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1923
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT BY LEASED WIRE
(TEN PAGES)
VOL. 50—NO. 362.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
(HOME EDITION)
STATE EMPLOYE DROWNS
i
LOSES HIS LIFE
BELOWTHEDAM
u
ays ,
UPSETS WORRY THEM
I
BODY NOT RECOVERED
ALL HANDS ARE UNEASY
escuer.
Has Narrow Escape From
Similar Fate.
BY CAROLYN VANCE.
FLOWERS LAID UPON
GRAVES OF AMERICAN
MANCHURIANS MUTINY
DIPLOMAS WILL BE
GIVEN 106 GRADUATES
JUNIOR HI THURSDAY
By Associated Press.
the week.
"You can’t live with ’em and you
of labor on the roads.
Train service employes affected by
reductions last year when
(Continued or Page Two)
all of them.
By Asscclated Press.
gar Lewis. Sam Loeb,
Emily Long,
seized
them and dragged them beneath
tep'e en-face
Seth
George Louis, Maribel Loving.
States senator, was endorsed.
' for senator.
BASEBALL RESULTS
MORNING GAMES--
t
American League
killing mystery, extended today into
the shooting of Peters by Ward on the
et
the floor, where he died a few min-
which Peters was a member.
la
it was reported that
R. H E
Score:
Philadelphia ... .091 000 010— 2 9
Sullivan and Perkins;
Hoyt and Schang,
since they have discovered that
RUTH GETS HOMER.
R H E
from her
is
1
Zachary and Gharrity:
Pennock, Rusmelt, Karr and Waltera,
AGAINST CHANG; SEIZE
CHINESE EASTERN R.R,
Complete List of Students En-
titled to Sheepskins Announced
By Principal I. I. Nelson.
Smashing of Pennsylvania Ma-
chine Said to Have Caused
Penrose’s Ghost to Walk.
OF
IURCH
NS
ATION
verge of a general strike, according
to some of the union officials, who
ceive a comparatively low wage and
they added, could ill afford to accept
primary ticket as a
United States senator.
ill make
the close
Rumors of Other Impending
Wage Slashes Intensify
General Uneasiness.
New York
Batteries:
MORE QUEER ANGLES
APPEAR TO COMPLICATE
WARD BLACKMAIL CASE
Discontent Among Men As Re-
suit of Latest Reductions
Growing In Volume .
py Associated Press.
FRESNO, Cal.. May 30.—Condemna-
tion of the Ku Klux Klan and endorse-
Los Angeles Driver Gets Off
Ahead At Start of Automobile
Classic and Was Holding Lead
At 300-Mile Mark.
John D.’s Granddaughter Back In
Chicago; Mathilde McCormick’s
Romance iHts Another Snag
rades today.
While the bodies of 34,000 have been
taken home and most of those remain-
DENISON BOYS PLAY
WITH PISTOL; ONE DEAD
to whether to consider it an attraction
or nuisance.
MEXICAN REVOLUTIONISTS
RELEASED AT EL PASO
ft
iblet
LIn
rug-
bunched hits and won this morning’s
game, 7 to 4.
“ WACOAN ACCUSED
CASTING CONTEMPT
ON U. S. FLAG
MRS. FERGUSON APPLIES
FOR PLACE ON TICKET
Sy Associated Press
HILLSBORO, Texas. May 30.—A mo-
tion for new trial in the case of E. F.
Stovall, former county- commissioner,
recently sentenced to seven years in
the penitentiary upon conviction on a
charge of bribery in connection with
the sale of district road bonds, was
overruled this morning-
Defense counsel gave notice of ap-
peal and Stovall was released under
315,000 bond.
KILLED WHEN HORSE FALLS.
By Associated Press
WEATHERFORD, Texas. May 30 -
Fred Fiddler, J 9, son of Wilber Fiddler,
prominent Cresson county rancher and
banker. was almost instantly killed to-
day when his horse fell on him while
driving cattle in a pasture.
