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31(5 '4 SUNDAY MORNINU MAY 17, 1950 MK 8-2111 Price 20c 7 3 I ii tf ii wu 1 iwr if JULivJ Open Way To Western Parley JL Happy Record Smasher Does 146.532 MPH For New Lap Atom Arms Test Ban Is Favored By Khrushchev Geneva (AP) A prospect of serious negotiations at the Big Four foreign ministers' conference was opened up yesterday by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. At the same time disclosure of an exchange of notes between Khrushchev and President Eisenhower appeared to brighten the outlook for talks on a nuclear Firsl-Day FIRST ROW Driver Car Name Speed Johnny Thomson, Racing Associates Special 143.909 Eddie Sachs, Peter Schmidt Special 143.423 Jim Rathmann, Simoniz Special 144.433 Car No. 3 44 16 WV tf SECOND ROW 73 Dick Rathmann, McNamara Special 1 44.249 48 Bobby Grim, Sumar Special 144.223 5 Rodger Ward, Leader Card Special 144.033 THIRD ROW 74 Bob Vcith, John Zink Special 144.023 19 Eddie Johnson, Bryant Heating Special 144.000 88 Gene Hartley, Drewry's Special 143.573 FOURTH ROW 9 Don Branson, Bob Estes Special 143.312 33 Johnny Boyd, Bowes Seal Fast 142.812 37 Duane Carter, Smokey's Reverse Torque Special 142.793 weapons test ban. With the ministers' conference here in a week-end recess, the developments reached from Moscow to Denver. Khrushchev, in a speech at Moscow, rebuffed the Western package approach to a German peace settlement and European security in the Geneva talks, but he went on to say: "The proposals of the Western powers contain gome matters which are worthy of examination and which we shall not oppose.

On the contrary, we shall be prepared to seek solutions at the round table." Shortly after the premier spoke, letters on nuclear test bans he had sent to President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan were made public. Khrushchev said he agrees to holding technical talks soon on methods of detecting high altitude nuclear blasts, and he expressed hope a treaty banning all nuclear weapons tests can be arranged soon. 146.532 set a new record. Just as happy is crew member Phil Martines (back to camera), in the process of writing it down for the record on the garage. (Star Photo by Ed lacey Jr.) Johnny Thomson wos a happy fellow yesterday afternoon as he doff his helmet after completing the day's quickest four laps, averaging" 145.908 miles per hour in the No.

3 Racing Associates Special. His third lap of By JEP CADOU JR. Star Sports Editor Johnny Thomson, the "Flying Scot" from Boyertown, cracked the Speedway's one-lap record yesterday and went on to capture pole position for the 43d 500-mile race in the shocking pink Racing Associates Special. The 37-year-old Thomson set a new one-lap standard of 146.532 for the 2'2-mile track as he led a dozen qualifiers. His pole-winning average of 145.908 was a shade short of the record.

National driving champion Tony Bettenhausen of Tinley Park, III. escaped with a bloody nose when his An-stcd-Rotary special hit the outside wall twice, crossed the track and flipped over the inside guard rail in practice. It was the day's only accident. A CROWD estimated at 90,. 000 persons cheered Thomson as he eclipsed the former one-lap standard of 146.503 set in 1958 by Ed Elisian of Oakland, now under suspension.

Thomson's time on his third and fastest lap was just 1 100th of a second faster than Elisian's, which also was on his third last year. Thomson's car is distinguished not only by its speed and its gaudy paint job. It also is the most unusual in the race from the mechanical standpoint. The driver sits on the left side with the drive shaft running down the right and the engine is laid flat to the left. "I GOT SIDEWAYS slight ly on the last lap just going onto the bricks," said Thom son, a pint-sized pilot who held the one-lap mark for few moments in 1954.

"It certainly wasn't an easy he added. Alongside him in the front row will be his neighbor, Eddie Sachs, who lives only 13 miles away from him at Center Valley, Pa and Jim Rathmann of Miami, the driver who won the two fastest auto race ever run, the 1958 "500 Miles of Monza" and the Daytona Beach Hundred earlier this year. SACHS AVXRAGED M5.425 in the red Peter Schmidt Special and Rathmann hit PAY TRIBUTK Gridiron Show Hazes Politicos THE PUBLICATION of the Khrushchev letters was followed by an announcement in Denver that Eisenhower has a i Khrushchev the United States is willing to discuss now extension of a ban on nuclear tests hig'ier than altitudes of more than 30 miles above the earth's surface. The President's statement was contained in a May 5 letter he sent the Soviet premier. In an earlier note to Khrushchev the President had proposed banning tests up to an altitude of 30 miles.

