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Show TWO LOSE LIVES; ONE , IS FATALLY INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE RACE Joe Cooper Instantly Killed When Steering Knuckle Breaks; Billy Chandler Fatally " Hurt and Not Expected to Survive; Mechanician Keeler Dies of His Injuries. By International News Service. DES MOINES, la., Aug. 7. One racing driver is dead, another is not expected to live, one mechanician mecha-nician is dead and another sen-, ously hurt. That is the casualty list of today"s 300-mile speed derbv at the Des Moines speedway. Ralph "Da Pal-ma Pal-ma won the race, according to unofficial unoffi-cial announcement of the iudges, but there is some question -whether this will hold after the official examination examina-tion of the time tape has been made. It is thought that Ralph Mulford will be adjudged the victor when the times of the various drivers have been verified. veri-fied. Joe Cooper of Tounestown, Ohio, who has entered his Sebring cars in nearly all of the bifr events so far this year, and who was regarded as a comer in the auto racing world, was instantly, instant-ly, killed when a steering knuckle broke as he was coming into the home stretch for the thirty-eighth lap. The machine I skidded through the safety rail and turned over twice in falling fifteen (feet to the ground. Cooper's mechani-: mechani-: cian, Louis Peil, was seriously hurt. Billy Chandler, pilot of a Deusen- berg, was fatally injured when his machine ma-chine blew a left front tire in the I3Sth lap. The explosion caused him to lose entire control of his car. It was swished about until it stood facing fac-ing the opposite way, turned over twice and went through the safety line. Chandler and his mechanician, Morris S. Keeler, were thrown fifty feet from their car.. Chandler is not expected 1 to live and Keeler died at 9 o'clock tonight. De Palma's winning time was announced an-nounced as 3:28:52. Mulford finished second, according to the officials, and O 'Donnell was third. One of the prettiest races of the entire en-tire event was staged at the pits in the 220th lap. O 'Donnell blew a right rear tire when leading De Palma by only three-quarters of a mile. A second sec-ond later De Palma. also blew a tire. O 'Donnell was first out of the pits, but De Palma passed him on the hack stretch in the 221st lap. At 225 miles De Palmaj O'Donnell and Mulford were running in the same lap and at 250 miles they still, were in the eame lap. This exciting race was broken in the 269th '.lap, when O 'Donnell blew a tire. |