Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1951 — Page 1
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A Rainy Day
Officials Ponder
Question of Today By BILL EGGERT Today could be the zaniest day in Speedway's qualification history. ' There are only six places left open in Wednesday's
starting field of 33 for the 500-Mile Race after Jimmy Davies Racing drivers watched the bharometic pressure as close as their motor’s oil guage today— the last day for qualification for the annual 500-mile classic —as the weatherman promised “partly cloudy skies, cool temperatues, but no rain in sight. But it will be windy—20 to 25 miles an hour.
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Six Places Still Open In ‘500’ Lineup
Davies Is Lone Su" Qualifier on
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. RAINS CAME, CREWS FLEW—When one of the many showers drenched the Speedway area yesterday, crewmen rushed to get their race cars in the garages. In the above photo the Pat Clancy Special and the Lou
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SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1951
The Indianapolis Times
High .today 72. Low tonight 50.
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Times Photo by John Spicklemire.
Rassey entry (66) are being rushed to tha garage
peste ini Sr Collins Charges Grubbs Shot to Death Chinese in Daze
Davies, a soldier on furlough
Davies. who qualified last year here in the Pat Clancy Special was the lone qualifier showers had speed trials during most of the day. 15 Cars Ready
J. Lawton Collins said flatly toAt least 15 cars were ready to day that Gen, make a try but the intermittént| orthur violated policy once in ell in tha fouled up the entire Korea and the nation's military e and accentuated more chiefs feared he might emphasis upon today’s final quali- again “in some other instance of W a more serious nature.”
showers picture
fication run. There was some discrepancies
| . . = fjolated Polic interrupted the|
> | | : from Camp Roberts, Cal. was] : clocked at 133.516 miles an hour. | y 1 oug ryi ng Oo a
By United Press WASHINGTON, May 26--Gen.
The Army Chief of
in the operation of today’s quali- known as “Lightning Joe’ put
fication. ; Wilbur Shaw, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
row at which time only one car would be allowed to qualify. ’ Shaw said that the car, last in line today, would be the only car to qualify tomorrow.
‘Fair, Reasonable’
He remarked that in order to be “fair and reasonable” it would
be necessary not to permit any| ,
bumping on an extra qualification Tommy Milton, the Speedway’s|
different opinion which he was
keeping to himself until he could
qualification.
reply to a charge by Sen. Harry n¢ |P. Cain, (R. Wash.) that he was, hi
: ob 3 ao | perhaps without intent, conduct- ) - said that if, for example, only 32| ing a “first rate hatchet job” on embraced his wife.
cars were qualified today, then |, 0 di the track would be open fOr &|,,nger Gen. Collins testified to Pinning her arms at her side, he special qualification run tomor-|g.. .t.re investigating the Mac- Shouted, ouster that he meant just|Indianapoli |what Ne sald yesterday—that it H was against policy laid down by, the Joint Chiefs when Gen. Mac-| Arthur sent Americans along with! South Koreans to the Manchurian border last December.
|A month later, Gen. MacArthur
day. ; {directed his troops, | ps Americans ine chest and killing him almost
jana South Koreans both, to go to| instantly.
chief steward, however, had 2 (the border. When they got there {later, the Chinese Reds intervened. |
|the statement in sharp terms in Wife,
smised Far Eastern com-
Reds Stepped In
rthur the policy last Sept. 27.
