Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1936 — Page 1
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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 69
_ SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1936
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STAPP LEADS AFTER 200 MILE
THREE WOMEN DIE IN MEMORIAL DAY CAR CRASHES HERE
Two Are Burned to Death When Auto Turns Over at 38th-st and Central-av After Collision With Another Machine.
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Hit-and-Run Driver Is Held Responsible for Third Fatality; Four Are Injured When Vehicle Strikes Train at Valley Mills.
- BY JOHN H. JOHNSON Three young women lost their lives and a man was injured here early today in traffic accidents as cars from all over the nation poured into the city for the 500-mile race. Two of the victims were burned to death at 5:30 when
their car overturned at 38th-st and Central-av.
One was
identified as Alice Mitchell, 30, Ravenswood, by Mrs. Robert Vaughn, 1430 N. Grant-st. The other woman was identified
as Mrs. Margaret Lyons, 32, Bungalow Court, 12th-st and Capitol-av. The third woman victim, struck by a hit and run driver shortly after midnight in the 1100 block of
Southeastern-av, was Mrs. Anabelle Florence Columbus, 25, of 1535 Bates-st. Police had not yet established the identity of the driver of the death car. Driving North on Central
The two young women who were burned to death were driving a Ford V-8 car north on Central-av. It collided with a small car going “‘west on 38th-st, driven by Silas Simons, 24, of 6562 Congress-av. He was injured and taken to City Hospital. " After the Ford overturned it caught fire and no assistance could be given the women. The license plates on the burned car had been issued to Marvin (Buzz) Gardner, Brownsburg, Ind., who recently has been living at 1119 N. Euclid-av. He and a friend, James Cox, were reported on the way to City Hospital to attempt to identify the bodies. A small Negro boy, selling papers, was the only known witness to the accident.
Hurled More Than 30 Feet
Mrs. Columbus, police were told, had stepped out of a car driven "by Fount Creque, 1513 DeLoss-st. The death car struck her and hurled her body more than 30 feet, Creque and Miss Marion Tash, 23, of 1535 Bates-st, her sister, told police. She was dead when they reached her, they said. Creque was arrested and charged with drunken driving, Mrs. Columbus’ husbdnd, police were told, is a patient at Sunnyside Sanitarium. Four persons pere injured, one woman seriously, when an automobile [crashed into an Indianapolis and | Vincennes freight train on Thompson-rd, near State Road 67 at Valley Mills. The injured were taken to City Hospital. Mrs. Leona Tournages, 726 S. Illi-
nois-st, received head injuries. Oth-
ers injured in the collision were Marion "Patrick, 15, of 1420 Hoytav; Franklin Mclver, 16, of 1048 Hosbrook-st, and Edward Tournages, 15. W. E. Conrad, 60, 845 S. Addisonst, who was driving the car, was not injured. The automobile was wrecked. E. A. Morrison, 20, of 59th-st and Michigan-rd, received a possible skull fracture and severe body bruises early today when his motorcycle overturned at 37th-st and Northwestern-av. He is in the City Hospital in a critical condition.
ROOSEVELT SUPPORTS ANTI-POLLUTION PLAN
McNutt, Davey, Barkley Enlist His Backing.
By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 30.—President Roosevelt was committed today to support of a program for stream-pollution prevention drafted primarily as a responsibility of the states, but involving Federal participation through loans and grants for construction of purification plants. The President’s backing in a drive for enactment of the Barkley-Vin-son bill was enlisted by Gov. Mc‘Nutt of Indiana, Gov. Martin Davey of Ohio and Senator Alben W. Barkley (D., Ky.), in separate visits to the White House. Mr. Roosevelt, who as Governor of New York put through a six-year
have initial steps taken immediate‘ly toward establishment of a national policy.
Alleged Slayer Is Held By United Press SPRINGFIELD, Mo., May 30.— Filliam J. Almen, 57-year-old Ken-
SOLDIER DEAD HONORED HERE
County Residents Pay Tribute With Song, Prayers, Rifle Salutes.