NEW TRIAL REFUSED
IN BRIBERY CASE
Mtb
ENNIS MAN SHOT DEAD;
< HIS WIFE IN CUSTODY
TWO INJURED WHEN
TRUCK JUMPS BRIDGE
Seore:
Washington
Boston
Batteries:
Victim of Holiday Accident
Caught By Undertow While
On Fishing Expedition.
to approximately 13 per cent.
The union executives. President E.
F. Grable explained, have power only
to recommend action by the member-
One man was killed in a raid by
masked men on an alleged illicit, liquor
manufactory near Los Angeles recent-
ly and at the inquest on his body it
wee +--tei-a IW.. _______. . i
0
1
see
ON
wages or other calsses ot labor expand-
ed into iredictigns that the impend-
Ins cuts will come before the end of ;
ur hearts
iy 30. in
ave their
May the
to dedie
reat task
om those
increased
ich the/
levotion >
hat those
ain; that
I have d
hat gov4
e peoples
ish frong
Kensico reservior road the morning of
May 16.
.. .194 009 200—7 13
....199 >91 090—4 11
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y„ May 30.—
Search for Rosa," thought to be the
। key to the solution of the Ward.pptare
By Associated Press
DENISON, Texas, May' 30—Wiie
Smithson, 18, of Hagerman, died in
a hospital here last night as the rosuje
The time was 1:34:62 an average of
95.11 miles per hour. Murphy, up to
this time, had not made a stop. He
led from the start and had won 33,000
in lap prises,
Murphy was nearly five miles ahead
of Hartz at 350 miles, the time being
3:42:51. an average of 94.23 miles per
hour. This is a record for the track
for the distance. Murphy made a stop
of twenty-eight seconds at the pits to
change a tire and get fuel before start-
ing the final 150 miles.
PARTS Mnv ,0 fnrtvhas been talking about the reported
1 ARIS. May 39 —The forty thousand , earthly visitation of the big boss.'’
American war dead buried in France | He has chosen his former apartment
were visited by groups of their com- in Wardman Park Inn to haunt, and
the management is in a dilemma as
NEW YORK, May 30—Hdyt won a
pitching duel with Sullivan in this
morning’s game.
ford Caswel, Birdie Cherico, Guynn
Cook, Grace Cother. Wilma Craven,
Virgie Mae Crook, Alva Croslin, Rich-
By Associated Press
CHICAGO, May 30.—Rumblings of
threatened strikes which marked the
eception of Sunday’s slash of $48,000,-
000 from the wages of maintenance of
way employes of the nation's railways
by the labor board continued today
while rumors pf reductions in ths
By Associated Press.
WACO, Texas, May 30.—Secretary
Joe W. Hale of the stat Democratic
executive committee has received the
application of Mrs. Miriam A. Fergu-
son for a place on the Democratic
will make the commencement address.
Following is a list of the graduates
announced this morning by Principal I.
I. Nelson:
Bertha Achilles, Adeline Alexander,
Hedwig Althaus, Victor Armstrong,
Martin Ashford, Marion Averay, Mary
Kate Baldwin, Nona Ballinger, Rena
Barkley, Kathleen Beauchamp, Bessie
— CALIFORNIA SOCIALISTS
i DENOUNCE KU KLUX KLAN
DETROIT, May 30.—An order for a
strike vote among the 400,000 members
of the United Brotherhood of Mainten-
ance of Way Employes and Railway
Shop Laborers was in prospect today
Bond recently was fixed at 31500 in
the case of the two generals The
others were released on 3560 bonds.
Arrest of the men were made by de-
partment of justice agents in Feb-
runey and. March foilowing a .klrml.h
near Smalayuca, Mexico, February 1. AleL
Another angle is that Pittsburgh vo-
---------------- , ‘lice are. Investigating the conduct of
Georgia with the impe-ial orficlafe of young Ward in that cuy in 1919 when
the organtzation M to the situation in, he WR" connected with the Federal
California. baseball league. ~
Legion Representatives Join With
French People In Paying
Honor to Fallen Comrades.
RECRUITING FOR KLAN
HALTS IN CALIFORNIA
gone with Park to the dam for a morn-
ing’s outing at fishing.
