Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1942 — Page 1

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/11290| Candidates in Couhty; Races for Congress Are Highlights.

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' By VERN BOXELL Indiana goes to the polls tomorrow to select the Democratic and Republican nominess for more than 2000 state and local offices in the ‘November: general election. Here in Marion county, the more than 290 candidates wound up their active campaigns over the weekend and concentrated today on tightening up their precinct organizations, Despite the pleas of candidates and some party leaders that the 280,000 registered county voters join in tomorrow’s selection of candidates, most officials estimated that not more than 80,000 would cast ballots. Most of the estimates were around 75,000, with the Republican balloting heavier than the Democratic for the first time in 10

¥ Highlighting the state-wide picture were the races for congressional nominations in the 11 districts, and the nominations for 25 state senator and: 100 state representative

posts. « In Indianapolis, the spotlight was focused on the Republican mayor race between Gen. Robert H. Tyn-[ dall and Henry E. Ostrom, with each candidate heading a complete slate that include rival judicial tickets. Close behind was the race for probate court between Judge Dan V. White and Edwin McClure.

G. 0, P. Control at Stake

An important part of the G. O. P. picture was the behind-the-scenes struggle for control of the county organization, with the Tyndall forces hoping to secure the mayor nomination to give them an opportunity to oust County Chairman James Bradford in next Saturday’s county convention. On the Democratic side, there was no contest in the mayor division, Criminal Court Judge Dewey Myers being unopposed for the nomination. But there were bitter struggles in several other races, especially probate court; superior courts ong and five, prosecutor and sheriff. Ludlow Faces Fight Rep. Louis Ludlow had two opponents in the race for the Democratic congressional renomination but was expected to win, while John G. Coulter and Walter Meyer were waging a bitter battle for the G. O. P. choice. Polling places infthe county's 336 precincts will be open from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. tomorrow. County election officials said all preparations had been completed following meetings yesterday attended by the 2000 members of the precinct election boards and the 1200 workers who will conduct the central counting bureau at Tomlinson hall starting | tomorrow night. In addition to the state and local offices Yor which nominees will be chosen by each party, precinct committeemen by the hundreds, delegates to the two state nominating conventions here in June, nominees | .¢ (Continued on Page Six)

ROMMEL GETS TWO AIDS LONDON, May 4 (U. P.). — The German high command has sent Lieut. Generals Walther Nehring

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Registers for Sugar Ronen Cards

George Mohanpan, R. R. 4, Box 504, takes time out to register for the seven members of his family.

The: place, County School No. 9. The registrar, Mrs. Ann ‘Windshorst, 1223 Thompson road. It's a scene being enacted all over the county this week as sugar registration was started.

THURSDAY LAST DAY TO SIGN UP

Heads of Families March on Schools; Sales Resume Tomorrow.

Consumers’ registration for sugar rationing books began in Marion county and the rest of the nation today and the retail sale of sugar will be resumed tomorrow to those who have received their ration books. In Indianapolis, classes in elementary schools ' were dismissed at noon so that | adults could register for themselves and their

families from 12:30 p. m. ‘to 8 p. m. This schedule will eontinue tomorrow and Wednesday; but on Thursday classes will be dismissed all day and registration will be held from 8a mto8 p.m

All Schools Available

In the county outside Indianapolis all elementary schools but those in Washington, Warren ‘and Center are on vacation and classes did not conflict with registration. School children in the three townships not yet on vacation are to be dismissed all tour days and registration will be held in all county elementary schools from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m, today through Thursday. All county elementary schools will be open for registration. Sugar was frozen last Monday night to the general public. This was done to allow wholesalers, retailers and commercial users-to adjust their inventories to meet the new rationing regulations.

Penalties Are Stiff

Everyone has been asked to register at the nearest school in their residential district. There is no registration at parochial schools. Violations of the rationing order are punishable by a miximum fine of $10,000 or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both. In addition, a violator may be required to surrender for cancellation his stamps or sugar purchase certificates. The OPA believes that the number of books distributed will not exceed 130,000,000 in the nation, although 150,000,000 A have been printed. f J # »

The Indianapolis Times today is publishing four copies of the application blank which you must fill out in order to obtain your - war ration sugar book. Fill out one for each member of your family and take them with you when you go to register at your nearest school today, tomorrow, Wednesday or Thursday, It will save time for you. The blanks are on Page 11; fuller details on the sugar program also are on Page 11.

SHADES OF NERO

LOS ANGELES, May 4 (U, P.).— Toscha Seidel, 43 Russian-born concert violinist, enlisted in the navy Jesters as a musician, first class. He explained

5 P. M. Deadline

For Spring Taxes

THE COUNTY treasurer’s office in the court house was to be open uniil 5p. m. today, the deadline -for- paying the :spring tax install‘ment, Treasurer Walter C. Boetcher explained the tax could be paid’

by mail, provided the envelope

carries a ‘May 4' postmark.

