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The Indianapoli 4 FIRST IN INDIANA In Morning and Sunday Circulation. Telephone Riley 7311. TAR FORECAST FOR TODAY: Thundershowers and Cooler, Yesterday' High, dt', Low, 72. VOL. 34.

XO. 301. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1937. Knlerexl Mutter at Post Offlc. Indianapolis, lni.

Isautil Daily and Sunday, THREE CENTS nn IM1 Jl LTU KB 113 EM German Guns Rake Spanish Coast Town FOUR DRIVERS SMASH RECORD; HEPBURN JUST 2.16 SECONDS BEHIND INDIANAPOLIS PILOT "WE WON!" CHECKERED FLAG BRINGS VICTORY SMILE. EUROPEAN CONFLICT FEARED AS 20 CIVILIANS ARE KILLED TO AVENGE ATTACK ON SHIP Horn Takes Third and Meyer, Three-Time Victor, Finishes Fourth, With Bergere Fifth and Cummings, Another Home-Town Favorite, Sixth Leader, Never Worse Than Third at Any of 50-Mile Piles Up Close to $50,000 in Awards No. 3 Nearly Loses Out on 199th Lap When He. Stops for Gas and Car Balks on Starting. Loyalist Embassy Will Ask Secretary 'Hull for U.

S. i A Position on Neutrality Italians and Nazis Leave Civil War Patrol Pact as France Seeks to Maintain Peace in Mediterranean-Hopes Are Buoyed. Borah, McKellar Term At tack Act of War. 19 ROAR OVER LINE AS GRIND ENDS Washington, May 31. UP) The Spanish embassy announced late today that it would ask Secretary Hull tomorrow for a statement of the United States' position in view of the withdrawal from the Span The Checkered Flag Finale.

London, May 31. Germany's avenging guns today raked the Spanish government seaport of Al-meria and with their thunder loosed fears in Europe of an open conflict between Spain and Germany. At least twenty persons died and more than one hundred were ish nonintervention committee of Germany and Italy. Enrique Carlos de la Casa, counselor of the embassy, told news Car No. Driver.

Car Name. M.F.H. 6 Wilbur Shaw Shaw-(llnior Special JIS.ftAO Ralph Hepburn JlS.SflU Ted Horn Miller-Harts Special 12.079 8 Louis Meyer Special' 110.730 41aifT Bergere Midwest Red Lion JOH.im 10 Rill dimming Boyle Special 107.12S 2 Bill Dcvore, Special 106.908 SHTony tiulolta Burd riston Ring 105.018 17 (leorge Connor Marks-Miller Special 103.MO 6 Lou I Toinel Sobnlte-I'latlo Special 101.828 Time for the winning cart 4 hours 24 minute 7.31 second. Time for second ran 4 hour 24 minutes .7 seconds. A' A wounded in the Mediterranean city as German warships fired 200 shells in retaliation for the death of twenty-four German sailors and wounding of eighty-two in a Spanish air bombardment of the pocket battleship Deutschland.

Close upon the attack, Germany and Italy announced their withdrawal from the twenty-seven nation nonintervention committee and demanded guarantees against the recurrence of attacks as the price for their return. men this step would be taken a few hours after two senators had voiced a demand that the American neutrality law be invoked against outside participants in the Spanish revolution. Secretary Hull and his aids meanwhile anxiously studied developments in the wake of German bombardment of the Spanish loyalist port of Almeria. Embassy Seeks Views. De la Casa, who is in charge Hopes Germany ana naiy nugm Another half- return soon to co-operation with I of the embassy in the temporary (A full paize of rare pictures is on rajre 12.

page is on Page 15.) committee absence of Ambassador Fernando the nonintervention were- buoyed tonight by reports de los Rios, said either he or De approved a los Rios would ask Secretary Hull from Paris Germany to create na- for his views because the embassy Franco-British plan HY W. BLAINE PATTON, Sports Editor The Star. A LkLJMLl "safety zones" around Spain val Once again the laurel wreath of victory has been perched felt "that the policy of the United States thus far has followed that of the nonintervention committee" in its hope that the Spanish conflict could be "isolated." upon the head of an Indianapolis young man Wilbur Shaw an exponent of mechanically alert and The crime of splashing oil that covered their alilrta and face nil KogKle was Jtift another victory decoration for Wilbur Shaw (right) and his veteran mechanician, Jigger Johnson, avt they Moiled their broadest yesterday after winning one of the harilent-fotight battles for Speedway fame the historic track ever een. Here they are in championship lane as they broadcast greetings over tha air, posed for camera nhotn anil gave their impression of rai to newspapermen. game a pilot as ever pressed a heavy foot on the accelerator STETSON, SCHOOL HEAD, SUCCUMBS of a high-powered racing automobile.

