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SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1949
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Serious
Mechanics Hurt
* Rain Delays Qualification Runs By LOUIS ARMSTRONG Tommy Hinnershitz, veteran 500-Mile Race driver from Oley, Pa., was slightly injured this afternoon when a car he was driving on a practice run skidded on the northwest day to help quell bloody strike turn at the Speedway and spun down the apron into the rioting that halted virtually all
infield.
No. 18, a- Love Machine & Tool Special owned by Milt Marion of Long Island, was not damaged badly. Hinnershitz said he tried to take the turn too fast and the rear wheels skidded the car into a half circle. It backed down the apron and hit a concrete abutment. ; Hinnershitz took over the wheel for a practice run after Walt Brown, regular driver assigned to the car, said he couldn't get the maximum speed out of it. Look Over Damage Mechanics said they were unable to determine immediately whether the car could be repaired in time for the final qualifications next Saturday. . Two others were injured in minor accidents at the Speedway before rain shortly before 1 p. m. halted track preparations for the third day of qualification runs for the 13 remaining positions in the 33-car Memorial Day race.
I. _ When a light rain began i Wilbur Shaw on
ing at noon, all cars were tow
At least 10 drivers had indi-
off the trdck to the garages. é y ; Mystery’ Junket
cated they were ready for qual-
made a start before the rain. Two Mechanics Injured Art Winterode, a mechanic on the Bowes Seal Fast Special
team, was badly hurt when a
rear wheel of “cdr No. 44 he was
pushing rolled dver his left ankle.
He was taken to Methodist Hos-| pital. Pete Clark, chief mechanic on the Bowes team, received a leg injury when the motor backfired as he was cranking it.The crank struck his right leg. : Twenty cars qualified last 'weekend with Duke Nalon, driving a Novi Mobil Special, setting the top pace at 132.939 miles an hour. However, many of the original qualifiers whose speeds were 30d 125 miles an hour last week may lose their positions in the lineups to any of the remaining two-score cars on the entry list that make better
speeds. Crowd Small A comparatively slim crowd turned out for today’s qualifying runs due to the chilly weather and threat of rain. Track officials estimated spectators at less than 10,000 compared to the record 50,000 to 75,000 who jammed the Speedway ground last Saturday, for the first qualifying runs. The early-birds were sitting in their cars outside the board fence on Georgetown Rd. as early as 7 a. m,, two hours before the gates were to open. Activity in the garage area of the speed plant began at an early hour as drivers tuned up their cars for practice runs. Gasoline Alley underwent a war of nerves this week with drivers and mechanics of cars not yet qualified wrinkling their brows over how to get more speed out of their mounts. There was a minimum of activity on the track. Most crews spent the week working over their cars in an effort to bring them to peak efficiency. Driver who indicated they are ready for trial runs today were: | Troy Ruttman, Carter Special; Emil Andres, Tuffy’'s Offy Spe-| cial; Bill Sheffler, Sheffler Offenhauser Special; George Fonder, Ray Brady Special; Jackie Holmes, Pat Clancy Special; Tony Bettenhauser, Flavell Special; Norm Houser, Troy Oil Co. Special; Charles VanAcker, Redmer| Special, and Chet Miller, Maserati Special.
Mrs. FDR Jr. Gets
Nevada Divorce
MINDEN, Nev., May 21 (UP)—| Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. today divorced her:Congressmanelect husband, described by her
attorney as a “future President smashed an alley window to enter
of the United States.” The divorce was granted on the| grounds of mental cruelty.
As Clerks Get $15,000
gunmen lay in wait nearly three
hours in a super market early to-|
day — finally staging a holdup that netted them about $15,000. During their daring vigil, the quartet kidnaped one truck driver and slugged two other persons into submission while waiting the arrival of Manager John Waldron. The four escaped in a stolen automobile.
Dies as Car Hits Tree SOUTH BEND, May 21 (UP)— Leo Jeffery, 18, Mishawaka, died today of injuries he received an hour earlier when the car he was driving rolled over on a gravel
road north of Mishawaka and hit, Editorials ...10/8ide Glances 10
: Two passengers in the Foreign Aff. 10! Society ...... 3 car were reported in fair condi- Forum
a tree. tion at a Mishawaka hospital.
