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The Indianapolis Star GREATEST MORNING AND SUNDAY CIRCULATION IN INDIANA. TELEPHONE KI ley 7311. WEATHER FORECAST: Showers and Cooler. Today Troof That the Soul Exists. From $800 to $500,000.

See the Great Race. Found a Monkey-Man. By Arthur Brisbane VOL. 30. NO.

338. MONDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1933. THREE CENTS. Knfered as Second-Class Matter at Post Office, Indianapolis, lnd. Issued Dally and Sunday.

I CHICAGO, May 28. MEN have asked often, "Have I really a soul?" That the soul exists was impressed upon many at the A Century of Progress exposition last night, when a blind man. Dr. Edwin B. Frost, director emeritus of Yerkes observatory, attended the realization of the suggestion, made by him originally, that the light of the star Arc-turus, two hundred and twenty-five million million miles from the earth, be used to start earthly lights that flood the exposition buildings.

Train-Oil Truck Wreck Claims 2 Exactly on time, forty years after i DIE IN CAR PLUNGE. (Klrkpatrirk INSTITUTE STATE ENGINEER, HAS NOT QUIT, W00DIN SAYS it left Arcturus, having traveled through the ether 225.000,000,000,000 miles, the light of the great star, feebler than that of a candle, when it reached the earth, was magnified and made to do its work. 2 OTHERS BURNED 10 FIX POLICY OF IMDUSTRYIMU.S. FOURTEEN QUALIFY, CROWDING TWO OUT OF STARTING FIELD Denver and Hurst Are Injured Fatally in Ill-Fated Brady Special Which Smashed Up With Aspen Monday Car Rams Into Tree Off Northeast Turn, Throws Pair Guards Drag Driver, Mechanic From Blazing Wreck All 42 Positions Taken, More to Seek Places Hepburn Finishes in Rain Stapp's 116.626 M. P.

H. Is Best Record of Day. SOCIETY GIRL IS RANSOMED City Manager of Kansas City Pays Kidnapers $30,000 Daughter Held 29 Hours. KANSAS CITY, May 28 Wl Miss Mary McElroy, 25 years old, was ransomed from the hands of kidnap 1 i i 3 If an astronomer, old ana Diina, can originate a magnificent experiment of this if a Beethoven, utone deaf, can write and conduct his most magnificent symphony, you feel that there is something within the human brain not dependent on matter or time, or any mere "response to chemical or other reactions." Do not fail to see Chicago's art exhibition at the Chicago art institute when you visit Chicago and the BY FLUNG FUEL Engine Runs -Wild for Mile After Crash and Explosion at Crossing in St. Elmo, III.

VANDALIA, 111., May 28. W-A ers today by her father, H. F. McElroy, city manager of Kansas City. 2 Local Men on Board of Directors Object Is to Maintain Wages, Avoid Cutthroat Competition.

(Pictures on Page Formation of the Drug Institute of America, through which all divisions of this two billion dollar industry will unite in an effort to She was abducted by two men at A Century of Progress exposition 11 o'clock yesterday morning from See the reaj -two-headed baby" if man and a boy were killed and three 1 nth ot tnfln nrara hiiinon nor fl a Jl the fashionable McElroy home in the Country Club district. McElroy and his son, Henry F. Mc Elroy 23, made contact with the 48 MINUTES GRANTED TODAY tally late today at St. Elmo, 111., when Pennsylvania passenger train No. 19 struck a motor truck loaded with gasoline which exploded.

The dead are Van Lee Smith, 19 years old, driver of the truck, and you must and the ladies trained to dance, sidewise and wriggle, and all the wonders. But remember that art is time is, fleeting. Everything else in the fair will be old, part of the past, when art will still be young. There are no yearly models of Michelangelo. I5V V.

IJLAINE r.VTTOV, Sports Kdltor The Slar. HE ill-fated Brady Special carried Bill Denver, years old. or Audubon. and Hugh (Hob) Hurst, 30, Indianapolis, 227 WILLIAM H. WOODIN.

Chauncey McCormick, chairman of Chicago's art committee, will receive maintain fair wages and end destructive and cutthroat competition, was announced in New York yesterday. Charles J. Lynn, vice president and general manager of Eli Lilly and A. Kiefer Mayer, vice president of the Kiefer-Stewart Drug Company, are members of the board of directors. A.

