Cross-Country Air Mail Line To Stop Here
Pittsburgh Airways plans merge with United States Airways Ohio Transport and Southwest Air Fast Express to form United Aviation Company with a 4 million dollar value. The route will run New York to Los Angeles via Pittsburgh Columbus Indianapolis St. Louis Kansas City Albuquerque Winslow. Mail picked up at 9 a.m. may reach New York the next morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Condon
Pittsburgh Airways, Inc
Pittsburgh
United States Airways
Ohio Transport Company
Southwest Air Fast Express
United Aviation Company, Inc
New York
Los Angeles
Columbus
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Kansas City
Albuquerque
N. M
Winslow
Ariz
T. A. T.maddux
Robert Bryson
Post Office Department
Two Auto Theft Suspects Held on Vagrancy Charges
Police hold Ford Godbold of 305 North East Street and Frank Judd of 354 Hanson Avenue on vagrancy charges with bonds set at 3000 dollars. Godbold reportedly confessed and implicated Judd in stealing a Nash roadster north of Broad Ripple Park two weeks earlier and said they sold the car for 10 dollars in Bowling Green Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Godbold
North East Street
Frank Judd
Hanson Avenue
Broad Ripple Park
Godbold
Judd
Bowling Green
Coast Guard Expands Fleet to Fight Rum Runners
The government prepares to deploy 33 new coast guard picket boats with Buffalo as a base. Admiral Frederick C. Billard said a third will be in operation within a month and the full fleet ready before navigation closes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scrippa-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Washington
Canada
Coast Guard
Buffalo
Frederick C. Billard
City Council Eyes Tax Rate Cut for 1931 Budget
Councilmen plan further review Friday night to push the tentative tax rate below 1.10. The hospital and health board requests will be considered then as Francis Colemar, deputy controller, checked hospital financials earlier today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hospital and Health Board
Francis Colemar
Apology Letter from Alabama Native in Moscow Eviction Case
Lemuel Lewis, an Alabama native imprisoned in Stalingrad for evicting a Negro worker, Robert Robinson, from a tractor plant mess hall, wrote an apology to factory officials. His U.S. residence is Detroit. Paris notes WMistinguett plans to quit the stage and buy a Bandol property to run a hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
United Press
Lemuel Lewis
Alabama
Stalingrad
Robert Robinson
Lewis
America
Detroit
Paris
Wmistinguett
Bandol
French Riviera
De Mille Heiress Engaged to Motion Picture Exec
Margaret De Mille daughter of William C De Mille and niece of Cecil B De Mille becomes engaged to P Fineman a motion picture executive as announced today in Hollywood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press Hollywood
Margaret de Mille
William C. de Mille
Cecil B. de Mille
P. Fineman
Motion Icture
Opportunity Now for Reducing Next Winter's Food Bills
A Sugar Institute advert promotes home canning to stock up on canned fruits jellies jams and relishes at rock bottom prices. It urges housewives to enter the National Canning Contest in Shenandoah Iowa and write for information and free jar supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Sugar Institute
Shenandoah
Towa
Informa
Workmen Add Two Rooms to School 85 in Arlington
Builders finish a two room addition to School 85 at 330 South Arlington avenue to open September 8 due to rising enrollment. The project totals 11,234 dollars for rooms and building repainting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Arlington Avenue
State fair plans move to fairground administration building
The Indiana state board of agriculture will relocate its headquarters to the state fairground administration building this Saturday as preparations continue. A staff of forty prepares exhibits and the Purdue building, with soft drink and concession structures rising. Mrs. L. G. Vannice of Amo reports 132 young women enrolled in the home economics school opening August 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Agriculture
State Fairground
Purdue
L. G. Vannice
Amo
Ind
Plew Burial Friday For Mrs. Sarah F Plew
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah F Plew 88 who died at her daughter’s home Mrs. Dora Adkinson 4801 English avenue will be held at the daughter’s home Friday at 2 30 p m Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery She was born in Highland county West Virginia and came to Indianapolis with her husband Isaac Plew in 1882 She helped organize the Union Congregational church Survivors include two sons Thomas and Robert Plew both of Indianapolis
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Sarah F. Plew
Dora Adkinson
English Avenue
Crown Hill Cemetery
Plew
Highland County
West Virginia
Indianapolis
Isaac Plew
Union Congregational Church
Thomas
Robert Plew
Simpson Ridges Scotland Plan Ends in Detroit Death
Crawfordsville Ind Aug 21 William Simpson a nine year resident who left with his wife July 7 intending to return to Scotland is dead in Detroit at the home of a son from heart disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Ind
William Simpson
Hoover Man in Tennessee Race Faces Independent Bid
Sam Price, an independent candidate against Rep. B C Reece in Tennessee's First District, is viewed as having a good chance to defeat the Republican incumbent who earned Hoover's backing in the primary. Reece won after Hoover endorsed leasing Muscle Shoals to private interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Scripps-Howard
Washington
Sam Price
B. C. Reece
Tennessee
Hoover
Reece
Three Men Held After Auto Banditry Across Two Stations
Police identified Robert Rowe Ruby Minton and Walker Stegall as the trio who held up two filling stations Wednesday night Robbing Audrey Pleak at the Gasateria station of 30 dollars and locking him in a lavatory Then they allegedly took 35 dollars from Lawrence Kirkhoff at the Sinclair station a few minutes later All suspects listed with addresses in the city basement and west streets.
