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WEATHER TODAY Sunny, Mild Temperatures Yesterday High, 77; Low, S3 The NDIANAPOL TAR SECURITY FAIR AND FIR ST VOL. 45. NO. 362 ii -k -k it TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1918 1S18 TRAFFIC TOLL 87 FIVE CENTS v1 7 I The Day In Indiana By Maurice Early Slash Home Costs Infants' Eyes Safe Living Cost Wages Train Trip Education Free Service Checked Wins Th ird Race Starlet Presents Winner's Trophy Escape Of Flooded import's Populace Called Miraculous I TNDIANA HOUSE builders are J- being urged to participate in a nation-wide effort to construct houses under a new material and labor-saving plan which will reduce the cost one-fourth or more. INFORMATION about the "industry-engineered home" is being broadcast by R.

V. Slagle, scc- retary-treasurcr of the Indiana Portland, Ore, May 31 (AP) Another Columbia Kivcr dike Inirst north of Portland late tonight, sending flood waters crashing toward the $1,500,000 Portland Meadows raee track. Vanport, May 31 (AD The rampaging flood waters that crushed this city of 1S.700 people like a cardboard village yesterday drove some 3,500 from two Washington towns north of here tonight. Jamming the streets of South populace raced to higher ground Kclxo. 5(1 miles to the north, the escape the threatened dikes of ose Noses Out Teammate, Duke Nalon Averages 119.813 For New Speedway Record, 2d Straight The top 10 in the 32d annual 500-Mile Auto Race at the Indianapolis Speedway: Driver Speed Winnings Mauri Rose 119.813 Bill 119.147 10,000 Duke Nalon 118.034 Ted Horn 117.844 Mack Hellings.

112.808 Hal Cole 111.587 Lee 109.177 12,000 3,400 2,750 2,200 T. Hinnershitz. Johnny Mauro. C. Van Acker.

flncludes lap 1,850 1,750 prize money of $8,000. Includes lap prize money of Includes lap prize money of $7,500. 8Flagged at the end of 199 laps. Magged at the end of 198 laps. Flagged at the end of 193 laps.

Does not include accessory prizes. By BOB STRANAHAN Mauri Rose rode in record time on a whirling carrousel of speed yesterday to win his second straight 500-mile race, but. many in the crowd of 200,000 talked of the quirk of fate which cost Duke Nalon a chance at the $40,000 first-place victory. It was as though Rose had caught the brass ring on the Speedway merry-go-round, but it was far from a "free ride" as the 42-year-old South Bend pilot the 500 miles at an I average speed of "119.813 miles per hour. The elapsed time was 4:10:23:38.

i Since Rose was a co-victor with Floyd Davis in 1941 it enabled him to duplicate the feat of Wilbur Shaw and Louis Meyer of receiving the checkered flag three times. Rose was called on to drive his Blue Crown Spark Plug Spe- Full Tage of Pictures on I'age 12 Half-rage of Tictures on Tage 32 Other Pctures on Pages 2, 3, 6, 7, 11 and 22 cial in, a furious finish with Teammate Bill Holland, of Bridgeport, who finished second, and Nalon, who was third. It was the second straight year that Rose and Holland had finished one-two for race cat-builder Lou Moore. There was no controversy at the end of this one, though, as Rose shattered the record of 117.200 set by the late Floyd Roberts in 1038. THERE WAS NO misunderstandings on pit signals or disputes at the finish this time.

Rose drove it steadily and in a faster car although the 4-cylinder front drive jobs are twins. That is just one of the ironic twists in the racing business. Rose and Holland were only in the pits once each to refuel and for tire changes, yet Mauri finished more than a lap ahead. Hol- Turn to Page 22, Column I -1 Cs 'tVtr 1 90 Arc Feared Lost In Navy Boat Accident Kescne Craft Comh Koiijjh Waters of Hampton Koads Norfolk, 1 (Tuesday) Naval spokesmen said the number of Inst from the Navy Liberty bout Mas not expected to be known until a muster is held some time today. Norfolk, June 1 -A score of small vessels and tugs combed the rough waters of I Hampton Roads early 1oday in search of 00 memhers of the armed forces from aboard the Aircraft Carrier Keaisnrge.

