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Hoosier Vagabond By Eri Pyle

WITH FIFTH ARMY BEACHHEAD FORCES IN ITALY, April 25 (By Wireless). —In addition to its regular job of furnishing food and clothing to the troops, the quartermaster corps of the 5th army beachhead runs the bakery, a laundry for the hospitals, a big salvage depot of old equipment, and the military cemetery. : : ‘Hospital pillows and sheets are the only laundry done on the beachhead by the army. Everything else the individual soldiers either wash themselves or hire Italian

- farm women to do. People like me just go dirty and enJoy it. The army laundry is on several big mobile trucks hidden under the sharp slope of a low hill. They are so well camouflaged that & photographer who went out to take some pic. tures came away without any—he said the pictures wouldn't show any-

This laundry can turn out 3000 pieces in 10 hours of work. About 80 men are in the laundry platoon. They are dug in and live fairly Dicely, : ; Laundrymen have been killed fn other campaigns, but so far they've escaped up here. Their worst disaster was that the little shower-bath building they built for themselves has been destroyed three times by “ducks” which got out of control when their brakes failed and came plunging over the - . blufr. 2 Continuing with “ducks” for a mement, in one company all these

amohibien i RYE Seip : ‘Dames. Ths men have nha Th names on the sides if big white letters, and every: name starts with ®A” There are such names as *Avalon” and “Ark Royal.” Some bitter soul named his duck “Atabrine,” and an even bitterer one called his “Assinine”—misspelling the ‘word with two s's, just to rub it in,

Touching Place .

OUR SALVAGE dump is a touching place. Every day five or six truckloads of assorted personal stuff are dumped on the ground in an open space near town. It is mostly the clothing of soldiers who have . been killed or wounded. It is mud-caked and often bloody. : Negro soldiers sort it out and classify it for cleaning. They poke through the great heap, picking out shoes of the same size to put together, picking out knives and forks and leggings and underwear and cans of C ration and goggles and canteens and sorting them into different piles. Everything that can be used again is returned to the issue bins as it is or sent to Naples for repair. They find many odd things in the pockets df the discarded clothing. And they have to watch out, for pockets sometimes carry hand grenades. You feel sad and tight-lipped when you look closely through the great pile. Inanimate things can sometimes speak so forcefully—a helmet with a bullet hole in the front, one overshoe all ripped with shrapnel, a portable typewriter pitifully and irreparably smashed, a pair of muddy pants, bloody and with one leg gone.

The cemetery is neat and ™ rows of wooden

WE'VE JUST heard of the acme in bribery. The head of an important civic organization had to resort to such tactics to induce a couple of women to head a division of the organization. And you'd never guess the bait he used: A pair of nylon hosiery for each. . , , We hear that both Mr. Goodrich and Mr. Fisk work at the U. 8. Rubber Co. plant here. The Mr. Goodrich is larry E., of the advertising department — not the head of the competitor firm. We didn't get Mr. Pisk’s first name. . . . Wayne Berry, of Curtiss-Wright, was in Kansas City the other day and noticed that pedestrians there are pretty well trained in the observ. ance of traffic regulations. At one ; intersection there was a police car with a loud speaker. Instead of just warning jaywalkers, the officer in the car was giving a lurid description of an accident that morning in which a boy had been injured seriously. Many folks stood around listening soberly to the story of the accident, And they walked carefully when they left the spot.

Happy Birthday

MAXWELL V. BAILEY, secretary to the school board, had a birthday yesterday—he didn't say which one. And, following an old school board office custom, there had to be a party for the office employees. Mr. Bailey served ice cream and cake. In return, he received several birthday presentg including six bars of Lifebuoy soap, two live rabbits, one live baby chick and a goldfish. Mr. Bailey, who lives in an apartment, spent the rest of the afternoon trying to give away his livestock. , . . Capt. J. Frank Cant well, the head man of the home shows back in prewar days, is over in England now, awaiting the invasion. But that doesn't mean he has forgotten the home show, In a letter to Leslie F. Ayres, the architect, Capt. Cantwell says he is getting some fine ideas for bigger and better home shows for after the war. He's quartered in an. old castle and, in free moments, sits before the fireplace dreaming up honie show plans, , , , Pvt. William L. Reed, 617% N. Drexel ave, who is in England, reads this column pretty regularly and noticed a while back an item

