Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1949 — Page 2
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Flier Admitted | Thompson Racew
Was for the Strong By MAX B. COOK | Seripps-Howard Aviation Editor { CLEVELAND, Sept. 6 — Alr| race pilots and the management of the National Air Races will meet today to determine whether the famed Thompson Trophy Race, which yesterday cost ‘the life of Bil Odom, roundthe - world filer,| ; will ‘ever be re-| sumed with IN souped-up obsolete fighter planes partici-| pating. Just prior to ne . the event, alr face officials indicated that the contest would be held once more.’ After Mr. Odom crashed Jacque-! line Cochran's ¥-51 Mustang into’ 8 home hear Berea, O., on the sec-| souped-up fighter plane piloted by
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ond lap, It was. decided that the was killed, as was Capt. Odom. Her son, Crdls, I3 months old, died of critical burns.
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race, . Mr. |
Roscoe Tur-
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mined effort, he was able to walk|/gervice for many years, even Park. Friends may call at the ner, three-time Thompson winner. Mrs. Brana Gann. of.245 W. FELWOOD, Sept. 6 (UP)— on stiff leather boots. Former|though attending often meant the Conkle Funeral Home, 1934 W, Mr, Odom had won the Sohio race 14th St, told police she was Jerry D. Wheeler, 16, was killed Chief of- Police Clifford Beeker painful task of getting off and Michigan St. :
At a speed of 388.393 miles per hour. “I made a few mistakes, Ros coe,” he sald. “It was my first closed course race and it takes a strong man. I'm not strong. But| I'm going to correct those mistakes in today's race.’ “He only made one mistake.”
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _*_ Stirs Up Protest
Flames devoured the home of Mrs. Bradley C. Laird, Berea, O., after it was struck by the Bill Odom in the Thompson Trophy Race yesterday. Mrs. Laird
Knocked to the sidewalk at 42d early friend discharged accidentally, an unidentified man who snatched her purse. Mrs. Brana sald she was waiting on a bus when the man approached from behind. The purse the charge hit his pal. They were cause of his knowledge of the rounded by children as he moved ‘$1, a’ bank book and planning a hunting trip, young locations of the various automatic about the neighborhood. “some. gloves,
Third ‘Big Blow’:
| Bolstered by ‘Winds {Attack in Office.
both power and size.
“told them he was trying to re-
TUESDAY, SEPT. 6 1040
FredL. Hanley Passes Away Tw Persons Shot In Hospital Here at 70 In Accidents
Suffered Heart Conditions Described _ As Fair at Hospital
Two persons were in fair cone dition in Indianapolis hospitals with gunshot wounds today after leach was struck by a bullet yes« terday in separate accidents, George Higgins, 28, of 2012 [Vane Ave. was under treatment in General Hospital after a 22caliber air rifle he ‘was loading in the kitchen of his home went off,
Perils Bermuda
A legend of cheerfulness and Of 120 Miles an Hour | charity in the face of everwhelmMIAMI, Fla. Sept. 6 (UP)— (ing odds came into being early Bermuda was advised to take! this morning as Fred L. Hanley, hurricane precautions today as police Gamewell Division op-!| the season's third big blow drift- ‘erator, died in Long Hospital. ed menacingly toward the British ap Hanley, who lived in 1727] island accompanied by winds of Montcalm St, suffered a heart 120 miles per hour or higher.” |qttack in the office of the capAt 5a. m. (Indianapolis time) the tain, police headquarters, shortly Miami Weather Bureau placed before reporting for night duty) the hurricane center about 390|/late Saturday. miles south-southwest of Bermu., Sgt. Edward Higgins and mem- | da and some 800 miles off ‘Flor- bers of the emergency squad ida, kept Mr, Hanley alive in the amThe storm's forward movement bulance en route to Long Hos-| was extremely slow, estimated at pital. He had been unconscious four or five miles per hour. But and under oxygen since his entry! the whirling blow was picking wp to the hospital. He was 70. Delivered Groceries . Born in Rush County, Mr. Hanley had lived in Indianapolis since
. Hospital attendants said the bullet struck him under the left jaw and penetrated upward about four inches, stopping in his left cheek. The other accident oceurred at R. R.»6,"Box 606, the home of Wayne Scott, 12, who was stand« ing near the family garage when
Course Uncertain |
Fred L. Hanley, former Inow reme - 2 . movemen:. ke early childhood. Before joining fanapolis Pe t. : nd he felt a pain in his right hip. uncertain. ithe Indianapolis Police Depart- legen c Taken. to Methodist Hospital . ment he delivered groceries in a' courage. by his father, I. P. Scott, Wayne The Weather Bureau described horse-drawn w the hurricane as
agon on the North «Goy” Hanley, as he was called was found to have a 22 caliber
ere.” “large and se- {Side by his countless friends, was wide- bullet in his hip. Vv Ten years ago he left the force iy known as the happiest man on Police said the boy probably Strongest ip ds were est tter 19 years’ service because of the force. His whole life seemed’ was shot unknowingly by .a mated at "120 miles per hour of ,, increasingly severe diabetic devoted to making friends and squirrel hunter in the neighbor higher” and winds of hurricane). ition. During his years of spreading cheerfulness, they said. hood.
force extended 100 miles to the east and 50! miles to the west of the storm center. (Gale ‘winds extended as far an ® vant. next 18 months he spent in‘ 150 miles from the center, in alll [two Indianapolis directions.
