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OSTROM NO. 1 FOR MAYOR ON BRADFORD LIST

G. 0. P. Chairman Wants Wolff to Seek Nomination

For Treasurer.

By NOBLE REED A lineup of candidates invited to run on the Republican “organization slate” in the May 3 primary | election was outlined today by County Chairman James L. Bradford.

The field of candidates for the Republican mayoralty nomination, once numbering half a dozen, apparently has been narrowed down

to one—Henry E. Ostrom—so far as Chairman Bradford personally is CHURCHILL MAY cogcerned. i Announcing that “I'm still SHAKE CABINET

Ostrom for Mayor,” Chairman Brad-

ford at the same time said hé has urged Herman C. Wolff. former Losses in Far East Bring Showdown: Envoy to

mavoralty candidate and mentioned Moscow Replaced.

prominently for a second race. to run as the organization man for County Treasurer. \ S| Se LONDON, Jan. 17 (U. BP) —Prime Minister Winston Churchill returned to England by flying boat today

Henry E. Ostrom . , . G. 0. P, County Chairman James Bradford is backing him for the Republican nomination for Mayor.

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Superior Court Choices former head of the Indianapolis =ast. legislator: Ralph Hamill, Joe Rand] | President Roosevelt and his talks 8 for Criminal Court most vigorous shakeup of his war cutor. and Heszie B. Pike. |Air Chief Marshal 8ir Charles PorMark W. Rhoads. Indianapolis{Russia, had been succeeded by Sir Chairman Bradford: slate for re- eign Office Chairman is said to be backing Dr. Far Bast.

For the Eleventh District Congressman nomination, Chairman Bradford indicated he has asked Attorney John K. Ruckelshaus to make the race. { pea list oo canditiates [after his momentous conference with or the five Superior Court benches all £10.000-a- om jobs. Chairm gn | President Roosevelt at Washington, Bradford said he is backing a group | to face an immediate showdown with of eight attorneys. a critical Parliament on the grave They are: Thomas Stevenson. | { Allied strategic position in the Far Bar Association: George Jeffrey | { He Wh LL to have flown former candidate for the guberna-|Tom Bermuda torial nomination in 1940, Albert] The Prime Minister was expected Ward, a deputy prosecutor; Judson {to take the earliest opportunity to Stark, former candidate for Con-|2ddress the House of Commons on gress: Emsley Johnson Jr, a state] his United Nations agreement with Beckett and Maruice Tennant, of Indianapolis Mackenzie King at Ottawa and to Three extra candidates are being review the war as whole. lined up in case seme should fail sol Cabinet Shakedp Seen t in the race or drop out before balloting Fy Be It was believed also that one of his first official acts would be the Chairman Bradford listed three] cabinet and the High Command attorneys as organization candidates|since he entered office in 1940. for Criminal Court judge without| With him were Lord Beaverbrook, specifying a choice. They are Walter] ithe war cabinet Supply’ Minister; Pritchard, who has been in the race} Admiral Sir Dudley Peuntl, First before: W. D. Bain: a deputy prose-|Sea Lord and chief of Navy staff; For Probate Court, Chairman | tal chief of air Bradford mentioned Edwin McClure, | Charles Wilson. who resigned as deputy prosecutor | A few hours in advance of Mri. last spring. and Judge Dan V. White Churchill's arrival the Foreign Ofof Municipal Court 2. | fice had annoéunced that Sir StafMr, Bradford said he thought | ford Cripps, British ambassador to lawyer, “would make a good man to|Archibald Clark Kerr, ambassador run for the Juvenile Court nomina- [to China. tion.” New Ambassador to China . The new British ambassador to Despite rumors to the contrary, |China is Sir Horace Sevmour, asProsecutor Sherwood Blue is still on | [sistant Undersecretary of the Fornomination te his present post. The India office had announced City Councilman Harmon Campbell has been asked by Bradford to get in the race Sheriff For County Clerk, the County Walter E. Hemphill, also a City Councilman. Samual Montgomery, heritance tax collector, has been slated temporarily for Bradford support to run for County Assessor.

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AMERICANS IN LUZON RESIST FLANK ATTACK

Aussies Hammer Foe After Serious Break-Through in

Battle for Singapore.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Allied armed forces waged pitched battles against all-out Japanese offensives in Malaya and the Phiiippines . today and won over the Axis in Russia and Africa.