The Joint Chiefs said only
border and Gen. Collins agreed | high school classmate of Grubbs. Fails to Find Weapon
Milton, selected by Speedway with Mr. Cain that the policy was|
for the second straight year to serve as steward, is the man with the power. It is Milton, in a true sense, that has final judgment on the operation of the Speedway's qualification and the actual running of the 500-Mile Race. Milton didn’t elaborate upon his opinion hoping that the fastest 33 cars would be qualified today. Two other drivers attempted to qualify yesterday as Joe James in the Bob Estes Lincoln-Mercury Special did two laps at 134 and
dangered his life.
more serious nature.”
not mandatory. But he insisted Gen. MacArthur, before changing fore it happened,” Sheriff Davis] it, should have cleared it with the said. “He didn’t have any weapons orgy two days after Christmas| {Joint Chiefs and had the time to of any kind, unless he had hidden|when he forced his wife and his, Aeriean JrooDs wirick ose do so. the razor blade in his shoe.” ontier Above imchon to
The incident, Gen. Collins made
Vandenberg Next Administration spokesmen have
By JIM McNEILE BLOOMINGTON, May 26 —Ethridge Grubbs, 34, & Bloomington stoneworker under indictment for two murDouglas Mac- ders, was shot to death in his
Monroe County jail
do it tonight by Sheriff Fred Davis, hen the burly prisoner attempted to slash his wife's throat with a Staff, razor blade. Grubbs was being visited by his Helen, and his sister and y/nephew for the last time before = ‘his return to Indianapolis. When they entered his cell, he
Then twisting her around and
“I'm not going back to s—I'm going to kill elen and take her with me.” He slashed at her throat with a two-edged razor blade.
‘Trying to Kill Her’
screamed the sister. ; Sheriff Davis, standing outside The Joint Chi . Mac- the cell, efs gave Gen. Mac-| 4 “Ethridge, Ethridge.”
Sheriff Davis fired twice, second bullet striking Grubbs in|the deaths of his brother, Warnie
sheriff.
| poor marksmanship, the toll “I searched Grubbs an hour be- Might have been higher.
Taken to tne Bloomington hos- the back of the front seat of the done in some other instance of a!pijtal, Mrs. Grubbs was treated for auto. | a slight gash in her throat, and shock. Grubbs, an ex-convict, had been 135 and had to be flagged in be- contended Gen. MacArthur's plans out of prison only a few months
cause of another shower that en-|for expanding the war might have when he went on his shooting] brought in the Soviet Union and orgy. He had been convicted of to Shaw's home, nearby, told him
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Ethridge Grubbs tody of the Monroe County,
Grubbs was indicted Jan. 31 for |
Grubbs, 28, and H. Neal Shaw,
The two men were blasted to
ton stone-worker and but for his
Grubbs started on his shooting]
nephew, Earl Grubbs, 19, of,
sobbing hysteri-| Bloomington, to drive him to Inplain, led the Joint Chiefs to feel|cally, said, “Yesterday he told me,|dianapolis at gunpoint. Once dur“that just as he violated a policy ‘I'm not going back to Indian-|ing the trip he fired at his wife, in this case without consulting apolis.’” | us, perhaps the thing might be|
{but most of the pellets stuck in|
Shoots Shaw At his brother's home, he shot, |him twice, firing also at his own {wife and nephew. He then went
The few thousand fans sitting|touched off World War III. The grand larceny in Michigan City in/that Warnie Grubbs had acci-
along the main straightaway no-| General was ousted because h ticed that James was fish-tailing made his ideas a public issue.
down the straightaway as a
shower of rain fell. Flagged off Track
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‘Carnival Atmosphere’
Vanguard of 100,000 Fans Buzzes Into Town for ‘500°
By ED KENNEDY
are coming and the hawkers are ready. Rain lowered the mercury, but!
|disobeying a direct order. The MacArthur investigating could “clear up” | committee completed its ques-|ington burglaries. Bill Boyd in the Lutes Special | tioning of Gen. Collins, turned in laps of 127 and 126|chief of staff, at 3:03 p. miles an hour, much too slow in|ypdianapolis time. It recessed then view of the fact that at least siX|ynti1 9 a. m. Monday when Gen. |and Prosecutor Frank Fairchild, more miles an hour more will be gout S. Vandenburg, chief of the |
Continued on Page 11 —Col. 5 jAlr Force, will testify.
