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‘A Race-Starter’s Wife Saved the Avioi—
Trash i ag Have Caused Fair Barn. fet
~ Leam Straw Pile Set Afire Near Building
The- first serious fire in at least 47 years of Indiana State Fairs may have ‘been caused by careless handling of burning trash. That was the angle being checked today following the spectacular blaze that gutted the old
mule barn as 50,000 fair-goers ]
looked on.
‘Chief Roscoe McKinney said peliminary investigation revealed scraps of straw and hay outside the barn had been raked into a pile away from the building and set afire,
Might Have Been Unattend&d
He said there was a possibility the trash fire may have been left unattended before it was completely out. The chief indicated a still glowinig ember may have been blown into the open door of the barn where two bales of straw were stacked. Straw, hay and feed stored in the brick basement helped turn the old building into a roaring furnace as all fire-fighting equipment on the North Side was rushed to the scene. But the $12,000 Cadillac starting gate used in Grand Circuit harness racing and two other automobiles stored in the barn were
-yesgged by the quick thihking ac-
tion of Mrs. Paul Young, wife of the official race starter.
Still Shaky
Mrs. Young was having a cozy, after-dinner chat with Mrs. Jesse DeVault, wife of the superintendent of the Fair Grounds. Her husband had left 10 minutes before to return to the track; Mr. DeVault had i in for a brief
, nap.
“All of a sudden, we heard a boy shout, ‘fire,’ said Mrs. Young, still shaky from her first real
SAVED STARTING GATE—Mrs. Jesse DeVault and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Young (left to right) with the $12,000 Cadillac.
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Two-Week Fair Being Considered For Next Year
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p. m. in the Coliseum, when meat packing agents bid for beef in the 4-H calf auction. Top price — anything from $3500 to $5000 or more—will go, for “Tobey,” the Aberdeen Angus yearling which won grand champion rating over 500 other steers and made the eyes of his tiny, blonde mistress, Anne Holder, shine with pride. Anne, 13, ‘and her brother, George, 15, of Otterbein, will bring
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CHARRED SKELETON—What is left of the old mule barn that was gutted by 200-foot high flames last night at the State Fair Grounds.
Odds-Makers Fouled Up—
~ OPEN-AIR BARN—Firemen
fingers of flame are doused in Fair Grounds
Miss Indiana Loses Round To Miss Utah at Pageant
am here to tell you that the busi- presented a scene from Maxwell] ness is simmering down. {Anderson’s “Elizabeth the
So far we have two winners in Queen.” the bathing suit preliminary con-|. Miss’ Utah brought dow the | test—Lulong Ogburn—Miss-Nerth house and fouled up the odds-| [Carolina, and Miss South Da- makers for talent that night. fkota—who won’ last night, Mar- They were making book on Carol Wilbur Shaw {lene Margaret Rieb. { Mitchell, Miss Indiana; Patricia | That is only one-third of the Seabeck, Miss Wyoming, and Returns Soon judging. Each girl must compete| Miss New York ' City, Sandru Wilbur Shaw will be coming in three categories—swim suit, Scott. home soon. talent and evening gown. There| Tonight the girls do a switch. The Indianapolis Motor Speed- are no preliminary winners inIn the evening gowny competition \way president was released in the evening gown business. we have: Miss Alabama, Cali{good condition yesterday from| We also have had two winners fornia, Chicago, Connecticut, City Hospital in Akron, O., where in the talent section. On Wednes-| Kentucky, Maryland, Maine, Mishe suffered a heart attack Aug. 12. day night there was Jeannie sissippi, Montana, New York City, Mr. Shaw will remain a short, Moody, Miss Alabama. ' She gave Ohio, Oklahoma, Greater Philatime at the home of Raymond | out with a dramatic sketch. | delphia, Puerto Rico, South DaFirestone, a Firestone Tire & Last night, it turned out to be| | kota, Washington Ssate and West
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By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Prees Staff orrypoyders
\ ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. | T—If you are worried ni who's going to be next Miss America, I
Swimming suits — Arkansas, | District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Ipdiana, Iowa, | Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mis- | souri, New Jersey, New York State, North Dakota, South Carolina, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Talent—Canada, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia.
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relax inside guiled barn as final uilding.
Sales to Minors Bring Suspension.
Of Liquor Permits
For selling liquor to minors;
[three Indianapolis liquor dealers’ [licenses were ded fodpy by ithe . State Commission for 30 days. They were: Howard Kwitny, 1425 S. Meridian St. Chester Lawson, 1617 Kentucky Ave. Elmer Pattman, 2520 W. Mich+ igan St. In other action, the liquor control commission suspended nine other liquor licenses over the state for violations ranging from bootlegging to bartenders work: ing without a license.
