Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1927 — Page 2

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THIRTY-THREE IN RACE START * (Continued From Page 1) started. The huge crowd gave Frank Lockhart in his black and ( white Perfect Circle Miller Special a tremendous ovation as he wheeled into his pole position in the first row. The youthful young coast daredevil, winner of last year’s curtailed event, has won a permanent place in the hearts of the gasoline fans, and his record-smashing qualifying speed of 120.1 miles an hour carved an even firmer-notch for him in the speed hall of fame. De Paolo and Duray Peter De Paolo, who qualified in the second fastest time, was second in the front row, with Leon Duray, third fastest qualifier, third in the row. The minute! were checked off by Starter Townsend and at 9: 5S the motors were started with a deafening rear. At 9:59 the American flag bomb had every spectator at the course in a thrill of suspense. At 10 Townsend Waved his hand and the cars rolled away on the pacemaking lap. The speedy La Salle pacemaker coasted to the side as the drivers were given the official start. Cheers for Band The huge band, actually forty bands in one, with the 250-piece Indiana group having the largest representation, gave the crowd its first thrill of the day as it moved down the front stretch. The Speedway prizes are divided Into two groups. Fifty thousand dollars goes to the first ten cars to finish, $20,000 to the winner, SIO,OOO to second; third, $5,000; fourth, $3,500; fifth, $3,000; sixth, $2,200; seventh, $1,800; eighth, sl,* 600; ninth, $1,500, and tenth, $1,400. Ten thousand dollars is divided among the drivers who do not finish among the first ten, the driver finishing eleventh receiving not more than SI,OOO, and the driver who is last receiving not less than SSOO. In addition to the Speedway prize money, an added purse, known as the lap prize fund, donated by local citizens and firms and others throughout the United States interested in the speed sport, is awarded at the rate of SIOO a lap, the drHer leading each round. Trophies Also s Along with the exceedingly tangible offerings the drivers also raced for trophies, chief in importance the Wheeler-Schebler SIO,OOO silver cup, offered since the first 500-mile race in 1911 to the driver leading at the 400-mile mark. It must be won three times by the same driver with the same make of car for peranent possession. The Prest-O-Lite trophy, a silver brick, valued is awarded to the leader at 300 miles. It must be won three times by the same driver for permanent possession. The L. S. Strauss & Cos. trophy is presented the winner of the race. The company has given the winner a trophy of practical use each year since 1919. This year’s contest was an unusual battle between youngsters and veterans, front-wheel drives and the coiTventional rear wheel drives —and records. The cars—9l.s cubic inches piston displacement—smaller than a Ford —are estimated five miles an hour faster than they were last year. The six cars in the two starting rows established new qualifying records for ten miles. Four of the speed creations bettered the record for a single lap on the local bricks. It seemed logical that the record for 500 miles, made In 1925 by Pete De Paolo, in a Duesenberg, at 101.13 miles per hour, will be broken and that the winning car will be a front-wheel drive. Lockhart was the speediest exponent of the conventional rearwheel drive contingent in the qualifying trials. Cooper Team Strong ■Earl Cooper’s four-man team, driving Cooper Specials, formed the most formidable squad. With Cooper, a master, sitting in the key pit guiding the destinies of Bob MeDonogh, Pete Kreis, Bennie Hill, and Jules Ellingboe, he has a king row of chessmen to maneuver in the long grind. \ Tommy Milton, only two-time winner of the local event, was given a rousing hand by the stands as he moved his front-drive Detroit Special into its place at the pole In the ninth row. Milton', one of the greatest drivers In the history of automobile racing, retired for pearly two years, ffliilt the car and selected Cliff Durant to pilot it in the race. Milton was called to the drivers’ Seat by the illness of Cliff Durant, who was taken down by the flu. He was regarded as the real dark-horse contender of the contest. He was the 500-mile winner in 1921 and 1923. Twenty-one cars qualified Thursday, ten more Saturday and three others Sunday morning. Corum and his Duesenberg was held in readiness in the event one of the starters would be unable to parade to the post for the start. •VALVE-IN-HEAD VICTORY Every Car in Motor Classic Powered With Engine Like Buiek. Today’s race is another victory for ' the valve-in-head principle of engine design, regardless of the victor. Every car in the race is powered with that type of engine. It is nearly twenty-five years since Buick adopted the valve-in-head engine which is now built into almost 2,0000,000 motor cars. The success of that type of engine was so immediate, after its adoption back in 1904, that racers began to experiment wit!