Graf Zeppelin Fights Storm On Way To Us
The Graf Zeppelin moored near Tournon and Valence as it skirted southern France en route to Lakehurst with 18 passengers including a young German boy stowaway. The dirigible faced heavy rain and winds, headed toward the Mediterranean then Spain, Bermuda, and finally the New Jersey air base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Paris
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Lakehurst
N. J
Rhone River
France
Tournon
Valence
Spain
St. Louis
Mediterranean
Tosca
Gibraltar
Azores
Bermuda
Spanish
mid-Atlantic
American
High School Bids Exceed Board Fund and Plans Change
Irvington voters face delays as bids for the east side high school exceed the $600,000 appropriation. Low totals for the high school reach 753,613, prompting officials to reject bids or alter plans to stay within budget. Several additions and new schools show lower bid packages, with figures listed for construction, heating, plumbing, and electrical work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irvington High School
Charles W. Kern
East Side High School
General Construction
E. A. Carson Constuction Company
Fred G. Janitz
Porter, Glove and Glass, Inc
Janitz
D. L
C. C. Shipp
Indianapolis
Sedwick
Whiteman
Beville Avenue
Michigan Street
General
Elliott-Myers Construction Company
E. J. Fitzpatrick Company
Sanborn Electric Company
Morris and
Kappes Streets
Ehott-Myers Construction Company
Freya Brothers
Fred Janitz
Nineteenth Street
Parkway Boulevard
English and
Emerson Avenues
Mother Reunited With Son Drowned In River Tragedy
A boy Ernest Major 11 and his cousin Glen Harvey 10 drowned in White River after an outing with family and friends. Ernest lived with his father at 2225 Winter Avenue. Glen with his parents at 2156 Winter Avenue. Funeral services for both were planned at their mother Mrs Theodore Van Ckeleer’s home at 2354 North Dearborn Street. Everett Major 8, Ernest’s brother, stayed with their father after the divorce and remarriage. Rescue teams recovered Ernest’s body while Glen’s was found near the point of sinking.
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Ernest Major
Stephen Major
Winter Avenue
White River
Glen Harvey
Theodore van Ckeleer
North Dearborn Street
Memorial Park
van Ckeleer
Ernest
Glenn
Bert Harvey
Everett Major
Everett
Glenn Harvey
Effie Law
Glen
George Howell
Harold
Pauline
Forest Henderson
Harvey
Russ Flehlinger
Adams Street
Walter Brockman
East North Street
Francis Hodges
North
Pennsylvania Street
Red Cross
Fred Grossart
North Meridian Street
Mrs
Willebrandt Series Draws Praises From Indiana Leaders
The Times will publish twenty four Willebrandt articles on prohibition starting Aug five. Indiana leaders including Elizabeth T. Stanley and Ernest N. Evans laud her legal expertise and seek informed discussion of enforcement under the Jones act and the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Times
Indiana
The
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
United States Attorney-General
Elizabeth T. Stanley
Willebrandt
Edgar Blake
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Board of Temperance
United States
Ernest N. Evans
Church Federation of Indianapolis
Will
W. W. Reedy
Meridian Union
Araan
the Times
G. I. Hoover
Indiana Christian Missionary Association
Ethan A. Miles
Anti- Saloon League
Marion Union
Ernest Evans
Church Federation of Indiana
Mrs Jolson Rallies After Operation in New York
Ruby Keeler Mrs Al Jolson underwent surgery early this week at Lenox Hill Hospital and is reported doing nicely. Miss Keeler collapsed in her dressing room after the first act of Show Girl. Dorothy Stone will arrive to take Jolsons role in New York. Major Paul T Bock US Army was killed at France Field in Panama during machine gun practice.
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United Press
New York
Ruby Keeler
al Jolson
Lenox Hill
Miss Keeler
Dixie Dugan
Dorothy Stone
Jolson
Breas Balboa
C. I
Paul T. Bock
United States Army
France Field
Bock
Illinois
Fear Power Probe Secret Demand Raises Power Stock Fears
A secret document purporting to circulate among power company executives claims the federal power commission activities could dampen stock values. Government officials say the item, given confidentially to the federal trade commission, is under investigation of the power industry and has no indicated authorship.
Savannah Riot Sparks Police Deployment and Slaying
In Savannah's Yamacraw district a race riot erupted as reserves were summoned. Policeman Fitzgerald was shot dead and later a Black man, Dave Singleton, was killed by police after Fitzgerald's body was found. The woman caller was located alive with facial injuries. Indiana leaders endorse Mabel Willebrandt articles.
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United Press
Savanah
Savannah
Yamacraw
Fitzgerald
Dave Singleton
Singleton
Rival claims presented for new air line
Two Indiana cities Indianapolis and Evansville pressed rival claims to join a proposed air mail route from Pittsburgh to St. Louis. Delegations urged northern and southern paths, arguing about weather, field facilities, and potential extensions to Texas and Oklahoma while officials weighed which corridor best serves mail volume and safety.
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Roscoe B. Fleming
Times
Washington
Indiana
Indianapolis
Evansville
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Joint Committee On Civil Aviation
Post Office and Commerce Departments
Columbus
Louis Ludlow
C. L. Hawood
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
C. G. Dunphy
H. Weir Cook
Curtiss Company
Arthur P. Eberlin
Evansville Chamber of Commerce
Cincinnati
Louisville
Walter Brown
Paul Henderson
National Air Transport Company
Texas
Oklahoma
Eberlin
United States Weather Bureau
Hawood
Cook
Ludlow
Joint Committee
Slack
Weather Bureau
Ohio
Four Persons Missing From City Police List
Police headquarters updated a missing persons list with four new entries. Roy M. Hendricks, 40, of 2766 Roosevelt Avenue, missing five weeks. Martha Louise Ellin, 13, of 262 North Rural Street, missing since Monday night. Lester Hansoon, 33, of 576 East Parkway Boulevard, missing since July 29. Louis Riffl, 52, of 918 North Delaware Street, missing for three weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy M. Hendricks
Roosevelt Avenue
Martha Louise Ellin
North Rural Street
Lester Hansoon
East Parkway Boulevard
Louis Riffll
Delaware Street
Free Adult And Child Swimming Lessons At Rhodius Park Pool
Daily adult swimming instruction runs from 6 to 7 PM at Rhodius park pool. Children’s lessons occur at 2 PM each weekday except Sunday. Temperature readings show morning and noon values around 70s to 80s during the period.
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Rhodius Pool
Rhodius Park
Film Contest Pictures in the New Era Movie Contest
Film contest pictures from the New Era Movie Contest are printed today after failing to run in The Times Wednesday. The extended time limit for answers runs one more day. turn to Page 6.
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Morris Fishbein
The
Times
Mercury to Soar as Warm Weather Returns to Indianapolis
Temperatures near normal today with no rain, but fair and warmer weather is forecast for Friday in Indianapolis. The state forecast predicts possible thundershowers in the northwest. A high of 92 was reported Wednesday afternoon as John Vance, 64, remained in hospital after a heat related cerebral hemorrhage. his condition was listed as fair.
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Weather Bureau
Indianapolis
John Vance
Bellevieu Place
City Hospital
Coal contract awarded for hospital needs in Indianapolis
Purchasing Agent Joel A. Baker awarded the Indianapolis Coal Company the contract to supply 10 000 tons of coal at 2 83 dollars per ton for the city hospital. Clarence Hess said the bid was on fourth vein 1 1/2 inch screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joel A. Baker
Indianapolis Coal Company
City Hospital
Clarence Hess
Madman With Ax Kills Six at Plant Killing Spree
Earl Robertson 45 went berserk at the J. W. Bell & Co plant in Spartanburg D C and killed six men including a Black man. He attacked manager J L Bussey first and split heads with an ax, appearing to go insane after the attack.
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United Press
Navy Conference to Consider Battleship Life Extension
Washington August 1 United Press reports the naval reduction talks will propose extending battleship life and trimming size while unlikely to discuss total abolition of battleships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Oats Tariff Increased as Senate Probes Agriculture Rates
Washington Aug. 1 Wheat and corn tariff rates were kept in the house bill while oats were raised by 1 cent per bushel. Republican members of the senate finance committee continued today to study agricultural tariff rates.
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Senate Finance Committee
House
Washington
Jones-Whitaker Sales Winners Celebrate Regional Chevrolet Lead
Executives and employees of the Jones Whitaker Sales Company will host a picnic and banquet at Walnut Gardens on Friday to mark their sales leadership for the year ending July 31. The firm sold more new Chevrolet cars than any agency in Kentucky Indiana Ohio Tennessee or West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones-Whitaker Sales Company
North Capitol Avenue
Walnut Gardens
Chevrolet
Jones-Whitaker Company
Kentucky
Indiana
Ohio
Tennessee
West Virginia
Graf Zeppelin Makes Trans Atlantic Flight Start
Germanys Graf Zeppelin lifted off from Friedrichshafen for a planned U S voyage carrying forty crew and eighteen passengers led by Hugo Eckener. Eight Americans aboard, with one last minute missing traveler found asleep in his butcher shop after officials tracked him down.
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Mauritz Hallgren
United Press
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Graf Zeppelin
United States
France
Graf
Lake Constance
Hugo Eckener
Graff
Ullstein
New Yorker
Otto Manz
Zeppelin
Zeppelin Company
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Lewis E. Whiteman
Building and Grounds Committee
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Theodore Vonnegut
Minoriy
Lillian Sedwick
Fred Kepner
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Girl
NEW Air Line
Thisese
Madman
Mary A. Pierce
Martin Channing
Bern
Nelson Morris
Chicago
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Joachim Richard
Madrid
Richard Burke
San Bernardino
Cal
Frank Nicholson
Hersbert Fiebel
Saginaw
Mich
George Crouse
N. Y
Gregory Gourevitch
Walter Spiess
German Ministry of Transportation
Ernst Millard
Bonn University
Werner Staufficher
Basle
Heinz von Eschwage
Berlin
Albrecht Monteglass
Carl Schutz
Kiel
Leisler Kiep
Franz von Soden
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