. The Leslies paid fines of $200 each and received 30-day jail sentences for assault and battery.
"Abie" Masters, Jefferson High School football and basketball coach, resigned. His won-lost records had been 59-24 in football, 176-89 in basketball. Next day the school hired Marion Crawley, 33, to a three-year contract as replacement. Crawley's Washington High School basketball teams in southern Indiana had won state championships in 1941 and 1942.
The Lafayette Red Sox signed baseball pitcher Gerard "Slim" DeLion for 1942 Indiana-Ohio League games. The lanky DeLion, who won 18 straight games in 1941 for the Chicago Spencer Coals, would move to Lafayette and work at ALCOA.
Charles Burnham upset Mayor Dwight Keim in West Lafayette's Republican mayoral primary with 1,313 votes to 403.
Purdue University president Edward C. Elliott obtained leave-of-absence to move to Washington, D.C. and coordinate civilian war training in U.S. colleges.
BACKGROUND: The Journal Courier profiled Major Alfred F. Kalberer, a wartime flying ace from Lafayette, [and wrote of him again Jan. 4, 1943].
Actress Dorothy Lamour, subbing for ailing Rita Hayworth, headlined a war bond sale show before 20,000 people in Ross-Ade Stadium on a chilly night. The show raised $508,443.
West Lafayette High School renamed its Meridian Field for athletics Leslie Field in honor of the late Governor Harry G. Leslie, who attended WLHS in the middle 1890s.
Republicans swept the county election contests as usual. In Lafayette A.R. "Doc" Killian defeated former mayor John B. Hudson, a Democrat, in the mayor race 5,514 to 5,079. In West Lafayette, Republican nominee Charles R. Burnham won election as mayor without opposition.
In settlement of the contested will of former Congressman Will R. Wood, who died in March, 1932, Purdue University received a gift of $31,387.
The nation's First War Loan bond-sale campaign began.