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Ace Drivers Feared Trouble Loomed in Fatal Dayton Race
By ART
WRIGHT
State
‘ Times Writer DAYTON, O., Apr. 21—“Trouble” feared by top speedway drivers Joie James and Troy Ruttman brought death to Driver Gordon Reid and three spectators at Dayton Speedway’s half-mile banked asphalt track “yesterday.
1 saw the crash from start to 3 finish and I wish I hadn't , .. it was one of the worst speedway in 27 years of reporting speed events.
tragedies I've witnessed
It happened in the first race.
I kept my eyes on Reid and James and Ruttman, too. I also
feared trouble because . James, declared winner of the race after it was halted, and Ruttman, who finished second, told this reporter the night before
a
of this one.” : James, Ruttman and Reid were . favorites to win top laurels.
Car Airborne Standing high in the home stretch judges’ stand, I wafched James lead Ruttman and Reid, in that order, through the north turn at a terrific pace. Suddenly Reid's red Engel-Stanko Special slid high in the banked turn, crashed into the outside guard rail, then straddled it. The car made another leap, bounded off the guard rail again and plunged upright through the air toward the north end of the grandstand. . By that time James and Ruttman were crossing the finish line on the fifth lap. There wasn’t anything Reid could do, the car was in midair and remained “airborne” for about 150 feet. I could see the car plunging over the heads of standing spectators. Then the crash,
I went to the spot and saw a
young man. lying face down on the ground, nearby was a woman some one had already put a coat over the upper part of the woman’s body. They said her head had been cut off. - ‘Like Artillery Shell’ A few feet beyond them and past a 5-foot-high bridge (which crosses the track to the infield) lay the Reid car, a twisted mass. It rested against the concrete side
the race and again race morning that they were “afraid
Gordon Reid :
Spey
of the grandstand. It was evident &
the car had lost enough altitude
to crash the steel beam on the
side. of the bridge in under. Guards were carrying people away, some of them you didn’t want to look at. Somedne said there was another body wedged under the car. Reid's mangled body was inside the cockpit, a canvas cover thrown over it to hide the tragic scene. Charles E. Sarver, one of the injured spectators said the racer zoomed over his head “like an artillery shell.” The car came to rest on the leg of Herman Cottrell, Dayton, who said “it was a miracle” he was not killed. “God must have been sitting right there with me.” _ 88 to Hospitals Blair Ratliff, one of the track operators, said 68 persons were taken to the hospitals. Nine still were in the hospitals early today. Spectators killed were Robert Thatcher, 22, of Dayton, a track guard, and Gene Lawson, 19, of Dayton, and Mrs. Ruby E. 8haffer, 43, of Springfield, O. Feeling ran particularly high among the drivers in the spirit of friendly competition. Both James and Ruttman said that Reid was going to bé-the “hot” driver of the day and the one they would have to beat. Ruttman had never been beaten on the Dayton track since 1949. James was heralded becguse of
past performances here as the, get a positive check on the bomb we have exploded,” Mr.
laccuracy of speedometers will be| Dean said. “If it were, we would lon Washington Blvd, between | NOt be exploding it here within
“sensation” of newcomers. Drivers Jittery
From the moment qualification trials - started, the drivers were jittery. Reid was first to qualify and turned in a sensational time of 20.510 seconds for the halfmile. Ruttman soon topped Reid's qualifications with 20.188 seconds. Then James also topped Reid's time with 20.324 seconds.
As the first race started, Rutt-|
man started on the pole position, but James overtook him on the back stretch.
More than 14.000 persons at-|
tended the race, the largest crowd since the track opened in 1935.
Reid was an Indianapolis Speedway “500” driver who had
IT WAS HIS TIME TO GO « & o '==Grief stricken Betty Reid bravely receives news of driver-husband's death on Dayton Speedway.
to attend the funeral.
was considered dangerous. “If the people had heeded an earlier warning to get away from that area the guard wouldn't {have been killed,” said Mr. Rat-~
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Radar to Check Speedometers
.. By ED KENNEDY Indianapolis police today announced the first location ®for radar speedometer checks which will get under way at 9 a. m. Wednesday. First location for car owners
{34th and 38th Sts.