With Outlaw’s death, the toll of Uvea
recently taken by the Colorado River
grows to three. Less than two weeks
ago and within a few hundred feet of
where Ontlaw lost his life, Dempeey
Clements and John White, negroes,
were drowned whe a boat in which
they were attemtpinig to cross the river
capsized and and the swift undertow
kieagles were checked. The men who ! ___
rePpetsccormsioPFseanasBy.Asociated Press
Ga., active in forming klans in Kern:
and Imperial counties. j, . -- -■- ----
A recent report of the Kern county I kex.te the soiutionot the.Ward-Peters
grand jury charged the klan was im- i kulinE mysterv. extended today into
plicated In night rider activities in the Boston, where he was expected to ap-
calfornia oil fields, Which Included the Pear and.tellwhat he knew regarding
beating of several persons. * -
1 NEW YORK, May 30—1 Babe Ruth
> crashed out a home run in the sixth
" inning here this afternoon, driving one
man in ahead of him. It was his sec-
- ond circuit clout this season.
-
Authorities here are awaiting word
____-__- .from William J. Fallon, attorney, for
»M testified that klansmen had parti-1 the Peters family as to the result of
cipated in the raid, hi visit to Boeton. Fallon went there
Klansmen are said to be anxious as last night in an attempt to see the
to the whereabouts of W. S. Coburn, I man, charged by Ward with being the
former grand goblin of the klan's "Pac- I brams of the alleged blackmail ring of
irie domain" and now king kleagle for I — - -—
California. He recently left Atlanta
for Los Anegles, after conferring in1
faoxeta c.te1. 11__X-______, . *
Henry Heist, a city employe, and
Roy Piper, truck driver for Spence
Furniture Company, were seriously
hurt Tuesday morning when a truck
in which the two “were riding crashed
through the railing of the bridge over
Waller Creek at Eleventh and Red
River streets. The truck was being
driven by Piper when the steering gear
became locked in some unexplained
way, the driver losing control of ths
vehicle.
Immediately after the accident both
men were carried to their homes and
given medical attention. Neither to
believed to have been fatally hurt.
X-ray pictures to determine the pomi-
buity of Internal Injury are to be taken
this afternoon.
Heist's home is at Fourteenth and
Comal streets while Piper resides in
the 1200 block on Holly street.
SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPEH
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 187
WEATEER FORECAST
-------
East Texas: Tonight and Wednes-
day unsettled, probably local showers
eign troops along the railroad were fieers and firemen made the run to the
1,000 Japanese which are permanently dam and began searching for Outlaw's
maintained as a guard for Japanese body in the hope of rescuing him soon
interests. The dispatches add that re- enough to effect his revival. An all-
inforcement of foreign troops were morning hunt for his body with throw
* lines and hooks proved unsuccessful,
azsetnz puinaciu., ... General Wu Pei-Fu, anxious to avoid however, and so swift is the water at
ginia Campbell, Virginia Carter, Clif- foreign interference, is sending forces the sgot where the body disappeared
- — - — T----- to replace the mutineers. that it is impossible to make any head-
The prestige of Chang in Manchuria way in a boat.
M. C. Outlaw, stenographer in the
' food and drug division of the State
Health Department, was drowned
Tuesday morning, and his companion,
G. W. Park, 1300 Congress Avenue,
narrowly escaped a like fate when he
attempted the drowning man’s rescue
- by wading into the whirlpool below
the sluice gates of the Lake Austin
t dam. Park was rescued by a youth
whose name could not be ascertained.
The youth saved him by handing out a
long fishing pole which Park grasped
, and by means of which he was pulled
to the rocks below •he am from which
। the two men had been fishing. Out-
. law’s drowning resulted when he was
11 caught by the undertow of the whiri-
PHILADELPHIA, May 30—The lo-
cate won a luggang match from New
York this morning in ten Innings.
Score by inntngs H.t
New York .....021 2U 100 0—2 12 3
Phihadeiphia ...002 000 924 1— 17 1
Batteriea: J. Barnes, Causey and
Snyder; Smith, Sullivan, Pinto, Baum-
wartner and Henlne.
of the accidental ehooting by his “pal." < In the 1915 caee repeatedly <
Loyce Dixon, 17. - --- -
By Assoclated Press.
