Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1948 — Page 7

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SATURDAY, JULY 3,

New England | Tracks Renew | Racing War |

schedule Indentical BOSTON, July 3 (UP) — The threatened patronage war between Rhode Island and New Hampshire horse race tracks

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man who ruined all peace efforts. «Suffolk Downs earnestly tried to avoid any date conflicts between the three major New England tracks,” said Smith, ragansett authorities also did. Rockingham certainly wants no conflict.” He said those three tracks ed last November to share dates, and he charged that the Rhode Island State Racing Commission vetoed the plan at the insistence of Dario. The racing war, pending for months, has flared after it was learned that New Hampshire had § granted 17 extra days to Rockingpam, virtually assuring that the galem track will compete either 'Gansett or Lincoln for its entire 84-day meeting.

Falkenburg Wins Wimbledon Title

WIMBLEDON, England, July 3 (UP)—Bob Falkenburg, year-old beanpole who doesn’t know what it means to quit, won the 62d Wimbledon Men's Singles championship yesterday by beat- : ing Jack Bromwich of Australia,/. °° 7.5, 0-6, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5, in one of|: = = the most thrilling finishes ever| . seen on the famed center court.

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SEEKS REVENGE—Mel Hansen, popular midget. and big car driver, will be hot on the trail of Kenny Eaton, present point leader, when they mest tomorrow night on the W. 14th St. track. Hansen drives on the team representing Indianapolis, while Eaton wheels his mount for the Anderson team. Eaton has won the last two feature races here.

Offys Scheduled At Midget Tracks

Full fields of Offenhausers will make with the noise again this week-end at the two local midget race tracks. Indianapolis’ racing team of Mel Hansen, Eddy Haddad and Johnny McDowell will be out after more points in the midget racing program carded at the W, 16th St. Speedway Sunday night. Time trials will start at 6:30 and racing will get under way at 8:30, The Anderson team of Ken EaPotsy Goacher and Aaron Woodard still ‘lead the team standing in points won in feature races. Speedrome officials have announced that: rain checks from last Saturday’s show will be honored tonight. Time trials are set for 6,30 p.m. and racing will start at 8:30. A 100-lap midget race is scheduled ° tomorrow afternoon at Funks Speedway in Winchester. The first race will get under way at 2:30. Race fans who like to watch the big cars roll will have a chance to watch top-notch drivers of the Midwest Dirt Track Association in action tomorrow afternoon at Bloomington. Racing is slated to start at 2:30.

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Backed to match point three times in the ninth game of the deciding fifth set—in. which he trailed 5-2 at one time—the gangling Falkenburg rallied to win with a display of cannonball

services and overhead smashes

that left the crowd gasping in amazement. In succeeding Jack Kramer of Los Angeles to the title, the six-foot, » three-inch Hollywood youth, who had earned a reputation as an erratic performer with little besides a powerful service, emerged as one of America's outstanding court stars and a leading figure in the U. 8.

plans for a defense of the Davis|:}

Cup this fall, Falkenburg's triumph made him the eighth American to win the historic all-England tournament since Big Bill Tilden first brought the Wimbledon trophy across the Atlantic in 1920.

Cotton Wins British Open

MUIRFIELD, Scotland, July 3 (UP)—Ancient Henry Cotton, the dean of Great Britain's golf-| ers, had his third British Open! golf title today but it was the! only one of five ‘championships that . Britain managed to save from invading Americans .this| year. | Cotton, who previously won the British Open in 1934 and 1937, won again yesterday with a 284 after putting together a 75 and| 12 in the last two rounds. Closest American to Cotton was burly Johnny Bulla of Phoenix, Ariz., who tied for sixth place with 291. Frank Stranahan of Toledo, O., winner of the British Amateur title, was out of the money with 297. 80 once again Cotton halted 2 string of victorious raids by ericans. He won the Open for the first time in '34, ending 10 years of Yank domination. Before he saved the Open this year, | the United States had won the

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American Legion Junior Baseball

Gene Nash struck out 13 batters and allowed only three hits to give Robison-Ragsdale a 4-2

No. 1 team in an American Legion Junior baseball game last night. The losing pitcher held the Robison team to three hits also, ut errors caused by some loose ball playing cost him the game. ‘Other scores last night were:

Harpole 10, Memorial - hn 9, Irvington 0; Indianapolis Been ove 2; Acton 17, fleld 4; Watkins

3. Speedway 0; Big Four 4, Wayne 0,

Victory over the Broad Ripple

: ling the street when struck by two

BACKSTOP — Warren Schoier Day will be observed at the 49th and Arsenal Park diamond tomorrow afternoon for the young catcher who has been a member of the Fall Creek Athletics two seasons. The Athletics will meet the Northeast Trojans in-a twin bill starting a | p.m. Luke Logan and Schoier will form the A's battery for the first tilt,

Notre Dame Grid Aid

Named to Rocket Staff CHICAGO, July 3 (UP)—Leo Murphy, 24-yéar-old athletic assistant at the University of Notre Dame, has been named head trainer for the Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference. Now the youngest head trainer in professional football, Murphy for three years was an assistant

in all sports to Notre Dame's Hugh Burns.

