Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1944 — Page 1

Local Police Act After 12th " County Victim Dies : In Week. Thirty-six persons were arrested a ,

ane 0 mr BAYS RENAMED STATE LEADER BY DEMOCRATS

halt the wave of road deaths by forcing strict observance of the All Other Committee Chiefs Also Re-elected at

traffic laws. Death of a 14-year-old school boy ~ Meeting Here. ~~ - By EARL RICHERT

here late yesterday brought to 12 the number of persons who nave lost their lives in traffic accidents in Marioh county this week, one of the bloodiest since pre-gasoline rationing days. This is exactly three times the number of Marion county men reported killed on the warfronts dur- {| “Motorists’ feet are getting too; Fred F. Bays was re-elected for | heavy on the pedals” De Supt a fourth term as Democratic state 2 | Thomas Schlottman, chief ~ichairman today at the biennial reWa 3 A : } {30.in_orqering the Irate officers| = za tion meeting of the Demotoday to “go out and slow them | Mrs. William Ward, Indiana's No, 1 war mother of 1944, will | oun» cratic state committee at the Claytake first place in the thoughts of seven Indianapolis boys on far- | ignals 1 hotel, He has served as state away battlefronts on Mother's day tomorrow. Mrs. Ward, who lives Order: on. Hand § pe since 1938. at 1222'N. Colorado ave., will receive a citation for being Indiana's No. | He also ordered that motorists be 1 Mother at the Mother's day services in the war menwrial, | arrested for failing to give hand fisnals pointing out that the!committee were re-elected. They

- ” - : { weather now could give no excuse are Mrs. Edna Bingham, vice chairHERRI GTON 0 ‘National and State for failing to roll down windows man; Charles Skillen, secretary, 1 |

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| Leaders to Receive [motorists were seized this morning treasurer. . 0 | BUSINESS SO ARS joe Tis violation. 5 Bedttat. one| Mr. Bays issued a statement folr | itati . ian was arres owntown. (lowing the meeting, saying that the HR Citations Here | Of the 29 speeders arrested, 27 party enters this campaign “free of } ee { The Pennsylvania mother of 10 were halted for driving between 44 all factionalism and intra-party 4 ‘ + sons in service will come to Indian- and 50 miles an hour, one was ar- strife and confident of victory in | Industry Here ‘Mushroomed apolis this week-end to be honored rested for driving over 90, and the November” By War, First Public 'as America’s War Mother of 1944 Other for driving 38 miles an hour.| He said he would immediately y ’ 'at the national Mother's day service] The person charged with driving launch an intensified campaign of Report Indicates |tcmortow afternoon at the world More than 90 miles an hour was a organization, giving particular atp . | war memorial. | 17-year-old Lawrence youth, Harry tention to the prominent part woman By ROGER BUDROW Mrs. Esther McCabe of Lilly, Pa.,! % Burton. Motorcycle Patrolman | will take. ; .. | was selected as the nation's No, 1) Warren Todd chased Burton, who Discuss State Ticket i The story of an Indianapolis n= | war mother by the American War also was driving a motorcycle, from dustry literally “mushroomed” by Mothers, of which Mrs. E. May 38th st. and N. Sherman dr. to 82d] ‘As the reorganization meeting the war was revealed today in the Hahn of Indianapolis is national St, and Massaghuses ave. on Seq Roelt ad une Ra, Sis. ! DE ans..ade ane Wr ak propased tu the honor| Burton, who had a 16-year-old best possible state ticket for the ads Manufacturing all-wheel drive by Governor Howard Martin of |PASSenger on the cycle, slowed mittedly tough election Nght ahead. trucks in peacetime, the company | Pennsylvania. Besides her 10 sons in down Sitar Officer Todd fired two| In the discussion of the ticket, the converted to making tanks, first for the armed forces, she has a 17-year- Lulr . top spots, the senatorship and the foreign governments and later, as old son about to enter service and a Ton Wis o barged with speed. governorship, were ‘ conceded . to | the U. S. began its war prepara- son-in-law in service. A widow, she / — ss driving and failing |Governor Schricker and Senator tions, for this government. Now.ft'!'s a life member of the Pennsyl.|'c Dave a muffler. His passenger Samuel D. Jackson respectively. is reconverting to truck manu- vania chapter of the American War "o3 "ken to juvenile ald division| The weekly news letter sent from

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and released. facturing. Mothers. | state headquarters to Democratic | The report discloses that: | The citation for Indiana's war| 10° Jansen boy was pinned el Hewaghpere throughout Indiana , ! Sales soared from only $1,371,000 ree | (Continued on Page 2—Column 1) {Ven so far as to say: In 1939 t0 $20,200,000 last year, after (Continued on Page 2—Column 4) ett orm om ‘One Spot Cinched’ |

