Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1942 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 47
DAGASCAR FIGHTING BRITIS
"The candidates for mayor voted early today. Here Henry E. Ostrom, one of ' the Republican. primary candidates, marked his ballot, accompanied by Mrs. Ostrom (center) and Mrs. Paul Benedict, Mrs. Ostrom’s sister.
They voted at 1515 N. Illinois st.
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~ INCITY ORDERLY
offi Estimate Less Less Than 3( 30,000 Cast Ballots
Coa First Six
Starts at 8 Tonights
By VERN: BOXELL A Below-nozmal start caused political leaders to forecatt this afternoon. that the total primary vote in Marion county today would range between 65,000 and 75,000. ‘While some officials predicted that a mid-afternoon
rush by feminine voters and the final figure, they agreed that it would be far below the 100,000 average of 1940. : At; noon, county election: hoard officials estimated that in’ the first six ‘hours, 25,000-to 30,000 voters had cast their ballots. They predicted that the total when the 336 precinct polling places close at 6 p. m. would be’ about one-fourth of the 269,669 registered voters. in the county. . Same Trend Over State
This situation was not limited to
Indianapolis, however, as early re-|'
ports from all over the state showed ‘the same trend despite ‘the fact that all. congressional seats and many heated local battles are involved. : On. the whole, the local voting was quiet and without incident except ~ f6r a few minor flurries that were ironed out’ without difficulty. : “Early indications were that ‘the Repub total, although probably 16wer an anticipated, might ex- ? the Democratic figure due to mayor contest between Gen. Robert H. Tyndall and Henry E. Ostrom. ; . Interest in County Races
ton the Democratic side, Criminal Court Judge Dewey E. Myers was, unopposed for the mayor nomination, and the interest shifted. to Ythe. county races, where workers reported that close - battles were in
between Judge- Joseph|
Markey: and Jacob ‘Weiss in superior cotirt ‘one; Judge Herbert Wilson ol Chalmer Schlosser in superior five and Glenn Ralston and Toney Flack for auditor. With the major portion ‘of the ~ egrly vote in the organization-con-Shatled precincts, especially ‘the ‘greas,;” ‘County ° Chairman Negeo ‘Bradford's slate headed by Mr. Ostrom appeared out in front. . But organization leaders admitted they expected the Tyndall forces to show their most strengsh this afternoon. ‘Charles Jewett, Gen. Tyndall's citapaign manager, charged that in (Continued on Page Eight)
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INTEREST STATE
South Bend Cont Contest Close; Gary Outcome May Decide GOP Control in First.
By UNITED PRBSS Lack of congressional and legislative campaign competition cen=tered today’s state primary interest on the outcome of mayoralty races in a number of Indiana cities. . Heated intra-party battles for the nominations, some of which split local political organizations wide open, were expected to make up for the lack of ‘interest occasioned by unopposed ‘congressional aspirants and lack of candidates for legis-| . lative posts. In recent weeks, South Bend provided the hottest mayoralty fight|
race there today was expected to be in doubt until the final votes were tabulated. Mayor Jesse L. Pavey opposed George A.. Schock, a city judge, for nomination. Watch First District
Political observers believed that control of the First district G. O. P. organization hinged on the outcome of the race between E. C. Schaible, incumbent, and Dr. Albert Watts, notination at Gary. Three men opposed Lee B. Clayton for the Gary Democratic nomination. Political interest in another: section of populous Lake county—at Hammond—centered on the Democratic race between A. H. Spoerner,
for .the Republican|
present city clerk, and Mayor G. Bertram Smith.
Rivalry in Terre Haute
A bittle struggle between demo-, cratic mayoralty hopefuls at Terre Haute spurred Republican hopes for recapturing the mayor’s post in the fall election. Mayor Joseph P. Duffy was opposed for the Democratic nomination by Robert Welch, city councilman. Dr, Rollin Bunch of Muncie, three-time mayor who lost to the Republicans four years ago, appeared to face stiff opposition in the person of Ora T. Schroyer, one of five candidal At Ft, ayne, ‘Mayor Harry K.
