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Ghash ‘vidlim . . . Bobby Eberhardt, 11, of 7777 W. Washingfon St., was reported slightly injured in the grandstand crash as the 1949 qualifications got underway at the Indianapolis ‘Motor Speedway. : crash area seats.

score of spectators who jammed

for six or eight persons at the most, the boxes were

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Photos by Henry E. Glesing Jr., Times Steff Photographer. This shows the section of Grandstand B which collapsed at the southwest curve. More than a

into the boxes were lunged some 30 feet to the ground, Designed

uilt in 1912 or 1913. Scores jammed into the

Bail-Jumping Eisler Balks [More ‘Slot’ Raids At Leaving Ship in England Hinted by Thurston

Liner's Skipper Backs Red Leader's Decision; U.S. Seeks to Extradite Communist 24 One-Armed Bandits SOUTHAMPTON, England, May 14 (UP)—Gerhart Eisler, Com- : 3 munist agent fleeing from the United States to Poland, refused to Seized in County. come ashore from the Polish liner Batory today and the captain of| State Police Superintendent Arthe ship backed him up in his decision, reports from the vessel said. thur M. Thurston declared today British police boarded the Batory this afternoon at the request that slot machine raids will conof the United States government and asked Eisler to come ashore for tinue “as needed,” following two

sweeps that netted 24 one-armed bandits in Marion County. Two state police squads struck at seven taverns and lunch rooms in the Ravenswood area and on

the United States. | The fugitive Communist lead- | in f 0 ers skipped bail of $24,500 pend-| - ing appeals on convictions - for!

passport fraud and contempt of : . Congress. d lice

Refuses to Leave Eisler, according to an inform-| Urich Picked Up ant who came: ashore from the On E. 10th Trolley Slots Nad yeen given. There were An off-duty patrolman today| Mr. Thurston said that the

men said the raids followed re-

Batory, refused to leave the ship. Police appealed to Capt. Jan

ports that the “go sign” for the!

Pilot Crash-Lands in Yard

Of School, Misses Ball Park

| | ‘Groundkeepers Turned Lights Out on Me or 1 Would Have Made It,’ He Asserts

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KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 14 (UP)—A pilot who tried to crash land his airplane in the crowded Kansas City Blues baseball park said today he would have made it “but they turned the lights out

| He missed the ball park and hit a school yard.

Ed Lobdell, 20, Fargo, N. D,, proceedings to extradite him to |thousand

fans began leaving; |the park last night. He tried to |glide into left field. Then groundkeepers pulled the switches that put out the big!

|yard. I" “I couldn't think of anything] {but that tall concrete wall around {the ball park after they turned

{the lights out on me,” Mr. Lob-|

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dell said. |

Cwiklinski for help. He reportedly captured Donald Urich on a trol- state police policy on slots is “un-| The plane tore into trolley-bus| answered that Eisler had paid his, & go0niqom to climax a two-|changed” and that they would wires fisted of the wall -and;

passage to Gdnyia, Poland, and continue to be “seized on sight.” that he could not force him to day search for the 20-year-old) . . policy extends throughout leave the ship if he did not want youth accused of beating two|i,. entire state,” Mr. Thurston to land. finance company collectors, asserted. “Marion County is no The British police investigators Police said the men, repre-|different from the others.” returned to the mainland fof fur-| o,¢541ve5 of Allied Finance Co.,| Sheriff James Cunningham said fhep instructions from the FLO were badly bruised and beaten|today he had not been informed : by the youth and his father [of the impending raids but “I They Planned to return 10 the 2 cer Urich, when they attempted| Welcome the help of the state DB further questioning |, repossess a car from Mrs. police.” A representative of the U. B. RE ch at their home, 1409 Hit Three Taverns BY ich Shade 3 Jorsal Patrolman Melvin C. Osborn! Beginning at 10:30 a. m, a PO rod oop EE ane recognized the stocky youth on| raiding party headed by First proceedings, still was aboard the Batory. an E. 10th St. trolley about 8 ggt Richard Y. Sutton moved in a. m. and arrested him on an on Happy Landings Tavern, grab1 Cannos, Speast assault and battery charge. bing three machines. They then An official of the Polish em-

Charges Are Continued hit Barrett's Tavern, taking three came ashore in the same;

more, and Pop Young's Tavern, tender with returning Scotland] Charges against young Urich|ghere six were seized, All are Yard representatives.

