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NO. 348. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY ID, 1935. Entered a Second-Class Matter at Post Office, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Dally and Sunday.

TEN CENTS. 1 VI Maw MM The I Star NINE PARTS i mm By ARTHUR BRISBANE. Mr. Joe Louis. Woodpecker Sermon, Hitler's Latest.

Invitation to Shoot. MAYS JN POLE Giant Soviet Plane Crashes; 49 Killed BIGGEST LAND SHIP FALLS NEAR MOSCOW COMB Hi PILOT RAMS Si; II BREAKS IN I Russia's giant airplane, the Maxim Gorky, flying over Red Square In Moscow (lay, when the Soviet displayed its military might, a feature of which was a parade of tanks. Two smaller idiips are accompanying the Gorky to provide contrast, just as the one was yesterday which caused the world's greatest airplane disaster. (Associated Press Photo.) TAKES AMBULANCE, BLISTERS (Pictures on Harold Laxen, 1811 Stadium the bricks at the Speedway at 121 yesterday. He watched Al Gordon flash Fred Frame and Floyd Roberts and one after another of the castor oil comets go slithering around the curves and come diving down the POST AS PILOT IS Driver Uses Too Much Gas Gordon, Roberts in Front Row 9 Qualify at Speedway.

(Other Pictures on Page 15.) BY W. W.AINE FATTON. Sports Editor The Star. Nine machines qualified yesterday for the 500-mile International gasoline derby to be raced at the IndL anapolis Motor Speedway May 30, as a crowd estimated at twenty-five thousand spectators was thrilled with several record-breaking per-formances. Rex Mays, California dirt-track daredevil, won the pole position in the starting field with an average of 120.736 miles an hour in his Gilmore Special, but only after a heartbreaking disqualification on the part of Petillo, winner of No.

1 po-sition a year ago. Petillo took to the bricks shortly before sundown and set a dazzling pace of 121.687 miles an hour, with a best lap of 122.416 miles an hour, both new records, but was disqualified. In his ten laps (twenty-five miles) he used flve-eichth nf with a tolerance of one pint. are allowed In the time trials. Owing io tne lateness of the test, he did not get a chance to adjust his carburetor and run again in his Gilmore Speedway Special.

Gordon, Roberts in First Row. The other two members of the "blsr three" in the front row are Al Gor-don, who qualified his Cocktail Hour Special at 119.481 miles an hour, and Floyd Roberts, with 118.671 miles an hour, In his Abels-Fink Special. The pole position was won a year ago by Petillo with an average, of 119.329 miles an hour. In addition to the disqualification of Petillo's trial two othors made attempts to make the grade but met with trouble before the completion of their trials. Lou Moore was hitting a pace around 116 miles an hour when he went out on the seventh lap with a broken ring gear on his rear axle and Shorty Cantlon was forced to quit on his final lap after averaging approximately 117jniles an hour.

Table Shows Remarkable Runt. The remarkable runs made by both Petillo and Mays for the ten laps are reflected in the following tables: Time Average Each Lap. M. P. H.

Petillo Lap Lap Lap Lap Lap Lap Lap Lap Lap 1:14.83 1:14.40 1:13.54 1:13.58 1:13.56 1:13.76 1:14. 13.83 1:14.23 120.611 120.968 122.382 122.418 122.349 121.984 121.261 121.902 121.245 Lap 10 1:13.90 21.786 .12:19.60 121.687 Time Average Each Lap. M. P. H.

Total Mays-Lap 1 Lap 2 1:14.19 1:14.12 1:13.88 1:14.52 1:14.25 1:14.16 121.310 121.425 121.819 120.773 121.212 121.359 12O.20S Lap Lap Lap Lap Lap Lap Lap 7 1:14.87 8 1:15.04 9 1:15.31 119.938 119.506 119.856 120.736 Lap 10 Total 1:15,09 12:25.48 The new Speedway records made yesterday apply only to present-day racing conditions, however. Before superchargers were outlawed by the A. A. A. governing board and when one-seaters were in vogue, Leon Dura of Indianapolis set a mark which many have forgotten.

