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WEATHER TODAY Showeri Temperature Forecast High, Low, SO rrp he Indianapolis COMPLETE pn i Jr Xj A i AR mmci NEW "Where the xpirit of the Lord in, there in Liberty" ('nr. 317 VOL. 51. NO. 301 TUESDAY MOKMNU, JUNE 1, 1951 faun (a) rv 4 ww cD it my Are its Ra Red Hunters le-Rousing For keredFlag For Vuky, While On Takes 2d Straight Race With Blazing 130.840 Average I5y JKI CADOL Sports fcditor Bullet Bill Vukovich wrote hi.s name among tho Speedway immortals yesterday by blazing to his second straight 500-Mile Race victory at a record-shattering 130.810 miles an hour.

The dead-panned 35-yr-a: -old rr.rfin straightaway, but no ore ws hut seriously. And. as a Croat tribute to the niei-hanical skill of the men who I i Jl.i 1 1 flag (in his left hand) to signal to Jimmy Bryan in Car No. 9 (left) that he has one more lap to complete. Bryan came in second.

Vuky completed three more laps for insurance. (Star Photo by Dale C. Schofner) Heavy-footed Bill Vukovich, in his No. 14 Fuel Injection Special (right), returni a victory wave to Bill Vandewater, chief starter, who waves the checkered flag designating the Fresno (Cal.) driver 1954 500-Mile Race winner. At the same time, Vandewater uses the white 2d Win Every Bit As Good As 1st Kiss-Collecting Vukovich Finds 'Stirred Up' Strife Held Aid To Foe Nw Voik INS) President Eisenhow rr struck out Inst night at "demagogues hii sty for personal power and jmhlic notice" and warned that those who sot Americans to quarreling ov or inmtnuuism are playing into hf hands of the Rods, The chief executive, is his custom, did not mention any names in an address at a Columbia I'niveisity hieonteii.

liial dinner at the Waldorf. Astnua Hotel. Mr. Eisenhower declared in his soberly worded speech that there In no other purpose In which American are so completely united as in their opposition ts communism, but asked: "In there ny other subject that seems, at this moment, to be the cause of no mtich division among us a doe the matter of defendinu our freedoms from Communist nub-version?" Such a division, the President said, is just what the Communists want, as they pursue their policy of "divide and conquer" against the free world. The President's theme was a familiar one that we must not destroy ur basic freedoms while struggling against the menace of Communist subversion hut i his language was sterner than usual.

II SAID AMERICANS must apply "more knowledge and intellect and loss prejudice and emotion'' to the problems of Rod subversion, and not permit anyone to inspire quarrels which lead "good citizens bitterly to oppose other good citizens." One paragraph of the half-hour speech was clearly beamed at the "20 years of treason" charge Senator Joseph 15. McCarthy (R-WIs.) has recently hurled at the Democrats. Mr. Eisenhower declared: "If we allow ourselves to be persuaded that, every individual Turn to Page. 19, Column Keys" Swept Bv 810,000 Fire The Keys, exclusive hicht club at 1821 North Meridian Street, was damaged extensively last, night in a two-alarm fire which firemen believed might have smoldered for 40 hours or more before it as discovered.

Observers estimated unofficially that the loss to the two and one-hajf story building might run to $35,000 or 540.000. The kitchen was destroyed and the main dining room was damaged heavily by fire and smokP. Bryan Even Weather Co-Operates At Speedway By DON G. CAMPBELL Obliging storm clouds that fell all over themselves broad-jumping Speedway City yesterday afternoon typified the 38th annual running of the 500-miie Race heie. It couldn't have gone smoother if they had held it in a germ-free fieldhouse.

Spared by the weather, un-marred by serious accidents and playing host to what one official described as the "best behaved crowd in the last 10 years," the race climaxed an orderly accumulation of nearly 175,000 sports fans here that began slowly last Friday and reached its climax about 9:30 a.m. yesterday. From the genuine racing car experts, who sat glued to their seats all day and spoke quietly in terms of "horsepower" and "juice," to the picnickers in the infield who drove 300 miles to sit on the nirth green of the Speedway Golf Course and eat ham salad sandwiches it was "the complete day." As is usual, the race, itself, played second fiddle to the straw-hatted, perspiring crowd that ebbed and flowed around the bases of the grandstand, back and forth under the track tunnel and in concentric circles in the infield. ALSO ON HAND was the inevitable Speedway rabbit, making what was estimated as his 37th renewed appearance. Short ly before the field of 33 cars reached the northwest turn on Turn to Fage 2, Column 4 2, cC Vn ftfl Slovenian from Fresno was only the third man the history of this Other Stories and Pictures on Pages 2.

16 and 29 Full Page of Pictures on Page 3 1 ed speed test to win two races in a row. Others wer ilbur Shaw (1939-1 540 1 and Mauii Rose (1947-19481. Vukovich won out after a thrilling duel with the hard- riding "Arizona Cowboy," 2C-year-old Jimmy P.rym finished second just a lap behind. JACK McfiRATH. 31; ear-old "splendid spiin'er" from In-glewood, who started on the pole and led through th" early stages of the race, finished third.