Grid Cards Get Two

CHICAGO, July 3 (UP)—Guard Garrard Ramsey and Tackle Joe Coomer have signed 1948 Chicago Cardinal contracts, club officials have announced. Ramsey, despite injuries which forced him to miss four games, was named on several All-Professional football teams last season.

Softball Notes

Foxworthy Motors downed New Central, 10-5; Jungle Club topped F. Jacobs, 6-2; Glidden Co. rap; WwW. Holliday, 13-6, in the Bush-Callahan Manufacturers’ loop at Municipal Stadium last night. Joni, in the girls’ league at Munici2 Pike Top. faces Farm Bureau at 6, ngan Wildcats meet Speedway Merchants at 7:10, Monon Railroad opposes Cumberland at 8:20, and Kin is paired against New Bethel

York

at 9:30.

loop at Beech Grove Stadium: Central 6, Samaritan Lodge 1

10, Clutch 10, J. D. Adams tapped Block's, 20-3; 10, Men's Bible Class outsiugged L. 8. Ayers, 18-11, and Fletcher Trust

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Eagle Creek Stadium results:

chants 12, Holy Cross Shelby Street Federal 0.

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starting at 6 p.m. with 160 girls regis--day tourney.

Sunda and the Juels Monday night. The sched. ght: Bureau;

Program for State

Nearly $1 million for the imIndiana

Aeronautics Administration. Included was $280,000 for improvements at Weir Cook Municipal Airport in Indianapolis. These funds are to be matched by the city. : Other airports in the state included in the improvement program and receiving federal allocations are: Bloumington, $70,000; Gary, $80,000; Evansville, $100,’

$25,000; Sf. Joseph County airport, South Bend, $375,000, and

port, $29,000. Available Next Year

P. H. Roettger, superintendent of Weir Cook Municipal Airport in Indianapolis, said the funds allocated for use here are for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1949, @eneral improvements at the field here will include the construction of a new instrument runway, which will run parallel to the present one. Measurements for the new strip were given as 7200 feet in length by 200 feet in width. Such runways are used by pilots landing ‘by their instruments alone during adverse

000; Kokomo, $30,000; Richmond, |§{

Valparaiso, Porter County air-/§¥

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wri Rds X i A “SONG COMES TRUE — Al Jolson acquired a new "Sonny Boy" Friday when the 59-year-old singer and his wife, Erle Chenault, 25, adopted a son, Asa Albert, 6 months old, in a Hollywood court. The Jolsons have cared for the baby since he was 5 days old. They obtained him through the California State Welfare Department. Shown above are the proud parents with the living realization of the song

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Weir Cook Gets *280,000 Grant

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four hours after the explosion.

Dr. B. A. Dilorio, the surgeon, | {said that “in five more minutes| he would have been finished.” Went on With Operation | Witnesses reported that a tube] carrying cyclopropane gas exploded. Beyond that hospital authorities said they didn’t know) ‘what caused the explosion. They| said every precaution had been| taken. Dr. Dilorio was closing an in-| cision when the blast occurred. He was stunned and temporarily deafened by the blast. He hesitated a moment and then went on!

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with the operation.. | He said there was “no time to worry” about the three nurses who were injured. Hospital at-| {tendants rushed to their aid and) lother doctors entered the room| [to assist the injured surgeon with {the operation. The nurses, Gloria Romano, |Carol Gale and Doris Wood, were |hospitalized. None was injured |seriously.

weather conditions, Mr. Roettger said. Part of Master Plan All’ improvements scheduled for Weir Cook are part of a master improvement plan which will take from eight to 10 years to complete, Mr. Roettger said, and will possibly exceed $10 million in costs. o Plans have been made for building expansion also, but actual work will not begin for another two years, The field is currently undergoing improvements in the aircraft parking areas and a reconditioning of the aircraft taxi strips.

Struck by Two Cars,

Anna Hill, 70, of 1819 Shelby day in General Hospital after an

Shelby Sts. Police were told she was cross-

automobiles. One was being driven by Richard Beamen, 17, of 1277 Naomi St. Lawrente Carmen, 35, of 1437 W. Ohio 8t., was driver of the second vehicle. He was charged with having no operator’s license.

At Firearms Plant

HARTFORD, Conn. July 3 (UP)—A threatened strike at

averted, at least temporarily, today by an agreement to continue working under terms of the contract which expired last night. Earlier, the firm said it would not renew its contract with the United Electrical Workers, which it accused of having leftist leanings. Since then the workers have

Bulgaria Asks Turkey Jo Return Anti-Reds

ISTANBUL, July 3 (UP)—The Bulgarian embassy asked today

sengers aboard a Bulgarian plane which landed in Turkey Wednesday with two dead crewmen be returned to Bulgaria for trial. The six claimed refugee status. Turkish authorities had not made up their minds. Ten months ago the Turks refused to return three Romanians who landed in Tur{key under similar circumstances.

