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Chair as Petit Withdraws.
By EARL RICHERT i, The hasty exit late yesterfay of Sheriff Otto Petit from the race for G. O. P. gounty chairman apparently feft the way clear for the realection of Chairman Henry £ Ostrom and all present county, @ficers at today's reorganization meeting. " ‘Sheriff Petit, who announced his eandidacy shortly before noon yesSerday as a “harmony” move, withdrew last night after “regular” Ward chairmen had. threatened to *eut his throat” in the November glection if he tried to buck the érganization’s program. This pro-| gram called for the re-election of;
al present officers. The sheriff had won ronbmion-} easily with the backing of both the “regulars” and city hall fac-|
Henry Krug, leader of the city]
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WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P.).
in business for his own -health— and not for theirs,” the OWI
doubtedly will be plenty of “phony” axis invasion reports but he recalled Churchill's statement that there may be many~ feints before the real operation takes
“When it's really the works” Davis said, “you can be sure the
allied command in London will announce it shortly after it beDavis asserted that the underground in enemy-occupied territory has learned-to be wary of Nazi and Nazi-inspired reports of second front operations. The American people, he said, must adopt a similar attitude. a OWI chief has promised “nation a blow-by-blow ac-
count of the invasion and in the last two months has implemented this pledge by tightening the liaison between his agency and the miiltary in Washington and London. As a result of this, arrangements have been completed to expedite the flow of invasion news back to the U. S. through a system of single censorship of all dispatches.
Blow-By-Blow News On D-Day Pledged By OWI Chief
goal of a uniform policy for some time. “Just as military activities are carried out by a combined AngloAmerican force, so will stories
OWI reported last night that British and American military authorities have agreed fo the simplified plans which calls for one set of rules to govern second front copy censorship. George W. Healy Jr. director of OWI's domestic operations who made the announcement of the new plan for Davis, said that OWI and the office of censorship have been Workteg toward the
ican censorship,” Healy explained, Dispatches will be censored only once, and it is hoped that
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Democrats Agree on Naming Beattey as Compromise,
By NOBLE REED Democratic leaders at a last-minute conference today agreed to support James L. Beattey, attorney and former
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secretary of the state Democratic committee, for election as Democratic county chairman at the party convention this afternoon. Mr. Beattey, who was head of the motor vehicle division of the state public service commission during the Townsend administration, was elected as a compromise choice by the factions within the Democratic NDE the most. coveted honars: in party. American racing, 19 of the nation’s Party leaders said Mr. Beattey | top 3-year-old thoroughbreds were (agreed to appoint Henry O. Goett,| scheduled to go to the post at {former superior court judge; as Churchill Downs at approximately 11th district chairman. The dis-|5:15 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) totrict vice chairman will be named day in the 70th running of the by Mr. Beattey after today’s con- Kentucky Derby. | vention. Whether all 19 of the sleek canWeiland Withdraws | didates would answer the bugle
Mr. Beattey's name was brought | all as the strains echo over the
Stir Up, With _Arcaro Aboard, Is Standout in 70th Classic.