H. Beardsley of Elkhart also is on the hoard. Supported at the outset by leading manufacturers, distributors and retailers in the field, the institute will strive for the objectives outlined by President Roosevelt in his Industrial recovery program and in Monday afternoon the only picture in the exhibit that comes from abroad, Whistler's famous picture of North Parkview avenue, to their death during the final day of th regular qualifying trials for the 500-mile race at the Speedway late yesterday afternoon. The spectacular accident occurred at the northeast turn of the two-and-one-half-mile brick course with Denver at the wheel and Hurst in the riding mechanic's seat. They were on the first lap of their qualifying test traveling at 110 miles an hour when Denver lost control and the careening machine leaped the top of the track after going into a spin and catapulted twenty feet below, where It spent Its full force against a tree.

i fv tma The pilot and his mechanic hurtled his recent address before the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. It is among the first of the major industries to mobilize in sup from the cockpit as the wrecked car READ RACE NEWS IN THE STAR; NO RADIO BROADCAST port of the administration's in kidnapers this afternoon on a lonely road in Wyandotte county, Kansas, across the state line. They handed over a package containing $30,000 in bills, on the promise that Miss McElroy would be freed within two hours. The original demand was for $60,000. The girl appeared at the Milburn Golf Club about 4 o'clock.

She was unharmed, but appeared exhausted. She said her abductors released her from a car at the gate entering the club grounds. Her father was notified immediately and went to the club for her. "Didn't Break Once." "I didn't break, I didn't break once," were the first words she uttered. She spoke them with pride.

"It did me good to get away," she said, "I had a good rest. I needed it. "They showed me how a machine gun worked," she added. "They were very attentive. They gave me roses and a detective story magazine to distract my attention and while away the time." ne was wearing two of the roses on her frock.

Miss McElroy was held over night in a house, but said she did not know.the location. "From the house the men made me get into a car," Miss McElroy related. "They were not rough in any way and made no attempt to blindfold me. "They drove a long way, but I can't just where we went. CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.

Treasury Head Reveals He Discussed Morgan Stock Connection With Roosevelt. WASHINGTON, May 28. W) Secretary Woodin authorized the statement tonight after his return from a yachting trip with President Roosevelt that he had not resigned as secretary of the treasury. Woodin, smiling and genial as usual, told newspaper men tonight that he had discussed, with the President the fact that his name had been on the favorite subscriber list of J. P.

Morgan before he became secretary of the treasury, allowing the purchase of stock at bargain prices. Willing to Leave. "I can simply tell you I have not resigned," said the secretary. He left no doubt, however, that he dustrial plan. Membership by Individuals.

Mr. Mayer has been one of the his brother, Lyle Smith, 9, who was riding on the machine. The injured are Albert Ahlers, about 45, Terre Haute, engineer of the train; his brother, Charles Ahlers, 40, 111., the fireman, and Rosario Intravarto, New York, was riding behind the tender of the locomotive. Train Bung Uncontrolled, The truck was loaded with 300 gallons of gasoline which exploded with a roar and scattered flaming liquid over the vicinity and the front part of the train. Following the accident, which occurred at a crossing in St.

Elmo near the Pennsylvania station, the train ran wild for about a mile before Conductor M. M. Shorb applied the air brakes. Fire spread to a string of empty box cars on a siding near the crossing and the St. Elmo fire, department was called to extinguish the flames.

"Flying Wing" Gets Test Flights at South Bend SOUTH BEND, May 28. (U.P.) Dr. Cloyd Lawrence Snyder's "flying wing" a type of airplane In which he hopes to reach unprecedented altitudes was tested here to day by Glenn Doolittle at an altitude of 2,200 feet. The tiny ship, which has a thirty-seven horse power motor, reached a speed of 130 miles an hour during the tests. I Doolittle also showed how he could land the ship at a speed of twenty- most active figures in organization of the institute.

He is a representative of the wholesalers on the board of directors and Mr. Lynn is a repre BILL DENVER (ABOVE) AND HUGH (BOB) HIRST. HONOR his mother. It comes from the Louvre in Paris, lent by the French government. The portrait was painted in 1871, eixty-two years ago, exhibited in Chicago in 1880.

