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FORECAST: Cloudy tonight and tomorrow.
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1944.
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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“Achtung!” (Attention!
T BIDS FOR CHAIRMANSHIP OF COUNTY GOP.
Rommel Faces
> NAT A. BARROWS Times Foreign Correspondent
STOCKHOLM, May 5.—Inside the Atlantic wall, hourly rechecking- anti-invasion preparations * for his 1,000,000 fighting men, strung from northern Norway to ’ the Bay of Biscay, in more than 45,000 fortifications, Field Marshal Erwin Romme! prepares for battle. First of all, when the excited warning “Achtung! . ..
Attention!) summons the At-
racts. .. Knows lantic wall defenders into action, Germany’s anti-invasion supreme commander is prepared to face an allied breakthrough as a matter of course. Rommel knows that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's infantrymen can—and will—infiltrate behind the wall, blast- - ing their path with heavy demolition charges and massed air cover while large sections of his 200,000 “writeoff” troops in France fight delaying actions. ~
+ Rommel bases his plans} behind the line. That is where the real battle will be ‘fought. That is where the allies must build up and consolidate local superiority as soon as possible. : Briefly, Rommel and his anti-invasion staff base their hopes for success on four main points: ONE: On the decisive smashing of our main bridge-
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TWO: On counter-attack within a definitely limited period; that is, before we have had time to establish local superiority. THREE: The Nazis’ ability to keep their supply lines open. ne FOUR: On the general toughness and equipment of the shock troops deployed behind the wall. It is mere
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Sheriff Makes Move to ‘Unite’ Warring ' Factions.
REPUBLICAN (262 out of 373 Marion County Preciiicts)
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JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT
Chamberlin ............ 8,761 CONGRESS (11th District) Huff c.concsernensnennns 5,853 Stark ..ciieenne asssnsss 13472
By EARL RICHERT Sheriff Otto Petit, who won re-| nomination easily with the backing | of both G. O. P. factions, today] threw a bombshell into the regular organisation with an an-| EE eos would reek the county chairmanship at tomorrow's
the “regulars” Pradford, Joseph J. Daniels and Mr. | Ostrom, could easily handle “the Petit threat. Mr. Bradford said Mr. Petit
has, no chance whatsoever to win the chairmanship.” ! “It is,” he said, Burrell (Pete) Wright to win con- | trol of the county organization.” |
Explains Position
Mr. Petit, who is not identified | with either the city hall or regular | grganimtion factions, was seeking | on the grounds | that he could unify the party for | the November election. He issued a 'formal statement’ Saying: *1 certainly have no desire to be-| some county chairman, but I have been requested by so many Republi- | cans of all factions, as well as by | so many businessmen to take the chairmanship and unite the Repub- | ican party, that I have felt obliged 40 submerge my personal desires | for the success of our party next! Fall, “I have been advised that I am! pne of the persons on whom all sides can unite. “If elected county chairman, I {dntend to recognize the elected ofJcials of the party, namely the “precinct committeemen, by having them elect their own ward chair-
Offers Deluging |
Family Faced by Ouster Over Tof
Public reaction to the eviction sult pending against Mr. and Mrs.!
Lowi Johnson Is in
Good Lead; Ryan Gains Steadily.
DEMOCRAT (202 out of 373 Marien County Precincts)
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
Bradshaw .....cicoeviae 8.201 HOWArd ....ccvcvvnnnans 10,010 SHERIFF JORNBON ..cisieneerrvrns 7.330 ONelll ....ocennnnieeiss 6,953 TREASURER Mueller ....... sasssnses 6,585 OCORNOL ....usseesesser 3338 Pitsenberger ............ 4,245 SURVEYOR : JORNSOR 4..cuscarsiness 7.280 RYBE ciisurnunarcennsnes 7.326
By NOBLE REED . As ‘Lewis (Cap) Johnson slowly | {accumulated what ‘appeared to be
a “going away” lead over Daniel O'Neill
in the warmly-contested
With 202 precincts in, totals in the two races stood.