Elwood Youth Killed By Accidental Shot
service he had advanced through Even after the amputation of - [the Janks from patrolman to ser-/hijs legs, he was jovial and re- ley, said, ‘were Tatenioe in the peated on more than one occasion afternoon to. baseball games on A al hil “My cross So heuvist xo bear a small radio in the kitchen and ospitals while than those rne by other mi lsurgeons removed first one; then lions.” . F just “making friends.” ithe: Jeg-below.the knee. in ams An active member of the Cal-' Services at 2 p. m. Thursday in ‘attempt to arrest the diabetes. vary
After several years of deter- hadn't in Washington
fissed a Sunday night lowed by burial
last night when a gun held by a called Mr. Hanley back to serv-'on a streetcar, Despite his unwavering smile ice with the Gamewell Division in| He was also a member of the he visited the cemetery last year Police said Max Tompkins, 13,'1943. Marion Lodge, F & AM and had and selected his grave marker An expert on Indianapolis traf-' been a 32d degree Mason. and plot. move a shell from a shotgun fic, he was placed in. charge of] Beloved of children, his Besides his wife he Is survived when the weapon went off and the late night division shift be-/tall figure was always by a son, ¥red 8. Hanley, a sister, Mrs: Mattie Aippersbach, and a grandson, Jack W. Hanlgy, all | His hobbies, his wife, Mae Han- of Indianapolis,
once sur-
Tompkins said signals and call boxes.
said Col. Turner later. “That one was fatal, That's usually the case
Jets Steal Show As predicted, the Jets stole the three-day show. . The. Indianapb-lis-to-Cleveland-Allison - National Guard F-80 Jet race winner turned in a record of 504.8 miles per hour. He is Lt. Walter C..Rew of the 106th fighter squadron, ‘California National Guard. Performance of the piston-en-| gined racers on the first day con-| vinced race officials that the Thompson Trophy Race could be | mtaged at least one more time. ck of development and construction money has made it impossible- for racing pilots to ob-] tain sponsors who would put up| the big money to produce new-| type racing planes. i As a result, obsolete World WAr| II fighters have been used. Pilots “souped” them up and—last year| ~—all of the fastest racers were eliminated from the Thompson by mechanical or fuel trouble, Invade Jets Speeds Race officials and pilots ex-| pressed the.gpinion that the re- * ciprocal-engine . division of the
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Capt. Odom is shown being congratulated by Jacqueline | -
Thompson (the original Thomp-| Cochrane whose plane he flew to win the Sohio Trophy Race at son) would never be staged| Cleveland Saturday. It was the first closed race ever flown by the -again. They decided to give I
round-the-world flier and long distance titleholder. Grill - Burglarized and five pounds of bacon stolen
Lindsey Carter, of 2934 Stewart
one more try, however, To thei surprisé the old wartime a turned in speeds that previously
bad belonged to jets only. For the Second Time st. tne proprietor. told police the : ar enterec wre F-51 Mustangs and ¥F2G For the second time in four on door Ral and an} " king . Corsairs whose top military speed gays the Red Dot Grill, 3802 E. Trom the oatside
ranged from 300 to 350 miles per hour, began racing across. the country and cutting t ylons at
30th St. was burglarized some- The grill was entered last week time Monday night and $30 in and a smaller amount of change cash a gold’ wateh valued at $64 and mere handise taken: . {
For example Joe DeBona of : Beverly Hills, Cal, won the Call-| fornia-to-Cleveland Bendix Face| i Mustank fighter at 470.136. B. W. McKillen Jr. of Willoughby, O., sj the Tinnerman race at “Sterling 069 in a tuned-up Navy F2:| : Corsair powered with a Pratt &) will do ALL vour was hing — Whitney standard Ferny a Pre
engine. each kind and color SEPARATE—
Capt. Bruce Cutiningham win- | , JIN ner of the Thompson jet race, set | of your IRONING. a new closed course record for| at a price jets with his 586.23. He did 835] on. one lap. He is a veteran of | nine years in the Air Fore.
Hotel Guest njored-. | In Second Story Fall
Henry Hines, 77. of the C raig Ee i Hotel, 332 E. Washington St, . | ’ suffered a fractured leg late. Sun-| ’ day night when he fell from. a second floor fire escape in the rear of the hotel, Police found Mr ‘Howard: L. State St,
then: all- or part
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Hines and Clark; 83, of 1821-8, in the alley behind the hotel ‘on investigating a com-! plaint. Clark was hooked for, © being drunk and Mr. Hines sent to the hospital.’
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