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday.—Sunday afternoon proved to be quite busy, at 1 o'clock, over a hundred Capitol page boys came to lunch. After lunch we saw some movies of one of our carriers, and then they stayed on for another movie and a visit through the White House rooms, I went out a little before 4, to receive with Mrs. Robert Pate terson at a tea which the “jangos” gave in her house for the WAC officers in Washington. You might like to know about the jangos. Those letters stand for junior army-navy guild organization, These are the wives and daugheters of junior officers and they

have banded themselves together -

to do a great variety of war work, : helping the hospitals here and filling in wherever they see a chance for being uses ful. They are young women with families, and therefore they are not able to do full time jobs. But they keep usefully busy, - : : . The tea yesterday was a great success, and they did all the work of looking after the guests and see- . ing that they were fed and made to feel at home, Afterwards, I stopped to see an exhibition of paint ve. the Arts club,

ce ney

I have obtained in the past. I am so grateful

Up Front With Mauldin

“It's okay, Joe—I'm a non-combatant.”

crosses are very white—and it is very big. All the American dead of the beachhead are buried in one cemetery. ' Trucks bring the bodies in daily. Italian civil and American soldiers dig the graves. They try to keep ahead by 50 graves or so. Only once or twice have they been swamped. Each man is buried in a white mattress cover. The graves are five feet deep and close together. A little separate section is for the Germans, and there are more than 300 in it. We have only a few American dead who are unidentified. Meticulous records are kept on everything.

Water Five Feet Down

THEY HAD to hunt quite a while to find a knoll high enough on this Anzio beachhead so that they wouldn't hit water five feet down. The men who keep the graves live beneath ground themselves, in nearby dugouts. Even the dead are not safe on the beachhead, nor the living who care for the dead. Many times German shells have landed in the cemetery. Men have been wounded as they dug graves, Once a body was uprooted and had to be reburied. The inevitable pet dog barks and scampers around the area, not realizing where he is. The soldiers say at times he has kept them from going nuts.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

in which we said: “There seems to be no particular shortage of liquor over in England.” Pvt. Reed corrects us. “There is a definite shortage of liquor here,” ! he writes us. “A good cocktail cost me in London! one night eight shillings—$1.60.” . . . The money con- | tributed last summer to The Indianapolis Times’ Ernie Pyle cigaret fund still is providing cigarets for servicemen overseas. Cards of appreciation still keep pouring in, and occasionally one is from an Indianapolis serviceman. One such was received this week from Cpl. Lenard C. Hawkins. He writes: “It was a happy surprise to me when I opened the carton of cigarets and found your card. For I lived in Indianapolis prior to my entry into the army. I also carried The Times when I was a kid. My folks reside at 1628 Dawson st. I am well and doing okay. I have been gone from home for two years and more. Mm in India now and have been for a year and a half. I have high hopes of seeing good old Indianapolis by the end of this year,”

The Lost Is Found

TWO YEARS AGO, while she was a nurse at the U. 8. Veterans hospital, Mrs. Robert Young, 3528 N. lllinois, lost a red purse containing more than $7, and other valuables. That's the last she saw of the purse until one day last week. Then the purse, with the money and other possessions intact, was delivered | by mail to her mother, Mrs. Hubert Day, in Wash-|

ington, Ind. Mrs. Day's name was on an identifica- | of Somerville, Tenn. .

tion card in thé purse. Where it had been all this time is unknown. Perhaps the finder mislaid it and finally stumbled onto it again during housecleaning. « + . While we're in the “lost and found” department, maybe we can find the owner of a pair of gold, rimless glasses that were found on a counter in The Times’ advertising department a month or so ago. They are rather strong lenses, and the case bears the name of the Hoosier Optical Co. If they are yours, call at the cashier's cage at The Times. , . . News of the police raid recently “on John K. Jennings’ apartment in the Claypool seems to have gotten world-wide publicity. Among the interested readers of stories about the raid was Sgt. Patrick Cuddy, the former public relations director for the State C. of C, now in the army supply service at Natal,

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SECOND SECTION

GOP SCRAPPING OVER CONTROL OF VOTE COUNT

Tyndall Demands Places ‘For Men on Election Boards.

