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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1929
Page
2
In Kansas City a couple fights to recover a baby they raised after a misrepresented adoption. Mrs. Annabel Crouch bought a child from an unmarried couple for 75 dollars, telling her husband it was her own. Authorities face a complex dispute as the parents seek the child back.
United Press reports a new bi motor all metal monoplane Land of the Soviets departed Moscow at 3 15 am heading to Omsk en route to New York. The crew mirrors the earlier crash flight near Chita and plans several stops with a final leg to Seward Seattle San Francisco Chicago and New York expected to follow.
A list of early aviation flights from multiple airports including Hoosier Airport and Capitol Airport. Entries name pilots, aircraft models such as Buhl monoplane Inland sport plane Monocoupe Gypsy Moth and routes between Detroit Kansas City Cleveland St. Louis Richmond Washington and New York with deliveries to Curtiss Flying Service of Middle West.
Lieutenant C E Brookley of Wright Field spoke at the Indianapolis Solo Club dinner marking the opening of Curtiss Flying Service restaurant. He described a new variable pitch propeller fitted to a Douglas O2H biplane, allowing pitch changes with engine running for takeoff at low altitude and speed control at high altitude, comparing it to a car with multiple gears. Brookley flew from Wright Field to the event and departed for home shortly after midnight.
Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana received a De Haviland Moth biplane to join its sizable plane holdings. Delivered Thursday from Lowell Massachusetts by H Galladay, the Moth is now distributed in Indiana by Curtiss. The light cockpit biplane boasts strong performance and uses a Wright Gypsy engine with folding wings and wing slots.
Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana announced through general manager H Weir Cook that every student in a Curtiss flying course automatically receives a $2500 life insurance policy at no extra charge beyond tuition. Students may buy additional insurance at standard rates, with Curtiss carrying the insurance risk itself to keep costs reasonable. The company also insures its planes and does not require bonds from students for possible aircraft damage during instruction or solo flight.
Wind southwest at eleven mph, temperature seventy degrees, barometer 30.04 inches at sea level. Ceiling unspecified.
Howard T. Quinn long served as Lyric theater property man and recalls rare feats in building stage effects. He hunted for a Negro baby gag and fashioned a Lincoln mask from a bust when a full facial mask was unavailable. He has crafted props for Eddie Foy Will Rogers and other stars, and notes superstition with a 13 labeled dressing room.
Indiana's camel glide captivates the Dancing Masters of America convention in Pittsburgh. Indianapolis teachers George Siff Peggy Sue Snyder and others attended as W. C. Jacobus of New York demonstrated the rainbow fox trot and the three time. Oscar Duryea of New York introduced the new three time step suitable for multiple music styles. Thomas Sheeley of Chicago showcased the rhythm stomp with two child helpers Orville Delrich and Eleanor Solbert.
Loveland Colorado August 23 the cherries are ripe and canning factories are going full blast It remained for G H Thomson to find that it took 160 cherries dropped one by one into a bucket to make a pound Then it was found that factories in Loveland can ore pack approximately 150 tons of cherries a day By simple mathematics it was found that 48 000 000 cherries a day are handled by the factories
Two Chinese gun boats were sunk and about thirty men lost when a typhoon struck Shiuhing. Dispatches from Hong Kong report the incident occurred Thursday with several other vessels damaged in the storm.
The state council of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Daughters of America hold their thirty eighth annual conventions at the Denison hotel with over 500 delegates. A banquet at the Spink Arms Thursday night featured welcome by Mrs. Ethel Bricker and responses from Mrs. Sarah Johnson and other officers. A joint memorial service opened today's session at 10 a.m followed by elections with Omar Stubbs addressing attendees.
The golden jubilee program of the Negro Pythians of America ends tonight after a week of sessions led by S. W. Green of New Orleans. The week featured a sermon by Bishop R. E. Jones, a fireworks display, a Thursday parade in Indianapolis, and elections of leaders including Green for 25 years.
Warner Brothers released Noahs Ark at the Walker Theater for six days starting Monday. The three year production includes 33 acres of settings and 10,000 people in the flood scenes with Noble Johnson in the cast. The story follows victims of a train wreck reaching Paris as world war erupts and a chaplain joins the narrative linking ancient and modern calamities. Vitaphone is used. the film features the ark building, animal marches, and the Noah flood sequence.
City officials struggle to trim the education budget to fit a tax levy range of 1.32 to 1.85 dollars per hundred. A firm figure may not be ready until Monday as the board must adopt the budget by Tuesday night for ten day advertising before final action on September 9. Plans to finance Schools 81 82 and additions to 15 and 49 at 415000 shift away from bonds after the state tax board rejected a 395000 bond for buildings. Irvington high school 600000 issue also faces bid concerns. The building budget, totaling about 1.2 million, includes 500000 for a new Broad Ripple High unit, 50000 for a Washington township grade school, and 123500 for Center township No. 1, with prior-year cuts forcing delays in the summer program.
Governor Harry G. Leslie appointed two extra legal commissions. The Cumberland Gap memorial commission includes James A. Woolburn, Vernon Knight, Ross H. Lockridge, Charles H. Thompson, and Mrs. Fred Hoke. The Indiana tax conference delegation lists Harry Miesse, William C. Harrison, Fred A. Sims, T. P. Tillman, and Charles A. Great house. All serve without pay and cover their own expenses.
Indiana and Kentucky police hunted Gene Alger and his wife Josephine after they allegedly robbed the Paris Crossing state bank. Authorities identified the couple in Paris Crossing and sought a key man linked to their movements after leaving Louisville. The pair, said to drive Gail Alger’s car, stayed at the Hermitage hotel under an assumed name and were connected to Joe Roth, a bootlegger and gambler. Police pressed on with the search, aided by Indianapolis officers in plain clothes.
Boston Aug 23 The health of pedestrians would improve if automobiles used vertical exhausts says Professor Yandell Henderson Yale medical school. He told the thirteenth international physiological congress that carbon monoxide fumes hang about six feet above ground and may cause the tired feeling city dwellers report.
Five tourists died in Quebec when their car collided with another vehicle and plunged into the Soulanes canal near Cascade Point. The victims are Mr and Mrs Cecil and Elizabeth Chudds of West PA and Mr and Mrs A Dale of Cochraneville PA.
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