By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Staff Correspondent
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 6.—Seek-
vice chairman: George Johnson, manship were Mr. Goett;
Ball victory committee, said that yp for discussion after party lead- | Bis group had planned to back Mr. ers had to accept the with-|
bright green infleld was doubtful Some had hoped for the first
Petit but that his withdrawal left drawal of Judge Louis Weiland of] them without a candidate for the municipal court 2. They discovered | ghairmanship. J at the standard of ethics of the! American Bar association would not | Appointments Monday | permit a judge to bold office in al Other officers scheduled to be re-inolitical party. lected today were Mrs. Agnes Todd | Others considered for the chair-| Robert
WASHINGTON, May 6 (U. P.). —Sportscasters will broadcast a full description of the Kentucky | Derby to troops overseas, the war | department announced,
secretary, and Edwin Steers, treds- gE Kirby, who was nominated for! { the state senate; David M. Lewis, “Mr. Ostrom, under a new law, will | former prosecutor, and Herbert M.| appoint the district chairman and | | Spencer, former Superior vce chairman. He said today that judge, Be expected to announce the ap-| Mr. Goett and Mr. Lewis headed pointments Monday. the faction that put over Joseph M.| James L. Bradford, the man who Howard for the prosecutor's nomiSARIS Nt 90 Khe chair a neti fo nation against Wilfred Bradshaw, | , Ostrom after, “regulars” | packed the Jost the mayoralty race two years| » Res Ea ago, will be named district chair-, (Continued on Page 3—Cofumn 8) man by Mr. Ostrom, He will suc- ———————
ger ie ve on JEMOCRATS LAG, IN TOTAL VOTE
tion's triumvirate, who is Seppe! Repubitins. Seo See
court |
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SURPRISE WITNESS
Victory DEFENDS LAUGHLIN
- Sign in Turnout for | WASHINGTON, May 6 (U. P.).— Xs a volunteer surprise witness. ‘County. Rgusewife . Mrs. Estelle Deminger, . toflay came to the defense of James (List of primary winners, J, Laughlin and told of a mysterious page three) "oud and clear voice” which she] overheard say that “if the sedition By SHERLEY UHL
trial results in a conviction,” Judge!
| As smoke of th tral tl Edward C. Eicher would be offered m © ® CEnirai: oud
they play
muddy track since Omaha splashed to victory in 1935, but their dreams were shattered as a bright spring {sun came up over the Kentucky foothills There had been two solid days of i rain—producing such added and unexpected starters as the first time
{out Peace Bells and the unknown| ‘Comanche Peakicwith their owners):
evidently counting on the slippery footing of a mucky track to give {their entries a crack at what promised to be the richest purse in the 69-year-history of the bluegrass classic.
Sun Comes Out
But the sun came out yesterday afternoon and indications were that | the fast-drying racing strip would be “good” and maybe “fast” when “My , Old Kentucky Home” to summon the aspiring runners for the mile and a quarter grind late today. Those conditions had produced the largest field since War Admiral scampered home first in a field of 20 in 1937. And, with the $500 entry fee which each owner must pay an hour before the Derby, if all 19 go to the barrier the value
“battle of Tomlinson hall” cleared {of the Kentucky canter will be! get to
8 court of appeals judgeship” or a ®supreme court” berth. a Deminger took the stand as cated that Marion county Republiughlin, attorney for two de- cans displaved almost twice as fendants in the mass sedition trial, much tangible interest in the pri- | Die a4 ee edntinued his defense in his con- mary as did their Democratic! Pe P | (Continued on “Page 2 —Column 1)
témpt proceedings before Judge! brethren. Jéhnings Bailey. He is alleged to! Balloting in the G. O. P. and | HARM MOST CROPS
beve made “scurrilous” statements Democratic prosecutor races, con- | about Trial Judge Eicher in asking | sidered strategic contests on both! for the judge's removal from the party slates, revealed a Republican | Tomatoes May Be Damaged By Unusual Cold. LOCAL TEMPERATURES
|today, final vote tabulations indi-|$88.200—with $66.700 to the win- | ner, $8000 for second place, $3000
ease. | primary turn-out of roughly 40,600
- voters as compared to 22,500 DemoMATTINGLYS MARK |= F 25TH ANNIVERSARY of slightly more than 63,000, or
These figures signify a total vote | 13,000 over estimates made by party Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mattingly | bosses on primary-eve. Will celebrate their 25th wedding| Even so, the parade of conanniversary with open house and |scientious ballot-casters this year 8 dinner at 8 tonight in their home, | was far below the 1942 primary
{before he joined ‘the army in 1942, | was mentioned in
| Florence Griffin, 1005 W. 32d st., | described his invention and
swing band.
