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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1928
Page
4
Weather report notes unlimited ceiling and slight haze at 9 30 a m while officials push a 2 000 000 bond to improve Lambert Field airport. Lindbergh supports aviation patrons as a campaign highlights the bond issue to be decided in next week's primary election.
Dr S Parkes Cadman famed minister arrives in New York from abroad to tend his seriously ill daughter. He plans to sail soon for a religious conference in Stockholm. In Winona Lake Indiana Bishop E L Waldorf of Kansas City area will speak Saturday night on Ghosts That Now Walk.
In Duncan Oklahoma angry crowds tried to storm Stephens County jail to seize James Forest a Black man accused of assaulting a white woman. Guards kept order and Forest believed wounded by possemen last evening remained under guard outside the jail. A German police dog was offered in a trade for a shotgun in Pet and Livestock Want Ads tonight.
Mayor L Ert Slack's airport committee studying municipal airport operation in other cities with Chamber of Commerce input. Chicago Port Ed Raub Jr and Councilman Edward Harris investigated Chicago and Detroit sites while Col Lindbergh may advise on site selection for a new $5 million transcontinental route hub led by C M Keys of Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co.
Two five place Ireland flying boats with metal hulls are bought by Martin Travel bureau for Manhattan Island tours starting at 125th Street and the Hudson. Four more boats will join the service with Bertram Work of Ireland Aircraft, Inc. stating the plan. Ruth Roland Nichols pilots one boat in the opening flight. On the first full day more than seventy passengers rode the scenic tour.
The Fairchild FC 2W2 folding wing monoplane for Commander Richard Byrd’s Antarctic expedition is due for delivery within two weeks. The craft will join the Byrd party after a test run from Cincinnati to Chicago and back on the air mail route this Thursday.
Visiting planes at Indianapolis airport on Thursday included Lieutenant Asp and one passenger aboard a Fokker DC-4 from Wright Field Dayton Ohio and back and Lieutenant Carl V. Vickery flying a Stinson monoplane from Dayton to St Louis.
The sea plane Numancia damaged during an attempted westward Atlantic crossing was towed to Cadiz by a tug and steamer. Captain Ramon Franco and three crew members were aboard one returning vessel from La Rabida where the craft landed after a few hours aloft. Colonel Lindbergh returned to St Louis after a Kansas City visit amid understood talks.
In Indianapolis neighborhoods many homes report Konjola restoring health with numerous city endorsements. A steady stream of testimonials backs the medicine as a trusted remedy for local sufferers.
Sidney Wilhoite of Box 123 failed to see a Danville division traction car on Roena Street late Thursday and drove onto the tracks. His car was demolished, his wife injured but not seriously, and Wilhoite escaped with minor bruises, city hospital reports say.
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