SPEEDWAY, INDIANAPOLIS,
Ind., May 30.—Jimmy Murphy of
BROOKLYN, May 30. —Boeton
bunched hits with Brooklyn’s errors
and won this morning’s game.
Score by Luininga R. H. M
Boaton ...........011 000 100—3 10 3
Brooklyn .........091 791 00*—( 13 3
Batteriea. Lansing, McQuillan and
Gowdy, Qibson; Ruether and Miller.
WASHINGTON, May 30,—The hand
that rocks the cradle is rocking that
old boat, the ship of state.
Stand pat statesmen, up for renomi-
nation this summer, are clutching
wildly at the ship rail, and with each
ominous lurch they hold their breath.
utes later. Five bullets
Fletcher's head and cheat.
EL PASO, Texas, May 30.—After
spending nearly three months in the
county jail, General* Juan Merigo,
Nicholas Rodrigues and three followers
charged with leading a military expe-
dition in Mexico, were released on bond
yesterday.
WACO, Texas, May 30— W. .
Edwards was arrested here this
morning and placed under a
bond of 32600 on a charge of
defiling and casting contempt on
the American flag.
Edwards appeared in the gath-
ering of the mob her* Friday
waving the flag.
In general is said to be diminishing. Surviving Outlaw are his wife and
The Peking government regards the two children who received notice of
Manchurian mutines as likely to lead his death at the Outlaw home, 4307
to overthrow of Chang and to closer Avenue F The news of her husband’s
Manchuria with China proper. i death prostrated Mrs. Outlaw. It be-
General Wu announces that he in-’ing a holiday in capito: circles on ac-
tends to pursue Chang to Mukden and count of Memorial Day, Outlaw had
if possible drive him from China. "it ~ ‘ - -
lew nn- was unhittable in the pinches this
penetrated morning and Chicago won.
of this
of long
ernor of
t on this
i far as
ith flow-
our de-
tools pa*
hat ths
ed in the
Hag, and
on weal th
otism as
e graved
High sbichi"thuhada“moirnhng: June, tiny and declared in favor ot General
1. At 10 o’clock. Roy D. Iqckaom. proa- ' Wu Pel-Fu vietor in the rcent Pekin
Ident of the University Law School.
The boya were investigating an old
revolver Sunday afternoon which .....
Smithson had acquired in a trade,! awit
caint amitsntmiz 2x
abdomen. mot '
One hundred and six students of the
Junior High School will be awarded
diplomas of graduation from that
school at the annual spring commence
Ag, p-ppA ■ pg a eg, tearful that even the natural act of
SOLDIERS IN FRANCE isri™
j from a form of seasickness that too
much reviewing of the recent political
events in which women have played
LOS ANGELES, May 30—The cam- seized thegu uud urm
paign in California for members for the water s surface.
prominent parts only aggravates.
Old line politicians are upset, to put
it mildly, over the radical decisions
made by women in the recent pri-
maries.
Perhaps that is Just one other thing
that may have made the shade of
Boise Penrose restive. All Washington
BOSTON, May 39. — Washington
29—The
has been
s of ine
st year,
■ keenest
h teach-
dents are
nen who
it school
mer.
request
tead of
e recrad
ugh the
At any rate, the spirit of Penrose is
ing have been gathered in the six per- surely made uneasy by the "woman
manent American war cometeties, some troubles" of the remaining members at
said to be contemplated remain in scattered spots where they the old guard. No doubt he first
of ’ were first buried, and where the, were tuned over in his grave when Pinehot,
left in accordance with their families with the help of the women, smashed
the machine he had buit up in Penn-
the Ku Klux Klan Jhas been halted.
It was made known here today by W.
G. Price, former king kleagle of the
klan in this state.
The annual "klansvention" of Cali-
fornia kleagle closed here today. Ac-
counts and reports of 19 attending
candidate for
Ward has been involved with a young
woman in Pittsburgh and that he had
paid 31.000 to settle a claim for $10,-
000 made by her A former district
attorney for Allegheny county, who
handled the case for Ward, later was
disbarred.
