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From Nopintervention Committee; Crisis Near in Europe.

WOMEN, CHILDREN FALL AT ALMERIA

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“Reich Assit Follows Boniling of Own War-

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Y ALENCIA—German warships bombed Almeria. and may have hit a German destroyer, Casualties ashore i

to be 20 killed :and many wounded. . A BERLIN—Germany withdraws from international nonintervention

agreement; sends more warships to Spain. LONDON—Nonintervention meeting summoned for effort to avert

crisis. GENEVA—Spain plans official note to league on Almeria Romthariment, PARIS—Premier Blum confers with Spanish, British and Russian

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By United Press LONDON, May 31.—Germany and, Italy withdrew today from the Spanish non-intervention committee and the inter-

Germany withdrew after her ships had bombarded the Spanish port of Aumeria, causing many casualties, in retali-

- ation for the bombing of the German pocket battleship

Deutschland by Loyalist planes. Italy, co-operating with Germany, withdrew until she is

give nsatisfaction for the Loyalist bombing of the Italian |

merchant steamer Bartletta at Palma, Mallore, on May 24. Within a few hours, Italy also withdrew from. the non‘intervention Committee, claiming restitution was due her © for an attack by Spanish Loyalists on an Italian ship. . Despite reports from Valencia that the. German warships which shelled Almeria left there after the attack, the Spanish News Agency here published an unconfirmed report today that German troops had been landed at the port. It was reported that the Deutschland was steaming westward toward Gibraltar after receiving orders from Germany to go home at once. | Situation Becomes More Acute The situation in war-torn Spain became hourly more acute under repercussions following the torpedoing yesterday of the Spanish Loyalist ‘liner Ciudad de Barcelona, as it approached Barcelona Harbor. whom were believed to be Loyalist volunteers entering Spain clandestinely for service, were drowned and an unknown ‘number injured. The newspaper Midi in Paris circulated an unconfirmed report today that 240 passengers and sailors of the Ciudad de Barcelona were drowned. The paper said that the ship car-

ried 300 passengers and crew of which only 60 were saved. An official announcement said German warships in Span-

ish waters have been instructed to fire on any approaching Loyalist airplanes or warships. Additional German warships were ordered to Spanish waters. Casualties in the Almeria Amant were estimated unofficially hut reliably-at 36 dead, 65 wounded and 100 ‘missIng. Women ‘and children were anibng the casualties.” More than 40 buildings were destroyed. “This is an act of war and we are prepared to defend ourselves,” a high official of the Valencia Gover ment declared! “Germany finally has come out in the open.” The Spanish Febus News Agency reported “several hun.dreds” were wounded in the bombardment. Several shells fell on the building occupied by the International Red Cross, which was destroyed. “Several score” of houses were in ruins, the Agency said.

. ! Officially there was no attempt to connect the torpedoing

of the Ciudad de Barcelona Sunday with the bombing of the . Deutschland Saturday off the sea wall of the port of lviza, but unofficially there were suggestions that the torpedoing might have been a reprisal. From Barcelona came charges ‘that the submarine that ite oe] the Ciudad de Barcelona

was an ltalian one. The torpedoing ocdiited off the port of Malgrat, 35

miles from Barcelona.

Highway Accidents Bring Nation’ S Death 1 Toll to 110

(By United Press) © New England—Thirteen dead and Scores of persons were killed and scores injured. ‘hundreds injured in holiday acci-/| North Carolina—Six dead. dents throughout the country. A] majority of the fatalities resulted | | 12 injured. from. automobile crashes on the | Wisconsin—Seven dead, four in‘highways, crowded with the season's | |fured, first rush to resorts. . ITowa—Five dead, several injured. Even before midday the countiv-] | - Chicago Area—Eleven dead, six wide death toll was 110." injured. In metropolitan New York the toll | Illinoi ven dead. : reached eight dead and 11 injured| Pittsbufgh—Five dead. when a bicyclist swerved into the Cleveland—Two dead, 13 injured. path of a coupe in which five per- St. Louis—One dead, 10 injured. sons were riding at Perth Amboy, Minnesota—One dead, three criti-

cally injured. N, J. Four men were killed and a Marylando Nine dead, unknown

fifth critically injured when thé car | number injured. turned over and burst into flames. Alabama—Four dead. Fatalities were recorded as follows: Ontario — Seven drowned at -Indiana—Eight dead, 10 injured. - {urn to Page Three)

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Occasional local thunder showers tonight or tomorrow;

MONDAY, MAY 81,

1937

Herb Ardiiger led the pack at the end of the first lap in today’s

FIVE SLAIN IN STEEL RIOTING

Hundred Injured as Police A Pickets Clash in. ; ~ South Chicago.

