Missouri Girl Wins Semi Final in National Radio Audition
Gladys Morrison Ball of Kansas City and Wilfred A. Engleman of Detroit won Midwest semi finals at Station WMAQ Chicago on November 24. They advance to the New York grand finals December 16 and earn Atwater Kent awards totaling 17 500 dollars. Ball, 22, and Engleman, 24, were top choices by judges and by radio voters across the nation.
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Gladys Morrison Ball
Kansas City
Wilfred A. Engleman
Detroit
Midwest
WMAQ
Chicago
New York
Atwater Kent Foundation
Thelma M. Wallette
Cleveland
Charmant Oiseau
Phyllis D. Nowak
Milwaukee
Chester Ewers
Evanston
Ill
Emerson W. Brown
St. Louis
Eri Tu
Ah Forse Lui
Marie Bronarzyk
Engelman
Marguerite
Chi Havana air rail route to be started
Pan American Airways will inaugurate an air rail service from Chicago to Havana Nassau and the West Indies on January 9 reducing travel time by a full day. Trains from Illinois Central Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Pennsylvania lines will connect to Miami for direct Caribbean service.
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United Press
Chicago
Havana
Nassau
West Indies
Pan-American Airways Inc
Carrbbean Countries
Pan-American Airways
Miami
Illinois Central
Illinois
Middle-West
Cuba
Eastern Illinois
Pennsylvania
Bahamas
Camaguey
Santiago de Cuba
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
San Juan
Porto Rico
Akron airport plan aims for city port expansion visit
Indianapolis will host Akron Ohio airport board delegates as they tour major cities planning municipal air ports. They will discuss a large Akron port with Goodrich Zeppelin hangars costing 2 to 3 million dollars. The project includes four year construction for government airships at about 8 million dollars. The visitors travel by Fairchild monoplane and meet local airport committees.
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Indianapolis
Akron
Citizens’ Airport Committees
Mail planes haul 632 pounds in November at Indianapolis
Embry-Riddle air mail planes based in Cincinnati carried 632 pounds of mail in November from the Indianapolis post office. Total air mail dispatched weighed 682 pounds, down from October’s 1753. Flights were canceled or returned on several days due to poor visibility.
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Embry- Riddle Company
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Capitol Airways passengers travel to Detroit and Ft Wayne
Charles Hack of Indianapolis rode Capitol Airways to Detroit as a passenger on the Detroit bound ship. Grace Dunne, 11, from Ft Wayne, arrived here Thursday on the ship and returned home today on the Detroit ship. Lewis Hottel, 25, of West Forty-ninth Street, was a passenger on Capitol Airways Chicago plane.
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Charles Hack
Indianapolis
Capitol Airways
Detroit
Grace Dunne
Ft. Wayne
Lewis Hottel
West Forty-ninth Street
Chicago
Return of Indiana Guard officers from St Louis
Major R. F. Taylor commander of the One Hundred and Thirteenth Observation Squadron and Colonel John Fishback arrived back in Indiana Monday aboard a Consolidated C-17 biplane after visiting Missouri National Guard officers in St Louis several days earlier.
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R. F. Taylor
One Hundred and Thirteenth Observation Squadron
Indiana National Guard
John Fishback
St. Louis
Missouri National Guard
Air mail plane carries notable passengers to Chicago
Passenger Dr G A Stevenson from Harvey Illinois traveled on the Embry Riddle air mail flight from Indianapolis to Chicago on Monday. Two Cincinnati visitors Floyd Prothero Embry-Riddle traffic manager and Captain Jack Pattison Central Life Insurance Company Vice-president joined the Chicago air show trip.
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G. A. Stevenson
Harvey, Il
Embry- Riddle Air Mail
Indianapolis
Chicago
Cincinnati
Floyd Prothero
Embry-Riddle
Jack Pattison
Central Life Insurance Company
Youth pilot Richard E James makes coast to coast bid
Richard E James 17 of New York City, once a Terre Haute youth, fueling at Capitol airport en route from Los Angeles toward a coast to coast flight record for under 21s. After lunch he resumes in the Travel Air biplane Spirit of American Youth and stops for the night at Columbus Ohio.