This was in 1928 when the system called for only four laps (ten miles) in the Turn To Page 15, Column i. THE STAR TODAY CONSISTS OF 9 PARTS Part I General News and Radio. Part 2 Sports, Autos and Financial. Part 3 Society, Building, Gardens and Travel. Part 4-Want Ads.

Part 5 Amusements, Editorial, Art, Book Reviews and Features. Special Block Day Section. Part 6-This Week. Part 7 Gravure. Part 8 Comics.

DISQUALIFIED Wreckage of Craft, Bodies of Victims Fall Over Vil lageWorst Such Disaster. MOSCOW, May 18. UP) The world's largest land plane, the Maxim Gorky, collided with an escorting plane today, broke in midair and crashed to the ground, bringing death to forty-nine persons in the worst disaster ever to befall a passenger plane. The wreckage of the two airships and the broken bodies of the victims fell over the village of Socol, on' the outskirts of Moscow, crushing at least one house, but reports that several villagers died under the debris failed to find confirmation. Sees Ship Go to rieccs.

"The Gorky dived crazily and I watched with horror while it went to pieces in the air," said one eyewit ness. One house was hit by a wing weighted down by four motors, and it tore the roof and the whole side off the building. The bodies of the victims, some of them women and child-en. were strewn about with the wreckage, many dismembered." Blame for the tragedy was fixed by Soviet officials on the pilot of the small escorting plane, Nikolai Bla- gin, whose ship rammed headlong into the leading edge of the giant Maxim Gorky's wing while he was stunting in violation of orders. Bla- gin died with all forty-eight occupants of the mamrsaih passenger plane.

State Funeral for Victims. Soviet officials announced tonight that a state funeral will be accorded the victims, and that their families will be granted special pensions and a lump sum indemnity. The eight women and six children among the thirty-seven passengers lost in the disaster were members of the families of crack employes of the Central Airodynamic Institute, on ah excursion in the plane. Among the entire crew of eleven that perished were two of the Soviet's most expert pilots, Giuroff and Mikhaeff. Experts Among Victims.

The dead passengers included Matrosoff, chief production engineer of the Airodynamic Institute Kazar-novich, director of the institute's pilot committee and his two children, and the institute's chief me chanic and head bookkeeper. Eyewitnesses said that the smaller plane remained wedged into an edge of the Maxim Gorky's wing and that the two fell downward together. Then the pilot of the Gorky regained control and tried to come down in a glide. Spectators said they believed he would have succeeded but the small er plane fell away and the giant liner lost equilibrium and went into a dose dive. Cuts Off Motors.

It is asserted officially the pilot cut off the motors and that there was no explosion, although shortly after going Into the terrifying, dive Turn To Page 2, Column 2. WEATHER FORECAST Jim Crow says: The new deal spending would be a lot of fun If the taxpayer did not have to think about paying the bill. Forecast for Indiana for Sunday and Monday: Cloudy Sunday, followed by rain in south and west portions; showers Monday, moderate temperature. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicin ity for Su- -y and Monday: Cloudy followed by rain; showers moderate 2P A 21-YEAR-OLD Detroit Negro, Joe Louis, will fight the Italian giant Camera. Sports writers say he "hits straight and hard, and takes punishment better than men of his race usually do at that age." With him, as he travels, nodding gravely to applause, go six or seven other young Negro athletes, a "two-fisted" group of admiring young satellites, each with his diamond ring, gold watch chain and diamond cravat pin.

Thev recall to Mr. Dan Parker, eports superexpert, the ancient "two-gword men" thelfeamurai of ancient Jppan. This coming individual prize fight between a Negro and the giant Italian is doubly interesting juBt now because of the wholesale fight that threatens between the kingdom of Italy and the blacks of Abyssinia. Mr. Joe Louis's samurai tell you that he (meaning yToe Louis) would make a better KingVf Abyssinia than anybody they caVj raise down there.