A struggle between the regular Republican organization - and the

1G. O. P. Victory Committee over

control of election boards and counting supervisors at the primaiy election next Tuesday has put County Clerk A. Jack Tilson on the “hot spot.” » Mr. Tilson’ is the election boss by virtue of his office, serving on the election board with Albert Thompson, ot the regular G. O. P, organ~ ization and Ernest Frick, Democrat, Thus the county clerk has the final say in election matters. Under the law, the chairmen of both party committees nominate election workers and Mr. Tilson’s board appoints them from the cthairmen’s lists, i . Wrote to Ostrom

chairman, demanding that the city

tion boards next Tuesday.

liam (Billy) Hamilton charged that

the regular party bosses. Mr. Hamilton also has asked that his committee be given equal representation on the central count staff, At the same time, the United Republican precinct Committeemen, Inc, an organization composed of regular ‘organization committeemen, sent the election board a letter, protesting appointment of election workers from lists submitted by any organization other than the regularly constituted central committee.

Tilson in the ‘Middle’

This left Mr. Tilson right in the middle of a hot factional feud. He started out more than a year ago as| a member of the city hall victory committee but he ducked out of it later, proclaiming his neutrality, The election board, with Mr. Tilson presiding, was to meet later today to make the election appointments—1500 workers for the central count project and another 1000 for precinct election boards.

HEART ATTACK KILLS CAPITAL COLUMNIST

By Secripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance | WASHINGTON, April 25.—George | Morris, well-known columnist for the Memphis Commercial Appeal,’ died suddenly last night at his! home, Etowah farm, Harwood, Md.! He was 58. | Mr. Morris had been at the capi-| tol, talking with news sources during the day. He had retired early and was propped up in bed conversing with his wife, Karen, when he toppled over dead from a heart attack. He was a native of Somerville, Tenn. Mr, Morris started working for the Commercial Appeal when a young man. In 1914 he was made associate editor of the Nashville Banner, later was Washington correspondent for that paper while serving also as secretary to Senator John K. Shields. Since 1937 he was Washington correspondent and columnist for the Commercial Appeal. Besides his wife, Mr. Morris is survived by one son, Lt. (jg) George Jr, and a brother, Walter,

0. E. S. PLANS BALL HERE TOMORROW

The “Grand Victory Ball” of the Indiana’ grand chapter, O. E. S., will be held at 9 p. m. tomorrow in the Egyptian room of the Murat temple. The ball, originally scheduled for Thursday, will be preceded by a pageant of flags at 7:45 p. m. in the auditorium. Proceeds from the ball will. be donated to the war effort.

Brazil. He mentioned the raid in a letter to his

mother, “Nothing as exciting as that ever happens here,” he complained. .

By Eleanor Roosevelt

went to the Foundry Methodist church and met with a group of their young people. We had a rather late supper, after which we were shown the army movie, “The Negro Soldier in the War.” It is a very moving record of achievement, and I hope the Negro soldiers will feel that it is a recognition of their outstanding service. It should bring one very evident fact home to all of us—the fact that this war. is fought by all Americans and not by any group of them, and that it will be better fought if we fight it together as Americans and not as divided groups. At noon today, I went to the Woman's National Democratic club to speak on the Caribbean trip: I am so glad to be able to agree with Mr. Pegler on something he wrote in his column. I heartily agree with him that in the case of a simple person like myself, there is no reason whatsoever why there should be any accompanying cars on any trips which I take within any city or in any part of our country or abroad. . I shall be most grateful to him if he will keep on telling the various ‘who meet me and go about with me that one all we need and that escorts of any kind are absolutely unnecessary. I haye been contending that for a long time and it is a joy to find an ally who may command more co-operation than Mr.

| Claypool hotel.

