Far Cry From 1911Marmon
To Pigmy Racers Of Today
But as Cars of Kacing Type Have Grown Smaller Speed Per
Hour has Climbed Upward Until More Than 100 Miles
Per Hour Has Been Made in Practice Runs
By C. F. HARROU)
(Cwrrteht in*. Br Th? Ummi
Indianapolis. Ind., May 29?When
the pigmy motored, frail-looking lit
tle automobiles line up Friday morn
ing for the fifteenth Indianapolis
motor speedway Olympic, it will be
a far cry to the start of the classic
in 1911 when Hay Harroun drove his
big Marmon to victory at the as
tounding rate of 74 miles an hour.
All of the 32 entrants in the race
this year must pass a qualifying test
of 80 miles an hour and already
some hare shown a speed of 108
miles an hour in practice runs.
The development of motordom is
old at the speedway. Harroun's
lumbering old racer bore an engine
with six hundred cubic inches of pis
ton displacement. The tiny little
speedsters there now have been cut
down to less than flivver size with
122 cubic inches of piston displace
ment. Last year Tommy Milton
twice winner of the classic, broke
all speedway records by sending his
car to victory at the average of
90.95 miles an hour.
Henry Ford, who took a turn at
the racing game himself back in
1903, will be the referee, and thfee
of his products?75 percent pure
Ford?will be in the rnce under the
name of Barber-Warnock specials.
It will be a contest of specials with
four Duesenbergs. five Durants, one
Dempsey, one Hartley, one Hoosler,
two Kess-Llnes, six Millers, one Koof, |
one Mourre, one Sinclair, one Wade,
one Schmidt, one Wells-Hornet and1
two unnamed entrants making up
the list.
Many of the veteran pilots again,
will undertake the gruelling 500,
mile drive, among them being Cliff
Durant, the millionaire sportsman;
.Eddie Hearne, Pete de Paolo, L. L. J
Corum, Harry Miller, Benny Hill,
Tom Alley, Ira Vail, Earl Cooper,!
and Jimmy Murphy and Tommy Mil
ton, both former speedway kings.
But the foreigners who made
things so interesting for t'ie Aincri-j
Cans in years gone by, will not be
present this year. >Not a single!
European entrant?unless the re
built Schmidt could be called one?
has been entered. It is purely an
Americau contest this year for the
first time in the history of the track.
Halph de Palma, who hung up the
track record in 1915 and who twice
had victory within his grasp in oth
er contests only to be denied by a
strange quirk of fate, will be missing
this year, huvlng been placed In the
outlaw list. Howdy Wilcox, an In
dianapolis favorite and winner in
1991, will be missed, having died at
the wheel of one of his loved speed
sters within the year.
It is estimated that a crowd of
150,000 will pay $1,000,000 to see
the races, making it one of the big
gest sporting events of the year. The
crowd which comes by motor and
train from all over the country
drops between $4,000,000 and $4,-!
000,000 and $5,000,000 to the city.!
Approximately $100,000 in prizes
will be distributed among the driv-1
ers. The winner will take $20,0001
and the others will receive from $10,
000 for second place to $1,400 for
tenth position. In addition, India
napolis merchants have put up $10.
000 which will be distributed $100
at a time to the winner of each lap.
It Is possible for one driver to set
ahead and win all of the lap prizes
money a swell as the first prize. In
addition thousands of dollars worth
of special prizes are donated by ac-|
cessory concerns and $10,000 is di-'
vlded among the pilots who do not
finish.
In every race for the. last two
years the crowd has been brought to
Its feet by a daring rabbit that has
darted down the home stretch among
the roaring motors. That same rab
bit Is out there now practicing In the
tall grass to do his annual "stuff."
MOHT VAM'AIILK SILK
8H1PMHNTH IN POUT
Seattle, Wash., May 29?Japanese
silk shipments valued at $15,000,
000 which arrived here on the Steam
ships president Grant and Arabia
Maru. now sre on the way to New
York In special trains. These were
the two most valuable silk cargoes
ever to reach this port.
EVERY DEMOCRAT
WILL HAVE A BED
So Says Stanley Quinn Who
Is Preparing New York to
Receive National Conven
tion Visitors.
(New York, May 29 ? Delegates
and vlsltori) to the National Demo
cratic Convention will not have to
sleep slx-in-a-bed. Nor will they
have to repose in relays, or bunk on
park benches or in the hotel hall
ways as an alternative to walking
the sidewalks of New York the long
nights through.
