Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1944 — Page 1
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By HELEN KIRKPATRICK ~
Foreign Correspondent LONDON, May 2. 2.—The battle of France already has begun, according to Pierre Vienot, the Algiers committee's official representative in London and former career diplo-*
- mat, who fled France exactly a year ago.
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-* Vienot received the press to give. it a picture of France “today as it has changed during the past three months since
REPORT MASS TREND SWELLS
RANKS OF GOP
Many Democrats Marking ®
Republican Ticket for Blue Only.
By NOBLE REED The lightest primary elec-
tion balloting in 10 years to-|§
day indicated that the organized party factions were dominating the vote almost entirely with some 200,000 registered voters staying away from
Republican ballot. Inquiry among some
Support Niblack
On the other hand, in some of the North and East Side precincts
Democrats who admitted voting the| §
Republican baliot said they were Supporting “Judge Niblack, In many of the solid Democratic
wards where the vote for years has!
been three-to-one Democratic, the ratio ‘was reversed in the balloting today with the Republican vote total three-to-one ahead of the Demoeratic. 2 This brought predictions from Democratic leaders that their total party vote. would not exceed 15,000 © 20,000, Republican leaders predicted that their vote would not exceell 30,000 or 35,000, making the estimated total vote below 60,000. The .total vote in the 1942 primary was 76,800, 30.900 Democratic and 36,900 Republicans. Balloting in the first six hours averaged 15 to 20 voters an hour per precinct compared to previous voting volume ranging up to 30 an hour, The election was unusually quiet, with no serious disputes being reported to the county election com- - missioners during the morning balloting. The statehouse, city hall and courthouse were closed to enable the employees to participate - in the primary activities and Governor and Mrs. Schricker were in . Knox to cast their votes.
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1944
the Gertitan offensive hogan with the object of removing
all possible active resistance
in France on the day of the
allied invasion of Europe. It was his avowed intention * to give an objective and unemotional story. The story was that of a nation-wide manhunt; of executions; of entire villages being burned, with their peoples executed or burned alive inside their houses, and of
German divisions tracking
appears blandly undaunted by the wallpaperhanded him by Miss Agnes Redomond, poll worker at 2178
. Tinols st. captain knows his crew.
No wonder . . . the mayor knows his candidates like a (Other photos, page nine.) . ad RS
This Is the inoment Republican County Chairman Henry E. Ostrom has been waiting for. Probably voting straight down the line for his
own county G. O. P.
Mr, , with a “that’s that,”
organization, deposits his ballet at 1505 N. Illinois st., as Mrs. Mertle Krack, looks on.
MAJOR DISTILLERY - AGGUSED BY U. §.
Indictment Names 12. in Black: Market Plot.
Mrs. Offringa, 101,
Diesat Home Here
MRS. VELMA OFFRINGA, who celebrated her 101st birthday April 17, died today in her ows, 1228 Albany st, Beech
down the young men and
fR SPEED oN BUILDING HERE
National Committee Adopts Resolution on New War
Plaza Unit.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times, Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, May 2.— If Indiana wants to keep the American Legion national headquarters jn Indianapolis it will have to speed construction of the twin to the Amer-
ican Legion building on World War Memorial plaza and turn it over to the veterans organization exclu-
sively. ' That is what is meant by reso-
{lutions presented at the "Legion
executive committee meeting here today. A digest of those on housing needs for Legion headquarters reads: “The national adjutant is authorized, with the co-operation, assistance and supervision of the subcommittee on enlarging headquarters space, to arrange for a thorough study, survey and investigation covering the anticipated future permanent needs for space and facilities for headquarters of the na-
ommendations that shall be matete the pre-convention meeting of the national executivecommittee at Chicago, IIL Space Sharing Banned “Further, that the national adjutant and the special subcommittee in makigg such survey, study and report, consider that it is the definite expressed conviction of the national executive committee that the American Legion and its allied organizations should not in any way share headquarters space with the headquarters of any other veterans organizations, either in a building or buildings, or on ‘the same immediate site. “The national adjutant is authorized to rent additional space in Indianapolis as required to meet present and emergency needs until proper quarters are permanently provided, and the national adjutant may enter into such month to month contract of leasing as is necessary, and that this authority shall extend to the next meeting of the national executive committee at its national convention in Chicago, IL.”
