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TEE INDIANAPOLIS STAR TELEPHONE Rl. 731 1. INDIANA'S METROPOLITAN DAILY. WEATHER: FAIR AND WARMER VOL. 27.

NO. 360. Etitred na Second-CU-s Matter at Post Offlre. Indianapolis, Inn. Issued iJalJy and Sunday.

SATURDAY MORXIXG, MAY 31, 1930. Pally, By Carrier. 15 Cent! VrT Week: Sunday, lOo Per Copy; Mall, By Zones, 76c to Jl.uU. THREE CENTS. Today For 52 More Planes, Much Thanks.

The Mothers Return. North Pole Submarine. Morrow Not Spending. By Arlhur Brisbane I Race Kills 4, Injures 20 JUMPS INTO LEAD ON THIRD LAP AND IS NEVER HEADED SMILE IN VICTORY AFTER (Photo by Star Sta rhntnsrnphrr.) SPEEDING CAR ROARS THROUGH CROWD AT WINCHESTER TRACK I I Chicagoan Threatens Speed Record, Averages More Than 100 Miles an Hour Six Cars in Crash Slow Pace for 5 Minutes Cantlon Takes Second Schneider and Meyer Follow Two Italian Autos Fail to Show Among First Ten. DUESIE IS FIFTH; STUTZ TENTH m.4h aefV HOW THEY Pns.

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Arnold, Miller-Hurt front-drive Cantliin, Miller-S( hoficld Schneider, Howes Seal Fast L. Siiniison t'limmings, JMh'M'iiIhtj; Kvmiis, Sharer, ('olciiinii front-ilrivcr LONG GRIND. was Hilly Arnold's (loft as he race ami the lion's slmre of the mechanic Inn (tight), who "knew pelin radioed its position as ninety miles southeast of Norfolk, about fifty or sixty miles off the coast, and Commander Eckencr old the Hampton Roads naval base that he hoped to reach Lakohurst early tomorrow morning. The great air liner was gradually moving in toward the roast in an effort to steer clear of stiff north winds which were retarding its progress. 8.

SiiiMvliei-u'er, Itussel HD.lflrt 9. Allen, Allen-Miller 85.749 10. Coiiini, Sttit. 85.340 Still riinnlnj; and llngc'vl alter ten finished: Hiirton, eight, eleventh; Ciirinolln, Maseiall, twelfth; Miller, Fronty, thirteenth, and H. Htitcher, Ilutt-her fourteenth.

IO I jQL. Blowout Whips Fort Wayne Pilot's Mount Into Grand Stand Mother Throws Babe Out of Path of Careening Auto Racer Escapes From Crash Unhurt. Special to The Indianapolis Star. WINCHESTER. May 30.

Four persons were killed and twenty injured this afternoon when a racing car, piloted by Roland Bruhn of Fort Wayne, blew a tire on the southwest turn and charged into a crowded stand of spectators. The tragedy occurred on the second lap of the second race of the afternoon, an eight-mile event. Bruhn' Fronty Ford, the "Silver Bullet," in making the turn, rolled off a rear tire, spun at right angles to the track and roared through an iron retaining fence into the crowd. Driver Escapes Injury. The driver was not injured beyond minor cuts and bruises, and assisted in lifting the speed car from the spectators who were pinned beneath it and in rolling it back on the track.

One spectator was killed instantly. Three others were rushed to the Winchester hospital but died shortly after being admitted. Bruhn Held. Bruhn, who left the track shortly after the accident, was arrested in Fort Wayne tonight on request of local officials, who wished to question him about the accident. He was released when he promised to attend the inquest to be held here tomorrow.

Bruhn was hazy as to the details of the accident. He said that a tire went fiat ns he was making the curve and tl.at he was unable to control the car. He has been racing on dirt tracks for about three years, he told Fort Wayne officials, and is a garage mechanic by trade. The smile of victory and the chuckle of delight. The smile was pushed in his car from the Speedway track after winning the prize money.

