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George Pierson of Danville (right) was awarded first place in the 100-yard dash during running of the Mid-State track championshits, at Washington High Schosl yesterday. Meet. judges gave Dick Vander-
Field of 14 Horses Signed
For Derby Run Tomorrow “Halt Is First Entry Officially Certified For 75th Running of Kentucky Classic
By JOHN DIETRICH, United Press Sports Writer . . , LOUISVILLE, Ky. May 6—Fourteen horses, : including the favored Olympia and a colt whieh never has won a race, were entered today for the Diamond Jubilee running of the Kentucky Derby tomorrow. : » If all. 14 go to the post it will be the largest Derby field since ‘Assault won in 1946 when 17 three-year-olds went into the starting
- shot showing finis|
Young Suspects Ee ie ot he Caught in River
classic is 5:30 p. m. (Indianapolis
DST). Trainer Woody Stephens ambled into the secretary's office at Churchill Downs early today
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Mooresville's Cruax (left), third place. Times Photographer Henry E. Glesing Jr, shows the judges may be wrong: with a split-second recording of an unusual ; of the race in which the meet record cook of Lawrence Ceniral [middie] sseond place and was lowered by one-tenth of a second. Pierson and
Two Stug Guard, Flee State Farm
Local Burglar One Of Pair; Manhunt On
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1949
How Did They Finish? You Be The Judge :
IU Business Alumni Get
Preview of Atomic Power
Industry's Aid Welcomed in Development, Argonne Laboratory Engineer Says
Cruax are shown hitting the tape with their chests
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofiies Indianapolis, Ind. Issued Dally
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Showers Due To End Heat | Tomorrow |
Temperatures Today Expected to Reach 90-Degree Mark
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am... 66 10a m... 80 Tam... 68 11am... 88 Sam... 71 12 (Noon). 84 i 9am... 1 1pm... 84
Those thunderstorms you have been hearing about will bring re-! Mef from the record-breaking . |spring heat wave tomorrow! Weatherman Paul Miller said. | Temperatures today were ex-| pected to climb to yesterday's 90 degrees and exceed. by 5 degrees the all-time record for this date; of 85 last reached in 1936. ', ! . Demand for Water ! Record - breaking temperatures; yesterday caused the Indianapolis Water Co. to pump 61,780,000 gal-| lons of water to eclipse its May! record. Yesterday's mark broke the pro 20US, day's record of 59,720, 000 gallons for any day in May. The old mark was 59,160,000, set in 1948. Blazing skies today will bacom increasingly cloudy tonight as cool air from the West ap-
lowed by a mild 72 tomorrow, Sharp Drop Expected. Temperatures were expected
Lawrence won the meet,
tion of the state in the five-day period ending Wednesday, Much cooler temperatures were expected throughout the state tomorrow as a cold air mass from the West sweeps over the state. Temperatures were expected to
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remain near normal Sunday,
Two convicts slugged a guard and escaped from the Indiana State Farm at Putnamville early tdday. State police patrolled the Putnam County roads today and Indianapolis police were asked to aid in the search for the escapees, one of whom was an Indianapolis man serving ‘a sentence for burglary. -— The fugitives were James L.
4 Times Special BLOOMINGTON, May 6—The business world got a second-
hand peek into the secrets of a
And there the mystic atom was seen getting ready to do the work
of man.
H. L. Hull of Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory described the industrial harness science is making for the atom to enable
warm slightly Monday and Tuesday and becomes cooler again Wednesday. Rainfall in the period will be moderate, the weather bureau said, and range from one-fourth to three-fourths inches. BState-
great atomic laboratory today.
it to pull the power load of industry. : |
wide showers tomorrow were expected to be followed by rain
“The possibilities of good from
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\range from 52 to 73 in the north and 58 to 78 in the southern por-
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Defense Chief Hails Spirit of Youth in U.S.
