Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1933 — Page 13

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ENTIRE POLICE FORCE OF CITY ON RACE DUTY State, County and Federal Officers Also on Job for [fay. WARNS AGAINST THEFTS Morrissey Tells Visitors to Take All Valuables From Cars. An array of federal, county, state and city law enforcement officers is at the Speedway and in Indianapolis today to aid the thousands of spectators in protecting their property and to lighten the burden of traffic. The entire city police force, under Chief Mike Morrissey, either is working on the Speedway traffic problem or patrolling the track vicinity and the city to prevent thefts and maintain order. Morrissey asked visitors to take all valuables from their automobiles, despite the fact that the cars may be locked. Morrissey also suggested that persons consuming hard liquor do it in places where it will not be conspicuous and for persons not to attempt to drive their cars after drinking a quantity of booze. Long Day for Coppers City police began their details for race day last midnight and will be on the job today until the crowd situation is cleared and their release from duty ordered. Morrissey assures local and visiting spectators of the race that if they desire any information or aid, it may be obtained from the nearest police officer. More than a dozen federal dry agents are at the track today, Basil Minnich, deputy dry administrator, announces. He suggests that the visitors stick to the 3.2 beer, because he intends to “enforce all provisions of the national prohibition law.” Plea for careful driving is made by Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner, who has taken every available man from the courthouse office and jail for the race. The deputies are stationed throughout the Speedway plant and are aiding city and state police in preventing traffic snarls on roads en route to the track. Jail Deputies Help Sumner said that he assigned fifteen men to the job Monday night and the jail deputies are augmenting the force today. He also warned spectators against games of chance that are played in roadside shacks both near the Speedway and on roads leading to Indianapolis. He said his men, aided by state police and city police, • 11 attempt to drive the gamblers from the area. Captain Matt Leach has had state police assigned to the track since start of the time trials. They will be on foot and on motorcycles, aiding in handling the crowd. Get Short Relaxation Members of the various police squads are served box lunches during periods of duty and are permitted to relax on their jobs only from 11 a. m. to 2:30 p m. today. The blanket order to the officers is expressed by Morrissey: “Extend every courtesy possible to the many thousands of Speedway visitors who will be in the city to attend the race. Courtest will create a good feeling and bring about a fine spirit of co-operation. “Have them carry to all parts of the world a message of good fellowship that exists between visitors to Indianapolis and police officers.” BILLY ARNOLD OUT OF RACE THIS YEAR Two Reasons Are Given for His Nonparticipation. Billy Arnold, winner of the 500mile race in 1030. and victim of two spectacular crackups in both the 1931 and 1932 races, will not take part in Tuesday's race. The actual facts apparently can not b? traced, but here are the two rumors given most credence. Pick your own: 1. Arnold is working for an automobile manufacturing concern which has informed him that he is “at liberty” if he races again. He is said to have a "good job.” 2. No car owner will take a chance on letting Billy have a mount. They are said to believe he is “too wild for comfort."

Picnic Parties to Throng Scene of Speedway Race

It’s picnic day for thousands today. Yes. they came to the 500-mile race, but, actually, after seeing the first few miles, they devote themselves to the good old county fair variety of outing. They left their homes this morning about 6 and found their infield parking place. That parking place has been reserved a long time. With the Smith's for instance, are the children, some relatives and perhaps a neighbor or two. In their car is food sufficient for all and with enough variety to put a chain store to shame. And if the Smiths are the normal American family, they probably have a gallon vacuum bottle full of lemonade. Their neighbors at the track are the so-called younger set, who have brought along a couple of cases of beer and who probably will run out before the day is over and buy some more of the new 3.2. Two parking places from the Smiths Is another family. Father

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SHE'S PULLING FOR MAX BAER

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On a June night, to be more specific the night of June 8, this charming person will be watching hopefully to see how Max Baer, Hollywood heavyweight, comes out in his battle with Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium. Her name is June Knight, too. and she is a star of the musical comedy and movie worlds. June hasn't admitted they’re engaged, but Hollywood hears that , . .

