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Thus, presumably, carols Rosie to her mate as spring spreads its amorous zephyrs through the Central Park Zoo in New York. Schlemiel was so dubbed because of his dreadful manners during courtship. He used to swing his hippopotamus weight around in a most ungenflemanly way—until Rosie, no mite Here, in this affectionate acreage of adjoining schnozzles, is proof of their true love. Rosie still keeps half an eve on him.
herself swung her's. Observe, Soush, that
a RECOUNT |
Carter; Hemphill and Hutsell.
‘By VERN. BOXELL A recounting of the votes in four close races ofsthe: May 5 primary
election * was. asked, jtoday in.con-| .
test suits filed in. circuit court. Three suits involved . Republican
races, and the fourth was filed by. Toney Flack, West side publisher, | .
against Glenn Ralston, who won the Democratig nomination for auditor by 841 votes. Clyde, Carter, who last to William D. Bain in the Republican race for criminal court judge by 2145
voets, was the first to ask a recount.
Contests Petit Victory « Dr. Walter Hemphill contested the nomination of Arnold Jack Tilson by 234 votes in the county clerk race, and Jesse Hutsell gsked a recount of the sheriff race, in which he lost to Otto Petit by 379 votes.
In all cases, the defeated candi-|
dates’ charged “fraud and mistake,”
_both at the polls and in the count- |. ing and tabulating of votes, and
malconduct of officials. Mr. Carter, in his suit, specifically charged that legal votes cast for him were not counted and that ballots that were mutilated and
bore distinguishing marks were |
counted for his opponents. Through his attorney, (Continued on Page Two)
* Chuck Wiggins
Battles Death
CHUCK WIGGINS, former Indianapolis prize fighter whose colorful pugilistic career almost car-. ried him to.the world’s heavyweight crown years ago, fought against death today. Found unconscious in W. Ohio st., 100 block, early today by a taxicab driver, the former heavyweight was reported in a “critical” condition at City hospital. He is suffering from a fractured skull. He apparently had tumbled down a stairway, police said. . It was the second time in the last few years that Wiggins had been reported near death as the result bf a fall. ;
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Eddie Ash.... 10 Amusements . 14 Called to Colors Churches .... Clapper Comics Crossword
Inside Indpls. 7 J.W. Love... 7 Movies Obituaries . .. Organizations 14 8 8
is M 6 (ARERR J 7 ea 12 Radio 11
i 1 Weakly Soup by I " Warhingion rr Suits Are Filed by: Flack, 3
Henry |
Foeihands’ of Russian it pled
Stat of the SerigmsHlowarg Newipspers
- WASHINGTON, ‘May 16.—Conviction, grows that’ Whe must be won now; can’t wait till new plants are built:for 1943. production. yin : Fa
So look for: | Sa 4% Halt on: new plant construction. mn ra
5 Use of all steel, other critical mibenials, for manu: facture of munitions ships, planes, rails to carry them, : Sudden, drastic stoppages of civilian goods and activities.
he the’ enemy from a fortified’ line inflicted heavy casualties, including
{damaged as well as more than 1080
‘ {of airplanes, into the'battling on a
. SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1942
NAZI SUPPLIES FOR OFFENSIVE NOW IN PERIL
Berlin Claims Kerch Fall, But London and Moscow Doubt Report. °
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor . The Soviet army's growing Ukraine offensive cut a tank-lit=| tered path through German mechanized reserves on the Kharkov
front today in a battle designed to]
smash the communications network behind Hitler's projected summer offensive. The preliminary success of the Russian attack with large troopcarrying tanks appeared to be developing rapidly into a huge scale operation that ‘ surged close to Kharkov.’ - But, despite unconfirmed London reports of fighting in the Kharkov suburbs, there still was no official report on specific positions and there were mounting indications that the Red army might by-pass Kharkov’s strong fortifications te get at the communications lines, some of which already were reported seized.