1304 W. 23d st. part of 75,000 when 39,000 Demo-| $3 m.....36 10am... 13 Mr. Mattingly is employed at the|crats and 36,000 Republicans went| 13 M-.... 3 Nam... 45 New York Central railroad and the to the polls. $§a.m....38 12 (Noon) .. 47 couple has lived in Indianapolis 19| G. O. P. helmsmen were quick| ° ® Mo: © 1pm... 4
years. They have five daughters: Mrs. Dorothy Osburn, Marjorie. Jose-
phine, Rose Marie and Teresa Mat- |
apathy as a positive predilection | of the donkey's downfall in the! general election, but some observers believe a ‘sizable number of
tingly, and four grandchildren, - — confirmed Democrats requested
cold weather would: not seriously
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=. ENOUGH FOR ARMY nxoorne neice ‘GARBAGE COLLECTION re seme foes manpone oecas| TO BE TWICE WEEKLY
The armed forces’ manpower needs for at least the next four months| will be filled from the pool of f¥arly 1,700,000 men under 26, Maj.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective
City collection forces will goon a summer schedule Monday with two garbage pick-ups weekly, Collection service director, said today. Superintendent Ben Thompson ‘an This source of fighting men willl "OUnced today. Depending on the declared. on Mondays and Thursday; Tuesdays and Friday, and Wednesdays and Saturdays. Trash and ash collections will be made Monday, and thereafter every other week.
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damage crops. | Tomatoes might be damaged, he | said, .but the peas, cabbage and | vegetables are well enough along to withstand a light frost. The
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EXECUTE 4 ITALIANS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 6 (U. P.).—Four Italiians convicted of espionage and sabotage were executed by a fire ing squad today, raising to 10 the number of death sentences -carried out within a week. An allied military court found the Italians guilty.
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Pastor Plays in Anzio Jazz Band
The Anzio drummer and his
| old Charles Victor Griffin, Chaplain Victor R. Griffin, and Mrs. Flor-
ence Griffin. Another member of
never seen is three-month-old Floronne Leah Griffin,
Ex-Local Minister Cuts OMAR BAKERIES |
Mean Lick as a
Hot Drummer. When
Chaplain Victor R. Griffin. Chaplain Griffin, who was pas- | tor of the Seventh | Christian church
news dispatches recently as- the inventor of a bass fiddle for his orchestra.
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family : .e left to right, three-year-
the family whom the chaplain has
PICKETING ENDS
Production and "and Deliveries to Be Resumed as Agreement Pends. R. C. Davis, manager of Omar! Bakeries, Inc, announced today
_ that the picketing of the company’s plant at 801 E. 16th st, by local
the Anzio Beachcombers gether for a jam session on |the Italian beachhead, oftentimes {the drummer is no other than a
| for third place and $1000 for fourth former Indianapolis minister—Army
| been discontinued and that pro- ; duction will be _resumed tomor- | row -as usual,
he Monday. “his
The Omar manager said that the!
“We have formed an orchestra of (Continued on Page 3=Colu 3~Column 3)
| three saxophones, a trumpet, a guiitar, an accordion and drums. | sometimes ‘play the drums. We call
ourselves the Anzio Beachcombers, | 'and have a session, about every. to interpret this year's Democratic; As the weather bureau predicted other night, sometimes playing for a light frost in central and southern|
Indiana tonight, County Agricul-| (Continued on “Page 2—Column 7) | the fiscal year ending June 30, 1045.
ys
> BILLION N ASKED
| today | for the lend-lease program during
tural Agent Horace E. Abbott as-| sured farmers that the unseasonably |
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, May
soon: ‘Big things.
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WHITE HOUSE tactician
tried to outflank Sewell Avery by appealing directly direstors. But at board meeting, Monty-Ward's tough boss
Washington
6.—Don’t forget to look over your shoulder once in a while toward the Pacific. | Dope here is that things are going to happen there
Preparations have been made quietly while attention has been focused on Europe and the coming invasion. - Public hasn't realized the amount of equipment now ready in Central Pacific, the force we can bring into play. The timetable out there is months ahead of schedule.
FORTHCOMING NEWS may mean the showdown, the’ bg blow designed to bring the Jap navy out now or never.
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directing the Montgomery Ward
down directors voicing White House Views,
INDIANA SONS
HONOR PYLE IN NEW YORK
Hills Around City 500 Yank Heavies Roar With Circle Bucharest
Attack. With Attacks.