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Robert Rowe
Ruby Minton
West
New York Street
Walker Stegall
Walnut Street
Audrey Pleak
North
Pennsylvania Street
Gaseteria
Tenth
Dorman Streets
Lawrence Kirkhoff
West Sixteenth Street
Sinclair Oil
Twenty-fourth
Meridian Streets
Cincinnati Attorney Samuel Lipp Found Dead in New York Train Route
Samuel Lipp of Cincinnati, a noted attorney, was found dead on the New York and Western Ontario railroad right of way. He had been en route from New York to Cincinnati via Albany and apparently fell from or jumped from a train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Little Falls
N. Y
Samuel Lipp
Cincinnati
New York & Western Ontario
Lipp
New York
Albany
Waltz Back, Nation’s Dance Masters Told
Thomas M. Sheehy of Chicago, president of the Dancing Masters Association of America, told 700 teachers at an annual New York convention that jazz dancing is doomed as long skirts return. He said long skirts favor graceful waltzes over jerky jazz steps and note Chicago already sees a comeback for the waltz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
Thomas M. Sheehy
Chicago
Dancing Masters Association of America
Sheehy
City Salesman Karl Brocking Dies After Fall
Karl L. Brocking a 50 year old stationery and mercantile printing salesman died Wednesday at Our Savior's hospital Jackson from complications after a fall. Final rites set for 2 30 p m Friday at 1502 South Alabama street. Survivors include widow Mrs Margaret McAvoy Brocking three brothers and a sister. Burial planned in Indianapolis locale with fraternal affiliations noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Alabama Street
Karl L. Brocking
Stationery and Mercantile
Our Savior’s Hospital
Jackson
Street Cars to Enforce Traffic Rules in Indianapolis
Motorists who pass street cars on the left will be reported by motormen acting as unofficial traffic cops under an arrangement by the citizens' traffic committee with the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Affidavits and warrants will be issued for violators, said Captain Louis Johnson, head of the traffic division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens’ Traffic Committee
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Louis Johnson
Byrd Harrison Links Highlight Old Virginia Families
The Exchange Club brings Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd to Indianapolis and traces entwined Byrd and Harrison lineages. Verna Thompson notes First Families of Virginia connections, including Harrison descendants and marriages to the Lees, Randolphs, and Byrds, with later articles promised.
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Exchange Club
Richard E. Byrd
Indianapolis
Byrd
Harrison
Williamson Dunn
Edward Dunn
Evanston, Il
Virginia
Verna Thompson
Benjamin Harrison
Admiral Byrd
Byrds
Harrisons
Knights of Columbus Adjourn With Convention Ball
The forty eighth annual supreme convention in Boston ends with the convention ball. James H. Carroll Lewiston Francis Fauteaux Montreal and Francis J Heazel Ashville elected supreme directors while Daniel A Tobin Brooklyn and William J Guste New Orleans reelected to the same post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Boston
Supreme Convention
the Knights of Columbus
James H. Carroll
Lewiston
Francis Fauteaux
Montreal
Francis J. Heazel
Ashville
N. C
Daniel A. Tobin
Brooklyn
N. Y
William J. Guste
New Orleans
Blame Firebug In Two Blazes Sparks Police Hunt
Fire department investigated two blazes of suspected arson origin. A garage and shed at Cornell avenue burned with $150 loss. a vacant Brill and Sumner Road house owned by Eugene Wedkey burned for about $3,000. Police shot at a fleeing suspect and he escaped. Fort Benjamin Harrison soldiers Ben Gar and Ed Van Cleave are missing after leaving the reservation. Indianapolis police launched a search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell Avenue
Brill and
Sumner Roads
Eugene Wedkey
Benjamin Harerison
Indianapolis
Ben Gar
Ed van Cleave
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Nineteenth Street
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Pioneer City
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Bandits
Ohio
Waltzis
National Association
Esident
Brocking
W. B. Burford Printing Company
Thornton-Levey Company
Murat Temple O F the Mystic Shrine
Logan Lodge of Masons
Margaret McAvoy Brocking
E. R. Brocking
Henry E. Brocking
August E. Brocking
C. W. Ackman
AGT
Virginia Council
House of Burgesses
Benjamin
Surry
Berkeley
Nathaniel
Brandon
James River
United States
William Henry Harrison
Anne Carter
Carter
Anne
William Randolph
Peyton Randolph
Continental Congress
William Byrd III
Elizabeth Bassett
William Henry
James
William Byrd
London
John Byrd
Grace Stegge
the James
William
Henrico County
England
Maria Horsmandon
Edward III
Acme
Acme Optometric Co
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Amligs
Choice
Coats
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