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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

INDIANA DAILY TIMES

A SQUARE DEAL AND FAIR PLAY FOR EVERYBODY

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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1939

TODAY'S WEATHER.

LOCAL FORECAST, Partly cloude tonight and Tueredyy, INDIANA FORECAST, Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday,

VOL. XXVIII. NO

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1915.

ONE CENT.

PALMA 1

S VICTOR OF RACE:

RESTA, 2ND.; ANDERSON, 3RD.

BREAKS RECORD OF LAST YEAR BY 7 MILES AN HOUR

Winner, Ralph De Palma, in Mercedes, Time, 5:33:55.50. Average, 89.84 miles per hour. Resta’'s Peugeot was second, 5:37:24.94, and Anderson's Stu} time 5:42:27.57.

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Single-handed and alg lost the big 500-mile spe pecasion to bemoan his ** won the lion’s share of that may stand for yea B® \\ he car under the wire thes Me had 2 :33:55.50, almost half an hour faster th last year. It was a wonderful race. of the great machine he drove, was } pits. He drove a remarkably consisj est competition in a foreign drive The Stutz team, led by Johnny b threatened to drive their opponsg to set by Gil Anderson.wasn't 2 We Pa 5d up and for the first time in th e clase f% driver of a sir entry pulled down t EER Ory wag popular was provas the crowds that fA'§ heered him wildly, Th almost as large a ds filling rapidly Resta was I¢ hind De Palma Gil Anderson's 1 The race +} accident marr during a spe barely miss’ car, driven 8 injured, Earl Cooper, In a Stutz, finished fourth in 5:48:43.60, and the next car was ten laps behind. The position ofthd Stutz car was due in a measure to the efforts of Johnny Aitken, who relieved both Anderson and Cooper and forced the foreign cars to their utmost to maintain the lead they had galned. “Howdy”

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ashed his BEd the 500 mas’ time in ha seem;

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mechanical, NE, no rion hough Rests JPRUNEd Into the retaining wall with De Pa'#fa, and spun completely around, fia's car, Toward the close of the race the Sebring

§ Coeper, turned over in the back stretch, but no one was

speedway began at 10 o'clock this morn As Fisher darted from the track Starter Thomas Hay, standing on the bridge In front of the judges’ stand, waved his red flag and Howdy Wilcox in hig Stutz, Ralph De Palma in his Mercedes, Dario Resta in his Peugeot, followed by the remainder of the field, “stepped” on their snorting racers snd the battle for the $50,000 prizes and the international sweepstakes auto

mobile championship was on. From the first lap of the race it became evident that the Stutz team was out to make the contest a terrific drive, Gil Anderson went in to set the pace early in the game and was leading by half a mile when the twenty. 8th mile was finished, his teammates, Wilcox and Cooper, were holding back. The cars got away to a perfect start and on the fifth lap the three Stutz sntries and Resta in a Peugeot wera well bunched. Resta's Peugeot pushed its ways into the leaders and was running gecond to Anderson's Stutz at the finish of the twenty fifth mile, which wae covered in 16:4598, or at a rate of 83.5 miles an hour. Anderson, driving like & denom, bad lapped all but the six foremost cars at the end of fifty miles and was leading Resta’s Peugeot, then in second place, by more than 8 mile. De Palma was third, with Wilcox and Cooper in fourth and fifth

place. FOX IN PURCELL I8 ELIMINATED IN THIRTEENTH. The time for the first filty miles was 33.2190, or an average of 89.901 miles an hour. The running time for the first Afty miles In 1914 was 34:44.2. Wilcox stopped for forty seconds om the twenty-eighth lap to change tires and Anderson maintained his lead, At the finish of the eeventy-fifth mile Buggatt! stopped on the back stretch with engine trouble, On the seventy-Afth mile the cars were running In this order: Anderson, Resta, De Palma, Porporato, Cooper, Rickenbacker and Van Rollette. The

time was 50:02:37. On the thirty-fifth lap Anderson stopped and changed two tires In forty.

one seconds. The Mais car was ruled out in the twentyeighth lap for leaving the track.

BESTA LEADING AT —_ END OF 100 MILES, fteenrA® continued ta fall at 100 miles when ftexta's Ieuzeot covered the dls. tan ® fn 107%, tsking the lead from Anderson, who dropped to seventh place. Debalina war gecond, Cooper third, Por. poratn fourth, Rickenbacker Afth, Van Rolette sisth, Grant eighth gnd Burman ninth. Cooper In Rtutz stopped in Aftieth Map ts change tires, Porporato stopped in Bfty Brat lap. Burman clanged two |e 198 MILES. tires In forty clghth lap. All were out 1688 (hah wpe minute | On bis sixty-third lap, DePalma made Time for 125 miler wag 1:24:0R8.73. an | his first stop, changing right rear tire avergge of %0.13 an hour, & new record | He Inet more than & minute while Resta The posltionk were ax follow: | grained a lap on Del’slimg with three laps Resta, DePalma, Wien, Rickenbacker, [on Whicox, Orr's Maxwell lost three winVan Nollie, Couper, Anderson. lures fn the fftv.eighth lap at the pits. Jobn Del'slmi's Deluge car, which | Horry Grant, In a Sunbeam; Rickgabacker Thomax drove to viet ty 1xt year, went [in Maxwell and Muiford in a Dussenberg, ont ‘nf the rages In the forty-fonrth lap | al! were forced to stop at the pits and the “oy 8 hroken By wheel. Orr. In a Max- | time they lost practically put them out of “ell, stopped In the Afty<ixth lap and [the race. DePalma wag leading at the Van Rallette fn Runbeam stopped A the | seventy third lap. os poh Inp for tire changes CAnderson crowding wp oon him. Resto wus Palma took the lead In the fifty. third. Time, 1:3% 10.0 Avernge 88.8% eighth lap, hut testa had regained the dead | miles per hour. Last year 2:03:5830, 84 at 13 witex with DePalma second and | miles an hour, Wicox & Jap beblud, Wilcox agtlu was| Cooper was fourth, Wilcox B8fth, Van