] stands offered race car photoMotors are humming, the fans graphs for sale along with an assortment of other jim-cracks {connected with the speed event.
No one has charged him with!
Bars Are Busy Bars reported business on the
not the fever of Speedway fans yp-swing and strange drinks such as the vanguard of 100,000 Me- 534 Novi Specials and Speedway
morial Day visitors started moving in last night. They came by plane and] checked into downtown hotels.| They came by flivver and pitched tents along 16th St. But regardless of method of travel or accommodations the hopes were the same. “Let the clouds get the rain out of their sytem. Give us clear weather Wednesday.” A carnival atmosphere prevailed on 16th St. W. Washington St. started to take on the complexion of an international highway with license plates showing up from over the Western Hemisphere. All over town the hawkers had set-up at choice ' locations to peddle their wares. Balloons for| the kiddies and checkered pen-| nants for the fans. One stand, ‘was already in operation as far east as Washington Ave. and Emerson St. Downtown hotel lobbies and store windows were already dis-
Slings were reported. The drinking spots will be closed Memorial Day, but signs told folks that) there was plenty for sale to take home in advance. Bar and liquor stores owners sald a lot was being sold, too. Tavern owners also decorated their places to get a racing atmosphere. One owner purchased a half dozen carefully machined expensive scale model race cars. He was permitting his regular customers one guess each on the outcome of the race. Their guess was to be on the winning average speed. The ones who hit the winning speed or come the closest will get the racers. Taxicab operators said’ that effective at midnight Tuesday the, special cab rate to the Speedway would go’ into effect. The rate would be $5 from any place in town to the Speedway for one to four persons. All over four in the| same cab would pay $1 additional.
playing .race scenes and cigar
telling of the special prices. }
e|1949 and sentenced to a term of|jant {one to 10 years. A week ago Grubbs wrote to Shaw to drive the wounded man| Davis, telling him he to 2 hospital. nemerous Bloom-| Davis came to/of Brocklyn, Morgan County, he Army Indianapolis to talk to Grubbs|fired point blank at Shaw, woundland then requested permission of {Marion County Sheriff Dan Smitha few days later.
| Sheriff
who both agreed to release the prisoner temporarily in the cus-
At a point one-half mile north
A state police trapped Grubbs at where he surrendered meekly.» !
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sh Wife As Allies Seize SE. Record Numbers
By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Staff Correspondent
{ TOKYO, Sunday, May 27—Or-| : 3 ganized Red resistance all but SMmergency, and Congress took the strings off its purse.
collapsed along the Korean battleHON Setmdey 23 he Allies Sorert or drawn from World War II reserves, he said, to put the to six miles inside North Korea. ] American and South Korean parable period in American history. troops in GE ent Povey, Our factories now hold about $30 billion of military the Parallel on a 20-mile front contracts and are getting more at the rate of about $1 billion {below Hwachon and Kumhwa in/g week west-central Korea. :
South Korean troops
and railroad.
forces slashed across the main
escape routes of the tens
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice
racing ‘again up the east coast captured billion a month clip, and that pace will be stepped up four-
yng, Bo Toastal mighway fold—to a billion a week—in the fall and winter of this year.
Switt United Nations mobile Almost 3.5 Million Man Arms What are the goals of the mobilization program, and aa, Sian aA the. Er
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Indianapolis, Indiana. Issued Dally.
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ization official said today
‘the United States now has a ready-to-fight force of almost 3.5 million ‘men, better armed than in World War II and backed by a massive produc.
‘tion machine that is just beginning to roll.
He contradicted the widespread belief that this country will not be ‘able to defend itself effectively until the long-range production goals of the
‘mobilization program have been attained sometime in 1953. |
“We are much further along than most people realize,”
he said in an interview. | “We can have an effective level of armed strength long] before the present program is completed. We have it now, 'and are trying to make it more effective.” This official, who insisted that he not be identified, emphasized that the mobilization program—which aims at| superimposing a $60 billion-a-year arms industry on top of a normal civilian economy—has been under way only five months and is still in the tooling-up stage.