INDIANS LOSE 14TH | “Oni one spot on the Democratic.

renegotiation. ticket is cinched. That spot is for STRAIGHT GAME, 8-2 Henry FP. Schricker, the people's

Profits climbed from $146,100 in. 1039 to $1,162,000 last year, before : ; i renegotiation. i i : ichoice for United States senator

The profit in 1939 amounted to] | MILWAUKEE, May 13.—The In-| crocs, for Ur * 106 cénts out of every coun BY BITS OF SHELL covaro: Indians lost their Lith | Setator. Jackson ‘Tas. been: 4 | whereas last year it was only i straight game to the Milwaukee ay. deen o-

| cents out of every dollar of sales. | Brewers here today. The score was |dorged for the gubernatorial nomiThe report also reveals that Mar- {natibn by the fourth-and 10th dis-!

18-2, { i RA {tricts and he is expec make | 33 Holes Torn in Diner and The Brewers pounded George | oan ao os is |

Diehl and Allyn Stout for 14 hits | . y v iy ; {didacy from Washington next week. { while Dick Hearn held the Tribe to | Kitchen of California Party leaders have not shown any

i | six, | X | Limited. Indianapolis evened the score at enthusiasm for the gubernatorial

{two-all in the fourth. then the! SAN FRANCISCO, May 13

~ FR. ORLEMANSKI| ! (U. Brewers turned on the heavy guns.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 13 P.) —Army bomb experts today were | George Bink hit a homer in the (U. P).—The Rev. Fr. Stanislaus snalyzing fragments of a shell fifth with one on and repeated the Orlemanski was suspended indefi- | which tore 33 holes in the diner and feat in the sixth and Diehl left the nitely as a parish priest and pastor | kitchen car of the Southern Pa- mound. Score:

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BISHOP SUSPENDS

SEE SATELLITES WAITING

WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P). | —American officials doubted tod

| by his bishop today soon after he cific's streamlined passenger train, |, ,viporis 7 000 200 000— 2 8 Fy te sake Se ations returned home from his much-| the “Daylight Limited,” near Camp Milwaukee 101 033 00x— 8 14 olor western Europe and the big R eriticized mission to Moscow. | Cooke, Cal, yesterday, wounding | Diehl, Stout and Poland; Hearn and! ion drive to {be west be g Rus‘Only a few hours after the two Negro women dishwashers. | Ther. : gin. Polish-American priest was greeted | The army officials, headed by! " with cheers by admirers at Union:Capt. Charles Farrington, began an station, the Rev. George A. Shea, immediate investigation when the ASHINGTON chancellor of the diocese, an- Pe pounced the suspension. (Continued on Page 2—Column 6) Previously, Bishop O'Leary had . | declared that Father Orlemanski| FREE SPEECH UPHELD : left the diocese without the re-| PHILADELPHIA, May 13 (U. P.). . quired permission of his superior —The right of an employer under A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington when he went on his widely pub- the constitutional guarantee of; . lielzed Journey to the Soviet Union | “free speech” to say What he thinks | Otaff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers a month ago. {about labor unions, was upheld to- : day when the U. 8. circuit court 3s of appeals denied the national labor | relations board petition to have the

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

$3, mil 5 a.m... 7 [Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Sion news, and that's «all anyone cares about. But, for am. .... lam... 78 (Co. and its president, Edward, G.| w it’ ’ q : Sam...71 12 (Neon).. 7 |Budd, adjudesd guilty of contempt hat it’s worth, here's the weekly report from WashingSam....72 1pm... 80 lof court. | ton where big things are happening—but all behind

closed doors—and where things that happen outside the doors have become insignificant. ng FJ = LJ PEACE MANEUVERS are on between Jim Farley and fourth-

Democrats Hint 'Black Book' To Be Fired at Local G.O.P.

By NOBLE REED A political ammunition dump, containing fireworks of the type revealed today. that havent been set off around| The party's newly elected county here for many years, is being load- |chairman, James L. Beattey, after — the first of a series of strategy conferences today, outlined some of

TIMES FEATURES the reasons back of a refurbished

ON' INSIDE PAGES |["hiimism growing trough pasty ) “Those who think a Republican victory in Marion county next fall

but the main issue—renomination of F. D. R. Crumbling of southern

ed by a revitalized Democratic

desire to fi adminis party for the fall offensive, it was Qrget. grievances agains tration. Friends say he

wants to be mayor of New York, might covet administration help. Pro-Roosevelt group could have beaten Jim for re-election as New York state chairman, but kept him on in hope of "44 peace. > ” - . S OPENING of Washington headquarters for Governor Bricker is last-ditch stand to head off Dewey nomination. Bricker organzation

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Amusements , 8 Movies ...... 8is a foregone conclusion had bet- i of 3 Kain - Eddie Ash ... 10|Obituaries ... 4|ter step back and take another This edition 1 your Saturday 9| Pegler ...