were Soutuad to May 26 today in the Ravenswood area. “I cannot speak,” he said and|When he appeared before Muni-| hurried no pee an automobile/ cipal Court Judge Pro Tem! SiniLaneons)y: elective 25% with two other men. Charles Steger. The Yather's case James Osborne ra

tant {seized 12 slot machines at four tive Inspector Gordon also was’ continued to May 26 een the Be 10 Crimi-| bY Judge Howard yesterday. {establishments on the West Side. L nal Investigation Division indi-| The youth's case edrlier this| Those hit and the haul were cated he would make some urgent week brought “judicial rebuke’|Ben Davis Tavern, three; Baker's telephone calls, presumably to/for “unwarranted brutality” from Lunch, Mars Hill, three; Feature the Home Office before returning Judge Howard against policemen |Inn, Sky Harbor, three, and the to the ship. who reportedly subdued him with Checkered Flag, Mickleyville, + Meanwhile, Eisler's attractive night sticks after he was brought three. : wife, Brunhilde, 37, was held by| to the police lockup. | State police said several other Americ immigration #uthori-| The injured company collectors Places were checked for the deties in New York. She was ar- were Eugene Arbuckle, 30, of 2408| Vices but none weres.found. A Tested yesterday. {E. 11th 8t., and Harold V. Golds- | total of 14 troopers participated Like her husband, Mrs. Eisler by, 40, of 1011 N. Gale St. {in the raids. faced deportation charges con-| Mr. Arbuckle filed the assaul nected with her entry into this and battery charges against a WH Bs Destioyed country in 1941. She had been youth and his father. Police said A state police spokesman said free without bond since her ar- Mr. Goldsby will file similar|the machines, taken to headquarrest as an illegal alien in March, | charges. ters at Stout Field, would be de1948. Bhe married Eisler in New a + |stroyed as contrabrand under the York in 1942. Wholesale Meat 1935 State Slot Machine Law. Prices Drop Again

: There were no arrests, he said, Praises Loyalty Tests because the machines are then { CHICAGO, May 14 held for evidence. “Our experiIn Notre Dame Speech 1. ecate meat ons me ence is that they are often re-

WE A tute said today. Sufi Sf. the ‘Seqeral employees *'.p\i\n. prices ‘aise; ave. down given loyalty tests required... uv» the Institute said “further investigation,” according .

On the average, the Institute county just this week. But,

type.”

University last night, Mr. Clark time peaks of last summer. Sheriff Cunningham revealed

said 2 miflion workers had been Newsman fo Speak

investigation, some were missed, some resigned and others a luncheon of the Rotary he understood they were for the were cleared.” {in the Claypool Hotel, “Speedway crowd. 0

nosed over as it plowed into the| {Lincoln High School yard across {the street from the park. { Mr, Lobdell escaped with minor | [scratches and bruises. Fans were just trooping from | the field after watching the Min-| neapolis Millers beat the Blues, 6 to 2, in an American Associa{tion game.

| Police let Mr. Lobdell go after| up).

routine questioning. He said he was en route from Fargo to Kan-

Showers Possible |

tucky Derby !sas City. He stopped at Omaha. still had to “prove it” to racing's| Spark Plug Special No. 3 was

critical fans today as he faced Wheeled to the starting line in| tions today. :

* Q . { | | inine other 3-year-olds in the 73d High of 85 Due; | running of the historic Preakness Stakes at old Pimlico.

ran out of gas just as several

Palestinian Seen in

BULLETIN BALTIMORE, Md, May 14 (GP) — The field for the 78d running of the Preaknsss stakes was reduced to nine today when Christiana Stable's Parliament was scratched shortly before the first race at Pimlico.

| 2d Place, Ponder 3d 25.101 mires an nour. rack we. @ualifications | |

{ BALTIMORE, Md. May 14 —Despite his thrilling KenPonder |

triumph,

| Lap

Capot Rated Stig {floodlights that illuminated it. So : Mr. Lobdell picked the school-| pa Ness OIC

the West Side last night. Spokes-|

McGrath, 5 Others Qualify For ‘500’

None Come

Victims Fall 30 Feet As Huge Race Crowd Jams Seats on Curve

No Fatalities Reported as Police, Firemen Rush to Scene; Bleachers Hold Firm At least 23 persons were injured today when part of

Grandstand B at the Speedway collapsed shortly after qualification trials got underway.

