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6 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Monday, May 30, 1949 11 RACE FANS COME FROM NEAR AND FAR d. An intestested party included, front row, Mrs. Tom J. K. Jenkins.

Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins are from RichUnderwood, Mrs. D. C.

Williams, Mrs. J. K. Jenkins and mond." The others are Indianapolis fans. Dr.

C. D. Williams. In the rear are Tom Underwood and State Pauses to Give Tribute to War Dead By LEO A grateful nation paused to pay reverent tribute to its soldier dead. Once again the bells tolled for the nation's defenders in every armed conflict.

In cemeteries at home and on the thousands of graves where Americans fell overseas in service of their flag and country flowers were strewp in symbolic memory. ticular significance in many This Memorial De Day had parHoosier hearts. It marked the first time that more than 7,000 Hoosier war dead have been honored on their native soil. From the strife and turmoil of the Normandy and beachheads, from the bloody sieges of Tarawa and Iwo Jima they have come back home to be repatriated. And on this day set aside to honor those who made the supreme sacrifice special welcome was extended across the vale that separates the living from the dead.

Program and Parade Indianapolis joined with the state and nation in conducting memorial services and in reco- LITZ rating the graves of the soldier dead of all wars. Highlighting the city's observance of Memorial Day was the annual parade sponsored by the General Memorial Association and a formal program on Monument Circle. Patriotic societies, civic bodies, veterans' groups and other organizations marched the parade. Headed by the military band of the 10th Air Force, the parade formed at North and Pennsylvania Streets, and the route was south on Pennsylvania Street Washington Street, west to Meridian Street, and then north to Monument Circle. The Marion County Council, Veterans of Foreign Wars, was in charge of the service on Monument Circle.

The speaker was the Rev. G. Lavon Fisher, pastor of the Centenary Christian Church. James C. Ahern, president of the General Memorial AssociaA tion, presided at special services for the war dead in Crown Hill cemetery, More than 1,400 flags were placed on graves of soldiers by Boy Scouts.

The 10th Air Force! band also took part in the program. Weather Luck 3 Cars Holds Again Continued from Page 1 for Speedway few field minutes hospital. later. Duke arrived The weather luck of the Speed- Nalon's wife later said to news- way held today "Partly cloudy and warmer ty today" was the official forecast of the Weather Bureau Prospects of rain, which had been included in unofficial bureau "outlooks" the last few days, dwindled to possibility that some time tonight there might be scattered showers in the extreme southwest part of the state. Thus, the record of the Memorial Day race remained good as far as weather is concerned.

Only one race, in 1926, was stopped by rain. Frank Lockhart won that year when rain forced the checkered flag at the 400- mile mark. There has not been a total postponement since 1915. The weather condition was good news for race officials, drivers and visitors. It was an especially good break for the flyin visitors who came by hundreds in every kind of airplane from the smallest to air line types.

ing. I just came along to keep an eye on my husband. Sometimes he gets ideas. I'm going to sit right beside him in the infield and knit all day." The whole truth also brings the confession that the eve of the race did not find every fan on tenterhooks ever the outcome. Relaxing at prerace party given by the Firestone people, James Weldon, Indianapolis optician, commented: "What worries me at present is the love lite of the mole.

Each year there are lots of new moles. What beats me is how they find each other without eyes and underground!" son, Cleveland, through Gate 1 when it opened at dawn, said he's been driving round trips to Indianapolis since 1939 as an ardent backer of the Indianapolis Caps hockey team. These were the people who led the big rush into the oval. They like racing and crowds and the glamor of a sporting event that captures the attention of the world. Yet the whole, truth requires the admission not all persons who attend the races are racing fans.

One woman who refused to be quoted by name said: "I don't give whoop for rac- YOU YOU SEE OLD FRIENDS AT THE SPEEDWAY, TOO The Ingersoll family the Speedway fans. Miss Miss Helen Millikan, 317 Field Cut Continued from Page 1 runs and then its successful qualification sprint at 127 m. p. h. An AAA ruling prohibited an alternate car starting in the Grancor's place.

The rule was made to keep owners of slower cars from buying their way into the race, an official explained. One of the first men arrested in the Speedway grounds was a Californian wearing the press credentials of the Pottsville (Pa.) Republican. The newsEvening, had reported the ticket and badge stolen. The burly guard at the Pagoda gate was Lou Karras, star tackle on Purdue University's football team. No one tried to strong-arm his way past Lou.