Negotiating the entire FEW ACCIDENTS TILL FINAL LAPS Six Racers Cross Line Before Serious Tragedy Threatens Contest. distance with a car which he whittled into shape by his own jackhnife and serving as the chief grease monkey in his own garage, Shaw careened to an impressive victory in receiving to the checkered flag ahead of the world's most famous drivers for an all-time record at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Exhausted Winner Asks for Water, Greets Wife and Mother After Race In a prepared statement, De la Casa said the German attack on Almerias "would have been consid-ered by every one a deliberate act of war if the fundamentals of international law as recognized for centuries past were still respected." In answer to questions, however, the counselor said he has received no information that his government formally has proclaimed the German 'bombardment of Almeria as an act of war. He added that the embassy thus far has received no instructions to take up any other phase of the situation with the United States, government Hull Declines Comment. Heart Attack Is Fatal City Superintendent Eight Years. yesterday in winning the 500-mile' international gasoline derby.

Confer on Security. Yvon Delbos, French minister of foreign affairs, conferred with Count Johannes von Welczeck, German ambassador, and received the ambassadors assurance, informed sources said, Germany was favorable to a security plan which would 'satisfy her demands for guarantees against Spanish attacks. The propaganda ministry in Berlin said it had no information on the plan and Rome officials also were without information but it was indicated Italy felt any practical scheme which would assure the safety of her warships in the international patrol around Spain probably would be considered as a basis for return 1o the "hands-off Spain" committee. The approval of the Spanish belligerents would be needed for the plan, it was said in Paris, but failing that it. was indicated safety zones on the high seas might be designated.

Three Decisive Steps. These three decisive steps bombardment of the Deutschland by two Spanish government war-planes, revenge attack by Germany, and withdrawal of Italy andj Under the blinding rays of a tor- BV ROBERT HKIXI'M. RV DQNOVAN A. Tl'KK. Id sun this graduate from adjacent Wilbur Shaw, the Indianapolis boy who has been knocking at the Death waited until six speeding door of Speedway fame for seven years, flashed In yesterday with a racers had received the checkered new track record, oil splashed over him from feet to hair and two and dirt tracks In llooslerdom where he served his apprenticeship set the dazzling mark of 1 1.1.5X0 miles an hour to win valuable trophies, the Speedway's first prize of $20,000, sixteen one-hundredth seconds to spare ahead of Ralph Hepburn, the closest victory margin in history here.

Jigger Jchnson, who's been driving and riding in race cars so long he's lost practically all his hair, rod in the door of fame with Shaw. Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of Indianapolis public schools, died in his home, 4026 Central avenue, early this morning. He was 52 years old. Death occurred at 12:45 o'clock after a heart attack.

Mr. Stetson had been head of public schools here eight years, coming from Dayton, where he had held a similar position. He had a national reputation as an educator and was active in at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway yesterday before making a serious gesture at a driver or mechanic. It. was the first flme In the Iwen-ty-llve years of racing at the local track that a car was involved In a along with lap and accessory awards which will mount close to the $30,000 figure In a noe-fo-nose finish with the veteran Ilolph Hepburn of Los Angeles, Col.

The two After their safety lap wheeled inlo the bull pen for the tho fourth man of tha afternoon to break th record he had established last year at. 109.0f9 miles an hour. He was clocked at 110.730 miles an hour. One of the singular features was In the case of Cliff Bergere, the veteran Hollywood, pilot, who was fifth. Cliff barely got a chanea to start for the car he qualified was purchased by Joe Thorne the day before in the hope that could withdraw it so as to move up the young millionaire New Yorker Into tho field Instead of being an alternate.

Bergere was the only one of the five drivers Thorne had In the race to finish In the money. ('unimlng Roars In (Sixth. Another local favorite, Wild Bill major crackup after a racer had crossed the flninh line, State Department officials said Secretary Hull would be glad to receive the Spanish representatives but declined to comment further. Unofficial but authoritative quarters expressed the view that there was little that the secretary of state could do beyond calling to their attention tha policy of "strict nonintervention" followed by the United States throughout the City Residents, Products Win storm of tribute that goes with sensational triumph. Almost exhausted, Wilbur could only look at the microphones shoved at him from every angle so he could tell Ihe driver and mechanic were Floyd Davis of Springfield, at work of the National Education Association.

were less than a stone throw apart at, the end of the 200 laps 2.16 seconds, to be exact. Second Car Winner In 1SB. The car raced Inlo second position by Hepburn, who was relieved by Bob Kwanson for a part of the tour, was the some one In which Germany from the neutrality com mittee roused grave expressions Spanish conflict of fear for peace. I The demand for application of There were strong inoicauons tne neutrality act against outsiders Native of I.oganMMrt. the nation listening In just how it Mr.