The military personnel was thrown into the waters when a i 40-fnot motor launch was over-i turned approximately one-half mile off the piers of the Norfolk Naval Station. HI Til NAVAL DISTRICT of- I ficials could, make no immediate estimate of the number of lives which may he lost. They said the i cause of Ihe overturning of the launc had not been determined. Rescue operations from the Kearsargp and other vessels in i the vicinity began immediately. I Searchlight, equipped boats from the Coast.

Guard were dispatched to the scene. Navy spokesmen said there was no way to ascertain the status of i the men aboard the launch. It, was believed that the men were i enlisted personnel and oMiccrs. Miss Barbara Britton, Hollywood starlet who awarded the Borg-Warner Trophy, in background, hovers near Mauri Rose after he pulled in as winner for the second straight year of the 500-mile race. But Rose spurned the traditional kiss from Miss Britton until after he had kissed his fiancee, Miss Wentworth.

At left is Speedway President Wilbur Shaw. the Coweoman River. The dikes were still holding, however, and officials had hopes they might not go out. Water poured through the Lewis River dike this afternoon and surged toward the town of i Woodland, miles north of here. The Columbia River dike that also protects the town was weak- ening, and expected to go out duting the night.

THE FLOOD WATERS were expected to rise three or four feet high in the town ol Woodland by late tonight. All Ihe inhabitants had fled to The ample warnings in both South Kelso and Woodland forestalled a repetition of the flood that clashed without warning through a dike to destroy this city Sunday afternoon. Amazingly, not single body lias been found in the 10 to 15 feet of water that is still swirling through what was the city of i Vanport. HOI'E that the Vanport disaster i had not caused a major loss of life rose tonight, as rescue boats finished a full day of search with- Pictures on Pages 4, 10 and 18. nut finding a victim amid the shattered houses and submerged streets.

But much of the wreck-! ae lay buried too deep to be investigated. Three Army DL'KVVS and an Army crash boat chugged over the lake that yesterday was Vanport. The rowbonts they towed oared their way into broken second stories; searched the rooms for victims. CHALK MARKS indicating no bodies had been found stood on thousands of the flimsy frame houses. But rescuers could not tell what the splintered apartment.

the unreachable lower floors of houses, and the hun- Turn to Page 16, Column 4 infield alone than there are in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia, put together, and more were coming all the time, crowding in somehow. Trains were pulling in all the time, disgorging their human cargo, which scampered for the main gate looking for all the woilds like the occupants of an Turn to Page 19, Column 2 Indiana Toll Rises To 13 361 Die In U.S. Over Holiday Week End Winner Rose To Take Indiana Bride June 13 Lumber and Builders' Supply Association. This improved method of building on the so-called nwdu-1 a system is the answer of the Nat i a 1 Retail Lumber Dealers" Association and the Pro ducers' Council to those who charge the industry is in a rut. UNDER THE NEW system, worked out in practice by experi-t- mental houses at the University Illinois, Mr.

Slagle says, the small-scale builder, for the first time, has the benefits of standardization of mass production heretofore possible only in pre-fabrication or large scale operations. HOOSIF.R DOCTORS have' turned thumbs down on a pro posal of a magazine that they me uc ui sin i nitrate in the eyes of new horn infants to prevent possible blindness by venereal disease. In stead, the publication advocated use of penicillin, NO INSTANCE of blindness or mnirv has hopn vAnni'tart the use of silver nitrate, the con- servation of vision and maternal (ind child welfare committee of the medical association reported. Penicillin is not satisfactory because it must be applied three times and some children are sensitive to it. TITEREFORE THE physicians Inform prospective mothers that the standard and reliable medi-.

cation will be continued in the 1 state as it is in most other states. Doctors resent "half baked" art- teles in lay magazines wnicn cause the public needless worry or inspire too much hope for new Aii.A0 mt.liifiti a fa in I ha evnprt- mental stage. OFFICERS of the Building Contractors' Association of Indianapolis believe they were in front of the labor-management parade when they proposed last year to the 19 crafts in the Building Trades Council that wage rates be adjusted on a cost of living basis. Recently General Motors established that principal in dealing with its workers. WILLIAM E.

