Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1946 — Page 13

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EVERYONE in. town is talking about the 500-mile race but a couple of the funniest Storjes we've heard concern the new owner, Terre Haute Millionaire Tony Hulman. At a meting the other day he told the inside story on why he bought® the Speedway. For years, he said, he'd been out in the cold as far as good seats were concerned so he finally bought the track About two months ago, he called the Speedway office, told them who he was and said he'd like a couple of extra good seats. “I'm sorry, Mr, Hulman,” the clerk told him, “but we're all sold out.” Oh well, maybe he can get a general admission ticket. . . , Mild-mannered, unassumsing Mr. Hulman also has a heck of 4 time getting in the track at all. He has no pass or badge and consistently gets stopped by guards. Just the other day a guard asked where his badge was, to’ which the owner replied: “I'm Tony Hulman.” “Sorry, Mr. “Orders are no pass, no go in.” P, 8. He didn't get past, either. . A couple days later he was on the verge of showing Mrs. Hulman the garages when a guard halted them with “Sorry, Mr. Hulman. No women in here.” , .. Mr. Hulman just sighed resignedly and clung to the hope he might get in and look the place over next week when the race is over.

The Nonplused Photographer

BUT THE BEST story we've heard concerns Times

Times Photographer Dean Timmerman using sign language on French driver Harry O'Reilly Schell. . « ,» This was before the Russian setback.

Europe Honors

PARIS, May 30.—From Ireland, down through Eugland, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France, men gathered today to honor the 135,000 American dead in 36 cemeteries. They stood among the low rows of white crosses representing Christians and Stars of David for those of Jewish faith. Bands played the national anthems of France, the United States and Britain and saw the American flag fluitering in the soft breeze: They placed wreaths on the graves . .. then came the saddest notes of all; taps for those who gave their lives that others might live in peace.

There will be no American Memorial Day services

in Germany because of the decree that no Americans shall lie in German scil.

Lie Near Battlefields

FITTINGLY, our heroes lie not far from the battlefields on which they gave their lives. Six miles east of Manstricht, Belgium, nearly 18,000 are buried, in Margraten cemetery. They died at Aachen and before Duren and Julich, when the fleeing Germans turned and fought with successful desperation. In the Henri Chapelle cemetery; northeast of Liege, lie 17,000 killed in the same offensive and in the later Ardennes fighting. In quiet, peaceful Homm cemetery three miles from the heantiful city of Luxembourg are 8500 American dead, representing every 3d army division in Ardennes. Her roysl highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg was to take part in the services there. At each of three cemeteries in Holland this Memorfal Day a Hollend guard of honor took its post al 6

Aviation

THE FLYING game is changing rapidly. Not so long ago it was unusual to meet another aircraft away from an airport. Nowadays it's mighty unusual if you don't. Time was when it was just pure fun to play around In the clouds. This is a mighty dangerous type of fun now. Somewhere deep in that cloyd or behind it there may be a large transport or a batch of army or navy fighters or bombers flying along at 250 miles per hour or better. The rule of modern air safety is to stay at least 500 feet above or below clouds—and to stay away from them altogether. The closer people are crowded together, the less freedom for all because what you do is ultimately related to the other fellow's rights and actions. We

. ! oe iversal Language Photographer Dean Timmerman, as he was snapping pictures of foreign racers attending qualifications. Finding that Frenchman Louis Gerard neither spoke nor understood" English, the photographer waved his camera in front of Gerard's eyes, pointed expressively .at him and put on an exaggerated smile. Gerard got the idea and posed, so Timmerman decided he | had something there; he'd try it again. Going over to where Z. Arkus Duntov, a Russian driver, was sitting in his car, Timmerman knelt down, focused | his camera, then tapped Duntov on the shoulder, As the Russian turned.around, Timmerman pointed to the camera, and with many facial contortions and expressive gestures pointed from himself to Duntov a couple of times. Then to show the driver how he should pose, the photographer grabbed an imaginary steering wheel and leaned back as he wanted Duntov to do in the car, at the same time putting on the big smile. As he remained in the somewhat awkward position to wait for the idea to soak in‘ on the foreigner, the very puzzled Duntov opened his mouth and said, in clear, precise English: “Sir . . . was there something you wanted?”