Stetson was born in i Logan- f(t nnd dir(Vi sport, June 21 1884. H.s father was d(lflfpnprt on(, of the Rev Herbert Lee Stetson, who flrtc was pastor of the First Baptist century, but Losansport and the the Urst BapUst. Church in Des ln Moines, and later president of hat fiprmanv now recanted me in connection with Ihe Spanish revolution came from Senators Borah (Republican, Idaho) and Mcl-Pellar (Democrat, Tennessee), both of whom argued that the attack by German naval vessels on the Spanish loyalist port was an act of war. Des Moines College and Kalamazoo "This is the happiest day of my Deutschland incident satisfactorily closed, that she would take no fur-tbe retaliation. But, reliable sources said here, there was still the danger that an outraged Spanish government it- self would take action and might even declare war against Germany.

(The Spanish regime at Valencia 1 TPnentedlv has contended that Ger- the wheel of car No. 32, one of the Joe Thorne specials, and Dee Toran of San Diego, Cal. Both men suffered head Injuries when their car smacked Into the outside wall on the northeast turn, Davis was taken to the emergency hosplial on the Speedway grounds and the mechanic was taken to tie City hospital, No Other Had Spill. The smashup of the Thorne racer marred an otherwise perfect race Insofar as serious acridentu were concerned despite the terrific pace et by Wilbur Shaw and the other leaders and the Intense heat that, beat down upon the brick and asphalt all day. Most of the spectators had left Turn To Pntjo.

11, Column 6. Indianapolis residents and products have had a prominent part, In sharing (he capital prizes, during (he running of the twenty-five International fiOO-mile races at. the Speedway with seven winners as follows: 1911 Ray Harrotin (Marmon Wasp). Average 71.59 m. p.

h. 1912 Joe Dawson (National), Average 78.7 m. p. h. 1919 Howard Wilcox (Peugeot).

Average, 88.06 m. p. h. 1924 L. L.

Corum, cowlnner with Joe Boyer (Duesen- berg). Average 98.23 m. p. h. Iiuis Meyer captured premier honors a year ago, while Ted Horn, In the speedster designed by Harry Harlz, second place victor in 1936, jlnishcd third.

It came near to being a heart-breaker for Horn as he was forced to his pits for gns on his 199th lap and had extreme dllllculty In getting his racer started again, Finally when he got It away for the needed one lap tour, a great Cummings, the former Indianapolis taxicab driver who won tha rare In 1934, had considerable difficulty with his car during the long grind but managed to finish In sixth position. In collecting the major honors, Shaw drove a consistent race from beginning to end and showed rare judgment. At all times, if not In the lead, he was within striking distance of the pacesetters and ITALY WITHDRAWS SHIPS. College. Mr.

Stetson attended public schools in Des Moines and Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo College and the University of Chicago, where he received A. B. degrees, and an A. degree. He was successively principal of the high school in Bangor, superintendent of schools in Bi wionv and Italv were warring I II Duce Demands Full Satisfaction ncainst Spain bv suDporting Insur-I For Bombing: of Vessel.

shout went up from the packed stands. iouis Meyer, making a gallant jlife outside of my wedding day," 'he told the radio audience. Then Ihe yelled for water. Driver Asks for Water, "Will somebody bring us some 1 water?" he asked. It was there I in a brief minute In a half-pint imilk bottle not nearly enough, jjoe Copps, Speedway publicity i chief, got some more, first in an-1 other milk bottle, In a soft drink bottle and in more bottles.

Shaw land Johnson drank and poured 'water over them till they got the roar of the motors out of their lears and the first layer of grime off their faces. Shaw's wife and his mother. gent Generalissimo Franco.) Rome, May 31. UP) Italy today French and British diplomats ithdrew her warships from the worked feverishly to prevent open outbreak of hostilities. Turn To I'age 5, Column 5.

Ttritieh Fnrpisrn Secretary An-! effort. In defense of three former winnings, placed fourth and was Turn To Page 9, Column 6. never worse than third at any of (he fifty milo posts. At the end of fifty miles he rested In third place and led at 100 and 150 miles. At 200 miles he was second but was back into the Jcad at 230 and 300 miles.

