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CITY TITLE TO GAS COMPANY IS HELD VALID Federal Judge Baltzell, in Opinion, Rules 1905 Pact in Effect. STOCK SUITS APPEALED Court Cites Lack of Equity in Actions to ulock Ownership. The city's right to the Citizens Gas Company property, in accordance with the 1905 franchise agreement, was upheld today by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell in a final decision on two suits to block the city's plan for taking over the utility. The decision was based on Judge Baltzell’s opinion that the surrender of the franchise for an indeterminate permit under the public service commission in 1921 affected ' only supervision of service and rates of the company, and not the title to the property. The petition of attorneys for Newton I. Todd, broker, and John J. Cotter, plaintiffs, representing stockholders, to appeal the cases to the United States circuit court of appeals at Chicago, was granted by Judge Baltzell and bond fixed at SI,OOO in each case. Both Are Appealed A decision in the circuit court is anticipated in October or November. Judge Baltzell’s memorandum on final hearing cited his opinion of the law Feb. 26, when he held that a charitable trust was created by virtue of the agreement with the city and that the city’s equity in the property had not been affected by subsequent acts of the company. Bartzell pointed out that investors who bought certificates of stock at more than their face value of $25 a share knew at the time of the provision for their redemption on payment of a sum equal to 10 per cent interest per annum. Rights Not Invaded “It can not be said that paintiff’s rights under the Constitution of the United States are invaded and that his property is taken in violation thereof, when he received the full amount for which he contracted,” the court’s memorandum held. "The bill of complaint must be and is dismissed for want of equity.” The ruling cited newspaper stories and editorials at the time of the company's formation to show that formation of “a public charitable trust” was contemplated. “The opinion is a clear statement of the law as applied to the facts and the conclusion reached should be highly gratifying to the citizens of Indianapolis,” said John W. Holtzman, counsel for the city and mayor at the time of execution of the 1905 agreement. Formal proposal of the MissouriKansas Pipe Line Company to furnish the local utility with natural gas is being delayed as result of the litigation over the company’s ownership. The pipe line company is making survey of the local conditions on the assumption that natural gas can be supplied cheaper than artificial gas can be manufactured.

KEYES, PETERSON ARE BOUND FOR PRISON Auto Firm Heads to Start on Embezzlement Terms. Held six weeks at the county jail for questioning as to the financial status of their bankrupt company, William B. Peterson and Paul H. Keyes, heads of the Peterson-Keyes Auto Sales Company, today were taken to the Indiana state prison to serve two to fourteen years’ sentences imposed after conviction for embezzlement. Alleged juggling of auto finance papers and the fate of almost $200,000 they* are alleged to have embezzled, was investigated by Prosecutor Judson L. Stark during the time the men were held in jail. They were sentenced six weeks ago and began erving their terms immediately. Stark said today no disclosures were forthcoming. AT LEAST SIX DEAD IN LOUISIANA FLOOD Relief Workers Report Five Towns Inundated, 6,000 Homeless. Bu l ulled Press SHREVEPORT, La.. May 29. Loss of life in the flood waters of the Red river, increased today as Red Cross relief workers penetrated the Inundated areas. They reported at least six lives lost: William Laffon. Grant Parish, an unidentified white man; two children at Haynesville, La., and two Negroes near Minden, La. Five towns are under water, 6,000 are homeless, and conditions along the lower reaches of the river have become critical. Fifteen Robberies Solved Bu £n eeinl NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. May 29. With arrest of Russell Coverdale at Peoria. 111., local officers say they have cleared up fifteen robberies here during recent months. t He will be brought here for trial. Russell WilltMM and Alonso Weaver, who implicated Coverdale in confessions, plesdad guilty to second degree iht 9tA& prison.

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 16

HE'S YOUNG AT 103

Veteran Marches -Mile to ‘Chin’

Bv United Pree* FAIRMONT, W„ Va., May 29.—Though slightly hampered by rheutism, John L. Skinner, 103, believed to be the oldest living Civil war veteran, got out his cane today and walked a mile to town to reminisce with “the boys.” . “The boys’’ were Skinner’s cronies, comrades in blue who fought with him sixty-six years ago. Unlike the centenarian, most of them were enfeebled, slowly succumbing to the inevitable march of time.