Registration of the 1400 delegates attending the 70th annual session started at 1 p. m. today in the

TRAINMEN’S GROUP

Mrs. Clara Bradley of Columbus, O., grand president of Golden Rule lodge 25, ladies auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and 40 year members will be honor guests at the 52d anniversary celebration at 1 p. m. tomorrow in

| wrote 8. hall Victory committee be given representation on the precinct elecVictory Committee Manager Wil-| |

his group was being “backed right| off every election board in town” by!

TO MARK 52D YEAR|!

e| church, past master of Capitol City

public service features, today sketches of candidates for m next Tuesday. The purpose

SHERWOOD BLUE

Now prosecutor, completing his second term, and a candidate for renomination. Backed by regular county G.O.P. organization. He is 39, married, and lives at 4232 Graceland ave. Born here, he graduated from Tech *high school and Indiana university. He practiced law here from 1928 until he took office for the first time in 1940. He was successful in his first bid for public office, He is a member of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church and a number of civic and legal organizations. Platform: Will continue present policies which have produced effective law enforcement in Marion county.

H. A. Campbell C. H. Clemens

HARMON A. CAMPBELL

Fifty-six; retail coal dealer, lives lat 1167 W. 36th st. iboard of works last year; former] member of city plan commission and former city councilman. Mem-

and Shrine.

forcement agencies.” i

CHARLES (CHICK) ROUSH |

Fifty-three, Allison employee. Lives at 1612 Brookside ave.! Member of the American Legion, | 101 Bible class of Baptist church. Platform: An efficient, vigorous,

businesslike administration.

For Judge

For Seat on Circuit Court, 19th Judicial Circuit, one to be nominated.

Mr. Chamberlin Mr. Clayoombe HARRY 0. CHAMBERLIN

President of | gummit ave.

e Indianapolis Times

TUESDAY, APRIL 25,.1944

starts publishing thumb-nail ajor offices in the primaries is to inform voters of each

( In Race for Prodecutor (One to Be Nominated)

ca . Sherwood Blue

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Six Seek Nomination for Office as Sheriff

(One to Be Nominated)

R. B. Edwards L. C. Nine

CHARLES CLEMENS Park’ policeman, lives at 337. N,

- Otto Petit

sheriff in 1942,

{ Former member of regular police force 21 years,

John L. Niblack

SHERIFF OTTO W.

Fifty-five, elected Marion county; lican Victory Organization meeting

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G.O.P. County Candidates in the Primary & > The Indianapolis Times, as one of its continuing ° candidate's background and to supply information that will be useful in passing judgment on qualifications for office. The candidates appearing on this page today all seek nomination at the Republican primary.

P st JOHN L. NIBLACK Now a municipal judge. a former school teacher and newspaper reporter. Backed by City hall Victory organization. = Judge Niblack is 46, married” and has two daughters. He lives at 5115 Carvel ave, Appointed to the bench by Gov. ernor Schricker in November, 1941, he was reappointed the following January for a four-year term. He formerly was a state senator and was an officer of the Citizens’ nonpartisan school committee in three

elections. Platform: “Equal justice for all.”

‘REGULARS’ SHY + AT MAYOR'S BID

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Ay Comparatively Few Ward | Leaders Attend Meeting

For ‘Harmony.’

By SHERLEY UHL

The current confusion over factional loyalties of precinct committeemen and candidates for precinct PETIT committeemen marked a Repub-

Charles Roush

. . last night at which Mayor Tyndall Served on Police | curried the pre-primary favor of

first Instructor in| several hundred ward electioneers.

force.

regardiess of creed or color.

ROBERT B. EDWARDS

Thirty-five. Manager of Craig's fountain. Lives at 3615 E. 32d st. Member of Christian church. Platform: Let precinct committee-

Am men select the people who work in| absolutely free of the traditional | office and let the taxpayers have cpurteous assistants, smoke-filled backroom boss control. [their money's worth.