The "triplets" in the Lou Moore stable, the three sleek Blue Crown Specials, had small powder puffs installed on the steering wheels. Lou explained that Mauri Rose, Bill Holland and George Connor could grab the puffs to wipe off their goggles during the race. Wilbur Shaw drove the pacemaker car wearing his cotton "corn shuckin'" gloves that were his trademark when he received the checkered flag in three races. Even celebrities had a few troubles at the track. Linda Darnell arrived bright and early.

She started to her box in the observation stand above the paddock, but was refused admission. She had gone to the wrong stairway. The movie star was fashionably attired in a white suit with red shoes, red purse and red hat. She carried a movie camera and confided that she was shooting several hundred feet Her husband, Hollywood Cameraman Pev Marley, left his cameras at home. The milling crowd at the southwest turn stepped graciously over a sleeping girl.

Someone remarked that the gal's alarm clock hadn't gone off yet. First car on the track was Bill Holland's No. 7, one of Lou Moore's entries. Lou pushed the racer onto the track. The car to roll onto the bricks was the Iddings Special, driven by Johnny McDowell.

For while the Iddings was a questionable starter. Mechanics had transplanted its front end yesterday onto a dirt track car at Winchester. They installed a new steering device and other front end equipment on No. 32 last night. A.

A. A. officials ruled, however, that the original front end would have to be intact at race time. The pit crew worked feverishly getting the car ready just 30 minutes before the starting bomb. There was a pall of gloom at the Bowes Seal Fast garage in Gasoline Alley.

The doors were locked and shades were drawn. For the first time in years, the slick-looking white Bowes cars weren't in the starting field. Both failed to qualify. Noses of veteran race fans perked up like bird dogs when castor oil fumes saturated the atmosphere as the cars were started at race time. Placed at strategic points in the pits were 30 glistening white refrigerators.

Something cool to drink inside? Nope. Drivers' crash helmets were stacked neatly inside the coolers. Speed pilots making pit stops would trade a hot helmet for a cool one. T. E.

(Pop) Myers, Speedway vice-president and a familiar figure for years at the track, made his traditional pit visit before the race, wishing each driver the best possible luck. Here's the way the "experts" guessed the winner's average speed. Joe Cloutier, Speedway Roscoe Turner, former speed pilot, 122. Cannonball Baker, former race driver. 124.

Art Sparks, chief engineer with from New Castle were among and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Judith A Ann Ingersoll greets brother, Edward Ingersoll, E. Maple as her father is Larry Carter. -The News 7 Dead in State Traffic Accidents Memorial Day week-end dents had already claimed seven Hives, in flow of Indiana traffic today reached as the a peak on highways leading into Indianapolis.

State police said the toll was the lowest in history, but predicted the death list would be lengthened by evening. They warned race fans not to make a race track on the highways after leaving the Speedway. Across the nation the number of dead from traffic and other accidents had mounted 253. Traffic accounted for 144, drowntor ings 47 and other accidental deaths 35. The dead in Indiana: Mrs.

Joseph Missicano, 46, Portland. Harold Oberholdt, 23, Huntington. Harry W. Fisher, 59, Monrovia. His wife, Mrs.

Eunice Kelly Fisher, 55. James Richard Snider, 21, Montgomery. Russell Burkhardt, 45, Indian- apolis. Herbert Thomas McCrory, 38, Anderson. Mrs.

Missicano was killed last night when two automobiles collided at a county road intersection 6 miles south of Portland. Her husband and two other persons were hurt slightly. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher were killed Sunday when their car was smashed by a Pennsylvania Railroad train at a crossing a half mile north of Belleville in Hendricks County.

Skid marks near the indicated that Fisher made a desperate last second attempt to stop his car. The wreckage was strewn along the tracks for several hundred feet. Indianapolis Racing Cars, 123.4. Seth Klein, official starter, 119.8 (ties last year). Wilbur Shaw, Speedway president, 121.5.

Harry Hartz, 121. Dr. Smith is president of the Medical director, wore his familiar trout fishing outfit, but added a blue beret the of his fellow physicians in the National Psychiatric Association. association. Two hours before race time, the Speedway field hospital had treated 35 persons.

Some had fainted; others were bruised in brawls, scratched climbing fences, cut stepping on beer bottles, and the assortment of injuries a crowd of 150,000 can receive. Natty Wilbur Shaw rolled the red Oldsmobile pace car from the starting lineup at 10:55 a. m. to lead the 32 growling racers around the brick and asphalt track into the first lap of the 33d annual race. Quick-thinking mechanics averted a garage fire this morning, causing many fans to remember the serious fire early on race day in 1937.