GERMANS FACE JEWISH PROBE Shatters Hope for Early Signing of Mussolini’s 4-Power Pact. fill United Press GENEVA, May 30.—An implied threat by the League of Nations council to investigate thoroughly the treatment of Jews in Germany unless the German government promises fair treatment to Jews in upper Silesia was seen today when, overriding objections, the council appointed three jurists to report on a complaint charging discrimination in upper Silesia. Franz Bernheim, former resident of upper Silesia, complained to the council of ill treatment of Jews. Germany contended he was not entitled to make a complaint because he had no family connections in Silesia. Germany assured the j council it would not descriminate j against Jews there, and said any possible instances of discrimination J must be due to misinterpretation | of laws by subordinate officials. Despite the German objection, the ! council had drawn up for it a re- j port recommending that Germany undertake to rectify mistakes of ] minor officials, reinstate any Ger- : man Jews dismissed from their jobs j in upper Silesia, and report to the J council next September on progress made to this end. Three jurists, a Spaniard and a Belgian, were asked to determine whether Benheim was entitled to complain. Upper Silesian Jews are guaran-, teed fair treatment by treaty. SPIRITUALISTS TO MEET Twenty-Ninth Annual Indiana Con- > vention to Convene Here Friday. Twety-ninth annual convention of J the Indiana State Association of Spiritualists will convene at the ■ Claypool Friday, Saturday and Sun- j day. A mass meeting, preliminary to the convention, will be held Thurs- : day night at the Progressive Spiritualist church, St. Clair street and Park avenue. Dr. B. F. Clark, Indianapolis. assoication president, will speak at the 9:30 a. m. Friday s< ssion. Mrs. Mayme M. Hibbs will lecture at the Friday night meeting and messages also will be given by Mrs. Anna Dennis and the Rev. Mina Simpson. Annual election will be ! held Saturday. Admits Holdup Story Hoax Bii l nitrd Press FT. WAYNE. Ind.. May 30.—John H. Glidewell, local insurance agent, who told police of being held up and robbed by two bandits, today had confessed that the story was a hoax <o satisfy his wife after he had lost SBO and pawned his watch at a local 1 gambling house.

' is excellent as the family brewmas- ; ter, and in the rear of his car are a dozen bottles of brew made up I a month ago for the race. During the first twenty-five laps I of the race these three families are 1 intent upon roaring cars. They | have met their neighbors for the 1 day and, long before noon, there | are three hungry sets of spectators. Mamma takes the baby and the ; boys bring the food. A cloth is laid on the grass and the picnic begins, i Then they return to the parking ' place for another view of the race, either from the fence or the tops of j their cars. A thrill caused by a skidding racer or a crash and the regular announcement of standings of the cars breaks the monotony. But for the most part it s the annual \:y out for the family. The race is over. The car is wheedled through traffic and the gang is home again, sunburned and j tired, but always ready to tell their friends about the 1933 Speedway i race and look forward to 1934.

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BUILDING CONGRESS TO ELECT THURSDAY NIGHT Edward D. Pierre, Architect, Is Candidate for President. Annual election of officers of the Indianapolis Building Congress will be held Thursday night on the second floor of the Architects and Builders’ building, Vermont and Pennsylvania street. Candidates for office include; President, Edward D. Pierre, architect; vice-presidents, J. R. Fenstermaker, secretary of the Hugh J. Baker Company; Otto N. Mueller, architect; Carl M. Geupel, contractor, and Charles Lutz, electrician; secretary, J. Frank Cantwell, realtor, and treasurer, Thomas H. Kaylor, vice-president of the Indiana National bank. The nominating committee is composed of G. C. Wright, chairman; W. C. Begington. J. H. Carnine. V. K. Reeder and Geupel. The business meeting will follow a buffet supper ta 6:30.