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Bly United Press CHICAGO, May 31.—State and

prevent recurrence of rioting, whith brought death to five striking: ste workers and injury to more than 100 unionists and police in a battle near the Republic Steel Corp.’s South Side plant. ; Governor Horner announced peaceful picketing will be permit- |! ted and martial lag will not be declared for the pre Sy Shocked by the yitiousness of the battle waged between 1500 steel

strikers and sympathizers and 150 city police, Governor Horner struck hard for a strike settlement. Three

{ofthe largest independent = steel

companies—Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & ‘Tube Co. and Inland Ste:l Corp.—in | Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and New York, are tied up. A recapitulation today showed: Five strikers dead. 4 Forty-one unionists in hospitals. Twenty-two police hospitalized. Thirty-seven unionists treated but discharged from hospitals. Six police less: seriously injured. Thirty-six unionists under formal arrest. Officials Strive for Peace While surgeons fought to save the lives of some of the injured, Gov.

table: H. L. Hyland, general! manager of Republic's three South Chicago plants. Van A. Bittner and Nicholas Fontecchio, regional directors for John L. Lewis’ Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee. Martin L. Durkin, director of the Illinois Department of Labor. Adjt. Gen. Carlos E. Black, com=mander Bf the Illinois National Guard. U.. S. District Attorney Michael L. Igoe and Assistant U. S. District Attorney Raymond Canardy. Capt. John Prendergast, chief of Chicago's uniformed police.

Charges Pickets

Fired on Food Plane CLEVELAND, May 31..—Republic Steel Corp. charged today that pickets at the Warren, O.. plant were firing shots at planes bearing food to nonstriking workers. Union officials denied the charge and asked Governor Davey to stop the corporation from flying rations to men inside its plants.

HEALTH LEADS POPE

TO FOREGO ADDRESS

By United PS VATICAN CITY, May 3 .—Pope Pius XI, on his 80th birthday, was obliged for reasons of health today to cancel an engagement to open the new Papal Academy of Science and make a world broadcast. A Vatican statement said: “Although well in health but not wishing to abuse the condition which the Almighty grants him, the Pope believes it advisable to renounce the personal inauguration of the Papal ‘Academy of Science.” The Pope received hundreds of birthday messages of congratulation from all corners of the carn. 3 {

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Federal authorities strove today to |

Horner brought to ithe conference |

The leaders at the ee of the first | lap were: Herb Ardinger, Wilbur | Shaw, Ralph Hepburn, Lou Meyer, Jimmy Snyder, Chet Gardner, Mauri Rose and Bob Swanson.

"For the first five miles, or two laps, the average speed of the leader was 118.718 miles an hour. Last year’s average was 118.079. v1

Snyder Takes Lead

Snyder went into | jie lead in the fourth lap. |

Car No. 5, driven by Jimmy Snyder, won first $100, lap prize, the fifth lap.

Snyder, leading at 10 miles, set a new track record, 120.232 m. p. m., breaking the mark established by Rex Mays last year, 118.153 m. p. m. hi No. 47, Harry MacQuinn driv- , builed into the pits on the ninth 33 0 replace spark plugs. He was out again in one minute 40 seconds.

. Mays Changes Tire

Rex Mays’ car No. 14 spent one minute 45 seconds in the pits for water and oil and tire change. Snyder smashed the record for miles, averaging 119.824 m. p. h, breaking last year’s mark of 117.778, made by Rex Mays. 25 Miles Positions at 25 miles—First place, Jimmy Snyder; second, Herb Ardinger; third, Wilbur Shaw; fourth, Billy Winn; fifth, Louis Meyer; sixth, Ralph Hepburn; seventh, Bob. Swanson; mings; ninth. George Connor; tenth, Cliff Bergere. Snyder Still in Lead

Snyder held the lead at 50 miles, averaging 117.747 m. p. h.,, a new record. Last year’s record, made by | Babe Stapp. was 116.125 m. p. h. Positions at the end of 50 miles:

50 Miles

Car 5, Jimmy Snyder, first; Car. 54, Herb Ardinger, second; Car 6, Wilbur Shaw, third; Car 2, Louis Meyer, fourth; Car 8. Ralph Hepburn, fifth; Car 33, Bob Swanson, sixth; Car 16, Bill Cummings, seventh; Car 45, Cliff Bergere, eighth; Car 17. George Connor, ninth: Car 38. Tony Gullota, tenth. Speed, 117.947 m. p. h.