The chuckle was that of Spider Matlock, the riding that Hilly would do it." LOS ANGELES LEAVES HANGAR TO GREET ZEP, NEARING U. S. Driver DEAD AND INJURED The dead: T. F. HALE, 60 years old.

Middle-town, JOHN A. BIRD, 30, Richmond. MALCOLM JENNINGS, 20, farmer, of near Winchester. JOHN EDWARD GAL'GHRAS, 8, of Muncie. The injured: FERN KIZER of Winchester, injuries about head.

Physicians at the Winchester hospital do not expect him to live. MACK ORAHOOD, Columbus, O. MR. AND MRS. FRED JONES, Muncie.

ED GAL'GHRAS, Muncie, father of the boy killed. E. W. BLUMBACGH, Troy, O. BESSIE METTLER, Lynn.

Twelve other persons were cut and bruised but their injuries were not serious and they remained at the track. Six other persons were taken to the hospital, where the emergency facilities were taxed. Minor injuries were suffered by a dozen other spectators, but after receiving first aid at the track they continued to watch the program of events. Mother Saves Infant. One rpectator reported that a woman believed to be Mrs.

John Mohler of Muncie, saved her infant child from possible death by tossing the baby through the air across the crowd out of the path of the careening car. Mr. Mohler, her husband, suffered minor injuries in the accident. 'Frank-E. Funk, operator of the speedway, announced after the accident that a heavy concrete retaining wall would be built at the track to guard against recurrence of the tragedy.

Three Escape Accident. The narrow escape from death of Frank Lermineaux Jr. of Winchester and his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lermineaux of Gas City, was reported tonight.

Until shortly before the accident, they had been sitting at the turn where it occurred. They had moved to another spot, and a man who moved into their seats was reported to be one of those killed. my room and I'll give him the certificate of title," said Mr. Arnold, to quote his own worc's. There must be Tie reason for such generosity, of course, and the fact that Mr.

Arnold had just won a 500-mile automobile race may have had something to do with it. His car had been stolen, but was he morose about it? When he said he I would give the culprit the certificate of title, he meant it. Winner 26 Years Old. "What are you so serious about, Bill?" shouted a talkie machine director as he recorded the winner of the sweepstake. "I'm just trying to figure up how much money I won," replied Billy.

Whereupon the b(road grin returned to his face. The 26-year-old winner did not experience his happiness alone. An admiring kid brother leaped on Bill neck as he was pushed into the garage with his championship car. A short time later his mother appeared. There was an embarrassing delay, however, for uniformed guards, who "had their orders," weren't going to be so soft-headed as to let a mere brother and a mere mother through the gates.

It took quite a bit of arguing on the part of a number of persons before these relatives were admitted to the Speedway hospital. Comely Mother Calm. At this point it would be journalistically conventional to become dramatic about the gray-haired mother who wept tears of joy for her son's triumph. But for the sake of journalistic accuracy, it must be reported that this mother was so comely she might have been taken for the driver's sister, or his wife. She was smiling, and very calm as she visited her suddenly famous son at the hospital where he was offered but declined a Asked if "he came by it honestly," she blushed a bit and said "she hoped so." At which point it seemed apropos to make the question clearer CONTINl'ED ON PAGE THKEE.

GOOD news announces navy contracts for fifty-two fighting planes, torpedo and bombing airboats. They will cost, for the fifty-two ships $3,000,177. Tor the price of one modern battleship, with coalers and other equipment, the navy could buy 1,040 such fighting planes. Altogether they would require crews smaller than one battleship crew and would cost far less in upkeep than one battleship. And one such bombing plane could sink any battleship or other ship afloat.

This nation needs at the least an air fleet of 5,000 fighting planes, with an adequate fleet under water. Peshawar is a long way from Buckingham palace, and once it would have been painful, slow work, subduing natives in those far off valleys. But now, the dull thud of exploding royal air force bombs is heard in the hiding places of Haji and hid Mohammedan tribesmen, rebelling against Britain. And Haji's forces are melting away. Allah and his prophet are great, but they offer no weapon to fight flying machines.