(Second District, One to Be Nominated)

Row

Mr. Bosson Mr. Walker

Seventy-two, state senator and |

two terms as circuit court judge! 1020 to 1932, and one term as state | senator, being elected in 1940. | Member of the Second Presbyter- | ian church, the Indiana and Indianapolis Bar Associations. Lives at 3907 N. Pennsylvania st. Married and has one daughter. | Platform: “My oath of office. is

my platform.” |

Fifty-four, veteran Indianapolis | lawyer and state representative. Married and has three

the 1941 and 1943 sessions of the state legislature. Was Republican candidate for probate judge in 1934. Member of the American legion, the Indianapolis and Indiana Bar associations and Meridian Heights president of Lambda Chi Alpha col- | lege fraternity. ' Platform: Fairness and justice to all.

& G. A. Hofmann Frank Mellis GEORGE A. HOFMANN Fifty-seven, lawyer, lives at 307 E. North st., No, 9. Past chancellor of Capitol City lodge 97, F. & A. M,, and a member of the Past Chancellor’'s association, Royal Vizier Shambah temple 139, D, O. K. K,, and the Indianapolis and Indiana Bar associations. Platform: oath of office under the constitution shall be my pledge to the people, regardless of color, race or creed. I am not a politician but a lawyer.

. FRANK MELLIS Fifty-five, attorney, lives at 1606 Leonard st. He is a member of Friedens Evangelical and Reformed

lodge 312, F'. & A, M,, and &n officer of the Scottish Rite. ~~ =

LLOYD D. CLAYCOMBE |

1942, State representative in 1927 and 1929, Member of the North M. church, 32d degree Mason in the Shrine, Scottish Rite and member of the Gattling club, An Indianapolis realtor, married, lives at 3725 N. Illinois st. Platform: Running on my record f personal service given the office during the past 2!'3 years.

JAMES H. WHITE Forty-four, owner of White's

children. |yarket, 401 S. Warman ave., was!

Lives at 4301 Park ave. Served in!candidate for member of school! | 'board in 1942 on the independent Camby where he was born. Is now,

ticket. Married, three children. Member

of Masonic lodge .661 and the Mor- |

mon church, Is world war 1 veteran. Platform: A business administra-

Presbyterian church. Past national | tion, more ample drainage and a Decatur Township Republican club.

clean courthouse.

Surveyor

For

George Schmidt Paul Brown

GEORGE G. SCHMIDT Fifty-four, civil engineer and surveyor, lives at R. R. 16, Box 193-B. County- surveyor, 1926; deputy county surveyor, 1914 to 1918. Member of Marion lodge 35, F. & A. M,, Shrine, Murat temple, Episcopal church. ‘Platform: Reduction in operatnig cost of expenditures and adequate protection to the people of Marion county in the flooded districts, especially Ravenswood, Warfleigh and the Sunshine districts,-

"PAUL R. BROWN

Fifty-six, ineumbent surveyor Served as county surveyor first time 1929-31. Elected in 1940 and reelected in 1942. : - ~ World War I veteran, single and lives at 3207 E

DOKSIO

= Run for County Commissioner

WILLIAM (BUD) BOSSON Fifty-five, county commissioner of veteran Indianapolis lawyer. Served the second district since January, neering department; president for

{ police merit school, helped establish |

Platform: Continte my present | | policies, LISTON C. NINE

Forty-nine. Employed as a super- | lintendent by the Marion county

(Third District, One to Be Nominated)

Mr. Mendenhall Mr. White

SAM C. WALKER Fifty, chief inspector city engi-

[past two years of Garfield Repub!lican club and Indianapolis chair- | man of Republican Veterans organ-| | ization, southern district. | Member of American Legion, {| Beech Grove Masonic lodge 694 and

| Townsend club No. 8. Served 1941{42 as chief deputy county surveyor {in charge of drainage. Married, lives at 1604 LeGrande ave. Platform: An economical practical drainage plan for out-county areas.

| RAY D. MENDENHALL

Forty-three, operates farm near

{president of the board of county]

commissioners, elected in 1942. Member of the Shrine, Gattling [club and is 32d degree Mason. Mar{ried, two children. Long active in

Platform: Running on my record.

