Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1944 — Page 1

gl] VOLUME 55—NUMBER 45

‘By EULALIE McDOWELL United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 3.—All meats will become ration-free at midnight except beef steaks and beef roasts. The office of price administration took them off the point list in a surprise announcement today, following recent action which removed many canned vegetables from rationing. : Administrator Chester Bowles said he could not say

BLUE LEADING

8 IN12 PRECINCTS

| ‘Howard Holds Edge

Over Bradshaw for Prosecutor.

Stark ‘Is Ahead of Huff in Race for Congress.

Prosecutor Sherwood Blue held | Joseph M. Howard, anti-organ-s lead of 387 votes at the end of | ization candidate, led the organsounting of 18 precincts this atter- | a of 1038 to 733 in the i 3 Boen. The count was 832 for Blue | tie utor Tace at the te 445 for Municipal Judge John | ong of 29 precincts. Niblack. Lioyd D. Claycombe had 475 voles to 448 for Harry 0. Chamberlin in the circuit court Judgship race, the closest of any in the primary fight. By EARL RICHERT Prosecutor. Sherwood Blue held nearly a two-to-one lead over Municipal Judge John L.] Niblack in the G. O. P. prosecutor race at the end of counting in 12 precincts in Tomlin«gon hall this morning, the vote

being 633 to 337. Other “regular” organization can-

By NOBLE REED The Democratic county committee choices today were trailing in two of three major races on the basis of 25 of the 373 precincts in the county primary yesterday.

Goett and David M. Lewis. Henry Mueller, Center sownship trustee, and backed by the LewisGoett group, took a substantial early lead In the treasurer race. With 25 precincts tabulated, Mr.

Claud M. Pitsenberger, who had county committee support. i Cox Has Easy Salling Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox

Republican vole tabulations, page 5.

time of it in his race for renomination, with 1118 votes to 249 for his opponent, Joseph O. Hoffman. In the race for the sheriff nomination, Lewis Johnson, former police inspector and the organization choice, was leading with 550 votes.

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tion. Mr. Claycombe was leading Mr. Chamberlin by 51 votes, 394 to 343. In the congressional race, Supeglor Judge Judson L. Stark, the organization candidate, was increasing his lead. The count was 516 for Stark to 231 for Charles A. Huff, the city hall candidate.

Bosson Leads Walker While slightly behind at the end |

Late Primary

~ NIBLACK 2-T0-1 |

of the faction headed by Henry O.| |

had. 544 voled to. 408 for).

appeared to be having an easy|

; FORECAST: Partly cloudy and much cooler tonight and

tomorrow. Fresh to strong

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 194

ree Tonight Except Beef Steaks, Roast’

now “when or whether the meats we are making point free will again have to be given point values,” but he promised that “point values will not be restored to these meats unless absolutely necessary.” The order means that after midnight consumers no longer will be required to surrender ration points to purchase any pork, veal, lamb, mutton, beef flank steak, beef hamburger, beef stew meats, variety meats, sausage,

so many points no longer will

The move came only a

~The Count Goes On and On at Tomlinson Hall

Hundreds of weary workers today continued to count and count the voles cast in yesterday's primary alerig the tables sprawled over the auditorium floor of Tomlinson hall = >

of eight precincts, William Bosson Jr., organization candidate for second district courity commissioner, picked up enough in the next four | to lead his city hall opponent, | Samuel C. Walker, by 469 to 356. The two “army” candidates for “the congressional nomination, Marine Capt. Ralph E. Updike and Lt. Edward D. Lewis, received 64 and 17 votes, respectively. Capt. Updike fs a former congressman. : A surprise to most observers was the close race between Mrs. Arcada 8. Balz, incumbent state senator, and Harrison White, attorney. Mrs. Balz, who had the backing of both G. O. P. factions, was six votes behind Mr. White at the end of eight precincts. Total was 253 for White to 247 for Mrs. Balz

Petit Ahead

Sheriff Otto Petit, backed by both organizations, received 204 votes in the first eight precincts counted, with Liston C. Nine, county flood board employee, being next closest in a field of six with only 90 votes. Ray D. Mendenhall, incumbent third district county commissioner who had organization backing, led his opponent, James H. White, by vote of 335 to 224. In the race for the joint nomination for state representative, incumbent Kenneth PF. Blackwell received 212 votes to 232 for Nelson D. Jones, the candidate of both G. O. P. fac-

Returns

REPUBLICAN (16 out of 373 Marion County Precincts)

PROSECUTING "ATTORNEY

(11th District) Cartwright

Earl B. Teckemeyer, incumbent * state representative, in the fleld of 69 candidates for the 11 G. O. P. legislative nominations with 256

\ organizations, County Surveyor Paul R. Brown, backed by both organizations, led (Continued on Page 5—Column 3)

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

BRITISH TAKE BASES

| work at 75 cents an hour.

| Shirley Jones, Marilyn Bossingham, Dorothy Yunghans, Pat Clover, Josie Johnston, Pat Boyers, Joanne | { Innis and Jean Farson.