| It, too. As on the highways of the world, valve-in-head design vindicated itself on the speed track. Every Indianapolis race since 1912 has been won by a car with valve-in-head engine. There are 342 distinct Indian tribes In the tlnited States and possessions, all by the ofjice Indian *l_i ..fcaqtbilttlilto

FORMER RACE WINNERS

Year Driver - Car Aver. 1911 — Ray Harroun Marmon 74.59 1912 Joe Dawson National 78.70 1913 Jules Goux Peugot 76.92 1914 Rene Thomas Delage 82.47 1915 — Ralph De Palma Mercedes 89.84 1916 Dario Resta Peugot 1 83.26 1919 Howard Wilcox Peugot 88.06 1920 Gaston Chevrolet.... Monroe 88.50 1921 Tommy Milton Frontenac 89.62 1922 — James Murphy Murphy Special ~f 94.48 1923 Tommy Milton H. C, S. Special 90.95 1924 L. L. Corum-Joe Boyer Duesenberg Special 98.23 1925 — Pete De Paolo Duesenberg Special 101.13 1926 Frank Lockhart .....Miller Special ... 95.56

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NO TRAFFIC JAMS Never was e crowd handled more expertly than inside and approaching the Speedway this year. This was due principally to the increase in Speedway guards from 2,000 to 3,400 and the opening up of anew gate on the west side. So swiftly were motorists and pedestrians dispatched to their proper places inside the grounds that by 7 a. m., one-half hour after the gates opened, the jam of cars which extended from a mile to two miles on roads from all gates was broken. On the Speedway Rd. cars had been jammed all the way from the Speedway back to the Emrichsville bridge before 6:30 a. m. After 7 o’clock the traffiemen had things moving so well that it was possible to drive within a quarter of a mile of the gates before getting into line. Then the procession moved orderly on through the gates. ' PAUL’S BUSY BOY Paul Hasty, for seventeen years the official Speedway messenger, was the busiest man on the grounds during the early hours. Long before the race started Hasty’s bicycle had piled up a mileage between the general offices, the judge’s strfd and the drivers’ garages which equaled the distance some of the race cars were able to make. LEBANON BAND FIRST The first of forty bands to blow into action was the snappy 139th Field Artillery out from Lebanon. It tooted lustily away before 8 a. m., in its post oof honor across the track from the judge’s stand. PICKER PICKS AGAIN Tom Biel, official chef to the drivers, posted his annual forecast of winners in garage restaurant. Tom has picked three out o( the last five winners. His choices today were: First, Leon Duray; second, Harry Hartz; third, Pete DePaolo, and fourth, Earl Devore. SILK SLICKERS SEEN Old Sol must have been hiding his head in chagrin as the crowd gathered. What the weather man left out in the way of the sun’s brilliance the style in slickers made up —and more. A rainbow wopld have shriveled up in shame, for the women and girls blossomed out in raincoats, the hues of which no respectable rainbow ever thought of. The race crowd always is colorfully clothed, but the massed banks of 75,000 souls in the grand stands presented a picture today that was almost worth the price of admission. A futurist artist would have called it heaven. Cars that rolled out on the track early were covered with white canvas when a misty rain settled over the track at 7:30. A little water in the wrong place could easily ruin the speed chances of the best car. Norman Batten had a watch dog Instead of a guard posted to keep Inquisitive visitors out •tof his garage. It was his pet dog. of the Chow species, named Chow, a big, brown fellow, who kept them far back. Harry Hartz had the ijost perfeet color scheme on the track. v His blue and white car matched his blue and white sport sweater. Hartz and Eddie Heame are garage buddies. Hartz learned the racing game from Heame and for many years was Heame's garage mechanician. The three Duesenberg cars were the early birds on the track. Souders, car No. 32, Shoaf, No. 34. and Stapp, No. 38,/three youngsters who are driving their first race here, rolled their cars on the track at 4 a. m. Bob McDonogh, driving a Cooper Special, was dressed up as if he were going to run in the Derby. He wore a jockey jacket stripped black and white, and riding boots. All he needed was a riding crop to make his uniform complete for a horse race. . , Leon