Car No. 15 driven by Babz Stapp was in the pits 24 seconds repairing oil -leak. N Snyder's car went out of the race with a broken transmission in the | 27th lap. Snyder's car was the all- time record breaker in qualifying trials, averaging 125.287 m. p. h. and setting a lap record of 130.492 m. p. h. It was built by Art Sparks,

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Los Angeles, and financed by Jose Thorne, young New York sportsman. Rex Mays’ No. 14 went out of the

(race on the ‘24th lap ‘with an oil

leak, Before going out of the race Sny-

Ser ad won $800 in lap prizes. eacon Litz, in Car 35, was in the pits 2 minutes 20 seconds for water and to repair an oil leak on the 20th

lap. Wilbur Shaw in Car No. 6, into the lead at 75 miles. His time was 116. .889, breaking last .year’s mark of 115.717 m. p. h. |

75 Miles

Positions at 75 miles—No. 6. Wilbur Shaw, first; No. 54, Herb Wrdinger, second; No. 2, Louis Meyer, third; No. 8, Ralph Hepbun, fourth; No. 33, Bob Swanson, fifth; No. 16, Bill Cummings, sixth; No. 45, Cliff Bergere, seventh; No. 38,

Tony Gulotta, eighth; No. 17, Geurge Connor, ninth; No. 31, Chet Gardner, tenth. Time, 116.889,

Seymour Drives Relief Ken Fowler in. Car No. 41 spent

22 four minutes the pits With care

buretor trouble in the 31st lap. He also took on water and gas.

liever Russ Snowberger on the 24th lap when Car No. 12 pulled into the pitts for 1 minute 45 seconds to take on water, gas and oil. Shaw was still leading at 100 miles. His time wa$ 117.087 m. p. h., breaking last year’s record of 115.757, also set by Shaw. | Rex Mays returned to the race to relieve Shorty Cantlon, Detroit, his team-mate in car No. 34, Cantlon’s cgr was in the pits two minutes, four seconds, during change on 31st lap. > Chet Miller, Detroit, in car No. | 7, was reported out of the race on the southeast turn. Miller pulled off track on the southeast turn but was not wrecked. Fred Frame, 1932 winner, got in the race as relief driver, replacing Babe Stapp in car :No. 15 on 33d lap when Stapp! stopped for water

and gas. 100 Miles Positions at the end of 100 miles— first; No. 54, Ardinger. second; . No. 2; Louis Meyer, third! No. 8. Hepburn, fourth; No. 33, Bob Swanson, fifth: No. 16, Bill Cummings, sixth; No. 45, CIff Bergere, seventh; No. 3, Ted Horn, eighth; No. 38, Tony Gulotta, ninth; No. 31, Chet Gardner, tenth. Time, 117.087, new record.

Rose Develops Trouble

‘Mauri Rose, A. A. A. champion for 1936, swung into the pits with

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1. MAURI ROSE, Dayton, O., is A. A. A. champion. He was fourth last year, second in 1934. Member of the Burd Piston Rint team. Qualified for middle tion in the third row with an average of 118.540. He is 31.

2. LOUIS. MEYER, is 34 and | the only three-time winner of the 500-mile race. Member of the strong Boyle Valve team. Lives in Huntington Park, Cal, married and has one son. Won in 1928, second "in 1929, fourth in 1930, won in 1933 and again in 1936. Qualified at an average of 119.618 m. p. h.

3. TED HORN is 28, lives in Los Angeles. Won second place last year and is driving for Harry Hartz again. Qualified on the final day at an average speed of 118.608 m. p. h. This is his third 500-mile race. 5. JIMMY SNYDER, 28, is married and has two children. He formerly was a Chicago milk . truck driver. Smashed all qualifying records with average speed of 125.287 for 10 laps. Raced here last year but finished out of money.