Nevertheless, "1-hey are in favor of Abyssinia. Complications may arise when the fight draws a crowd made up largely of colored men and Italians. "Sermons in stones, and good in everything." There must be a sermon in the Chicaeo woodpecker that every morning woke his neighborhood drumming oni copper drain pipe. The copper resisted, but the woodpecker drummed on until a boy with an air rifle stopped him forever What is the sermon? Does it deal with modern efforts to ignore the nature of man, stand demand" on his V1U 11 1 1 head, and prove that super-intelli gence can make the world over in ten minutes? News from Germany again annoys respectable Britons. Hitler is alleged to have built 450 "vest pocket' tor pedo boats to match the small, em cient cruisers with which he cir cumvened Versailles treaty limitations before he threw Versailles Into the discard.

These "vest pocket" torpedo boats each carrying four deadly torpedoes; traveling sixty knots an hour, could disturb British floating commerce and even her warships considerably. Ex nerts say their speed would make them hard to hit. What about the speed of airplanes going 300 miles an hour, dropping torpedoes 10,000 feet up? Would they be easy to hit? In New York city racketeers collect $10,000,000 a year from poultry deal ers, having by way of persuasion killed a few of them. To discourage the racketeering, Police Commissioner Valentine tells merchants to "slug racketeers" at sight and offers to help them get re volvers for shooting. An old poker player when he "raised" used to say "the best way to discourage vice is to make it ex pensive." Commissioner Valentine says the best way to discourage crime is to make it dangerous for the criminal.

Very old is the story of the fish in which was found a precious ring that the tyrant of Samoa had dropped into the sea. And new is the story from Sydney, about a captured shark that disgorged the tattooed arm of a man. The man had been murdered, his body dismembered, the parts thrown into the sea. The shark swallowed one arm, returned it as evidence and the murderer may hang invent something more improbable than that. Berlin predicts that Russia, having arranged an alliance for mutual de fense with France, now will recog' nize, and ultimately pay, the money that France lent to the Czars, about $5,000,000,000.

Guileless American bankers who lent money to Kerenskl, the comic opera revolutionary, must not let their hopes rise. Paying anything to the United States is not fashionable in Europe. Congress may permit Itself to be "pushed around" and "vetoed," for getting that it was sent to Washing ton to think for itself. But there is no pushing around when the question Is "shall we cease hiring our own relatives as clerks?" When that question came up, Con gress yelled "NO!" No one knows how long clerkship nepotism and will last We may have a real dictator some day, with an opinion of legislatures as low as that of Mussolini or the late Pilsudski of Poland. Enjoy nep otism while the sun shines.

Tell your little boy that ordinary "nepotism" comes from a latin word which means "nephews." In Congress it means any relative that needs a job. ('Copyright, 1935, by Xing Features Syndicate, Inc. International copyright and all other rlgbU reserved.) Child Killed by Fall From Bed During Play Sptcial fo Tbt Indlanapolit Star.) PORTLAND, May Joan Leggett, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Leggett, was killed tonight when she fell from a bed on her head while playing with other children.

Her neck was broken. The parents and six brothers survive. GETS POLE POST FOR MAY 30 RACE RKX MAYS. 190.906 M. P.

H. Averaged in M. Flight 8 French Records Fall. NEW YORK, May Four more world speed records for load-carrying transport planes were smashed by D. W.

(Tomfy) Tom-linson and his copilot, Joseph E. Bartles today, making a total of nine new international marks within three days. One of the marks established today was an improvement on a record which they broke Thursday, thus leaving the United States with eight records formerly held by France. The two pilots drove their TWA twin motored monoplane twice around a closed 1,000 kilometer course between New York, Washington and Norfolk, at an average speed of 190.906 miles an hour. With a "pay load" of 2,000 kilograms of sand (approximately two tons), they covered the run in a total elapsed time of 6 hours 30 minutes and 34 seconds.