Duray came out on the track early when the sun was still shining, but returned to the garage and rolled his car into his dugout just as soon as the weather clouded up. He had a hunch it was going to rain. Nearly all Missouri cars at the Speedway grounds were chalked up with signs paying tribute to “The Spirit of St. Louis.” Some of the cars bore banners, “Lindbergh for President.” One of the best organized pits was that of Leon Duray. Dick Doyle, who has been with Leon two years, was the pit manager. The Duray pit was feeling more than confident before the race started. Tony Gulotta, who is driving a Miller, had his father and brother at the track to see the race. His. father, Marco Gulotta, lives in Kansas City and this is the first time he has seen Tony in a race. Tony’s brother Charles helped in his brother’s pit. The father came to this country from Italy twentyseven years ago. \ , Louis driving a Miller, a former Indianapolis motorcycle cop, who has played around on the dirt track for years, -was the only man who apparently didn’t worry about the weather. Louie slept on his pit wall when other drivers were gazing anxiously at the skies. The first casualty of the day was Theodore (Pop) Myers, the gpeedway manager, He caught

on a barbed wire fence and cut his hand. He was taken to the hospital for first aid. Eddie Lynn, Indianapolis, couldn’t see anything but a Miller victory. Three years Eddie has worked in the Miller pits. This year he is right hand man to Dutch Baumaq. Pat Page, Indiana University football coach and former Butler mentor, was one of the early arrivals in the press stand. Pat denied that he was scouting for football material. Old timers on hand today recalled the days of 1915, when Ralph De Palma walked away with the race and set an astounding of 89.54 miles an hour. The day was an exact duplicate of today. Os all the myriad wise cracks painted and ckalked on cars Speedway bound this one from Florida excited perhaps the most comment: “Come to Jacksonville for real beer.” The tip was out strong before the race started that Jules Ellingboe. driving a Cooper Special, would be a contender for the winner’s flag. Juled'was confident he would be in the big money. Jules has been beaten by hard luck in several races. His best race was in 1921 when as a relief driver for Percy Ford he finished third. Jules spends his vacation coming to Indianapolis and racing in the 500-mile classic. He lives at Memphis, Tenn., where he is district manager for Hudson and Essex cars. Hesitant flivvers that have served the qph-rah boys for campus ‘‘hops’’ were subject to exceptionally long “flights’’ today. One appearing at th< Speedway in the midst of the traffic lines carried this Inscription in hilarious colors: "From Vincennes to Indianapolis, 100-mile non-stop flight.” Pete De Paolo appeared on the track just before the start with his hands heavily taped and wearing his initials on his cap. Frank Lockhart, winner of last year's race, had his crew of five men equipped like a basketball team. Each one wore a large No. 2, number of his car, on their backs. Doc Shattuc was dolled up in orange and black and in common with a great many other drivers was wearing high leather hoots. The reason for the boots is that in the past the drivers have suffered severe leg burns from hot fumes. £ motley collection of colors silhouetted against the background of the grand stand. Women were dressed in all colors, from brilliant red to black. Green predominated. The men seemed to have found great pleasure in knickers. Liquor—that element which plays its part in crowds —has found its place. Prohibition agents and police were ordered to pick up those who viplated the prohibition laws, but as one officer put it, “What chance has a handful of officers against a crowd of 150,000 people, many of whom care little for the Eighteenth Amendment?’’ Laborers and aristocrats mingled in the crowd. Here there a man in overalls could be seen seated beside a woman dressed in the finest silks. Environment, as heredity, plays no part in this crowd. The attraction is keen and all else is forgotten. The official scorers and timers have evolved anew system. Each car has a representative in the timing stand wearing the number of the car on his back. These men keep track of each lap and the official time and are seated according to the standing of the car in the race. Some of the officials predicted that there would be a lot of acrobatics done as the-cars changed their standing. The timing staff is in charge of Odis Porter, chief timer, Chester Ricker, Paul Ritchie and Morris Lieson. - ♦ At the last minute It was an* nounced that C. W. Van Ranst would dj-ive relief