If bombing planes can hunt out scattered tribesmen in far off mountains and valleys, what would such planes, with bombs and poison gas, do in great cities where millions of men and billions of money are packed close together, offering such easy marks. What a surprise for some of us, if suddenly some foreign power should decide to treat one of our great cities as Britain is treating the fierce Mohammedan tribes and gentle Hindoos. It could be done. We are not protected against it. The first party of 127 Gold Star mothers, having seen the graves of tieir dead sons, are on their way home.

They were too early for the poppies, about which pretty war poems were written, but they saw the white crosses, ro on row, each marking the grave of a dead American soldier. The movement that sends them abroad to visit graves should reserve to itself the right to send other young Americans abroad to be killed. It should not leave that question to the discretion of any League of Nations or world court. And it should decide for itself what defense, ships, airplanes, submarines this nation needs and not leave that question to Britain and Japan. That has, been recently done, ignoring the advice and warnings of our highest naval officers, in deference to the wishes of Anglomaniacs in office and financiers engaged in international transactions.

President Hoover and the Navy Department are to be congratulated on the decision to allow our submarine 0-12 to take part in Sir Hubert Wilkins's work of exploration in the arctic. Eventfully our fleet of submarines will be made useful in peace through exploration of the oceans, seas, lakes and land under them. Engineers and surveyors will map out the mountains and valleys lying under the oceans. And the future will see submarine prospectors searching for mines and oil wells below the water, competing with modern prospectors now searching for treasure and oil for nations by airplanes. Those that should know, report Dwight Morrow is not spending any money "worth while" in his senatorial campaign.

And those that should know are disgusted. They are politicians, convinced that an ambitious rich man, whatever his personal fitness, should buy his Senate seat. The other candidate, It is said, Is spending most satisfactorily. If Mr. Morrow should be elected, It would show, that a man can carry New Jersey, without "taking care" of the practical Alfred P.

Sloan president of General Motors, protests against passage of the new tariff bill, warning the country that its passage would Injure American prosperity. This country is not interested merely in collecting duties on imported goods. It is vitally interested In developing the export of goods made here. We can not consume all that we produce. And to keep our men at work we must keep foreign nations buying from us.

They can not do that' if we shut ourselves inside a high tariff wall, and shut them out. (Copyright, 1930. KlngFeatureSyndlcate, Inc. Oklahoma Militia Saves Prisoner From Lynching CHICKASHA, May 31 (Saturday). A mob of men, intent on lynching Henry Argo, a Negro accused of attacking a white woman early today, way driven from the Grady county atil here by national guardsmen, After leaving the jail the mob, estimated at 1,000 persons, set fire to a National Guard truck upon which a machine gun had been mounted.

It was believed the mob's spirit was broken. First, "Marshall Brother Knowing Hope Was Gone (Phntn bj Klrkpnlrlrk.) FINISHED. m. r. h.

100.448 98.051 97.241 93.253 93.579 92.570 90.021 A full page of race pictures and scenes at the Speedway will be found on Page 10. Other pictures and race news are on Pages 3 and 11. ever established for the distance at the historic brick oval. Approaches Jlel'anlo's Kecord. His average was 100.448 miles an hour as against the record of 1325, when Pete DePaolo set the mark of 101.13 milrs an hour.

A yellow flag of distress during the progress of the long chase, which forced drivers to slow down and proceed with caution for a full five minutes without change of position until the track was cleared of a spill involving six drivers, is all that prevented the strong possibility of a higher mark for future challengers to break. The winner, using a Miller-Harts front drive creation, reigned supreme throughout the battle of cylinders. He was less than two car lengths behind Meyers, the 1928 victor, the first two laps, then took the lead, never seriously to be threatened for the remaining 198 times he had to circl the rough two and one-half-mil proving plant. Cnntloii Averages 98.054. "Shorty" Cantlon, in a Miller Scho-flcld Special, driving in consistent fanhion, was second with an average of 98.0M miles an hour, three and a fraction laps behind Arnold, while ar Indianapolis driver, Louis Schneider, with a Bowes Seal Fast Special, always threatening for the runner-up position, was third.