"It Was the Plane." Tomlinson, a vice president of Transcontinental Western Air, waved aside congratulations with a grin. "It was the plane," he said, adding that 90 per cent of the flying was done by a robot pilot. In addition to eclipsing three international records formerly held by France and bettering their own time on a fourth, the fliers improved one existing United Stales mark and es tablished three others. Speeding over the same course on Thursday, they had broken five world records which also were held by France. Despite cross winds encountered between Washington and Norfolk, Tomlinson said the best speed, 254 miles an hour, was reached between those points on both laps.

Avoid Head Winds. He gained his highest altitude on the last leg, from Norfolk to Floyd Bennett field, when the big passenger plane was sent up to 13,000 feet in an effort to avoid head winds. The first lap was covered at an average speed of 190.1 miles an hour. This was raised to 191.6 on the second lap, as the gasoline load diminished. CLAIMS ITSIDK-DOWN MARK.

1'oant Woman's Inverted Flight Lasts 35 26 Sec. BURBANK, May 18. UP-Mrs. Bernardine King, local flier, went aloft today in her monoplane and flew upside down for 25 minutes 26 seconds. She was timed omcially by Larry Therkelsen of the National Aeronautical Association.

"I went up to establish a mark for other womon fliers to shoot at," explained Mrs. King. "As far as I know, no other woman flier has attempted to set a mark for upside-down flying." Mrs. King Is the wife of a Hollywood insurance executive. Highest Salaried Woman Paid $44,266 a Year WASHINGTON, May highest-paid business woman In America, according to statements filed thus far with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is Mary Lewis Finley, vice president of Best St New York department store.

She was listed for an annual salary of 844,266. Next highest woman's salary so far reported was $25,228 to Miss Sarah Sheridan, vice president of the Detroit. Edison Company. ITU A CUID CCTC IM1 Jllll JLIJ 4 MORE MARKS FOR DIM OF MPU Police Reach Bus Station Just After Man Believed to Be Robinson Vanishes in Crowd. Thomas H.

Robinson fugitive kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed Stall, young Louisville (Ky.) society matron, Is the object of an intensive manhunt in Indianapolis. A man believed to be him alighted from a bus at the Trai ion Terminal Station and disappeared in a crowd yesterday afternoon. Police squads sent to meet the bus arrived shortly after the man loft. Woman Notillcn 1'nllce.

Earl McCreary, 31 years old, De catur Hotel, Grcensburg, driver of the Cincinnati-to-Indiannpnlis bus for the Indianapolis Southeastern Lines, said the man got on the bus Shelbyville. McCreary said he stopped the bus on the outskirts of Indianapolis and told a young woman employe of the company to call Indianapolis police and notify them. As the bus stopped in the station McCreary said he saw two nion he believed to be detectives and tried to get their attention. He learned shortly afterward that the men were not policemen. Meanwhile, the man believed to be Robinson started to leave the bus and McCreary offered to carry his black zipper bag, His offer of assistance was refused and the man left the bus hurriedly and was last seen walking toward Monument Circle on Market street, A moment later a police squad headed by Sergt.

Harry Schley arrived at the bus sta tion. General Alarm Broadcast. A general alarm was broadcast over the police radio ana squaas were detailed to the downtown section to be on the lookout. McCreary said that employes of the bus company at Shelbyville re marked about the resemblance of the man to photographs they had seen of Robinson. Passengers on the bus also noted the resemblance.

Mc Creary said the man kept onfi hand over a part of his face during the trip and kept his hat turned down to shield his face. He was described as about a feet incnes in weighing 150 pounds, dark com plexion and wearing a light plaid checked suit and dark brown hat. Mrs. Stoll, wife of Berry V. Skill, prominent Louisville business man, was' kidnaped In her home last October and was brought to Indianapolis, where she was kept hidden in an apartment at Twenty-eighth and Meridian streets until her release, Oct.

16, after payment of ransom. Appear at Clegg's Home. The day of her release Mrs. Stoll appeared at the home of the Rev. E.

Arnold Clegg, 2956 North Capitol ave-nue, pastor of the Capitol Avenue M. E. Church, in company with Robinson's wife. They started Immediately to Louisville In an automobile and news of Mrs. Stoll's release was not known In Indianapolis until the party was intercepted by Federal agents near Scottsburg.