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INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933

RADIO USED IN UNUSUAL TEST AT SPEEDWAY Information Via Ether Will Be Transmitted to Sampson Pilot. BLACKBOARD ALSO USED Government Gives Permit for Experiment That May Usher in New Era. Modern science will stage a battle with the traditional pit blackboard in the 500-mile race today, and, if science is successful, the next few years may find the old blackboard passing out of the picture. For two-way communication with a speeding race car will be established through short wave radio. When his fast sixteen-cylinder Sampson Radio Special goes roaring around the track, Alden Sampson, owner, will be comfortable in his pit seat, as close to his driver as the riding mechanic. Every other one of the cars in the race, however, will be using the old blackboard system, and it remains to be seen just how well the radio will fit into with auto racing.

Gets Federal Permit Sampson has received a permit from the federal government for the establishment of both receiving and transmitting stations, using three wave lengths of ultra high frequency, and he has been conducting his tests throughout the winter and during pre-race practice sessions to insure success of the unusual operation. L. J. Knee, of Van Nuys, Cal., is the radio technician in charge of operations today. The antenna is a brass rod mounted on brackets along the left channel or frame of the car. Both sending and receiving sets are mounted in the tail around the gasoline tank. A regular aviation radio helmet is used with earphones built in and a small hand microphone is hung on the dash. The wiring in the car is soldered in, and the tubes and other delicate appliances are set in rubber to withstand the vibration of high speed. Mechanic to Work Set The antenna for the pit where Sampson will sit conveying instructions is strung over the infield garages. Chet Gardner is the first radio race driver and Herschell McKee the first sending and receiving riding mechanic.

Risking His Life Mere Everyday Routine for ‘Spider’ Matlock

He's Dared Death at Least 3,000 Times and He’s Still Above Soil. Seated in the mechanic's seat beside Ernie Triplett in today's race will be William (Spider) Matlock, who for the last fourteen years has been playing a game of thrills—with Death as the trump card. In 3.000 deals, however, Fate has been kind to the courageous little daredevil and he never has been given a trump. His grim opponent “sets” him now and then. Hospital bills are the penalties, but “Spider” always returns, alive and well, to resume the exciting game. Stunt Man in Air When he is not risking his life elsewhere, “Spider” lives in Los Angeles with his wife and 9-year-old son. For besides being a race mechanic, Matlock is an airplane stunt man and daredevil extraordinary. Although only 31, he’s a veteran at the hair-raising business of providing thrills. Since he was 16, Matlock has been cheating death to earn his daily bread. He has cracked up in automobiles, airplanes, and motorcycles at speeds ranging from 90 to 200 miles an hour. Two thousand delayed parachute jumps are credited to him; he has scaled the walls of 100 tall buildings with no more equipment than sure hands and steady nerves—and he classes it all as fun. Risks Life 3,000 Times Born in Kansas City, Mo., Matlock decided to become a stunt man w’hen he was 16. His first effort w T as riding a motorcycle around an almost perpendicular track in an eastern park; then came ’chute jumping; human fly exhibitions; and cracking up planes and autos in motion pictures. “Spider,” w’ho has a large black spider tattooed on his body, estimates he has risked his life 3,000 times. Tw’ice he has missed death by the flicker of an eyelash w’hile leaping from planes. Once he fell 2,200 feet before his 'chute opened, and when it billowed out 500 feet from the earth, he struck with such force that he was knocked unconscious. Another time, at Modesto, Cal., he made eighteen jumps in one day, and on his last leap he barely managed to pull himself over some 23,-000-volt pow’er lines. His ’chute caught, however, and there he dangled, sixty feet above ground, with the shorted wires above him crackling blue flames. A telephone lineman rescued him. “I’ve landed sixty miles at sea,” recounts ‘Spider,’ “in a plane out

SPEEDWAY WIN IN 1930. ■ William (Spider) Matlock . . . close friend of the “grim reaper.”