The latter's average was 97.241 miles an hour. The two foreign cars, a MaseratI of eight cylinders and one of sixteen cylinders, failed to show among the first ten. The sixteen was out in the first part of the race while the eight was flagged off the track in twelfth position sixteen laps behind the tenth machine to complete the required distance. Duesenberg Finishes Fifth. The beat showing made by the Indianapolis-made Duesenberg Specials competing for the rich stakes was rOXTIMED OX TAGE THREE.

A FEW OF THE WEEK-EM) VALUES IN GOOD USED CARS 1925 Ford Fordor. Reduced from $135 to $.50. 1929 Chevrolet cabriolet. $135. $15 cash, balance payments.

1937 Itulck standard six coupe, a one-owner car. $395. Ford model A business coupe. $295. 1928 Chrysler coupe.

Leather upholstery. very good tires. Small down payment. 1928 Ford coupe. Easy terms and low initial payment.

J929 Ford roadster. Good tires and spare. Lots of extras. Marnton 8 cabriolet coupe. $293.

1927 Hudson coach. $395. Hoick six sedan. $50. 1930 Vsed car buyers all read Classification IS STAR CLASSIFIED ADS BILLY'S AUTO STOLEN IN CITY BUT, SAY, HE'LL DONATE TITLE Vint BY W.

BLAINE PATTON, Sports Editor The Star. The wind-blown checkered flag of victory was waved in the sunburned face and the grease-stained goggles of a tired, weary, happy suprrknight of the roaring rare track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway yesterday afternoon. A cheering throng estimated as between 105,000 and 170,000 acrlaimed Its new hero Rilly Arnold, Chicago pilot as he flashed across the wire a winner in the 500-mile international gasoline derby in the eighteenth an nual running of America's premier sports event. To capture the classic, the 2fi-year- old pilot made a marvelous one-stop run, drove like a real master, skilled in the extreme, over the dangerous straightaways and treacherous dips, and turned in the second-best mark heart, which responded to the treatment but faintly. The surgeons realized from the start that they were waging a losing battle.

But surgeons do not stop fighting until the end. Dr. William A. Doeppnrs, superintendent of the ritv hnanital rr speedway surgeon, were in personal charge of Paul Marshall. "Did you get Paul fixed up?" the brother asked a few minutes after he died.

"Sure, he's coming along fine," a physician assured him. "I just couldn't tell him his brother had died," the surgeon explained. While phyjtrians worked frantically to save the lives of the two brothers, Ray Ruehy of Michigan Citv. hrothpr. in-law ctnnt Inof outside the hospital tent awaiting some word of encouragement from the inside.

"It was Cy's life ambition to CONTINUED ON FAGE THREE. Paul Marshall Victim-Tragedy Averted in Sensational 6-Car Smashup. The life of a mechanic was sacrificed to speed on the brickr of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the 500-mile race yesterday. A race driver, brother of the dead mechanic, was critically injured in the accident that brought death to his tiding companion. Several other drivers and mechanics suffered injuries and twelve occupants of the racers narrowly escaped death or serious injury when fix cars piled up on the treacherous northeast turn at about the fiftieth mile.

The dead: TAIL MARSHALL, .14 years old, of Detroit, mechanic. The injured: CVRCS MARSHALL, 28 years old, 1135 Ashland avenue, driver. Fractured skull, fractured jaw, severe bruises. DEACON LITZ, 31 years old, of Los Angeles, driver. Fractured wrist, bruises.

FRANK FARMER, 30 years old, Philadelphia, driver. Cut on face, bruises. I.KO SYKKS, mechanic. Bruises. JOHNNY SKYMOI 27 years old, of Escanaba, driver.

Foot injuries. CHARLES MORGAN relief driver. Slight head injuries. JOE CASSIA, 31 years old of Ern Mawr, driver. Bruises.

