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LARGEST ATTENDANCE IN HISTORY OF DERBY DERBYNumber Number of Fans Spent Night in Automobiles on Parking Lot LotContinued Continued from first page pagewhile while many more viewed the spectacle from housetops in the vicinity vicinityIn In the Derby day crowd were persons from every strata of society but a crosssection represented Mr Average American in high holiday spirit People came from every state in the Union and every province in Canada as well as from such places as Mexico South America and even from the Philippines They were brought to the city by every con ¬ ceivable means of locomotion and for the last three days have made this usually quiet i Ohio River city seem like a boom town on election night nighti i Among those who made up the Derby crowd were governors of a half dozen states men high in the federal administration and countless lesser states county and city offi ¬ cials There were hundreds prominent on I the turf important social personages busi ¬ ness and banking tycoons and professional men The motion picture industry the stage and radio sent many of the brightest stars and every other walk of life made a contri j bution to this eminently democratic gather ¬ ing which gathers nowhere as it does at Churchill Downs on Derby Day DayThe The governors who joined Kentuckys Keene Johnson were Dwight H Green Illi ¬ nois Carl E Bailey Arkansas Herbert OConor Maryland Olin D Johnson South Carolina Frank Mi Dixon Alabama and Prentice Cooper Tennessee TennesseeOther Other notables incjuded James A Farley and Leo T Crowley of Washington John F Curry of New York Frank McHale of India ¬ napolis William C Bullitt former United States ambassador to Russia and France J M Elizalde Philippine commissioner Senator A B Chandler and Emmet ONeil of Kentucky Maj Gen Bruce Magruder Edward J Kelly mayor of Chicago and Jesse Jones of Washington WashingtonSome Some of the representatives of the enter ¬ tainment world were Louis B Mayer Joe E Brown Lana Turner Don Ameche Andy De vine Ole Olson Pat Morrison Charles Butterworth and Robert Young
