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Derby Day Crowd Presents Cross Section of America The Great and Humble on Hand To Witness Nations No. 1 Race By OSCAR OTIS CHURCHILL DOWNS. Louisville, Ky., May 2. — It has often been said that a Derby crowd is a cross section of America, and so it proved once again today for the seventy-ninth running of the world-famous classic. The great and the humble, from all walks of life, gathered to pay homage to the thoroughbred and bore out the statement, made by Admiral Rous more than 100 years ago, that "All are equal on the turf and under it." Following are just a few of the notables who were in attendance: Governor Lawrence Wetherby, Sen. Earle E. Clements, Sen. John Sherman Cooper, Sen. Thomas Hennings, Sen. Richard Russell, Gov. Mennen Williams of Michigan, Gov. Frank Clements of Tennessee, Gov. John Fine of Pennsylvania; Gov. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio, Gov. Allen Shivers of Continued on Page Four I.-.;,-.1-1 ". ■■■" ," " .imii ii ii mm i ROYCE G. MARTIN— Master of Wood-vale Farm and one of the nations leading industrialists was in the vast Derby Day throng. ► ■ — All Walks of Life Represented In Huge Derby Day Gathering High Government and State* Officials, Leaders in Sport And Industry in Vast Throng Continued from Page One Texas, Gov. Francis Cherry of Arkansas, Sen. James Duff of Pennsylvania, and Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey. Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Sid Luft and Mrs. Luft; the Spanish Ambassador; Morton Downey; Charles Coburn; Vaughn Monroe; Phil Regan. Royce G. Martin, head of the Electric Auto -Lite Company; Toledo, Ohio; W. Alton Jones, New York City; Benjamin F. Fairless, president United States Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert Woodruff, president Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga.; Charles Hettering; Sen. Homer E. Capehart of Indiana. J. Edgar Hoover; A. Craig Smith, Gillette Safety Razor Company; George A. Garret, assistant to the president, American National Red Cross; Ray Eaton, American National Red Cross. A. B. Hancock, Jr.; Mrs. P. A. B. Widener, II.; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Edwin W. Pauley, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Constantin, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. John Payson Adams; Charles T. Fisher and Miss Mary Fisher, Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Whitaker and Mr. J. Roland Bond, Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Wilson, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rice, Jr.; Mr. End Mrs. Stuy-vesant Peabody, Jr., and party; Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Veeneman and party; J. Graham Brown, Thomas Deegan, Mr. and Mrs. Benson DuShane, Mr. and Mrs. Warner L. Jones, Mrs. Henning Chambers. Donald McDonald, Cincinnati; Brent Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Gleeson, Louisville; Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Abercrombie, York City; General J. Fred Miles; Clifford Mooers; C. A. Moore, DX, Stratford, Conn.; Archibald Morris; Henry W. Moses, Washington; Kenneth Murchison, Dallas; John E. McClure, Washington; H. J. McDonald, vice-president, Nickel Plate Road, Cleveland; Frank M. McHale, Indianapolis; R. W. Mcllvain, Richard Nash, Chicago; G. Fred Obrecht; Lee Olwell, New York; J. Samuel Perlman, publisher, Daily Racing Form and The Morning Telegraph; John H. Perry, president, Western Newspaper Union, New York. Dr. Fred Rankin, Lexington; C. M. Rood, Hollywood Park, Calif.; Cason Callaway; Richard Tift; Donald Ross, Wilmington; Walter J. Salmon, William Seeman, Eugene Leone, Toots Shor, New York; Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffer, Lexington; William C. Simpson, Louisville; Richard W. Slocum, Philadelphia; Harold V. Smith, New York; J. C. Taylor Spink, St. Louis; Charles Stevenson, Wade Stevenson, Buffalo; Peter Strub, Arcadia, Calif.; Jack Surdam, Lewis Surdam, Herbert Bayard Swope, New York; E. P. Taylor, York Mills, Ontario, Canada; Mr. and Mrs. Miles Trammell, New York City. Hon. Thomas R. Underwood; Mark Upson, Procter and Gamble Co., Cincinnati; Harold V. Wright; Thomas Wood, Frank R. Warton, member of Illinois Racing Board; George W. Weiss, New York Yankees; Lee Wells, Louisville; Major General I. D. White, commanding general Fort Knox; L. L. White, president, Nickel Plate Road, Cleveland, Ohio. C. V. Whitney, Ed Wilhelm, Maxon, Inc., New York; Hon. Simeon Willis, Ashland; L. B. Wilson, Cincinnati; Marshall Young, Fort Worth. Among the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wilr liam H. Veeneman were Mr. and Mrs. George OBrecht of Baltimore; Mr. and Mrs. Al DeCozen, Parsippany, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Woods, Cincinnati, and Charles Kettering of Dayton. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Guiberson of La Jolla, owners of Correspondent, had as their box guests Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt. Mr. and Mrs. Sam McMeekin entertained Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rogers, Baltimore; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Shaw Greenwood, Philadelphia; and Mr. and Mrs. Paxter j Alexander McMeekin. i Still others noted on Derby day included j j Mr. and Mrs. George Wright of Palm ! j Springs, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. j j Middleton; Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Carle of : Keswick, Va.; Francis B. Crowinshead of ■ Montchanin, Del.; Mr. and Mrs. Roswell McGill of New York; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Underwood of Los Angeles; Senator and Mrs. Richard Maloney of Lexington; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Allen Moe of New York; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hartenfels of Pittsburgh ; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Davis, Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Morse, Jr.; Lake Forest, 111.; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Lunt of Boston ; Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold Bryce Continued on Page Forty-Firt rir I . •• Derby Day Crowd Presents Cross Section of America The Great and Humble on Hand To Witness Nations No. 1 Race Continued from Page Four of New York City; Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Beebe of Charles River, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. Alexander G. Lewis, Kansas City; Mr. and Mrs. William B. Frogue of St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. Baylor O. Hickman. Colonel Anna Friedman of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels; Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Emerson Beauchamp; O. L. McKenney, vice-president and general manager of Del Mar; W. W .Tiny" Naylor of Riverside, Calif.; Ellwood B. and Mrs. Johnston of Chino, Calif.; John B. Stelle, of Illinois; William S, Miller of the Hlinois Racing Board; Mr. and Mrs. C Ray Robinson of Merced, Calif.; Ray Bell of California; Mr. and Mrs. Walter C Marty of Caliente, Mexio; Mr. and Mrs. John S. Alessio, Caliente, Mexico; Horace Wade, of Monmouth and Gulf stream Parks; Sol Tusso of Garden State Park; Edward J. Brennan, Monmouth Park; Scotty Stewart and Verne Harding, Temple City, Calif., co-owners of the Mission Stable; Mr. and Mrs. Gus Luellwitz of Los Angeles they own the sire, Windy City II. ; Dave Woods, Baltimore. Laurel race track had one of the largest single delegations at the Derby, the "international set" from Southern Maryland, including president John D. Schapiro, Joe Cascarella, Joe Brady, George "Brick" Martin and Bill Yeager, the latter director of public relations and good will man for the Washington, D. C, International. Others noted at the Downs included Pat Kelly, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Collins, Lancaster, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Tyson Gilpin of Boyce, Va.; J. Kel Houssels of Las Vegas, Nev.; Jim Costello of Dallas; Lou Cunningham and Phil Baker of Atlantic City; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Armour of Dallas; Allen Brewer, Jr., the artist of Lexington. M. R. "Beans" and Mrs. Latimer of Denver, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Neil of Dalls, Mr. and Mrs. Leeds K. Riely of Charles Town, Russell Havenstrite and Dick Fewell of Beverly Hills, Peter J. ODonnell of Lincoln Fields, Phil Iselin of Monmouth Park.