Others in the top 10 were Troy Ruttman of Salem, with relief from Duane tarter of Speedway City, fourth; Mike Nazaruk uf North Belle-more, N.Y., fifth; Freddie, Agabashian of Albany. sixth; Don Frecland of Los Angeles, seventh; Paul Ruso of Hammond with relief from Jerry Hoyt of Indianapolis, eighth; Larry Crockett of Columbus, ninth, and Cal Niday of Paooima, tenth. Vukovich led 91 of the laps to gather in $13,650 in lap prize money. His elapsed time was three hours. 49 minutes, 17 and 27 hundredths seconds.

INOFFICIALLY, Art Cross of LaPorte finished 11th and Chuck Stover. son of Garden Grove, 12th. Six other cars, running at the finish, weie flagged in. Drivers were Jimmy Reece of Oklahoma City, Carter with Marshall Teague of Daytona Beach, Fla in relief; Sweikert, Ernie McCoy of Reading, Manuel Ayulo of Burbank, and Frank Armi of Hanford, Cal. So fast was the pace that all of the first five finishers broke the former 500-mile track mark of 12S.922 miles an hour, set by Ruttman in 19S2.

All track records from four laps (10 miles) to 500 miles fell to the swirling speedsters. The one-lap and two-lap records probably would have been erased too. but for an unusually slow, orderly and conservative start. From many view points. It was a fantastically successful race-in many aspects the greatest of all the 38 runnings of this greatest of speed There were thrills aplenty, including two spectacular accidents on the garage floor completely exhausted und sick sick because he had driven nearly 10 laps with a broken shock absorber and took a merciless beating In the cockpit; sick because a spring snapped on his accelerator late In the race and he lost valuable seconds nursing the pedal with his toe.

The 26-year-old Phoenix hotshot hovered on the borderline of unconsciousness for about five minutes. Then, with a great effort, he forced his mind into focus. Finally his lips moved and a second later out came, "Well, he beat me." A CREW MEMBER answered, but we ran faster than he (Bill Vukovich) did in time on the track. You were really charging pappy." He let the words fall into place in his mind then be slow ly framed his answer, "I guess he made one less pit stop then." With that he let his head fall back to the floor and people rushing up to offer con-Turn To Tage 20, Column 8 I sweated long hours in the ga rages preparing these delicate, cars, all 33 s'arters still wetv in the race for 74 laps or 15 miles an unprecedented thing at. the Speedway.

THE AVERAGE sored would have been even higher, probably close to 132 except for a sudden wind, dust and rain storm which came whistling out of the southwest in the last stages of the race. Tne blistering pace and tern peratures in the high 80's combined to take a high toll of drivers and. for the second y-'ar, the race was libetaMy sprinkler! with relief dry. ej s. Thorn were a total of 27 driver switches and one car, the No.

45. had five dif-ferent drivers. Bob SwHUprt. driver of the Lutes Auto Parts Special, No. 17.

was taken to the Speedway hospital after the, race with heat exhaustion. Hii condition was not serious. Altogether, the yellow cau tKn f.ag was out four times fre a to'al of 21 minutes and nm" The first time was when Ruttman spun his No. 34 Auto Shippers once on the northeast turn on his 57th lap. RuPman sud a tire failed ai he came out of the turn onto the short s'raigh'away, causing the But a representative of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company contended the tire blew out as a result of the spin, The caution light was on for 61 seconds for that one.

i I IT FLASHED on again for I 12 minutes and 25 seconds when Jimmy Daywalt of Wa bash, Ind struck the wall on the northwest turn on his 111th lap and his No. 19 Sumar Special rebounded and locked wheels with the No. 38 Bardahl Special, being relief-driven by Pat Flaherty of Los Angeles. Both cars spun and Flaherty's stopped sidewise, blocking most of the track, but Daywalt and Flaherty, shaken up a little, climbed out. The third time, the slowdown lasted six minutes and Turn to Page 20, Column 4 Stores To Keep Open Tonight Most of the downtown Indianapolis stores will remain open until 8:30 p.m.

today as an accommodation to persons wh9 have encountered shopping difficulties as a result of the trans, it strike. The extra shopping time, which is in addition to the regular Thursday night shopping hours, will be in effect each Tuesday night for the duration of the transit emergency, merchants have announced. The Weather Joe Crow Says: (ien. Dean has been made a Indian chief. Welcome to our tribe, general.

Indianapolis Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms and continued warm today, turning cooler this afternoon; partly cloudy tomor-1 ow. Indiana Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms turning cooler late today; partly cloudy tomorrow, somewhat cooler in east portion. TODAY'S CHUCKLE "Dad, does bigamy mean that a man has one wife too many?" 1 "Not necessarily, son. A man can have one wife too many and still not be bls-amlst." Traffic Death toll Hits 341; 12 In Indiana The chapter in what promised to he the nation's most bloody Memorial Day week end on the highways was written last night, with 311 traffic fatalities one more than the National Safety Council's pie holiday estimate. Twelve of these were in Indiana.