Lewis Johnson, 6860; O'Neill,
Earle Johnson, 7280; Ryan, 7326. Ryan Gains Steadily
! Although Johnson piled up a size- | “a maneuver by able lead in counting of the first| | : 150 precincts in the surveyor's bat- | TT » L& Gordon Allen
tle, Ryan gained steadily after the
{tabulation reached the half-way
imark. The surveyor contest was {left “wide open” by the regular or-| ganization, with neither candidate {receiving support from party factions. In the race for sheriff, Johnson, regular Democratic organization candidate, was leading Daniel J. { O'Neill Jr. by 253 votes. O'Neill is backed by the James Cunningham | faction, Joseph M. Howard, supported by | the Henry Goett-David M. Lewis faction, continued to increase his majority to 1723 votes over Wilfred Bradshaw, regular organization candidate.
The four Democratic nominees |
for state senator appeared to be Robert Kirby, Arthur J. Sullivan, Timothy P. Sexton and Clarence Lyons, with Raymond PF. Murray
position.
ert, Eugene Dorn, Frank Banks and Keith Johns.
BATTLE FOR LIFE
son’s in Girl's Treatment.
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
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HOOSIER HEROES— Col. Malmstrom Listed With Five Offer Casualties
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ON MEAT FAILS 10 COME TRUE
HOUSE VOTES SEIZURE OF
10 PROBE WARD PLANT |
| Grocers Report Normal Sales Despite Easing Of Rationing.
An anticipated raid on grocer's| meat and dairy counters, after the lifting of most meat rationing | Wednesday midnight, has not ma=-| | terialized, a survey of stores revealed today. Grocers contacted stated they Col. Einar Axel Malmstrom had expected a deluge of customers Missing {to swarm in, buying unrationed ie | meat like a thirsty man going after ts | water, Butter moved normally across counters as housewives used their
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| sti is rationed. Olan Cobbs, | ave, said: “The customers are beel-hungry. | They said repeatedly, “We're going to use our points for steak. It's | been a long time since we've had| | points for it.” J Had a ‘Good Day’ } “We had a good day yesterday,” | said Albert Mauler, owner of Mauler's Quality Service, 1801 8. East | st, “but it wasn't any heavier than {good days under stricter rationing.” “The people are very sensible.” said Carl Geier, manager of Lindner's grocery at 1427 E. Washington st. “I ‘thing that rationing has taught them a lesson in wise buying. “After seeing the public reaction to the first news, I have no worries now that a rush will start.” Meanwhile bakeries in Indianapolis and vicinity have shifted to the baking of larger loaves of bread | and the new size will go on shelves Monday. Following a: recent conference be-|
running a close race for the fourth
On the state representative ballot, the 11 leaders were Chalmer Schlosser, May Morrissey, Patrick Delaney, Edwin Ryan, Edwin BurkDowd, Clyde Miller, David Silver, Orlando
tween representatives of independ-| ent bakeries and the Indianapolis! OPA district office. the large loaf will be increased from 20 to 22% ounces. The large loaf will go up from 10, to 12 cents and the small from seven to eight cents. Won't Raise Living Cost
“This action will have no effect on the cost of living,” said H. C. Sanders, district commodity price} specialist for the OPA. “The con-| . | sumer will receive the same amount {of bread for his money.” | Conferences between bakers and OPA officials were begun as a move to offset higher production costs of bread. By making larger loaves, production costs can be stabilized without penalty to the consumer,
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Timed for Invasion.
LONDON, May 5 (U. P).—U. S.| : | invasion forces were told today that! they will smash into axis Europe | with new type weapons never before | 1 tried in combat, and a Stock
holm’ dispatch said the Germans! h Capt. 8.°C. Klein Sgt. R. D. Vaughn | expect ‘at 1 . allio fo oi
red points for beef, some of which|
Kroger manager, at 4565 College!
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.Pyle Slated for Honor as ‘Outstanding Hoosier of 1944'
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Sons of Indiana fo Pay Tribute af New York Fete
Ernie Pyle, Indianapolis Times and Scripps-Howard war corre-| spondent, will officially be designated the Outstanding Hoosier of 1944 at the annual dinner of the Sons of Indiana at the Advertising club in
| New York city tonight.
{ With Mr. Pyle in London walling the zero hour for invasion of the continent, the engraved scroll citing his accomplishments and the basis 9 of the award with be accepted in his| | behalf by Roy Barton White, presi-| ! dent of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-| road and, like the correspondent, a native of Dana, Ind. A copy has already been forwarded to Mr. Pyle. Engraved upon the scroll is the following tribute: “You've learned a lot on your Jong journey from the suburbs f Dana, Indiana, to the Anzio | a but it seems you never will learn to write about i |
IN DERBY: FIELD
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‘Peace Bells, a Filly, Is Last, To Get In; Stir Up
Rated Favorite.