City of Tacoma Special Does 128.884 MPH; Mauri Goes 127.759

MAURI ROSE The victims were sent to General Hospital and one {Blue Crown Spark Plus Speda)| person was reported seriously injured. He was Leslie

I seasnnaenss 1110.79 2 teevsnneess 1:10.68 8 sisisananse 1110.19 € iaiaaaees 1101Y Totals .... 4:41.78

DOC WILLIAMS (Sarafoff Special) Time

121.187, Clark, 42, of R. R. 16, Box 511. He has head injuries. 128.398 Hospital internes were also sent to the Speedway 128.260 grounds hospital where more were reported injured.

121.180 . 30 , | Grandstand B, where the Policeman Hurt Il} coliapee occurred, was built Lap MPH jin 1912 or 1913, according to Livesvessanes 1112.08" 134.948 . __|Speedway old-timers. pre we Pre-Trials Jam | oe ess dann LE isa grandstand, *whicn is on. the otals .... ‘ 125.181) Traffic Tied Up southwest curve. After tne aisle. JACK McGRATH jway flooring let go, the flooring (City of Tacoma Special) On Speedway Route {in two boxes in the second row MPH A motorcycle officer was in- of a two-row box section then 128.448 jured this morning en route to collapsed, plunging the spectators 128.058, the biggest traffic jam in Indian- some 30 feet to the ground. : 120.829 apolis since 1947 when thousands, Speedway publicity oficials said 128.811 of spectators were unable to get the collapse occurred because 128.884 to the 500-Mile track as qualifica-/8cores of persons were jammed tions got under way today at the Into the boxes which were depeedway., tinea 10 actomitiodate six or Robert Caldwell, 28, of 1831 *lEht people. TE T.iierieer. 111238 124550 KoShne St, was struck by a oar As (hfe 0 fmtved uals 8 3 aan 124.1 turning left at 16th and Centen- > 3.100000 LiLse 125,17 nial Sts. &8 he sped to the jam Screams of the injured mingled & ..iiieciees L185 135.786) Dear the Speedway with his siren ¥I'h the FPPING. tearing sounds Totals .... 4.47.95 125.032 [TOAring. He suffered a bruised ** Ig and seats Jot go; HENRY BANKS [Bip and vis released after-treat- Section Roped Off (Federal Engineering Detroit | = At General Hospital. All available ambulances were Special) City, county and state police sent from General and Methodist Lap Time MPH (Were unprepared for the crowd, Hospitals bu the drivers had a Ye OTIS 125.200 [Possibly the largest to ever wit-'h time fighting through one of. 2 iieiiin iy BIN 50g Noss the first day of qualifica-ithe worst Speedway qualifications

125. 8 iiiriieeees M1228 124.608 tODS. jams. 3d poet A : § iiiriiiens 1102.32 120441 Fight Men on Hand Speedway Srews quickly roped

Lap Time 1 siinenneess L10.07 2 tievieenees 1:00.79 8s sesacnin 1:00.59 4 siivienines 1:00.87 Totals ,....4:30.52

BILL CANTRELL (Fageol Twin Coach Special)

Totals ,... 4:48.14 124.980 _Leo Troutman, poli oft the entire section and work. JOHNNY fig oy TAN, Police InGPActor. en ware sent to repair the (Agazanian Special) “The reason for the trae jam AT Bean; : Lap Tima MPH [18 dus to the failure of the Spesa- | AlViD Clifton a fan sitting in

o i wh : & section near the collapse, said 1 wireesnrins 1010.84 Hl ay to open the gates until 11 ip boards just opened up lke

Doce LOSE 10881 m. HAR they opened aarller.|y pipers 8 iieviersses 1110.18 128,888 the whole thing would have : fared bert” 4 .ooooaiees 160041 127.828 MOVed smoothly. : aha um gl Totals .... 4:41.92 127.788] “The traffic was cleared by Poa" little, boy

firm employee, and a‘ little boy

noon and everything is moving.” about 10 years old

By LOUIS ARMSTRONG The lice. department had . Sx drivers qualified by 1 8. I. |eight men on hang (hic morning fansan. tolled down the lad's today at the Indianapolis Motor to handle the traffic. [face aw S Mirssd & bruised right Speedway but none came near| Traffic was backed up on E. was rath 8. - He to the record qualifying mark of 168th St. as far as Central and N. . g1ve his name, the late Ralph Hepburn with his New Jersey and on the George- “Everything Fell’ * Shadday said he had

mark of 133.944 set in 1048, {town Rd. as ‘ar north as 30th 8t.! Mr. Mauri Rose, last year's winner] When long lines of cars bumper just watched Rose and also the winner the year be- (to bumper were unable to move, | his qualification Sa A fore, qualified at an average police frantically improvised an|stands crashed. speed of. 127.759 an hour com- emergency traffic organization) “Everything began to fall on {pared to his last year's qualifying calling all available squad cars mee,” Mr. Bhadday said speed of 129.120 an hour. land motorcycles, The injured included: | "Five other drivers followed Albert Shadday, 27, of 735 E. |Rose to the starting line. Drivers Speedway Minnesota Bt. : jand their average speeds were Hermdon Irwin, Greencastle. W. Alexander, Greencastle.