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Richard E. James
New York City
Terre Haute
Capitol Airport
New York
Los Angeles
James
Travel Air
Spirit of American Youth
Columbus
Reward Offer for Turner Quick Relief Salve Claims
A 50 dollar reward promises relief from croup head colds catarrh sore throat head ache earache eczema itch burns rises bruises cuts sores rheumatic pains and piles if the salve fails. Claims include powerful healing and coin removal. Available sizes 30c 60c and 1 at drug stores and by mail. Agents invited at Box 1122 Montgomery Alabama.
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R. W. Turner
R. V. Turner
Montgomery
Ala
Fliers Fight Flames Eight Thousand Feet Up In Mail Plane
Major Wesley L. Smith recalls a near fatal in flight fire while piloting a Junkers between Chicago and New York. A blazing benzol fuel leak and ruptured lines forced a desperate side slip and controlled crash landing into standing corn to save lives and mail.
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Wesley L. Smith
New York-Chicago
Major Smith
NEA
National Air Transport Company
Airmail Contractors
Junkers
Chicago
New York
Smith
Irving Berlin Jr and wife announce newborn son
Irving Berlin and his wife announce the birth of their son Irving Jr. in New York. The note implies no reconciliation with Mackay, who disowned Berlin's daughter after her marriage to him.
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United Press
New York
Irving Berlin
Ellen Mackay
Postal Telegraph Company
Irving Jr
Mackay
Berlin
Fire damages Wi nick department store in Kokomo
Fire caused forty five thousand dollars in damage at the Winick department store in Kokomo Indiana on Monday night. Flames were found in the ready to wear department and the loss was caused mainly by smoke.
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Kokomo
Ind
Winick
Moke
Weather Update From Indianapolis Airport
At 9 30 a m the Indianapolis airport reports a northeast wind of 5 mph a sea level pressure of 30 13 inches a temperature of 34 degrees with a ceiling at 1 000 feet and visibility of 1 mile.
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Indianapolis
Women Prove They Have Place in Stock Market
A 1928 feature by Mrs. C. G. Wyckoff argues women can succeed in investing by careful study and patient, businesslike buying. She notes women increasingly manage their own funds, seek solid fundamentals in sound, well–run companies, and rely on trusted sources for information.
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Magazine of
Wall Street
Times
NEA Service
C. G. Wyckoff
NEA Service, Inc
EW York
Street
Radio Schedule Note and Warsaw Fatal Auto Crash
The listing shows a dense schedule of radio programs across multiple stations with performances and talks including U. of Penn Drama Club and Pirates of Penzance. A separate line reports farmer John Snyder, 72, killed by an automobile south of Warsaw Indiana on December 4.
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Farmer
Auto
Nurita Relief Promises Quick Rheumatic Pain Cure
A New York specialist touts Nurita as a breakthrough for rheumatism neuritis neuraglia sciatica and lumbago with quick lasting relief. The pitch urges buyers to try a package at local drug stores and refund if not satisfied.
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New York
Nurita
Hook
Kiwanis Set Election At Columbia Club Dinner
The Kiwanis Club will elect officers at 6:30 p m Wednesday during a dinner at the Columbia Club. Two tickets have been nominated for offices. The Eli ticket is headed by Eli Schloss for president with Dr. Ezza E Voyles as vice president Dwight A Murphy as treasurer and directors Howard S Young Samuel Ashby and A P Conklin. The Otto ticket is led by Otto N Mueller with Howard M Gay as vice president Robert H Bryson as treasurer and directors Arthur Webber Alex Barry and Irwin Bertermann.
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Kiwanis Club
Columbia Club
Eli
Eli Schloss
Ezza E. Voyles
Dwight A. Murphy
Howard S. Young
Samuel Ashby
A. P. Conklin
Otto
Otto N. Mueller
Howard M. Gay
Robert H. Bryson
Arthur Webber
Alex Barry
Irwin Bertermann
SET CHURCH QUOTAS FOR INDIANA PRESBYTERY ALLOTMENTS
The Indiana synod set 1929 30 benevolent quotas Monday at Hotel Severin. Presbytery allocations were Indianap olis 61000 Crawfordsville 29000 Ft Wayne 32262 Logansport 46700 Muncie 29172 New Albany 14700 Vincennes 25112 Whitewater 14500. Total Indiana goal is 342350.
