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Louisville Is Mecca For Nations Notables Persons High in Public, Business Life Arriving From All Points CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 5. — Notables by the score are beginning to arrive in Louisville for the 75th running of the famed Kentucky Derby. Among the guests of General J. Fred Miles are Arthur Godfrey and Ed Gardner Duffys Tavern, Howard Hawks, Hollywood motion picture producer and California breeder; Jack Frye, former Trans-World Airlines president; Attorney General Tom Clark and Edwin Pauley, former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Pauley, flying in from Washington, will bring as his guests Robert Butler, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba: George Schoeneman, commissioner of Internal Revenue; Charles Oliphant, general counsel of the Internal Revenue Department and Matthew Connelly, executive secretary to President Truman. A party of Texans is expected to arrive tomorrow , the guests of William G. Simpson, president of the C. T. Dearing Printing Company. This party, which includes Perry Brown, national commander of the American Legion, and Harry Colmery, former national commander of the Legion, will be flown here by Col. Roscoe Turner, famed speed pilot. Among the guests at the Derby eve dinner of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, to be held at the Kentucky Hotel, will be Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and Charles P. Skouras, executive of Fox West Coast Corporation. Earle Clements, governor of Kentucky and Mrs. Clements will entertain a large number of friends at the traditional Derby breakfast in the executive mansion at Frankfort on Saturday. Among the house guests will be Mrs. Thomas S. Rea, Russel-ville, former state senator and Mrs. J. Woodford Howard, Preston Burg, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Riggs, of Washington. Riggs is Washington correspondent for the Louisville Courier-Journal.
