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IANAP LAST EDITION CLEAR Sunrise, 5:20 Sunset, 8:05 Copyright, 1946, by Ths Indianapolis News Publishing Company THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1946 36 PAGES FIVE CENTS VOL. LXXV1I Entered ai Scwmi-Claii Sittr at PoitsUice. Ind. 903 KJ V- 1 I The Weather OLIS NEWS ml Vn J.L J. mil rfff 1 i innn Mm uiM Lnu n2 The Starters HP airy Prices Hiked ILuU 250 Million a Year Br the Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 30 The government jolted housewives today with a price boost for dairy products and predicted still another sharp hike if congress cuts subsidies.

Stabilization Director Chester Bowles estimated that -the public will pay a quarter of a billion dollars more for food annually as the result of price increases of 1 cent a quart for mik, about 11 cents a pound for butter and approximately 6 cents a pound for Cheddar cheese. Heat Off Strike Legislation as Coal Crisis Ends Labor Draft Killed by Senate; Veto of Case Bill Is Possible By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 30 Hedging with a couple of "ifs," some congress members began to speculate today that the Capitol storm over strikes may not produce a single new labor law. The hotly-disputed draft section already has been ripped out of President Truman's emergency bill. Thcre were too many uncertainties for flat predictions, but the possibility of a complete blow-over was being widely if privately talked. Settlement of the soft coal strike obviously has taken off the main heat.

The big "ifs" are: 1. Whether President Truman signs into law the Case strike control bill which a thumping 230-to-106 house vote sent to him V0 No. 10 in First Mishap of Race on 16th Lap By ORIEN W. FIFER, Jr. Tie News Stft Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY, May 30 Roar.

in into the Speedway's northeast curve, Paul Russo, Kenosha, driver, crashed into the retaining wall in the sixteenth lap of the 500-mile race today. Extent of Russo's injuries could not be immediately determined, but observers said he was thrown clear of the car and over the wall. Russo, No. 10, was driving a Fageol Twin Coach Special. Henry Banks, Lywood, driving an Automobile Shippers Special, swerved off the track to avoid hitting Husso's car.

Banks drove into the infield and was uninjured. His car was not reported seriously damaged. By W. F. FOX, Jr.

The New Sport Editor INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY, May SO As the thirtieth renewal of the 500-mile race started here today, thousands of persons were milling outside the gates, victims of the worst traffic jam in the city's history. Flood Wafers Recede in East 11 Lives Lost; Damage Estimated at $3,000,000 Mr. Bowles Wednesday night an Bounced that the new prices will become effective early in June. The exact amount of the increases will be fixed when the date is set. The stabilization chief also directed OPA and the agriculture department to institute controls on the use of butterfat in the hope of Increasing, butter production.

These controls include a ban on the sale ef whipping cream, effective July 1, and establishment of i price ceilings on bulk cream for Murky flood waters receded slow-the first time. Iy In Pennsylvania and lower New Ice cream manufacturers also York toda? leaving behind a were butterfat without trimming their. prices. It is butterfat that gives Ice cream its richness. Reverses Stand Mr.

Bowles's approval of the dairy product price increases came only six weeks after he had turned down similar proposals. He said on April 15 that "nothing could start us on an inflationary spiral more surely man an increase in retail food prices" In reversing his stand, Mr. Bowles said he was motivated by "apparent congressional determination to slash food subsidies," and by necessity to "maintain the 1 ROW 1 Car Driver Dr. SC. 3 Cliff Bersere No 10 Paul Russo 4 Yes 33 Sam Hanks Yes ROW 2 47 Hal Cole Yes 61 Jimmy Jackson.