Then it was for sale at $1,200. No one bought it. Whistler exhibited it in Paris in 1883 and the French government bought it for 4,000 francs, about $800. You could not buy the picture now for $500,000, and Chicago's art committee epends $5,000 for transportation, insurance, more six limes what it would have cost to buy it. Moral: Buy good pictures, if you are SURE that they are good.

And do not fail to see Chicago's art exhibit at the exposition. Visitors to the Chicago exposition now can combine with their trip attendance at the Indianapolis 500-mile annual automobile race Tuesday. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, best lighting flier this nation has produced, telegraphs "the new racing rules will mean greater speed and safety In transportation, in this race, and in passenger cars later. Instead cf carrying forty to fifty gallons of gasoline, which means dangerously unbalanced cars, when the gasoline becomes exhausted, only fifteen-gallon tanks will be permitted this year.

"Winning the race demands greater mileage in racing cars, which will be transplanted into economical operation for automobile buyers. "The Indianapolis race is more than a test of speed and endurance, would be willing to leave his office if Speedway ofllclals made the definite announcement yesterday that there positively will be no broadcast of (lie 500-inlle race tomorrow. It you do not attend the big event your best bet Is to read all the minute details complete In every way In (ho Wednesday edition of The Indianapolis Star. A slalT of hag been assigned to cover the world's greatest speed classic for The Star and In addition a full page of pictures will give a panorama of the day's activities. Don't depend on the radio for news; see that you get jour copy of The Star.

it should appear his continued pres ence- there would in any way hinder the progress which he feels is very burst into flames. Unconscious and fatally injured, they were pulled away from the blazing ruins by guards stationed at the treacherous turn. Clothing on Fire. Quick action by the guards and by Arlie Copple and Ted Ross, Indianapolis garage men, saved both Denver and Hurst from being consumed by flames. When the car crashed into the tree Ross said that the gasoline tank was smashed and the clothing of the two caught fire.

Copple, Ross and guards hurried to the scene and pulled the burning clothing from the victims. Neither was burned badly. Hurst died of a skull fracture and Denver of a broken neck. Car In Wreck Monday. The two were killed in the same No.

42 Brady Special that figured in the spill last Monday in which Al Aspen and his riding mate escaped death and sustained only slight injuries when they hit the lower retaining wall of the southwest turn, smashed oft a rear wheel and a full thousand feet down the track after a supporting spring rod broke and put the speedster out of control. Since the first accident the racing crew had been working night and day to get the car back into shape for the Sunday trials. Relief Driver Last Year. Denver served as a relief driver in last year's 500-mile race and in definitely being made in national Woodin's stand was interpreted on good authority to mean that Mr. Roosevelt wants him to continue on in the emergency to which he was called suddenly on March 4.

Meanwhile Mr. Woodin with the three miles an hour without shock absorbers. AT 2D SERVICES Patriotic and Veterans' Organizations Open Memorial Day Observance. Honor was paid war veterans who rest in Indianapolis cemeteries in more than twenty services yesterday. The services marked the beginning of the 1933 observance of Memorial day.

Ceremonies are planned for both today and tomorrow by the General Memorial Association and by -a number of patriotic and veterans' organizations. Wilson C. Oren, president the memorial association, said last night that reports he had received from the nine services sponsored by the association showed a marked in- CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. sentative of the manufacturers. Membership in the institute, however, is by individuals and not by firms.

"The institute is the first general association representing everybody and all kinds of businesses in the drug industry," Mr. Lynn said yesterday. "Drug workers have been banded together before in a number of organizations, but this is the first opportunity for all to meet together on a common ground and talk over common problems." Mr. Mayer and Mr. Lynn are the only members in Indianapolis at present.

An intensive membership campaign will be instituted in the near future. Retailers probably will outnumber any other group in the industry when the organization is complete. To Work for Common Good. Patterned somewhat along the lines of the American Iron and Steel Institute and the American Petroleum Institute, the new organization for the drug industry will pledge its members to work together and with the government and other public agencies for their common good. Within the limitations of the new laws, its aims will include the maintenance of a high standard of products, control of output to prevent overproduction, maintenance of fair profits and fair wages, elimination of unfair competition and demoraiiza- CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.