MOSCOW, May 6 (U. P.).| LONDON, May 6 (U. P.). —Crimean dispatches report-| —More than 500 American
‘ed violent fighting on the heavy bombers struck from
Distinguished Service Scroll Awarded ‘In Absentia’ To War Writer.
By. EDWARD J. MOWERY Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK, May 6.—More than| 100 Sons of Indiana of New York, at their semi-annual meeting here last night, paid tribute to the “outstanding Hoosier of 1944—Ernie
Pyle,” by awarding him; in absentia, their “distinguished service scroll.” The Hoosier, coming close upon the heels of a Pulitzer award, was
‘I sprinkled with homespun affection
and esteem for the “modern Steph-
| {en Foster, whose phrases, with simi ple perfection, contrive to bring F {into harmony the discordant over-
fortified mountain slopes be-{Italy today at five of Ro-
fore besieged Sevastopol to-|mania’s most important rail | day, comparing it to the bat-| centers north and west of
tle of Stalingrad. (A German com- Bucharest, swinging to the Balkans munique said that “before Sevasto- | {the main weight of the allied aerial
| offensive
| tions | waves.”)
pol the enemy again launched an operation with strong | forces, artillery barrage with air formaattacking in consecutive
Concussion Like Hurricane
One Soviet correspondent de-| scribed Sevastopol as “an inferno,” with the entire siege arc around the Black sea naval base resembling smoking lava. The concussion of Russian army shells was so concentrated that the | effect was likened to a hurricane over the German positions. Roads and by-paths leading up to the
using particularly violent
| gssault on Europe. Spring gales grounded most of the allied air forces in Britain. | Liberators bombed the French in- { vasion coast and other smal forces braved the murky skies to main{tain the record of 20 straight days {of bombing German defenses of | western Europe. Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Twining’s i Fortresses and Liberators exploded I broadside of bombs against Brasov, Pitesi, Craiova, Campina and | Turnu- Severin, all key points on trunk railways radiating from Bucharest.
Attacks Ring Bucharest
| tones that try men’s souls in war- “| time.” y 4 Ernie, . | Scripps-Howard war correspondent,
| day, {
| president of the Baltimore & Ohio, | railroad,
Soviet forward positions were re-| Brasov, Pitesi and Craiova are ported clogged with military trucks, big rail junctions respectively 85 miles north, 65 northwest and 110 {Continued on Page 2—Column 8) ylpest o BChAISSS, Campina is in
PARALYZE NAZI 5s RAILS IN ITALY
Indianapolis Times and
would have blushed to his shoulders or dipped deeper into a foxhole if he could have listened to the Hoosier esteem dripping from more than a score of tables for “the boy from Dana.”
Rail Chief Accepts Scroll
jor Danube below the iron gate. | An aircraft factory at Brasov was bombed. The raids were the first on Pitesi and Craiova. American heavies hit Turnu Severin yesterand British bombers smashed in force at the Campina oil center
Continuous Air Bl Air Blows Slow during the’ night. Aerial reconnaissance put the Foe's Supply Lines to
Mere Trickle. Jourmatiom| ALLIED Seana: renal the War Fronts
ee or - a sini) | Naples, May 6 (U. P.).—Allied air | (May 6, 1944) told those present his was a labor fleets have reduced the flow of | RUSSIA—Russians fighting second of love. He said: “Paying our re- supplies to German armies on the | battle of Stalingrad before Sevas- | Thects. to rae RaWspaper mes Italian front to a mere trickle topol. ike Ernie e a chance tna j, tting eve il line and y gating tvery Jaiway e an PACIFIC—Allied aerial forces made
In his stead, Roy B. White, for-| merly Ernie's Dana neighbor, and
accepted the scroll “as ‘both a privilege and honor.” Im-) } | mediately prior to the presentation, | | Claude G. Brodhecker, chairman of | es award committee, who was hoon
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188 of the teamsters’ union has |
WASHINGTON, May 6 (U. P,).—| President Roosevelt asked congress band went to Japan the next sum-| to appropriate $3,450,570,000 mer.
