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‘TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1946*

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The race cars of George Barringer, Indianapolis, and George Robson, Maywood, Cal. lie on the Lakewood, Atlanta, Ga., race track after a

six-car crash yesterday which killed the two veteran drivers.

AA 1 BILLY DEVORE

Officials Say Crippled Car, Followed Rules.

ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 3 (U. P.).—| Officials of automobile racing's na-| tional governing board’ today ab-| solved Billy Devore of blame for the! Lakewood speedway crash yesterday which claimed the lives of George

Robson and George Barringer. _ |

Devore earlier had been criticized

by Ted Horn, race winner. for fid-|

ing slowly along the inside guard

rail instead of dropping “6ut of the

race when his car developed mechanical trouble, The six-car pile-up. which re=| sulted in injuries to Z. R, (Bud)|

Bardowski, Gary, Ind, and Devore, | began when’ Ropson swerved to)

avoid Devore's oar in the blinding, dust, one

Horn told “reporters after the

race: “I just missed Devore's car two or three times on previous turns. I think he should have been taken out of the race because of the poor visibility.” Released from Hosiptal

The statement from A. A. A. offi-| cials who handled the race came as| Ff Devore was getting ready for release |g from the hospital. The -contest| board representatives said there was] no apparent infraction of rules on| .Devore's part. He had driven along

the inside rail at reduced speed for 25 miles and each of the racers had passed him several times. Devore, in his first statement. said he was driving according to rules] that permitted him to.stay in the| race with a crippled car.

A. A. ‘A. Secretary J. H. Lamb]

- also said Devore was driving according to the rules. A gay -Labor day erowd of 38,500 was bunched around the one-mile oval when Robson—this year’s “500” winner and a veteran of 15 years of riding tricky, dirs tracks from coast to coast—roared into the far . +m on the 98th .lap of the 100mile grind—two laps to go. Rowson, his visibility cut to almost

ger by the swirling red clay dust, | {Continued on Page 3—Column 5) |

Says Husband

Wed to Girl, 15

Police today were holding a 31-

year-old alleged father of three] children while they investigated | charges that he had fwo wives, one

of them a 15-yeff-old girl. James Smith, 316 Tomlinson st.

Barringer was driving car No. 7.

Billy Devore, Indianapolis and , is shown after “he | was rescued from his overturned

George Barringer and thrown over an embankment into a creek. Defore was injured and rushed to a

GEORGE BARRINGER WELL KNOWN HERE

Indian tect. all the tite would -mean to

‘Race Driver Was

George Barringer . . . He also Aied. .

Robson S. Death

For Racing Hall of Fame

Robson's car can be seen overturned in the rear.

George Roison + « « Lapped by |

death,

Halts Bid

By RICHARD BERRY George Robson, who whirled around the Indianapolis Motor Speed-| pionship with a ‘pen of Duroes. way last May to win the 500-mile classic and become the nation's racing Reserve championship ‘pen’ was

’ | hero, died as he would have wanted to die .. | + The modest little driver was killed just three months and three days | later—before he could achieve his ambition to become national A, A. A. | racing champion.

On May 30, George hurtled over the bricks at the Speedway here at 114.82 m. p. h, Then he couldn't believe he had won the rice. He confided his-ambition to me| a few hours after his victory in an interview at the Marott hotel. spoke of it. casually. Yet in his| [Re in his manner, one could de- |

im. was arrested at his home with a, apolis Resident 20 Years. | Perhaps he_sought fame, glory,

woman he said was his wife after] the first wife, Mrs. Catherine Smith, |

thrills. The latter, he could han=

George Barringer was well known| gqie. George didn't know ‘what to

1709. ¥. Michigan st. had filed a to Indianapolis residents as well a8) 4o with fame. For one reason, he!

complaint with Mrs. Mary Wheeler | © speedway fans. here nearly 20 years

en at the Speedway since 1938. A native of Wichita Falls, Tex, | {he began driving on dirt ‘tracks in|pnowerful motors that attracted him

of the juvenile aid department.

Mrs. Catherine Smith told Mu-| nicipal Court 3 Judge Joseph How-|

ard she had married Smith Nov. 9,

1941, but that they had been sepa-| Tulsa, Okla,

rated three years.

Mrs. Wheeler said - Smith had | Ihdianapolis M married his second wife, the 15-] yegr-old girl, July 11. She also said Smith had three children who were being cared for by the welfare

department.