for Tommy Milton. In 1922 Van Ranst made a sensational drive in a Frontenac and was within one lap of the lead when his car went out with engine trouble. Some 150,000 persons, representative of this mission of speed lovers, gathered into a circle of grand stands surrounding a red brick oval here today to pay fleeting tribute to the great god Speed. From the four corners of this country they came, to jam their way into the greatest Crowd in the history of the greatest of automobile races—the Indianapolis Speedway. The word “speed” seemed to dominate them even before they found their seats. The jammed into the gates, crowded down grandstand runways, and rushed passed ushers, finding their own chairs, fearful others would have them. Some carried lunch boxes, others. It could be seen were depending on venders for their food. At 9:30 the stands were practically full. As tha grand march began, and the first contingent of marines passed the crowd. It stood cheering. The greatest band ever seen In the city, a 1,500-piece composite organization, filed past the stands and brought acclajm, the kind of acclaim the American public gives to anything good. Soldiers stationed throughout the grounds have the crowd under control. Blue and gold colors decocted the graad stand* _, j

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LINDBERGH PUNS RETURN HOME IN NEXTTWOWEEKS English Go Wild Over Intrepid American When He Visits Them. i Bu Vnitrd Prc** j LONDON, May 30.—Capt. Charles I A. Lindbergh probably will be home I in about two weeks to receive the | welcome of New York and presumably to return to San Diego, Cal., by way of St. Louis. The European tour of the worldfamous flier has ended, he announced today, although he will fly to Paris to say farewell before returning to the United States. Lindbergh did • ,-t land at Croydon until 6 p. m., * sterday, after a two and a half hour flight from Brussels. He received newspaper men last night after dining with Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton at the United States embassy. Lifldbergh had decided definitely today to see the Derby Wednesday, but beyond that his program, which was largely in the hands of Houghton, was indefinite. Several dinners J and receptions had been planned for j him. however, and his audience with I King George was tentatively set for i tomorrow morning. Unprecedented Lindberg's arrival yesterday pßvlded a scene almost unprecedented in the recent history of orderly | Britain. So recklessly did the crowd surge about the field that Lindbergh, attempting to find room to land, at first was afraid to come down for I fear of the welcomers. Fi--1 nally he saw that a rope held by bobbies kept a semblance or order at one part of the field, and landed. As soon as the plane came to rest, however, the crowd overran the entire field, encircling his plane, and fighting to touch Its siver wings and get near the daring pilot. It was ten minutes before Ambassador Houghton and British officials could reach the plane. “It gave me the first big thrill since I hit a in mid-Atlantic on the way o"r,” Lfhdbergh said. Flees From Crowd A way through the crowd was finally forced for the flier and the official welcomers, and they reached a lookout tower at the end of the field where they took refuge. Lindbergh said he had accepted Lord Lonsdale's invitation to attend the Derby Wednesday at Epsom Downs, near London. “But I know nothing about horses,” Lindberg said. After the Aero Club’s banquet on Tuesday night Lindbergh will attend a Swedish festival banquet and then the Derby ball. About forty notables were invited to Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton’s luncheon for Lindbergh today. Guests included Sir Austen Chamberlain. the foreign secretary; Sir Samuel Hoare, the air minister; the Duke of Atholl, Lord Desborough, Vice Admiral Aubrey Smith, air vice marshal, Sir Sefton Brancker, Sir Philip Sassoon, Frederick Sterling, the new American minister to Dublin. THOUSANDS PAT HONORTO DEAD (Continued From Page 1) in Germany and that this idea was conveyed to John A. Logan, first commander of the G. A. R., who started the first Memorial day May 30, 1868. Year After Year “Commander Logan on the first Memorial day said: ‘lt is the purpose’ to institute this observation with the hope that it will be kept up year after year while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of the departed.’ “So for fifty-nine years on this annual day we have decorated the graves of the soldier dead and paid high tribute to the sacrifices of those yet living. “President Grant, the outstanding officer of the Civil War, speaking on one occasion said: ‘I "hate war,’ and when Gen. John Sherman noted its devastation and death, said: ‘War is hell.’ v “With all this in view, we should, on this Memorial day, highly resolve that war shall be no more. But Unsettles “Bishop John W. Hamilton says war never settles anything, but unsettles everything. “With the Increased destructiveness of the Instruments of war, a w T ar of the future will be distinguished by wholesale sluaghter, while wars of the past were retail. “The range of guns and the deadliness of gas has increased since the last war. Instant death awaits the warriors. And since Captain Lindbergh has demonstrated flying across the Atlantic, airplanes could fly from Europe to America and destroy the population, or vice versa. “We must either destroy war or war will destroy civilization.” Preceding Address The address was preceded by placing of flowers, evergreens and flags on the hundreds of neatly arranged graves and the salute of twenty-one guns of the Indiana National Guard. Dedication and prayer was pronounced by Chaplain E. H. Wood. Commander F. A. Hay gave ritualistic services. Several songs were sung by the audience and a sixtysecond silent tribute was paid the heroes. Following three rounds by the firing squad of the Harold C. MeGrew Camp of the United Spanish War Veterans, in the charge of Commander C. F. Williams, the ceremonies closed with taps by Bugler Charles Runyan. ' To Cemetery Under proposed plans the Civil War and disabled veterans were to be taken to the cemetery in autos supplied by Indianapolis persons. They metre to leave for Crown Hill from T’ennsylvanla and Maryland"

Sts., where the parade was to end. Thousands lined the streets and awaiting the march. The parade was to start from New York and Meridian Sts., Shortly after 2 p. m. “Today a Ration Is at the graves of her soldiers, in commemoration of their faithfulness,” said the Rev. C. P. Gibbs in the principal address at the Monument services. “Coming from the busy walks of life to cemetery and field, with reverence for the heroic dead, and gratitude for the patriotic living, we bring a wreath of cypress for the graves of those whose lips are sealed, who answer no more to the roll call, among the living, and speak a word to those more fortunate who fought a good, fight, kept a sacred faith, won a glorious victory and live to fight the battles of a free and evergrowing people. Saviours of Land “Other lands have had heroes, but our old Civil War soldiers were more they were saviours and by their sacrifices have saved the greatest land under the shining sun. I “Let us not forget the price of liberty, nor suffer our citizens to be- ! come indifferent to its claims, for if we fail to transmit the patriotism of 1 the fathers, this nation will drift j into the regions of indulgence and j doubt; and when the last scarred vetj eran, with empty sleeve and false ' limb has gone to his grave, the lesI son taught by the history of the oast will die.” The Rev. Gibbs appealed to I the world to listen and learn the i principle conveyed in Memorial Day j and closed by saying: “Then in the far-off future some , angel will sing, ‘They never fail, I who die in a good cause, their i country glorifies their names and ; memory embalms their heroic : deeds.’ ” The Christ and Second Presby- ! terian Church chimes tolled majestically before the opening of j the services. Following music by j Newsboys Band and a vocal solo Iby Martha Lukens, assembly was j sounded by Charles Runyan, bugler, assisted by Boy Scout buglers. Gettysburg Address Invocation was pronounced by Rev. .G. H. Gebhart. Lincoln's Gettys- | burg address was delivered by Harold j S. Dunkbl. and ritualistic services I were in charge of the Veterans of • Foreign Wars. Bombastic tribute ) was paid by the firing squad of Hoosier Post. 624 Veterans of For- ; eign Wars. Flowers were strewn by 1 school children. I Services at the Monument were under direction of Col. A. R. Crampton, master of ceremonies, assisted j by Chief of Staff W. C. Oren and • Grand Marshal C. C. Moon. ! Speaking before a large audience this morning at Mt. Jackson cemetery, Attorney Frank C. Riley declared the men who went to war 1n j 1861 and battled four years kept the ' nation united. “They kept this country united and they provided us with a united State so that when autocracy crept out intent on wiping out democracy this nation was able to step forth and raising her hand of righteousness say that can not be done and defended and rescued a civilization so wonderfully that today the whole world realizes autocracy has been downed forever and that democracy must prevail,” he stated. Principles Forsaken Riley declared we have drifted from the principles of our forefathers and that we should be taken to task for the lack of proper tribute and remembrance. He described trials suffered by Abraham Lincoln and the Nation during and immediately after the Civil War. He emphasized the fact that Indiana answered valiantly to President Lincoln’s call, with 208,357 going to the land service and 2,130 to naval service. “The war established the supremacy of the Federal Government and put to rest forever the claim of ‘squatter sovereignty.’ It resulted in cutting the manacles from the wrists of 4,000,000 slaves. It made god the Declaration of Independence that ‘all men are created equal’ and gave the ballot to all male citizens, without regard to race or color,” he closed. Invocation was by the Rev. William Russell. Another short address was given by City Attorney John K. Ruckelshaus, who pleaded that the citizenry not lose sight of the reason for commemoration of the day. Anderson Cemeteny The Rev. Charles E. Line delivered the principal address at the Anderson Cemetery ceremonies in Irvington this morning. He took for his principal topic the gratitude of America toward those who served her. i “Gratitude is a great blessing.” he said. "We have seen it with all our herflps. George Washington, of course, leads them, but these other boys who have fought and died for this country have made us grateful.” The Rev, E.’ P. Jewett pronounced the benediction and delivered the ihvocation. William R. Shearer served as master of ceremonies. High places of Hoosiers in annals of American sacrifice was extolled by Attorney Michael E. Foley in the principal address at services at Holy Cross Cemetery, Sunday afternoon. “Greatest of all war time Governors in the United States was Governor Morton of Indiana.” he declared. “No State has a better record than our commonwealth in the great Civil War. There were 210,400 Hoosiers went forth to battle for the Union and 24,419 were slain. Hoosiers Volunteered “This splendid sacrifice was repeated in the World War and the war with Spain. More Indiana young men volunteered than were drafted in the World War. Os this number 3,354 made the supreme sacrifice and to this toll was added the lives of fifteen women who served as nurses. - “We should be proud of our State and proud of our country, ever ready to defend it in war and to aid it in guiding the world in paths of peace.’

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Program was arranged by the Knights of Columbus, G. A. R. Alvin P. Hovey, Woman's Relief Corps No. 196, Catholic Boy and Girl Scouts, all of whom took part. Mrs. Edna E. Pauley, national patriotic instructor, W. R. C.; talked on the origin and meaning of the flag. Anthony J. Klee read Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. The Rev. Albert D. Deery was chaplain, and Joseph A. McGowan, master of ceremonies. Patriotic airs were played by the St. John’s Academy orchestra. Ritualistic service was conducted by G. A. R. veterans under Commander Zach Landers, with Chaplain A. B. Charpie as assistant. Salute was fired and taps sounded by the firing squad and bugler of the Eleventh Infantry. Ceremonies were followed by decoration of graves by veterans under Capt. Charles E. Murphy of the G. A. R. The Rev. Fred A. Line, delivering the principal address at Floral Park Sunday afternoon, stressed the part which courage has played among our war heroes. Courage Marked All “Coui’age,” he said, "lias been a leading characteristic of the American soldier all down through our national history. The soldier has met the gravest dangers, unflinchingly.” The Rev. Line was emphatic in his declarations that the same spirit should be shown by citizens in the discharging of the duties of citizenship as that which was shown by the dead heroes. “The battles for peace,” he said, “are to be fought and won. The call of the hour is for us to be Americans. remembering that we can be Americans only as w are world citizens in the truest sense of the word. % The Rev. J. E. Pritchett delivered the invocation and school children sang America. The firing squad was composed of the Lavelle Gossett post Veterans of Foreign Wars. A grassy noil In Memorial Park Cemetery was dedicated as Legion Hill, Sunday afternoon, by Irvington American Legion Post. Commander Earl T. Bonham had charge of the ceremony. An American flag on a pole erected on the hill stood at half mast In memory of dead heroes. Dirt or France Dirt from the grave of an exservice man was presented Dr. Samuel McGaughey. Irvington Post delegate to the Paris convention in September, w f ho will scatter the earth over the grave of an Indianapolis youth who died in France. The Legion plans to place four machine guns and two field