Speedway Odds and Ends

THE POLICE switchboard is ringing constantly

. with reports of stolen cars, mostly from the down-

town area. The department says it definitely is not | a wave of vehicle theft. out-of-towners who parked their cars and then got confused about where they left them. . The hotel room shortage must have been too much for one visitor, We spotted a luxurious Rolls-Royce parked | in front of the Salvation Army hotel on 8. Capitol early yesterday, . One of the most authentig Speedway window displays is at Efroymson's department store, 918 8. Meridian st. A. 8. Duesenberg, who was one of the makers of the world's most expensive car, the Duesenberg, and a pioneer. race car manufacturer, loaned the store some of his trophies for. their display. Included in the window full | of Speedway mementoes are the crown worn by Joe Boyer and L. L. Corum, in the 1924 race, and a picture of the car Mr. Duesenberg designed for Ab Jenkins, who holds all . existing speed records for | 10 miles to 24 hour endurance on a circular course. | The Jenkins car was designed and built in Indian- | apolis. . .. Just on the eve of the big race in the Hotel | Washington received this gem of a telegram: “Reserve best suite of rooms for May 29-30, Also pick up six best seats to Speedway and hold.” ... A crowd packed around a new Ford sportsman convertible on display in the lobby of the Claypool was getting a | big bang out of a new contraption. Semeone had discovered a button which, when pushed, puts the window down by hydraulic power. Reople in the crowd were taking turns pushing the button.

Gls By Jack Bell

o'clock in the morning beneath the American dag and was to remain until six at night. The Son and Molenhoek cemetemMies are resting places for the .dead of the 101st and 82d airborne divisions, which participated in the jll-tated invasion of September, 1944.

Honor 7th Army Heroes FAR TO THE SOUTH, today's ceremonies honored | the 7th army men who died in the invasion of south- | ern Prance. At La Cambe, 16 miles north of St. Lo lie the first to give their lives in the opening hours of the European invasion June €, 1944 ‘There, too, is buried Lt. Gen. Leslie McNair, commander of American ground forces, who was killed st St. Lo. East of Metz, great | stronghold of two worid wars, is St. Avold cemetery, | with 12,000 graves. Gen. Henri Giraud, storm center | of diplomacy while commanding the Free French |

At Lisnabreemy cemetery, Belfast, Ireland, services were held for the 4800 Americans buried there. There also were ceremonis in England and Switzerland for American airmen who crashed trying to limp home from raids on the enemy. In Holland and Luxembourg thousands of graves are decked with flowers, the work of grateful Dutch families. Everywhere the cemeteries are quietly beautiful, the result of long care by members of the American graves registration commend. Millions of trees, | shrubs and flowers grow along the neat walks 4nd fences.

By Maj. Al Williams | §

The navigation gadget that takes my time is the A. D. PF. (automatic direction finder). It's a radio | device, of course. There's nothing new about it, | but still it fascinates me. For instance, if an airman | should feel like being a bit reckless, he could fly all | over the United States without a map or any of the | printed matter available to pilots.

Could Read Paper While Flying

PROVIDED his plane is equipped with an auto- | matic direction finder he ‘could buy some out-of-town

newspaper, find the wave-length of the local radio | station at his next refueling point and, setting his A. D. F. to that wave length, take off in a blaze

used to think the airway radio directional ranges &0f assured navigational leisure.

were the greatest aids imaginable to air navigation

because they were invisible highways aloft, marked in sound signals Prior to that, a pilot simply had to see land

marks to hold a fairly accurate course.