’ i Short on counters at Tomlinson hall, Technical high school supplied this contingent of seniors to | Shown signing up with J. B. Tragesser, supervisor, are (left to right)

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“Entered as Second-Class Matter at Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily

ready-to-eat meats or canned meat or fish. The action was accompanied by an order halving the monthly red point allotment to individual consumers since

* day 30 red points will be validated every four weeks instead of 30 points every two weeks.

stopped all meat rationing on grounds that storage facil-

. {perately for a victory in the west,

ditto. dm ithe east will take place. sc

| have been provided for the defense Carolines, once considered a strong

winds.

PRICE FOUR CENTS

" Sunday

ities were filled to overflowing and much meat was in danger of spoiling. Canada’s suspension of rationing aroused considerable criticism in congress of continued rationing of meats here. ; Points on choice beef steaks and roasts will not be changed from the present levels. Bowles said the volume of these preferred meats now (Continued on. Page 5—Column 4)

be needed. After next Mon-

few weeks after Canada

BOMBINGS PARALY FRENCH RAILROADS IN INVASION AREA

Nazis Say Hope for Doubt Nazis Yards C ri ppled Compromise Peace Have Shifted Within 100-Mile

Abandoned. iwi Coastal Belt. 50 Divisions LONDON, May 3 (U. P.).| By LOUIS F. KEEMLE . | (Another Air War Story, Page 2) | LONDON. May 3 (U. P).

Germany warned her Euro-| United Press Foreign Editor The German Transocean news |__Ajlied bombing fleets have ‘crippled every major German

pian satellites today that all hope for a compromise peace, ageficy broadcast saying that the Nazis have abandoned hope of | .i1 04 vard in a 100-mile- , |

has been abandoned, and : Swedish dispatches said the| Splitting Rigsla 2nd eg western | qoep coastal belt from Co- _| allies and thereby ge g & com- a Nazi high command, gambling des promise peace is the most inter-' [logne to the Bay of Biscay, esting that has come out of the | threatening to paralyze the movement of German reserves to the

Reich in some time. western “invasion front,” the min-

Such a hope has long been regarded as the real “secret weap. istry of economic warfare revealed today.

on” which the Nazi regime countA ministry spokesman said the

ed on to save it from disastrous tet, nt tne Tell amy | in of tory is impossible and a stale- | past month has had an “appalling mate improbable.* % | effect on the network of western climatic land battles in the east| . The purpose of the broadcast railroads over which the Geriia i. and west. presumably * was to stiffen the thigh command planned wh - i — troops and equipment to meet the & The Inv and the final bat- (Continued on Page 5—Column 3) Anglo-American invasion armies, r The railways in northern France . {able to bear the peak load neces {sary to an effective defense of the 3 channel coast, 5

Under Peak Load

“No marshalling yards between Cologne and the Bay of Biscay for = 100 miles inland are capable of = forming trains,” the spokesman said] He declared flatly that the Ger mans, faced with the possibility of an allied invasion almost at any hour, have only these alternatives: To keep their reserves at danger ously remote points more than 100 miles inland from the threatened coast, or to reinforce their coastal garrisons immediately. thereby running the risk of suffering great casualties. The spokesman said his. analysis

has shifted 50 divisions from the Russian front to meet the impending allied invasion. The German Transocean news agency declared in a broadcast to the continent that there no longer is any prospect of a break in the Anglo - American - Russian alliance and that Germany is braced for

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RAIDS STAGGER CAROLINE JAPS

Report Outer Defense Ring Now at Mercy of

shortly,” Transocean said, quoting a dispatch written by Friz Theil, Berlin correspondent for a Bucharest newspaper.

‘No Illusions’ {

“Nobody in Berlin has the slightest illusions about a compromise peace,” the broadcast added. Simultaneously, the German home radio warned its people that “we are on the eve of decisive military events.” “The German reich is fully pre- U. S. Forces. pared for these decisions and no pre-invasion alarm can change PEARL HARBOR, May 3 (U. P.). even an iota of the measures that —Japan’s outer defenses in the

of the continent,” the broadcast system of “unsinkable island airsaid. fields,” appeared today to be at the Meanwhile, the London Daily mercy of powerful U. 8. naval task Telegraph's Stockholm correspond- forces following the disclosure of ent reported that Germany has smashing three-day sea-air attacks of the German communications sysvirtually split its armies in twoon Truk and two of its protective | tem was based on reliable informathrough a huge transfer of men | bases. tion received by the ministry—pre= from the Russian front, massing Carrier-based planes from a huge| sumably from the French undere 1500,000 men in western Europe|task force battered the principal ground.

For Incumbents.