When the 330 mile post was reached Shaw was flirting with the leader In third place and ace- Turn To Page 5, Column 6. WEATHER FORECAST 1931 Ixiuie Sf hnetder Envies Seal Fast). Average 96.62 I m. p. h.

1934 -Bill Cummings (Boyle Products). Average 101.S6 m. p. h. 1937 Wilbur Shaw GiImor- Shaw).

Average 113.58 m. h. I To this list might b- added "Look Out, Pickpockets," Judge Warns; 10 Minutes Later Finds He's Victim 170,000 Collars "Will" as Sun Sneers Al Weatherman, Beams on Speedway ond at 400 miles. Taking the lead shortly before 4.V) miles was reached he had the race In command, although pressed by Hep i burn until the finish. Mrs.

Charles K. Morgan. 516-Keiti I Thirty-first street, both thrilled by BV RI SSKLL K. their cham- name of uaston Chevrolet who had Pickpockets, thieves and scalpers Kept police busy yesterday tn rhampionship of during the 500-mile Speedway race. nion 0f many years, were In the a temporary residence in Indianap-j The Initial record to be smashed came on the first lap when Ardingcr led his pursuers across oli at the time he won the race; in 1920 in a Monroe, a local Jim Crow say: It might be ft good time for some of those In the vicinity of Spain to "Re-Member the Maine." One pickpocket, operating without fear or favor, lifted a wallet victory pen to cheer him.

Each containing approximately $60 from the trousers pocket, of Judge Frank g0f a big kiss the first thing. P. Baker of Criminal Court as he walked through th tunnel under' "Wasn't it swell?" "Wasn't it the race track. Izrand?" was their chorus. race was witnessed an audience whose behavior, on the whole, was thfe same as in years past, except that it was on a larger scale, A total of 170,000 persons- largest In the history of the event honored the memory of the throng which attended in 1911 by disporting themselves once more in the manner of ladies and gentlemen who regard speed and hardy drivers and vehicles' who piodu' speed as a combination worthy of.

the utmost, in loyalty. Judge Baker said that in the jam i After Shaw spoke to hii friends Kokomo Phone Employe Turn To Page Column Shaw's Lap Prizes in the tunnel a woman suddenly leaned over as though looking for boarded a bus at the Speedway. 0n the West coast, in Los Angeles Best haul of the day for pick-8nd Frisco, thanking them for pockets was a billfold containing their moral support all along, he Killed in Wabash Wreck lpf iol loTht Indicnopolis Sar. something she had dropped, thus As a blistering sun boat down on momentarily halting the crowd De-1 $200 in cash and $150 in checks eot back to the race for Indiana for Tuesday and Wednesday: Will Total $5,550 tration point for slowly moving lines of automobiles, pedestrians I Wabash, May 31. Miss 't', I I i hind her.

The judge, recognizing stolen from A. Wittenkelier of! it was so hot out there It al Scattered thundershowers Tues-jher move as an old trick of pick- Benton Harbor, Mien u. rforlared 1 auyei- ne ncdaicn, iii, most burned us up. and trucks edging toward tne; Ihe 433-acie tract 'the crowd sprawled ilef to dimensions (hat looked as if a city the size of Indianapolis had abandoned home and garden for the more tempestuous life beside the brick and asphalt. killed instantly to- change, was Jigger Johnson joined in nZht the automobile In scene of action from all directions.) An ear ly as dawn it became ap-i Besides the $20,000 Wilbur Shaw parent that the 1937 racp patrons 'will receive from the Speedway were unlncr fn stew In their own i Corporation tonight for winning day and Wednesday; somewnat, pockets and their accomplices, cooler Tuesday.

shouted to the crowd, "Watch out! iThis is a pickpocket trick." Forecast for Indianapolis and vi- rinity for Tuesday and Wednes- Finds rocket Picked. 4 Killed in Car Crash; Illinois Man Identified Does mm iei jcwi or mi- iVmh was riding struck a fpel gooo, as ne nan a sen-an-ministered shower. the race yesterday, he will be rich utility pole at a fork in state road No. 24 five miles west of Wabash. iulce, hut did any one turn back? However, Mr.

Joe Copps, pun Murfreesboro, May 31. Ten minutes later the judge dis The driver, H. (i. Itehneasev, 40 i or inc wus r-i ii sf. iney apparently pies.wu m- Four persons, three of them Thundershowers uesnay anacovered that he nimscif had been! r.i ih un r.i.