Armed Forces in Tip Top Trim Practically all the military hardware now going to ‘the fighting forces was ordered before ogjmmediately after ‘the Korean war broke out, he explained. The Big contracts did not start flooding out of the | Defense Department until last December, after the Chinese lintervened in Korea, President Truman declared a national
But enough arms and equipment have been turned out,
|three services in far better fighting trim than at any com-
Finished goods are leaving the assembly lines at a $1
Young Shuns Teacher Pay Grab Scandal
Up to Prosecutor, School Head Says
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Republican Supt. of Public In struction Wilbur Young yesterday joined Democratic Gov. 8chricker in a declared policy of “hands< If’ the controversy over political shakedown of Indiana teachers. As a result, state intervention in the school scandal appears remote. i : In a statement, Mr. Y de~ clared: Sung “. +. If there has been any ille= gal act in connection with those - dismissals, or any other dismissals, the prosecuting attorney has the power to submit evidence to the Grand Jury in his county.” Details of a political shakes down of low-salaried teachers by township trustees in Spencen: County were first revealed in lasf weck's Sunday Times. :
of
thousands of Red troops cut oft| Where do we stand right now?
by the 8th Army offensive, and {closed in on the shrinking pocket.
Dazed, Hopeless
Dazed and hopeless Chinese| mob and North Koreans surrendered
weapons are as closely guarded as atomic secrets, but the ilization official gave this broad outline: The fighting forces will list their manpower goal of
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for and were captured in record 35 million officers and men in 30 days.
numbers, the Allied bag reaching a peak for any one day of the (50, both of Camby, 15 miles south-| War. visibly | West of Indianapolis. ! . | shaken by his prisoner's third learn the outcome of today's gq iy woreans should g0 to the murder attempt. He had been a|feath Dec. 27 by the Blooming-
An American officer on the west central front said the capture of so many Communists was
Light and medium tanks, better than anything seen in World War II, are coming off the assembly lines in steadilyrising volume. There are more than enough small arms, machine guns
a fair indication that the Chinese| and ammunition to go around, with plenty more in reserve
Allied offensive.
|armies had been knocked com- : i : armas off balance by the all-out from the last war, and war factories are tooling up for mass
production of motorized artillery and other weapons de-
Amid the Korean mountains veloped since 1945.
within six miles of Hwachon and herded two corps of potentially
160.000 men back against the 13-/pglled warships it can man, and most of its carriers are {mile reservoir stretching east-
ward from the town. : Smash Road Blocks
One Man as Deadly as 3 or 4
The Navy is reactivating and modernizing all the moth-
flying jet planes. Two major improvements have been made since World
Farther east, U. 8. and French War II: Ships are being fitted with up-to-the-minute radar
troops crashed
through road : : airblocks and Communist screening|30d other electronic devices, and new and better anti-air
forces to take over all the craft equipment has been added.
Hongchon Inje road below the]
border.
They linked up with the two- : bridgehead [the not-too-distant future.
Yankee Choyang river
day old lacross the
North Korea and fought northeastward toward Inje, road hub
five miles beyond the parallel.
An estimated 10,000 Chinese, | remnants of the breakthrough {ing him in the chest. Shaw died force that plunged 25 miles into
The Air Force is getting all the B-29's it can use and will be getting volume production of B-47 jet bombers in
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In They will be the medium bombers of any future war,
supplementing the B-36 heavies. Jet fighters already are in mass production, and industry is aiming at a target of
18,000 jet engines a month. The overall aim, so far as the individual combat man is
South Korea, were trickling from| concerned, is to make each soldier, sailor or airman as
roadblock the Hyon area toward Inje, skirtFranklin|ing the spearhead of the Allied
force nearing the town.