Pittsburgh police are seeking to dis-
cover just what possible connection
there mey.be between the case there
and this latest attempt of blackmailers
to obtain more Ward money, especially
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 3G—Miss Ma-
thilde McCormick, instead of sail-
ing today from New York for
Switzerland to wed Max Owr,
Swiss riding master, returned to
Chicago rather unexpectedly. She
refused to make any statement of
her plans for her marriage ar
otherwise.
Miss McCormick, whose return
is supposed to relate to th* guar-
dianship proceedings in th* pro
bat* court in which her mther,
Mr*. Edith Rockefeller McCormick,
intervened yesterday, was met at
the railroad station by her father,
Harold F. McCormick, president of
th* Inernational Harvester Com-
pany.
“i‘ve been bothered to death,"
RAILRODs-ABOR. DREAMS MURPHY LEADS SPEEDSTERS MS-OUTlA"
RESENT PAY
Parties See Forces Arising
They Cannot Control.
Belvin, Josephine Bengtson, Emma
Bergeron. Ida Mae Bock. Victor.
Brooks, Jay Brown, Ray Brown, Eli- contemplated,
zabeth Burkhardt, Dena Cagle, Vir- 1
nan.
lay 29.-4 g
on here a ‘
l tempo*
ing beeg| 5E
f Dr. M* N
rch for «e3
lich wag
go The
e of the
its just
, profes-
sbyterian
meptoposha statewatrradngozor st
of the railroad labor noara.. reducing t state creau in upbuilding Canror-
wagesofophnsomnior’nmemhndSormieers’nin’s water power and irrigation re- United States benator. Mr. Ferguson
the cost of living has not decrersrsourcesuweronvotedbytheatatesociai-lis the wire or former Governor James
to such an extent that would warranetistAnonzentionotution favored recoen i Eersuson ° Temple, who is also a
Pareme wspo, from one to five cents' Anotner resolution Tayored recogni- ' candidate for senator.
reducine Members^f the’brothei hood ' Hion of soviet Russia by the United | Mr. Ferguson has not applied for •
an dicers embnteaI out alreadyFro states. In denouncing the Ku Klux place on the ticket, but spcretary Hale
the officers pointed out, al dyre: Klan the convention went on record as has received a petition signed by fifty
। "being opposed to any element that will qualified voters of Bell county asking
ihe intest ’reduction which amount^ tond.to undermine, law and order and that his name be placed on the ticket.
- - countenance violences IMrs. Ferguson is the only woman so
Upton Sinclair, candidate for -United far to apply for a place on the ticket
Score: R H. E.
Chicago ..,,...000 000 310—4 6 0
Cleveland ......000 000 000— 0 6 1
Batteries: Leverett and Schalk;
Morton, Keefe and O’Neil, Sewell.
National League |
CHICAGO, May 30, —The Cuba
bunched hits this morning and won
from St. Louts.
Score by Innings R. H. E.
St. Louis .........010 000 000—1 4 2
Chicago .........'.000 210 00——4 11 0
Batteries: Sherdell, Walker. Bailey
and Ainsmith; Steuland and O'Farren.
Reducious
by the board affecting the wages
pus--uzcm
hazrpaponmounneseitowar comtade of •*>« American legion and can't live without 'em." Apparentiy
Mar 1920 when the board raised wages representatives of the French people that complaint applies equally as well
" - today took flowers. Ito public life as it does to private.
: astee 31 French troops, groups of French vet-I President Harding" has been having
the roads ' erans organizations and school chil- his share of troubles with women late-
ionned off 3409 009 099 of the 9900 - dren attended the six principal services ly, too. Feminine Washington has been
090 000 increase of 1929 alone will be and many of the smaller ones, and the , bussing for a week over the eleventh
affected by early orders from the government was represented at almost
board, it was said, which will place . al of them.______~
all other railroad labor men on the i • •
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May 30.—A virtual
ultimatum to the railroads of
America through the United States
Railroad Lsbor Board was pre-
sented by ths Federated Shop
Crafts, representing 400,000 rail-
wsy employes, in s request todsy
for s conference with the board
on Thursday when the federal body
will be asked to tsks immediate
jurisdiction of oil cases in which
railroads srs alleged to be disobey-
ing the bosrd’s orders.