Olgas Reynolds, 1820 Carrollton ve. ?

Grath, City of Tacoma Special, |

FOUR 128.884: Bil TIMES around the two

| Cantrell, Fageol and one-half. mile oval at In{Twin Coach Special, 125.022; dianapolis Motor Speedway, | [Renny Banks, Federal Engineer-| W. 16th St. at better than 115 8 ing Detroit Special, 124.939 and | miles an hour to quality. ymond irgin |Johnny Mantz, Agajanian Spe-| » ou - y A lows, 2 Vipul

cial, 127.786. GATES open to spectators | Leslie Clark, 42, R. R. 18, Bo The track was closed for nearly| at 10 a. m. Admission today, S11. 8, Bog

{an hour as all available Bpeed-| way help went to the ald of the! Rmow and all qualitying | Bennett, 37, of 348 N.

| Harry {Injured in Grandstand B. { « Park Ave.

“Think Speed's OK’ | TRACK oil open to | Jos Moscarells, 30, Linden

“I think the speed's all right.” qualifications between 11 1 . sald Rose after being the No. 1] ua 6p m. 8M. | Alphonse Eberhardt, 32, Indi- | qualifier. sie wn /anapolis. Earlier as Mauri's Blue Crown| APPROXIMATELY 10 cars | Wilson Evans, 36, Portland.

expected to attempt qualifica- Il 2, Po and, ay

Senet Prosser, 824 8. Bast

{front of the Pagoda, Rose said: FR “I don’t especially care for the | pole position. I just want a good | spot in the race.” Mauri got it.

Bt, QUALIFICATIONS to be. re- ae Turk, 22, of 770 Arnolda

sumed tomorrow from 11 a. m.

Ear! Moore Sr. 37, of 2042 N.

| Chances were that the Calumet to 8 p. m. (Gates open to | Allison. ¢ LOCAL TEMPERATURES Farm star again would be a bet rivairy to become the fre: quals.| "PECtators tomorrow at 10 a.m.) |” Mildred Moore, 33, of 2042 N, {6 a. m... am... § ition ————————— * = = All | y (fier. Owner Lou Moore of the! aon, i : . m.. 8 H bins a | WFBM will broadcast th ‘Blue Crown Specials pushed CAR with the fastest speed Earl Moore Jr., 17, of 2042 N. (8 a. m... ‘ | Preakness beginning at 4 p. m. | Maury locked gate! today will win the coveted pole Allison, 9a m..7 1p m... aurtY car. 10 the. locked gate] position, bo James Mahan, 8, of 134 Ber.

{ A high of near 85 was expected |

{this afternoon as Weatherman ting underdog in the effort to checked in.

| (DST).

| Paul Miller forecast partly cloudy gain this second jewel in turf’s|

skies for the remainder of the day ¢ameq triple crown.

{and widely scattered thunder-| {showers in central and southern {Indiana late this afternoon. | | Thundershowers will arrive as {a Canadian cold front in the {northern portion of Indiana {sweeps down over the state, Mr.! {he said, they will occur in the {southern part of the state. { The mercury was expected tol skid to 48 tonight and rise slowly

| tomorrow to a high of only 70 to Bleber’s Palestinian as the second |75 under partly cloudy skies, as choice at 5 to 2 and finally got| qualification crowds in Speedway {Indianapolis remains in the griparound to Ponder as third choice lat 4 to 1. The chief reason for the num-| Last year 20,000 patrons at $1 min. sec. {ber of "doubting Thomases” in a head attended the opener, | (Amuse. ....7,9 Your Job ... 5 the stands was the fact that the Today the weather was perfec. 120.1 .v.ovveiirvnsn

{#f the cooler air.

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day from New York to take up |his duties. ‘ @

| pected for the Preakness.

from home al

Ain ‘Hollywood .. 9 Weather Map 11 yee tira.