forced to stop at the pits far tire changes. 'p to this time neither Resta por DePalma had stopped. The time for 150 miler was 1:40:3815 an average of SN 42 miles per hour. Last year's record for the distance was 1:46:20.40. The Positions of the drivers were Resta, DePalme, Wilcox. Ricken backer, Anderson, Cooper in the order named, —

DEPALMA LEADING

lhe 1915

Champion

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Rollette sixth and Rickenbacker seventh, At 200 miles De Palma was leading by about 40 seconds. Reata bad passed Ander. son. The time for 200 miles wan 2:14:2050; an average miles per hour of 8) 2% year, 2.38 was the average for distance. Cooper was fourth. At 225 miles, De Palma maints

Hl pré . tiosely. Time, 2:17:08.65; year, $04 :3845. DePa'mna’s average at 250 miles fe 80.77; last year's average, 8285 The positions of drivers at 2350 miles were as follows: DePalma, Resta, Ander. ton, Cooper, Poporato, Wilcox, Van Rob lette, Bumman, Babcock, in Carlson, In Maxwell. Andersg gasoline In one hundred and Johnny Aitken took his place Cooper took on gasoline in fn the one hundred and fou son, in 2 Maxwell, made bia the race In his one hundredth was out four minutes for ti line on bis ninety-eighth Ia

SUNBEAM SKIDS FROM COURSE, Hughes replaced Carieon in At 273 miles, De Palma wg front, breaking records. HI 3032273, an average of © ime last years was 3:22:38, miles an hour, Von Rollette's Bunbeam sk track on the back turn in the lost & hood. It got back in ¢ I'ositions of drivers at the were is follows: De Palma, in Btuts, Cooper, Poroporate Rollette, Babcock in Peugn| Deusenberg, Huges in Maze Klein, In the Kieinarg sto lap on back stretch with ea) ble, but was back in the re delay. That the rece was to be th stown when the first eight miles were the eight leaders nation trials. DePalma still led at, the Time, 3:10:32.87; average, hour. DePalma had made in the twentieth lap, for ti the one bundred and twent be had to change a tire agel second at 300 miles, then C I'orporato, Wilcos, Babcock wan, DePalma’s stop at the pit fend, Resta leading fu the om twenty-second lap. Delain four tires. Chevrolet's ttle Cornellne} the race In the =eventy-sev ft broken crank shaft, Rick Maxwell, went out of the cracked crank case fo the 1 The first real exciting bru came when DePalmmg, one challenged Resta, In the @ 120th lap. They raced neck two lapse. They were still miles, Tiwe, S86:52.50. 3:50 :37.50, Babeock’s Peugeot ment o with engine trouble in bis 1 The spectacular race hotw SS < and Resta continued In 1th lap, Altken setting the pace. Da Palma regi jead when Resta bad to stop for ti

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J3Tth lap. Besta got dack in 2:08 Wileot stopped for tires ine in 130th lap. Resta is no behind De Palma. Resta skidded into retaining wall In 136th lap, but did not injure his car. He turned three complete circles and barely d Palma, #

n e n tional dash at 375 miles. Coopce fourth, Porporato fifth, Wilcox - sicth. Time 4:10 ST.03% average, 80.08. Last year's average, S207.

DePalma Increased his lead by a wide

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q Washington fa fons gath- { Indians, And fy was not an The fleld, espe- ® Vskinned parts of ¥.y heavy for good dricks sent “Bill” rdt out’s = another game and ckburn ast™d bim. Mapager Knight br Cleveland had Carter pitching and DeVogt catching. FIRST GAME. 110000 .01L00000 SECOND GAME, CRN Rrra 0 8 I siveeverinriveneess 00 es—Collamore and DeVozht: TipGossett, Umpires—Irwin and

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fronting the gov recalled the ribute to the declaring that the p iver allow one who sacrificed or that cause to want for any fort. feveral hundred citizens gathered a® morument for the service and listened attentivel ressiveness

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tter Kirby, president of the Bryan league was made puoblle. Kirby's letter had called upon Risk to make the campaign. The anouncement means that the democratie party fe to have an interesting contest within fits right in which what fs

Battories—Dale and Clarke; Snyder. Umpires—Byron and

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Complete Text of German Res ply to Wilson Disappoint. ing to U. S. Officials; Lacks Frankness and Directness.

Note=Full text of German reply will be found on Page 6.

© WASHINGTON, May 31.—The German ncte in reply to President Wilson's dee mand arising from the Lusitania tragedy, disappointing and evasive in character and regarded here as more conducive to parley thau to quick adjustment of the grave difficulties between this nation and Germany, is before the chief exccutive and officials of the state department toe day. It is planned to consider the docue went at the cabinet meeting tomorrow, which is looked on as the most important in years. What the president golog to do about it? This Is the question Washingse ton and the nation is asking. Although the note is couched in conciliatory terms, officials privately regard the German docuwent as one lacking in the franke

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lation of tbe note d the official text The German pote i9 ing than the forecasts of its contents, according to the pessimistic opinion which prevailed in of. ficial circles when the actual text of the

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