of gas, only to be picked up out of the fog by a lumber ship in the nick of time. Once on a motorcycle I accidentally hit a prop truck at ninety miles an hour while making a movie. It put me in the hospital for a year and a half, with tw’entyeight broken bones. "Three years ago,” he continues, “I had a streak of luck when Billy Arnold, with W’hom I was riding, came in first for the top prize. We took down $52,000. But in 1931, again riding wuth Billy, w r e hit an oil spot while leading the field, cracked up and the gas tank blew’ up. I landed on the grass with only a few r broken ribs and a cracked shoulder.” Matlock estimates that out of the last fourteen years of his life, he’s spent five years in hospitals. He calls it thrills. His father w'as a high trapeze artist and his grandmother, Alice White, was one of the first women parachuste jumpers. So, at first glance, it would appear to run in the family. But the odd part is that his wife and his mother can not stand even to glance out of a high window'. Accident on First Lap First accident in the 500-mile race in 1930 came with startling rapidity. It happened on the very first lap, when Chet Gardner in a BuckeyeDuesenberg hit the w r all on the southeast turn and broke a V’heel. The golden eagle, largest land bird of the Sierra Nevada region, has a wing spread of six to seven feet.

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BEER A-PLENTY AT SPEEDWAY 10,000 Cases of Prima Are Sent to Quench Thirst of Spectators. There’s another attraction beside roaring automobiles and thrills at the 500-mile race today. It’s beer. A trainload of 10,000 cases of Prima beer is on the grounds today for you. In those eating stands in the infield, you’ll find ice-cold 3.2 and if you’re in the grandstand watch out for the boys with the handy packages. To give grandstand spectators the opportunity to compete with the infield guests in beer consumption, the product is being sold in packages of six or eight bottles. Although the beer is brewed in Chicago, the bottles and cases are purchased in Indiana by the company. During the elimination trials the last two weeks, the new beer has been a favorite with the boys viewing the qualifications from the infield. Tw'o weeks ago, on Sunday, second day of the time trials, hot weather brought plenty of 3.2 customers to the famed Tom Beal stands.

GLASS FIGHTS COUZENS OVER MORGAN PROBE Procedure Dispute Likely to Come to Smashing Finale in Meeting Today. BY LYLE C. WILSON I'nited Tress Stiff Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 30—Dispute between Senator James Couzens (Rep., Mich.) and Carter Glass (Dem., Va.) over procedure in the senate investigation of J. P. Morgan & Cos., threatens to come to a smashing finale in a secret meeting of the investigating committee today. The future conduct of the investigation probably depends on the outcome of the quarrel between the two old friends. Glass stalks Capitol Hill with a pocketful of death threats and abusive letters. He told the United Press his frequent interruptions of Ferdinand Pecora's examination of Morgan partners had been misinterpreted. Glass feels Couzens and the newspapers have placed him in an unfair position before the public. Denies Aid to Morgan The Virginian reiterates that he is not trying to aid J. P. Morgan & Cos., or any one else. But he objects to Pecora % methods as “police court tactics.” Couzens, the rich man from Michigan, intends to stand by Pecora. He and Glass long have been friends, but their frequent clashes in the investigation room climaxed Monday in hot argument on the senate floor. So sharp did thier encounter become that the private conversation in which they were engaged at the rear of the senate chamber interrupted floor debate. Finger wagging, Glass spoke his mind to Couzens. Glass now blames his death threats and other less alarming but quite unkind communications upon the firm stand taken by Couzens in supporting Pecora. Pecora Is Under Fire Pecora himself is scheduled to arrive from New’ York today to resume the investigation Wednesday. Renewed pledges of support from President Roosevelt assure the committee of all the funds necessary to conduct a thorough inquiry of private banking. But the general meeting of the banking and currency committee called for today profoundly will alter the direction and method of the investigation if Glass imposes upon it his will.