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News of First Serious Accident of Speedway Season
Thrill for Throngs Arriving Early for 500-Mile Race—Driver Uninjured.
DURAY’S SPEED BURST STANDS AS RECORD
Noted Personages Here to Witness World’s Greatest Motor Classic
Bricks Cool and Experts Predict New Mark.
By Blythe Q. Hendricks
First serious accident at the Speedway this year occured today when L. L. Corum crashed into the wall in one of Ralph De Palma’s cars Which he was to drive in the 500-mile race Saturday.
Corum was not hurt. The car will be out of the race.
News of the accident provided an advance thrill for the throngs arriving early for the race.
The accident occured shortly before noon at the first turn. Corum was driving at better than 100 miles an hour when his car, De Palma’s “Bobtail” Miller Special, skidded and turned completely around, stradling the inside retaining wall.
New York, May 7 (AP)—An ordinary photographic negative today was placed in a photoradiographic machine in Honolulu, a beam of light played through it and the complicated apparatus began clicking. One four of a second later, another machine In New York, 5,136 miles away, began dotting and dashing out a copy of the negative. Twenty minutes later the machine in New York had linked in the last dot of a complete positive—making a success of the transmission of a photograph by radio across the Pacific Ocean.
Seven times this process was repeated and seven pictures of persons and events connected with the Hawaiian maneuvers of the American army and navy of last week appeared in early afternoon editions of New York newspapers.
Vast Palace, Five Temples and Art Objects Convince Tulane Exploring Party.
By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, April 25.—Ruins of ancient Maya Indian temples, pyramids, human effigies and other discoveries show that the City of Comalcalco ranks among the greatest cities of the long dead Maya empire. This was announced here today by Tulane University in a brief cablegram from its expedition, which has been exploring in Tehauntepec, Mexico.
As will be seen by the following letter the Governor of New Jersey has enjoined non-interference with Pennsylvanians in regard to the oyster fisheries until the dispute is legally settled:
State of New Jersey, Executive Department, Trenton, April 22, 1871—Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, Attorney-General, Philadelphia—Sir:—I have received the following despatch from Governor Randolph, and immediately repeated it, substantially, to Mr. Howell, by telegraph:—
Income for Three Months of 1925 Indicate This Year Will Be a Record-Breaker.
Total receipts of the Medicine Bow national forest in southern Wyoming for three quarters of the current fiscal year ended March 31 last are within $400 of ninety thousand dollars.
The major portion, $85,329.06 was derived from sales of timber, principally railroad ties. Grazing of cattle, horses and sheep amounted to $3,554, special use, $743, and trespass settlements of damage done $36.
New York, Apr. 9 (By A. P.)— Babe Ruth was resting comfortably in St. Vincent’s hospital tonight, suffering from influenza, acute indigestion and minor injuries suffered when he fainted and fell to the washroom floor of his private car, as the train was entering Pennsylvania Station shortly after 1 o’clock this afternoon.
Early reports from attending physicians said that Ruth had a slight concussion of the brain and a possible fracture of the skull, but these were later denied at the hospital by Dr. Edward King, the New York American League doctor, who gave the home run slugger a thorough examination upon his arrival.
“Ruth is resting as comfortably as can be expected and is in no danger,” said Dr. King immediately after the examination.