And, as in every tax paying deadline in the past, the line of waiting tax payers numbered 250 with the “money-in-hand-citi-zens” overflowing into the courthouse corridors.

WASHINGTON HOTEL ROBBERS GET $2000

Lisping Bandit and Lanky Pal Order Pair Into Vault.

A lisping bandit ‘and his lanky companion held up the Washington hotel early today and escaped with nearly $2000 in cash. Only Charles Parker, night auditor, and Richard Schmidt, night bellman, were on duty in the lobby at 4:30 a. m. when the two entered. They walked up to the desk, drew revolvers and placed handkerchiefs over their faces as the shorter of the two bandits announced a “stickup.” “We want the money,” he lisped and came around behind the desk. While his six-foot companion watched the two employees, the first bandit scooped "the I money in the cash drawer into a bag. He then ordered: Mr. Parker to open the cash box in the vault. Cathering the rest of the money into the -bag, the bandit told Mr. Parker and Mr. Schmidt to get into]: the vault. “Stay there for 10 minutes,” he lisped. He: slammed ,the vault door but did not lock it and as soon as the employees heard the front door slam, they called police. '

GASOLINE MOOGHER WORKING NORTH SIDE

‘Hurrying to Defense Job,’ He Says, Collects Dollars.

North side residents were warned today against a 'moocher who tells housewives he is in a hurry to get to a defense plant and: has run out of gasoline. ‘He explains that he left home accidentally without any’ moriey and merely wants to borrow $ $1.

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STUDY ALL U. S. (GAS RATIONING

Control. “of Rubher- Tired

T ransportation - Vehicles. ‘Also Beirig Mapped.

WASHINGTON, ‘May 4 (U, Pi Petroleum Co-ordinator Hareld L. Ickes ‘indicated’ today the administration has considered nation-wide]: gasoline rationing as a rubber conservation measure. At the same . time President Roosevelt gave Defense Transportation Director Joseph B. Eastman authority to determine Policy to control the use ‘of ‘all rubber-tired transportation facilities, including passenger cars, busses, taxicabs and trucks. Mr. Roosevelt. signed an executive order authorizing Mr. Eastman “to facilitate the continuous adjust-| ment of the nation and its transport requirements to, the. available supply of . transportation. services relying upon rubber.’ . '

Ickes Testifies in House

The office of defense transportation ‘was ordered ‘to formulate measures that will conserve and assure maximum utilization ' “of the existing supply’ of civilian transport services dependent upon rubber, including the’ limitation of the use of rubber-borne transportation “facilities in ‘non-essential civilian activities, and regulation of the use or distribution of transportation facilities mong’ essential activities:” * Mr. Ickes testified before the house interstate ' ¢ommerce * sub(Continued on Page Six) ———————a——

$8000 IN JEWELRY STOLEN FROM HOME

stolen from the:home of: Fdward H. Wiest, 4243 Washington bivd., last night, -pelice reported. - Mr. Wiest said members of the family were away for about an hour and when they returned they found a window broken in a side door. Jewelry valued ' at $5000 was taken from a drawer in Mrs. Wiest'’s bedroom while jewels valued at

Dollman, mother of Mrs. Wiest.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Welter

More than $8000 in jewelry was|

$1650 ‘were, stolen: from Mrs. Henry

E. SIDE GROUP PROTESTS SITE OF WAR HOMES

FHA Project Planner Doubts Change Possible; Cites Delay. |

Protests of Irvington residents against the building of 750 defense houses on an East side site selected by the government were formally placed before E. P, ‘Grzybowski, FHA project planner, today. About 15 Irvington residents, some of them members of the North Irvington Civic League, attended the meeting at the mayor’s office. Mr. Grzybowski, however, held out little hope that the site would be changed. Meantime, the mayor's housing committee and the FHA representative- met this afternoon to choose a site for 500 more homes which are to be as near the Circle as possible and probably on the near West side.

$5, 000,000 Program

These homes and 750 to be built on the East side near the new naval ordnance plant are part: of a $5,000,000 presidentially - approved project for Indianapolis’ growing population of war workers. The Irvington site chosen by the government is bounded by Arlington ave. 16th st., Ritter ave. ard 10th st. The civic league wants the site.moved northwest to a plot bounded by 16th st. Ritter ave. 10th st. and Emerson ave.

Stresses Need far Speed

Mr. “expisified that] speéd. is. the “essential element. in the project. He said that for the area suggested by the civic league, a trunk séwer line would have to| be extendéd for’ about half a mile. The government-designated plot, he said, has a sewer already running up to it. He promised, ‘however, to submit the protest to his superior, Orville R. Olmsted, regional FHA director in Chicago. ’ The Irvington residents protested (Continued on Page Six)

LIGHT FROST AHEAD AFTER HEAYY RAIS

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FLEET CRUSHING SUBS, STARK TELLS LONDON: RAF. FIRES HAMBURG

Nazi ‘Hate’ Raiders Take Heavy Toll in English Town.

