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CINCINNATI ENQUIRER THE 124th YEAR NO. 152 FINAL EDITION SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1961 PRICE 25 CENTS P7 DIM uuu Record Rookie Is Set Die In As Veteran, Fiery Crash BY DICK FORBES Of The Enquirer Staff INDIANAPOLIS A happy-go-lucky veteran and a hard-driving rookie sped to their deaths Saturday in the 500-mile race won in record time here by national driving champion A. J. Foyt. Killed In one of the most dangerously contested Memorial -Day classics in Speedway nlstory were 1 ft 'MM W1 fa.

ijirVni i mi 'hi in 1 1 i in Through Hell On Wheels on despite flames which followed a double-fatal crash. Burning cars are in background. attempt to get by, ran right over the top of Bobby Un-ser's car. Both drivers escaped with minor injuries. But Ronnie Duman's racer careened across the track, out of control, and burst into flames.

He scrambled out of the car and staggered away, but not before he had been severely burned. Only 12 carj were around at the finish of perhaps the wildest driven 500 as Foyt, driving a conventional, four-cylinder Offenhauser-powered car, toured the 200 laps in a record three hours, 23 minutes, 35.8 seconds at the SL'eed of 147.350 miles per hour. THE OLD RECORD was set last year by Parnelli Jones in 143.137 m.p.h., and again Ironically Jones was in front Saturday and had pulled in to refuel when fire also forced him out of the race. As Jones pulled away from his pit stall after a 15-second stop, the rear burst into flames and the car, still moving slowly, veered to the left and crashed into the pit wall. The flames were extinguished in probably less than a minute but smoke enveloped the scene as Jones managed to get out.

He was immediately rushed to an ambulance, sorely burned but in no danger. Parnelli would have gotten back on the track in time to hold his lead except for the accident. All seven of the British-built Lotus Fords, two of which had fastest qualifying times to place Jimmy Clark (the pole position winner) of Scotland and Bobby Marshman of Potts-town, side by side in the first row, were out of commission at the finish. However, it was not a total loss for the Ford Motor Co. which spent millions developing engines for this race.

The veteran Rodger Ward, a two time 500 champ from Indianapolis, came in second in a rear-engine car. FOYT, driving car No. 1 emblematic of the National U. S. auto club championship he won last year, and Ward driving No.

2, ran one-two for quite a while with Foyt once lapping the 43-year-old Ward on the 190th lap before Ward returned For Crisis Parley Saw tii -ii mi. lis drivers in "500" barrel Gets Briefing Rusk BANGKOK. Thailand (UPD Dean Rusk, secretary of state, Saturday received high-level reports on the explosive Laos situation before leaving for crisis talks in Honolulu on the growing Communist threat to Southeast Asia. Leonard Unger, U. S.

ambassador to Vientiane, briefed Mr. Rusk on what a State Department spokesman called a critical situation in Laos where a Pathet Lao offensive threat Dave MacDonald the rookie his wife and three children for one year. Sachs and MacDonald met death In the six-car smack up at the top of the main straightaway before the field had even reached the finish line of the second lap. The other four drivers escaped serious injury although three of the cars were destroyed by fire. MacDonald, driving the Sears All-State Special and using All-State tires instead of the conventional Fire-stones, started the race in the fifth row with Sachs.

How more drivers escaped Involvement In the holocaust probably no one will ever know. But the race was stopped before Clark, In the leading car, ever got around to the scene again. Of the 12 rear-engine cars entered, only two finished. The other, beside Wards, was driven by 43-year-old rookie driver Walt Hansgen of Bedminster, N. the national sports car champion who spent much of his times in the pits and did not complete 500 miles.

AFTER THE fourth place White came Johnny Boyd of Fresno, Bud Tin-gelstad of Dayton, Ohio; old-timer Dick Rathman of Roselle, rookie Bob Wente of St. Louis, rookie Bob Harkey and veteran Bobby Grim, both of Indianapolis. Wente, who came in eighth, was the last driver to complete the 200 laps. One of the famed Novl cars, the Studehaker Special driven by Art Malone, also finished, but had fallen far behind. The other two Novis were put out, one In the accident.

(See Dick account of "500" race accident, notei and more pictures in Sports Section.) I'lti 'i fm 1 1 i 1 -AP Wirtphoto Mr. Rusk was met at Bangkok's Donmuang Military Airport by Thanat Kho-man, Thai foreign minister, and other high-ranking Thai and American officials. He was then whisked into Bangkok for a briefing by Ambassador Unger at the U. S. Embassy.

MR. UNGER arrived from Vientiane just 15 minutes before Mr. Rusk and their meeting began barely an hour later. Also present were William Bundy, U. S.

undersecretary of state, who had just won British support for American policy in Southeast Asia; Robert Manning, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, and Graham Martin, U. S. ambassador to Thailand. Mr. Manning told newsmen the scheduled Honolulu meeting will cover both the political and military aspects of Southeast Asia affairs.