Fwo Rail Lines Severed
Two railroad lines south of Kharkov were said to be in —
an, Jojees, Which
and’ dffplane counter-attack, drove fo. which he had retreated and around 300 tanks knocked out or
men killed in two engagements. Both sides appeared to be throwing increasing streagth, including new type tanks and large numbers
front of 50 io 75 miles in the Kharkov area, with engagements also intensifying on other sectors. Russian paratroops were reported ready to aid guerrilla bands already striking at the enemy from the rear. On the Kerch peninsula, the Geiman communique claimed that
Increased pressure for top-speed production in existing war- plants. Donald Nelson summed it up: “Time is the most ‘serious shortage . it will do no good to turn out a flood" of munitions a year from now if we don’t have equipment for emergencies i
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| PE this year.” : ; sia NEXT 100 DAYS will be tough.. t's, America’s ‘first summer at war, first big test; it’s: when axis will put everything it's got into attempted knockout blow. Among the probabilities: Decisive battles, heavy losses, United States bombings, -first farreaching - experience with shortages, sacrifices. n n ”°
BRITISH APPRAISAL of America’s war effort, - issued by Research Group, London: “The most realistic ‘people are © be found in the Middle West," where there is a calm and sound: understanding of the war. Moreover they are getting on with their ‘difficult, tasks far better than any other part of the country.’ -In the East and West there is tremendous activity but it is. spasmodic and too little coordinated. Production only goes up when there is bad news and a sense of danger and dies down again when things look calmer.”
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GASOLINE RATIONING for entire country will come quickly because public hasn't grasped fact that war may be won or lost om basis of rubber we now possess. Tanks may run with steel reads; airplanes must have tires. ! Major unanswered question:
Why isn’t synthetic rubber program moving? ; ns
. 2 88 E . Signs indicate congressmen issued own politiral death-warrantis with votes, speeches, this week defending X cards, other special privHeges, Smarter ones say they wouldn't dare’ campaign this fall in a car; others may learn too late.
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OFFICIAL WARNING of coming food shortages has just been given by agriculture. department. * Roy Henderickson, agricultural marketing administrator, in a little-noticed speech, said it's time to stop thinking there'll always be plenty of food; predicted serious shortages of individual food items. Reason: Shortages in farm labor, fertilizer, insecticides, trans-
Greater Effort for War Keynotes C.1.0. Rally Here
- With greater war effort as their ‘keynote, Indiana U. A. W-C. I. O. members converged upon Indianapolis today for meetings to be culminated with a state-wide rally tomorrow at Cadle tabernacle. “The first duty of the labor move{ment is to win the war. Labor has | everything to lose in a Hitler vic-
ministrator Raul V. McNutt, chairman of the war manpower board; Col. A. Robert Ginsburgh of the Us 8. army, C. I. O. president Philip Murray and U. A. ‘'W. president’ R. J. Thomas. Mt. Atwood said today that the U. A. W.-C. 1. O. has pledged “‘unlimited _production to the président.
| fleeing from the eastern Crimca
Army Permits Return Home
axis forces had taken the town of Kerch and that the Russians were
| to the mainland. The latest Soviet - (Continued on Page Two)
{4-DAY LEAVE AFTER INDUCTION: GRANTED
. Before Active Duty.
WASHINGTON, May 18 (U. P.) — The army and selective service headquarters today announced plans to grant selectees a two-week furlough immediately’ after induction.to permit their return home: at government expense to adjust personal affairs. . Effective June 15, the new arrangement replaces the present system of 10-day furloughs and is designed: to “elimirate any injustices which might occur to. men inducted immediately following physical examination by the army.” ;If found : qualified for military duty by army medical men at the induction . center, a selectee would be transferred to the enlisted reserve for a 14-day period The army said the procedure was adopted to “insure that no enlistee will be compelled to resign his position until he has definite knowledge that he has been accepted by the army.” °
PREPARE PLANS FOR INDIANA WAR PLANT
WASHINGTON, May ' 16.—Senator Frederick VanNuys announced today that he has been notified by the war department that a “letter of intent” for architectural engineering and managerial services “in excess of $3,000,000” has gone to three Indianapolis firms for a war industry plant in Indiana. The firms are Russ and Harrison architects, Leslie Colvin, and William E. Mohler, engineers and con-
the army engineers at Louisville, Ky, Senator VanNuys was informed.