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All other officers of the state

{and give the proper signals. Six and Clarence U. Gramelspacher,|#

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WASHINGTON, May 13.—This column has no inva. |

termers, Big Jim's personal following is still loyal on everything | opposition to fourth term is one compelling reason for Farley's reported |

CRYSTAL GAZING—

Will Nazis Use Tunnel To England?

+ By ROBERT J. CASEY Times Foreign Correspondent

LONDON, May 13.—Nobody who lived in England. during the time of the blitz would ever accuse the British of hysteria, even with the invasion’ of the continent looming up as the nation's major industry - But there comes a moment in every country and in every class Cie during periods p of waiting for balloons to go up when psychics and mystics and astrologists begin to observe signs and portents and raise , their voices. | (One recalls | \ © New Jersey | ? when Orson | Mr. Casey Welles was per- | sonally conducting a raid from | Mars, sundry odd news that came out of the trenches in the last war, and the strange hope, for victory without war fostered by | France during the sitzkrieg.) " » » So there is nothing abnormal | in the catalog of mysteries now | occupying local attention. A luminous cross has been seen in the sky over Ipswich by hun- | dreds of observers and has been variously interpreted. \ Drake's drum has been heard in Plymouth, or wherever it is | supposed to be heard. There has been unidentified gunfire in Lon- | don's cloudrack. And last night | there were queer lights dancing | above Calais. 3

These phenomena in themselves |

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17 DIE AS ARMS SHIP EXPLODES

Probe Begins of Mysterious Sinking of Vessel Off Boston.

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‘naval court of inquiry began an linvestigation today of a series of mysterious explosions aboard a 132{foot navy lighter carrying con- | demned ammunition, in which 17 {sailors apparently lost their lives. The vessel burned and sank {within 35 minutes Thursday in the {fog-shrouded Atlantic off Boston, | [the navy announced yesterday. i As the self-propelled lighter was {wracked by explosions that sent { pellets flying across a 14-mile area {northeast of Boston, 14 officers and {men leaped for their lives. One of !this group died of burns at a Chelsea hospital. The others suf{fered only slight injuries. Navy land and sea craft still were search{ing the area for traces of 16 men {listed as missing. Almost two-thirds of the vessel's {load of condemned ammunition {from the Hingham naval depot had {been brought up on the deck and | jettisoned when the first of the mysterious detonations occurred.’ Lt. (j.g) Herman W. Doering of Springfield, director of the work-

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‘Hoosier Heroes—

2 MEN FROM HERE LOST IN FIGHTING Pvt. Stafford Killed, Lt. Lynch Missing.

AN INDIANAPOLIS soldier has

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INE FORTRESS FALLS JES, GERMANS REPO ‘DAY: BOMB BALTIC

Ul. §. HEAVIES

Almost 1000 American Liberator and Flying Fortress bombers attacked aircraft assembly plants at Tutow,|

railyards at Osnabruck and other . v i mio targets in Germany today.| SOUthwest of that most formidable bastion of the Gustav

They were escorted by more than!|ine which now was by-passed on both sides. 1000 Lightning, | Thunderbolt fighters of the 8th and {9th air forces.

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And 8th Fight Grimly to

BLAST REICH Hold Italian Gains. - | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 13 (U. P.), '—American troops on the left wing of an allied offensive

|battering the main German defenses astride the road to

Pound Factory Cities; Nazis Rome were reported storming the key base of Castelforte

x ‘ . today after capturing three nearby towns and four hills. Describe Huge Battles; | (The German DNB news agency said in a broadcasf Coast Hit Again. heard in London that German troops had evacuated Castel« (U. py — | forte.) British 8th army troops to the north sliced in below