MOIILER of Indianapolis, director of the national organization of builders, and Charles E. Nourse, local champions of a cost of living adjusted contract with all the crafts, declare such an arrangement would stabilize the construction industry in Indianapolis. Seattle has such a plan. PARENTS OF THIRD grade children in the John Strange Public School believe short railroad trips for the classes would advance their education more rapidly than book learning. EXPERIENCE of two teachers, Mrs.

Mildred R. Smith and Mrs. Mary Fahlcr, is cited to prove the value of such excursions. JThcfy" arranged to take the chil dren to Lebanon and return at small cost. They brought their lunches and ate on the train.

Here is the payoff. Before going on the trip they were given a vocabulary test on words relating to railroading and another after returning. The test showed an average increase of 100 per cent in train vocabulary. CITIES, desperate for revenue, may be overlooking sources to which they are entitled. Some cities are calling attention to the fact that non-profit organizations which are not required to pay-pro per ty tax and rightly should not be provided with costly services for nothing.

Thpse include sewers, police and fire protection. NO ONE WOULD expect non-taxed institutions to receive water service free. Likewise many communities are placing a charge on the use of the sewers. All users should pay this levy, where it is assessed, regardless of their tax status. Indianapolis is now plugging one rat hole.

That is the townships and factories outside of the citj. repeat victor in the "500," his only predecessor being Shaw. Turn to f'age. 16, Column 5 Visiting Cops Robbed; $500: i ICtiClS (jOUC Three Birmingham (Ala.) policemen who came to see the race were caught yesterday with their billfolds down. The wallets, containing tickets to the Speedway and spending money, were stolen from their, downtown hotel rooms.

Pocketing their pride, they notified Indianapolis police and prepared to spend the rest of their lives being needled about it in Birmingham. Sympathetic Indianapolis police took the three to Speedway oflices and saw that they got the seats they had purchased. Their billfolds containing $12 tickets and C3sh were stolen as they slept. The billfolds of Harry A. Johnston, 37 years old, and George V.

Williamson, 33, each contained $100 and that of James K. Adams $300. They were with rive others from Birmingham who planned to finance the rest of their trip. Racers Just Termites To Fans Riding Blimp i Police Nab 7" Race Scalpers Tickets Confiscated Accused Miss 'SOU' Seven unhappy racing enthusiasts yesterday sat out the annual classic in an old hus behind a grand stand with no view at ail of 1he track. They were out their original investments in their own tickets and in several other tickets with which they tried to turn a fast dollar at track entrances, police said.

A ITER THE RACE, they were driven to Marion County Jail where two were released under $100 bond each. The others were slated for Beech Grove Magistrate's Court on a charge of ticket scalping. A precocious 17-year-old Pittsburgh, scalper fared better. Police too two $10.50 tickets he was trying to sell for $15 each, let him keep a third and saw to it that he used It. No charge was piacea againsi mm.

SCALPERS' TICKETS were all taken to the police property room. One man, John R. Snyder, I 27, Trenton, N.J., arrested for attempting to sell a $12 ticket I for $20 at the main gate, had a I press badge and press ticket, po-! lice said. The charge against Snyder was dismissed in Speedway Magis-! (rate's Court last night. Three others were fined $25 and costs each.

They are Lester Keece, 27, Plymouth; Anthony G. Meal-cher, 38, East Cleveland, and Robert J. Binfoid, 31, Severin Hotel. 'Ihe charge against Irving 31, Chicago, was continued. Two others were free under $100 bond eac h.