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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1942
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Less Than 75,000 Forecast
Until her daddy arrived, 5-year-old Sarah Belle Myers passed out “Myers for Mayor” tickets to each voter at 5784 Central ave. But when Democratic candidate Dewey Myers ar-
rived, Sarah Belle had eyes for only her daddy. Mrs. Myers is holding Sarah Belle.
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. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, Mr. Ostrom’s opponent for the G..O. P. nomination for mayor, cast his ballot at 145 W. 21st st. He was assisted by (left) Mrs. Lucille Lam, 115 W. 21st sf,
SAVED BY ICE AT LENINGRAD
Soviet Reporter Tells How ‘Road of Life’ Was Built Across Lake,
This is the first dispatch from the beseiged Russian: vity of Leningrad, filed to the United’ Press by one of the Soviet Union’s best known newspaper correspondents,
By ROMAN CARMEN (Copyright, 1942, by United Press) LENINGRAD, May 4 (Delayed). — Leningrad survived all that Hitler could hurl against it because of a “Road of Life” built across the ice of Lake Ladoga to admit thousands of supply trucks through the ‘German siege lines. + I’ crossed the ice to Leningrad and found that the part:this highway. has played will be duly recorded in the annals of the defense of Leningrad. The people, who speak of it as the “Road of Life,” now seem, literally, to be all crowding into the streets of the city, tidying up their town, clearing the tram lanes and sidewalks and’ courtyards. It has been a hard time this winter for Leningrad, with its
streets barricaded and its beautiful
buildings sandbaged.
Linked With Railroads It was 5 a. m. when my car reached the shore of Lake Ladoga. The sentry looked through my papers. With a wave of his little red flag, he admitted me to the ice road across the lake—the way to Leningrad. The city, struggling in the grip of the enemy blockade, had built this. road and connected it with the railway lines on both ends. Thus it became a life line—a throbbing artery which linked Leningrad with the rest of the country. All winter incessant files of heavy trucks—thousands of them— dashed over the Ladoga ice road. Soviet airplanes guarded the road. From far above I could hear the hum of their motors. Often the Germans start shelling the road— but then the guns of the Leningrad forts reply, and silence them.
Fed Besieged Russians
And not for a single minute does this transportation conveyor stop,
,either ‘at- night or in the daytime.
The road fed the heroic besieged, with ammunitions, arms, reinforce-
rments and food.
“Our car sped along over the smooth highway. On our left we could see the shore where the The road is not
4 the. commando. raid on St. Nazaire ‘March 28 in order to deceive the
2 Britons on 'Suicide Ship’ Give Lives to Deceive Nazis
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright. 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LONDON, May 5~Two British naval officers deliberately allowed themselves to be blown up aboard the destroyer Campbelltown during
Germans and make ‘the operation| a Success. The story of how they died will go. down 5s ane of the epics. of anijie time. The two officers im question ‘were captured. during the raid and were closely questioned about the former American destroyer, which had been rammed .against the St. Nazaire dock gates, loaded with five tons of TNT. The Germans demanded to know whether the
Campbelltown contained explosives fitted with a delayed-action fuse. When the British officers said the destroyer contained no explosives, the German officer in command was suspicious. “We will go aboard and you can go with us,” he said. Showing no 0 race of emotion, the two British officers “whiked 3 with the party of German cers who started to' examine the ship. ey were still there, together with Germans, when the TNT suddenly went off, killing everyone aboard and blowing out the dock gates. “French vivilians who sent the story to London said. the commandos Killed from 300 to 400 Germans in the raid. They said 500 French civilians were executed by the nazis for aiding the raiders.
At Least It Was A Moral Victory
IT WAS a moral victory that George Stepp’s cow won at Sheffield ave. and Morris st. today, _ The cow ambled off Stepps truck when the. rear gate .collapsed. She walked a few steps and lay down. The cow wouldn’t budge for itsowner. She wouldn't stir for a squad of police. And'a wrecker, called by the perspiring officers, was just as helpless. So they called the insurance company. “Kill the cow,” was the order. Officer John Gillespie reported thus to headquarters: “I fired one shot at the cow’s head. The cow got up and
walked onto the truck. She was uninjured.”