Silver Shirts who faces charges of
has prior “jurisdiction over Pelley.
bond in the North Carolina case, filed the motion to determine which court has jurisdiction.
tians, Noblesville attorney, appeared
R. Rosenthal, assistant professor of
bacteriology of the University of Illinois College of Medicine and|Canada director of the
on 1000 children in one of Chicago’s
tractors. Supervision will be under |Teleased the de tuberculosis ‘and no
Today Last for Sugar Stamp |
Just to remind you—today is the last day you can use sugar stamp No. 1 in your ration book. : ok Beginning Monday morning, stamp No, 2 becomes valid and entitles you to buy your sec+ ond pound of sugar under the rationing program. This stamp is "also good for only a twoweek period up fo ‘midnight, May 30. Stamp No. 3 is for a.period from May 31 to June 13 and No. 4 is for the two weeks’ period from. June 14 to June 27. Stamp No. 1 will never again be of use to you unless it is | used by midnight. Here's a tip on a good way to be sure that you won't over look these deadlines. Write’ on the back of each stamp the date - that is the deadline for the stamp to be used. For instance, on Monday, write on the back of stamp No. 2—“good to midnight May 30.”
SEEK PELLEY'S RETURN SOUTH
Bondsmen -. Begin Dispute Over Jurisdiction in Sedition. Case.
Willies: Dudley Pelley, antibank oo nitic publisher and leadér of
sedition, often has. been invited to leave various towns. Now the tables are turned and a jurisdictional fight for Pelley is taking shape. The North Carolina supreme court .has been asked to determine whether it or federal court here
Pelley faces. sedition charges here. In North Carolina he faces prison terms up to three years for violating conditions of an earlier suspended sentence. The case is now on appeal to the southern court.
Bondsmen File Motion
Yesterday attorneys for Carrie Thrash Dorsett and George Fisher, who furnished Pelley’s $10,000 appeal
At the same- time Floyd Chris-
before Federal Judge Robert C.
are worried about ‘what will become of the ‘boud .if Pelley does not return’ to: North: Carolina,
Luvites Brief
Judge Baltzell said. he knew of no authority by ‘which Pelley should be released here .in favor of the southern court, but said he would be lad to. reteive™a uric! from Mr. Christians. Attorneys here said the jurisdiction claim of the Nourth Carolina bondsmen is based on “an old and rarely used common law.”
‘AND GOOD RIDDANCE’
NEW YORK, May 16 (U. P).— The customary “may God have mercy on your soul” was omitted in general sessions court here when Joseph Sonsky was sentenced to die in- the electric chair the week of June 22 for the 1934 slaying of Detective James Garvey. Instead, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein substituted “and good riddance.”
EARL BROWDER
‘was convicted in the federal dis-
the ee
|agencies worked long and hard to
Entered as Second-Olass Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.
PRICE THREE CENTS
FREED BY FOR AS UNITY STEP
Sentence of Ex-Leader of
Communists Called “Unusually Long.’
" WASHINGTON, May 16 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt . today commuted the sentence of Ear! Browder former general secretary of the Communist party of the United States who is serving a four-year sentence in federal prison for passport fraud. The White House, ‘in announcing the action, said the president believed that commutation of Browder’'s sentence would “have a tendency to promote national unity and allay any feeling which may exist in some minds that the unusually long sentence in Browder's case was ‘by way of penalty imposed upon him because of his political views.” “By virtue of this comIGiation,” the White House said, “Browder will be released from imprisonment as soon as proper arrangements can be made.” Served 14 months Browder has served 14 months
of his term at Atlanta, where he|
was committed March 27, 1941. He trict court for the southern district of New York ¢f using a passport had ' been obtained - by false
The White House said Browder had paid fines of $2000. It said that “the sentence imposed upon him was longer than the usual sentence imposed for offenses involving the fraudulent oBtaining and use of passports.” “The president believes,” (Continued on Page Three)
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Earl Browder sentence commuted to allay any‘ feeling that it was too severe because of political views.