Hinnershitz Spins, Escapes To Help Quel
He escaped with only a small scalp wound. The car; | Jured at least 500 persons.
Berlin Rioting
Strike Battles; Sic Dogs on Reds
By JOHN B. McDERMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, May 21—Russia jcalled on the western powers to-
Injury
in Other Mishaps;
Soviet-run Berlin trains and in-
{ Striking non-Communist rail{way workers battled Communist |strike-breakers with iron bars, {clubs and even some guns at sta{tions throughout Berlin. Pickets
lice dogs on the Communists. Soviet Maj. Gen. P. A. Kvash-| (nin, boss of Berlin's transport under a Big Four agreement, demanded at a four-power meeting that the United States, Britain and France take steps to restore order in their sectors.
Only a short time earlier, strikers had jeered and spit at Gen. Kvashnin and several other S8oviet officers on an inspection tour. Gen, Kvashnin said the rioting was endangering Soviet commu-, nications. Gen. George P. Hays, deputy American military governor, told newsmen, however, that he would not use American troops “unless it is clearly shown that German police can’t handle the situation.” An unconfirmed report carried by the American-licensed Dena
Tommy Hinnershitz
at one station sicked vicious po-|
Injures
Smoke pours from a manhole at Illinois and Washington Sts. after an underg
Russ Ask “Underground Gas Five Downtown
News Agency said Russian troops were moving into Berlin from the Soviet zone.
May Send Troops A source close to the Sovibt| . jzone German administration said Looks Over ‘Something’ the Soviets were considering
200 Miles ‘Somewhere’ [sending troops into the western "By JIM SMITH sectors to maintain railroad com-
Sledge Hammers Sought For Sheriff's Slot Party
Deputies Need Equipment for Smashing Of 29 Machines; Event Set for Monday
Sheriff James W. Cugningham was expected to go “shopping”
water), or horse and buggy? Well,
apolis Motor Speedway,
attempted to play “20 questions’ with him, Mr. - Shaw started all
nounced he was leaving on
the 500) .. . if it works.
knew what'it was all about too but he wouldn't admit a thing.
200 Miles “Somewhere”
versation was the
some direction.”
here.”
tomorrow, providing today.
Burglars Take $992 in Tools
today.
Does it walk, crawl, fly or run? munications linking Berlin and| tog Is it a race car, an airplane, a|the Soviet zone of Germany. blimp (we skipped battleship, no
whatever it is, Wilbur Shaw, . president of the Indian- because they are responsible for kept| the railways. But, he said, if they
mum yesterday as sports writers|80 beyond such property, “we will
mystery business when he an-
flying trip (wouldn't say where) to inspect something. That something, said Mr. Shaw, will be the greatest show on earth (next to
Tommy Milton, Chief Steward at the 500,, was in on the con-
versation too. But he didn't 8a¥| ngteqq of eastern marks, whichiCunningham maintained a sphinxmuch. You got the feeling he
The only thing that wasn'tithe trains running, but the loyal mysterious about the whole con- workers appeared to be fighting Speedway|a losing battle. Strike headquar- statement, chief's method of transportation ters claimed a complete victory. erisply announced that the one-| itoday. He's using an airplane he] borrowed from W. R. Krafft and| his destination. is 200 miles “in
“I've got to see this thing work Were myself before I bring it here,” was|Passengers found themselves in all Mr. Shaw would say, except to/the middle and many were inadd, “and then I hope it works|
ayy | German polfce struggled in Whatever *1t" is, # Wil be herel, ain to restore order. As soon |
ay. ii one e He is looking for six heavy Gen. Hays said Russian troops and police might go on railway dust in the gloomy cellar of the property in the western sectors
and Prosecutor George 8. Dailey last week has assumed comic opera proportions.