JAPAN BREAKS OPEN CHINA'S ‘BACK DOOR’;
Enemy Spearheads Drive
Across Burma Border.
CHUNGKING, May 5 (U. P).— Powerful Japanese mechanized units forced open the back door to China today, climaxing a three-month drive through Burma by crossing the Chinese frontier into Yunnan province.
A Chinese communique said that although enemy spearheads ‘had crossed the border near the town of Wanting on the Burma road about 80 miles above captured Lashio, the
YANKS SHATTER TWO JAP BASES
Rabaul and Lae Strewn - With Blazing Ruins; 30 Planes Destroyed. "MacARTHUR HEADQUARTERS, Australia, April 5—~Two of Japan's biggest invasion bases have been strewn with blazing ‘wreckage by United States flying fortresses, Catalina - Consolidated medium bombers and fighter planes in ferocious attacks, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Up to 30 Japanese planes were destroyed or damaged. Supply dumps were blown up. Big fires were left eating their way through airdrome installations and runways. Enemy troops were bombed and machine gunned. . The, targets were Rabaul, in New Britain island, the most dangerous Japanese base in .the Australian zone—and Lae, in New Guinea. New cannon-firing fighter planes made the raid on Lae, where enemy planes were grounded. | United States fighter planes also damaged four. Japanese bombers and one navy-O fighter of a formation of nine heavy bombers and 10 Zeros which tried to attack the allied base at Port Moresby, New Guinea. In their Rabaul raid the American bombers officially claimed three enemy planes blown to pieces by direct hits. An airdrome area on which 20’ planes were dispersed ‘was plastered with bombs.
invaders had been halted by the
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“| Chinese in heavy fighting.
Not a single United States plane was lost in all the operations.
Hoosiers Sign for Sugar Rationing Books; Hours Extended Tomorrow and Thursday
(Photos, Page Three)
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG The long tentacles of war reached farther into every American home today, no matter how small, or humble, or out-of-the-way.
~ Bugar is essential to the work of every housewife and yesterday she began registering for the privilege of buying it. And today the regis-
The hours are 12:30 to 8 p. m. in the city. Pupils had a half-holiday yesterday afternoon and today. Tomorrow, however, the hours will be from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. and theré will be no Semen school. High. schools win open as usual. . Miss Bertha Leming, in charge of the school registration procedure,
DHethert Hale, 13, the Youngest in. the navy, was mu
‘tration continues at hy elementary
day Thursday. Rationing officials said they had even heard reports that the president would declare Friday a national holiday to complete the registration. however, is expected to have the job finished within. the originally prescribed time. : In the county outside Indianapolis
all schools but those in Washington,
Warren and Center townships “are
RAF HAMMERS
Main Supply Route Along 750-Mile, Front Hit: Factories Blasted.
LONDON, May 5 (U. P.)~British bombers today attacked Germany's main sea supply route along & 750-
while other raiders crossed: the channel for daylight sweeps: of the French invasion coast. The daylight attacks, a .continuation of the RAF’s spring offensive that has been waged almost without letup since April 11, followed night bombings of the big Skoda arms works at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, and German war industries of Stuttgart.
Bomb Nazi Shipping
The air ministry announced that coastal command planes, striking at Germany’s sea communications, heavily bombed shipping today from the Nazi-held Norwegian port of Kritiansund town to" the Frisian islands. Kristiansund es just south of the German naval base at Trondheim, target of heavy R. A. F. bombings and refuge of the damaged German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and possibly the ‘battleship Tirpitz. A squadron of Hudson coastal command bombers with Canadian crews early today attacked three large ships of a German convoy off the Frisians, damaging them, the air ministry said.