They are Jack Manu-shaw, 3fi, Hammond, and Robert Lee Holladay, 36, 1321 North Riley Avenue. responsibilities as. citizens and i participate with intelligence and vigor in their own self-govern-! ment." He asked that Americans in this way justify Lincoln's deep faith in them. The selections are made by a board of 19 Lincoln students. No awards are made, hut gaining first, place in the selections has high prestige value.

RM PH R. RKKDER SONS wa. 24il For Emmiiei -tv. Fans And Cars Get In Snarl Thousands Caught In Underpass Jam Traffic problems cropped out in new places at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway yesterday. Having solved most of the headaches which besieged the Speedway in other years, the management ran up against: (DA terrific jam of pedestrians inside the Speedway gates for nearly an hour prior to the start of the race.

(2) The customary automobile bottleneck in the infield after the race was over some cars moved less than 25 feet in an hour. (3) Flagrant violations of CAA regulations by airplanes flying over the track violations over which the Speedway has no control. MEANWHILE, Police Chief Edward D. Rouls prepared to send a message of congratulations to the entire police force today on the way in which it handled the race crowds. He had particular praise for the uniform division "who put in Turn to Page 4, Column 5 told him he still had the lens-cap over the lens.

LTnique "gate crashers" drove up in trucks outside the Speed way near the north turn, erected high towers on trucks, and had an excellent view of the track, Speedway officials attempted to put up a canvas screen to block their view, but abandoned the! idea, possibly strong wind. because of the Superstitious fans at yesterday's 500-mile race thought they know the reason Rex Mays dropped out. of the race at the end of his 128th lap. A few seconds before he pulled into the pits with a leaking fuel line in fourth place a black cat wandered across the track on the west straightaway. Mays' car leading part of the way, and still a strong contender, never got back on the track.

Enterprising Speedway City kids used official police "No Parking Today" signs to direct cars into their private paiking lots. The kids cut the "No" out of the signs. Bill Holland sauntered along West 16th Street toward the Speedway about an hour before the race started, mingling Turn to Page 4, Column i i Amateur CameraFan Wasn So Candid By JEP CADOU JR. "Victory Lane" festivities yes-i terday turned into an unsched- uled engagement, party when re- peat, winner Mauri Rose and a 36-year-old South Bend gift store clerk announced they will be married June 13. Rose grimy and oil-spattered from the grueling 500 miles re- fused to kiss a beautiful Holly- wood movie star until after he bussed his fiancee, Miss Ruth Wentworth.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but there's a lady I want to kiss first," he told glamorous Barbara Britton after he pulled into the winner's circle. THEN HE PLANTED a kiss on the face of Miss Wentworth blonde but not as blonde as Miss Britton. "I hope you understand," he told the starlet, "We're going to be married In June." It was the first announcement of the impending marriage, which will be. the second for Rose. With his victory, Rose joined Wilbur Shaw and Iau Meyer in the exclusive ranks of three-time winners of the world's greatest racing classic.

The wiry, moustached little man who weighs only 135 pounds but puts plenty of weight on an accelerator also was the second i i ON INSIDE PAGES Gen. Eisenhower never wavered in his determination to stay out of politics despite clamor, his wife writes Page 3. Government sending; manufacturers an "industrial primer," telling what to do in case of total war Page 3. Senate "butter bloc" planning filibuster in effort to defeat oleo bill before end of congressional session Pane 3. Arabs armies in Palestine pouring men- and material into 40-mile front aimed at Tel Aviv Page.

10. Singer Paul Robeson tells senators he would rci to jail rather than to tell whether he is a Communist Page 15. The high and the low rub elbows as 200,000 witness 500-mile race Page 17. Comics 20 22-21 Editorials. II 18 Radio 15 Werner 5-8 It i At least one photography fan is going to be disappointed with his pictures of yesterday's 500-mile race.