Capt. Audry Jacobs, head of| United States.
the police traffic section, said the checking team would o from 9 a. m. to noon and 2 p. m. {to 3 p. m. | Southbound motorists may (check their speedqmeters simply {by following signs in the street.
|which will
read: “Take your |speedometer reading now,” the {motorist should glance at his speedometer. A short {farther on a policeman {slate will flash the radar speed reading to the ‘driver.
| Capt. Jacobs said motorists
Ruttman, said he would go by plane to Burbank late this week
The irony to the death of Track Guard Thatcher, said Mr. Ratliff, was the guard had returned to the scene of the impending crash a moment before to “chase” spectators from that area because it
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Rains Boost Flood Crisis In Missouri
Predicted Crests Being Topped
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Apr. 21 —The surging Missouri River gathered in fresh rains today
in a flood that already spread from bluff to bluff in many places, and new areas were threatened with inundation. The U. 8. Corps of Engineers expressed concern for agricultural levees below St. Joseph as the flood level rose above predicted crests. “If it rains any more, we're in for it,” said Col. L. J. Lincoln, Kansas City district engineer, as more men and trucks were directed to new key danger points, The dramatic fight was at Sherman Air Force Base on the Ft. Leavenworth reservation, where some 1600 airmen and soldiers labored to protect the multi-mil-lion dollar installation, The river stood today nine feet above the level of the air base.
‘ Officers Optimistic Officers at Sherman Field were optimistic, despite the odds. “We're ahead of the river and we expect to stay that way,” they said. 8t. Joseph's 78,588 persons live, mostly, high on the bluffs, The damage expected here largely has
.|been done to low-lying South St,
Joseph and the bottoms across the river side. But downstream at Atchison and Ft. Leavenworth on the Kansas side of the great river, the skies threatened to pour more water into the greatest expanse of flood ever to drive families to the hills in northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas. , Dikes in the Atchison and Ft. Leavenworth area had been built up. Many were holding, but others were in real danger. The city of Leavenworth, Kas., which lies below the fort, watched the flood from high bluffs, safe and dry, but a boat works apparently was doomed on the riverfront,
Mississippi Threat
Eases at Lei Crosse
LA CROSSE, Wis., Apr. 21 (UP) —The Mississippi River, in a “long, flat hill of water,” surged past La Crosse today and the threat of a major flood was eased. It had been feared that high winds migh kick up waves which would batter through the city’s sand ‘dikes, but strong winds did not develop. Instead there were light breezes from the south and southwest, relieving the threat to
a dike along the northern part of town,
Bigger Blast Due
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distance] yijia Ave. Ww 2/the ambulance before it reached!
his first chance at Indianapolis should drive between 20 and 30
last year and was slated to drive m.p.h. through the zone. Check-| {ing a speedometer will be no ex-|
a, Stanko Special this year. He passed his driver test at the “500” but didn’t get in the race. His wife did not see the crash. She was at their home in Burbank, Cal., where she gave birth to a new baby a few days ago. It was their fourth child. Reid was 27 years old.
‘His Time to Go’
Informed of the tragedy, Mrs. Reid accepted the news bravely, although concerned about the future of her four daughters, 5, 4, 17 months and the newest arrival. “Racing was his greatest love,” she said. “I would never have asked him to quit. The only way you can feel about it is that it was his time to go.” The 28-year-old widowed mother said Reid's death left her without income , . . that Reid carried ho Insurance except the $2500 she would receive under the AAA driver benevolent fund. She said arrangements were being made to fly the body to Burbank.
Jole James, winner of the event in which Reid was killed and also , winner of the 30-lap feature over
cuse to break the speed limit. | The unit will work on Wash{ington Blvd. for three days and {then be moved to other parts of the city to locations which will be announced.