Johnson Here For Legion Ceremonies
Young Americans Always Have Risen To Crisis, He Asserls Defense Secretary Louis Johnson issued a plea for peace but warned that the. spirit of American youth
__ Emilie Grey, "St. Patrick's | Catholic School student . . . the |
1949 Indianapolis Spelling Champion. She wears her vic. tory smile, gold champion's watch and gold champion pin.
'f] Champ Repeats In Spelling Bee
. ¥milie Graf Wins Times Event Again
By ART WRIGHT Emilie Gray, 8t. Patrick's
at |proaches Indiana, Mr. Miller said. Catholic School eighth grader, the same time. Vandercook's chest doesn't touch the a tas minimum of “60 today is two-time oh of | tape, shown running through the bend in his left arm. [tonight was expected to be fol- The Times Spelling Bee. i The photo finish shows a dead heat between Pierson and Cruss. You be the judge.
Ehe won her second title in three years last night when she out:
{would respond in any war
{emergency as he came to In. {dianapolis today to dedicate the American Legion's new headquarters in Memorial Plaza. / The new Defense Secretary, who {8 charged with the integration of American air, land and sen power into a co-ordinated
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fighting force, had nothing to say on that subject immediately. He fanded at Municipal Alrport at 11 a. m. in a huge Constellation. Sounding the keynote for cornerstone laying ceremonies for the $2 million Legion building, Mr. Johnson asserted that Ameri can youth has no aggressive designs on. anyone, but will not shirk if the nation is attacked. “Youth wants peacs, in which to live and work,” He said. “But let no nation deceive itself and {read in this desire for peacs & | note of softness or weakness.” ars Fly Overhead As . Johnson, Legionnaires
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and State and City officials converged on the plasa for ‘the cere-
Runnérup wis Shirley White,
ing Perry Township. Other prize winners were: 5d, Patricia Arnold, Ben Davis School, representing Wayne Township; 4th, Barbara Carter, School 1; representing Northeast Community Center; 5th, Patricia Krause, Holy Trinity Catholic School, representing Coleman Community Center. “Ieicle” was the word that paved the way for Emilie's vietory. When Bhirley White mis-
spelled 14 finalists at the World'rop {War Memorial Auditorium.
of Hdgewood Bchool, represent-
Dr. Hull, director of the Re- the atom are very great indeed.| mote Control Engineering Divi-'We can increase our standard of)| sion of the Argonne Laboratory, living. The present (Atomic En-| spoke before the Third Alumnilergy) commission is urging busi-|
again on Wednesday. Ti. (Continued on Page 6—Col. 5) | $5 Million
afr cover of 73. plan over N. Meridian Bt. an | pardders marchad on the grofind. Forty-two Tenth Alr Fighters flew overhead in the bright bius
|sky, followed by 30 Navy Hell-
cats and Corpairs, Mr. Johnson recalled how young Americans from all walks of life eagerly responded to the nation’s call to the colors in two world wars, He traced the transition of the nation’s youth from the flapper age through the jazz age. Retain Same Spirit Each time, he said, the youngsters showed that they had the American spirit, although their elders were shocked, afraid each new generation was going to the dogs. : The Becretary of Defense also
(and: dropped the name of Wood- # Ww Id ch {vale \Farm’s Halt into the Keni ase {tucky Derby entry box. After . Mrs. Royce G. Martin's handTwo teen-age youths on a car|g,me 3.year-old’ thus became the theft spree were captured in
Scheduled post time for the Police - Seize Pair
Campbell, 20, whose address was 8!ty School of Business. given as 765 N. Emerson In five years, and possibly Ave, sentenced to serve one year three, Dr. Hull foresaw useful on a charge of third degree burg- experimental demonstrations of lary from Indianapolis Feb. 4, power, capable of driving ships.
meeting of the Indiana Univer. [ness come in and help and bust Hollywood : Park
nessmen are responding and] showing interest.