6. WILBUR “SHAW is 33, married and a native of Indianapolis. .He finished seventh “last year and qualified the same car, which he built, this year at an average of 122.751 m. p. h. He was fourth in 1927, second . in 1933, third in 1934 and second in 1935. 1. CHET MILLER, is 31, lives in Detroit. Qu 8 Mike

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" Boyle car at an average of 119.213 m, p. bh. Hé has been

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racing here since 1930 and has: finished 10th twice. . 8. RALPH HEPBURN, 40, is | driving’ last year’s winning car in today’s race. He gave Lou | Meyer the car which Lou won | with in 1933, and Meyer return- | ed the favor this year. Hepburn | has started 10 times, and has finished in the money three times. Finished twelfth last year. Lives in Los Angeles. ; 10. BILLY WINN, is 34, marr ried and lives in Detroit. Quali=fied with an average of 119.922 .m. p. h. in his own car. Billy Devore is driving his other entry. When not racing, works a% the Champion Spark Plug Co. experimental plant in Detroit. ‘Plans to invade Europe for races early next year. 12. RUSSELL SNOWBERGER, 36, is the racing blacksmith. He is a native of Wilmington, Del., builds semistock racing cars and drives them in the meney. Qualified a semistock Packard this year at an average speed of 117.354 m. p. h. Finished fifth in 1931 and 1932 and eighth in 1930, 1933 and 1934. _ 14. REX MAYS, 24- year-old California comet. qualified an - Italian Alfa Romeo, . at an average of 119.968. Held pole position in 1935 and 1936. One of most colorful drivers in race. Making his fourth start here after “brilliant, dirt track career on ‘West Coast. ! 15. BABE STAPP, 33, has started nine times and finished out ‘of the money Sight times.

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Johnny Seymour of Detroit re- |

‘the slide “down which the: beauti-

| gadgets; the same ones that have 1 been sold yearly on race day, all

| Arizona. Missouri, New Jersey, and ' | closer states. Some of the riders had

{there were plenty of slacks to be

continued warm, somewhat cooler tomorrow.

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[170,000 CROWD INTO SPEEDWAY

Aids. Snorer In What Officials Say Is Worst - Jam in History.

(Editorial, Page 12) By JOE COLLIER

Upward of 160,000 persons crowded into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today to watch 33 racers play a gigantic, 500-mile game of roulette with $100,000 prizes and death. « More autos. officials agreed, than ever before headed toward the Speedway snarled in the worst traffic jam in race day history in| Speedway City and on 16th St. The grounds filled slowly. The 1000 musicians who form the band, gathered on the track, giving their instruments experimental little toots and looking for the starting place. The boxes began to fill. If was a colorful crowd, gleaming in a bright sun that seemed to assure a perfect race day despite rain forecasts by the Weather Bureau.

When the parade formed it was led by a detachment of U. 8S. Marines, followed by the car that won the first Speedway race in 1911 driven by the winning driver, Ray Harroun. : Behind it was the car that won the second race,.'driven by Joe Dawson. Meanwhile, such st eed’ figures of the present day asiGar Wood, ‘Dick Merrill, trans- Atlantic flier, and his co-pilot, Jack Lambie, were arcund the press, pagoda. Every minute, from trains land | busses, from autos and taxis, new hordes poured into the great Speedway grounds, set for what experts said would be the fastest race of them all By 4:15 a. m. Speedway employees had begi 1 to enter the grounds. The watchers. included a crowd estimated at 80: that arrived on the first shuttle iain to the track. ~ As it became lighter the great crowd that had been sweeping in began to: stir. The Sideshows Start

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hoarse croaking about coffee and breakfast from the stands of sticks and canvas that line 16th St. 4 All manner of sideshow apparatus from the cane-pitching stands to

ful girls will slip into the water” if the baseball hits the target, began to come to life. At. 5:45 a. m. Speedway officials drove their white cars up, bulldozed their, way through the thousands waiting for the gates to open; and entered the grounds. Meanwhile gamblers equipped with only one or two playing cards and | a piece of cardboard approximately a foot square, staged roadside games of chance that attracted small knots of people. Up and down 16th St. thé restless, waiting crowd moved in sort of a shuffle ignoring for the most part the eloquent hotdog barkers. They peered into cars containing sleeping people, they looked at license plates, they bought carnival trappings. There seemed to be .no new

of them described as souvenirs.” Prominent in the roundup was the contingent of more than 50 motoreycles, arrayed in a line, all abreast and pointed at the mainSpeedway gate.