John L. Skinner

TARIFF SNAG IS SMOOTHED OUT New Rate Adjustment Pact Agreeable to Hoover. Bu United Prrm WASHINGTON, May 29.—Most of the proposed tariff commission reforms were abandoned today by house .and senate conferees, who reached an agreement upon the disputed flexible provision of the pending SmOot-Hawley tariff bill. In their agreement, the conferees returned basically to the existing law which permits the tariff commission to adjust rates upward or downward by 50 per cent with Presidential approval. The new arrangement is said to be even more acceptable to President Hoover than the old compromise reform proposal nipped by Vice-President Curtis in ?, senate ruling Tuesday. The latest draft cf the provision Is understood to hav been sent to the White House late Vednesday night when it received private presidential indorsement. Elated at the swift agreement, Chairman Smoot of the senate conferees anriounced he would return his battered bill to the senate floor later in the day to renew the drive for its enactment. Thus the Democrats lose by the flurry which they started Tuesday when Senator Barkley (Dem., Ky.) lodged a point of order that the conferees exceed their authority in writing the flexible compromise. They sought to restrict the power of the President and the tariff commission, but the latest agreement give both the same power as in existing law.

DEATH THREAT CHARGED IN GRAND JUROR ARSON CASE

Woman Witness Testifies Life Put at Stake in Alleged Plot. Turning state's evidence unexpectedly, Mrs. Frances Lelota Miller told a criminal court jury today in the trial of Reese A. Maxwell, former grand juror accused of arson, that Maxwell threatened her life unless she took part in a plot to burn his home at 27 West Pleasant Run boulevard. Maxwell is under indictment accusing him of plotting to burn his home. Mrs. Miller and Roy Brown indicted for complicity in the firing of the house, turned state’s evidence as the trial opened this morning. A jury was impanelled in the case late Thursday, with Superior Judge Joseph M. Milner- occupying the bench. Hatching of the plot by Maxwell was described by Mrs. Miller during more than two hours she occupied the witness stand. The witness served a six-month term at the Indiana women’s prison two years ago for child neglect. She said Maxwell demanded her cooperation in setting his home afire under penalty of recalling the

SIO,OOO Fireworks Show Caused by Cars ’ Crash LEBANON. Ind.. May 29.—Thousands of dollars’ worth of fireworks sputtered into the air and sizzled into nearby cornfields three miles south of here on United States Road 52 today after a head-on collision of an automobile and a truck and trailer laden with the explosives. Two occupants of the auto, members of a Negro vaudeville team, were injured, one perhaps fatally. Clifford Jones, 27, of 5312 Prairie avenue. Chicago, is in a Lebanon hospital, still unconscious. His companion. Miss Elma Turner, 19, of the same Chicago address, was injured seriously. The truck and trailer, bound for Chicago with a load of fireworks valued at from SIO,OOO to $12,000, was knocked across the road, blocking traffic for several Both track and trailer were burned to the wheels. The Jones . olished. Hundr** * were attracted to the scene by the aerial bombs, sk -nd colorful displays shooting into the sky and across fiek The truck was driven by William Myers, Cincinnati. He was unin tu red. J ...

Skinner walked erect and his blue eyes were bright. Occasionally | he winced as a rheumatic pain shot ' through his limbs, but his mind was I not on rheumatism. Asked on the eve of Memorial day what he thinks of the present I day gestures toward peace, the old man said he still believes there is “strength in the union.” He May See It ' But,” he declare, “unless turmoil and political wrangling cease, even I may live to see another civil war.” Skinner who claims to have seen the first box of matches ever brought to America, expresed himself in favor of a world court or "a union,” he said, “whereby brotherhood might be developed.” The aged veteran laughed as he recalled how he told a white lie to enlist with the Thirteenth Maryland infantry when 38 years old. “The prescribed age limit was 35,” he said, “and when they asked me how old I was I told ’am 35.” He enlisted in 1864 when President Lincoln called for 100,000 men. He recalled, with a chuckle tinged with sympathy that he was in the guardhouse at Washington when Lincoln was assassinated. Rides This Year Skinner was bom Aug. 8, 1927, at Charleston, Md. Annually he marches with the boys of blue, but, this year, because of his rheumatism, he will ride. Last August, on his 102nd birthday, Skinner, before an assembled crowd, raised a 180-pound blacksmith’s anvil from a box after several men his junior failed to accomplish the feat. He walks to town daily and reads the newspapers carefully to “keep up with events of the day.” RATE CUTS APPROVED Public Service Group Orders Gas, Electric Slashes at Gary. Rate reductions on water, gas and electricity for patrons of the Gary Heat, Light and Water Company were approved today by the public service commission. The order approves the reductions of from 10 to 30 per cent under present rates. An agreement on reductions had been reached between company officials and citizens wo objected to the present rate schedule. The order becomes effective within ten days. PADLOCK SUIT IS FILED Dry League Attorneys Charge Liquor Sale. Suit to padlock the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dimitroff, 2610 North Sh'rman drive, charging that liquoi is being manufactured and sold there, was filed today in superior court five by attorneys foi the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. Fees totaling S3OO are asked by the attorneys. Bertha B. Clark, proprietor of the residence is named co-defendent.