guns on the noil set apart by the cemetery association. The bugler and band of the 11th Infantry from Ft. Benjamin Harrison and Girl Scouts participated in the services. The Rev. Homer C. Boblitt, Linwood Avenue Christian Church pastor. delivered the dedicatory ad- i dress, and the Rev. George W. Alii- j son pronounced the benediction. "We have met here to perform a most solemn duty. By the generosity of the commissioners of this cemetery this plot to be known as ‘Legion Hill’ has been donated as a burial place for our Nation’s dead. TheAmerican Legion accepts this gift inperpetuity as a sacred trust and pledges its membership to its future maintenance," said the Rev. Bobbitt. “We are here assembled to dedicate this plot as a testing place for all those who bqve offered their lives on the altar of our Nation. Earth from his hill will be borne across the sea and wits loving hands will be sprinkled on the grave of the 'Unknown Soldier’ in Flanders fields. Thus the soil from which they came will claim its own under foreign skies. "So here before this open grave, flower embowered, under the Stars and Stripes of an endless glory, amidst the memorials of war, the bugle calls, the solemn drum beats of the marsh, the challenging echo of the firing squad, in the presence of our war veterans, we here dedicate this spot to those who offered their all, that our Nation might win maintain its post of leadership, toward a fairer day among the brotherhood of nations.

Sacrifice for Others “But the spirit which called to action every hero of every war in America has engaged, has been that of unselfish sacrifice for others. It has been the sacrifice of the strong _ for the weak, of the fit for -the unfit. "As we here dedicate this plot as theif final resting place, shall we not also dedicate our own lives to this same great principle of loving and loyal sacrifice for our .common country. Let us pledge our lives to making this nation worthy of their sacrifice. Let us maintain the dignity of its Constitution, sanctity of its laws, the purity and power of.its churches, its schools and its homes. Let us work in the days of peace to make our city, our commonwealth and our nation, worth all their suffering and their life blood.” In an address before hundreds assembled at the Meridian St. over Fall Creek bridge Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Edna E. Pauley, national patriotic instructor of the W. R. C., urged citizens to support the work of organization formed for aiding war veterans. "There is nothing that can create as much esteem as the aid offered the Nation’s heroes by various patriotic organizations,” she stated. “The gatherings anmially on Memorial day serve to commemorate those honored living and dead and bring remembrance of their deeds.” Mrs. Claudia K. Erther was master of ceremonies. Services were generally for soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen under auspices of auxiliary of Sons of Union Veterans. Airplanes in charge of Indiana National Guard, of the 113th Aero Squadron, flew overhead and dropped flowers in the water and on the bridge while the services were in progress. ' Invocation was given by the Rev.

C. E. Bishop, of the St. Mathews Episcopal Church. Several songs were sung by the audience under direction of Albert L. Pauley. Services at Fort “The Army stands for service.” This was the keynote of Brig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman's memorial day address at exercises held Sunday for Ft. Benjamin Harrison troops. He said the army was a peace time organization and cited the usefulness of troops during the recent tornado. Col. George D. Freeman Jr., was in charge. Eleventh Infantry soldiers and Chaplain Samuel J. Miller decorated the graves at the fort. Goal of Life Former Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth urged that inspiration provided by the war dead and living be considered by citizens as the goal of life, in a Memorial Day address at the New Crown cemetery this morning. Ceremonies were in charge of the G. A. R. and Otis E. Brown Post, World War veterans, with Henry Lowe representing the Civil War veterans, and Capt. Harry B. Dynes, Brown Post. Invocation and benediction were offered by Layman E. Tardy, Garfield Baptist Church. Assembly was gtven by Boy Scout buglers, recitation by liOuise Bergmann of School 34, and flags and flowers were placed by Garfield Church Boy and Girl Scouts. SPEED THRONGS RULE CITY TODAY (Continued From Page 1) / traction terminal general agent. One hundred and fifty city street cars were borrowed to augment regular interurban traffic by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Western Traction Cos. One-rpinute