‘Men of the wars—who did not Sola Back: a a cas today y. residen floral RLY Tontden ers. Memorial Day rites were held at seven cemeteries. While crowds thronged busses and trains to honor the checkered flag of the Indianapolis Speedway, othe er hundreds paid tribute to soldier dead at the cemeteries and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument. As the race drivers circled the track in the 500-mile race, another group of men—some in blue, some in gray and some in khaki—marched
from Ninth and Meridian-sts in the
annual Memorial Day parade. . Walking with canes, men of the Civil War joined veterans of the World War, Boy Scouts in kneebreeches and Girl Scouts wearing green scarfs in the parade. Veterans of Foreign Wars and the United Spanish War Veterans’ rifle squads saluted the dead. The parade marched south on Me(Turn to Page Five)
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BLACK LEGION FAVOR SOUGHT BY POLITICIANS
Pontiac, City of 65,000, in Grip of Hooded Band, Writer Told.
DETROIT IS SCORNFUL
Terms Mob ‘Hill Billies’; Links Growth to Influx of Klansmen.
Forrest Davis, investigating the sfory
behind the Black Legion in Michigan, explores the political background in today’s dispatch.)
BY FORREST DAVIS Times Special Writer DETROIT, May 30.—This is the story of Pontiac, a Michigan automobile city of 65,000, which, by ‘all a counts, is “run” by the Black Legion. It likewise is an attempt to spell out the terms of the alliance in Michigan between politics and the hooded: band. : The political sludge at the bottom of the Black Legion’s midnight pool of murder, oathbound floggings and pasture lot hocus pocus only now is being dipped to the surface. A hell's br th of Black Legion arrogance and truckling by politicians it turns out to be. A tendency exists in Detroit to pass the night riders, 1936 style, off as a band of absurd, bewildered hill billiles who brought Ku Klux Klan bigotry along as baggage when they came North to work in the automobile factories. Two-thirds of the 13 Black Legionnaires charged with SXSCUtIng a WPA worker, are immigrants from the South.
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fact, glossed over here, that the Black’ on pulls.a stroke oar in Pontiac and other industrial cities; that, both in 1934 and 1936, candidates in Detroit sought its favors and that an undisclosed number of
joined the band or. signed aplications for membership. ‘The Black Legion wore a nom de politique. It was said to be the Wolverine Republican League. Last April 18, ex-Gov. William M. Brucker, Republican, is said to have (Turn to Page Three)
Salt Used for Road OTTAWA, Ontario, May 30.—Salt is being used to construct “dustless” roads in Canada and. the United States, it was revealed at a meeting of the Canadian Institute of Mining
and Metallurgy here.
How About ‘That New Track?
will It Reduce Accidents? C Crowd: on Turns at Speedway Ponders Question.
HATLL. the new paving on cidents?”
the turns do? Will it reduce ac-
This seemed to be uppermost in the minds of spectators grouped on the curves at the Indianapolis Speedway today.
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Police Chief Morrissey assigned a “dip-squad’—pickpocket experts— to watch the turnstiles, grand stand entrances and the milling crowds for “leather-lifters.”
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Race-goers emulated submarine officers for the first time this year. Periscope hawkers did a fair busifons with four-foot high contrapti to ‘enable short-statured persons to see over the heads of their taller brethren. The periscopes were similar to devices sold at the Kentucky Derby in Louisville. 8 ” » AXICABS to the Speedway quoted their own prices—take it or leave it—-for late comers. Charges ranged from $1 to $2.50 for the trip. Veteran Speedway fans depended on shuttle rains and busses for Yranspartation.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Lauck and Mr. and Mrs. Norris Goss (“Lum n’ Abner” and their wives to radio fans) were among the race visitors. Mrs. Lauck wore a white suit, white Breton sailor and white perforated shoes. Mrs. Goss wore a black sweater
L.|and skirt and white coat. Mrs.
Charles Lyon, National Broadcasting Co. announcer, was a guest in the “Lum ’n’ Abner” box.