Stanley J. Qulnn, directing vice
| chairman of the local non-partisan
I National Convention committee, as
I serts that comfortable accommoda
tions for 200,000 persons have been
assured for the convention period.
Quarters for delegates and alter
nates, by state and territorial dele
gations, were leased first of all in
, the largest and best hotels that are
j readily accessible to Madison Square
I Garden.
J Then thp 600 hotels comprising
j the Hotel Association took inventory
land announced that during June
I they would keep available for con
j ventlon visitors 40,000 rooms, or
[50 percent of their uggregate accom
modations. Early applicants for
{reservations have been assigned to
these hotels.
Next on Mr. Qulnn's list of avail
able accommodations come the res
idential and semi-residential hotels
which, during the convention per
iod, will be ready to give first-class
School Days
will soon be over and gradua
tion Is near. Why not keep
fresh the memories of gradua
tion by having a photograph
of yourself in that graduating
dress. Phone 84 for an ap
pointment.
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THE
SALMON CREEK LINE
Schedule:
Leave Willis Landing and Avoca
at 7:00 A. M., 10:30 A. M. anl
4:30 P. M.
Leave Edenton at 0:00 A. M., 2:30
! P. M. and 1. 30 P. M.
Extra Trip* Will lie Made Day
or Night If Necessary.
CORN
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Sold In Thlt City Br
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facilities to 25,000 visitors. The lo
cal committee also has listed from
50.000 to 150.000 furnished rooms,
all well located, to which out-of
towners will be assigned.
In addition to all these. Mr. Quinn
announced that scores of wealthy
New Yorkers who will migrate to
country homes or summer resorts be
fore June 20 had volunteered to
keep their town houses open for the
accommodation of convention visi
tors. And rounding out the list are
from 15,000 to 35,000 furnished
apartments of three or more rooms
that will be available for the out-of
towners in case of emergency.
As for rates, the convention com
mittee was assured by the Hotel As
sociation before it was attempted to
bring the convention here that there
would be no gouging. All the prin
cipal hotels have placed in the com
mittee's hands charts of the rooms
they will have available, together
with the rates. According to Mr.
Quinn, these are considerably lower
than the prices regularly charged
during the winter months, and are
as low as the summer rate schedule
usually made effective In New York
between May 15 and Sept. 15.
HOl'TH MIIJaS FX)It AYDLKTT
South Mills, May 29?The politi
cal pot around South Mills Is boil
ing with all fury?Bailey for Gov
ernor?Aydlett for Congressman.
Miss Maye Jones who has been
visiting her brother in Phtiftdslphla
returned home last Saturday.' Miss
Jones reports a delightful trip.
Mrs. W. T. Stafford left last week
for Atlanta where she attended the
Southern Baptist Convention. After
a short stay in the Georgia city Mrs
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Hobo Kidney & Bladder Itemedy
and was relieved." If you are
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u a prescription for Malaria,
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Stafford continued her trip to Jack
sonville. Florida, and is now the
guests of Mrs. W. A. Brothers. Be
fore returning home she expects to
go to Cuba.
Mrs. I). ?. Williams is in Edenton
this week visiting relatives.
Messrs J. W. Jones and O. F.
Spencer spent Monday in Norfolk on
business.
Mrs. \V. J. Lumsden. 104 South
Road street, has been quite sick for
several days.
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FOUR GENERATIONS
Texas Lady Says Her Family
Has Been Taking Thedford'a
Black-Draught, When
Needed, for Many Years.
Alto, Texas.?"We Inherited the dm
>f Black-Draught in our family," aaya
Mrs. Mary Shuptrine, who lives near
here on R. F. D. 2. "My grandmother
was an old woman when she died
ibout ten years ago, and she had been
asing it literally ever since I can re
member. She gave it to her children
ind grandchildren for biliousness and
itomach complaints, so when I went
?jo housekeeping we Just naturally used
It, too.
"I give It to my children for ?
purgative whenever they need one,
and we are never without it. Made
Into tea, it surely is fine. It's the best
iome remedy for headache and consti
pation I know of."
During over 80 years of it* con
tinued popularity, Black-Draught has
Become the standard liver medicine in
many thousands of homes, where it
naa been found of great benefit in the
treatment of constipation, biliousness,
Indigestion and other common liver,
itomach and bowel complainta. Ten
million packages of Black-Draurht are
low sold a year, as more and more
people are learning of the value of
this well-known remedy.
Insist on Thedford'a, the only genu
ine Black-Draurht powdered liver
medicine. At all dealers'. NC-164
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