By ROY J. FORREST United Press Staff Writer

Complete returns from the third|

district in yesterday's Indiana primary elections, which swept all 11 incumbent’ congressmen to renomination, showed today that Rep. Robert A. Grant (R.) defeated his Republican opponent in a landslide. Despite extremely light voting which prevailed throughout the state, Grant piled up. a G. O. P. total of 23572 from 316 polling places in the district to only 2279 for Herman W. Voges, Elkhart, whom he defeated two years ago. Grant's Democratic general elections opponent will be Marshall F. Kizer, Plymouth attorney, who polled 8840 to 3921 for Mansiel Hagerty; 2383 for George -E. Sage and 2201 for Dr. Glenn Y. Warner, all of South Bend. , In a warmer contest in the eighth district of southern Indiana, Rep. Charles M. La Follette, Evansville

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11 CONGRESSMEN | Hancock Boomed SOUTH NOMINATES WIN IN INDIANA

LaFollette Has Closest Race.

For Short Term As U. S. Senator

A boom for the nomination of Edward" J. Hancock, veteran Greensburg and Rushville publisher, for the G. O. P. short term U. 8. senatorial nomination was launched ° today by. the state Republican Editorialassociation. | The association distributed liter-

qualifications. Mr. Hancock The association also revealed that its executive committee had formally indorsed Mr. Hancock for the nomination at a recent meeting in Indianapolis. The necessity for both parties nominating a candidate for U. S. senator to serve from the November election until the new congress convenes in January resulted from the death of Senator VanNuys.

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GOP ‘Unity’ After Primary ~ To Center on Beating FDR

By SHERLEY UHL

|emnly uttering vows of harmony Indianapolis’ feuding Republi-|and

good fellowship, hard-bitten

nal electioneers, still smart-|.

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NEW DEAL SENATORS

Pepper Wins in Florida and Hill in Alabama.

By UNITED PRESS Three states gave a stamp of ap-| proval to the war-time conduct of their congressmen today as Alabama, Florida and South Dakota tabulated the results of their pri‘mary elections. Senators Claude Pepper of Florjda and Lister Hill of Alabama, strong supporters of the Roosevelt administration, were returned to their seats by wide margins, In-| cumbent G. O. P. Senator Chan Gurney was leading his opposition in South Dakota. Democratic nomination is equal to election in the south. - The primaries showed, ‘state by | tate Alabama—State - Senator James A. Simpson conceded his defeat by Hill who was leading 95,862 to 74.970 on the basis of returns from

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SETTLEMENT ENDS DISPUTE OF UNIONS

Teamsters Shift Mailers to

' Boy, 4, Reports |

Carolines’ base of Truk for two

and 1750,000 against the Soviet| ! days and then joined with battle-

armies in the East. The shift, which doubled Ger- | ’ 3 many's western European forces, ape and Satawan, in the eastern

—— {approaches, to climax the opera(Continued on Page 5—Column 5) tions in which 126 enemy planes

{ were destroyed. Japs Feared Invasion The crushing attack, of such

Death of Mother masnitude that the Japanese feared

ships and cruisers to bombard Pon-|

Cites Sabotage Sabotage by French and Belgian { patriots also has helped paralyze | the Nazi-operated railway lines and

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{The spokesman said German rail. 1

| way lines in the Balkans also have been badly disrupted by sabotage land bombing. He described the

| situation in Bulgaria as “chaotic.”

| prevented reconstruction work, he >

| ‘the Harry W. Moore Peace chapel.

[the task force was “aiming at al Bulgarian ports and railway towns “chance for invasion,” was aug- along the Bulgarian-Turkish fron Mrs. Paul Brewer, 532 N. la | mented by another assault by South | tier are choked with war materials Salle st., answered a soft knock ! Pacific Liberators on Mariaon and | that cannot be moved because of at her doar, | Woleai islands, between Truk andthe lack of railroad transport, he = Four-year-old Herbert Allen ip. palau islands. | said. : 3 3 Rush, who lives at 534% N. la | Aqm. Chester W. Nimitz, in an-| He asserted that the Germans | Salle st, explained with childlike |, ncing the Carolines' raids, said also are’ confronted with a critical & bewilderment, “My mother won't ',, damage was- incurred by the shortage of trained railwaymen ine wake up.” |w - |side the Reich as well as in the Mrs. Brewer called police. City losses in the occupied countries. a hospital doctors pronounced Mrs. |three days were light, Nimitz said, Since the beginning of 1944, he Eleanor Rush, 29, dead. Her 'gjthough about 30 flight personnel said, 40,000 German rallwaymen husband, Capt. Ellis Rush, is with | gere missing. have been sent into France the army in Hawaii. The opening phase: of the attacks|Belgium to supplement the 10,000 Mrs. Brewer said the family had |g} but wiped out the enemy’s aerial Germans already operating trains lived at the address about tWO forces at the bases. U. S. fliers in those areas. Lge

weeks. The body was taken to | : (Continued on Page 5—Column 2) MR S ik BALTZELL

TODAY'S tragedy. . . .

arships. American aerial

HOOSIER HEROES— : el Lloyd Henry, Albert Gantz | WIFE OF U.S. J Missing in Aerial Action

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Death Follows Severe fi

AERIAL ACTION in the North gs African area and over Germany| placed the names of two more Indi | anapolis airmen on today’s casualty} lists, and a local infantryman has been wounded in Italy, MISSING | Second Lt. Lloyd F. Henry, 1540 Meridian