By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent

"LONDON, May 4.—The royal air force and the luftwaffe exchanged stiff blows in daylight raids over France and England today after & strong British bomber force had started big fires during the night at the chief Nazi port of Hamburg, Germany’s

second city. American-built Boston bombers raided the Le Havre sector of the French coast in the daylight fighting, destroying five German pursuit planes and one bomber and los#ag three fighter planes. The Germans, who had made a powerful “hate raid” with 30 bombers on the business section of England’s cathedral town of Exee ter during the night, returned this afternoon with fighter planes for a heavy attack. on another town on

the southeast coast, where severe

damage and some casualties were

The Exeter aid may have aw one of the heaviest ‘death tolls of any comparable attack of the war. Several churches were destroyed and the main shopping center was greatly damaged. Af least seven of the German bombers were shot down. A girl driver for an American ambulance corps unit was

killed. Watchers on the Dover coast saw

big fleets of Royal air force planes heading for the French coast for hours this morning. "R. A. F. raiders bombed the St. Nazaire = submarine base on the French occupied | coast, and coastal command planes’ damaged two en-

‘emy ships off the Norwegian coast.

More Mines Dropped

Bomber and fighter planes attacked German air fields in northern France, Belgium and Holland in night operations, and shot down two German bombers over France. Mines were laid in German waters. Five bombers were lost in all [night operations. The long-range bombers attacked often—hombed Hamburg without awaiting the return of good weather, concentrating on the battered docks 'and shipyards.

After a one-day lapse, British

bomber and fighter command planes

carried out daylight offensive operations over northern France yester= day. : Bomb Docks of Dunkirk

The raiding fleet, a big one even for these days of mass British raids,

bombed docks at Dunkirk and the

Abbeville airdrome. There was considerable mystery

over air raid alarms sounded in Switzerland and during the night, along routes British pianes’ usually take when they bomb Italy.

southern France

An air raid alert was sounded

early today at Marseilles and Toulon, according. to a German radio '{report from Vichy.

SINK BRAZILIAN SHIP RIO DE JANEIRO, May 4 (U. P.).

Midwest, Once Accused of Complacency, ~ Musters Its Men and Industry for War

“We can’t win this war fighting defcnsively.”

PORT MORESBY ANGER GROWS

| tte trom: om Sex Thought Likely ‘as Jap Land Forces Fall Back. MACARTHUR HEADQUARTERS, Australia, May 4 (U. P.).—The danger of a Japanese attack by sea on Port Moresby was believed increased but threats of overland thrust across New Guinea island appeared to be comparatively remote, dispatches to the Australian press said tonight. The official Austrdlian war correspondent, Ian -Fitchett, in a dispatch from an advanced base said Japanese forces had pushed up the Markham valley from their bases on northern New Guinea’s coast but had later returned to their original positions around Lae, The valley is such difficult terrain that allied officials do not believe it suitable for an overland at~ tack, although recenfly intensified air fighting has increased belief that a sea-borne attack may be made on Port Moresby.

Guerillas Are Active

Previously, the Japanese had been reported advancing from both Lae and Salamaua. In both zones Australian guerrillas were reported to be in contact with the Japanese, harassing their communications. (The German controlled Paris radio called the Markham valley

offensive against Port Moresby” and called. the Australian guerrillas

guard action.”)

original advance, before floods drove them back, the Japanese were (Continued on Page Six)

LAST-DITCH BATTLE RAGING IN BURMA

Yanks and. Chinese Airmen Bombs Captured .Lashio.

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and Salamaua edvances a “violent|

“Australian. troops fighting a rear|. It was believed that as in their].

CHUNGKING, May 4 (U, P)~}" bombers,

Strategy Bared on ‘Calculated Risk.’

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor United States and British * naval forces, basing their vcaculated 1

preparing to unleash heavy | blows at the zxis in the Ate lantic and European waters, : it was announced today im London by Admiral Harold % R. Stark of the U. S. navy, At the same time, the pad the Atlantic apparently had swung into an intense summer phase with the Germans reporting they ‘had sunk seven allied vessels with an Arctic convoy en route to Russia. This had not been confirmed in London. bx Admiral Starks statement in London followed a British an= nouncement that Germany's three biggest warships—the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau = and Pring Eugen— have been Food aut of stom fi8: Hh thereby lessening xs chances for. a a. aos spring Sessening Mis by™sea on allied supply lines and fleets in "; north Atlantic. ‘Subs Being Whipped’ : Admiral Stark, who. commands the U. 8. fleet in Furopean wa said the allies by a. superiority

warships and merchant soon ‘will have the enemy in oF :

their objective of at sea. “We can’t win the war defensively,” he said, adding, ever, that reckless and un action only loses wars.

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