CHURCHILL SEES ALLIED PICKUP
‘Top of Ridge Is in Sight,”
He Says, and None of Us Is Weary.
LEEDS, Eng. May ‘16 (U. P).— Prime. Minisger. Winsion
~Churghill said in a speech today that “we have reached a period of the war when it would be premature to say
we have topped the ridge, but we see the ridge ahead now.”
“The united nations will come on
top of the ridge,” he continued, “and then they will have the chance not only of beating down and subduing those evil forces which have twice let ruin and havoc: on the world,
HOOSIER SENATORS GONDEMN RELEA
'VanNuys and Willis Say
FDR Adding to Disunity.
{but they will have further and
5 ander prospect beyond the smoke f battle: and She confusion of the Sr “We see that perseverance, unflinching, dogged, inexhaustible, tireless, valiant, will surely carry us and our allies, the great nations
(of the world, and the unfortunate ‘nations who have been enslaved on!
[to one of the deepest founded move-
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer { WASHINGTON, May 16—President Roosevelt's commutation of Earl Browder’s sentence aroused no great “unity” among the Hoosiers in
congress, except in condemning the,
action.’ Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind), chairman of the senate judiciary committee, was irate. “I don’t think much of it,” he declared. “It is a mistake and no step toward national unity in wartime.” His junior colleague, Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.), prethat the Browder release will be President Roosevelt’s greatest contribution to “national disunity.” “It brings into the open the very thing about which the honest citizens of my state have been worried,” Senator Willis said. “That is that we are drifting away from the American form of government. “The federal law enforcement
convict Browder, not because he was a Communist but because he is a crook and a liar, who made a false passport: which jeopardizes all honest citizens who travel abroad.
“It is a shame to see him freed so easily. “Americans are agreed on helping Russia. They are not agreed on freeing Communist traitors here.”
Declares Children Can Be Vaccinated Against T. B.
CHICAGO, May 16 (U. P.)— Children can be vaccinated success-
fully against tuberculosis, Dr. Sol
Tice Tuberculosis laboratory, said today. After eight years of experiments
harmful effects resulted, he said.
experiments in France, Rumania and
vaccinated. The scientist said incidence of infection was seven to 10 times as great there among those not innoculated. Similar results were reported after
"The Pasteur institute, Paris, developed the original vaccine. Scientists there took germs of cow tuberculosis and kept them alive for 13 years. in a special culture until the microbes lost their power to kill experimental animals, or even to infect them. A specimen of the German cul-
Editorials .... Peter Edson.,
Mrs. Roosevelt 7] | tory,” Arnold Atwood, C. I. O. reSerial Story. , 13 glonal director, ‘told delegates in an Side Glances. 8 educational confefencd, today at the
Society eis 4 5 Hotel Lincoln, 1 The: ieeting tomorrow will
Every local union is setting up pro- : duction committees to work with
management ih increasing produc-
| tion wherter “possible.
0. is oa
This is | Morris
In a similar “control group” of 1000 GEST, PRODUCER, DIES children not vaccinated, eight cases NEW YORK, May 16 (U. P).— lof the disease and three deaths reGest, ‘producer of
many 's ‘sulted. -
ture was brought to the United States in 1934 and Dr. Rosenthal
Degen Bis experimen. ‘He kept the German cul !
ments of humanity which have ‘taken ‘place in our history.
