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TYNDALL HAS 121VOTE LEAD OVER OSTROM

Supporters Jubilant With|-

158 Precincts Counted;

Meyer in Front.

By VERN BOXELL For the first time since the counting began Tuesday night, Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall moved into the lead | for the. Republican mayor nomination this afternoon. With 158 precincts tabulated, he ‘had a 121-vote margin over Henry E. Ostrom, organization-supported candidate—8643 to 8522. |. Trailing by 197 votes when to-

day's tabulations began, Gen. Tyn-

| dall moved up steadily, cutting it|

| to 28 in 150 precincts. His support- | ers WW jubilant, asserting that many “heavy “Tyndall precincts” SIL were to be heard from. They | backed up this assertion with unofficfal figures showing the General | in front by 382 votes in 178 precincts.

Ostrom Camp Confident

The Ostrom camp was confident, however, that their businessman candidate would come to the front | again and some of them said they "expected . his margin to be about

"1000 by tomorrow

‘morning. Meanwhile, tension mounted on | many sides as the central counting | bureau dragged along in its tabula- "| ting of last Tuesday's primary vote. . As. their candidate continued to ‘move up and then také the lead, | Tyndall workers swarmed into Tom- | linson hall to serve as watchers in the last-minute counting. There | were some flare-ups but no serious trouble.

Name Chairman Tomusrow

“The first serious incident of the counting last night ‘when James Slinger, a Democratic precinct ' committeenian, slapped County Clerk Charles Ettinger, who is in charge of the counting bureau. Mr. Ettinger said he had changed, | Slinger from his job as ‘a caller | to another spot and that the pre(Continued on Page Six)

2 NAZI SUBS, ONE OF THEM NEW, FIRE SHIP

KEY WEST, Fla., May 8 (U.P). Two German submarines —one A freshly painted without a spot of rust,, “looking a§ if she was just ont of drydock”—each fired a torpedo into a small American merchant‘man in broad daylight and then surfaced to machine-gun crewmen | huddled on the flaming ship, her four survivors related today. Fifty-six men were reported lost in that action and in the sinking of a larger American merchantman by the same U-boats three hours later—28 men missing from each vessel. Both sinkings, in the Caribbean area, were announced by the navy today, the seventh and eighth torpedoings disclosed since Sunday from which = survivors have been | landed at ‘Florida ports.

DOMINICAN STEAMER SUNK ‘TRUJILLO, Dominican Republic, May 8 (U. P.).—It was announced officially today that a German submarine had sunk the Dominican steamer San Rafael and that 32

crew members were missing. The!

news caused great public indignation.

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COUNTING PLAGE SPRINGS TO LIFE

Tension High, Both Sides Jittery as Gen. Tyndall Forges Ahead.

For 48 hours, it was a drab, color= less, slow and wearisome thing— this central counting| bureau at Tomlinson hall. But Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall’s spectacular spurt to go in front of Henry E. Ostrom in the Republican mayor race has electrified the whole procedure.

in the air. The. Tyndall foroes jubilant, but thelr optim 18 strained. ‘The Ostrom organization is still confident but is showing agitated signs of worry, They have a direct telephone line right into party headquarters, and it’s really busy. One for the Books

Little groups of men congregate here, hustle there. If you see a group huddled around any counting table, you know that thé Republican city ballot of some precinct is being counted. This is the whole show now—a story for the books. Once Gen. Tyndall started moving up, the number of watchers to see that he gels an honest count was multiplied. His supporters are watching every move. When Judge Dan V. White began closing the gap on Edwin McClure, close political associate of : County Chairman James Bradford, in the (Continued on Page Six) ow » »

Latest Figures In Primary

REPUBLICAN

. MAYOR 158 Precincts Out of 306 Ostrom

130 Precincts Out of 366 CONGRESS

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= fre CHANGE STUDIED

Every - Other - Day Calls Said to Be Favored To Save Tires.

Extensive changes in milk delivery schedules in Indianapolis are being considered because of recent “government automobile and tire

today. Although the milk companies have reached no decision as yet, it is believed the majority favors every-other-day delivery of milk. It was pointed out by : well-informed persons that the present no-Sunday delivery practice has been accepted by the public and that the most logical way to curtail mileage of milk trucks 25 per cent, as the government has ordered, will be to adopt the every-other-day method. This may involve a l-cent reduction in the price of milk but it was said that the milk companies are inclined not to do anything about any price reduction until they see what effect ‘the curtailed delivery system has on the costs of distribution, : Route Mergers Likely

If the every-other-day delivery plan is adopted, it would mean that Sunday deliveries would be resumed for some customers. Consolidation of routes would mean that some customers would get their milk on the even number days of the month while others would get theirs on the odd-num-bered days, In order to eliminate special deliveries and call-backs, as ordered by the government, a plan now under discussion would ‘eliminate the before-breakfast delivery and milk trucks would start out around 7 a. m. It was emphasized that these plans are merely being discussed and are not yet adopted.

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IT’S 2 TO 3! WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. B.).— Price Administrator Leon Hender-

gasoline ration for non-essential 22 motorists in the east would be two or three gallons a week.

parts of New York and Pennsyl-

son declared today that the basic|

He confirmed that the western|

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conservation orders, it was learned

Naval Battle Box Score ALLIED REPORTS OF JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK (11)

One aircraft carrier. One heavy cruiser; probably of 10,000 tons. One light cruiser, probably 6000 tons. Two destroyers. Four gunboats. One supply vessel. ~One transport sunk during Louisiade island air attack.

ALLIED REPORT OF JAPANESE SHIPS DAMAGED (SIX)

One aircraft carrier, probably a total loss. One heavy cruiser, One light cruiser. One seaplane tender of 9000 tons. One supply ship. One transport. Allied losses have not yet been reported except for three airplanes. announced in yesterday’s commumique.