"Wnm. are you caning ine enmu iernai.es inio service, lor me Negroes, were killed today when phone Company, suffered an -1 his year?" grandstands along the outer rim oing Home, to Bed. Asked what he was going to do i to celebrate, Sbaw arserted: "I'm I going home and go to bed and Wednesday; somewnat cooler iues- tn vjCtim. day. 1 Before the race yesterday.

automobiles collided about I'aitM Stale. Wwther Borran Spfrlnl Re-I "OTO. A man Identified BS Orrin other thefts were reported jured knee and cuts and bruises. About It. oi tne iracn groanea wun Ho said he was hlinrtert ihi crowds long before the an car i 'nn'" and ihT band had dispersed into Its various l.ghts otan approaching rar.

(sand-largest In history," replied standf( an tn, ne.up bornD, had many after a couple of hours' sleep I'm Rutschman, 28 years old. of Peoria, i 1. i 1 Miss Luella Z'llmenn of "1 l. champagne at Larl f.ilrnore er by $3,530 which he captured in lap prize money. First blood in this field, however, was drawn by Jimmy Snyder in Us Sparks Special.

Snyder led the race until he was forced out of the running on the twenty-seventh lap because of a broken transmission. He won $100. After Snyder was removed from the field Shaw shot into the lead and began building up his lap money share. When Shaw went Into the pits in the seventy-fourth, and 131st laps, Ralph Hepburn's car, No. 8, forged into the lead at poll far The Indlanapnllf tar, ALMANAC OF THE DAY, fun lir; at 4:18 Sun tj at 7:08 WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY.

Relative Humidity. Dr. CIowe'i Frans Hal his smile ville. 111., to police her purse con- expense, ay tnat time taining $10 and change was taken "nmcqiaieiy Mr. tpps, nurrying on io anomer i star)cc splitting the air.

poi.t of duty. Then he swerved and said; "Hey, what, do you mean Tredlctlon Outsiieered. 'called the Mr. Copps The sun continued to sneer at said that 170,000 was the figure I the weather man's prediction that iwas wider. Gilmore is his sponsor; i r.

the car was designed and built Loaned for Dutch Exhibit by Shaw. i New York, May 31. UP) The devotion of the new cham-1 Thirty-four paintings vrlued at a. m. 72 pet i noon 41 pet 1 7 p.

m. 41 pet Speedway Wrecks Plane at Start of Africa-Britain Hop into the life of the Speedway some rain would fall. The temperature A billfold containing $14 and papers waa taken from William nion. his wife, and his mother to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, i each other was apparent through Hodge Jr. of Louisville, by out the mad celebration in the bullpen and in the garage paddock went up and up, but the higher it climbed the higher the spirits of the crowd rose.

Perspiration burst forth upon the brows of natty males and dainty ladies. Handkerchiefs were tucked under collars Precipitation. Amount during twenty-four houn ending at 7 p. Total amount aince Jan. 1.

1S37 17.05 Accumulated departure from normal since Jan. 1 07 Tempera turea. 7 A. m. 75 Wet Maximum fto Wet 71 p.

n. -Dry 89 Wet 71 Minimum It For the Fame Date Lait Year 7 57 Mailmum. 79 p. m. 77 Minimum 61 ail worKs ot seventeenth century Dutch artist Fran Hals will be taken to Europe next Friday as a loan to an exhibition of Hals's paintings opening in Haarlem, Holland June 30.

Iincluded in the valuable art loan are works owned by Dr. G. H. A. Clowes of Indianapolis.

after the car had been wheeled to and that there was no "calling' about it. No one at the Speedway yesterday would have argued with Mr. Copps, even if it had not been too hot to argue. The sun came up and Illuminated a scene that has become a familiar one In the central part of the state on race day. The Speedway became a conccn-, t', pickpockets as he boarded a Speed-; May 31.

VP) David Llewellyn, way bus. British flying officer attempting a record Cape-to-Croyoon flight, in Billfold Taken. (crashed today at Serowe, Be- Another billiold containing $20 chuanaland. The plane was badiy waa stolen from Afnay Gunnoe of i damaged and he wa wedged in his Gauley Bridge, as he seat various times to carry oft $2,100 in lap prizes. Out of the total going to car No.

8, Hepburn earned $1,600, while Swanson, his relief driver, accounted fof an even $500. its old stall. They each paid tribute to the other as they were sep- Turn To Page li, Column 1. Turn To rage 0, Column 7. Si.