WHE motors were warmed at at the race the drivers warmed up their: with a round-robin handshaking and wishing each other “good luck.” . t = = “Say it doesn’t take batteries our
guests of Mayor and Mrs. Kern and Mr. and Mrs. William- Kern. Mrs. Miller wore a bright green wool coat, white printed dress, and brown hat. Mrs. Kern wore a brown and white dotted dress, white coat, and brown hat and Mrs. William Kern a white wool coat and white dress. = ” t 4 HE fellow who: got some one’s umbrella in the last few
months might have been traced in the Speedway crowd if the “bumbershoot” loser had the patience. For some track fans brought along umbrellas to stave off the sun’s rays only to find that a cool breeze prevented the 1936 race from being a day of torridity and sunburn. 2 = = : OSEPH MYERS, Streator, Ill, received a possible spine fracture in the first serious accident among spectators at the Speedway. He was injured while attempting: to jump from one tree to the branch of another while watching the race. He was treated at the track emergency hospital.
FRENCH STRIKERS WIN FIGHT FOR WAGE RAISE
New Walkouts Are Organized in Vital Industries. - By United Press PARIS, May 30.—Munitions workers who have paralyzed . airplane
A more ais Phase 1s the
Wayne County (Detroit) politicians}
| station today while three
Mays Wins First Lap Honors
I Rex Mays leads on. the. c est tap. ?
RAILROAD STATION
Japanese Troops Also Sent East to Tungcho.
By United Press PEIPING, May 30.—Japanese troops manning machine guns took possession: of the Peiping railroad trainloads of infantry fresh from Japan rolled eastward toward Tungcho. Chinese charged it was the first open act of a military campaign to seize five North China provinces for addition to Manchukuo, the empire already carved from China by the
| Japanese sword.
- Soldiers operating with swift precision marched into the station of the ancient capital of Imperial China in midday, swung machine
forms and surrounding streets, and summarily cleared the building. Shortly afterward three trainloads of soldiers arrived, 100 men detrained, and the rest proceeded
the force was 800 men.
DAVIS IS TO EXPLAIN PEEK PLAN OPPOSITION
AAA Head to Use Evidence Gath- - ered in Europe in Speeches.
By BScripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 30.—Chester C. Davis, administrator, will use evidence gleaned from his European tour in an effort to convince American . farmers that there is nothing to the export subsidy plan
a plan which may become a plank in the Republican platform. ; At his first press conference after returning here, that Acting Director H. R. Tolley would continue to direct the AAA soil conservation program while he (Davis) goes on tour. Addresses by
St. Paul and Urbana, Il.
NATTY BANDIT ROBS CITY FILLING STATION
AT PEIPING SEIZED!
guns to cover entrances, train plat-/
eastward. Japanese authorities said’
of his predecessor, George N. Peek—
Davis announced
Davis are scheduled for Des Moines,
PROGRESS OF RACE
175 MILES. (70 laps)
Wilbur Shaw, No. 3, first; Shorty Cantlon, No. 7, second; Babe Stapp, No. 21, third; Lou Meyer, No. 8, fourth; Chet Miller, No. 18, fifth; Doc MacKenzie, No. 10, sixth; Ted Horn, No. 22, seventh; Al Miller, No. 12, eighth; Mauri Rose, No. 36; ninth; Billy Winn, Np. 5, tenth. Time, 1.31:27.21. Speed, 114.812, new record; old record, 110.4445, Fred Frame, 1933. :
150 MILES pend (60 Laps) Sa
Wilbur Shaw, No. 3, first; Babe Stapp, ‘No. 21, second; Shorty Cantlon, No. 17, ‘third; Billy. Winn, No. 5, fourth; Floyd Roberts, No. 4, fifth; Lou- Meyer, No. 8, sixth; George Connor,” No, 38, seventh; Chet’ Miller, No. 18, eighth; Doc Mackenzie, No. 10, ninth; Ted Horn, No. 22, tenth. Time: 1.18:8.38. Speed, 115,178, new record; old record, 111.517, Babe Stapp, 1933. 125 MILES (50 Laps) _ 'Wilibur Shaw, No.-3, first; Babe Stapp, No. 21, second; Shorty Cantlon, No. 7, third; Billy Winn, No. 5, fourth; Floyd Roberts, No. 4, fifth; Chet Miller. No. 18, sixth; George Connor, No. 38, seventh; Doc MacKenzie, No. 10, eighth; Lou Meyer, No. 8, ninth; Ted Horn, No. 22, tenth. Time, .1.04:5458. Speed, 115.545, new record; old record, 111.823, Frame, 1933.