On the rugged Philippines fighting front, the Japanese began their long expected big scale attack against the right flank of American and Filipino forces defending the Bataan Peninsula but met “stubbern” resistance by the out-num-bered troops under Gen. Douglas MacArthur,

German dispatches from Tokyo said that according to the Japanese Domei News Agency, American and Filipino troops “are in general withdrawal towards the shores of Manila Bay. probably in hope of finding shelter on Corregidor.” In Malaya, the British land and air forces, sparked by Australian shattered waves of Japa-

troops... nese attackers but the enemy forced

his way across the important Muar River 90 miles north of Singapore, and established a bridgehead. The Allied troops were attempting to destroy it while their bombers hammered at long columns of Japanese reinforcements.

Admit Situation Seriowns

The break-through of the Muar River line was regarded as serious. If the Japs can flank the defense line the country south of there is less easy to defend and London experts expressed fear that the defenders would be forced back to a siege of Singapore. German dispatches from Tokyo reported that the Japanese armored | forces had driven down the Malavan peninsula to within about 50 miles of Singapore. The Japanese earlier claimed the capture of Batu Anam, important highway point. They said the Army killed 500 Australians. The Berlin radio which broadcast the Tokyo claim frequently has iraceurately reported Japanese gains, but if the Nazi report should prove true it would mean a eritical situation in Malava. On other fronts: PACIFIC — American warships have added a number of Japanese submarines to the toll of two dozen enemy Ships already officially reported sunk by the fleet, according to a United Press correspondent with the naval forces patrolling the Pacific.

FERNANDO PO (WEST AFRICA)—An Allied destroyer, possibly Free French, entered the Spanish (Continued on Page Two)

GERMAN GENERAL DIES

BERLIN, Jan, 17 (Official German Broadeast Recorded by the United: Press in New York) — Meld Marshal Walther von Reichenau

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announcement said. Until recentiy Von Richenau was in command of an army group operating on the

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ALLIED AIR SCORE, 2 TO 1

LONDON, Jan. IT (U. P).—The British people had before them today official figures that their airmen were knocking out more than two Axis planes for every one loss of their own. The Air Ministry said the Axis had lost 857¢ planes on] all fronts sihce the start of the war, | compared with British losses of 3962.

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HOOSIERS PRAY CAROLE IS SAFE

Schricker Sums Up Feel ings: ‘Martyr to This War | If She Is Dead.’

Hoosiers prayed today for the safety of their own heroine of World War II—lovely Carole Liom-

bard. Their Governor expressed their | feelings. “If Miss Lombard is dead, she certainly is a martyr of this war,” said Governor Schricker. “She came to Indiana to do a great patriotic service. It is a hard

blow to Indiana.”

Left Thursday Night Miss Lombard, a native Hoosier, was on her way back to Hollywood from. a special trip to Indianapolis | to launch Indiana's defense savings | bond campaigh. She arrived here | shortly after noon Thursday and | didn’t leave until after midnight. Her efforts in the defense bond campaign resulted in the sale of more than 82000000 worth of bonds and stamps. On her arrival she raised an historic flag over the State House grounds and then spoke to the throngs who had packed the State House rotunda.

Beloved for Courtesy

From the State House she went to Governor Schricker’s mansion for a tea and then she attended the Indiana War Rally at Cadle Tabernacle. But the thousands of Hoosiers who were grateful to Miss Lombard for her service to Indiana and the nation also loved her for her unassuming manner and her whole« hearted response to Hoosier hospi tality. Five school girls strolled into her {Cantinueq « on i Page Two Two)

(GAROLE LOVED LIFE; PARK DANGE GITED

Stopped Traffic as She Rhumbaed With Director.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 17 (U. P) — Anecdotes about Carole Lombard's joyous love of life are legion. One concerned her friendship with Madalynne Field, her best friend and companion, who was popularly known as “Fieldsie,” and her fae vorite director Walter Lang. Miss Lombard and “PFieldsie” were riding with Mr. Lang through Central Park, New York, in a taxi cab. The radio was pouring forth hoteha Latin musie. “Stop!” Carole shouted to the cab driver. ‘ Surprised, he pulled to the eurb. Miss Lombard grabbed Mr. Lang by: the arm and said, “Come on, let's dance.” 80 they danced in the middle of the park, “Fieldsie” clapping out the rhythm, while traffic tied itself in knots.