Praises Dental Group [For Aid to Children
dren in local grade schools. Shibler,
last year, . ‘
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Volunteer services by members| of the Indianapolis Dental Society | today ‘was credited with reduction 1 ee—to become an ace he mustald J. Hemmer, Princeton, also of dental ailments among chil-|
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In a radio talk to children in classrooms today, Dr. Herman L.| school -superintendent,| said the society also was responsible for bringing dental aid to]
Than in Japan
LAS VEGAS, Nev, Apr. 21] “It just doesn't seem right I World War II. He was recalled Fine Atmosphere to Rear a 4 volved the $6.9 million rate ine { ! y 3 Aoe ' . ) p me to kee m m cell- creas granted company by (UP)--The atomic bomb to be don't have the same benefits as|to active duty as a reservist Aug.| Child ...a Talburt cartoon. 125... ba rie all Circuit Court —. Lloyd Clay "9 ”
used tomorrow at Yucca Flat in “Operation Big Shot” will be, more powerful than the bombs! which ruined Hiroshima and Nag-| asaki and ended the Pacific War, Chairman Gordon Dean of the Atomic Energy Commission said! here today. Mr, Dean said that the bomb
energy release than either of the bombs exploded in Japan or at
“But it’ will not be the largest
the
continental limits "of the
“Instead, we would be explod-
Brakeman, 69, Falls Under Train, Killed
A 69-year-old brakeman .died
The first sign will call attention today shortly after he fell under to the zone. At the second sign./the wheels of a New York Cen-| [tral train operating in the Hill yards.
He was Carl Hastings, 1049 |
Police said he died in!
General Hospital. |
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Times State Service |
" . Mr. d just 'ASUALTIES ; fot JASPER, Apr. 21 — Aloysius temporary job of some sort, bowling alley. Mr. Bohn had j CAS prisoners came at 7:20 p. m. last ; Bender, 24, Jasper, was killed |said Mr. Thompson, “but those finished bowling in the Mixed (111 Days) night. It was led by three do ibe Ba gti instantly today when a TV an- |Korean veterans with families Sunday League at Fox-Hunt Rec-| 1951 1952 |cerous convicts, one of wh “ . oY ° ’ e whom which prohibits “unlawful stande tenna he was installing on a might find it rougher.” reation, Inc, 1201 Es Washington| Accidents ......2218 2318 |, 4, ie on Gov. G. Menneniing, congregating or assemblt home in Schnellville, near here | Mr. Thompson's GI unemploy-|8t. Relatives told the coroner hel Injuries ..,..... 9877 983 Ww 8, greg g or ng” fell against a 7200-volt wire. |ment benefit rights expired July had had several heart attacks. ' Killed ........ 21 20 [Williams while he was inspecting|in a public place. ell against a id re. men 1 ghts expire ys irises the Upper Peninsula prison last! “You can go over to the mons
1He was told flatly today he was
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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1952
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Michigan Police Open Fire to Push Back Mob; More Hostages Seized
By United Press sik JACKSON, Mich., Apr. 21—Stgte police fired today on rioting inmates at Southern Michigan Prison trying to smash their way into the administration building. The
prisoners retreated but took six, more hostages. ‘The 2600 rioters had carved a,
path of destruction toward the : ty iiding, easiest avenue of escape : anda from world's largest walled S an ded + prison. ) Sra
On orders from State Corrections Commissioner Earnest Brooks state troopers fired over the heads of the rebellious conThey fell back.
viets, Put Take More Hostages more guards in the right yard of the prison, which heretofore had been free of rioting, were jumped hostages,
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tion victs at bay : streaked toward the prison f all sections of the state. - One unit of the Natfonal Guard was put on standby alert, ge, 3 s ® Bit with beaten or
RIOT VICTIM—Duane Dunning, 24, is carried from Southern Michigan Prison at Jackson. He was injured during, skirmishing. :
Returned Korean Gl Can't Get Jobless Pay
By ANDY OLOFSON . Korean veterans, once back in civvies, don't’ haye the same rights as other civilians for at least %
; "that is true of ployment benefits—the . result of | lack of actien by Congress. x Such is the case of Charles E. Thompson, veteran of some of the bitterest fighting in Korea.
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Wife charged in slaying of osteopath FRSA ASs rasan 3 Mr. Two more Gls from Indiana |p» die in Korea ...isserssssse ll
Taft petition demands that Ike take a stand. ..ovvvvee 7 FBI reports 51 per cent hike in major crimes in 1951 ...... Split in GOP ranks develops over censure of President Truman
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Would Be Tasiest Way The convicts, armed with meat
18 cleavers, huge carving knives and atiomey other weapons taken from the] Mr.