If ths board declines s striks
balbt will go out st once to shop-
men sll over the country.
pool as he was wading out into the |
• water from the rocks.
Foreign Intervention May Be aw totingdencevraznbalonccd. wut.
Necessary As Fesult of Dis- naparxbenutenrtsonaanychicdtntraat-
turHec Gonditions । ter to leap into the water for th© at- . |
-u-ed -oeonS* tempted rescue. As tbe onlookers hur-
-------•........ i ried to give aid, Outlaw disappeared !
By Assaciated Press, i X'p^ ahoningrwaues es
PEKING, May 30. The Manchurian utes iater when it was again seized by
mutiny against Chang Tso.lin, the the whirling water and Faried toward I
Manchurian leader, is *preadinK. The the tongue of the dam where it alap- a
garrison at Harbin has joined the mu- Meanwhile Park had been 2
1W Pel-Fu VIctor in the recent Peking sued and.wonrimgded. toshisahome j
ampaig, Harom is in cantrol o was Jrom\wx “2 I
t he mutineers who, also have seized a result of his harrowing oxperience of
all the Chinese Fa stern Railway from the early morning 29
Harbin to the maritime province of Pirst news of the accident a' th dam 5
Penta: was received at police headquarter* ’1
An official disptach received by the shortly before nine o’clock v hen a call
foreign legations, said the only for- for a pulmotor was put in. Police of-
th* girl said. Ml have nothing to
•ay. I have no explanation to
make of my return."
Miss McCormick smiled, albeit a
bit nevously, and twisted her
handkerchief as ah* spoke.
Mr. McCormick, who on hi* own
Lowther. Anna Luthy, Linell McElroy.
Isobel McLeod, Oscar Manes. Julia
Matthews, Harry Mayfield, Lawson
Meadows, Paul Midkiff. Frances Milter
John Minter, Irene Patterson. John
Pinckney, Bennie Raines. Hertha Pan-
nell, Julia Ruth Reeves. Lester Palmer,
Alio* Pierson. Montie Rundel, John B
Sampley, Samuel Saxon, Katherine
Shuberg, Floy Smith, Mary Louise
Stanberry, Richard Stenberg, Liliian
Stroberr, Edna Swanzy, Ruth Taff,
Grace Thorp. Irene Wagner, Fugenia
Wier. Rosalie Wilcox, Cecil Walden.
Dorothy Wild, Pauline Ziegenhals.
have expressed their
against the board’s action
Los Angeles, CaU was loading at
the end of the 300-mile mark of
the 600-mile automobile race for
385,000 in prizes at the Indianapolis
Speedway today. Murphy flashed
into the load at the start and re-
tained it up to this point, although
officials previously announced that
he momentarily lost it when he
stopped two minute* at 185 miles to
change four tires and replenish fuel
The error was made in the check-
ing system, Murphy won $5,100 in
lap prixo money.
The time for the 300 miles was
3:10.24 an average of 94:54 miles
per hour. Harry artz was second.
Oro aibeH third and Eddie Hearne
was fourth. The average for the
same distance last year was 90:36
miles per hour. Ralph Do Palma
was in tenth place.
Tommy Milton, 1921, speed king
and winner of last year's race, was
forced out o fthe grind along with
four others of the twenty-seven
starters before the race was half
finished. Mitton's car was dam-
aged by a broken gasoline line.
Bv Aasbeated Press.
ENNIS. Texas, May 30.—R L.
Fletcher, 50, railroad shopworker was
shot and killed at his home here early
today in the presence of his 12-year-
old son. Mrs. Fletcher who declined
to make a statement, was taken into
custody by Chief of Police Crosby,
who escorted her to Waxahachie, where
the grand jury is in session.
The Fletcher boy told officers he
was awakened at 5 o'clock by shot* and
a moment later saw his father fall to
with Miss McCormick and Miss
Julia Mangold, formerly book-
keeper for Mr. Oser. It had been
believed that Miss McCormick and
Miss Mangold would sail together
today on th* Berengaria.