He called the situation in Southeast Asia "critical it is very serious and that is why we are meeting in Honolulu." Mr. Rusk later met with Premier Thanom Kittikac-horn. Foreign Minister Khoman, Deputy Defense Eddie Sachs the veteran the compliment shortly before the finish. Ward was clocked In three hours, 25 minutes, 0.18 seconds for his 200 laps around this historic track. His speed was 146.338 mph, also bettering the previous record.

Third was Lloyd Ruby, another Texan from Wichita Falls, who was timed at 144.600. The third pilot to beat the old record. Rookie Johnny White of Warren, was fourth at 143.268. Foyt, driving a Sheraton-Thompson special, had qualified for fifth position with a speed of 154.672. After falling back to sixth place after the first 10 laps behind the on-rushlng Marshman in a Lotus Ford, he regained fifth position after only 50 miles, or 20 laps.

Clark was in third place after 100 miles, trailing Marshman and Jones. Marshman took the lead away from Clark on the seventh lap of the race, and was posting times of 154 mph, never before equaled In actual 500 competition. But Marshman developed engine trouble and was forced out on the 47th lap as Foyt moved into second, and then took over the lead for good only a few laps later following Jones' mishap in the pits. A RECORD-BREAKING crowd that was estimated conservatively at 300,000 people attended the annual holiday hysteria, guaranteeing a total prize purse of well over a half-million dollars. The Foyt crew pocketed at least $150,000 of this and Foyt himself received the Mustang pace car and dozens of other merchandise gifts including free groceries for himself and fEV: Viantiane on the Laotian situation.

Secretary Rusk leaves Sunday for a six-hour stopover in Saigon before flying on to the Monday-Tuesday talks In Honolulu with top U. S. military and diplomatic officials who are fearful that Communist China and North Vietnam might gobble up what once was French Indo-China. THOUGH MR. RISK conferred with Thai officials who welcomed his visit as a gesture of support at a critical time, it was not known what contacts if any he would have in Saigon with South Vietnamese strongman Gen.

Nguyen Khanh. The main purpose of his trip to Saigon is to pick up V. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and fly him to the Honolulu meeting. At any rate General Khanh was preparing for the visit by tidying up his political household before Mr.

Rusk's arrival. He said he was eliminating the most critical cause of disunity within his army the arrest of four generals active in the coup that overthrew President Ngo Dinh Diem. Eddie Sachs, 37, of Detroit, making his eighth try for the 500 crown, and David McDonald, 26, El Monte, California. It was the second victory for Foyt in this annual holiday drama. Three years ago he beat out Sachs after a torrid duel, and ironically Sachs, along with the rookie MacDonald, was killed in a flaming, six-car pileup on the second lap of the race.

MacDonald went into a spin as he came out of the northwest turn at the start of the home stretch. Sachs, charging up close behind, hit MacDonald's rear engine Ford racer in the side. Both cars were forced into the wall and exploded. The racers were enveloped in flames and pieces of their blasted automobiles spewed across the track. Three more cars crashed up tn the chain reaction wreck.

Jimmy Rutherford, going to the outside in an Minister Dawee Chnlsalp and Lt. Gen. Sawaeng Sen-anarong participated in the meeting. Premier Thanom himself inspected the Thailand-Laos border earlier this week and briefed Mr. Rusk first hand on what he saw of the situation there.

Thailand had sent reinforcements to the border because of a possible Communist Pathet Lao breakthrough at Pak-sane. IN LONDON the Foreign Office announced lt had asked the Soviet Union to appeal to the Pathet Lao in Laos to halt the civil war at once. The Kremlin refused. In Vientiane France announced it would not attend an ambassadorial conference on Laos as proposed by Britain and favored by the United States. The action was a heavy blow to American efforts to keep the current crisis out of a 14-nation Geneva conference.

Secretary Rusk, who arrived from India where he attended the funeral of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was expected in Saigon at noon Sunday (10 p. m. Saturday EST). -AP WiKphotO Plan now to read every installment of "D-Day Plus 20," starting Sunday, June 7. exclusively in The Rocky Stops Race To Greet New Son raffia- hM?) kPJj in In Bangkok Heads ens to crush the last anti-Communist resistance.

Secretary Rusk also met with Thai officials, who are worried that a Communist victory in Laos could engulf their own neighboring kingdom. While Mr. Rusk met in Bangkok, France threw another monkey wrench into the American Southeast Asia machinery by joining the Communist bloc in refusing to attend an ambassadorial conference in other children by her previous marriage to Dr. James C. Murphy.