“If we absorb the atom into Race Plant Burns |
our way of life,” Dr. Hull said,| “ 7 INGLEWOOD, Cal, May 6 we may lead the world out of| yp) 4 40.minute fire razed the
Witness Says He Saw Jailbreak Plan
White River today after a bulletpunctuated foot race with police pver the North Side. The two boys, 16 and 17 years old, surrendered as four policemen surrounded them with drawn guns in White River near T4th St. and Edgewater. The capture ended a thrillpacked chase as six police squads
pursued the youths through far
North Side streets and fields after the boys smashed a stdlen car into a utility pole at 6300 Riverview Dr. Confess Other Thefts Within a few minutes after their capture the youths confessed three other vehicle thefts in the past 24 hours and officers recov-
The Kentucky Derby will be heard locally over Station WFBM beginning at 5:15 p. m. (DST) tomorrow.
first of an expected 14 entries for the 75th running of the nation's premier turf classic. Mrs. Martin’s home is in Toledo, O. This is the first time Stephens has trained a Derby entry. Conn | McCreary will be up on Halt tomorrow, Second Entry A half hour later, Trainer {Dave Hurn showed up to make | Lexbrook Stable’s Lextown the {second Derby entrant, Hurn said ithe colt looked “just right” for | the Derby.
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| Third in. the box was Cliff
ered stolen cars from places the | arooers’ Old Rockport. He was boys had parked them. | registered by Trainer Phil Reilly, Police were alerted to be oniang will be piloted by the brilliant the lookout for the two boys aft-|apprentice ‘Gordon Glisson. er residents in the 6300 block of | Glisson yesterday drew a fiveRiverview Dr. reported two teen-| gay suspension for rough riding, agers fled the scene after crash- put it does not apply to the ing a convertible car into a utility | perby. ! pole. . The car belonging to For-| Reflly was followed to the
and Ted Couch, 28, Monroe County, serving six months for child neglect. The break occurred at 2:10 a. m. today as night guard Carl Thompson, Cloverdale, was patrolling a dormitory of about 200 prisoners. Grab Guard's Keys As the guard’s back was turned to them, one of the pair suddenly struck him over the head and the other grabbed his keys. They jumped over the dazed guard and unlocked the door, fleeing to the adjacent welfare building. The guard recovered and summoned other guards in time to
In 10 years, he said, we should expect to ‘see experimental power plants produced for commercial use.
prevent further escapes. But the pair had jumped from an open window in the welfare building by the time pursuers reached the building. Superintendent Albert Virgil said guards started ‘ searching surrounding country a few minutes after the escape but that
48uspects were questioned.
$5 million grandstand and club-| house at Hollywood Park race] track early today on the eve of | In Johnson Hearing the greatest season in its history. A witness who testified at the) It will be rebuilt, track officials {7, 8. Commissioner's hearing for! said. | Before the twisted girders were (11411008 Louse Sohyeon Joly cool, fire inspectors poked|8d ne met the celencant. in Mi) through the ashes beneath them ami, Fla. when she was about to| for a clue to an arsonist who may jump off a bridge into a river. have set off the blaze. Beveral| wig Johnson, wife of Clyde
Three firemen were hurt, one Milton Johnson, 30, Memphis.
critically, {Tenn., bank robbér, was arrested s ¥ 'by FBI agents in her hotel room THE ENTIRE grandstand, Apr. 21 when her husband was {clubhouse and turf club, which shot in a Monument Circle gun {was to have housed a crowd of battle, 'socialites and movie stars on! John C. Bigham, Florida base{opening day May 17, was de- hall umpire, the witness, said he (stroyed. The track controller met Mrs. Johnson on Feb. 25 as [sald it would take $12,000,000 he stood nehr the bridge railing. more than twice the bullding ie testified that he talked her out
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noted that today marked the ane niversary of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright's surrender at Core iregidor, He reminded his hear {ers that for a while the Ameri« fas was lowered in the wests ern Pacific, J “The spirit of American youth and the spirit of freedom have triumphed,” Mr. Johnson said, “They will always triumph. Here in this hallowed ground the past and its glory live immortal in that spirit.” A colorful parade downtown preceded the Legion cornerstone laying ceremonies. Form Alr Umbrella Legion posts, Kigh school bands; ROTC units and Nation#l Guard detachments marched from Pennsylvania and Bouth Bts, swung south to Market Bt. east to Monument Circle and proceed« ed on Meridian St. Formations of jet: (fighter lanes, National Guard attack bombers and long range bombers formed an air cover umbrella
{helping hand. | “If we should be so fortunate {as to have sufficient coal, ofl, and {other fuel to supply power needs; {for many years to come, atomic
energy can be used for power to
the seeming impasse in which it ope " fo 20 sears ne wi we mao 1GSfIES RAIIWAYS growing factor in our economic) y Ly ¥ by Can't Get Capital Atom energy, he predicted, will supplement present sources of = ¥ Cg ¥ systems will be used. The main Financial Plight (change will be the boiler and the President Harry Reid of IndiHe sald the Atomic Energy fore the Public Service CommisCommission, while charged with'8ion today that the utility's finan- ' not obtain new capital. {use of the atom’s power in wartare, is encouraging business and J® estimated that 65 per cent ithe company is in the form of debt --general mortgage bonds | cost—to replace them, a with banks. His statements came in re- Jack Mackenzie said. |
finds itself today.” expect to find atomic power a Supplement Present Sources Harry Reid Cites power. The same distribution Ituel of the power ‘plant. {anapolis Railways testified beprotecting. our know-how in the cial condition was so bad it could industry to come in and give alot the present capitalization of nd conditional sales agreements| ‘We will rebuild it as sponse to efforts by Public Coun-| More than 500 horses were in,
fine and tavern, big as ever,” General Manager| more than an hour.