Although predictions were for showers and possible thunderstorms this afternoon and eve.| ning, a crowd of 35000 was ex- ge0ond qualifier and Bill Cantrell |

cat Was| ed their cars up to the locked | thought they would make Breer. LID e p

| |tree Stable's Capot a slight choice ' k h [Miller said. For the most part, through. AAA officials unlocked Cl T Y | P {the gates but the two drivers] OC em x ourse

in the betting at about 2 to 1.

Palestinian 24 Cholce

The overnight line listed Isidor ine.

! SOUTH BEND, May 14 (UP) {another 3 per cent in the past turned to owners when held as Books ...... 8 Mrs. Manners 5 Preakness is run at 1 3/16 miles, tion. Sport shirts and straw hats |

—Less than one-sixth of 1 per month, the American Meat Insti-|®vVidence following arrests,” he Bridge Gi 3 be, or 110 yards, shorter than adorned the men as they car-| said. sasanty e Derby. State Police reported the slot Comics s+ «+4414 National Afr. 10, machines had appeared in the Crossword ... 7/Radio ....... 8 they Editorials ...10 8idé Glances 10 Capot was in front 110 yards to Attorney General Tom Clark. said, wholesale meat prices are said, the machines were not new. Foreign Aff. 10 Society ..... 3

In a speech at Notre Dame NOW 22 per cent below the all-| Several seized were of the “old

Ponder didn’t take command in Kentucky until the last 50 yards, mer dresses.

If Ponder takes the Preakness, he was “aware” that the slots had PARIS, May 14 (UP)-—David he will again be fol Daniel M. Kidney, Times Wash- come in to several West Side K. Bruce, new U. 8. ambassador hoof-marks of his f

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finish, he Iaded 10 he grandstand collapse, was the)

lowing In the noth the spectators and the driv

amous father, dis- | ington corespondent, will speak at places Thursday night. He said to France, arrived by plane to- Pensive, who carried the Calumet po; It was hot but het ioc het Tuesday Preakness

SE Ch] and victories in 1

leading to the track at 7:30

7) » {als » . ” o'clock, long before” AAA offic | PRIZES offered by 8 way

management for each day of [Be

wyn. Richard Mahan, 17, of 134

Somehow Moore got a key, un-

rwyn, lifications: Fastest, $500; | Kurt Mahrot, 14, of 5252 N. {locked the gate, pushed the car dua : , ; | 'to the starting line and went back | Second, $400; third, $300; [Capitol Ave, ‘and locked the gate, strolling fourth. $200, and fifth, $100. | Irwin Hendron, 44, Greencastle. : | An additional $1000 will be | James F. Ewers, 43, Bridgeport,

(away and whistling to himself. | So. 404 to the fastest quall- | Mrs. Solms Ewers, 41, Bridges

At 8 a. m., Doc Williams, the] fier in ‘he field of 33 s rs. Iport

gates and demanded they be sent

{rubbed their eyes in amazement |.»

How fast are th ing? . they saw Rose's car on thel oy going

Win ue Shast you San iansiats elapsed time into miles an {hour, at leas n the limitations of your ability to move your It was one of the greatest) from speeding car to wateh fn rs y ; The track is two and one-half miles around. The minute and second column is set upon a basis of the time for one circuit of the Weather Perfect track translated into miles per hour. mph min, sec. m.p.he 1:80.0 covvenvannonnonnns 100 | 1:088 Luivvuiiironsness 1B Ri18.8 .vivosvsssarssinsr MS 1:28.2 se4asumanastanenans 102 1:15.0 Nahas ARERR 120 1274 covvivionavinnenas 108 | L044 suvevrenvsnneesnns 121 1:26.5 saansevenvssncnnys 104 1:188 sass Reb ARRLIIIRY 123 1228.7 SPAN NN Nisa s sans 108 1:15.2 Cases stseesaRIssEN 128 1:24.9 R49sae0usesssnsnse 108 1 1:12.68 BONNER IBNININRANS 124 1:24.1 BEINN BNN srr 107 SRNR ERIRNRANNIRRS 135 1:24 ARAN RINNI INN 108 ! 1:22.68 CREB AFI ny 100 [traffic jam that caught police un-| 121.8 SERENA s NBR 110 {prepared to handle it. { 1210 sevevvcnnanssese a 12 The weather was perfect for

{ history, possibly upwards of 50, 000.

[Tied pails of ice cold beer. The| |women came out in light sum-|

Only jarring note in the other- | wise perfect day in addition to

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