Charged with vagrancy, Smith was held under’ $1000 bond.” His case is scheduled in court 3 at 2

p. m. Sept. 13,

{he said:

a winner 1 the tilt, wife and children. Mrs. Robson | he finished eighth in 1936, and in’ said he spent -most of hiss time 1939, he came in sixth. In the 1046 race he was forced out at 68 miles by a broken clutch. | wanted to be away ffom everyone, | He was- driving a Tucker Torpédo|gajone with his wife. His son, Special ‘with a rear engine and and his daughter, 6, had" stayed at| All seven of the defendants,(rp. missing Studebaker sedan . home. He wanted to see them,-let{a Mr. Barringer lived at 1322 N.[them share his elation of the mo-|Indiana Society for the Suppressiot eo. oid Moline. Tl, farmer, whose Gale st. with his wife, Velma, and| ment: his 9-year-old son, Billie.

four-wheel drive.

TIMES INDEX

were with him at Atlanta. waved to them on the last lap before he was killed.

Amusements 6-7) Indiana Saga. 12

Aviation ..... 11{In Indpls. ... 3 Eddie Ash ... 16/ Ruth Millett. 11 Business 8 Movies onl BY Carnival 12! Obituaries ...

Classified. . ¥- -20. Dr. O'Brien...

Comics ...... 21 F.C. Othman. 11 Radio ....... 21|to Wichita Falls, his father's home

12| for services and burial.

Crossword ',.. 1%

Editorials .,. 12| Reflections, .. “Roark

During the war he worked at the Allison Division of - the General He had planned to drive inthe) 10/100-mile’ A. M.A, 11! race here Sept. 15.

Mr. Barringer’s body will we yaken! When he became .Indianapolis|

' Speedway champ, he won because of his “lucky shirt," he said. Mrs.{

was too shy.

and had driv-| As the nation’s man of the po,

“Famous? Not me.’ Maybe it was the roar of the|

to racing.

Yet George loved his home, his|

{at home. After he won the race here, he|

, His ‘Lucky Shirt’

He didn't want to be interviewed. | He consented to it~ only after he| | | learned = that Dan

Times photographer,

| waited six hours to see him.

“Let's get it over with,” he sighed |Jeseneny. George had been tryfhg for | stars to win a major racing title:

Mrs. Roosevelt 11] LOCAL TEMPERATURES Sports .... 16-17 21| Weather. Map 22 Women’s -.... 14 World Affairs 12

Robson had knit thie shirt—for-himy Then George got “hot.” In the next two months he added a new string of victories to his record.

with his boots on.

ANOTHER FAIR RECORD FALLS; 75,000 ATTEND.

Nei 3 Continue to Jam,

‘Showgrounds After Holiday Turnout.

—

{Fair Sidelights, Page 5; Photo- |

| graphs, Page ‘11; Prize Winners,

Page 18).

Events Today |

| Governor's and Legislators’ day.

Judging of cattle, horses, sheep and | swine.

| National Percheron .show, Coliseum,

Horse show, 7 p. m., Coliseum,

[Victory revue of 1946, 7:45 p. m.

grandstand.

s—— |

Events Tomorrow |

| Education and children's day, chil-|

dren under 13 admitted free, National Percheron show. { Purdue band parade, 10:30 a. m. | Grand circuit races, vaudeville, | ,. Indianapolis concert band, 1.p. m Horse show, 7 p. m., Coliseum. Victory revue of 1946, 7:45 p. m, grandstand.

__ Approximately. .

went through the turnstiles at the |Indiana State Fair today, smashing |another attendance record. ' The previous record for a Tues{day was 52, I | The fair fans got a little extra for| | their money today when a small fire | broke out in sawdust in a foodstand operated by the Latter Day Saints’ { church. | Firemen put it out in a jiffy but {not before thousands of the fair goers gathered to "see what was going on 160,751 Visit on Holiday The fair officials hardly had -a chance to catch their breath from yesterday's record-shattering attendance, 160,751 visitors, before to-| day's deluge started. in. A total of; 115960" paid admissionis was recorded Labor day, 1041, previous high figure. Gates were locked when all avail: able automobile parking space was, filled, but the crowd still came yes-

destrian entrance. As the midway rang with laughter and endless thousands munched | peanuts and sandwiches, Hoosier farm products were. being judged by agricultural’ experts. Top honors for prize calves were]

4-H club member: from Liberty, and | his cousin, Ruthanne Witter, 15, also of Liberty. Teen-Agers Win Honors An 870-pound thoroughbred An{gus owned by .young Carson took | tie grand championship of the fair, while his cousin's Shorthorn was [reserve champion: - Both teen-agers won top honors

«Sunday in 4-H .club ‘competition,

[later winning against adult compefusion.