Someone had placed a blanket on the exhaust pipe of the Pat Clancy Special, the familiar sixwheeler. The car was being warmed up in its Gasoline Alley stall when a mechanic noticed the blazing blanket. It was jerked away from the car in time to prevent damage. Typical fans were and Bob Aspey, of Cumberland. Md.

They left home yesterday noon and drove straight through with a few "pit" stops. Aspey said he would shoot 700 feet of movies while Gross patted bulging pockets and added he had enough film for 250 "shots." Purdue University's 150-piece band, paced by 16 glockenspiels, entertained the huge throng before race time. The band paraded up and down the track, going through intricate maneuvers. The Bolier Makers even formed a racer. The pit crew of the Novis watched the race on a television set installed at the "stop root" within 10 feet of the track.

Harold G. Ingersoll, and her look on. In the background Photo, Paul Shideler. Own Knife Puts Alleged Molester in Hospital Bed 150,000 Continued from Page 1 luck at various games of "skill." You might win a kewpie doll or a toy panda if you were clever at throwing a ball or hoop. Atomic Condenser Introduced.

One spieler eye-catcher -the atomic condenser, a gadget touted to do wonders for the ignition system of a car. The machine-minded crowd marveled and bought. As often happens in dormitories, some people just can't s'eep. So they held a party. And it was some party.

There was dancing in the street jitterbugging "to tunes from auto radios. There were refreshments of the kind that comes in keglined cans and in bottles. There was laughter barber shop harmony and talk and arguments and a few fights. The party was the continuation of one that began in the afternoon. At 2 p.

m. three men sat on chairs on a platform suspended over the sides of a cattle truck. At 8 p.m. they slept soundly on the truck bed. A man from Ohio pointed at them with a grin.

"They poured it on heavy in the straightaway," said. too, "They spun in the turn." Most Talk on Racing Most of the talk was about racing cars and drivers and all the line to -overhead valves, fuel subjects dear to the heart of gasoinjectors, high compression heads, gear ratios and what-haveyou? Seemed like every other man was either a hot-rod driver Texas or a garage mechanic from Dubuque. In front of the gates of the Speedway were the "old settlers" who had been camping there for more than a week. Acclaimed as the first in front of Gate 1 and first to arrive for the show was Woodbridge Ferris, Detroit advertising man, who says he parked there May 18. There was a suspicion that Ferris might be advertising a certain make of car which has seats that can be made up into beds.

His stepson, Pat White, 15, was having "terrific" time "camping out." But Mr. Ferris, who arrived yesterday, said: "I'm tired out already. I don't see how anyone could stay that long in a car." First at Gate 3 In the first row at Gate 3 was Laurence Bisceglia, of Long Beach, who says there wasn't anyone else around when he reached the Speedway May 19. "The guards told me I was the first here," he said. "They gave me a pass to the qualifying as a reward." He waved the pass.

"I don't really care," he added. "That White kid is a good kid, and he's having a good time. I don't want to spoil his fun." One thing is certain, he feels. His toy fox terrier, Tiny, was the first dog at the race. Tiny is celebrating his first birthday today barking in support of Duke Nalon and Novi No.

54. Also in the first row at Gate 3 were four hot-rod drivers from Ft. Worth, -Pat Kirkwood, Frank Davis, Paul Leeper and Malvin Porter. "We got here early because of the flood at Ft. Worth." said Kirkwood.

"When two race tracks disappeared under 35 feet of water we just said, 'Aw, what the and took off for Indianapolis." Indianapolis's own representative among the "old settlers" was 17-year-old Paul Doni, who said he lives just seven blocks from the Speedway. Paul parked a beatup truck, marked "Nov! Grooved Piston Special," -ight In the second row in front of Gate 1. Paul thought Naion would win in a breeez and reported that Lou Welch, Nalon's boss, stopped to talk to him Tuesday. He gouted Welch as saying, "You got the winning number, son." Bud Thayer, New Paris, who followed the car of Ruben Continued from Page 1 gotiated beautifully as Duke, driving the pole car, led the pack. Lynch Cracks Up They completed one lap without mishap but on the second lap Car 26, the Auto Shippers special, hit the outside retaining wall.

George Lynch, the driver, was not injured. Nalon, Mays, Duane Carter and Jack McGrath ran 1, 2, 3, 4 on the first lap. After completing his fifth lap, Bill Cantrell, in Car 74, lap. went into the pits. Racing experts say you can't make more than one pit stop and win this race.

The Lou Moore pit crew signaled O. K. to its drivers, Bill Holland and George Connor were running third and fourth. Rose was back in the pack biding his time--a characteristic of Mauri -doing the unexpected. The Duke threw five aces at the folks for the first lap, 1:11.11, his 126.564 pace broke the track record held by Rex Mays, 123.02, made last year.