JAPANESE REPORTS OF ALLIED SHIPS SUNK

Two United. States aircraft carriers, the Yorktown and Saratoga. One battleship of 32,600-ton California type. One British battleship of 37,000-ton Warspite type. in London.)

JAPANESE REPORTS OF ALLIED SHIPS DAMAGED One British or Australian heayy cruiser.

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Schricker Gives Fugitive Break After 22-Year Model Life

By EARL RICHERT

Governor Schricker today turned down the request of Misyum 2 Su thorities for the extradition ‘of a fugitive from justice warrant of veteran key empioyee of’ the Delco-Remy division of General Motors at

Anderson. The employee, Frank Murphy, 42, walked away from the Missouri state prison at Jefferson City, where he was ‘a trusty, more than 22 years

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life since, Left Base Wednesday at’

He has married since leaving the prison and he and his wife have Midnight; 10 Aboard. * TAMPA, Fla, May 8 (U. P)—A

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adopted two children.

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HINT U. S. UNITS

IN MADAGASCAR South African Troops Also

Reported Pouring Into

Captured Base.

LONDON, May 8 (U. P.).—Amerjean units and huge reinforcements of South African troops are pouring into the Madagascar naval base at Diego Saurez along with masses of artillery and - airplanes, reports

. {reaching here said today, The naval base was understood to| have been handed over practically)

intact by the Vichy defenders after the lightning British eongquest. Authoritative sourees said British casualties in the Madagascar campaign might be considerably less than 1000. There was no official comment on a Daily Mail dispatch from Madrid, quoting Vichy reports, that American units ag landed at Diego Suarez. Doubt Action by Fleet

The Daily Mail said the South African and American forces had been dispatched to Diego Suarez fo “make it impregnable against possible Japanese attacks and to consolidate it as a British bastion.” The surrender terms were believed to include British control of all important ports and potential air and warship bases on Madagascar. Free French leaders here said it was “absurd” to believe Pierre Laval would hand. over the Vichy. fleet to Germany in reprisal because such a move would lead to a complete break with the United States,

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On the War Fronts

(May 8, 1942) SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Greatest naval battle of war rages over 200,000 square miles of. Pacific in fifth day after U. S. and allied planes and ships sink or damage 17 Japanees vessels, including 13 warships.

MADAGASCAR: American troops| landed at captmed Diego Suarez naval base, according to Vichyorigin reports.

CEYLON: British reinforce Ceylon in readiness for threatened Japa-

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117 ENEMY SHIPS.

SMASHED: U.S. LOSS UNKNOWN

Continent Warned of Invasion; Tokyo Says Four Allied Warships Sunk in 5-day Fight in Coral Sea.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editer American and allied warships and airplanes fought the greatest naval battle of the war against the Japanese in 8 the gleaming Coral sea off northeastern Australia today, with 17 enemy ships already knocked out and a major turning point in the Far Eastern conflict possibly at hand. But the outcome of the Coral sea baitle, now in its ffeh day, was not yet decided. There was no tendency in official allied sources as yet to take an optimistic viewpoint of the bitter fighting that may well decide the immediate safety of the spuply line from America and the vulnerability of Australia to throws ened invasion. The tone of official statements in Australia was grave and restrained pending official information on allied losses, which the Japanese claimed were an American 82,600ton battleship, two American aircraft carriers, a British battleship and a British or Australian cruiser.

Massed North of Australia These. upatighe claims were generally regarded i

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positively denied in an admiralty communique that amy p British battleship had been sunk or damaged in the Coral sea engagement. But in a battle of the scope indicated by sketchy communiques from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters, i the allies would be likely to suffer severe losses in their drive to come to grips with the enemy and to continue the engagement as long as possible.

day failed to make clear the course of the battle except in & general way.

Apparently the Japanese warships, transports and sup~

land area north of Australia began moving through the Solonion islands in the general Sirection of the supply line to America. Curtin Warns Sisttaliame.

At the same time, the Japanese occupied islands im the Louisiade archipelago, which forms a tail on the eastern: 4 point of New Guinea island. This seemed to indicate that the Japanese were closing in by sea on Port Moresby, main allied base in southern New Guinea. They possibly were moving southeastward at the.same time toward the New Hebrides and New Caledonia, athwaré the supply line. American troops are on New Caledonia. Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia, indirectly supported this suppposition in parliament when he warned that the still undecided battle would be ; a turning point : strategy. His warning was couched in vague terms, but emphats ically called upon the people to be ready to defend Australia if the outcome was unfavorable.

Battle Is Spreading Out

The Japanese forces—strength not yet i ted——we first engaged in the vicinity of Solomon islands, where American communique said that seven warships and & sup-

:| ply vessel were sunk and four other ships damaged.

The battle then apparently spread out inte the sea which stretches 1000 miles off northeast Australia, In this second phase of fighting, the allied com said that a Japanese aircraft carrier and a hea

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‘| were sunk and another aircraft carrier and & cruiser

severely damaged. The second carrier was believed o

planes| a total loss.

Allied planes at about the same time attacked. Japanese ships at the TLouisiade islands and destroy transport. Believed Fighting Continues

Official reports of the naval operations are usual

layed a day or more, so the action may well | | broken off by now. Bui. it. was’ believed ‘thatthe: sl

%ed| would try to maintain it as long as possible.

Reports on the battle of the Coral sea were

e- wwaited throughout, tie world, but the operations were

fo wen of dime 200,000. aquate miles From the 8

inaccurate and exaggerated. The British, for instance,

The communiques covering action that began on Mon

ply vessels which had been massing in the New Britain iss