Judges also declared Portage!

| Farms, Woodville, O., grand cham-|

pion in the barrow show. The farms’|

Chester White outstripped all other animals in the show. Reserve champion was a Duroc owned by Carl E. Patrick & Son, Cloverdale. In the pen of three barrows com-’ petition, C. R. Smith & Sons, Hart{ford City, won the grand cham-

owned by Ora Callahan, Rushville Grandstand Packed But, the midway and” exhibits

Both George Robson and George Barringer, who were killed in yesterday's pileap at Atlanta, Ga., were entered in the 100mile championship race to be run Sept. 15 at the Indiana state fair grounds. Virtually all other Speedway drivers in yesterday's race are expected to compete here;

crowd's attention. Feet made

“Eritered as Second-Class Matter at Postofice ed indianapolis, Ind. Issued dally except Sunday

Helpless atch Girl

{ 75.000. persons!

terday, -shuffling through every pe-|

'of a relative, Mrs.

won by Glen Carson, 17-year- old | y =y | “T get the next spoonful.” Suabile her

were not alone in receiving the; | forehead right

“Hmmm, another bruise,” . . . Janet Rose Redick inspects her

latest scar in a mirror, as her weary parents wondenswhat will Wappen h

next.

Baby Escapes 5th Accident

The parents of 22-month-old Janet Rose ‘Redick sank wearily a pa

and wondered “What next?" today, injured frgm

When her parents “Mr. and Mrs. Charles Redick, 2116 inter ave. reached her, Janet Rose was sitting on the ground, examining Some minor bruises. The fall climaxed a good- alii

between Janet Rose and The mothers . had been Soin

candy and giving the tots spoonfuls, / Says ki: $ , “Senurity Area’ Apparently

In her haste to get another help-|

ing, Janet Rose tumbled out the :

window Escaping by a hairbreadth is old stuff to the flaxen-haired tot. So ar this year she's been within

f inches of death by drowning, hang- D. Eisenhower said today that in| djed.

ing and suffocation as well as by, falling. Hits Drawer Knob’

a second-story nosedive, The tot, whose 1946 calendar has been punctuated with near fatal, | accidents, fell 15 feet yesterday from a second-story window at the home! ilmer Baxter, 1532 Roosevelt ave |

after their youngster ‘smnged un- {

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UNITY 1S ASKED BY EISENHOWER

Must Be Restudied.

By TOM NOONAN United Press Staff Correspondent

BOSTON, Sept 3==CGen. Dwight"

the light of the atom bomb and| i other scientific’ developments . of | modern warfare the country's “area

1man, . daughter of ME and Mrs, Francis Sigman, R. R. 1, Carfhel, was burned to. death when ¥ destroyed the one~

Patricia Ann Sigman Vim

Of Tragedy in. Ravenswood. ‘A group of hotrified rela-

" Itives and neighbors watched: + 'a 4-year-old. girl perish in

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flames today, after. intense .

heat blocked three stempts:_ 3

to save her.

~The victim, Patricia Ann Sige

his head and made his wa wa in ne lasing hous, He | was back before he could a : Fa The little girl, w Ho wis Asleep im

[me room in which the fire started, waa seen once before she perished, awakened by the ped’ out ‘of Bed and a toward the window.’ : Ran Back fo Bed She hesitated a moment in’ the middle of the flaming room. Then "she Tan back to the bed Where sig

The fire was believed to have ro. {sulted from throwing kerosene om coals in the stove. It spread quickly

In January she fell into a lard Of security must be examined and| over the four-room house and was wy

can full of water at her home. An] | eight-year-old aunt pulled her out ! just In time. In March a2 pop ‘corn. kernel “lodged in her throat. Her relatives| spent several frantic minutes Keep-| ing the tot from choking to death. A month later she poked her pug | nose in a narrow space between &| {cabinet and the back of a chair. | She slipped and had almost hanged herself when she was found. May was calm but in June shel! took a running fal] into a_knob on| a drawer, The scars, left from five] stitches, are still visible on her alongside the

weary by trudging between the | scratches she received in her latest|

sideshows and judging rings were | rested at the grandstand, where a sell-out audience screamed for its favorites among grand circuit har-ness-race entries.

the attention of the younger mem--+-bers of the group.

~=|" "In other judging completed yes-

PHANTOM RAIDERS - VICTIMS ARE. FREED Scere =" ‘Court Rules es Evansville, AX Murder Victim’ S Missing Car Found Near Brownstown

Warrants. Faulty.

Times State Service

EVANSVILLE, Sept. 3.~—Evansville's big mystery gambling raids |died today. But true to form, even 12,| the final chapter was fantastic.

| terday, Miss Jeanne Scott. Dale- | ville; won first honors. for the seclond consecutive year in the 4-H!

lo A dog and pony show there held

| exploit.

Important News On Inside Pages|

" Page F. D. R. feared third war eg Peace envoys waif Stalin-Molo- | tov talk ‘ Lae Nine die in state accidents : : 5! American billionaires v8 |' Tex Johnston wins Thompson ophy ‘ erase v 10%

(Photos, Page Three) wr

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 3.

|of Vice last week, were freed. City Judge James G. Crenshaw ruled that several errors existed in the issuing of the search warrants; to wit—the premises were no ona ficiently described, were not copied and made a part of the warrants, the testimony leading to the issuing of the warrants was er. 15 given only orally, which he said was| Lewis. | jllegal. *

t sufthe affidavits| - Brownstown authorities said the

decapitated body was found on a

Skirvin revealed today.

car wasiwrecked on a highway near that city last Aug. ‘9 and that the| driver gave his name as “William |

The driver, Brownstown officials!