»/take appropriate action.” Pprob After a week of city officialdom
Every elevated railway train
out of Berlin also ceased despite the slots resolved into an on-
to keep again-off-agdin routine, Sere Soviet attempts to P At a late hour yesterday it Altogether 15,000 railway work-|Teached the off-again stage. ers from the three western sec-| Sets Monday tors were oh strike. = They de-| Irked by reports of a “brewing
tration, which controls the ralilways, pay them in western marks i are worth only a quarter as much.|like silence throughout the day. '{ The Soviet administrationin a brief press interview he called on 12,000 railway workers; “ | {from the eastern sector to keep map Ped 2 bio bg commen
Today, however, in a written] Sheriff Cunningham |
{armed bandits would be déstroyed | Passengers, Injured {Monday at 10 a. m. He said this| Scores of slugging matches 5,14 he done in compliance with |
{broke out. Sometimes
{Jured. !pital for Crippled Children.
| Dr. Donald Caseley, medical director of the hospital, the sheriff {as they would quell one disturb- gaid, has accepted an invitation ance, two or three would break|to attend the destruction cere{out elsewhere. With sirens shriek | monies. |ing, their riot squads rushed qypie¢ jailer Harry Cook, “in |trom station to station. |whom I have the utmost confi- | A special German police guard gence to carry out the court's {was given several Russian offi-| 1 andate,” the sheriff said, will
Burglars struck at the Midwest cers when they visited the scene i Machine Co., S650 Tulle Ave. iof a severe street fight near| >° In ciate of the sledge wisi carting off a quantity of motors Tempelhof Airfield in the Amer-| and tools valued at $992 earlyican sector. |scheduled to take place in a
ing deputies. The “execution” is
{cellar vault in the jail.
number of deputies to use on 20 slot machines, now gathering
Destruction of the contraband one-armed bandits taken in joint raids conducted by the sheriff]
Storekeeper, 64,
i i in western Berlin was halted. 28king who has the authority to| le Br | this) oi tually all rail service in and 40 What, the project of destroying 4 S S |
i 3 Wounded “Suspects
manded that the Soviet adminis-|so,;4” between the sheriff's and! prosecutor’s office, “Smilin’” Jim
several an order from Municipal Court Men entered.
raging at a single station. Joseph M. Howard, who ruled the {machines should be smashed. And | {any money contained in them will | {be turned over to the Riley Hos-|
duty sledge hammers for a like| County Jail,
Nabbed After Fight |°
A stout - hearted, 84-year-old | shopkeeper left his mark on all] = three intruders who broke into his establishment early today. " Police, called by neighbors who heard sounds of battle, arrested one of the three as he fled. The other two were arrested when they appeared at General Hospl- | tal to be treated for their wounds. | The shopkeeper, George Everett, said he was sleeping in the rear of his small store at 2347 W, 10th 8t., when a milk bottle case came hurtling through the) glass in the front door and three
| |
Loos, 1549 Fletcher Ave.
Mr. Everett jumped up, grabbed | his 22-caliber rifie and proceeded #1 to do battle, He fired twice, he said. | &@
Second Walks In When police arrived the shop-| keeper was alone. The officers found one man running near the store and arrested him. The man | had a cut on his forehead, lapced| there, police suspect, by the butt| of Mr. Everett's gun. t As the man was being treated at General Hospital, a second man walked in with a bullet] wound in his left arm. He could not satisfactorily explain how he got it. He was arrested. {
Photos hy Henry E. Olesing Jr, Times Staff Photographer.
round blast shook downtown buildings.
Dr. Jack Woodruff, General Hospital, Squires, Mooresville, for burns, Patrolman Dennis Maxey, burned | ; as he stood on duty, inspects bandages on the hand of Gerald |
| potatoes, 180 pounds of sugar and|station. |a large quantity of meat and
Casey Ruggles in Town Tomorrow. Pos!
(Gas Line Hearing
4 Gunmen Posing Get for June 6
| WASHINGTON, May 21 (UP) ARLINGTON, Mass, May 21 _ Indianapolis will get a chance
(UP) — Posing as clerks, four|yune 6 to appear at a hearing on
Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley, |
| In two other break-ins last American commandant in Berlin,
night, $400 worth of food was indicated a hands-off attitude to Burial Date Set
taken from Walden's Regal Mar-|ward the strike itself. But he] ket, 717 Shelby 8t, and $250 hinted at sympathy for the strik-| worth of office equipment from|ers' objective. | the Star Laundry, 1251 Roose-!* “It is a. legitimate dispute bevelt Ave. tween employees and their SovietThirteen motors were remoevd [controlled rail management from the machinery company bosses,” Gen Howley said. along with a drill press, assorted |
Dorothy Head, owner of the rapher sprained his ankle while market, said missing were 175 fleeing 200 Communist support-| cartons of cigarets, 200 pounds of | ers in a British sector railway |
canned goods. A $150 typewriter and a $100 adding machine were stolen from the laundry by burglars who
the office.