neglect charge for further prosecution. The witness declared Maxwell told her on one occasion that if she valued her life she would not back out. She further testified that Maxweil “fixed” the house for burning, with instruction to herself and Brown to ignite it early in the morning. The subsequent fire only partially destroyed the structure. Opening statements w T ere made as the trial opened by Prosecutor Judson L. Stark. The trial will adjourn late today to be resumea Monday. MICHIGAN GOVERNOR WILL QUIT POLITICS Green Announces Intention to Enter Private Business. Bu United Press LANSING, Mich., May 29.—Fred W. Green, serving his second term as Governor of Michigan, today announced his retirement from politics in order to enter private business. Green s announcement came at a time when it appeared practically certain that he would oppose Senator James Couzens for the Republican nomination for United States senator.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1930

KILLED WHEN TRAIN WRECKS STALiEO AUTO City Man Was Returning From Visit to Sweetheart at Lebanon. DIES AT CITY HOSPITAL Motor of Car' Hurled 400 Feet From Scene of Crossing Crash, Robert Shepard, 27, of 4813 East Raymond street, was killed early today when the automobile he was driving alone was struck by a Big Four passenger train on State Road 52, a mile north of West Thirtieth street. - Shepard was mangled and crushed and died in the admitting room at city hospital. John Worley, 131 Dixon street, engineer, told police and deputy sheriffs he saw the small coupe approaching and whistled repeatedly. He said he applied the brakes to the train and the car appeared to stall when it straddled the tracks. The motor of the auto was hurled 400 yards from the scene of the accident and police said they found a door of the car more than a fourth of a mile from the accident. Seven Persons Hurt Worley and Albert Springer of Cincinnati, train conductor, stopped the train after it had passed the crossing, police said. Shepard was returning from Lebanon where he spent Wednesday evening with his sweetheart, Miss Phyllis Loucks, 19. He brought her a present Wednesday and neighbors said they believed the couple was to be married soon. Both the girl and her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Loucks collapsed when informed of Shepard’s death. Seven persons were injured in auto accidents today and late on Wednesday. • Ed Stanley, 75, of 32 Irvington avenue, was injured seriously early today when his car was struck by a truck driven by Bernard Dyer, 3335 North Alabama street. Apartment 6. The accident occurred when Stanley drove his car from a filling station in the 5400 block East Washington street. Stanley was taken to city hospital. Boy Sent to Hospital Running into the path of an auto, Melvin Jennings, 13, of 530 East Michigan street, was injured Wednesday afternoon at St. Clair and Delaware streets. Frank H. Sipe of Lebanon, driver of the auto, was not held. The boy was sent to city hospital. Others injured were: Mrs. Michael G. Haboush, 770 North Belmont avenue; Mrs. Douglas E. Waymire, 6372 Bellefontaine street; Tyner McLaughlin, 24, of 845 West Twentysixth street; Will D. Hooks, Negro, 23, of 1115 Fayette drive, and Walter Hall, 24, of 2244 Martindale'avenue, all Negroes. Father of Nine Dies NEW LISBON, Ind., May 29.—P. L. Barlow, 47, is dead here. He leaves his widow and nine children, Mrs. Edward Stringer, Newcastle; Jasper, Ernest, Robert, Nell, Mildred, Nancy, Ruth and Mary, at home.

Give a Look Enterprising firms of Speedway City and Emrichsville today tell Times readers of their excellent service and good sale values. Turn to Page 15 for the story of Speedway City and Emrichsville and of these progressive firms. And on the w r ay to Page 15, stop on Page 13 and look over the score card for the 500-mile race Friday.