The three atomic powers the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union have been negotiating here on a treaty to ban nuclear tests since last October. The talks have been stalled almost from the start, however. They recessed last week until June. The Western powers have been pressing for a veto-free inspection system of suspi-cious nuclear disturbances. FISSE WON the top award with his photo "Dead Wrong," which already had been judged the top spot news picture.

The photograph showed a wrecked auto and its driver's body lying in a water-filled ditch after the car had been struck by a train last Aug. 15 northwest of Indianapolis on West 56th Street near Guion Road. Having received the Bushemi award in Fisse became its third two-time winner. The others were George F. Tilford of The Indianapolis News and the late Maurice G.

Burnett, photographer for The Star. The award is presented in memory of Sgt. A. John Bushomi, a former Gary Post-Tribune photographer killed in World War II while serving with the Army weekly Yank. Chief Photographer James C.

Ramsey led The Star's other entries with two first places. His "Step Easy" was judged the top professional sports picture and "From a Perilous Perch" won the professional sequence division, TWO REPORTERS, Donald C. Herring and Fred D. Cavin-der, took first places in amateur competition. Herring's "Helping Hands" was named Turn to Page 13, Column 4 Record Qualifiers day's slowest was Duane Carter, 46-year-old former United States Auto Club racing director.

After the opening of trials was delayed an hour because Bettenhausen tore out 18 feet of the inner guard rail on the backstretch and it had to ba replaced, Carter averaged 142.795 in Smokey's Reverse Torque Special. That established him on the outside of Turn to Sec. 2, Page 1, Col 7 Send Souvenir To friends Who Miss The Knee Send The Indiana polls Star's special Souvenir and Race Final editions to your friends who miss the thrilling 1959 500-Mile Race. You can mall these two spectacular editions of The Star anywhere in the United States and Canada or to servicemen anywhere for only 20c. (Speedway subscriptions cannot be mailed to addresses in Marion County.) Order the Souvenir and Race Final editions of The Star now for your friends at the Star's public Information dejt.

307 North Penn-sylvanla Street, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. dally, Saturday mornings, or mall your order and 20c to Speedway subscriptions, The Indianapolis Star. bearing that responsibility on your shoulders." Handley, who was flown into the land of Lincoln's youth in an Air National Turn to Page 6, Column 3 Star Lensman Wins Top Honor 144.433 in the Simoniz Special owned by Lindsey Hopkins of Miami. High winds and relatively cold temperatures helped preserve the four-lap record of 143.974 set by Dick Rath' mann of Speedway in 1938.

Dick Rathmann was just a shade behind his brother yes terday, putting the same Mc Namara car he drove last year on the inside spot of the sec ond row at 144.248. BOBBY GRIM, 34-year-old Indianapolis dirt-track artist who is a four-time champion of the International Motor Contest Association, turned in the fastest qualification run ever recorded by a rookie with a 10-mile test at 144.248 in the blue Sumar Special. "I guess 1 should apologize to Tony Hulman now for all those times I said this would be a fine race track if they'd plow it up into dirt said the elated Grim, who was the first driver to pass his driver's test and set another record by doing it on the third day of the practice period. ONE OTHER rookie, 38-year-old Don Branson of Champaign, 111., made the field. He qualified the yellow and red Bob Estes Special for the inside spot in the fourth row at 143.312.

"I scared myself a little out there," Branson said, "I got sideways three or four times and that's a' real thrill. This is a big moment I've dreamed of for 12 years." First qualifier and also the less important than that car ncd by Lincoln. "He saved the nation," Handley said. "Now It is our responsibility to save the free world. You are The 1958 Bushemi sweepstakes award for news photog-graphy was won last night by Frank H.

Fisse, a for The Indianapolis Star, at the 2Sth annual spring meeting of the Indiana Associated Press at Elkhart. Earlier in the day, members of The Star's editorial staff had swept five of eight first places in the competition. The Weather Joe Crow Says: Qv Russians who rj volunteered to ride a rocket into spare probably aren't the only Russians who want to leave the Soviet Union. Indianapolis and Indiana Partly cloudy and a little warmer today. Generally cloudy with possible showers tomorrow and little change in temperature.

Sunday Sfar Average April Circulation In Exert of 327,000 Longsworth, Varnish Firm Head, Dies Walter Ira Longsworth. 73 years old, 1255 Golden Hill Drive, president of the Lilly Varnish Company the last 23 years and an outstanding civic leader, died yesterday in Meth. odist Hospital A native of Lima. he had been a resident of the citv since he joined the paint and varnish firm, as secretary and general manager, in 1921. He was a graduate of West ern Reserve University and joined the Glidden Company at Cleveland immediately after gracuation, in 1907.