No 33 Louis Durant Yes ROW 3 29 Ted Horn Yes 45 Duke Dinsmorc No 8 Mauri Rose No ROW 4 25 Russ Snowberffer Yes 18 Emil' Andres Yes 24 Joie Chitwood No ROW 5 12 Al Putnam No 1 Rex Mays Yes 16 George Robson No ROW 6 63 Jimmy Wilburn Yes 5 Chet Miller No 14 Harry McQuinn Yes ROW 7 2 Ralph Hepburn Yes 64 Shorty No 31 Henry Banks No ROW 8 15 Louis Tomei No 48 Hal Robson No 26 George Barringer 4 Yes ROW 9 39 Bill No 42 Tony Yes 41 Mel Yes ROW 10 52 Luigi Villoresi. Yes 7 Frank W'earne No 38 George Connor No ROW 11 17 Billy No 54 Duke Nalon Yes 59 Danny Kladis No Ideal Weather Prevails at Start Stands Fill Slowly as Traffic Jams Roads By NORMAN P. WERKING Th New Staff Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY, May 30 The people were Flow in coming to the Speedway Thursday morning, but the day dawned fair and bright, and it apocared the thirtieth 500-mile race would be run in ideal weather. Only gasoline drums and pit attendants graced the pit area four hours before start of the race. Lined up early were ten old cars dating back to 1899.

Two brand new cars trailed the ancients in a parole around the before the l.COO-piece band put on its annual march on the home straightaway. At 8:15 the home-stretch stands still were relatively unoccupied. Characters were pouring into the infield at a steady rate, however, The reserved seat patrons evidently thought they could buck the late traffic situation, or perhaps they forgot to get up this morning. At 8:30 there were six cars on the apron. Chief among these were i the two Lou Moore vehicles.

Lou always has been one of the most! sharp and prompt, operators on' this track, and this year he has outdone himself. The pole car, Cliff Bergere's No. 3 Noc-Out Hose Ccntinued on Page 18, Col. 6 The story of the race before its beginning was a story of traffic and Webster's dictionary does not hold the adjectives of superlatives equal to a description of the countless bottle necks leading to tnis world's greatest race course. Never in the long history of the speed extravaganza that attracts from all parts of the world the attention of those interested in the sport of racing motors has there been anything to compare with the jam this Memorial day.

Several squads of police fought traffic at Union Station as racegoers waited in line for the railroad facilities to the Speedway. Bunched by the hundreds, many of the prospective attenders finally By the Associated Tret HAJIRISBURG, May 30 debris-littered devastation that ai ieasi e'even ana, 'caused property and crop losses expected to exceed $3,000,000. Fed by four days of continuous I Ispring rains, the Susquehanna and Allegheny rivers and their tributaries boiled over Monday in the worst flood since 1936. Thousands were made temporarily homeless as the waters spilled into residential and business areas of scores of communities. Today life in flood-bound towns returned slowly to normalcy.

Three spots hit hardest by the racing waters were Wiliiamsport inundated by the Chemung river a Susquehanna tributary while Eldred bore the brunt of the onslaught from the muddy Alle- liamsport today replacing the boats that had traversed the city's turned away and took taxicabs toiiis jsrevs Newsboys Band. Red nation's milk production in thend Eldred in Pennsylvania and face ol increased feed costs." jElmira, N. "It now seems clear," Mr. Wiliiamsport was flooded by the Bowles said, "that there is little rampaging Susquehanna; Elmira, rhance of nhtaininer congressional i center of the New York flood, was approval for additional subsidy funds to protect consumers against these food price 'increases." He added that subsidy cuts al- PAUL Fageol-Twin Airports Crowded as "Fly-to Race' II Fan Numbers Grow Indianapolis was virtually the air center of the nation today. From all parts of the land persons came, taking advantage of the "fly to the Speedway" invitation that went out from the Hoosier capital.

By the time the 500-mile race started Indianapolis airports were crowded with planes that had brought thousands of Speedway spectators. This was particularly true of Weir Cook, Hcosier-Parks snd Bob Shank airports. At Municipal airport more than 450 planes had arrived and at Hoosier-Parks field, some 250 had spread over the eighty-acre field. Despite heavy air traffic, visiting flyers were being registered by volunteer workers of the Indianapolis Aero Club and many arrivals were being made members of The Indianapolis News Flying Club, former by the civic committee here. A card was given to each candidate.