Meanwhile, Robinson escaped and has been reported seen in various parts of the United States. On sev eral occasions he was ruported to Turn To rage 3, Column 1. on the owners' premises unless they are on a leash or muzzled. The proclamation covers a sixty-day period. Marion county commissioners yesterday said a county weights and measures truck manned by two FERA workers and a policeman will be used to pick up stray dogs.

The city dog pound trucks and Indian apolis Humane Society's automobilcsJ also are being used. Chief of Police Michael F. Morris-sey said that dogs bearing tags show ing that they have been innoculated against rabies will not be excepted and will be picked up and taken to the dog pound if found off the owners' premises unmuzzled or un- leashed, SPEEDWAY Page 1 1.) drive, watched Rex 'Maya blister miles an hour In the time trials around the oval In He Haw enough. Or maybe the idea just came to him, like that, to give the other drivers a chance. So he drew into the pits, wiped his forehead with the back of his hand and said: "Jazz her up a little, take out the back axle, slap her carburetor with a wrench and I'll win that 500-mile race in a whisper." Just then the men came for Mr.

Laxen. First he visited the Speedway jail and the guards there told him that he was charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. He heard the news sadly. He hadn't qualified the old bus after all. He hadn't even merited a charge of speeding.

Local Crime Prevention Plan of New Commission WASHINGTON, May effort to prevent crime by training children for normal life Was undertaken today by a national commis sion of social education to act as clearing house for sixty "character- building" organizations. The com mission will work through local agencies on the theory that crime is a local problem. Building Burns: 3,000 Groan; Checks Inside TOPEKA, May 18. UP) The old North High School building burned today and 3,000 relief work ers groanea in unison, xneir pay checks were in the building. The checks were kept in a steel safe.

may be necessary to pull down the walls to determine whether the checks escaped destruction. UNI TO IT Merger of Democratic Factions to Back Townsend Is Proposed. BY MAURICE EARLY, union of Democratic forces to back M. Clifford Townsend, Lieutenant Governor, for the party's nomi nation for Governor next year, is the latest proposal of leaders who desire to head off Pleas E. Greenlee in his quest for the honor.

Townsend and Greenlee are recognized as the outstanding prospective candidates for the nomination at this time. The antistate administration groups are definitely anti-Greenlee, but have no deep-rooted feelings against the Lieutenant Governor, At the same time some of the closest friends of Governor. Paul V. McNutt are as antagonistic to Greenlee as the followers of. Senator Frederick VanNuys and R.

Earl Peters, former state chairman. Greenlee Out In Front. Although it is one year in advance of the state convention the anti-Greenlee groups already are alarmed at the progress the patronage secretary is making in the Democratic organization. Greenlee is taning me organization by storm. Up to this time the only argument which, the opponents of Greenlee could offer was that he would make a weak candidate in the fall election.

They la Tint see now mat having any effect and that the band wagon boys are continually climbing on the Greenlee vehicle. Therefore the attempted effort to speed up the Townsend campaign. Within the week the proposal will be laid before the VanNuys and Peters men and an attempt will be made to get such administration leaders as Frank McHale and Bowman Elder in line for Townsend. McKlnney a Candidate? During the last few days E. Kirk McKinney, head of the Home owners Loan Corporation, and a spokesman for Senator VanNuys, has been in Washington.

His return is awaited with interest by the men who know they would be left in the cold should Greenlee be able to succeed Governor McNutt as chief executive. McKlnney is reputed as having ambitions to seek the nomination for Governor. There have been stories from time, to time that he is to launch Into the campaign. As a result of the Washington conference it may be decided that the anti-Greenlee forces would act wiser by seeking a compromise rather 'than attempt to elect their first choice. Townsend Following Is Big.