The Indiana traffic! toll hii hiked yesterday with reports of twu new fatalities. Other violent deaths Included those of an 8-month-old Centerville, boy who toppled from a awing into kettle of hot water, and two drownings near Terre Haute. In the nation as a whole, 341 traffic fatalities had been reported last night, and there weie 77 drownings and fi6 deaths from miscellaneous causes for grand total of 4S-1. DKOWNFD YESTKRDAY in Maumee Lake, seven miles north of Terre Haute, was Oscar Law. years old.

of Tone Haute. Sheriff James McKenney said fell from a boat while fishing. Drowned in Coose Creek, Turkey Run State Park, while trying to save his son and another boy who stepped into deep water was Harry S. Maslo, 32, Niles. Mich.

The son, Fred, fl, was rescued by his mother, Klaine, 30, and the other boy by a itness, Ronald Smith of Chicago. The Centerville boy, Jesse Franklin Webster, son of Mr. Turn to Paf 19. Column 4 remained for seven innings, chatting with h'S party and partaking of a soft drink from a paper cup. As he left Selassie spoke to newsmen.

Had any particular play Impressed himT No, the monarch replied, he saw "nothing extraordinary." Neither, he said, was trm game ery difficult for him to follow. Had he rooted for the Senators or the Yankees? The ruler laughed and, through his interpreter, replied; "It was very difficult to choose between the teams he-causp the welcome of both cities has been overwhelming." WHAT ABO IT the rhubarb that, cost him his host? Once again the diplomat, Se lassie replied: "Each man was probably trying to help his ow side." Yesterday morning the Emperor turned sightseer and went up to the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Ruild-ing for a top-level look around the city. Last, night. wan a dinner guest of John D. Rockefeller III at Tarr town, N.Y.

f.Lul III' isn't HanislKMl When Umpire Rules Even Emperor Boivs Sick At Heart) Bryan Moans: 'He Beat Me' 3 1 Victorious Bill Vulovich, grimy and tired, manages a faint smile as he receives a barrage of kisses from his wife, Esther, (left) and Movie Actress Marie Wilson in Victory lone. Silver goblet contains "Wilbur's, water." (Star Photo by Robert J. Shaffer) By BOB COLLINS The 38th 500-Mile Race just had ended and a young man they call "Cowboy" had charged a little d'rt track racer into second place. But he was too tired and too sick to care. Jimmy Bryan wheeled his Dean Van Lines Special off the track and into the garage as fast as the traffic would allow.

Then he collapsed on the By FRANK ANDERSON Red roses bloomed in fragrance around the Speedway's Victory Lane yesterday but begrimed Bill Vukovich was sniffing a sweeter bouquet his second straight, triumph in the 500-Mile Race. To the viclor belongs the. spoils, the lipstick, the handshakes and Hie answers to newsmen's questions. And Vuky got all that the kisses rirlure on Tage 20 New Yxirk (API- F.thiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, who knows a thing or two about an saw a Yankee lose one yesterday. Indeed things got so bad that the Yankee Manager Casey Stengel-loft the hall game by direction, and the visiting monarch was left without, his official host.

Selassie, here on a four-day visit, went up to Yankee Stadium to see New York play Washington in the first (tame of a doubleheader. (Washington won, 1-0.) Stengel welcomed him to Hie home club's official Ixix and all settled down for a hall game tinder a beautiful Memorial Day sky. Then, in the first inninR, Empire John Stevens called Senator Third Baseman Eddie Yost safe at second. TDK I.OtH'ACIOI'S Stengol disagreed, and before you could say Addis Abaha the F.mpcror was witness to a quaint American custom, best described as "being banished to the clubhouse." There Stengel remained, and In the Yankee box the Emperor from a lovely white vision from video and an attractive wife (hist, the handshakes from Wilbur Shaw, Speedway president and three-time "5(10" winner. Lee Wallard 1951 winner and Raymond C.

Firestone of the tire company. The quest inns belonged to anyone with a voice-and. all present were vocal. Italn drops that had pelted the party awaiting the arrival of the swarthy hero 18 19 Sports Theaters 26 from Fresno, evaporated Into a happier heaven as the beaming Vuky wheeled his Fuel Injection Special into the victor's pasture. There was a bint of a rainbow in the east and at the end of that rain-how uk.v's second pot of gold in two years.

In the bullpen two pairs of lips wailed for the taciturn driving master from Fresno. One pair belonged to Screen-TV Star Marie Wilson with a Set of curves unlike any Vuky had negotiated in covering his 500 miles. The other lips and the most important to the 35-year-old part-time mechanic belonged to his wife, Mrs. Esther Vukovich. Vuky.

his eyes bleary with sweat and dirt, reached out blindly and kissed Marie Wilson. And then two times more for the cameramen. TIIF.N Vl'KOVK'H embraced his wife, ruining her yellow en-Turn to Tag 1. Column lSIIE: TODAY'S STAR WAITING FOR TROUBLE-French build up Choben Valley defenses in preparation for new Vietminh assault-Page 4. FEAR PLOT'S AFOOT-Guatemala's capital combed for plotters against Red-tinged government Page 9.

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