ZEPPELIN HEADING NORTH ON FLIGHT TO HAVANA

Bu United Press PERNAMBUCO. Brazil, May 29. The Graf Zeppelin, having crossed the equator for the second time, was heading up the eastern coast of South America today toward Havana and Lakehurst, N. J. More than hklf of its 3,000-mile flight from Pernambuco to Havana lay behind the big German dirigible early today, placing its arrival at the Cuban capital approximately at ddwn Friday. The radio station at Giquia field, whence the dirigible departed at 11:13 a. m. Wednesday (9:13 a. m. E. S. TANARUS.) received a message from the Zeppelin Wednesday giving its position at 11:35 p. m. (9:35 p. m. E. S. TANARUS.) as eighty miles north of the equator, approximately 1,200 miles from here. The ship at that time was flying well. Shortly before the start Dr. Eckener told friends and newspaper

PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK Hoover to Give Memorial Address at Gettysburg; Friday. WASHINGTON, May 29.—President Hoover will go to Gettysburg Friday to speak at a Memorial day gathering on the Civil war battleground whore Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address. The president will motor to the battlefield.

Sits With Past Glories

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Tommy Milton, only two-time winner of the 500-mile race at the Indianpaolis Motor Speedway, victor in 1921 and 1923, retired after thirteen consecutive and successful years of racing, watches them practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

He Used to Shoot Down Fokkers; Builds 'Em Now

A TALL, erect figure stood at the edge of the Speedway track before the press pagoda. Sharp eyes swept up the straightaway to the northwest turn, where, momentarily, a speck darted in and headed for the watcher like a bullet, then flashed past with a deafening roar, dwindling to

a whine as quickly as it had appeared. But Eddie V. Rickenbacker, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation, American ace of ace* in the World war, was looking beyond the northwest turn as speed creations thundered past him Wednesday. He saw, instead, a New York dock, jammed with a cheering, flag-waving throng—receding as his transport cast off its hawsers and nosed into New York harbor, bound for France. For thirteen years ago Wednesday, to the day, Eddie Rickenbacker sailed for France. Fired with an ambition for flying, but with not the least experience, his first assignment overseas was as chauffeur for General John J. Pershing. Then came the chance for training in the air, and the rest is history—a new ace of aces with the epochal record, when the war ended, of twenty-two German planes and four balloons to liis credit.

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Rickenbacker

Strange is fate. All the planes were Fokkers. Today the ace who brought them down is sending Fokkers up to dot the skies the world over. For Rickenbacker is vice-president of the Fokker Aircraft Company and heads General Motors aviation manufacturing department. Os this year’s race Rickenbacker says: “It will be the most interesting race in Speedway history—a rea’ test of motors and men. I doubt if ever there was an automoF s race in which the outcome will depend to such a large extent or fie driver. The winner of the 1930 Speedway classic must have v *ge, stamina and brains.”

BUS SERVICE ALL NIGHT TO SPEEDWAY ARRANGED Special Fast Transportation to Track Scheduled for Friday by Traction, Steam Lines.

Starting tonight, the Indianapolis Street Railway Company will operate all-night bus service to the Speedway. The fare will be 10 cents. The car company busses will follow their regular route to the Speedway tonight and Friday, with the loading depot in front of the English hotel on the Monument circle. The service will be speeded up after 4 a. m. At 2 a. m. Friday a special fast service will be started by the Peoples Motor Coach Company. These busses will leave Illinois and Market streets as fast as they are loaded and go south on Illinois street and west on Washington street by way of Tibbs avenue to the Speedway. The fare will be 50 cents. The busses on both routes are expected to run about five minutes

men he expected to return, probably next September. Dr. Eckener telegraphed President Washington Luis in Rio de Janeiro, thanking him for the welcome the Brazilian people had extended.

Cars Qualified for Speed Classic

FIRST ROW Billy Arnold Millei-Hartz 113.253 Louis Meyer Sampson Spl. 111.290 Shorty Cantlon Miller Hi-Spesd 109.810 SECOND ROW Louis Schneider Seal Fast Spl. 106.107 Chet Gardner Buckeye-Duesie 105.811 Ernie Triplett Gulberson Spl. 105.618 THIRD ROW Russell Snowberger Russell Eight 104.557 Phil Shafer Coleman Front Dr. 102.279 Leslie Allen Alien-Miller 101.919 FOURTH ROW Cy Marshall Duesenberg Spl. 100.846 Frank Farmer Betholine Spl. 100.615 Lou Moore Ccleman Front Dr. 99.867 FIFTH ROW J C. MacDonald Rom^he Spl. 98.953 Joe Caccia Alberti Spl. 97.606 Chet Miller Front* Spl. 97.360 SIXTH ROW Claude Burton V-Eight 95.087 Lora Corum Stutz Spl. 94.130 Johnny Seymour Gauss Front Dr. 93.376