A well dressed, important looking man in Grandstand A whose name wasn't learned spent most of the race taking candid camera shots of everything in sight with his new camera. None of his friends Mysterious Light Seen Over City Did you see It? A dozen or more East Side residents did and called The in nut By MARY E. BOSTWH A 150-foot, long box seat at the 500-mile race is something that comparatively few persons can brag about. You can do It, though, if you know somebody who owns a blimp and is feeling hospitable, i The blimp in this case was the Goodyear blimp, the Mayflower, We Pilot Verner Smith and five passengers went over in the Mayflower. The Mayflower wasn't full of furniture, however The furniture in it consisted ol six swivel chairs and a lot of sandbags.

No spinning-wheels, no high-boys, no warming pans. We could have used a few warming pans, too, for the windows were open to permit Photographer Hugh Connaway to take pictures, and the brisk wind whistled around our ears. Taking off from Sky Harbor Airport, where the Mayflower had been bitched by the nose to a 30-foot steel mooring mast, we headed west, an American tla fluttering at the Mayflower's tail. Taking off was simple: Several hundred pounds of sandbags were chucked off, the ground crew let go the dangling ropes, and the Mayflower bounced into the air like a pingpong ball, as why shouldn't it, with its 150-foot bag stuffed with 124,000 cubic feet of helium, and we bounced righl along with it, narrowly missing falling on our faces when it leveled off. ARRIVED OVER THE Speedway, extremely animated scene met the eye.

There were probably more cars in Ih'! The Weather Jim Crow Says: The next big event on the calendar Is the Orange Blossom Derby, starting today. Indianapolis and Indiana Sunny and mild. Press Memorial To Lincoln An Indianapolis Star editorial, clearly saw the meaning of Still Lives." was chosen i erty and democracy, and could as the outstanding Lincoln birth- express it, and the "leadership in day editorial in all American these present troubled times, newspapers, the Lincoln National bp a groat and won. Life Foundation of Fort Wayne I derful thing if Lincoln could sit has announced. agajn jn lnfl wtlite Hous)? tnis The editorial, written by Jame- vear he conciU(Ied.

"But he son G. Campaigne, chief editorial nim.seif wou)(j asrt.e that it writer- for this newspaper, ap- vvould b(1 cven and more peared in The Star Feb. 12, Lin- wonderful if the American peo-coln's birthday. i pe should eagerly accept their A drowning and an aulomobile accident late yesterday brought Indiana accidental deaths to 13 as the nation's three-day Memorial week-end toll soared to more than 350. Carl Edward Rogers, 14-year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond Rogers, Brazil, drowned in a flooded strip mine. The boy, unable to swim, slid off an inner tuba into 22 feet of water. Harold Lee Davis, 17, South Bend, was injured fatally when an automobile in which he was riding struck a tree. MONDAY'S accidental deaths also included Harry Stewart, 58, Connersville.

Found dead at the foot, of a basement stairway, Stewart was believed to have fallen down the stairs. John Nikirk, 28, R.R. 6, Bloom-ington, and Duane G. Wiggins, 22, Davenport, an Indiana University student, were killed when their light plane crashed near Bloomington, Traffic experts feared the highway casualty list would mount ominously in the home-Turn to Page 4, Column Star last night to report a "red light giving off sparks" moving slowly across the northeastern sky. Most of the callers said they noticed the object about 10:45 p.m.

It appeared to "duck and swoop" along on a north to i south course, they said, then gained altitude and disappeared. Weather Bureau officials, who also received calls, re-! ported no unusual phenomena in the heavens. They didn't see the "thing" but speculated someone might, have tied a flare to a balloon, Police and officials at the i CAA control tower at Weir Cook Municipal Airport could I throw no light on the mystery. -V' THE ANNOI NCE.ME.VT was made in "Lincoln Lore," he foundation's publication, of which Dr. Louis A.

Warren, one of the country noted Lincoln authorities, Is editor. The second place editorial appeared in the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star. Final selections were made from 125 leading newspapers. MR. CAMPAIGNE drew a comparison between the Lincoln who.