PRISON OFFICIALS BALK ESCAPE PLOT
Two Pistols Reported Found ‘Planted’ in Yard. By United Press
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, May 30. —Frustration of an escape from the
credited with discovering ihe weapons, which were believed hidden for the use of two convicts who have Been’ In “geciusion? for some e.
100 MILES (40 laps)
Wilbur Shaw, No. 3, first; Babe Stapp, No. 21; second; Billy Winn, No. 5, third; Floyd Roberts, No. 4, fourth; George Connor, No. 38, fifth; Chet Miller, No. 18, sixth; Doc MacKenzie, No. 10, seventh; Al Mil-
ler, No. 12, eighth; Emil Andres, No.
19, ninth; Herb Ardinger, No. 44, tenth. Time, 51:49:95. Speed, 115.757, new record; old record, 112.206, Fred Frame, 1933. : 95 MILES
(30 Laps)
» Babe Stapp, No. 21, first: Wilbur
Shaw, No. 3, second; Chet Gardner, No. 6, third; Billy Winn, No. 5, fourth; Floyd Roberts; No. 4, fifth: George Connor, No. 38, sixth; Chet Miller, No. 18, seventh; Doc MacKenzie, No. 10, eighth; Al Miller, No. 12, ninth; Herb Ardinger, No. 44, tenth. Time: 38:53:8. Speed: 115.717 (new record); old record,
-113.599, Cummings in 1933.
50 MILES ~ (20 Laps)
Babe Stapp, No. 21, first; Wilbur Shaw, No. 3, second; Chet Gardner, No. 6, third; Chet "Miller, No. 18, fourth; Billy Winn,. No. 5, fifth; Floyd Roberts, No. 4, sixth; George Connor, No. 38, seventh; Doc MacKenzie, No. 10, eighth; Cliff Bergere, No. 42, ninth; Herb Ardinger, No. 44, tenth. Time: 25:50:05. Speed: 116.125 (new record); old record, 114.188, Cummings, 1933.
25 MILES (10 Laps)
Rex Mays, No. 33, first; Babe Stapp, No. 21, second; Wilbur Shaw, No. 3, third; Chet Miller, No. 18, fourth; Chet Gardner, No. 6, fifth; George Connor, No. 38, sixth; Floyd Robert, No. 4, seventh; Herb Ardinger, No. 44, eighth; "Louis Tomei, No. 27, ninth; Doc MacKenzie, No. 10, tenth. Time, 12:44:15. Speed, 117.726 (new record); old record, 115.241, Cummings in 1933. 10 MILES (4 Laps) Rex Mays, No. 33, first; Stapp, No. 21, second; Chet Miller, No. 18, third; Wilbur Shaw, No. 2,
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BILL CUMMINGS
FAILS TO START;
160,000 ATTEND |
Huge Throng Jams Speed-
way for 24th Renewal of Auto Classic.
More than 160,000 persons
‘| jammed the Speedway today
as the all-time record crowd to see the 500-mile Memorial
| Day race.
Even after the race had started, hundreds still were pouring into the stands and grounds.. Cars were lined four abreast two miles down the roads from the Speedway gates. Lined Up Four Abreast Cars were lined four-abreast at 4:25 this morning from the Speedway entrance gates to the Emrichsville bridge, three and one-half miles away. By the time the gates opened at 6:30, cars were lined up three-quarters of a mile farther, to the ball park. They flowed .nto the Speedway grounds as fast as expert ticket takers could handle them. Turnstiles for those coming by shuttle train were jammed. When the gates opened people appeared to be drawn into the grounds as though by suction.
At midnight last night Speedway officials, sold out all of tickets except
| the expensive boxes, decided to build
-on the south- | were Fosted
Fak shed. ae All veterans at hid he arowe had broken
previous a Teserds were slightly cloudy, but the Weather Bureau predicted that there would be no rain any time
. | today.
The crowds’ got their first whiff of castor oil’ fumes when they milled around the garages where the race drivers and mechanics were running the motors in last-minute
ons. Slacks Popular Attire The crowd presented a contrast in dress. Some men wore straw hats and white summer suits. Others had on sweaters and topcoats, and a few draped blankets over their shoulders, Indian fashion.
