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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1930
Page
8
A bustling early broadcasting page lists NBC CBS and local stations with times for orchestras, talk shows, weather, and music segments. Programs include Serenade Eve, Uncle Abe and David, Ted Fiorito, Paul Tremaine, Show Boat, Dance orchestras, vaudeville, and farm hour.
Eighteen people were injured in weekend motor vehicle accidents in Marion County per sheriff records. Major injuries include Mrs Edna Phillips 34 struck by Meredith Bee 23 on West Washington Street after alighting from a truck driven by C R Phillips. list of other injured names follows with addresses.
Large crowds visited Mars Hill Capital and Hoosier airports to watch parachute jumps glider exhibitions and a mystery ship altitude flight at 12 30 daily. Prizes for altitude guesses and deposits in Hook drug stores were planned as Hoosier airport facilities opened to the public while Indianapolis aviation groups prepared a council meeting to discuss the 1931 appropriation ordinance.
United Press reports First National Airways of America headquartered in Los Angeles has taken control of Continental Air Express. The expanded route will run passenger mail and express service from Guaymas Mexico to San Francisco via San Diego and Los Angeles.
At 9 a m conditions show a northeast wind ten miles per hour and temperature 66 with ten mile visibility and good ceiling. Barometric pressure 30.22 at sea level. The route continues from Fairbanks to Nome 500 miles away then 1400 miles to Siberia and 1500 miles to Tokio.
Robert Whalen president of the National Auto Racing Association was killed at Sterling Illinois while guiding spectators from a track. His wife Barnice Whalen died soon after in Chicago from heart failure. In Cleveland Mollie Shell, 55, was badly burned after a lamp ignited her bedclothes following a dropped match.
Broadcast timetable lists programs from 4:00 PM through 12:30 AM including NBC shows Like Amos n Andy and Real Folks with various orchestras and musical acts such as Linton Hotel orchestra Castle Parm orchestra Crosley singers and McCormack Fiddlers alongside time announcements and weather notes. Local acts Burnt Corkers and Koo orchestra appear among the lineup with a variety of entertainment offerings.
The page lists a series of radio programs and stations in the Chicago and Columbia areas, with times from 6:30 PM to 9 PM. Programs include Navy band, Aaronson’s orchestra, Toscha Seidel, Lombardo hosts, and orchestras, all tied to stations such as WFBM WGN WLS WABC WEAF KYW KDKA WHAS and others. It notes NBC System connections and various concert and program blocks across networks.
The Times outlines the city wide miniature golf tournament rules open to all ages. Qualifying rounds run Aug 4 to Aug 13 with best four of eighteen holes to reach elimination. Eight men and eight women advance per flight, then proceed to thirty six hole match play culminating in a city championship.
WKBF Indianapolis presents a Tuesday lineup from 6:30 AM to Noon featuring Wake Up band, church worship, The Breakfast Club, Your Coffee, Red Ball transit talk, Stewart's program, The Women’s Club, L S Ayres, Morrison’s style talk, Hoosier Coffee Club, standard nut margarine cooking, Home message, Morning announcements, Trostner organ logues, Sander Becker decorator, Peter Pan period, Wilson Milk talk, Anglo food message, popular records, The Pied Piper.
A detailed morning schedule listing various segments from top o the mornin to livestock reports. Programs include health with Marley Sherris, Morning devotion, Homemakers, Andy Mansfield, Hilly and Billy, Doodle Sockers, Weather and river reports, Time signals, an concert, Orchestra at Hotel Gibson, and livestock updates throughout the day.
Major Reed Landis leads an investigation into a fatal crash blamed on a thunderstorm and a sharp dive. Pilot Orville Suchy 20 and two passengers Mary Laws 25 Eugenia Laws 22 died when the plane struck a gas storage tank. Bodies recovered after a ten hour rescue.
Vancouver report says pilots Robert Wark and Edward Brown forced the Pacific Era to land after a gas line issue while en route from Tacoma to Tokio. They were unhurt and planned an extra stop in White Horse, Alaska, then to proceed about 1100 miles farther.
Captain Frank M. Hawks, famed for the trans continental record, postponed indefinitely a planned speed flight to New York due to today’s bad weather threat. He previously set an east west record last week.
William F. Weiland, 1056 Consolidated Building, describes an air measurement instrument using a long duration accelerometer and attachments to measure distance traveled and maintain a shortest route course.
In Cleveland Ohio on Sunday the 17 year old Andrew Mazur was struck in the head by a batted baseball fracturing his skull. His condition remained serious today.
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