service began at 5 a. m. and was to continue until the last person had left the Speedway. Busses left the various downtown terminals every three minutes with loads of fans. The Big Four railroad ran special shuttle trains to the oval every fifteen minutes. Early Travel Lighter Traffic officials reported, however, that travel to the Speedway before 8 a. m. today was lighter than last year. It picked up then and an hour before race time facilities were taxed to the utmost. Downtown restaurants were crowded early today with impatient men and women, each eager to be served first and get out to the Speedway. What mattered it to them that the bright sun which had greeted them upon arising faded as the skies became overcast with dreary clouds that threatened to turn loose a deluge any minute? But it was Sunday that race fandom took Indianapolis by storm. Traffic police were all but helpless before thp press of drifting motorists. Pedestrians, oblivious to the jam, darted into the streets despite pleas of police to move with traffic, 1 causing many hairs to turn gray. Hotels Filled Hotel clerks began saying “full up, no rooms left," Saturday. Sun- j day they merely smiled when some i belated arrival walked jauntily up j to t:ie desk to register. It was the same story at the Claypool, the Lincoln, the Severln—in fact, every hotel in the city reported every inch of available space taken. The Soldiers’ and Sailors Monument was thronged with visitors Sunday. It was closed today. Long lines waited at the entrance for a chance to be lifted to the top for a view of the city—and to pay homage to Indiana's war dead. Talk on the streets was of nothing but the race. Who is going to win? Who will win the lap money? Who will have motor trouble? Whenever two persons got together on the street that was the talk. Police Chief Claude F. Johnson. Major Lewis Johnson andyCapt. Lester E* Jones, with more than one hundred and fifty policemen tried vainly to unravel the traffic tangle downtown, particularly at Illinois and Washington Sts., and at Illinois

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and Market Sts., Sunday night, but Without avail. No sooner was one lam cleaned up than another followed. It was the same old story. Jam Around Speedway Automobiles from Maine to California blocked highways to the Speedway early today. Heavy traffic Sunday caused a traffic tie-up around t)ie bowl, police said. s i Cars were lined up four deep on Speedway Rd. to the Big Four Railroad on the east. Machines using the Thirtieth St. approach lined Meridian St. and other north side arteries as far south as Fall Creek. Hundreds paraded the streets all Sunday night, unable to find a place to sleep. Many were accommodated by the convention bureau housing service, according to Henry T. Davjs, manager. Hundreds crowded into parks to get relief from jammed streets. Auto Makers In City Heads of automobile concerns manufacturing the cars in which America rides daily were in Indianapolis today attending the race. Many toured in, others came in private railway cars, while still others took their places on trains and traction cars with the remainder of race fans. Among those attending the races are Charles F. Kettring, vice president of the General Motors Corporation; E. A. Erskine of South Bend, president of the Studebaker Motor Car Company: Lawrence P. Fisher, president of the Cadillac Motor Car Company; F. C. Seaholm, chief engineer of the Cadillac Company; Russell Firestone of Akron. Ohio, sn executive in the tire plant of his father, Harvey S. Firestone; E. 't. Cord of Auburn, president of the Auburn and Duesenberg Motors Company: Horace E. Dodge, of Dodge Brothers Company, Detroit, and O. Lee Harrison of Detroit, president of the Delco-Remy Company. „ Capt. Eddie Rlckenhacker. America’s war ace of aces, is attending the races. One of the ntost interested spectators at the Speedway today was Carl G. Fisher, "father of the races.” Fisher arrived Sunday in a. special car, o Hoosier Woman Drowns Bn Timra hvrrial ELKHART, Ind„ May 31.—The body of Miss Cassie Russell, 30, was brought to the family home here today from Detroit, where she drowned in Detroit River Sunday after falling from a motor boat. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Leonard Russell, also of Elkhart, was rescued by her husband. Gas Kills Three Bu L'uitril Pro** BROOKLYN, N. TANARUS„ May 30.—Mrs. Nellie Marinnccio, 35, a widow, and two of her children, were killed today by gas escaping from a water heater in their apartment. The children were Adelaide, 10, and Ernest, 9. Another child, John, also 9. was rescued. AMUSEMENTS

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