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Over his ship's speaker system, Oct. 26, Captain Gatch asked his men if they were ready. Bulkheads rattled the shout of 2,000 men: "Aye, aye, sir!" The first attack lasted eight minutes. The enemy threw in 20 dive-bombers. The battleship spoke with all its voices: the huge grump-grump of 5-inch all-purpose secondary batteries, the more frenetic chattering of smaller pieces...
After noon the stubborn ones came again -24 dive-bombers and torpedo planes. This time at least one attacker made good. He dropped a 500-pounder on one of the forward turrets. Captain Gatch, who was standing on the bridge's exposed catwalk, took a fragment of bomb in his neck. An artery was cut. His shoulder was torn. He was knocked out. But his ship got through...
...nevertheless superb. The ship, which must have been one of the new North Carolinas since they are the only U.S. battleships with enough speed to escort carriers, proved as well that it could take punishment. The 500-pounder caused so little damage that three weeks later, with Captain Gatch standing on the bridge with his left arm in a sling, the ship sailed into "Windy Gulch," between Guadalcanal and Savo, and helped win the great night battle of Guadalcanal by sinking four Japanese warships by gunfire...
...committee in charge of the annual dinner of the Third Year class of the Law School: Paul Varies McNutt 3L., of Martinsville, Ind., chairman: Leonard Dawson Adkins 3L., of Easton, Md.; John Brennana Cummings 3L., of Fall River, Mass.; Francis Leo Daily 3L., of Peoria, Ill.; Loren Greeno Gatch uL., of Terrace Park, -Ohio; Thomas Alonzo Jackson 3L., of Hamerock, Ark.; Dwight Copley Pitcher 3L., of Utica...
...Truesdale 1 L; rooms 301 to 308, H. E. Heeren I L.; rooms 401 to 408, T. L. Riggs 4 G.; Dana Chambers-Rooms 21-29, B. H. Poucher '17; rooms 31 to 49, L. O. Simonds '17; Divinity Hall-T. W. Harris uC.; Drayton Hall-J. N. Gatch I L.; Dunster Hall-Rooms 14-36, R. S. Cooke '17; rooms 40-56, W. Edgar '16; 54 Dunster street-F. P. Coolidge '16; Fairfax-Rooms 7 to 28, W. D. Canady '17; rooms 29 to 46, F. C. Nelson '16; Gore Hall, A. J. S. Dole; Gore...