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apart as the crowds begin to go to the track Friday morning. Shuttle trains will make fast trips from the Union Station to the Speedway starting at 7 a. m. These trains will consist of seven or eight coaches and will leave within a few minutes of each other. The trains wii make the trip in less than fifteen minutes. The trip cost will be 34 cents a round trip. From the Traction Terminal station. seventy-five city street cars will use the traction lines to carry passengers to the unloading depot across the road from the Speedway entrance. Cars will leave the traction station every two minutes. The cost will be 25 cents a round trip. In addition, taxi companies announced all cabs will be pressed into service to aid in transporting crowds from downtown hotels and clubs More than 170 police were to be asisgned to traffic posts to direct crowds on the routes to the track. The Speedway road (Sixteenth street) and West Thirtieth street from Riverside park to the track, will be open only for one way traffic to the Speedway from 4 a. m. to 1 p. m. and for east bound one-way traffic from 1 to 6 p. m. All routes in the county leading to the track were being marked today by Hoosier Motor Club crews.

SEVENTH ROW Chas. Moran Jr. Du Pont 89.733 Tony Gulotta Maw Special 100.033 Peter De Paolo Duesenberg 99.956 EIGHTH ROW Bill Cummings Duesenberg 103.173 Mel Kenealy Maw Special 103.327 Jimmy Gleason Waverly Oil Spl. 93.709 NINTH ROW Wilbur Shaw Empire State Spl. 106.132 Joe Huff Gauss Front Dr. 101.178 Bill Gardner Miller Front Dr. 95.583 TENTH ROW B. Borazacchini Maserati 16 95.213 Marion Trexler Trexler Spl. 92.978 L. Cuccinotta Maserati 8 91-584 ELE tr ENTH ROW Deacon Litz Duesenberg Spl. 105.755 Babe Stapp Duesenberg Spl. 104.950 Dave Evans Jones-Maley Spl. 97.342 TWELFTH ROW Zeke Meyer Miller Spl. 95.357 Rick Decker . Hoosler Pete Spl. 92.293 William Denver Nartii Special 90.650 THIRTEENTH ROW Roland Free Slade Special 89.639 Harry Butcher Butcher Bros, Spl. 87,003

RECORD HELD OF 38 CARS WILL GET AWAY FRIDAY IN GRUELLING 500-MILE RACE Eight Qualifiers Wednesday Boost Starting List Past Old Mark for 18th Annual Classic; Fans Packing City. CHICAGO ACE HOLDS POLE POSITION 150,000 Speed Devotees to Be on Hand at 10 o’clock Bomb; Duesenbergs Carry Title Hopes of Indianapolis. BY NORMAN E. ISAACS Clear, cool weather will greet the more than 150,000 speed devotees who will be massed inside the vast Indianapolis Motor Speedway inclosure Friday morning, when thirtyeight of the world’s fastest race cars, a record field, roar away from the starting line and flash into the southwest turn in the eighteenth renewal of the 500-mile race. Twelve rows of three cars each and two additional machines in the thirteenth row will make up the starting picture at the Speedway Memorial day as the Cord front-drive pace car backs up to the starting line, ready for the 10 o’clock bomb that will send the field away on the chase for laurels in America’s Grand Prix.

Eight cars passed their qualification tests Wednesday, boosting the starting field to the largest it ever has been. With the return of the twoseater cars officials lifted the thirty-three-car limit and increased the limit to forty. Only thirty-eight were able to qualify, however. Two of the ten machines which attempted to pass the 85-mile-an-hour test for ten miles failed and were refused further chances to qualify. In the front row Friday morning will be three entirely different speed creations, a front-drive straighteight holding the pole position, a sixteen-cylindered machine, constructed of two straight-eight motors, at the number two post and a tiny four-cylindered speedster in the third position in the front row. Chicago Ace at Pole Billy Arnold, carefree young Chicago ace, will bfe at .the wheel of the front-drive Miller-Hartz Special, which he qualified at a 113-mile-an-hour clip. Louie Meyer. 1928 winner, and A. A. A. champion in 1928 and 1929 will be in his sixteen-cylinder Sampson Special, while William (Shorty) Cantlon, diminutive Detroit racer will be parked at the steering wheel of his Miller-Scofield Special, a fourcylinder car, which turned the difficult , Indianapolis track at a 109-mile-an-hour rate. Those cars which qualified on Saturday gained precedence of positions over those which qualified Sunday, despite speed marks, Monday qualifiers being placed behind the Sunday machines, according to the Speedway ruling. Four laps of the race will find the fastest cars on the giant brick and concrete platter setting a gruelling pace of 100 miles an hour, with the slower machines trailing behind, content to wait until some of the speedier creations may be forced out. Schneider; in Second Row Right behind the front row trio will be three fast machines, piloted by Louis Schneider, Indianapolis ace, in a Seal-Fast Special, Chet Gardner in a Buckeye Special and Ernie Triplett H a Guiberson Special. all capable of turning over 105 miles an hour. Far back in the eighth row will be Bill Cummings, 23-year-old Indianapolis dirt track star, making his first start on the historic brick course, driving one of Peter De Paolo’s two Duesenbergs, and bearing the hopes pf thousands of Indianapolis race followers. Duties in Eleventh Row Cummings, driving a car which he qualified at 106 miles an hour, is expected to dash through the field to the front line shortly after the start of the race, as is Wilbur Shaw, another Indianapolis youth, who qualified his Empire State Special at 105 miles an hour. Shaw has driven on the Indianapolis track for some years. Two of the .fastest machines in the race will be in the eleventh row