CONTRACT FOR 632 SHIPS WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U. PD. «~The Maritime Commission, mov ing to carry out President Roosevelt's demand for construction of 18,000,000 deadweight tons of ship ping in the next two years, today

All Hollywood Loved the Ft. Wayne Girl Who Paid Her income Tax With a Smile and Called The U. S. the 'Best Damned Land There Is.’

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 17.—The apparent death of Carovie Lombard, girl of the hard boiled chatter and the tender heart, in the fiery wreckage of a transport plane saddened the sound stages today and caused many a fellow performer to weep. No other current actress was so universally beloved; the death of no other glamour girl since Jean Harlow had such a profound effect on the movie makers, sentimentalists all. Clark Gable, her husband of three years, was waiting at the Los Angeles Airport last night for her to arrive with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, and their friend and press agent, Otto Winkler, from a defense bond selling expedition to Indianapolis. Attendants told Gable: the plane would be delayed. He returned to the ranch home he built for his bride in the San Fernando Valley, only to hear the worst. Then he rushed blindly from the house, raced back to the airport and chartered a plane for Las Vegas, Nev, even as two officials of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hastened to catch up with him, 8 o 2

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Hollywood Suffers Many Heartaches But None Compares to Newest Sorrow

Hollywood—its sentiment is traditional—has suffered many another blow at its heart, but it seemed none could compare with its newest SOrrow. There was Rudy Valentino, but his legion of mourners was recruited principally from his faithful fans. Hollywood, in those days was small and remote and divided and unsocial. There was Marie Dressler, Her passing was not unexpected and it brought her relief from a long and painful ailment, There was the vivacious Thelma Tedd, victim of carbon monoxide poisoning. There was Jean Harlow. Her death, it seemed to Hollywood, would be mourned forever, for Jean, like Carole, was another of those who are known as ‘‘good guys” in the profession. And there was Will Rogers. Circumstances surrounding his death added to the universal sorrow. Will had captured not only the heart, but the intellects, of the world and his death in remote Alaska brought many a heartache.

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Every Property Boy and Every Waitress Adored Her for She Had Common Touch

Miss Lombard not only was loved but was respected as a straight« shooter. Bvery grip, every property boy, every commissary waitress adored her for she had the common touch, thé common speech and never for a minute forgot that they were fellow workers. She was thoughtful, considerate, always joyous and bouncing, full of pranks and resque stories. And she was frank to the point of treason in a land where frankness is not valued too highly. She and Gable made the finest married team in Hollywood. Since their wedding they had spent every possible minute together. They were lost for a couple of days on a hunting trip to Mexico. They shot quail in South Dakota. They spent long hours on the ranch, with its white brick house which contained only one bedroom-=hecause Carole didn't like house guests.

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Found Relaxation on Golf Links; Hoped Against Hope for Child

Carole and Gable found much of their relaxation on the golf links. They were particularly conspicuous on the course at Del Monte between scenes of “Gone With the Wind.” In these matches, Gable's hair was just a shade shorter than Carole’s, having been grown especially for the Rhett Butler role. The ideal couple had hoped against hope for a baby. Miss Lom« bard even retired from the screen, but when no child arrived, she expressed her sorrow. Then America declared war on Germany and Japan—and Hollywood's gayest, laughingest actress returned to the sound stages. She did it not because she needed the money, but so that her in« come taxes, based upon a salary of $400,000 a year, could help pay for the fray. She was the movie beauty who startled the town a couple of years ago by announcing that she paid her taxes with a smile on the theory that she was buying a sizable interest in what she liked to call “the best damned land there is.” She felt that the war made her tax payments even more necessary. Her latest picture, completed just before she went to Indianapolis to sell more than $2,000,000 worth of defense honds, is a farce comedy concerning her troubles with Jack Benny in Poland.

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LIFE AFFECTED BY NUMEROLOGY

It's Reported That Mrs. Peters Urged Carol to Add Final ‘E.

Numerology, prominent legend of Carole Lombard’'s rise to screen fame, was present when she made her last important decision.