|its amended application for authorization to build a natural gas pipeline. The proposed pipeline would be 55 miles long, and would connect, the Texas Eastern Transmission) Corp.'s line with the Indianapolis] Citizens’ Gas & Coke Utility facilities. :
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HOLOLULU, May 21 (UP)— him. When the doctor treating] Ernie Pyle, the famous war cor- him said the wound could be a respondent killed in 1945 during|bullet crease, the Ie Shima invasion, will be rested. A photographer for the Amer- buried July 19 in Punch Bowl tools and spray guns. Entry was|ican Acme Agency had his cam-|National Cemetery of the Paeific,| with vagrancy. Two of them apmade by jimmying a rear door. era smashed and another photog- Hawali, the Army announced to- peared before Judge Howard in
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The Scripps-Howard writer will mained in thé hospital with his| receive full military honors as a injured arm. All were placed un-{c, vv | veteran of World War 1. ’
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About two hours later a third man came to the hospital with| |a wound in his ankle. He ad-| ¢ mitted being near the store that | { night, but said a dog had bit *
he, too, was ar-io . Seven Discharged The three men were charged] arrested in were disHoward In
Beven of 10 men two gambling raids Court 3 today while the third re- chargeq by Judge mony disclosed that the Czar 453 Indiana - Ave. was
der $1500 bond and their cases ,.i404 without a search warrant
continue until May 24. earlier today, Mr. Everett also was treated. The other three, arrested at at the hospital. He was bitten 5011, Indiana Ave. were conon the cheek during the fray: tinued until June 7. Raiding poBut, he figures, he gave better lice told the court they found than he got, {$3.82 and policy slips and books
Clouds to Follow Thundershowers
LOCAL TEMPERATURES: 6am... 58 10a. m... 62° Tam... 56 11am... 64 8a. m... 56 12 (Noon). 65 Sam... 5 Lp.m... 68
and southeasterly breezes and| warmer temperatures tonight willl be followed by partly cloudy skies, west’ to southwesterly| E10 Canyon late yesterday. . | The car stayed upright but breezes and moderate tempera- . bumped along for more than ‘a tures tomorrow, according to, | quarter of a mile before a brakeWeatherman Paul Miller, | topped the. tral A low of 60 was predicted for ™a" Stopped the train. {tonight in contrast with a minj-| The Chicago -to-Los Angeles mum of 53 recorded at 6 p., m. train was delayed two hours. today. 4 | Mrs, George Jensen, 61, MinWinds will attain a velocity of neapolis, died from shock and from 20 to 25 miles an hour to- back Injuries. Her husband night and even higher as the George Jensen, 61, suffered a |thundershowers strike, Mr. Miller broken leg. Trainmen,’ who ran from the The mercury was expected to halted train to telephones to ob‘reach 70 tomorrow as clearing tain help, skies permit considerable sun- doctors and ambulances in the "shine. Isparsely settled area,
One woman was killed and
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Dr. Floyd Fults examines his shattered office window.
Court 3 today when police testi:
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Blast
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Cover Blows - ¢ (ff Manhole, Flames Spurt
Explosion Occurs in Power Line Tunnel af Illinois & Washington | The .underground blast‘that shook downtown Indian japolis and injured five per. sons at Illinois and Washington Sts. today apparently
‘was caused by gas ignited from a short circuit in a direct jeurrent power line, { ‘The blast, shortly before 9 a, m., blew a manhole cover in ifront of Rogers Jewelers in the Roosevelt Building about 20 feet in the air. Flames spurted and dense greenish-blue smoke rolled {up from the manhole, | The concussion shattered a window in the office of Dr. Floyd Fults, on the fifth floor of the Roosevelt Building facing Washington Bt.