Registrations of inbound flyers at Brightwood and Sky Harbor airports was said to be light. Many of those arriving by air attended the meeting of the Indianapolis unit of the Quiet Bird-men Wednesday night at the Hotel Severin. Clyde Shockley, Muncie, governor of the Indiana hanger, welcomed the guests during the informal reception, assisted by Lawrence Genaro, head of the local organization, Obie J. Smith, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer of the Indiana hanger, had charge of arrangements. Slayer of Stephens Grad Sentenced to Die COLUMBIA, May 30 (AP) Death in the state prison gas chamber awaits Floyd Cochran, 34, Negro trash hauler, today for the rape-slaying of Marylou Jenkins, 20, Stephens College graduate.

Cochran sat impassive as he heard the circuit court jury's verdict Wednesday night sentencing him to death. The girl's body was found by her mother last February 5 in her home. She had been ravished and strangled. the track. AH along the route which I fol- lowed in reaching here in exactly three hours' time, people were: leaving their cars, running ahead to farm houses and grabbing buckets of water to pour into overheated motors.

What this 1946 classic will turn out to be no one at this time knows, but with the weatherman beginning to cook the customers in the uncovered stands, it was freely predicted along Gasoline alley that avenue of agony and joy where the mechanics slave that this would be a tough day on rac ing motors. In the field of thirty-three drivers was Ralph Hepburn who now holds the track record for qualifying. Ralph is fifty years old. Art Sparks, one of racing's soundest engineers, said that equipment and experience would triumph. Only twenty-two of the drivers have driven on this track in 500-mile racing.

Eleven are here for the first time These eleven represented, in a jready voted by the house and by igheny. Bradford and Port Alle-fhe senate banking committee "will gany the Keystone state also require further sharp increases in from the muck and mud the prices of milk, butter and! cheese after July 1." deposited by the western river. He estimated these might Jump High-wheeled Army trucks the total increases to 2 cents amoved through the streets of Wil- (main streets since Tuesday. The trucks brought in supplies and to haul out water-logged merchandise from stores caught in the rush of water that at one time if it bill's RUSSO Coach Special DUCK SHOULD SET NEW SWIM MARKS Special to The Indianapolis News PETERSBURG, May 30 Maurice Stafford, Knox county farmer, living four miles north of Petersburg, is exhibiting a freak duckling, now almost two weeks old. The duckling is healthy and is growing, and is sporting four legs ajnd two tails.

How Hoosiers Voted on Case Bill, Labor Draft WASHINGTON, May 30 CAP) The following is the roll call vote by which the house sent the senate version of the Case labor bill to President Truman: Republicans For Gillie, Grant, Halleck, Harness, Landis and Springer. Democrats For None. Republicans Against LaFollette (paired). Democrats Against Madden. Not Voting Ludlow (D.) and Wilson and Johnson Senators Homer Capehart and Raymond E.

Willis, Republicans, voted with the majority when the senate deleted the draft-labor section from the emergency labor hill. Alleged Attacker Is Returned From Nevada Frank E. Burman, Army desert icr and draft dodger, was returned today from Las Vegas, to face charges for an attack on an Indianapolis housewife. Burman, said to have attacked and robbed Mrs. Nellie Brooks, 55, 4312 Win-throp avenue, last year, was brought back by Detective Sergeants Ttobert E.j Reilly and William F.

Lupino's Ex-Husband Marries Socialite BEVERLY HILLS, May 30 (AP) Louis fHayward and Peggy Morrow Field, 'southern California socialite, were married here Wednesday. Mr. Hayward, former Marine Corps captain, was divorced by I Actress Ida Lupino in May, 1945. Rev. E.

Gillet, pastor of the Broad Ripple Methodist church, will speak. The program today at Crown Hill, the seventy-eighth annual observance of the day, featured a forever service in the Masonic section of the cdmetery by members of all Masonic organizations in Indianapolis. The Rev. Harry R. Mercer, associate pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, spoke on "Long May Our Land Be Bright." He pointed out the necessity for "unity of all groups which helped win the war and which must now pull together for large measure, the challenge to age and as far as hard tracks arelnsPect Track concerned, the challenge to experi-l chief Steward Jack Mehan and ence.

some of his assistants, srenmns. quari on mux, 10 cems a pouna; for butter and 8 pound for cheeses, or 9 cents a Farmers to Gain "If all food subsidies were lnated on July 1 as is being pro-i posed in some quarters," Mr. Bowles said, "the price of milk would immediately jump 2 to 3 cents a quart in many areas, and butter would shoot up to about 80 cents a pound." Half of the one-cent-a-quart increase ordered for milk results from higher grain and feed prices authorized earlier this month in a move to get more food for famine relief. The other half cent results from cancellation of plans to increase dairy subsidies July 1. This price hike, Mr.