Try, Sleeping on a Cycle Some of them bore licenses from

“official

contrived to sleep on top of their cycles. License plates from every state in the Union were observed on autos. Veteran "speedway employees and’ traffic policemen said they. never had seen so many cars waiting to get in. g The trend in fashion among. the girls seemed to be away from slacks ‘tc riding pants and boots; although

‘seen. And most of the anklets were dirty with street oil. Several of the cars were surmounted with wooden platforms—in (Turn to Page Three)

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good strategic positions at close enough to Shaw to tak and they were saving their mounts from as much strain as possible.

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RACE HITS FAST PACE AS SNYDER, STAPP DROP OUT |

Chichad's Flying Milkman Forced to Quit When Machine Gives Way; Lou Meyer Driving Careful Race.

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Setting the fastest pace in the 25 years of nh history, leaders today. at the Speedway race's 250-mile mark were: Wilbur Shaw, No. 6

Ralph Hepburn, No. 8 Ted HormggNo. 3 : ' Bill, Cummings, No. 16 Apparently free of mechanical trouble, Shaw continued his blistering pace and was ahead at 225 miles. Hepburn was second, and Hoin and Cummings followed i in that order, All were riding in the same lap, Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis, jumped into the lead shirts ly after the 50-mile mark was passed and stayed out in front despite serious challenges by Herb Ardinger and Bill Cummings, another local favorite. In that period of the race. Shaw broke ny of his old track records. His average for 175. miles was 117 .232, a new mark. ; * After Cummings had lost two minutes in the pits, Shaw ran into difficulties and went in just after he had passed 175 miles. Meanwhile, Ralph Hepburn, a véleian who has been trying to win the Indianapolis title for a decade, took the lead. A south by west wind and the heat caused trouble to the drivers. When they came into the pits they said the | northeast turn was particularly dangerocs for this reason. The turns were reported to be comparatively free from oil,

Heat Causes Tire Trouble

Despite the recoll speed, there had been only one threat of accident. While the cars were still bunched in the early stages of the race, Billy Winn, Detroit, spun -on the southeast turn, and wound up in the dirt apron. Bob Swanson did a masterful piece of driving® to avoid striking the Winn car. At the end of the first hour, almost half the field had stopped for tire changes. Heat and the fact that the leaders were forcing the field to keep wide open on the turns was believed responsible for the tire trouble. “The two keen rivals of the first 20 minutes of racing became partners as the ‘event progressed. Herb Adlinger, first-lap winner, stopped in the pits at the 71st lap and turned thre wheel of his mount over to Jimmy Snvder, pace setter

for the first 50 miles’ |

Ted Horn, Kelly Petillo and Cites continued to hold lose to 200 miles. They were over the lead if he went out,

Cummings went ito the pits. Shaw, Hepburn. and

Petillo- were leading "in that order at the 175-mile mark. Snowberger went back into the race, displacing his relief driver.

Cummings lost two minutes when hd went into the pits Shaw went to the pits shortly after the 175-mile

Shaw set a 117.232 mile-an-hour average for the first

175 miles, a new record.

Snyder went in as relief driver for Ardinger. .; On the 76th lap, Hepburn, at the wheel of the car Lou Meyers won with last year, passed Shaw who emerged

from the pits after less than a minute and took the lead.

Petillo, 1935 winner, didn’t get a call until the 150 mile . mark when he was in third place, one lap behind the leader, At the 150-mile mark, 29 cars still were in the race.

Bill Cummings, who started in eighth place, had moved 1p to second place at 150 miles, only 52 seconds behind Shaw, Shaw broke his own 150-mile average speed with 117.203 Last year ‘he set 115.178 miles an hour.

Shaw Breaks Old Record

Snewberger asked for relief because of burns on the right ankle he received in qualification trials. .His Tight leg became numb and he couldn't feel the throttle. At 125 miles Wilbur Shaw was holding the lead and already had collected $1000 in lap prize money. Ralph Hepburn was second and Bill Cummings third. Shaw’s time was 117.063 m. p. h., a record. Going into the lead on the 27th lap, Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis, shattered the 75-mile record mark with a speed of 116.889 m. p. h. The old mark made last year was 115.717. Jimmy Snyder; “Chicago’s Flying Milkman,” kept the crowd shivering with excitement during the first 50 miles when he shattered all existing: records and Finally burnt out his car. -Chet Miller withdrew on the 35th lap when his motor went dead. Driving high' on the turns, Herb Ardinger, Glassport, /

| Pa., took the first lap in the fastest time in. 500-mile race

history at 116.054 m. p. h. He could keep up the pace for Coming from the first position in n the gum to Page Three)