Slacks were popular attire for women. « Others wore every kind of garment - froml backless dresses to fur jackets. Their purchases at the track ran from gardenias to hot dogs. The sun broke through the clouds at infrequent intervals and promised warmer temperatures as the day advanced. The sun itself was warm for those who could get into its rays. At 7:30°'a mechanical marvel from Kokomo arrived. It was a 1916 model Ford purchased six years ago for $3 by Lewis Burgan and Howard Bailey. They said it took them (Turn to Page Three)
CARS OUT
Bill Cummings, No. 2, Boyle Products Special, failed to start; faulty clutch.
Fred Frame, No. 46, Burd Piston
Ring Special; . third Ip, motor trouble.
Johnny Seymour, N No. 47, SullivanOBrien Special, 13th lap, slipping clutc
Jimmy Snyder, No. 43, BelangerJilles Special, 20th lap, broken oil
Herb Ardinger, No. 44, Bowes Seal Fast Special, 36th lap, clutch trouble.
Chet Gardner, No. 6, Gardner Special, 37th lap, clutch trouble.
Billy winn, No. 5, Harry Miller Special, seventy-sixth lap, crank shaft flange cracked.
REP. ZIONCHECK’S WIFE
~ mark (87: laps).
Shaw Battles for Top Posl« tion; Records Fall in Swift Order.
BULLETIN Babe Stapp was leading the 500-mile race today as - he passed the 2171;-mile Wilbur Shaw, who had led from the 100-mile mark pulled into the pits just after passing the 200-mile post and Stapp lashed out in front. | Shaw’s speed at 200 miles was 114.526 miles an hour, a new record for the distance.
BY EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor
Wilbur Shaw, Hoosier-born
Californian, was leading the
500-mile race field as it swept
past the 175-mile mark today at the Indianapolis Speedway. Shaw had covered the dis. tance at an average speed of 114.812 miles an hour, a new
record. Shorty Cantlon of Detroit was in
second place, oné lap behind Shaw,
Babe Stapp, who had battled Shaw for the lead in a neck-and-neck +} race, stopped -at the pits on his 68d lap for gas and a change of tires and had dropped back to third
place. -. .. Shaw had held the ‘lead from the
that point had signaled the dimine utive Westerner to slow down, he had ignored his . mechanics warning and was keeping pace Shaw all the way. The unprecedented lack of accie dents was explained by Speedway officials as the result of the new safety dirt aprons at the turns. The race had started. with sure prises enough. Boyle Valve Special had failed to start on the paceemaking lap and after almost 15 minutes of tinkering in the pits was declared out of the race and towed to the garage.
Rex Mays had taken the lead on be
the first lap only to lose it when a cotter pin slipped out of his
throttle and he eased into the pits = |
for repairs. Stapp flashed into the lead, but Shaw pulled up behind him and they staged a nip-and-tuck battle until the 100-mile mark. “It's just one of- those things”® smiled Cummings, 1934 winner of the race. “They happen often. I'm disappointed, but I hope to have better luck next time. the game. My car was in swell shape Thursday, the last time it was on the track.” Shaw's speed at 100 miles was
115.757 miles an hour, a new rece:
ord. The former record was 112.208
miles an hour, set by Fred Frame
in 1933. Dust Blows Over Track
Just before the race started it was reported that dust was blowing over the track in thick clouds. The field started out on the paces
mings’ car was shoved into the pits. His Boyle Products Special only 75 yards.
his Gilmore Special. Pit crews worked over Cu
racer in attempts to get it in shape,
Driving at a terrific pace, Mays
four turns. He went into a spin on the northeast curve, but slowed
{down and straightened out. Dust whirled over the north curve,
endangering the drivers. Following
Stapp on the early laps were Wilbur
Shaw, third, and Chet Miller, fourth, Speed for the first lap was 115.979; four miles an hour faster than last
REPORTED IN BATTLE | "3;
Alleged to Have Tossed Landlady
Out of Apartment. By United Press
100-mile mark. Stapp’s pit crew at
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making lap at 10 o’clock sharp. Cume went a The field, coming down the track
in perfect formation on the start . of the first lap, was led by Mays in
was. reported to be skidding on al
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