Dow Chemical Sells Basketball Franchise

MIDLAND, Mich., July 3 (UP) —The Dow Chemical Co. has

Hoosiers Smoking Twice as Much

cent more cigarets during the last year than state statistical experts figured they would.

3-cents-a-pack state cigaret tax| in 1947, budget-makers figured the tax would produce approximately $9 million annually.

the new tax ended July 1. State Alcoholic Beverage. Commission,

operation of the law, reported today that the state treasury was enriched by $12,988,236.

Doss predicted the 1948-49 fiscal year collection would be even greater.

that six anti-Communist pas-|°

Cigaret Tax Revenue

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The tax collections represented tfe sale of 432,941,200 packs of cigarets. That would be, roughly, 110 packages of cigarets during one year for every man, woman and child in “Indiana—or, broken

Truman Train To ‘Visit’ State, But No Speeches

TI PRESIDENT TRUMAN should have a fresh and fairly thorough picture of the Indiana countryside by the time the week-end is over. Mr. Truman's special train rolled across northern Indiana in early June on the way out in a Western “non-political” tour. It swung across central Indiana again on the way back to Washington later in the month. Tomorrow, the train brings the President back across Indiana— this time through the southern portion—as Mr. Truman heads for Bolivar, Mo, for a statue dedication visit.

Washington over the same route. r But Hoosiers who see the train won't get a glimpse of the President this time. He talked in platform appearances at Gary, . Wayne, Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Richmond on his last two trips through the state. This time, he will make no platform

down even further, nearly 2200 cigarets per person.

Agreement with U. S. ATHENS,

Greece Approves Aid (As Fire Sweeps Ship

July 3 (UP)—The Coast Guard cutter Gentian res-

Greek parliament by voice vote guaqish freighter Dagmar Salen today ratified the aid agreement|today after they had taken to with the United States. In five hours of debate, extreme|the freighter 30 miles off Cape rightist spokemen criticized the/May, N. J. signified their desire to switch to|United States for shipping 1300] The Dagmar Salen is a 5000the United Automobile Workers. |automobijle here for the use of the|ton freighter operating —————————————————— American mission.

appearances.

All of Crew Saved

in south central

to pressure federal authoritiés into using Camp Atterbury for the new peace-time draft. Atterbury has been on a stand-by basis recently.

Expect Congress | Aid on Atterbury

Hoosiers Promise Reactivation Support

FRANKLIN, July 3 (UP) — Leaders in the “Reactivate Atterbury” ‘movement said today that several Indiana members of Congress had pledged their support. The group, representing cities Indiana, hopes

Committeemen from Franklin,

# a» Columbus, : THE PRESIDENT will go|purg. ar Sianapalls, Greens

through North Vernon, Seymour|martinsvill and Vincennes Sunday night. Oninere yeste Tuesday, the train goes back tO|ress in their efforts.

Report Halleck Pledge

They reported that House Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck] (R. Ind.) was had promised help. They also learned that Indiana's two Senators and two other Congressmen might attend another committee .|meeting, tentatively scheduled for next week.

hart and William E. Jenner, and 4 . Reps. Earl Wilson and Gerald | at S

“interested”

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W. Landis of the Ninth and Sev-

NEW YORK, July 3 (UP)—The énth Districts.

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Pi Beta Phi Re-elects || |

‘All National Officers

FRENCH LICK, Ind. July 3 (UP)—Members of Pi Beta Phi National College Sorority re-| elected Miss Amy Burnham On-| ken, Chapin, Ill, as grand presi-| dent, and retained all other offi-| cers at the closing session of their national convention last night. Officers for Delta province, which includes Indiana and Michigan chapters, were Mrs. B. G.

Lewis, Indianapolis, president, and Mrs. Virginia Brackett Green, Indianapolis, vice presi-

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Mrs. Robert 8. Wild, Indianapolis, was re-elected vice president of the National Grand! Council. |

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dropped basketball from its sports| program after selling its National Professional Basketball League franchise. . Dow announced yesterday it would concentrate on softball,’ bowling, golf and tennis. The company sponsored a basketball team in the professional league; and suffered a disastrous record of only six victories in 60 games. | |

i Amateur Baseball

Junior Results A—Cardinals 17, . Northside Pirates 2; Northside Eions 19, Westside Merchants 1;| Rhodius 6, Decatur Central 5; Rhodius 10, Douglas PAL Club 5. i B—Northeast Community _ Center 6! Broadway Baptists 1; Variety Club 17,| Rockville Rockets 2; Northside Eagles 10,| Northside Merchants 9. { C—Panthes § us 16, Mars Hill 0; Northeast Comets won forfeit ; Brightwood Merchants |9,

Ll A | will play- the Irvington Bluesox tomorrow at 2:30 on the Decatur Central High School diamond. Monday the South Side Saints will meet Capitol Oil, same diamond, same time. {

Wilhelm Construction defeated Newman Construction, 2-1; Allis No. 1 blanked Poynter: Welding, 3-0, and won two of three from Vonnegut's night in horseshoe pitching loop action at

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