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...Daytona Beach, Fla., in front of a crowd kept in safety by marshals, some newsreel photographers pointed their cameras last week at the snouted White Triplex car roaring toward them at 202 m. p. h. over the hard sand. The car swerved. Driver Lee Bible lost control. The car somersaulted prodigiously toward the cameras. When it lay still, Driver Bible, thrown far away, and one of the photographers, a big fellow named Charles Traub, crushed by three tons of pitchpoling steel, were dead. The film of the accident, complete in Traub's camera, went out at once to Pathe...
...Haven, Conn. 600-yd. free style-Ray Ruddy, 7:13; in New Haven, Conn. 800-yd. free style-Ray Ruddy, 9:451/5; in New Haven, Conn. Automobiles: A measured mile-Major H. O. D. Seagrave in the "Golden Arrow"; 15.41 sec. average (231.3624 m.p.h.); at Daytona Beach...
Died. Jackson Johnson, 69, founder and chairman of the board of International Shoe Co. (world's biggest manufacturer of shoes); of angina pectoris; at Daytona Beach, Fla. Shoemaker Johnson, at 18, opened his first store at Holly Springs, Miss., organized shoe businesses in Memphis, Tenn., and St. Louis, which he made his home. Said he: "I moved shoes West...
...Gieseking's tour this season includes Boston, Manhattan, Birmingham, Ala., Cincinnati, Buffalo, Duluth, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, Tulsa, Dallas, Detroit, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Havana, Columbus (Miss.), Daytona Beach, Tampa...
Died. Frank Lockhart, 26, U. S. automobile racing champion; in an accident, while trying to establish a new record; at Daytona Beach, Fla. Last August he made a track record of 135.5 m. p. h. and in October set eight broad track noncompetitive speed records...