Unopposed

DR. ROY B. STORMS

Bosses of the regular G. O. P,

ber of Christian church, North Platform: Strict law enforcement rules and regulations for police ra- | county organization said the ‘mayor, Park Masonic lodge, Scottish Rite with experienced deputies; co-0p-|dio. Established method of block-| who had termed the affair a {eration with police department and ing highways and surrounding ter- | “friendly get-together,” had failed Platform: More adequate, efficient | prosecutor; patrol of roads 24 hours ritory by radio cars to apprehend | in his attempt to win over regular road patrol of rural districts anda day; support of Mayor Tyndall law violators. | full co-operation with all law en- and his policy; square deal for all,|

organization committeemen since “only a handful of them attended.” Harry Calkins, the mayor's secretary, disavowed this account by insisting that a “goodly number” of organization workers were among the crowd that milled around the Columbia club’s huge ballroom and occupied itself with “confidential” palaver over precinct politics.

Many ‘Too Busy’

However, a sample check of regular organization-pledged committeemen indicated that relatively few of them accepted the mayor's invitation. Many of them were busy tending to primary election preparations in their own bailiwicks. Others, against whom the Victory committee has filed oppos= ing candidates, viewed the mayor's bid for friendship with no little cynicism. The mayor's letter of invitation had stressed tMe fact that while precinct committeemen are “elect ed by the people,” the ward chairmen, appointed by the county chairman, too often take over political reins and dictate party policy. Pro-city hall committeemen and candidates for committeemen, many of them city hall employees, heard the mayor describe the coming primary as “the most important election held in this country since the civil war.”

Jewett Reappears

A surprise event was offered in the form of an address by Charles W. Jewett, Mayor Tyndall's former campaign manager, who hadn't been heard from publicly since resigning as chairman of the Victory committee after the mayor failed to give him his unqualified indorsement. Most city hall politicos were quick to interpret this as a sure sign that the mayor and Mr. Jewett healed their differences for the sake of that well-known ideal, “party harmony.” Mr. Jewett said he believed pri.

{mary contests are “stimulating to

the party. . . . They should be conducted in good humor and good spirit so that after voters have made their selections, we can all be united in a harmonious fighting force for victory in November.”

U. S. POLICY SHOWN ON LEND-LEASE BASES

WASHINGTON, April 24 (U.P.). —Informed sources revealed today that the state department, while

Unopposed for coroner nomina-

considering post-war ownership of

tion, serving second term in| lend-lease air bases as relatively un-

| Baptist {church, the In+dianapolis Mediical society, the {Marion county and Indiana State Magical societies, the American Legion, Sigma Chi fraternity, Masonic order, and Phi Beta Pi, medical fraternity.

FRANK P. HUSE

Unopposed for renomination, serving first term as treasurer.

Has been affiliated with Union Title Co. in abstract business for 27 years. "1 He is a member of the Indianapolis real estate board, the Optimist club, and lives at 2038 Princeton place. A

Dr. Storms

{lodge, Sahara Grotto, Raper Com{mandery, Methodist church, Ameri-

ican legion and Veterans of Foreign i

Wars.

important, will insist that the | United States have access to them on equal terms with other nations. This position was said to have been taken by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., in London during his recent exploratory talks on aviation with Lord Beaverbrook, head of postwar aviation planning for Great Britain,

DANVILLE MOTORIST HURT IN CRASH HERE

Seventy - seven-year-old Matt Moore of Danville was in a fair condition at City hospital today - from injuries received in an autémobile collision. Mr. Moore's car stalled as he was driving across Illi. nois st. on Vermont st. When the automobile suddenly started forward again, it rolled into the path of a car driven by Robert Sears, 632 Cole st. .

BRICKER SPURNS POST 2

NEW YORK, April 35 (U. P.) ~ Governor John W, Bricker of Ohio

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