While there, Mr. Bigham said, py, he was shown a letter which told! party
rest 'N. Mohler, 3350 Arthington Blvd. was stolen from Sears’ parking lot last night.
En routé to the accident scene, |
Pa and
yimen Sylvester
tion walking south in the 6000| Tuesday. - block Central Ave. The boys saw the police car and darted into an!Gaver
Ahlering| Calumet Farm's Ponder, which ald- Staley saw two boys finished a fast-closing second ‘to answering "the suspects’ descrip- Olympia in the Derby Trial last
{box by Tom Smith, who dropped lin the name of Mrs. Ada L. Rice's | Model Cadet. The fifth colt to be entered was
the pal: got away. Unlocked {develop mineral deposits in areas {where these fuels are rare,” he He said the open window had . been left unlocked after someone had opened it during Yesterdayay, warm weather. The State Farm is not a walled prison.
At least two new industries ave been developed from atomiec| {research, the alumni were told.| Radiation detection instruments;
Next in line was
{are now required by business in large quantities. In tracer re{search and process control to de-
Find Legless Body
selor Willam E. BSteckler, who!the stable area. A wind blew the | sought to establish the connection flames in another direction,
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between the bondholders and the! stockholders of the company. | Get Annual Return i Mr, Steckler repeatedly has! tried to establish that bondhold-| ers and stockholders in many instances are the same persons and that since they are assured of a 5 per cent annual return on
Safety
Find 4 Trapped Miners Lost, Gamble by 1 Minute
Recover Bodies of Fire Victims 300 Feet From Entrance fo Anthracite Shaft
Trainer John| with Greentree Farm's]
alley. Police chased on foot but powerful emtry of Wine List and The well-dressed body of an un-
lost, the youths. Run Toward River
Capot. The handsome Wine List identified man whose legs had|also will be affected by the appli-| ged as a colt with a fine been cut off by a train was found
is
Later another squad car re- burst of speed, but Capot may be|today on the New York Central ported :he boys had been seen at the one Greentree Will have to rallroad tracks west of here.
State Rd. 431 and 74th Bt.
AS depend on when they hit that! State police said the only identiPatrolmen Ahlering and Staley|iong home stretch on Derby Day. fication found on the body was a|businessmen wil be here in 1960. joined Patrolmen Willlam Kaiser jockey Ted Atkinson, given his| spectacles case bearing the Ae akin ‘heart disease and cancer|
and Marshall Walke at that point choice of mounts, picked Capot,iof Dr. Ida Eby, Goshen.
they saw the boys step from a jeavin filling station. Again the boys gon saw police and ran between
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Breaks Ankle in Fall
, 31, East End parke, showed up to file an entry today plank for the big. one—Olympia,|
Thomas Dairies, Inc., deliveryman,
pushed a cart full of milk down the popular favorite for the roses. a steep ramp at the Evans Millingo parke said Olympia would go
The Derby field
er, Lester Jenkins. | Fred Hooper's trainer,
g Wine List for Doug Dod-|
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jumped to eight Shore electrig train reported see- about “iife— to lwith the entry of Afton Villa Ing a man's legs on the NYC chances of being here to full vigor Bridge .. Farm's Jacks Town by his train-| right-of-way. The body was found in 1960?” Dr. Hall said.