Cassino and seized the ruins of San Angelo, two miles

LONDON, May 13

Mustang and

Suffer Some Setbacks The 5th and 8th armies drove the Germans from their

Nazi broadcasts reported bitter

battles over the Baltic coastal area| outer strongholds in the first phase of the all-out offensive

above and beyond Berlin. | . : 5 : . . Official announcements and ra- and were engaging them in their primary fortifications,

dio reports indicated that some 3000| Violent resistance was encountered all along the front, and eer BI ens Yo ih both allied armies suffered setbacks in some sectors. the first 12 hours of today, the 27th Some of the heaviest fighting of the new offensive was straight day of the pre-invasion| reported developing around Castelforte, spearhead of a BOM ments Violent Baitles |deep salient sticking into the American positions in the lower While hundreds of medium and Garigliano valley near the Gulf of Gaeta. light bombers slashed methodically Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s tank-led U. S. troops seized est wall which the BAF pias. heights and small towns on three sides of Castelforte and tered during the night with 2000 | closed in to reduce the bitter resistance at the German tons of explosives, Berlin traced’ stronghold five miles from the coast. Gam or VS aw. (It was revealed yesterday in Washington that Gen, many, beyond Lubeck and over Clark conferred with Gen. George C. Marshall, head of the Pomerania. | United States army, and with President Roosevelt three

ae prop Agandiste Sa fog me weeks ago in the United States.) Cassino Fight Bitter

of the bombing ‘fleets in vidlent battles brawling over hundreds of . . i . The fighting was equally bitter on either side of Cas Several bombers tried forced land-| sino where 8th army forces shifted to that sector in a gen

miles of the Baltic coastal area. i at sea after being hit, Berlin! : : . : reported. The Nazi OE of the eral reorganization for the offensive were pressing beyond

raid were not borne out immediate-| the town both to the north and south of it. ly. Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver Leese's forces poured across the

Spitfire and Typhoon fighter-! is . v ‘ P 7? 8 | Rapido river and extended their bridgehead at the entrance

(Continued on Page 2 —Column 3) ‘to the Liri valley to a width of more than 6000 yards, . | struck beyond it on both sides and doubled back to squeeze New Nazi Assaults The town was described as! MOSCOW, May 13 (U. P)—Rus- a hint that the same tactics! parded artillery postions in the

. San Angelo, at the center of the Rapido front, was ocRussians Turn Back | cupied during the night in a pincers assault by troops who te the hard fighting Nazis. Soret Trl o Bri erat ae . { Ameri t; \ bee On Lower Dnestr «casino on a small scale,” | American destroyers operating esian army troops beat off new at- | might be employed to topple Cas-| Gulf of Gaeta area along the

Itacks on the Soviet bridgehead on!sino and open the via Casilina! Appian way, leading to Rome.

the lower Dnestr river near Chis- leading to Rome. inau, Bessarabia, today as the last i enemy resistance was liquidated in Dug Deeply in Ruins the Crimea, where the Germans| The Germans were dug deeply in| propelled guns and flame-throwers and Romanians lost more than the ruins of San Angelo. Their | into their counter-attacks. 111,000 men killed or captured. j machinegun nests had to be blast-| The German DNB agency, estie ‘The futile assaults on the bridge- | ed out of every pile of ‘rubble, and | mating that four to five divisions— head northwest of Tiraspol, in dawn found the mopping up still | 0,000 to 75,000 men-had been which the Germans brought large |in progress, although the town was thrown into the attack, acknowl= forces of infantry and tanks into|firmly in allied hands. {edged that the allies had made action, cost the enemy 4000 dead| Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G. Alex- “some unconnected breaches in the and the loss of 100 tanks. { ander, allied commander in Italy, forefield.” Soviet pilots aided guardsmen in | warned the troops before the offen- (DNB also said that five more repelling two enemy attacks on the sive started that the fighting | a11ied divisions were being retained bridgehead yesterday and shot would be hard and bitter and per- pening the main front for a posdown 23 German planes. haps long. At the same time he sible new landing along the Italian Gen. Feodor I. Tolbukhin's 4th reminded them that they have Su-|ooa5t perhaps north of the. Anzio Ukranian army, which had cap- |perior force and confidently pre-|u..chhead.) tured Sevastopol, wiped out the dicted that the German armies in Swept up in the American ade last center of enemy resistance at|Italy would be destroyed. | vance were the towns of San SeCape Chersonese in the Crimea| “You will be supported by over-p,ctiano, Ventosa and Ceracoli on yesterday to complete a 35-day | whelming air forces,” he said, “and arc extending west and south’ campaign in which the enemy suf- | in guns and tanks we far outnum- | of the German stronghold of fered its worst defeat since Stalin- | ber the Germans.” { Castelforte, the nearest only’ a grad. + In addition to the umbrella of air| oy arter.mile away. Late reports “The Soviet information bureau |COVer, the troops were supported by| ——— sine : allied naval forces. A communique’ (Continued on Page 2—Column 7) (Continued on Page 2—Column | :

Enemy oppostion appeared to be stiffer than anticipated. The Ger= mans were throwing tanks, self

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