When he left Ohio to move here, he -vas industrial sales manager of the Glidden firm. IS ADDITION to heading the parent Lilly company, Mr. Longsworth also was president and director oi' Lilly Varnish Company of Massachusetts, Gardner, Mass. established in 1940, and the Lilly Company, High Point, N.C., formed in 1935. During his presidency, th Lilly company's sales mounted from $270,000, in 1936, to the present total of nearly annually for the three companies.

Mr. Longsworth was president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce in 1940 and 1941. He also was chairman of the Indianapolis Red Cross chapter during most of World War II, from 1942 to 1946. TRIBUTE TO his -rrvice to both the chamber and to the Red Cross was paid yesterday Turn to Page 13, Column 3 WALTER LONGSWORTH Year Observance Opens By LESTER M. HUNT Indiana's national reputation for political vendettas drew the attention of Senators Albert Gore of Tennessee and Kenneth B.

Keating of New York as the headlincrs at the annual gridiron banquet of the Indianapolis Press Club last night. Gore, as the spokesman for the Democrats, and Keating for the Republicans, gave what was hailed as the best and most amusing presentations for their respective parties in gridiron annals. "INDIANA IS the only state I know of in which Republicans are as rough on Republicans as Democrats are on the taxpayers," cracked Keating. "And in which the Demo crats are as rough on Demo crats as the voters are on Re publicans." After a satirical discus sion or Democratic presiden tial aspirants, and the fact that there are enough to make up a baseball team, Gore re marked: "Incidentally, from what I hear, Indiana Republicans have a completely different situation. They have several stars but none of them wants to play on the same team." Both senators needled Senator John F.

Kennedy, the youthful but ambitious candi date from Massachusetts. Gore referred to Kennedy as an ambidexterous mound llonit Ottered llomcoirnvrtt Inside todoy's complete Indianapolis Star it our annual "Home Improvemen Section," offering timely hints and topics of interest to 1 1 homeowners throughout Indiana. You'll like this full discussion of air condi-1 1 I construction and improvement hints, designed to make your home better the easy way. It's just another bonus feature of your complete Sunday newspaper. THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR star "pitching from cither the right or the left." "HE ALSO fields from cither the right or the left, and if he turns up with a sore arm, Papa can hire a substitute." Keating commented that every time Kennedy appears on a TV show, listeners call in to inquire "which college won the debate?" Congressman Randall Harmon of Muncie was the theme of one of the gridiron skits in which Senator Homer E.

Capchart visits the new congressman in Washington, greeting htm: "Well, well, well, congressman, welcome to Washington. I'm Senator Capchart from Indiana." To which Harmon replied: "FROM INDIANA? I thought I was the only man from In- Turn to Page 13, Column 1 l.OOO HOY SCOUTS Lincoln By FRED D. CAVIXDER Star Staff Reporter Rorkport, Ind. Indiana's observance of the Abraham Lincoln Scsqui centennial opened officially yesterday with ceremonies on the sun-basked hills of Lincoln State Park, where Abe trod as a boy, and at Rockport, where he shoved off to manhood down the Ohio River. The events were part of a two-day program launching a state-wide tribute to Lincoln which ends in October.

IN KEEPING with the legend of Lincoln's boyhood years in Spencer County, the obicrvance of the 150th anniversary of his birth began with an address by Governor Harold W. Handley before several thousand Hoosier Boy Scouts in Lincoln State Park. The scouts were gathered in i 500-acre corner of the park for second state-wide Campo-rail in it is their first state-wide camp since 1937 when one it Terre Haute was swept by a tornado, which scrambled the tent city. Thi presence of these 4,000 Scouts signifies Lincoln's Scout-age years among the Spencer County hills. Handley sounded for them the challenge of their youth, the responsibility which he said was no different and nq On Inside Pages Of Today's Star 230 Pages in This Issue Page Page American Hert Sec.

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Koch of Santa Claus, chairman of the program; Roy T. Combs, president of the Indiana. Lincoln Foundation, and Indiana Congressman Winfield K. Denton. (Star Photo) Governor Harold W.

Handley waves a greeting to some 4,000 Indiana Boy Scouts in Lincoln State "Park near Rock-port as the Governor ond other digni-tories arrived in the park for the Lincoln Sesquicentennial observance which' opened yesterday. With Handle art.