Bowles said, will increase returns to farmers by 40 cents for each 100 pounds of milk, and, he hopes, cause them "to "refrain from reducing the size of their herds." He added Although I regret the need for At 10:25 the assembled bands by Anton Hulman, of covered two-tnirds 01 tne city. At Sunbury, where the rag ing waters ripped a hole in a railroad embankment to flood the business section, residents worked diligently to plug the gap with sand bags and dirt hauled from nearby hills. Lewis Wins Sealth Fund Wednesday. Several Democrats 15 maritime strike develops ia new "crisis." On the Case bill, the President is getting contacting advice from legislators and others and mean- while is keeping his own counsel. Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwel-lenbach told reporters he may recommend a veto.

The house vote Wednesday was large enough to override a veto (two-thirds are needed), but the senate's last Saturday was not. Chairman James E. Murray (D.t Mont.) of the senate labor committee, who frankly wants a veto, predicted the senate would sustain Mr. Truman if he takes that course. Maritime Dispute Big Factor Lawmakers generally agreed that developments in the maritime lispute are bound up with the future of the President's emergency bill.

The senate by a 70 to 13 vote cut out what some legislators consider the heart of that bill the provision for drafting into the Army those who strike against government-seized plants. Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley (Ky.) told reporters that whether the maritime dispute is settled "will determine my course" when the senate goes back to work on the measure Friday. Senator Barkley said there were reasons to believe the dispute might be settled by then and that is will not object to the going back to committee. There, he added, members could "perfect" the measure in an atmosphere free from "heat and passion." But in congressional practice, once a bill is returned to a committee from the floor it usually stays there.

In the legislative jargon, it is "pigeon-holed." Furthermore, congress is aiming Continued on Page 18, Col. 5 Pay Hike, Royalty asked for his 400,000 bituminous got a bigger coal bill. visions will add $1.85 to the miners" ioic auu mac iw ukim iui 2. A fund to trolled solely by the union. The pay roll contributions vary in dif- ferent coai fields rnmnnatinn of a down when relinquished by the m.

1 1 .1 t. 'aaea hunch that many others would like to cIose up and go fishing. John D. Battle, executive secretary of the National Coal Associa- Continued on Page IS, Col. 2 achievement pit-row motors were warmed up preparatory to their being pushed tail-end first into their starting positions along the track.

Joie Chitwood's No. 24 was the first car to be backed into position. Brilliant Colors It was a brilliant collection of machines as far as the exterior was concerned. Thfcy were all brightly shined up. There were black ones, white ones, blue ones, red ones, a bright orange one and at least one green one, for green is considered a jinx to race drivers.

In this green No. 61 sat Jimmy Jackson, the Indianapolis boy who played in The Indianapo was the predominating color. That beautiful No. 2 car built by Louie Welch and Bud Winfield at a cost in excess of $40,000 (not counting the motor) caught the fancy of the crowd as it was wheeled into position and Driver Ralph Heburn limped along. This car toured the two-and-one-half-mile track at a speed of 134.449 miles an hour, breaking the record of 130.754 miles an hour established by Jimmy Snyder in 1939.

The cars were in place at 10:44 and the drivers and mechanics UP to tne starting line for the usual prcrace group picture as the 10:45 bomb went off. It was rumored that the winner of this race will receive, as an added prize, the pace car in which Henry Ford II and President Wilbur Shaw rode to start the boys on their way. That has happened before and Tommy Milton, twice a winner of this classic, was the first one to engineer that kind of a deal. Tommy did Jt when he drove the pace' car. Terre Haute, who purchased this 433-acre plot from Capt.

Eddie Rickcnbacker some months ago. rode around the track for a final jnspcction at 10:50. The drivers i walked back to their cars, exchans. ing greetings as usual. The quick tempers that have flared on occasions in these recent days were calmed.