200, feet away from the legs.
Co., 1730 W. Michigan Bt. The regardless of the weather, but he| The man wore riding boots.
cart rolled over his ankle. He honed the sunny, summery weathwas taken to Methodist Hospital treatmen
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lice said the man apparently was about 50 years old, 5 feet expect our most immediate and Comics .... 35 Ruark ..... 9! 8 inches tall, weighed 140 pounds, direct benefits from atomic ener- Crossword .. 8 Side Glances 10|fire broke out late Tuesday night. Reading Coal and Iron Co. slipped and broke his ankle as he winner of the Derby Trial and had gray hair and was partially gy. The biology and medical peo- Editorials .. 10 Boclety .... 19 Their bodies were found strung, The bald. The body ‘was clad in an ple have made great strides since Food ....... 20 Sports ...28 20 out along a slope leading from O'Brien, b3-year-old night shift | expensive sport shirt and slacks. 1945 in the use of radio-active Forum
i 3 il, termine what happens to chemOn Railroad Track licals and Dio at work is Ponds they are not interested in CHESTERTON, May 6 (UP)— another field.
recapitalizing the company to reThe field of health, he predicted, duce its interest obligations. 80 far, however, company offiication of atomic energy. {clals have testified they do not on leaders continues to increase bondholders in the company. Bewe may well wonder how many Cause. the bonds are “bearer”
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GIRARDVILLE, Pa. May -8 (UP)--A heartsick rescue crew
today found thé bodies of four miners who gambled their lives lin an attempt to break from a fiery anthracite mine. {by one minute. { The discovery of the bodies ended a 50-hour battle against
“If physical and mental strain Xnow the identity of the major geadly carbon monoxide gas, smoke and fire to reach the men
| esda c4ught in the mine late Tu Y| apparently gambled on getting
night. | to the shaft before they were The miners were overcome “ {the fumes just 300 feet from the Overcome by the deadly ‘black
taking a steady toll if lives we
Police found the body after may well ask, ‘Why ten't it just Times Index lcommuters on a westbound South |as Important to do something | a
increase our Amusements. 22 Movies ..... 22 +++ 21 Needlework . 21 {Business ... 25 Othman .... ‘Great Strides Since "45 {Childs “It is in this field that we may Classified. .30-34 Radio ...... 28
+esss 10 Teen Talk.. 21/the third to the second level, foreman,
damp” gas. They almost did. mine shaft entrance and safety. | . “If they'd held out just one There were no tears when the
{bodies were brought to the surminute longer, they could have {made it.” ngel Eimer Christ, who|faC® to end the long hours of supervised rescue work against NOPeful waiting. -
9 | overwhelmin: odds at the No. 5! “It's hell, but eve heen there eevee 10 Pattern .... 20| : | vo
colliery of the Gilberton Coal Co. before,” said a veteran rescue volMr. Christ said the four ap- unteer from the Knickerbocker
victims were William
and the three men
tracers in research, and they ex- Hollywood .. 22 Teen Prob... 20| where the mine shaft opens up-/trapped while trying to warn him
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the Mrs. Manners 24 Earl Wilson. 15 above. ; vss 24 Women's..20,21; Rescuers sald the four men Kelley, 47.
Deputy Coroner Elmer Johnson pect to be the first to give us Bmall Homes 20 Weather Map 25 ward to the surface 500 feet of the fire, Raymond Eye 35; County said the man really important results in
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John Wolwok, 34, and Wim
tof leaping and took her to a gyer the parade route. they talked for
A luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club was arranged for Johnson and his official The ceremonies climax the ane nual spring meeting of the Lee glon’s executive committee.
BULLETINS -
NEW YORK, May 6 (UP) The New York State Athletio | Commission today, In effect, lifted its suspension of Middle~ weight Boxer Rocky Graziano.
NEW YORK, May 6 (UP)— Fred Boysen, a 22-year-old Brooklyn fan, announced today | that he will ask permission Monday to withdraw the simple assault charges which he sought agaisnt Manager Leo Durocher of the New York Giants.
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