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Both are Duesenbergs. Indianapolisbuilt cars which were qualified Wednesday at 106 and 105 miles-an-hour gaits. Deacon Litz, Du Bois, Pa., flash, will be at the wheel of Henry Maley's Duesenberg in which he turned 106 miles an hour, and Babe Stapp, little California ace, will jockey August Duesenberg’s entry, the only car actually bearing the colors of the city automobile plant. Litz gave a magnificent exhibition of driving as he circled the giant oval at a high rate of speed. He came out of every turn almost perfectly, the Maley machine functioning excellently. Stapp provided many a thrill for ‘the railbirds as he whizzed around on his trial. The tiny west coast star swept out of the north turn on each of his laps, riding high and flirting with the fates of chance as he piloted his machine dangerously does to the upper brick retaining Wall. Both of the foreign entries in the rstee will be fn the t&lffi rdW as the great gasoline derby gets under way, Baconi Borzacchini will drive his Maserati Sixteen, whl'e Letterio Piccolo Cuccinotta will steer his Masdrati Eight, Experts Like “Duesies” Close followers of the race classic lean with favor toward th; Duesenberg entries. Four of the nation’s finest drivers will pilot cars built at the local factory and experts feel confident that one of the quartet will finish the race, perhaps in first place. Peter De Paolo, famous nephew of the even more famous Ralph De Palma, has two Duesenbergs entered, one to be driven by himself and the other by Cummings. Litz and Stapp will pilot the other Duesies. De Paolo still holds the record for the 500-mile race which he established in 1925 at 101.13 miles an hour. The Duesenbergs are sturdy machines, capable of high speeds and built for the gruelling toll of the bumps and jolts of the big two-and-one-half-mile track. Ever since 1925, “dark horses’* have flashed through into victory and fame, and race folowers feel that this may be the year for a veteran to garner the coveted laurels. Year for Veterans In 1926, Frank Lockhart, an unknown exercise boy from Los Angeles took Pete Kreis’ car when Kreis became ill and drove it to triumph in a race curtailed at 400 miles, because of rain. In 1927, George Souders of Lafayette, Ind., unknown to big league racing circles, drove a Duesenberg to victory in a gruelling dash. In 1928, it was Louis Meyer, also an unknown youth, who catapulted himself into fame, and in 1929 it was Ray Keech, famous as a speed star, but not considered a likely winner. It was Keech’s second start in the race end his car was not believed capab e of winning. Keech s magnificent driving won him the plaudits of millions. Keech and Lockhart both have been killed since, Souders has retired from racing and Meyer will drive in Friday's classic. Weather bureau officials today announced that Friday will be cool and clear, with temperatures slightly above those of today. The forecast indicates the mercury will hover about the 65 mark, five der ees below seasonal normal.

DUNCAN GETS HIS SALT Gandhi s Sympathizer Will Send Gotham Product to India. Bn l nit Press NEW YORK. May 29.—Raymond Duncan, idealist and follower of Mahatma Gandhi, sailed today on the liner Dresden carrying six ounces of salt and ready to tell Paris “the truth about New York.” The brother of the late dancer, Isadora, made the salt from sea water taken from New York harbor. He will turn it over to the British consul in Paris, he said, to be forwarded to Mahatma Gandhi, Indian civil disobedience leader. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 45 10 .rn 56 7a. m 45 11 a. m 58 Ba. m 51 12 (noon).. 60 9a. m..... 55 Ip. m 60

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