The sporting instinct prevailed and all wished one another a safe journey. At 10:56 Starter Seth Klein waved his green flag for the boys to start their motors. They were off a minute later. Emil Andrea had a little trouble getting away. He finally got away and ail thirty- three -were in the race.

They had turned into the south turn when the 10:58 bomb exploded. They went across the starting line with Sam Hanks leading, Paul Russo second and Bergere third. Then Mauri Rose came up from ninth position to win the first lap. He was about fifty yards ahead of Russo in No. 10, with Louie Durant in No.

33 third, and Bergere, pole car No. 3, in fourth position. Rose lengthened his lead a little on lap No. 2. Russo was still sec? ond and Begehe had moved to third.

Danny Kladis, in that Gran-cor Special stock Ford, was the Iant car of the thirty-three to complete three laps. On the fourth lap Rose was still in front mith Rex Mays, champion in 1940 and 1941, in second place. Russo's twin-engine job dropped back to fourth on the fifth lap," with Rose, Mays and Bergere running 1, 2 and 3. Horn First Stop Ted Horn, in No. 29, was the first car to stop at the pits.

Mays ment by Rone at the starting line to win the ninth lap and take the lead by 25 feet. The time of the first lap was 1:15:05, the speed 119.205 miles an hour. Chct Miller's No. 5 and Hal Cole's 47 went into the pits on the ninth and eleventh laps, respectively. Hepburn took the lead from Mays when he won the twelfth lap by about twenty yards.

Hepburn began to turn on the speed, and Mays knew there was little he could do about that. By the Associated Frw WASHINGTON, May 30 The coal strike is over. John L. Lewis won a wage boost, a health and welfare saddling the consumer with (these)jniiners. price increases, there is no ques- And the public caught vision of an uninterrupted flow of position about the necessity for greater war automobiles, radios, refrigerators and gadgets from long-troubled fund and nearIv everything else he assembly lines.

But the public also President Truman watched Mr. onu ii vi inc iukuui Polyglot Crowd Makes Most of Race Revival By FREMONT POWER Tbe New SUff Correpondent THE INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY, May 30 The great day, dawning bright and clear, came once again to this huge arena of speed and on hand to witness the spectacle were packed thousands of auto race addicts who gave early promise of breaking attendance records. Sixteenth street leading to the. Near the starting line sat the main entrance was a solid mass cf classy-looking Lincoln pace car of slowly moving cars that extended Henry Ford II, and Wilbur Shaw, from the town of Speedway east to! three-time winner and now presi-College avenue. The progress of dent of the Speedway, stood near-traffic was orderly and it was by, talking to Seth Klein, the port- War Dead Memorialized With.

Parade and Taps at Cemeteries mony that ended the last najor be financed by a 5-cents-a-ton roy-barrier to full-scale industrial out- altv on each ton of ccal uroduced riui ns 10 uasry tanners xi we are to maintain milk production. Along with higher milk prices.) housewives will pay rvrrtnnrt irn- ately trr (ri Knf fiirr i 1 Ir cream, cottage cheese and similar products. Evaporated milk will go up another cent a can at retail. It went up a cent a week ago. Chef on 100-Day Fast for Europe's Starving jput.

land to be administered by a three- Mr. Lewis's anthracite miners NVav board. Present pay roll contri-jare due to walk out at midnight buttons will go into a separate hos- tonight, but hard coal is used pri- pital and medicine fund to be con- front of the paddock stand brought the crowd to its feet with the first sounding of taps and then the playing of the "Star-Spangled Ban ihe Dands men cleared me track and off that apron of ly gent who for years has handled the signal flags and waved in the winners. Somewhere in the milling crowds iWas Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, hero of land or in the skies.

Tommy Milton and George Souders, who have experienced that rare delight of seeing the checkered flag waved in their faces, were here, and somewhere, unless misfortune had befallen him, was cocky little Kelly Petillo, who wanted badly to race this year but who was turned down for reasons unannounced by the track manage- mont the usual arguments at the gates Continued on Page 18, Col. I manly for heating homes. And a nation-wide maritime strike is threatened for June 15. ibut the domestic market will moving. It was a polyglot crowd, raucous and quiet, rowdy and dignified, serious and jovial.