PLANE FALLS HERE; PILOT HURT BADLY Crashes Into Field After Circling and Diving at Low Altitude. Mother of Twenty Living Children Dies Suddenly SAN RAFAEL, May 28. OT Mrs. Jennie Kistel, 41 years old, of Nevada City, mother of twenty children, all living, died unexpectedly today. She was seized by convulsion bringing the field up to forty-four, thereby eliminating two cars.

Thirty had qualified previously, and since the starting field is limited to forty-two in tomorrow's race, the two to be eliminated were Palmer's C. Cam Special, which comes out of the tenth row at 105.998 miles an hour, and the only "flivver" entered, the C. O. Warnock Special, which was qualified by 'Williams at 101.538 STORES TO CLOSE DOORS TOMORROW Following (he custom of many years, the stores of the Merchants' Association will re-main closed all day on Memorial day. A bulletin from the office of the Merchants' Association by W.

K. lialch, while visiting relatives at Fairfax, near here. Besides the twenty children, the widower, Albert Kistel, a miner, survives. They had been married twenty-seven years. Falling from a low altitude, an airplane crashed into a field near the 4200 block on South Meridian street yesterday morning and the pilot.

Walter Sips, 28 jrears old, 2011 North crease in Interest and attendance the 19.30 event piloted a Nardi Spe-I cial, sharing only in the consolation cars wi be heId in readiness as al- tnrnnfo Rtnrtpm in tho flftepnth rnw this year over previous years Pennsylvania street, was injured I manager, was sent to the mem About three hundred persons attended services at the Meridian street bridge over Fall creek for sailors and aviators yesterday afternoon. O. F. Heslar, commander of Mahatma Gandhi Breaks 3 Weeks' Protest Fast POONA, India, May 29 (Monday). OT The Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader, at 8:30 a.

m. today broke his three weeks' protest fast against "untouchability." bers Saturday announcing the all-day closing on Memorial day. Many other stores in the downtown retail district also will remain closed all day. completing forty-one laps. Fourteen succeeded in showing the proper speed of ten laps (twenty-five miles) at better than one hundred miles an hour to qualify yesterday, CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.

eriticallr. Sips was taken to the City hospital suffering severe cuts anr( bruises in the face and head and serious injuries to his right ankle and foot. Hospital attaches said last night that his foot may have to be amputated. Suddenly Hurtles to Ground. Police were told that Sips, who is well acquainted in the neighborhood, had been circling and diving at a providing automotive engineers with thorough tests of advanced engineering ideas." Capt.

Rickenbacker is interested in racing. That was his business before he went abroad and showed what he could do in the air. Dayton, discovers the skull cf a prehistoric man, apparently connecting the human race with humble monkey-like ancestry. The skull, like that of "Pithecanthropus," meaning monkey man, slopes straight back from the eye sockets, no forehead; the bones inside are apelike, the jaws have human teeth worn square et the top. Pithecanthropus ate coarse food.

That ancient person selected the place of his death and burial tactlessly, for the famous Darwin monkey trial took place at Dayton, where William Jennings Bryan defended man from the monkey stigma with Clarence Darrow defending the monkey relatives. What would Darrow have given could that Pithecanthropus skull have been discovered and produced at the trial? A KlngFeatureaSy ndicate, Inc. WEATHER FORECAST CITY GIRL IS VICTIM IN PLAINFIELD CRASH and will be allowed to compete in case any of the cars fail to get away. Rain Halts Trials. Rain halted tho trials forty-eight minutes before sundown and about nine cars still at the track will be given this forty-eight minutes starting at 6:30 o'clock this morning to nudge others out of the race.

The forty-second position in the present starting field is held by Ralph Hepburn who qualified his Highway Parts Special at 106.760 miles an hour just as it started to rain. He finished his last lap at only a little better than ninety-eight miles an hour on the slippery track and this may cost him his place this morning. One of his laps was clocked low altitude when his plane suddenly Local Mechanic Killed at Speedway Sought Thrills, Ignoring Danger "Bob" Hurst Quit School, Joined Marines at 14 and Went to War Premonition of Crash Hinted. hurtled to the ground in a field on the farm of James H. Bacr, R.