Charles VanAcker, South Bend, in Car 10, the Redmer Special, turned over on the northwest turn. When he crawled out the crowd, breathless for the moment, broke into a cheer. Now the reports of what had happened to cars in the pit began to come in along as Nalon and Mays increased their lead. Bill Cantrell's two stops were due to carburetor trouble. The hood straps on Emil Andres Car 9 came loose and he spent 2 minutes in the pits.

A black cloud of smoke above the woods at the northeast turn was visible from the press stand atop the paddock stand. An emergency was reported. in No. 54 failed to come by. The car was burning.

From the pits there was a signal to another race -the words Nalon is out. The yellow flag appeared. Seth Klein and Bill Vandewater, flag wavers the green flag up ot Rex Mays asking him whether the track was clear. Rex nodded yes as he went by for the 28th time. The offciial standing at 25 miles: First No.

54, Duke Nalon. Second No. 5, Rex Mays. Third No. 6, Lee Wallard.

Fourth No. 7, Bill Holland. Fifth No. 17, Duane Carter. The speed was 127.723, a new record.

Official standing at 50 miles was: First No. 54, Duke Nalon. Second No. 5, Rex Mays. Third No.

6, Lee Wallard. Fourth No. 7, Bill Holland, Fifth No. 22, George Connor. The average was 125.110 for this distance.

Naion Car Catches Fire The early speed began to take its toll. Charles VanAcker, No. 10, broke an axle, spun and went out on his 11th lap. Sam Hanks completed 20 laps in No. 18 and ran out of oil.

George Lynch, No. 22, spun when the car in front of him braked too rapidly, putting him out. Manuel Ayulo, No. 52, retired with a broken rod. When Nalon's car went out, his first thought was to let his mother know he wasn't hurt.

Wallard Passes Mays The speed of the race dropped some due to the 6-minute period of yellow caution lights. Nalon led the race for the first 23 laps and then Rex moved out front. By this time Lee Wallard, driving the I. R. C.

Special No. 6, Maserati, turned on hte speed and caught Rex on the 36th lap. Rex evidently was told to stay on Wallard's tail because after nine laps Rex still was trailing Wallard by 9 seconds. When they reached the fifth pole-100 miles--the speed was down to 120.327. Official standing at the end of 40 laps (100 miles): Elapsed time, 49:51.85.

Average speed, 120.327. First, No. second, No. 5. third.

No. 7, fourth, No. 17; fifth, No. sixth, No. 22, seventh.

No. 77: eighth, No. 12; ninth, No. 64; tenth, No. 2.

Snider died Saturday of injuries suffered when he fell from the fender of an automobile and was run over by the same vehicle. Burkhardt, an Indianapolis auctioneer, was injured fatally in a freak accident Saturday night at Highway 67 and Lynhurst Drive. After his car sideswiped another automobile, it smashed into a tree. Burkhardt was thrown out. The driverless vehicle roared on.

It hit another tree, rolled across the highway and finally plunged into the ditch. McCrory was killed Sunday when he was struck by a Pennsylvania train. less than a block from his Anderson The estimated 30,000,000 motorists who hit the nation's highways during the week end apparently were playing it safe. The death toll was well under the National Safety Council's prediction. Six Die as Boat Sinks One of the worst tragedies occurred at Maquoketa, where six persons drowned when their 14-foot flat-bottomed boat sank in the Mississippi River.

Four of the dead were children. The worst traffic crash so far was at Shallotte, N. where seven persons were killed and three injured. The collision pushed North Carolina's death toll to 11. The weather was perfect for flying.

Only two airplane crashes had been counted on Memorial Day down. Two men were killed in Iowa, and one died in an Idaho crash. With the holiday almost over, the number of accidental deaths (traffic otherwise) was well under reported last Meand, morial Day week end, when the holiday fell on Sunday, and the 482 in 1947. Oberholdt died early today in Noblesville Hospital from injuries suffered last night in an accident at the intersection of Highways 213 and 37, near Noblesville. A passenger in Oberholdt's truck, Leonard Merriman, 20, Huntington, was injured critically.

Indianapolis Truck Driver Dies in Crash Enos Wayne Cobb, 25, 2905 N. Meredith was killed Saturday when his car plunged out of control and struck an iron utility pole near Cincinnati. The Indianapolis man was driver for the Security Cartage and was visiting a friend in Cincinnati when the accident occurred. Born in Eva, he lived in Indianapolis most of his life. Survivors are the widow, Mrs.