Hoosier on Committee
Past National Commander Milo J. Warner of Ohio is chairman of the subcommittee charged with enlarging headquarters space. V. M. (Army) Armstrong, Indianapolis, member of the national executive committee, is a member of the Warner committee also. Bowman Elder, Indianapolis, was present at the meeting and explained that the exclusive use of buildings as stated in the resolution would apply only to the additional Legion building to be built on the plaza at Indianapolis. It does not
naive of Holland, she came [in
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issyed daily except Sunday
women of France to eliminate them before they can give
_ assistance to the allies.
« One of France's most eminent clergyman, whose name must be withheld, has estimated that 100,000 Frenchmen have been shot or hanged for resistance since 1940. The figures given by the council of resistance are
80,000.
* The most recent reports from France indicate that the
people, irrespective of their former political allegiances : .or their feeling toward Chief of State Marshal Henri Petain, no longer regard France as having any government. Vichy’s avowed collaboration with the Germans has gone beyond any former announced intentions of preserv-
ing France and the French.
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By LEE G.
on the invasion. ing on their own last night.
Anzio beachhead where Ernie almost got it a few weeks ago. The . guy has friends everywhere. In fact, how he ever gets work will always be a mystery to most of us. He has to hide out. Just yesterday a letter came from him — delivered, miraculously, three days after he wrote it in London—and he said he'd been trying to get to work but— “Every day a half dozen things sping up. Yesterday the foreign ‘called and wanted my
List Winners i
WARD DOUBTS FOR'S POWERS
Counsel Charges Seizure Is Violation of the Bill Of Rights.
(Another Story, Page 11)
CHICAGO, May 2 (U. P.).—Counsel for Montgomery Ward & Co. at a federal court hearing vigorously attacked the government's seizure of the firm's Chicago properties today and maintained that even in wartime the President cannot “arrogate to himself despotic powers against which free people have been protected since the days of Magna Charta.” Attorney Harold Smith appeared for the compatiy at a hearing before District Judge William H. Holly on the government's appeal for an injunction to prevent the company’s officers from interfering with the federal operation of the Chicago facilities of the mail order and retail store organization. Smith told the court that the substance of the government's case was: “That the President has the
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ALLIED SUBS SINK 17 JAPANESE SHPS
1/3 Destroyers, Light Cruiser
Included in Toll.
WASHINGTON, May 2 (U. P)—
MILLER
(Whe Is Sometimes Known as Scripps-Howard's “Vice-PPesident. in Charge of Pyle”) WASHINGTON, May 2.—His old friends in Washington hope Ernie Pyle gets a chance in London to celebrate his winning of a Pulitzer prize before he shoves off Meantime, they did a little celebrat-
And it was probably the same in Indianapolis, and Albuquerque, and San Francisco, and New York, and Algiers, and Naples, and a dozen other places—perhaps even that dark and bloody ground of the
| Nome (Mortlock) in the
‘views’ on the Mediterranean. At noon I had lunch with a colonel who is an old friend. Early in the afternoon two men from special services came with a plea that I write a certain piece for Stars and Stripes,and put it in a way I just couldn't turn down. Then a girl from the Standard came and stayed an hour and a half getting the dope for a story.
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\uidges Rap Some News Bons;
in Field of Art
NEW YORK, May 2 (U. P).—With the advisory board deploring “certain acts and policies of army and navy censorship” of the news, nine* Pulitzer prize winners in journalism, five in letters and one in music were announced yesterday with Ernie Pyle, Indianapolis Times columnist and roving war reporter, winning the award for distinguished
correspondence in 1943. The regular award for an original
American play was omitted, but al special award was substituted for)
“Oklahoma” and a special citation issued honoring Byron Price, director of censorship. The board criticized the censorship “in handling of news at the source, and for the unreasongble suppression of information to which the American people are entitled.”
Ernie Pyle is mow in London. His columns are still appearing under Italian datelines, but this is because he managed to write enough pieces in advance to keep the copy going while he made the trip to England and got his bearings there. When the great invasion comes he will be at the ringside.
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Pyle's award, which carried with it a prize of $500, was “for dis-
tinguished correspondence during
the year, the test being clearness and terseness of style, preference being given to fair, judicious, wellbalanced and well-informed interpretative writing, which shall make
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FRAY BELOW ROME
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 2 (U. P.) —Fierce patrol fighting broke out all along the main battlefronts below Rome yesterday, a communique reported today, while allied bombers maintained their day and night offensive
against enemy supply ports and rail lines in central and northern Italy. American medium bombers at-
ttacked railroad lines in the Rome
area by daylight and the R. A. F's medium and heavy raiders followed through with night attacks on Genoa, Spezia, Livorno (Leghorn) and the rail junction of Allessandria, 35 miles north of Genoa. It was the fourth straight night Genoa had been bombed. -
Ernie Pyle Wagered $100 He Wouldn't
Receive the Pulitzer Prize—and He Lost
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Ernie Pyle
LIFT SPANISH OIL EMBARGO
‘U.S. Acts When Franco Cuts Nazi Supply of Wolfram. WASHINGTON, May 2 (U. P.)— | The United States, hinting that the
invasion may cut off all exports from Spain to Germany, today
to Spain in return for a Spanish agreement to cut wolfram exports to Germany to 25 per cent of the 1643 total.