All suspensions are effective
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introduction to fire. Rubber She’ told how she found the the Holder family a tidy sum at ubber Co. executive, in Akron. | Colleen Hutchins, Miss Utah. Shel! Virginia. thorized by Charles I in 1625. Monday. keys to the car after -a frantic the auction, since George's grand J ; search, ‘then dropped them when champion Angus in the open class Qa. a she tried to start the shiny, white § also will be sold. STRAUSS SAYS: TRADITION W JTH A T OUCH OF TOM ORROW
The $50,000 Horse Show began lat 10: 30 p. m. today, and con{tinues again at 8 p:m. until the | finish of the program. | Trotters and pacers will whirl around the mile dirt oval for the [last time this afternoon to bring QUICK ALARM—Mrs. Rob- [to a close the Grand Circuit races One of the earliest alarms was ert Yount, niece of Fair |here. turned in by the superintendent's Grounds superintendent, | Another full house is expected niece, Mrs. Robert Yount, 6160 thought her uncle's house was In the grandstand tonight for the | Carrollton Ave., who was on duty fl {final performance of the State in the superintendent’s office atame. {Fair Follies. { “I thought sure it was my! | Last to close up shop will be
uncle’s house when I saw the {the Cetlin & Wilson Midway and flames through the window,” she ecor [0 me the concessionaires. i: said. : Tomorrow will be clean-up day, | to her alarm b Ivhen the livestock barns and pone he y prs are emptied of their prize
the fire department kept the blaze from ax from the barn to! Jams Nearly All |tarm animals and the thousands
Mr. DeVault’s home, less than 50 |of fairgoers are no longer to be | seen.
feet away. i W. R. or, 32, Tipton, a nephew Cou Schools | Kenneth Joslin, of Terre Haute, of Carl Tyngr, secretary- “manager: is the winner of the six-day 4th of the fair, was burned. ' : (an nnual state championship brick Mr. Orr said he saw flames lick-| Nearly all county schools are laying contest. ing at two bales of hay outside overcrowded because of a record, He was awarded $200 by Wilthe barn and dashed into the barn enrollment this fall, County, lard R. Lucas, Evansville, presito turn on a water hydrant. | Schools Supt. Robert F. Gladden| dent of the Indiana Brickmason {said today. | Apprentice Competition, sponsors Registration of 20,174 pupils of the contest. His escape. was blocked by a topped last year's enrollment by| Second place winner, Thomas “wall of flames.” Mr. Orr grabbed 1172. As a result. 30 of the 34 Titzer, of Evansville, received | a bucket, put it over his head and’ grade schools are overcrowded, as $100 and 3 certific a certificate of me! of merit.
beat his way through the flames. are six of the seven high schools. |
Cadillac ag the flames began to lick up through the floor of the barn. “I also had time to get out the other two cars before the flames got too hot,” she said.
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shotlder. » No immediate relief is in sight, . ¢ y The spectacular blaze and the Mr. Gladden Said. He predictedh di IC OW screaming sirens enrollment will continue to rise
immediately! 2 ; > caused widespread excitement in about 1000 a year. . :
the Fair Grounds viccinity. State! 10 meet the growing. school | ar | and local police helped prevent a population outside of Indianapo-! major trafic jam outside ‘the lis, a grade school is being built Grounds. at West Newton and a junior!
® The barn, one of the oldest high at Ben Davis. And construc-| Florida Coast at the fair, once was used to|tion of three new grade schools stable mules when they were used 8nd one junior high will start |
as draft animals. It was filled Within 90 days. By United Press : with tons of hay, wooden bleach-| School enrollment was even] MIAMI, Fla. Sept. 7 (UP)—A | |
ers and other equipment. overflowing its overflow. School ‘large and very dangerous” hur. Fire Chief Roscoe McKinney officials had leased a Fair] Iricane moved slowly west-nor said spontaneous gombustion of Grounds building to relieve Nora, | westward across the Atlantic togreen hay might have started the Crooked Creek and John Strange Ward the Florida peninsula today, fire. Damage was estimated at/ Schools. They expected 350 pupils {still more than 1000 miles from $7000 to -$8000, but fair officials/in the 4-H building, but when the U.S. mainland. said it would cost $25,000 to re- 444 registered, some had to be| Forward speed of the storm
slowed down during the night. place the structure. irouted back to Crooked Creek. | Forecasters said that might mean |
la change in direction away from |Florida and the mainland. {| In a 4 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), advisory, the Miami | Weather Bureau located the storm |—fifth of the season—about 350 |miles north - northwest of San {Juan, Puerto Rico. It was movling west-northwest at about *12} miles an hour, in contrast to al [forward speed of 16 niiles an hour last night. dh Over 140 MPH | ighest winds have been esti-| | ated above 140 miles an hour |by aircraft,” the advisory said. “Hurricane force. winds extend] outward 100 miles north and 60 miles south and gales extend 250 miles north of the center.” The Weather Bureau said the storm probably will continue to] move at about the same speed for the next 12 to 18 hours. « “This is a large and very dangerous hurricane and ships should whole works) avoid it,” the advisory warned. Chief forecaster Grady Norton : said last night that although the storm is increasing slowly in size . and intensity it will churn water » : for a few more dad¢ before .
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