main kitchen, would have City ‘3 sasiegt, avenue of escape if hs Sohly being reac e str ’e Jes administration build- ana Bell. We want The pincer movement developed(facts. We are here when a mob of rebellious inmates, [Public.” : dressed themselves in stolen guard uniforms, and ran across the yard to the ring wing of cell Dlogks that had been free of riot~ ng. : Duped by the uniforms, guards failed io fire their tear gas in
not entitled to unemployment compensation. Mr. Thompson is one of 900 railroad car repairmen laid off |
at the Beech Grove yards by
the New York Central Railroad
Apr. 11. The 40-year-old veteran, who Charles E. Thompson 125, 1949. He served 35 months in|
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also served 35 months in World War II, was told that his time in service during the “police action” in Korea did not count as “covered employment’’ needed to qualify for the jobless compensation.
was granted. : Two cases were considered at today’s public hearing. One in
some civilian who might have 1, 1950, and served with the fifth Washington's jam-packed and working toward the administra- be other is ine : combe, The a new
been deferred from the draft to| regimental combat team while it| beautiful , o. by Frederick
work in a war plant,” said the fought its way from southern C. Othman. ....... versnane p}lion billding hich joins iis right vestigation of all the company's husky, mild-voiced veteran. Korea up to within 7! miles of | Sports MY. ay maid a .. rates and regulations. i tier Xeiow a lot of my bud-{the Yalu River in Northern| Page movement did = Oper pues ot es, when the et home from | Korea. : Korea, will feel the same way." [Indians home; Cleveland un- |planned. He said they were “hell They Were Just =
He was released from the serv- beaten fce Aug. 8, 1951, and took the The Job at Beech Grove yards. On Base Apr. 11, he was laid off by the railroad “because of the impending steel strike.”
bent for someplace and fhey're just working this way.”
Fears for Hostages No weapons other than tear gas have been fired. Warden Julian Frisble feared for the safety
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Indiana Employment Security Division officials confirmed Mr. Thompson “was not eligible for jobless compensatioh. Congress Blamed It was all blamed on the slow-|
A Little High, But Not Drunk
THE TWO YOUNG Chicagoans
ness ‘of Congress in acting on a : Women's of four hostages in ‘the discipli-|were high, but police agreed the GI Bill hi Riffs for Korean vet- All State Miners | Page nary barracks, P hadn't been arinking. Ad erans. The bill, now in the House i One of the leader Veterans Attairs Comunioouse Back at Work Again |catharine Ann Drybrough, | ers of the revolt| One was about 40 feet high on
warned “we'll toss out a dead hostage if you start shooting.” About 600 guards and state
the outside of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument early yesterday, Patrolman Fred McCool testified today, The other had climbed about 25 feet up the monument's face, Officer McCool said, when he and Patrolman Jack Herman chanced by in their squad car.
| “Lovely Lady of Tomorrow. .4 4 . { TERRE HAUTE, Apr. 21 (UP) [Highland to op-n spring sea—For the first time in weeks,| .,, at Saturday night dance. Indiana's coal mining; industry. yanks invade Rebel territory Police manned machine guns on apparently was free from strikes. —Caprices by Christy, . |e Toots, All guanis were pulled t back [Muriel Lawrence berates half- | ¢ the celiblocks Green Valley miners went back | baked parental decisions ... 5 rioting swelled to more than 2000, - As the rioters smashed through cellblocks, huge columns of smoke curled up from within the
patterned after the World War II GI bill. “But until Congress acts there won't even be unemployment benefits for veterans as soon as they get out,” said Ray Thomas, a deputy in the state division. ‘Under existing laws,” Thomas explained,
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Mr. two-week walkout. About 450 Ti d E . 50 Times Index a GI getting| miners voted last week to return!