CUSTOM CAR BEAUTY—Entered in the Indianapolis. Custom Car Show at the Manutacturers | Building, State Fair Grounds, is this car built by Robert Hamke, 3128 Winthrop Ave. Built from a 1927 It Was dated May 15 and read in/to the states and discharged.” Model T, the car-is valued at $6000. Posing with dad is Robert Jr., who hopes Pop will build him a | All cabs will be posted with signs| junior model of this winner. Trophies denote victories at Chicago, show here will continue through May 30th. (Another automobile story, Page 55)
effective in battle as three or four of his enemies. | .
‘You Can't Do This to Me’
Slashing of Red Tape Frees Shanghaied Hoosier Gl
By DAN KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
|BOSS —- Shanghaling sailors js States. old stuff. But today Rep. William | |G. Bray, Martinsville Republican,
Gets Physical Tests
|shanghaied soldier.
just kidnaped by Uncle Sam.
believes he has rescued him, 80 the reserve on June 1, 1949. that he can return to his wife, Mrs. Joyce Gardner, 207 W.| de {Locust St., Ft, Branch. The Con-
{siderable ‘snipping of Army red |tape. Served in War II
Oct. 15. Mr. Bray was an officer in the
is mightier than the sword. they would - check the records
part: | Since nothing happened, Mrs
the Army Dec. 23, 1943, at the| Continued on Page 3—Col. 8 } : v Shi
fond
Actual production figures of planes, tanks and other
age of 18. He served 30 months 'with the transportation corps in|
WASHINGTON, May 26 Dear several camps here in the United
“On Sept. 19, 1950, he was orred to report to Indianapolis Other Features: ¢ | for physical examination. At this gressman confessed it took cOn- 40 he told them his time in the Reserve had expired, nevertheles he was inducted and left home
tank corps in World War II. He Taras: Dee, 1, he » Ma knows all /about that Pacific checked his records and found (fighting, even to fighting the men that he had never re-enlisted in {in the Army who think the pen|the Reserve and he was told that
Tip-off on the shanghaled sol- more thoroughly here in the dier came in a letter to Mr. Bray states and if they couldn't find from Mrs. Gardner, who is one of any record of an oath with his {his seventh district constituents. signature he would be sent back
r “I am writing you conegerning | c; Detrott and. South Bend. The Ye ng re 8 Gardner wrote her Congressman
“I agree with Gov. Schricker®. Mr. Young said, “that it is the duty .of the prosecutor to weigh the facts and then proceed if he is convinced there has béen any law violation.” N In a sharp blast at the State Teachers Association's fine vestigation of the. scandal, ‘cote’ ducted Executive Secretary Robert Wyatt, Mr. Young said: “To hold kangeroo courts and attempt to try cases in ; ways is un-American and entirely unjust.” BL TF His ‘Greatest Sympathy’ Mr. Young said because he fore merly taught grade and high’ school, he has “the greatest sympathy for any teacher who is displaced for any reason.” . He explained, however, that hig office maintained a teacher regise tration bureau to place uneme ployed teachers. $ Mr, Young said he had not hag any official report or on shakedowns in Spencey County. ’ “All T know=about the charges is what has been told to me by newspapermen,” he said. :
On the Inside Of The Times Section |
Republican eyebrows are being worn higher this season. The
reason is told by Irving LiehOWIE sossssncise seroma
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He was given several physical What to wear should a time [turned up with a story about a axaminations for overseas duty,| ‘but due to a childhood illness] | He is from Ft. Branch, Ind. which left him physically handi{got all tied up in army red tape capped he did not pass any of and now finds himself in Japan. these. He received an honorable Many luxury homes, begun | So far as the records show, he gjscharge June 1, 1946, at which| before regulations, are «(isnt even in the Army. He Was time he enlisted in the fnaetive| reserve. During his three years Neverthless the Army calls him he remained inactive and should | There's a proud Serbian chapel Pfc. James G. Gardner. Mr. Bray have received a discharge from
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