(Lineup with jockeys and probable odds, Page 26.)
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 5 (U. P). —Nineteen 3-year-old thorough- | breds, compfising a near-record; field, were nominated today for the 70th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs tomor-| row over a track that is likely to!
a war. Crouching there in a slit trench on the road to Rome —gun-shy and homesick, miserable and unwashed—you give every G. 1. the temporary stature of a general; every private soldier becomes, for a day, a hero in his own right through the magic. of your humble testimony; paying no mind to ranks and ribbons and maneuvers you are doing a magnificent job of telling the story of a war by ignoring the battles. “Millions of Americans love you for it. The gentle tap-tap of the keys on your rusty portable rises above the din of smoking guns and becomes a re-
The entry list was headed by, Greentree stable’s Stir Up, a a slight favorite in the pre-Derby baiting. It was the largest field of ni nees since 1937 when 20 horses went to the post. The record fleld was i 22 in 1928. assuring personal message that
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been closed, Charles Compton fil !for his brown filly, Peace Bells, ea) the oe agreed to accept it. RUSSIANS PREPARING | It was the first filly entered in FOR ROMANIAN PUSH (Continued on “Page 2—Column 3) | MOSCOW, May 5 (U. P. ne sian columns of supplies, ammu- * ° Builds Anti-Mud
nition and tractor-drawn artillery were reported moving up to the
Romania through a heavy | cover, and were engaged by German | ported it after the scope of the
| as they crossed the frontier. |
INVESTIGATION MOVE WINS BY 300 T0 60 VOTE
| Spirited Debate Precedes Tally; New Dealers Join in Demand.
BULLETIN
(Earlier Story, Page 24)
WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. P.). | ==The house today passed and sent to the senate the ways and the Sons of Indiana of New York. | Means committee's individual in.
come tax simplification bill which would relieve 30,000,000 taxpayers of the necessity of computing ROCKET COAST, | Brann RAILS BC BOMBE whelmingly today to investijgate the Montgomery Ward Berlin Reports sorts Yanks Over. & Co. case, : | The vote of 300 to 60 fol-
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WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. fo ag house voted over-
3 | Romania; Weather lowed spirited debate in which adsas ministration supporters manifested Conditions Bad. interest mainly in the firm's resist-
LONDON, May 5 (U. P). __|ance to the government while Re-
" bom publicans were concerned chiefly a fed bombers Struck with the exercise of executive power French rail centers and the rocket | Involved in Sur] seizure . of the gun coast today, and Berlin said a| Jopany 's Chicago prope | United -States bombing -fleet was] e vote was on a resolution by engaged ‘in violent air battles over| {Rep. Charles W. Dewey (R. I) | oon |e en Le Unconfirmed Nazi broadcasts in-|00uUse com v | dicated that the U. S. 15th air force S¢izure in which Montgomery Ward had sent fighter-escorted heavy|Fresident Sewell Avery was forcibly bombers against the Balkans while |Femoved from the premises.
d British planes were] Ihe senate previously had diAmezian 20 iD rected its judiciary committee to
inquire into all phases of the
e for the of western Europe matter:
straight day. The Berlin radio said U. S. bomb- | ers and fighters flew in over | cloud!
Denounces Order
Administration leaders who first opposed the resolution later sup-
{and Romanian air defenses as soon proposed investigation was broad: {ened to include an inquiry into the Liberators Lead [company’s long history of deflance of the war labor board. Lt. Gen. James H, Doolittle’s 8th. ‘Dewey's resolution provided for air force Liberators led the weath- an investigation of “the emergency er-constricted bombing parade ‘war powers passed by congress.” In
|against Europe with a dawn attack debate on the measure, he said he {on the Pas de Calais. 1100 or so heavy bombers and Mus- high plane. " He had urged unani-
All -of the wanted the investigation “kept on a
tang fighter escort returned. mous adoption of the resolution as The German air force again a means of putting “an end to failed to challenge the Liberators high-handed and dictatorial acts” jor. the lighter bombers which on the part of the executive branch. |struck at the inland rail centers of | Rep. Leo Allen (R. Il.) denounced | Cambras, Valenciennes and Somain, president Roosevelt's order for the | seizure as a “dictatorial assumption Ba "fiying weather reduced the of power.” He said he-hoped memscale of the day's early operations bers of the armed forces “have more to scarcely more than 500 sorties) confidence in and respect for their by the United States and British commander-in-chief than the Presair forces. " “| ident has for rights guaranteed American-made B-25 Stitehells| American citizens by the constitu-
OF BURNS VICTIM
Use Cocoanut Grove Les. eo infantryman, all from Indian
BOSTON, Mes 5 (U. P.).—All the
The commanding officer of a | Thunderbolt fighter group, a navi- | gator aboard a Flying Fortress and
apolis, today were among the U. S. soldiers “missing in action.” Three other local men were reported dead.