out of the service now could not e international rep-| AMUSEMENtS +.evveervess 8 inrison-w Judge Scott McDonald, Municiapply for unemployment Compon-L 0, work while in wi i nak yep) BYMEE sescesirirricnmrge 21 joel alls from fires they had)pal Court 4, asked Charles C, sation until at least October, issue with management. [| COMICE .ovvnrunsinnnans 20, 21 The original rioters in the dis affner III, 24, and Donald V. Meanwhile, he would have had! Two weeks ago, about 3000 Crossword ........ iiss 21. lciplinary = barracks apparently arnshaw, 26, if they'd ever to be employed by a covered oc-| miners in more than a dozen! Editorials -...... sessenss 12 iqare appalled by the rampage °° any mountain climbing. cupation and have earned at ines were idle In a sympathy| In Hollywood ......ecoeve 8 lipay nad started. Through Dep-| Yes, your honor,” replied least $250 to be eligible. | walkotit because of the Green| Harold Hartley .......:.. 13 (uty Warden Verne Fox ring-| Earnshaw. “But there's no conService in the armed forces, yvajley dispute. Radio, Television ........ 8 |joa40rg said they would appeal to Bection between that and this under existing laws, is not con-| — — —— Robert Ruark «seceevsees 11 (the other rioters to return to case.” sidered employment. . . | Ed Sovola ..... eossnnsses 11 |thoir calls. ‘£2 wn - It doesn’t seem right, but that Dies ' at Bowling Alley | Sports ..... issaveenn dd, 15 It was the worst riot in Michi-! “WE JUST HAD ‘the urge to is what the law says. | carl E. Bohn. 46. of 1218 N.| Earl Wilson ereanereineee 11 gan prison history. 3 climb,” Haffner tried to explain. Rough on Married Man ’ Dies Women's ...... teeeiannes 4.5 |We're very sorry for the trouble
“Since I'm single, I'll probably Parker Ave. collapsed and died! be able to get along okay with a last night at a near East Side
ene eee — — Started Last Night (we've caused.” INDIANAPOLIS TRAFFIC The barracks uprising by 104! Judge McDonald withheld judg-
Martha's Eyes on Skies as Gets 2d MIG
Scratch MIG No. 2 for Martha
add three.
First Lt, Jim Kagler, who
promised his wife a MIG when listed his first “kill,” as his “bighe left for Korea to be a Sabrejet|8est thrill ever. pilot bagged his second Red plane]
last week according to an Air Force announcement today. “Oh, good, good. I won't be surprised if he becomes an ace
{now,” his wife, Martha Lee Kas-
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ler, 4626 College Ave., said this morning when informed by The
kill. . The Air Force sald the Indianapolis officer made the kill in a over a key Korea.
year, When the 500 inmates heard of the riot on a radio loud speaker at breakfast, they seized their a_i. g sald he and his wingman, 1st Lt./three guards and beat them, then vy # Robert L. Straub, Flagstaff, Ariz, |2'Med themselves with knives
: from the kitchen and broke into picked up two MIGs just as they another i cellblock afte crossed the Yalu River- border ® wresking
the dining hall. from Manchuria. As they went Warden Frisbie said the revolt, into a turn, he said, he began inspired by recent prison riots in fb Artng from behind. ey hod ed 1a lity” Ean n ality” There were several explosions|, ng escape was not the objective, in the MIG's fuselage and the pilot bailed’ out,” he said. “We
broke off and my wingman gor Fireworks Prevented
§ another MIG as we straightened RALEIGH, N.C. Apr. 21 (UP) out. We were right on the deck — Detectives who flushed a poker
ment and take the elevator,” the . judge told them. “I believe it's a quarter.” “Thank you, your honor,” said Earnshaw and Haffner. - They didn’t even climb over the bench. es to get out of the courtroom.
| Another Hoosier, 1st Lt. Don- gs
{bagged a Red jet—his first. Mrs. Kasler said her husband |
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Cave-In Victim Goes Back to Work
Being trapped in a cave-in is all in a day's work to Archie Erwin, 31, of 2315 Massachusetts Ave, nl Mr. Erwin was digging a sewer line to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Shae Church, 57th St; an ntral Ave. this morning when part of the 10-foot deep
She said he went into a reverse roll and caught the MIG as it flew by. : Lt. Kasler was awarded the’ | Distinguished Flying Cross after | “hacking down” that first one. Five other Communist jet fighters were chopped down and six MIGs and one “Type-15" Red Jet damaged in the day's three air
4 ; by that time. party here but failed to catch | In one dogfight, Capt. Joseph -— # “We started climbing and 'h® gamblers think they prob-|giteh caved in, burying him to J, Love, 8an Bernardino, Cal, Lt. Jim Kasler picked up another MIG. 1 fol- ably saved the undertaker some|waist. ty iF
shot ‘down his fourth and fifth ,Jowed him in a turn and fired my Work. They found 65 cents and MIGe of the Korean War to be-| Capt. Love, who was flying his remaining ammunition into im. a deck containing five aces at come America’s 11th jet 5 (43d mission of the Korean War, He leveled off and bailed put.” ithe scene, :
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