"Oh. I'v* been in Chicago right
along," Mr. McCormick said in re-
•pons* to an inquiry concerning
the reports that he had accom-
panied his daughter to New York.
ard Davin. Loraine Decherd, Francos
Dorsey, Billy Douglass, Virginia Eek-
hardt, G. K Eifler, Jr. Caro Els, Man-
guerite Eckman, Anita Engerrand, La-
land Everitt, Mary Fall well, Elfrelda
Friedrich, Jessie Garner, Jeannette
Giles, George Gillespie, Lorene Goer-
ner, Henry Goooch, Violet Gordon,
Donald Gragg, Mac Gregory, Lynn
Grizzard, Hartley Haigler, Hasel Ham-
ilton. Mattie Mae Harrell. Maurino
Hartkopf. Marjorie Sue Hassell, Lola
May Hay. Dorothy Hill. Edith Huck.
Wilson Hudson, Alfred Jarmon, Evelyn
Johnson. Vernon Jung, Sammie Belle
King. Willie Louise King. June Peart
Knape. Irma Kress, Bob Lawson Fd-
000 130 11*- 3 9
application was appointed his | , , 1.
daughter’s guardian several days J. W. Park, Would-Be R
ago, smiled pleasantly. He had , 1 ar g. _
been reported to be in New York
ST. LOUIS, May so.—Emke kept St.
Louis’ hits scattered and Detroit won
this morning.
Score: R H. E.
Detroit ...830 112 000— 1 12 0
SL Louis ......020 001 101— 5 2 1
Batteries; Ehmke and Bassler;
Bayne, Henry, Kolp and Severeid.
CLEVELAND, May 30.—Leverett
ship rhd a strike decision would rest
solely upon the result of a referendum. t
*c‛
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 30-
With a roar from perfectly tuned
motors, twenty-seven drivers, the
pick of three nations, shot away at
10 a. m. today in the start of the
500-mile automobile race at the In-
dianapolis Speedway for prises total-
ing 335,000. There was a record-break-
ing crowd of 135,boo spectators cheer-
ing from the stands and in field when
the starting bomb was fired. The
racers were paced the first lap by
Barney Oldfield, a retired star of th©
racing world.
Jimmy Murphy, driving a special
eight cylindwer car, grabbed the lead
at the start, piloting his car around
the treacherous south turn at a speed
that brought the spectators to their
feet. Leon Duray, driving his first
Speedway race, was second and Ralph
De Palma, a favorite with the crowd
was traling in third place. The time
for the first lap around the 2 Mb mile
course was 1 :34:64, an average of 95
miles an hour. -
Murphy continued his terrific pace
and at the fifty-mile mark was fully
a half mile ahead of Leon Duray, who
was second. The time was 31:29:33,
an average of 95.27 miles an hour, as
compared with 92.62 miles an. hour
last year for the same distance Harry
Hartz was third and Ralph De Palma
fourth.
Howard Wilcox of Indianapolis was
the first driver forced out of the race,
valve trouble causing his withdrawal
after he had gone 17 % miles. 3
Murphy clung to the lead at the
100-mile mark with Hartz in second
place. De Palma moved into third
place while Duray dropped into fourtn
The time was 1:03:14, an average of
94.07 miles an hour. Murphy at this
point had won 32.000 in lap prizes, re-
ceifing 350 for each lap he led.
Jules Ellingboe was thie second
driver to withdraw from th© race. He
threw a rear wheel while speeding
around the north turn and his car
spun completely around three times,
crashing into a protecting vall Neith-
er Ellingboe nor his mechanician was
injured. Jules Goux, driving a French
car, was forced out by a broken axle,
after he had covered sixty miles.
The car driven by Wilbur D’Alene
burst into flames as DAlene started
his 163rd mile. After a heroic fight
the driver and his mechanician sue-
j ceeded In extinguishing the blaze and
the car was withdrawn, making the
fourth to drop out of the race.
Murphy was nearly two mile* in the
lead at the 150-mile mark with Hartz
second and Duray third. Ora Haibe
was fourth and Eddie Hearne fifth.
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