vast knowled burns gathered MISSING in treating -of the Cocoanut! COL. EINAR AXEL MALMGrove disaster was being used today| STROM, 272¢ W. Washington st. I an allow atiampt to save. fhe PVT. THOMAS C. AHERN, 5740 of 8-year Ward, | College ave. three-fourths oy, is| LT. GORDON ALLEN, 1954 seared wilh second and third degree | Broadway. | Opiates eto administered : DEAD ease the pain of the child, burned ST. SGT. ROBERT D. VAUGHN, Wedn h bot: 946, W. 20th st. nai pol tumble trom the siors|, CAPT. SETH COLE KLEIN JR. in her Woburn home, splashed over 18 Hue Riage =
SGT. ARTHUR B. BERK-
WL us, tonics tom SHIRE, 1345 N Olney st. her chin to. her knees. Water, but : ® 2» gs had 14 : 30 hi. and The Tuesday morning mail at the
land in Denmark on the shortest |
‘route to Berlin.
- Brig. Gen, Henry B. Sayler, ied]
ordnance officer of the U. 8 army | \in the European theater, wrote in| the army newspaper Stars and| Stripes that the new weapons, representing the best American artil-
ley ce yet has produced, were| qocolete tank i parts in the’ WASHINGTON. May 5 (U. P.). | scrap heap, Mr. —The house today was expected | Edwards devised hive uly approval to a navy a gadget to pre. request for an am- | vent possi 2 of a $65,000,000 appro- | stalling of tanks priation for ordnance, $35,000,000 | while on the of which would be used for im- | battlefield. provement and production of a | Designed for new rocket gun. vn the amphibious | - tanks, the imsent ‘to Britain After being tested| Doc icin ar Mr. Edwards mud relief” at Dorel a roving grounds In| tne pase of the sprocket tooth "A Berlin dispa which ejects mud as the tread holm 4 : tch in the Stock-| asees around the sprocket wheel, Aftonbladet said German mili- preventing the chain from jumpn. aders believed the allies plan| 4, or rising above a point of vade Denmark with “powerful nora) contact, which could easprobably simultaneously| yy result in a stalled tank.
Device for Tanks
At Link Belt Co.
ADD TO THE LIST of home front heroes the name of Charles C. Edwards of the Link"Belt Co. After months of tinkering with
Mr. Edwards developed auto-
t | church today.
front lines beyond the Prut river in ‘the . Carpathian foothills of northeastern Rumania today preparatory to a forward push. On other front, the Russian air force continued plastering German supply depots and rail junctions preliminary to the expected spring offensive on a grand scale.
METHODISTS VOTE SUPPORT OF WAR
KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 5 (U. P.).—The nation’s war effort had the clear-cut support of the general conference of the Methodist
Reversal of its previous anti-war stand adopted four years ago was voted last night when the conference, voting by secret ballot, accepted the minority report of the committee on the state of the church.
BRITISH LAUNCH BIG
EAST INDIAN ATTACK 8
and A-20 Bostons of the British 2d, tactical air force cut through rain!
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NAZIS RULE GRETE BY MARTIAL LAW
Alert Greek ok Airdromes in
Balkan Defense Move.
LONDON, May 5 (U. P)—A spokesman for the Greek exile gov-
ernment said today that the Germans had proclaimed martial law in Crete and ordered personrel on all Greek airdromes to stand by in “readiness for all eventualities,” apparently in the belief that an allied invasion of the Balkans may be imminent. German airmen based in Greece also were ordered, as of May 1, to make frequent reconnaissance
tion.” Administration congressmen, how‘ever, viewed the case as an examfe > unwarranted defiance of the ronment in time of war.
‘More Hollandia Landings Made; Jap Chief Killed