All Planes Return
Other Hudsons piloted by Australians attacked Kristiansund harbor at low level and dropped bombs on two ships lying.at- berths only 20 feet apart. . In both the Kristiansund and Frisian attacks the Hudson braved heavy anti-aircraft. fire and, - although some of the planes were hit, all returned to Welr bases, it was stated. The Germans, reprisal, sharply attacked the southeast coast of England last night, and a British communique reported some casualties and damage.
JULY 1, 1941, CEILING ON RENTS PROTESTED
Realtors Want U. S. to Use March 1, 1942, Level.
Individual real estate operators in Indianapolis * have protested
ting rents back to where they were
day. They have asked Price Adminis-
last week for 302 areas in tion, ceilings for all but were set as of March 1. Indianapolis and Marion county
NAZI SHIPPING,
against the government order put-|
July 1 last year, it was learned or
were. included in that group of 64'
FRENCH FORCES
RESIST
SEIZURE
BULLETIN VICHY; France, May 5 (U. P.).~The French ZV. ernment of Pierre Laval tonight ordered “the strongest: - possible resistance” against what it called Britain’s “odious aggression” against Madagascar.
(Map, Page Two; War Moves, Page Thirteen)
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
British air, naval and
commando forces fought toe
ward the big French naval base of Diego Suarez on the northern tip of strategic Madagascar island today in a
showdown with Vichy over
control of the allied Indian
ocean supply route to the Middle East and India.
Striking to thwart the
threat of Japanese control of
the island — off the southeast coast of Africa — British forces landed on Courier bay and struck across a 10-mile
wide isthmus toward Diego
Suarez bay which lies below
the arrow head shaped tip of Madagascar.
Standing Order to Resist : The Vichy French forces under Gen, Guillemet, who ; had probably two cruisers and a number of submarines available, resisted the occupation under standing orders announced at Vichy by Marshal ‘Henri Philippe Petain' and Admiral Francois Darlan, as commander of all armed forces, Pieced together from British reports and Vichy dis patches broadcast. by the German radio while the govern ment of Pierre Laval was holding. an. emergency meeting, the developments went this way:
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A British naval force carrying commando - trained troops, including South Africans but no Americans or
Free French, arrived off Courier bay during the night. An ultimatum was delivered to the French governor general,
On the War Fronts
(May 5, 1942)
MADAGASCAR: Britishh Commando and naval forces fight way ashore to occupy Madagascar and “forestall a Japanese attack”; Washington warns Vichy against any “warlike act”; showdown with Pierre Laval’s regime anticipated; axis radio says fighting followed British ultimatum.
CHUNGKING: Japanese forces driving up Burma cross frontier and enter southern China near Wanting, 300 miles south of Kunming; Japanese drive on west within 150 miles of India; American planes bomb Japanese airdrome near Rangoon.
LONDON: R. A. F. offgnsive hammers Skoda arms works in Czechoslavakia and Germany's Stuttgart war center; channel guns roar as “day shift” resumes attacks across channel.
AUSTRALIA: Flying fortresses and Catalinas leave blazing wreckage in attacks on Rabaul and Lae; 30 enemy planes destroyed or damaged in latest air activity off north Australia.
RUSSIA: Red army reports new “offensive. operations,” hinting at offensive; claims successes - on Kalinin A
who rejected it and the attack started at dawn.
2 The British, according to London reports, met light
opposition which might or might not be “token resistance” in order to satisfy the Germans that an effort had been made to oppose the occupation. A French battery ‘vas captured and the oes cupation “is proceeding,” accords ing to this report. Tiel
A large number of British aire
planes flew over Diego Suares according to the axis reports from
French had lost a submarine dispatch boat in the first phase the fighting, which wes —
as severe, Vichy was expected to edi the occupation forces vigorously as the abortive French attack on Dakar or the ish seizure of Syria was Little was known regarding
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TIMOSHENKO ARMY STARTS OFFEN
LONDON, May 5 (U. Armored forces of Gen. Sem by
riding Cossack cavalry, portedly opened an offensive