Dorothy Cobb; a son, Larry Wayne; his mother, Mrs. Dovie Cobb Hartselle, and eight brother sand four sisters. Funeral services will be at 10 m. Wednesday at the Aaron Ruben Funeral Home. Burial will be in Washington Park Cemetery.

Teacher College Editors Named Special to The News TERRE HAUTE, May 30- Editors and business managers for student publications at Indiana State Teachers College have been chosen. The 1950 "Sycamore." yearbook, will be edited by Miss Kate Cane, Attica, junior who served as associate editor of the yearbook this year. Business ager for the book will be Sally Jenkins, Terre Haute. Miss Jenkins was circulation manager for this year's book. The "Statesman," college biweekly newspaper, will be edited by Dolores McCampbell, Whiting.

in the summer term. She served on this quarter's paper as copyreader and reporter. Editor for the 1949-50 "Statesman" will be Con McAuliffe, Terre Haute. An Indianapolis man was In a Logansport hospital today, and police were investigating a report that he was the victim of his own knife in an attempted molesting which backfired. Jack Wolfe, Logansport, told police the man approached him and a woman companion as they sat in a parked car at 3:45 a.

m. in Spencer Park. Wolfe said the man drew knife and ordered him from the car. Wolfe leaped out and wrested the knife away, inflicting a deep gash on the assailant's left leg. Wolfe's companion tried to aid her escort, and the attacker bit her finger almost off.

He escaped in a car. Later, the man was found in his wrecked auto 3 miles east of Logansport. Television Continued from Page 1 men: "Duke told me he didn't know how he had presence mind enough to get out of the car." VanAcker's Redmer Special turned completely around after its skid, then went backward and hit the small retaining fence on the inside of the track and turned over once, coming to rest' on the fence. The driver slid out of the cockpit, uninjured. He was on his 10th lap at the time.

He blamed a cracked front axle for his skid. His wife, hearing of the accident, started for the field hospital and fainted en route. In a spectacular mishap in his 10th lap, Charley VanAcker skidded as his car roared into the straightaway from the northwest turn, and then overturned. He apparently was not injured. A short time earlier, George Lynch became the first driver casualty when his racer sideswiped the retaining wall at the southwest turn.

Lynch suffered a broken left ankle and track burns. He climbed out of the car and sat on it, waiting for a wrecker as the other cars roared by. Lynch's car appeared to waver as it headed into the turn, but he avoided crashing head on into the wall. The car's wheels were damaged, but the wrecking car pulled it away. Lynch said his crackup was caused by the car in front slowing down.

"I had to hit the wall to keep from running into him," Lynch said in the field hospital. "Damn it, why did I have to go out so early?" Taken to the field hospital at the Speedway, Lynch was treated for track burns and an injured left ankle. Dr. E. Rogers Smith, Speedway medical director, said he would be taken to Methodist Hospital later.

Out of Race Continued from Page 1 Special, lost drain plug, 130 miles. No. 5-Rex Mays, Novi Mobil Special, magneto' trouble, 120 miles. No. 33-Jack McGrath.

City of Tacoma, broken oil pump, 100 miles. No. 6-Lee Wallard, I. R. C.

Special, fuel line leak, miles. stores over the state and surrounding areas. WFBM-TV's three cameras at the track were successfully recording important action. Only blank spots were distant sections of the oval where trees hid the track. Two cameras were set in the paddock and the third covered the southeast turn.

Television parties were the or. der of the day. In addition to private home parties, many dealers and stores were "entertaining." Veteran patients flocked to Ward 1117 at Billings General Hospital, where two sets were installed through courtesy of the Radio Equipment Co. Radio Corp. of America, leading television manufacturer, installed 50 sets for employees and guests in the company cafeteria.

News city room viewed General Electric set lent by Jack White, president of the White House, Broad Ripple furniture store. L. S. Ayres Co. sponsored the race telecast, first backer of an Indianapolis-originated television program.

The show started at 10 a. m. with a film, "Crucible of Speed," which traced the track's history. More than 3,000 sets were operating in Indianapolis homes. WFBM-TV officials estimated 8,000 more sets were tuned in through the Louisville and Cincinnati areas.

16 DP's Headed to New Homes in Indiana WASHINGTON, May 30 (AP) -Indiana is to be the new home for 16 displaced persons of Europe who were among 816 aboard the Army transport General Stewart which docked at New York today. IT'S TIME TO SHINE WITH THE SHINE THAT STAYS! RIFF WAX SHOE POLISH it has a hard-wax finish GRIFFIN BLACK BROWN TAN OXBOCI.