H. 4, Jalapas at Speedway Gates, Ready To Dash Inside, Rival Roaring Racers Five Autos at Main Entrance, Six at East Side Await Sprint to Favored Front Lines. BY EUGENE R. CLIFFORD. The forty-two steel chariots which will enter the contest of speed and stamina tomorrow lay In their comfortable garages on the Speedway grounds last night.

Their motors had received the last-minute ministrations of their drivers drivers who risk neck and limb, as the saying goes, for the honor of leading the pack wh'en the race is over. Outside the Speedway grounds try had been in the running since HV IJOI5KKT KAItl.Y. Thrills, speed, danger and death none of them worried Hugh (Bob) Hurst, 30 years old, 227 North Parkview avenue, who was at 110.220 miles an hour and he would killed yesterday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. That's why he was one of the youngest, if not the youngest, marine in the world war. That's why he followed the roaring trails of speed In the fastest cars engineers have developed for race tracks.

5 Hurt as Car Is Knocked Into Truck's Path on National Road. fSpeco to The Indianapolis Slar. PLAINFIELD, May 28. Miss Cora Utley, 18 years old, 13 East Caven street, Indianapolis, was Jcilled instantly today and five other capital city residents were injured when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by another passenger car and whirled into the path of a truck three miles east of here on the National road. The injured are Arthur Brown, 1314 Lawton street; Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Fisher, 408 East Minnesota street, and Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Miller, 309 Box 668. The left wing was almost torn off, the propeller was broken and the motor was jammed back into the fuselage.

Sips was unable to explain the cause of the accident, first aid was administered by Patrolman James Senteney. Never Handled Plane Before, Lands It Safely HARTFORD, May 28. W) An airplane passenger who never had handled a plane before brought a ship safely to earth today while the pilot lay unconscious, choked by his silk scarf that had twisted in the propellor. The pilot, Frederick T. Hawes, who was flying at 1,000 feet, shut off the motor before he slumped down in the cockpit.

Sam Levin, the passenger, tore the stick from the pilot's hand and guided the ship to a safe landing. Hawes was treated at the Hartford hospital for a burned and lacerated neck and then Jim Crow says: Having been ac-quitted on one charge, all Mooney has to do now is to serve the rest of his life on the other. Forecast for Indiana for Monday and Tuesday him when he was on the track," she said. Hurst always "wisecracked" about And when the race car in which he rode as mechanic with Bill Denver hurtled over the wall at terrific speed yesterday afternoon, carrying both to their deaths, Bob Hurst probably waj looking forward to another thri'l in a crash the split second before he CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE. and Denver suffered injuries that was another array of gasoline buggies which will participate ire an annual dash which has become one of the integral parts of the race the dash which takes the victors to the favored front lines of the spectators' rows in the infield.

Fancy and Fragile Cars. The cars outside the gates were a varied assortment flivvers which might do sixty miles an hour with a lot of pushing; trucks which never would forget to brag if they could muster half that speed; new cars, old cars, phaetons, coupes, roadsters, touring cars, two doors, one door, no doors; bourgeoise laundelet barouches and collegiate jalapas. Five cars had lined up at the main early Friday morning. Car No. 2, a Ford from Oklahoma, held more promise.

It was occupied by four gents from Holdenville Wadley, a husky chap who teaches Holdenville high school youth the intricacies of football; Rusty Saunders, whose father is no less than the chief of police in that center of culture and erudition; Hal Benson, who has been to the race before, and Dan Rives, who came with Hal. Sample Beer on Way. The Oklahomans came to Indianapolis in thirty-five hours and drew up second in line at 2 o'clock Sunday morning. They admitted having sampled the beer in Missouri, Illi- have been safely in the field at better than one hundred and eight miles an hour had not rain interfered in his closing lap. Stapp Has Best Time.

Babe Stapp in his Boyle Products Special showed the best average of the day with a speed of 116.626 miles an hour and gains a position in the tenth row vacated through the elimination of Palmer. The fourteen to qualify yesterday, along with the car they drove, average speed for the ten laps and best lap, were as follows: Marr Special (C. Miller). Average 112.023. Best lap 113.222.