The governor, a top contender for the GOP presidential nomination, and his wife rushed to the hospital at 9 a. m. EST Saturday, a spokesman said. The baby was delivered at 3:15 p. m.

by Dr. Charles M. McLane. The governor has four surviving children by his former wife, Mrs. Mary Tod-hunter Clark Rockefeller.

Another son, Michael, was lost on an archaeological expedition in Dutch New Guinea in 1961. The speculation was that the event could bode well for the governor's political fortunes. His divorce and remarriage have been considered a severe handicap to his presidential aspirations. News of the birth came amid reports that Mrs. Rockefeller's former husband was courting a New' York schoolteacher.

The second Mrs. Rockefeller, known universally as "Happy," was married to the governor on May 4, 1963. Train Derails, 3Iany Injured ALLENDALE, S. C. (JPt A Seaboard Air Line passenger train derailed near the small community of Ul-mers Saturday night.

Allendale policeman Jimmy Grubbs said reports from the scene indicated a "good many" persons were injured but no deaths had been reported. Mr. Grubbs said the train was the northbound Silver Meteor. The highway patrol in Columbia said it had reports 17 cars of the train had derailed. 'D-Day Plus 20' Read Enquirer About Ike Reliving Invasion Days Grealer Cincinnati MEMORIAL DAY: Cincinnati salutes its dead of all wars with parades.

Page 6-A. FATAL: Two year old Cincinnati girl killed in traffic accident near Richmond, when car runs off road, overturns. Page 6-A. Sports REDS TUMBLE: Reds drop back to .500 mark for season and stay mired in sixth place in standings as result of 7-1 loss to Cardinals. Page 1-E.

By Enquirer Wire Services NEW YORK Oov. and Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller became parents Saturday of a boy Nelson Jr. and the Republican presidential hopeful said the event drove politics right from his mind.

The governor who interrupted his intensive California campaign to rush home, was at his wife's side. The 37-year-old Mrs. Rockefeller and her seven-pound, 10-ounce son were reported in "wonderful condition at New York Hospital. The governor arrived in New York early Saturday morning and went immediately to his New York apartment. A few days ago, when asked if he would interrupt, his campaign against Arizona Sen.

Barry Goldwater if his wife gave birth, Governor Rockefeller said "I'd catch the first and fastest Jet" for New York. Mrs. Rockefeller has four i -ii, inuii iii.i- Interested In Diamonds? Mr. Ray Stanzel of 2549 Madison. Covington, was interested in selling diamonds.

That's why he advertised his diamond ring in The Enquirer's Gold Chest. In his words, he made a "quick sale." From diamond rings to vacuum cleaners, if you have an article around the house you no longer want, you can advertise it in The Gold Chest. Why not give The Gold Chest the chance to make a quick sale for you) Phone your ad in tomorrow to 421-6300. Wall Washington MUST STOP REDS': Americans are dying in South Vietnam because "no great nation today can afford to overlook outright aggression," Air Force secretary says. Page 4-A.

RIGHTS BILL GAINS: Supporters of the civil rights bill pick up two more votes in campaign to end debate. Page 5-A. WRITE REPORT: Warren Commission begins writing its report on the slaying of President Kennedy. Page 4-D. The Nation VOTE NEARS: Governor Rockefeller and Senator Goldwater are headed for a showdown in Tuesday's vital California Republican presidential primary.

Page 2-A. TEACHER MURDERED: Teacher Is assaulted, then murdered only a few blocks from the headquarters of a citizen radio-car patrol set up to combat nighttime terrorism in Brooklyn. Page 5-D. World-Wide WEIGHS CRISIS: Secretary of State Dean Rusk ends on-the-spot consultations about the Southeast Asia crisis heads for Conference to shape plans. Page 1.

DEPLORES ORDEALS: Pope Paul VI says he deplores the horrible ordeals of Jews in recent years. Page 10-A. Immi, nlBliswisifftaSSMlCtwWilBIIIIB Vj fycz? C-1. Starting Sunday, June 7, The Enquirer will present an historic, 16-part commemorative series "D-Day Plus 20: A Conversation With Dwight D. Eisenhower." The exclusive series, available only to newspapers, summons after two decades thoughts and reflections of the commander who launched the Allied invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944.

Already, General Eisenhower's comments have been described as priceless additions to history, comparable to what might have been added to the historical record had Washington, Grant or Lee reviewed their major decisions in 20-year perspective. General Eisenhower returned to the scenes of the invasion, i command post, the beaches themselves to relive fateful days, to take another look at what happened and what might have happened. Now you will be able to read his thoughts, to know the weight of decisions that changed the course of history, including many details never before revealed. Page Years 2H 1-61 Sense 2J 7F 5H 4H Page Peale 2H Sheen 2D Worn. Sect.

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