The injured: Clinton C. Shattuck, 57, of 6028 Norwaldo Ave. | Gerald Loos, 27, of 1540 Fletche er Ave, Edwarg Squires, 24, Moores. ville, s Patrolman Dennis Maxey, 33. | Mrs. May Etta Gray, 26, of 2933 N. Lockburn Bt. Hats Blown Off Several others walking near the manhole were staggered and {men's hats were blown off by the rexplionion. LE ny i Mrs. Gray, a Red Cab driver, was sent to Methodist Hospital for X-ray examination of a head (Injury. The four men were not {hospitalized but were treated at
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doc Fire. Chief Roscoe McKinney sald the explosion apparently was [caused ‘by a short circuit in an {underground power cable. He {said a 240-volt cable was ignited |and melted insulation, forming gas which exploded. | Mr. Shattuck and Mr. Squires {were on their way to work at L. treats Edward C. Strauss & Co. when the blast (happened. They suffered minor ace burns and their hair and {clothing were singed. Face ar*d Arm Burns Mr, Loos had face and ‘arm burns and singed hair. Patrols man Maxey was burned slightly about the face and his uniform {was scorched. He was making {his tour of the downtown district, Mrs. Gray, a Red Cab driver, was hit on the left side of the face by a flying object she was |parked in front of Strauss & Co.
No one was injured by the fly. ing glass in the office of Dr. Fults, a dentist, Glass from the broken window showered to the pave | ment. | “Traffic was snarled by fire apparatus and large crowds that {gathered at the explosion, Street. jcars and trolleys were caught in the tie-up. The blast ripped out the mane hole cover about 20 feet from {the Roosevelt building, and acrid {yellow smoke poured from other {manholes at the intersection when | firemen removed the covers.
. flash of flame flared in the tune . * nel, followed by biack smoke. In Gaming Raids i Policemen On Hand hidden In a roll of roofing mate-| Eyewitnesses said smoke seeped rial when they pushed their way tum the manholes tor about 10 in the door witn 4 search war- . rant. minutes before the explosion. Poe The three arrests Included lice and firemen, called immedis Theophilis 8miley, 37, of 2221 N. ately, were on hand when the Capitol Ave, and William Hard- manhole cover was flung up toe ing, 29, of 716% Ogden 8t., both ward trolley wires charged with keeping a room for Officials of the Indianapolis pool selling and advertising a p o.. o ‘Light Co. said direct lottery and gift enterprise. | current service was not intere The third man was charged .,,104 The current services many with visiting a gaming house. |gevators in downtown buildings. Lynze Oakley, Indianapolis
One Passenger Killed, Nine i rerio. cated polis Hurt in Freak Train Mishap
EMORY, Utah, May 21 (UP)—A thundering jolt and what “seemed like hours of terror” swept the last car of the Union By a. [Pacific's Los Angeles Limited ‘when-it lost its rear wheels and Thunder showers, brisk south| bumped at top speed down a desolate canyon, passengers sald today.'a
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3 Short-Changed ‘City Slicker’
Short-change artists, employing fast shuffie of currency, were nine people Injured when the car active at two hospitals and an
of the all-Pullman luxury train jumped off its rear truck in rugged |Past Side market last night.
| Ollie Fliger, cashier at Meths But Dr. E. W. Oldham, Coal-|odist Hospital, lost $10 to a bes ville, Utah, was the only doctor spectacled man clad in a tweed within 13 ‘miles. He sped to the|suit. She told police he first asked scene and treated the injured. (for $10 change, then added $10 Union Pacific engineers who|and asked for a $20 bill. were seeking the cause of the ac-|finally ended up with $5 and five {cident sald one safety feature of $1 bills. 3 : the train had actually impeded| Earlier, Margaret Burns, St. efforts to stop the train. Vincent's Hospital cashier, was The brakes would have been shortchanged of $10 in the same applied automatically, they said, kind of a shuffle. Her description {had the car jumped the tracks en-|of the man tallied with the other tirely and snapped the air hose cashier's. yo running the length of the train.| After a fast shufflé df currency But the fact that the front truck with two men, Martha Jones,
held the rails kept the safety fea- cashier at Jones Market, 5046 EK, New York 8t., wound up $2 short,
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