Four Other Provisions
The United States had held out for several weeks for a total embargo on wolfram—a mineral used for hardening steel—but settled for the 75 per cent cut “on the urgent request of the British government.” The agreement was negotiated by the United States and Great Britain during three months of discussions in Madrid. It also provides for: 1. Expulsion -of “designated axis agents” from Tangiers, the Spanish zone in North Africa, and from the Spanish mainland. 2. Closing of the German consu-
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Hoosier Heroes—
LT, THOMAS HOWARD
PATROLS OPEN HEAVY
MISSING IN ACTION
Previous Reports on Hare,
Ross Confirmed.
t+ SECOND LT. THOMAS E. HOWARD, 311 N. Summit ave. is missing in action in the Mediterranean theater. The war department today also confirmed the previous reports that Pvt. Orville. C. Hare, 3106 N. Capitol ave., and Pvt. Otis L. Ross, 1244 S. Talbott ave., are missing in the Mediterranean. ” t J 8 LT. (J.g) HERCULES BEREOLOS, son of Mrs. ars. Eiphis Bereolos,
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ms Japs Say Ten U. S. Carriers
Strike Truk and Nearby Bases!
By UNITED PRESS ° The Japanese announced Tuesday that an American naval task force, headed by more than 10 aircraft carriers and including battle“aiming at » sha chance for invasion,” a andj
bardment of Truk from the sea, and five Fisguiied the assault an thai
tirely
|types,
FAIR INVASION’ BOMBERS HAMMER ALL OF EURO
iets
J00PLANES AN
HOUR SHUTTLE |
RAF Night Raids on Continent. LONDON, May 2 (U. P.) —
| American warplanes of all paced by Liberator ] ' |heavy bombers, ranged far
over Europe today, carrying |
munique now called “the aerial ine J
cupied territories.”
sweeps over the continent. After bad weather grounded al lied planes for a few morning hours, 4
vasion coast. : opposition and only light anti-air- °
planes returned safely. Planes Bracket Paris
the southwest and northeast. Allied planes were estimated to have flown almost 6000 sorties against western and southern Eu-
an average of nearly 200 per hour. Strong forces of British night bombers dropped nearly 4000 tons
gium by moonlight. In the 30-hour period, about 4500 sorties were flown from Britain and more than 1300 by the Mediterranean air forces.
Spasmodic Resistance German night fighters pit up
which hit Lyon, Tours, Toulouse
Ludwigshafen, Germany. 3 Crewmen said the moonlight was
were almost as light as day. They described . the targets . as “easy $ marks.” Upward of 3500 American, British and allied planes participated in yesterday's opening round. of the May offensive against axis Europe, =
Belgium and the fortifications they supply. 4 ' Five enemy planes were shot down. Three bombers and three fighters were lost.
SOVIETS ADVANCING
MOSCOW, May 2 (U. P.)—So= viet front dispatches said today that the Russian army is advancing slowly but steadily in fightfo%te
OVER CHAEL
U. S. Aircraft Follow Up Big
through the 16th day a record offensive which a U. S. come
vasion of Germany and enemy oc=
The Berlin radio reported a fight er plane penetration of the skies = over western Germany, indicating & renewal of widespread offensive =
a 400-plane force of Liberators and fighters” plastered the bomb-pocked Pas de Calais area of the French inNo German fighter
craft fire were encountered, and all
rope in the first 30 hours of May—
spasmodic resistance against the R., A. FP. fleet of close to 1000 bombers
and Chambly in France, Malines = and St. Ghislain in Belgium and |
so bright that the bomber cockpits
dropping some 3000 tons of bombs = on 17 railway centers in France and anti-invasion.
Thunderbolt fighter bombers of lifted its embargo on oil shipments| the U. 8S. 8th air force bracketed Paris with attacks on the rail junc- = tions of Le Mans and Tergnier, to
3 of bombs on seven big German war bases in Germany, France and Bel- =