‘None of Us Is Weary’
“Here is the 33d month of the war, none of us is weary of the struggle. None of us is calling for any favors from the enemy. If he plays rough we can play rough too. s4“Whatever we -have got to take we will take it and give it back in greater measure. , , . “It is not now going to be brave men against men who are armed but a fight of people with not only resolve and a .cause but also with weapons.” “Good old Winston!” came from the great crowd of cheering munitions workers and women raliroad workers, clerks and stenographers who greeted Churchill as he left his train, wearing a typical Churchillian hat and a service gas mask.
RAINFALL EXCEEDS
That Downpour Yesterday Totaled .77 of Inch.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
. 43 . 43 a sre 45 oa
49 52 54 57
10a. m ... 11a. m. ... 12 (noon) .. 1pm ...
Marion county, will the farmers please note, has had more rainfall in “the first 15 days of May than it normally would have for the entire month. And that .77 of an inch that seemed to fall in one lump yesterday brought the total far above the four-inch total. Yesterday's downpour flooded streets and basements in several sections of the city and street department employees worked until late last night clearing sewer inlets. The condition was worse in the Sherman dr.-E. 10th st. area where repairs were being made on the main storm sewer of the vicinity. White river and Fall creek rose several inches and a number of boats that had been beached were washed away.
harkov
MARTINIQUE NOTE CALLED OFFENSIVE
Ships Won't Be Turned Over to America or Germany, He Declares. a
VICHY, France, May 18 (U. P.).—Piérre. Laval, chief of the Vichy government, to day formally rejected what he described as : United States - interference with French sovereignty and
| demands for transfer to the
United States under fair cons ditions of French merchant shipping in the West Indies. Laval said the United States had proposed in negotiations with Mare tinique officials that French' Ads miral Georges Robert, high coms missioner of Martinique, become “the supreme authority”. in the French West Indies and Guiana “on behalf of France and under the
French flag, but acting indepens dently of Vichy.” Laval, who returned today from consultation with ‘various authors ities” in German-ocupied parley made public the texts of roles. exe changed with Vichy regarding £ tinique’ and” other French t sions in the western (The American note apparently w the one sent to Martinique and relayed by French colonial i. to Vichy as Washington had said it was not negotiating direct with Laval).
Repeats Vichy Pledges oid ri hy
While Laval was in Paris, one or 5 his French fascist suporters, Jacques it Doriot, came out with a demand a a break in relations with the United States and Britain, whom he des scribed as the enemies of France. Laval renewed his promises thek the French warships at Martinique would not fall into foreign (German) hands and approved the agreement made at Martinique for their immobilization as announced .at Washington. But he rejected what he said were American demands for turne ing over merchant ships (estimated at 140,000 tons, including a number of tankers) in the West Indies, asserting that such’ action ‘wi forbidden by the armistice wi Germany.
Six U. S. Demands Listed
The American note as released : here demanded: : 1. Immobjlization of French ware ships and airplanes in the Antilles (Martinique) under U. S. control arrangements. i 2. Effective control by American authorities of radio, telegraph: and j postal communications. 5 3. American control over come mercial traffic, immigration and travelers coming and going out of the Antilles. ] i 4. Limitation of French milita (Continued on Page Two). 2 8 ”n
‘On the War Fronts QUOTA’ FOR MAY
(May 16, 1942)
RUSSIA—Red army drive pushes close to Kharkov but dispatches indicate that Russians may bys pass city in order to seize vital communications network 2 avoid cost of great frontal tack. Berlin communique claims capture of Kerch.
WESTERN EUROPE—R. A. P. news raids on shipping off | man coast, setting at least vessels afire.
MEDITERRANEAN—-Germans | port bomb attack on Ales Arrival of American war eq ment arouses speculation on a summer offensive in Libya.
AUSTRALIA—Allies raid Jap
base at Lae, inflicting heavy ¢ age in surprise attack.
CHINA—Chinese stem J attacks on Salween river, f FORD PLANT By: J
WASHINGTON, May. i —Maj. Gen. Alexandey.
director of the war depart bureau of public relations, day that the Ford v ’
“offensive”