This was the! first 500-mile race in five years and there was feeling of high ex-, the first Tokyo air raid and a faith-pectation running through theifui follower of speed, whether on LOb ANGELES, May oO (AP) Quickly grab everything American number of foremen. A forty-one-year-old chef, Claude industry can turn out for months 4. Standardized safety, sanita-L. Baxter, says he's willing to to come. jtion and housing facilities, starve if it will help the suffering The contract, signedt by Mr.

children of Europe. Operation by Monday Lewis with a pen borrowed from Mr. Baxter said today he was in Mr. Lewis said the bitumlnousMr. Truman, is good only for the the eighth day of a fast broken pits will be in full operation byj period of government operation, only by coffee.

He said he planned! Monday. The strike lasted fifty-! The operators will have to sign to stick it out 100 days "and I hope nine days broken only by a two-; before the mines will be returned the food I am saving will get to week trure when it was at the: to thpm huge throngs Thrown up near the main-en- trance was a mynaa oi puca anas where one could buy a hot dog, if hungry, or a model racing car if, souvenir minded. "The unbreak able Rex Mays car, get them now," shouted one hawker. Those who liked Rex to win could see a good omen in this merchandise. "A soft pad for that hard seat," cried another salesman as he! The tradition of honoring those who" have laid down their lives in a nation's battles, a tradition which connects the Athens of Pericles with Lincoln at Gettysburg, was observed ith fitting programs today in downtown Indianapolis, as ell as in the various cemeteries.

The list of observances ranged from a parade through the downtown streets in the forenoon to services held in the early afternoon at Crown Hill cemetery and at the Grove of Remembrance in Garfield park. At some cemeteries the war dead were honored with programs of remembrance held Sunday afternoon. The last of the memorial programs will be presented Sunday at 2 p. m. in the Sutherland cemetery and at 4 p.

m. in the post home of the Broad Ripple American Legion Post, Sixty-fourth street and College avenue. Both programs are being sponsored by the post and will feature roll calls of the veteran, who have died and salutes by the post rifle squads. The speaker for the first program will be Rev. R.

Eugene Smith, pastor of the Ebenezer Lutheran church. At the 4 p.m. program the peak of its staggering impact, But the operators, who tried When the government will be in vain for two months to wangle able to return the mines to their a contract out of the bushy-browed owners remained a question. Thei-nid Mine Workers chief, made operators contending Jhey were effort to hide their chagrin advised of the contract terms only over the terms, a couple of hours in advance of! ne important producer said the actual signing were plainly privately he feared some "mar-rtisnlpasAr! gmai mines would have to shut slapped together two synthetic In the air idljng about( were leather pads and made a loud blop. several whose occupants Around the garage area a getting the best view of all crowd gathered early in hopes ofiof this event Qne ghip in par.

getting a glimpse at the Sleek tinilar atnnd nut hiico Flvins? Europe. THE WEATHER Indianapolis Fair and warm today; clear with little change In temperature tonight. Friday increasing cloudiness. Indiana Fair and warm today; clear with little change in temperature. Friday increasing cloudiness with scattered showers In southwest portion.

the peace." At the afternoon services in Crown Hill there wera large crowds for the program sponsored by the Maj. Robert Anderson Post, Women's Relief Corps Auxiliary, G. A. and for the program which featured an address by A. V.

Burch, state auditor, and the placing of flags by Boy Scouts on 1,400 soldier family plots in the cemetery. Following the. parade in the downtown streets, the marchers assembled around the north steps Continued on Page 18, CoL 3 racers, whose mechanics were still Fortress wnich dipped its wings1 tinkering with them, wiping theas it made a circuiar trip over the! tires and waxing the bodies. two-and-one-half-mile track. I Several cars were on the apron Hours before race time the! The government seized the mines nine days ago and immediately got rfrm-n in harinito Atv nut nf thn taifc ram two cipal contract terms: 2.

An 181-ccnt-an-hoiir wars increase, which with overtime pro- early xor.au to see ana on me wailstands were beainnin? to fill, with of the pits were big drums of the special fuel used in these fastest of automobiles..