Art Rose Special (Evans). Average 109.448. Best lap 110.619. Miller F. D.

Special (Decker). Average 108,280. Best lap 109.569. Universal Service Garage Special (Fox). Average 112.922.

Best lap 113.479. Lenckl Madis Special (Sawyer). Average 110.590. Best lap 111.524. C.

O. Warnock Special (Williams). Average 104.538. Best lap 105.621. Boyle Products Special (Stapp).

Average 1IA.62H. Best lap 117.264. Frame-Miller Duesenberg Special (Bost). Average 111.330. Best lap 116.732.

CONTINUED ON PAGE TUtTE. East Iowa street. Mr. Brown, most seriously injured, suffered severe cuts. Officials were told that a car bearing license No.

9397, carrying two girls, hooked the bumper of the Indianapolis car while passing it in the same direction and caused it to swerve into the path of the approaching truck, which was driven by William Tune of St. Louis, Mo. Scattered showers and cooler Monday; Tuesday fair. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for Monday and Tuesday: Showers and cooler Monday; Tuesday fair. United States Weather Bureau Special Report for The Indianapolis Star.

ALMANAC OF THE DAY, gun rle 4:19 I Sun sets 7:05 WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY. Relative Humidity. 1 1. m. 71 pet I Noon 41 pet 1 7 p.

m. 72 pet Precipitation. $10,000 Blaze Damages "MY AD IS THE BERRIL3" And that's iust what Ray Albert-son said vesterdav when he called The Star to report a heavv traffic in strawberry sales. STRAWBERRIES Fresh picked from patch. 3700 W.

30th at. HA. 29B8. This Star Want Ad Is bringing so manv purchasers rieht to Sir. Albertson patch that he's been kept busv two davs picking and filline orders out of his estimated croD of 1.000 eallons.

A Star Want Ad will bring customers to vour door also if vou have berries or other food products for sale. You'll get action thn same dav through The Star, and it will out CASH IN YOUR POCKET. Call an ad-taker now at Boonville Court Square Special fo The Indianapolii Star. BOONVILLE. May of undetermined origin tonight threatened for a time to destroy the sent them along the trail to eternity.

Tells Wife of "Hunch." Hurst probably had a premonition that something was going to happen, because about a week ago he said to his wife: "Happy. I don't have any business on the Speedway." But premonitions and "hunches" of danger never could faze him and plans of abandoning racing apparently never had a real chance to form in his mind. His wife, Mrs. Gladys Walters Hurst, whom he called "Happy," was ever fearful of her husband's safety. That's why in the last few days she flatly refused to attend the race this year.

"My mind would be on Bob all the time. I could only be fearful for entrance last night. The first was noi8 and Indiana, and opined that DEATH ADDS BURDEN. .02 1.37 Amount during 24 hours ending at Totai" amount since Jan. 1, 1933.....

tonnrtnre from normal west side of the Court square here. Misfortune Heaped on Members of The Thornburgn buiiding was dam. even Oklahoma will vote to repeal the eighteenth amendment. The third car in line showed no immediate signs of occupancy, al occupied by Harry Downs and Gerald Merritt, a couple of Indianapolis youths, who returned the honor of being first in line to our no mean city this year. Either Mr.

Downs or Mr. Merritt was being enter Crash Victim's Family. since Jan. 1 (excess) 4.75 aged badly by fire and the offices of the Chamber of Commerce, an undertaking establishment, a photo Temperatures. Miss Cora Utley, 18 years old, 13 East Caven street, killed while rid- though a sweater, shirt and tie were 1 a 88 Wet 62 Maximum Viiinn rri h.nn.r ki Dr 77 Wet 61 over the back seat.

The car was 'n an automobile which was shop and a farm implement store from Michigan and its occupants I struck by a hit-and-run motorist were damaged Blightly by fire and Rl. 731 1 tained by a charming blonde late last night and had little to say for publication. The Downs-Merritt el The loss is estimated at water. 7 p. 72 Wet 66 Minimum 61 For the Same Date Last Year.

f) 49 I Maximum 5s 7 6s I Minimum 48 $10,000. CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE. CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO..