Aviation Air Mail Rates Cut. Poundage Soars in Indy Route
Postmaster reports a two hundred percent rise in air mail poundage from Indianapolis on the Cincinnati to Chicago line after new rates took effect Aug 1. The current rate is 5 cents for the first ounce and 10 cents for each additional ounce, down from 10 cents per half ounce. First two weeks of August show strong totals, with 112 pounds on day one and averages around 24 pounds 11 ounces for the rest. The Chicago Cincinnati route is one of twenty contract lines. May figures show extensive mileage, trips, and payments to Embry-Riddle. In 12 months mid-1926 to mid-1927, 473,102 pounds carried. 1928 June saw 209,760 pounds. Rates have steadily decreased from 24 cents per coast-letter to the present 5-10 cent scale. The Chicago-Indianapolis-Cincinnati route began December 1927.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago-Cincinnati
Post Office Department
Embry-Riddle Company
Chicago
San Francisco
New York
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
Dallas
United States
Shelbyville Real Estate Board Approves Landing Field
Shelbyville Indiana August 18 The Shelbyville real estate board has voted approval of establishing a landing field here.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Shelbyville Real Estate Board
Terre Haute Hotel Roof Bears 12-Foot Aviation Mark
An aviation marking painted on the roof of the Indois hotel in Terre Haute measures 12 feet high. The letters spell Terre Haute with an L for landing and an arrow to indicate approach, visible from the air over the city.
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Times Special
Terre Haute
Ind
Indois
Mooresville to Mark Carranza Memorial
Mooresville townspeople plan a marker near the flying field in memory of Capt. Emilio Carranza the Mexican ace who died while attempting a nonstop New York to Mexico City flight. He was forced down here by fog on a flight from Mexico City to Washington.
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United Press
Mooresville
N. C
Emilio Carranza
New York
Mexico City
Carranza
Washington
Australia plans big defence push for air force
Melbourne reports that over the next five years Australia will devote most defense funds to the air force. Plans already set include building thirty four combined bombing and fighting machines. Final machine type will hinge on recent London air maneuvers results.
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United Press
Melbourne
Australia
London
Too Good FT. Wayne Husband Faces Alienation Suit
In Fort Wayne Indiana on August 18 Irma Clapesattle testified she sought a divorce three years ago but could find no grounds. Clifton W Clapesattle, suing for alienation of affections, claims Irma’s mother tried to ruin their marriage by ridiculing him. The couple has lived with the mother-in-law.
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Times Special
FT. Wayne
Ind
Clifton W. Clapesattle
Irma Clapesattle
Clapesattles
Sore throat epidemic traced to single cow
Aug 17 report from Washington notes a septic sore throat outbreak in a Massachusetts town affected over an eighth of the population. The Public Health Service links the spread to a cow with mastitis. once the milk was pasteurized, new cases ceased. The piece argues pasteurization prevents milk borne disease and cites past community evidence.
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Bu Science &R
Washington
Massachusetts
United States Public Health Service
V F W Band Chosen Official Indiana Band in Indianapolis
The band from Edward H Larsen Post Hammond Indiana was designated the official Indiana department band at the VFW encampment in Indianapolis August 26 to September 1. State commander Fred K Myles announced the selection. Thirty five band members and forty other Hammond VFW members will travel by a special bus, with funds raised by the Hammond Chamber of Commerce and local businessmen.
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Edward H. Larsen
Hammond
Ind
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Indiana Department
Indianapolis
Fred K. Myles
Hammond Chamber of Commerce
Nansen voices doubt Amundsen party perished
In an Ekstra Bladet interview, famed explorer Nansen says he believes Roald Amundsen and the Amundsen party may be dead. He cites the North Sea bottle signed Amundsen as a likely hoax and questions the Newfoundland wreckage as belonging to the Latham seaplane.
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United Press
Copenhagen
Nansen
Ekstra Bladet Today
Roald Amundsen
Amundsen
Tromsoe
Norway
Latham
Italia
Rene Guilbaud
North Sea
Newfoundland
Oberting and Carter Fly to Kokomo for Business
Herbert Oberting a pilot and Wiley Carter of Bloomington flew to Kokomo today in Carter’s Waco biplane to transact business with Clyde Shockley Kokomo airport manager and Indiana Waco distributor.
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Herbert Oberting
Wiley Carter
Bloomington
Kokomo
Carter
Waco
Clyde Shockley
Indiana Waco
Pilots Fly Mail Plane to Chicago in Friday Run
Stanley C. Huffman operations manager at Embry-Riddle Company Cincinnati Chicago air mail contractors piloted the mail plane to Chicago Friday evening.
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Stanley C. Huffman
Embry-Riddle Company
Chicago
Delores Del Rio Directs Care After Producer Falls Aboard
Delores Del Rio, the film star, directed staff and nurses aboard the Ile de France after Edwin Carewe, noted producer, collapsed on the deck as the ship prepared to sail from New York. Carewe was carried to his cabin. Del Rio took charge, stepping in to assist with care on the French liner.
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United Press
S&s
Ile DE France
Delores del Rio
Edwin Carewe
New York
Carewe
Ben-Hurs to Picnic at Noblesville City Park
Ben-Hur members with families and friends will attend a Sunday picnic in Noblesville Indiana hosted by Central Indiana courts. Married men will play against single men at 11 a.m. followed by a basket dinner and afternoon contests for adults and children. Louie H. Mills is general chairman.
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Noblesville
Ind
Indiana
Louie H. Mills
Veterans to Hold Picnic of Indiana Volunteers in Centerville
Surviving members of the 124th Indiana Volunteer Civil War outfit plan their annual picnic in Centerville on September 2. William Mathews, president, enlisted as a soldier at age 14.
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Buy Times
Centerville
Ind
124Th Indiana Volunteers
William Mathews
Veterans’ Organization
Tracks Down Auto Tire Fee in Bedford County
Bedford Indiana August 18 local detective C C Jeffrey Smith says residents of Bedford and Lawrence County must provide funds to prosecute the person who throws tacks and roofing nails on roads puncturing several tires. He vows arrest once funds are raised.
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Bedford, Ind
C. C. Jeffrey Smith
Bedford
Lawrence County
McAdoo Likely to Desert Democrats for Hoover Over Smith Split
Aug. 18 report says William G. McAdoo may back Hoover if Smith ties his candidacy to a modified Volstead Act. McAdoo stays silent at Santa Barbara home while Storke of the Santa Barbara News pivots to Republican support. Friends anticipate a move after Smith's acceptance address, with many aides already backing Hoover.
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Herbert Hoover
William G. McAdoo
Hoover
Smith
McAdoo
Santa Barbara
Houston
Thomas Storke
Santa Barbara News
Storke
Vox Populi
Morris Bridge Bids Put Forward for White River Span
The Morris Street bridge over the White River may be let next week after bids from National Concrete Company and Luton Engineering Company. National bid 403000 on city specs. Luton bid 388000 on open span plans. The project, part of flood prevention, calls for a five span bridge with sixty foot roadway and ten foot walks and four feet clearance above flood level.
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Morris St
White River
National Concrete Company
Works Board
Luton Engineering Company
Kentucky Ave
Duvall Administration Works Board
Macedonian Call and Paul's Second Missionary Journey
Sunday School lesson details Paul and Silas’s voyage from Asia Minor to Troas and the vision of a Macedonian man urging help. In Philippi, Lydia’s conversion and hospitality mark the spread of Christianity into Europe and the birth of Western Christendom, with reflection on historical impact if the call had been unanswered.
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Asia
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Barnabas
John Mark
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Aegean Sea
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Troy
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Philip of
Alexander the Great
Lydia
America
Kellogg Heads to Europe to Sign Antiwar Pact
Secretary of State Kellogg sails from New York aboard the Ile De France to France to join fourteen nations in an antiwar pact negotiations with Foreign Minister Briand. He will meet reporters sparingly and hopes to return aboard the Leviathan on September 4.
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United Press
New York
Kellogg
France
Briand
Ile de France
United States
British Captain Dies At Wheel Of Submarine L 55
Reports from Moscow Aug 18 say Commander C M S Chapman died at the wheel when the British submarine L 55 sank after a June 1919 battle with a Russian warship. Skeletons of 43 crewmen were found in Kronstadt dock, with bodies and personal effects to be returned to Britain. Russian government plans full military rites, and British losses are alleged by the press to have been withheld.
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United Press
Moscow
C. M. S. Chapman
Kronstadt
Great Britain
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