The biggest objection to Townsend is that he has been part of the administration. Only for a time was he the least inclined to buck the McNutt forces during the last session of the Legislature, when he presided over the Senate. The Lieutenant Governor gave the antladminlstration forces some comfort whsn they sought to push Turn To Pagt 3, Column GREENLEE SEEN stretches. But that wasn't enough excitement for Mr. Laxen.

He said "Well." In fact, he may have said a couple of "wells." And the next that any one knew, possibly before Mr. Laxen had given it a great deal of thought, he was whizzing around the track himself. Happened Just Like That. It just happened that there was no streaking steed of streamlined steel handy when the idea struck Mr. Laxen.

He thought of it, just like that, while he was standing beside a big, red ambulance in gasoline alley. Before he knew it he was in the seat, he was stepping on the accelerator, he was making a siren scream and he was heading the ambulance straight for the track. A guard on duty at the track gate saw the ambulance coming and swung open the gate. He thought there had been an accident to one of the fast cars warming up. Crane to See Accident.

The spectators in the stands also thought there had been an accident and set up an excited roar and a craning to all points of the famed course's circumference. They couldn't see an accident, but they could see the ambulance, now whizzing out along the straightaway. Mr, Laxen, possibly aware that he was taking the play from the more celebrated daredevils who were always getting their pictures in the papers, stepped on the gas and gripped the wheel He looked ahead intently. There was a curve coming up that dangerous, bad old south west curve that always tested a driver's nerve. Well, he'd show' 'em He'd show 'em how to take that curve.

He jammed the accelerator to the floor board. Thirty miles forty miles, fifty miles up up fifty-two or fifty-three miles. Maybe even better. The old wagon sure was stepping along. Learns Fait for Amateur.

"Zoo-o-o-m he hit tlfe curve. H) skidded. He righted It. Now he was on the south stretch. "Zoo-o-o-m he hit the southeast curve.

He slipped. He straightened her out. He hit the back stretch as well as Tommy Milton ever went into it. And from then on It was nice going on the stretches and a "zoo-o-o-m!" on the curves. Every one thought he was doing well.

All except Leonard Cox, the official ambulance driver, who had left his vehicle unguarded a few minutes and went back to find it gone. Driver Cox shouted: "Some one's stolen the ambulance!" and ran to the track. Driver Cox was merely joining a procession, for everybody else was running somewhere or other. Drives Into Pits. At the end of two runs around the two-and-a-half-mlle oval Mr.

Laxen decided that he hd qualified the am bulance for the 500-mile race, or maybe he Juit decided that he had DOGS BITE FOUR MORE DURING QUARANTINE Four persons were bitten by dogs yesterday as police began enforcement of Mayor John W. Kern's proclamation ordering a sixty-day quarantine in an effort to curb the mounting toll of dog bite cases In Indianapolis. Chester Tolliver, 16 years old, 605 Lord street, was bitten In theleft leg by a stray dog while delivering papers at Bates and Noble streets. Police were unable to find the dog. While playing in a vacant lot near his home Carl DePain, 10 years old, 180 North Blackford street, was attacked by a dog and bitten in the back.

Omar Westerfleld, 16, 1317 Springdale street, was bitten in the hand. Sam 13, 705 North Senate avenue, was bitten. Victims of dog bites were treated at the City Hospital and owners of the animals were ordered to keep them penned ten days for observation for rabies. Mayor Kern's proclamation orders owners of dogs to keep the animals United States Weather Bureau Special He-port lor The Indlanapolit Star, ALMANAC OF THE DAY. Bun Msei at.

4 :26 Sun lets at. 8:57 WEATHER CONDITIONS TESTERDAY. Relative Humidity. a. m.

ii pet Noon 24 pet 7 a.m. 32 pet Precipitation. Amount during twenty-four houri ending at 7 p. m. .00 Total amount alnce Jan.

1, 1935 13.59 Accumulated departure from normal Ince Jan. 1 1.T2 Temperaturee. 7 a. m. Wet 4T Maximum 89 Dry Sft Wet 4 7 p.

m. S3 Wet 50 Minimum 41 For the Same Date Lait Year. a. 62 I Maximum 7 p. ni to I Mlmimum i.

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