Several racegoers also were treated at the emergency hospital at the track. Paul Marshall was injured fatally when the DuescnberK, No. 3C, driven by his brother, without yarning darted from near the middle of the track to the top of the retaining wall on the northeast turn and bounced over the top. No other cars were CON TIN I'ED ON PAGE TWO. Only 2 Share Lap Fund; Meyer, $200, Arnold, $16,900 Only two drivers shared in the.

lap fund thousands in yesterday's 500-mile Speedway race, and one of these collected only a negligible amount. Louis Meyer, relinquishing the lead after completing the second lap. was awarded $200 for his efforts while Billy Arnold, leading every lap from the third to the 200th, won the remaining offered at the rate of $100 for each lap. Only 171 lap prizes were subscribed this- year, these being awarded to the leader in each of the first 171 laps. LAKEHURST, N.

May The United States naval dirigible Los Angeles took off at 1 o'clock this morning on a Southern cruise with expectations of meeting the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin which is en toute to Lakehurst. NORFOLK, May 30. VP)--At 11:35 o'clock tonight the Graf Zep "Fix Paul Up Moans, Not Cyril Marslinll (riht) was mechanician, was injured fatally the Speedway early in the race. "Fix Paul up first." Regaining consciousness for a moment while lying on an operating table In the emergency hospital at the Speedway yesterday, Cyrus Marshall mumbled this request to surgeons wiio were working desperately to pave his life. James Paul, Cyrus's brother will nver know oi ijrus a expression 01 brotherly love.

I He died in the hospital without regaining consciousness. Persuaded Brother to Take Him. I Cyrus Marshall, 28 years old, 1135 i Ashland avenue, who drove the car in which his brother met death, him- self is in a critical condition in the City hospital. Physicians said late last niht that he was roslin well, however. The full extent of his Injuries had not been asrertained.

It was Taul Marshall's first experience in the "big time" racing game. He had never ridden in a race before yesterday, but after considerable persistency had persuaded 1 injured critically and Taut Marshall, his brother and ridlnjc when their Diiescnlwi Special plunged off the northeast turn of If the guy who stole a Chrysler roadster from its parking place in the 1500 block on Illinois street Thursday night will call at the Wesley hotel, a guest there named Billy Arnold will give him the certificate of title for the same. This Arnold person, in fact, seemed disposed yesterday to offer Chryslers or any other make of car to any orphan or widow in the city who might feel the desire for such an equipage. "Tell the guy to come around to WEATHER FORECAST. Jim says: XV should Paris have "rackets" or organized crime when it I legal for any one to hold up the tourists? Forecast for Indiana for Satur day and Sunday: Fair and slightly warmer Saturday; Sunday- fair with incr sing cloudiness, warmer.

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for Saturday and Sunday: Fair and slightly warmer Saturday; Sunday fair with increasing cloudiness, warmer. rnltrd Stairs Weather Bureau Hpeclal Be port fnr The Indianapolis Star. ALMANAC OF THE DAY. gun rises at 4:18 I Sun sets at 7:07 WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY. Relative Humidity.

7 a. 7c pet I Noon 3 pet 7 p. m. 43 pet Precipitation. Amount during; twenty-four hours endlni: at 7 p.

Total amount since Jnn. 1. 19.10 17. St Accumulated 'leoarture from normal since Jan. 1 (excess) 46 Temperatures.

7 m. CS Wet 42 Maximum 62 Noon. S7 Wet 45 7p.m. 60 Wet 4 45 For the 8am DaU Last Year. 7 a.

77 Maximum so p. m. It, Minimum 1i his brolher to permit him to nrrupy the seat beside him as mechanic in the 500-mile race. The brothers were rushed to emergency nospuai alter tnrir uur- senberjr, Nd. hurdlrd the retain- im wall at the dangerous northeast turn.

Both ruffrred fracture of th skull and both were admitted to the, no.spiiat at toe fiame lime. Redouble KfTorts; All in Vain. "Fix Paul up first," Cyrus repeated, when attending physicians remained at his sidp. "Other surgeons are looking ator him. He'll be all right," they told him.

Inspired by the love of Cyrus fot pau. surjjeons redoubled their effort to keep the spark of life within th" body of the mechanic, v.ho lay on a cot opposite his brother. For more than an hour they worked. Once during the sixty or more minutes the battle appeared lost. Paul's heart stopped beating Adrenalin was injected into bis.