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Indiana Synod
Church Council
Hotel Severin
Indianapolis
Crawfordsville
Ft. Wayne
Logansport
Muncie
New Albany
Vincennes
Whitewater
Indiana
Radio highlights for Tuesday night programming
CBS WKBF presents Vitaphone with Al Herman and Richard Ober in A Regular Business Man from 9 to 10 pm. An abridged Pirates of Penzance airs on Columbia at 8 pm. Weber works and Wagner pieces join NBC’s Great Composers and Slumber Music blocks at 9 and 10 pm.
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Apollo Theater
WKBF
al Herman
Richard Ober
Ida
Vitaphone
Margery Meadows
Lucy Beaumont
John St. Polis
Carl Maria von Weber
NBC
Astrid Fielde
Gertrude Lightstone
Cesare Sodero
Wagner
Siegfried
Radio Schedule Highlights Three Act Comedy Drama Tempset and Sunshine
Tuesday night programs feature Tempset and Sunshine a three act comedy drama at 9 on Columbia system. Darling Nellie Grey sung by Dutch Masters minstrels at 8 30 on NBC. Two symphony broadcasts at 7 and 6 30 from WLW with Fritz Reiner and Sohio concert. Dance music from Columbia at 11 with Guy Lombardo. stations WABC WJAS WBBM KMBC listed. NBC also carries 9 30 dance by Clicquot Club Eskimos. Highlights include Youll Never Know Rainbow Around My Shoulder Dawning Wagneria Pocahontas Gives a Scalp Treatment and Three in One theater.
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WFI
Philadelphia
U. of Penn
NBC System
WEAF
Soconyland
Eveready
WLW
Cincinnati
NBC_ System
WJZ
Sealy Air Weavers
WNAC
Harvard
U. Band
Columbia Network
WGN
Chicago
Columbia System
Nellie Grey
NBC
Perfect Circle Symphony
Fritz Reiner
Cincinnati Symphony
Sohio
Ohio
Columbia Broadcasting System
Guy Lombardo
Royal Canadians
Granada Cafe
Windy City
WABC
WJAS
WBBM
KMBC
Clicquot Club Eskimos
Harry Reser
Black
Radio Schedule for Indianapolis Station WFBM Highlights
Noon program highlights include Lester Huff on organ and Livestock market at 2:30. Evening lineup features studio orchestra, Aunt Sammy chats, recipe exchanges, boxing bouts, and the Longine time/weather forecast with a dance marathon update. Santa Claus features wrap up the day.
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WFBM
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Power and Light Company
Lester Huff
Indianapolis Times
Longine
American Legion
Dick Powell
Dale Young
Indiana Theater Organ
Studio Froxtam
Indianapolis Public Library
the Motion Pictures
Fire Fatalities in Fifth Floor Blaze on Third Avenue
New York dispatch reports three people died in a December fire on Third Avenue. Two young waitresses and the fiancé of one of them were suffocated when flames trapped them in a five story building.
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United Press
NEW York
Third Avenue
Five Arrested in Two Indiana Robbery Cases
Detroit police hold four men identified as Paul Myler Russell Johnson Forest Wright and an alias Robert Moore in connection with the Newcastle Indiana bank holdup of November 17. They reportedly confessed to multiple robberies and were found with shotguns revolvers rifles and ammunition in Detroit. An Everett Savage confession linked four suspects to the Sulphur Springs bank theft on November 17 and the Trainor Spring payroll robbery on November 3 with bank cashier Louis Wampler naming Savage as a participant.
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United Press
Detroit
Paul Myler
Robert Moore
Russell Johnson
Harold Mann
Forest
William Wright
Newcastle
Ind
United Press Wcastle
Everett Savage
Mich
Indiana
Savage
Sulphur Springs Bank
Trainor Spring Company
Louis Wampler
Konjola Promises New Health From Roots and Herbs
A Indianapolis advertisement touts Konjola as a new medicine with 32 ingredients, 22 root and herb juices, claiming it reaches the root causes of illness. The Konjola Man at Hook Drug Store from Illinois and Washington streets reports case after case of long ailments, including Mr John Q Marlow who says Fifteen years of stomach trouble vanished after five bottles.
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Konjola
Hook Drug Store
Illinois
Washington Streets
Indianapolis
John Q. Marlow
West Thirtythird Street
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