It has been said that Carole's

mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, was a student of numerology and that she presuaded her daughter to add the final “e” to her first name, Carol. Miss Lombard’s film success began after addtion of the “e.” At the Indianapolis Municipal Airport yesterday numerology again played a role in Miss Lombards life. Her manager, Otto Winkler, buying tickets for the party's trip

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Peters: “The name of the plane is the Douglas Sky Club.” Suggested Private Plane

Mrs. Peters exclaimed: “Oh, we can't take that plane.” Carole asked, “Why not?” And Mrs. Peters talked to her for several seconds. She even suggested they charter a private plane. But Carole, who loved people, wanted to take a regular ship, And she had her way. The scene was witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. James C. Todd, 820 N. Graham Ave, as they waited the arrival of a friend on another plane, Mrs. Todd didn't realize the significance of the conversation until she talked later to a personal friend of Mrs. Peters who told her Carole’s mother undoubtedly was objecting to the numerology contaiped in “Douglas Sky Club.” Flipped a Nickle Another report, originating in Hollywood, said that Miss Lombard wanted to make the trip from Hollywood by plane and Mr. Winkler wanted to travel by train. They compromised in an agreement to fly one way and ride the train the other, then flipped a nickel to decide the order of travel. Tails said they would go by train to Indiana and return by air, Heads would ' have eliminated the return trip by air,

‘GRIEVED, SCHRICKER WIRES CLARK GABLE

Says Her Work Will Never Be Forgotten.

Governor Schricker today sent the following telegram to Clark Gabnle: “I. am profoundly shocked and grieved to hear -of the airplane tragedy. I fervently pray that there yet be hope for Miss Lombard's safety. “Her return to Indiana not only endeared her to the people here but her gracious presence at the first great national defense bond rally struck a blow for victory that will never be forgotten. No daughter of any State has made a more Sloriovs contribution to her nation. “Such unselfish and heroic serv-

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WRECKAGE OF AIRLINER SEEN ON MOUNTAIN

Gable Is Broken-Hearteds Actress Helped City Bond Drive.

LAS VEGAS, Nev., Jan. 17 (U. P.).—~Broken-hearted Clark Gable turned back today from the mountainside climb toward the wreckage of a transport plane in which his actress wife, Carole Lombard, and 21 other persons, including 15 officers and men of the Army Air Corps, were believed dead. An experienced crew of Indians, soldiers and hardrock miners cone tinued the torturous trek. They reported that they were able by the aid of field glasses to see high on the eastern slope of Table Rock Mountain in the Charleston range what appeared to

be charred airplane wreckage amid broken pine trees.

Wreckage Sighted

The location was that at which flames had been sighted last night by T. W. A, Pilot Art Cheney short ly after the plane crashed. The airliner left Las Vegas at 7:30 p. m. (9:30 p. m. Indianapo=lis Time) and crashed approximates ly seven minutes later). Cheney was unable to identify the wreckage from the air because of the rough terrain, Charleston Range divides vada and Death Valley, Cal. Mr. Gable, who flew here to join the search after a sleepless night, was forced to return to Las Vegas because the party lacked horses enough for all the searchers. The actor had accompanied the party along a winding, rutted dirt road so far as automobiles could pass.

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Gable Grief Stricken

Grief-stricken, his eyes ringed with anxiety and loss of sleep, Mr, Gable sought to walk on, but was persuaded by friends to give up the obstacle-studded climb. He was waiting for his wife at the Los Angeles Airport last night when he first received word that the flight had been “delayed.” He ree turned to his San Fernando Valley home and it was there that he ree ceived news that the plane had crashed. Miss Lombard was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, and publicity representative, Otto Winkler, returning from Ine dianapolis. Miss Lombard had appeared Thursday night at a defense bond sales rally. The air corps men were members of the Army Ferry Command sta= tioned at Long Beach, Cal. Miss Lois Hamilton of Detroit was the only other passenger.

Three in Crew

The crew consisted of Pilot Wayne C. Williams, Co-pilot More gan A. Gillette and Hostess Alice F. Getz. Miners in the vicinity of Table Rock Mountain Mine, said they heard the plane explode with a thundere (Continued on Page Two)

Treasury Lauds Carole's Efforts

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U. P.).~A Treasury spokesman toe day credited Carole Lombard, screen star missing in the crash of a TWA plane in the Nevada mountains, with being instrue mental in bringing about the largest recorded sales of defense savings bonds. He said Miss Lombard jours neyed from Hollywood to Indian- - apolis early this week to star in the first of a series of rallies to promote sales of defense stamps and bonds, and that $2,000,000 worth of bonds were sold as a result. Miss Lombard, he added, stopped at Salt Lake City and Chicago for brief sales promotional came paigns and made several other station appearances and press ine terviews and platform talks in

support of the stamp and bond