After the fanfare which. started | said, answered the general -descrips!

when the pharitom raiders swooped|tion of ‘Willlam Grandy, 25, forSow on wide open gambling joints,|merly of Rock Island, IIL." Who is dead about three weeks.

_J.__Eichel, Vanderburgh being sought by Indiana and [li-|

previ ‘Democratic chairman, «admitted he formed the society. to|the murder of Mr. Scott. drivé gamblers out of business. He! The driver of the Sc held by police-at Brownstown foriwith an ax and the

claimed they contribu

= {CO jiuad ou Frage 3—-Column 8) ' his Sati. periy ition) §

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jnoney to

[revealed several strands of human

farm here Sunday, has been found | in Brownstown, Ind., Sheriff Albert | 2¢en found on it.

no one reported. theft of the car: The driver disappeared, leaving the wrecked car in a Brownstown garage. Sheriff Skirvin also reported that laboratory tests made on an ax found at the scene of the murder

hair but that no bloodstains had

The search for Grandy followed ldisclosure that he was with Mr, Scott about a month ago when the latter left Rock Island for Bloomington, Mr. Scott's headless body. was] |found on a farm 12 miles southeast of here, owned by Mrs. “A. J, Fare where the victim had rented a ‘cottage for the winter. He had heen

Fred Shields,” who lives on th

{of street fights, the shattering of

| tires were prevalent.

EX-WPB CHIEF WARNS

reassessed.” The army chief of staff told ‘the { 47th annual encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Boston arena that a whole continent can be a potential target today. “One atomic missile could paras lyze a city and blot it out of the national economy for all effective purposes.” he said. “By “bacterial warfare a ruthless enemy might seek to bring the germs of death to every home in the country. No Separate Services “More’ than ever it is certain that there ts no separate air, sea or ground warfare. Just as the whole nation is the potential objective, so is the whole nation and every~ thing and every person in it the only organism by which successful war can be waged.” f Earlier delegates heard a message from President Truman urging exservicemen to put “more emphasis on the service and less on the ex.” National Cmmdr. Joseph M. Stack {ordered an end to rowdyism “that, {is making this the worst conven» tion in V. F. W, history.” Reports’

windows and slashing of gutomobile

AGAINST ARMY RULE

Nelson Rags Military’s ‘Outright Ignorance.’

WASHINGTON, Sept, 3 (U, PJ. —Donald M. Nelson, former head of the war production board, charged today that the nation’s reconversion difficulties were caused in large part by the “lust for power” and “out right ignorance” displayed by some army officials during the war. | Writing in his forthcoming book, “Arsenal of Democracy,” Mr. Nelson |” said the military sought repeatedly to don ‘ate -the civilian economy and reiused to permit any concrete planning’ for the pesce. 4 |" The book is to be published Thursday:

out of hand before firemen The. fire. victim's little brother, Michael, “2, had risen for breakfast before the fire started and was led

children, Nancy, 12, and Robert, 8. The two grandchildren had. spent the night with Mrs. Sigman and were to return- home today. Their = mother came to Indianapolis this

Unable to save the child or:house, | firemen diverted hoses to. neigh= boring homes, endangered by"

water played on them by firemen. The spread of flames was so rapid that the. fire victim's great-grands+ father, Grant Sherman, who saw the 'fire break out from about 100 yards ‘away, was unable .to reach the house. Patricia and Michael Sigman had been visiting their grandmother for the past two weeks, while their parents took a vacation trip to Georgia, They ended their visit Sunday when their parents ré< turned and took them back to their farm home, 1% miles southwest of Carmel. Father Hears of Tragedy Mr. and Mrs. Sigman returned

care. again. last night, however, because their mother had to drive i Mr, Sigman to work at Roberts Milk Co. at 3 a. m. today. vi Mr. Sigman was notified of the" tragedy while on his milk route n Westfield, Ind. The parents had origtoally planned to ‘meet at the- grandmother’s home when he his work this morning, to their children to the state fair,

Times Presents i” New. Serial— Fa

nois authorities for questioning in same farm as an overseer, found the Scott car was| chopped from the body" apparently

several sayy and then/ released aftér | had been Hed up wi sash cord,

body Sunday. The head had. ‘been

nd and feet|in peril if it is controlled by

“The lesson taught by these recent war years is clear: Our whole

economic and social system will hy

military men,” Mr. Nelson

out of the hoiise by Mrs. Sigman's

morning to get her children, arrive

the ¢hildren to their grandmother's