Automatic Pilot is Big Aid CLOSE ON THE heels of the airways directional beams came the automatic pilot for the big planes. Once set for a course, and altitude, it permitted a pilot to take his hands and feet off the controls and sit back checking his position on the radio. One of the greatest blessings fo flying was the weather information relayed to the pilot over the radio. This still is a most essential aid to safe air transportation,

My Day

NEW YORK (Wednesday) —This will be the first Memorial Day since the end of the war in the Pacific, and yét, many people will say to themselves, “The world does not seem to be at peace as yet.” Everywhere there is restlessness. The ways of peace have not returned to us, and the results of war are still upon us, There will be parades and we will visit graves where lie those who have died for their country in various wars. Most of us will pray that these years of restlessness may pass and that peace may come again to the world as a whole. I hope, however, that we will do more than pray. Because it is going to require great deal of work on our part to make our country the kind which can back the United Nations and lead the world in its struggles toward a peaceful future, When we visit the graves of our soldiers in this country, I hope we will think of the cenfeteries all over the world where lie our men who died in both this world war and the last. And TI hope the pano= rama of names representing every nationality will recall to us that, in the United States, our citizens are citizens of the world. No Room for Racial Prejudice WE HAVE NO ROOM in this’ country for racial prejudice because our people come from every race and were brought together by an idea. We are made strong as a nation by the fact that we believe in certain democratic ideals.

“State Democrats to Meet Party Chiefs

Both private and. open sessions were on tap for the two-day conGreenlee said, with district and Democratic editorial association officials

State democratic officials have

scheduled pre-campaign conferference,

Mr.

ences with national party leaders. state, county, State Chairman Pleas Greenlee said a half dozen national com-|attending.

mittee executives will be in Indiana June 9 and 10 to aid in blue print-

National party leaders who will confer here included Richard Nacy, assistant to chairman to Robert|er, formerly of Greensburg, Ind,

The long arrow of the A. D. F. will point in the direction of the broadcasting station and all he | needs to do is to point his ship in the same direction. (The best angle of this operation is that the pilot doesn’t need to listen to the program being broadcast from that station.) It's true that side winds will swing him slightly | from his course, but if he can see that arrow and | knows how to steer his ship, he'll get where he | wants to go. When it first came out, the automatic direction finder was an expensive gadget. Now it as cheap as any little house receiver. And the new light-powered, | low-priced planes are equipped with A. D. F.—the| gadget that's taken the mystery and necessity for training out of air navigation.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no room for religious prejudices, either. Men of all religions fought the war and died side by side, The men who came back and are now struggling together to make the peace have a right to equal economic opportunity, to equal justice before, the law, and to equal participation in our government.

Must Fulfill Obligations

WE ARE ALL citizens of the United States. As such we dedicate ourselves on Memorial Day to an effort to give to all our soldiers the returns that they are entitled to for the sacrifices which they have made, We must insist that our government, as far as possible, try to give them the housing and the education which we promised them and then forgot to plan for. Our government must see to it that they have jobs and, above all, that the medical care which they may need for many years to come is available at all-times; On this Memorial Day, too, we might remember to shed a tear for those in other lands who mourn their dead and their sacrifices, and who perhaps have less cause than we have for hope of better things in the near future, Let us hold out a helping hand to all people everywhere, And let us agree to co-operate with every agency of our government so that the next Memorial Day may see us all more securely established in a peaceful world,

Hannegan; George Killian, national treasurer; National Publicity Director Sam O'Neal; Acy Caraway, national organizer of the young Democrats; Mrs. Charles W. Til-

Most of the calls come from ! Ta

army in Africa, participated in the services there.

lett, vice chairman of the women's

division of the committee, and Os- ! car Ewing, national vice command- |

he Indianapolis Times

THURS DAY, MAY \Y 30, 1946

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Cheerfully awaiting the opening of the Speedway gates was Carlton H. Nerney, Attleboro, Mass, who brought along his own seat pad.

Earl Myers (in the drivers seat) and Tommy Walker, both of Indianapolis, had a high perch in the pre-race traffic jam in this 1904 model Stoddard Dayton, one of the oldest vehicles at the track.

This weary pair bedded down on the hard ground.

Drivers gathered at the track late yesterday for last minute instructions.