comes only once in a lifetime. To- knocking out every freight yard as
day it is not that I knew him when, but I knew Ernie.” Howard (Wade)
Allen, also a! classmate, lauded the correspondent’ enemy's
new attacks throughout Pacific.
| INDIA—British drive enemy from positions around Kohima.
far north as Florence, allied air| | commanders disclosed today. The complete paralysis of the railway communications!
tand recalled Erni€’s ingenuity back up to 210 miles behind the fighting! AIR WAR—300 Yank bombers blast
{in '22 when Ernie got to Japan “how | none knows.” | Ernie's Little Secret “It was like this,” Mr. jdrawled. {U) was to go to Japan and Ernie | knew it.
| people. | people.
Ernie asked me,
|8 man in Seattle . .
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Ernie wasn't on the team | (Continued on “Page 2—Column 4) | Mr. Davis said Lips glee det but he wanted that trip. No one liveries of bread and other bakery knows yet how he managed it but | In a letter to his wife, MIS 'goo45 would go forward normally Ernie et Japan. And he met | In fact, he met a lot of | When he came back, 1 was playing in a jazz band, and| “why don't you {take a little trip to Japan? I know
“I wrote. the man in Seattle, oil
five Romanian rail centers; Brit-ish-based planes brave spring gales to hit Pas de Calais area.
| fronts was revealed by Lt. Gen.! [Tra C. Eaker, allied air commander | lin the Mediterranean, and Mal.| | Gen. John K. Cannon, commander!
Allen! of the 12th U. S. air force, amid | 'ITALY—Allied air fleets reduce flow “The ball team (Indiana |
of supplies to German armies on Italian front by cutting every rail liner as far north as Florence.
panes sen GANDHI, NOW FREE, boul RB Lines | HAPPY BUT TIRED
Declared Dead British Release Him Upon
‘Medical Grounds.’
“BOMBAY, May 6 (U. P.). — ReIndianapolis men are reported miss- leased unconditionally on “wholly ing in recent action. ~~+medical grounds,” Mohandas K.
persistent reports that the allies |
HOOSIER HEROES—
MISSING in naval action more!
How did Ernie know how fo than a year, an Indianapolis sailor get to Japan, or who was the man has been declared dead. Two other
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Gandhi left his luxurious palace
to’
DEAD {prison at Poona today after 31 Gunner's Mate 3-C Paul Robert months of internment for advoeatLinn, 2615 Carrollton ave. |ing only passive resistance in India MISSING against the Japanese. M. Sgt. Charles D. Long, 1113 N.| Gandhi, Indian Nationalist leadOxford st. er, looked cheerful but exhausted Stewart's Mate 1-C Douglass When he left the Aga Khan's palace. Cockrell, Tgianapol. {He was driven to the nearby resi. . dence of Lady Vitall das Thacke oUNNER'S” MATE 3 3.0 PAUL|sey. whe suppoygd ROBERT missing in action s which he fasted for (Continued on “Page 2—Column 4) | years ago.
Local Clothes For Russ' Day
On Tomorrow
“CLOTHING FOR RUSSIA” will be collected throughout . the city tomorrow. under the sponsorship of Indianapolis’ civicc labor and business groups. Here are the, facts: ‘When: Tomorrow morning. Where: In all streets within city limits. : What you should do: Place your bundle on the curb not "later than 9 a. m. It will be collected by volunteer automobiles properly identified. The drive will go on regardless of wpgather conditions. More than 60 million Russian civilians have returned to their recaptured cities, only to find ruins, drive leaders - joint out. All kinds of cloth-
him as he the room in 21 days 10
LONDON, May 6 (U. P.).—Stock-, tors said Marshal Erwin holm dispatches today reported| German anti-invasion X multiplying signs that the allies in- had again inspected defense tend to invade Scandinavia and|lations along the French said the Germans have rushed 80,000 ranean coast during ‘| more troops to Denmark and Nor-idays.). : | way to meet the threat. :
Reports Nazis Rushing 80,000 Men to Scandinavian Area