Hoosier Fliers Recount Missing Flight Thrill
Hoosier airport president Bob Shank and Clarence Gunther flew two Durant owned Stearman biplanes from Hoosier to Los Angeles with Tommy Milton and Bob McDonagh aboard. A fuel leak forced a lower tank level and near Flagstaff they feared a forced landing. Gunther landed first. Shank reached Gunther by phone after officials reported a possible disaster.
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Bob Shank
Hoosier
Los Angeles
Shank
Clarence Gunther
Cliff Durant
Stearman
Durant
Hoosier Airport
Tommy Milton
Bob McDonagh
Albuquerque
N. M
Flagstaff
Ariz
Gunther
Gallup
Plane tour awarded to six sales couples
Six members of the Standard Paper Company sales force and their wives win a trip as a prize from Port Edwards Wisconsin paper mill. The party travels in a tri motor plane to Indiana today and includes Mr and Mrs Walter Delbrook Mr and Mrs Ernest Klinge and Mr and Mrs C.
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Port Edwards
Wis
Standard Paper Company
Indiana
Walter Delbrook
Ernest Klinge
Fly Cops Defeated in Namesake Suit
The case lists defendants including Jewell and Mr and Mrs James F Blottman Jr, Mr and Mrs Fred Koelling, and Mr and Mrs Stark Neale in a civil action seeking unspecified relief.
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v/ Jewell
James F. Blottman Jr
Fred Koelling
Stark Neale
Ford predicts planes to fill skies with air lanes
Henry Ford told reporters aviation will grow from small craft to large passenger ships within ten years. He envisions air traffic lanes by speed and height with cross use of lighter-than-air ships and aircraft wings on dirigibles. Six new students began training at Kessler airport despite winter conditions.
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Indianapolis Times - Aviation 1
Ford
United Press
Washington
Henry Ford
Detroit
Hoosier
Kessler Boulevard
Lafayette Pike
Harold C. King
North Tuxedo Street
P. D. Riggle
North Olney Street
Ernest L. Stader
Indianapolis
Lorenz Lomboy
Philippine Islands
Paul Brown
Lester Blue
Greencastle
Terre Haute
Lafayette
Richmond
Crawfordsvillle
Martinsville
Danville
Ind
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Riley
Trial marriage for grid star show girl
Ken Strong, a renowned grid star, faces a trial marriage situation amid publicity from a show girl in West Haven. The controversy centers on personal arrangements and media attention surrounding their relationship.
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Grid Star
Air Mail Plane Missing Over Midwestern Route
Air mail plane piloted by Warren H. Vine vanished from Cincinnati after departing mid afternoon and was later found near Rensselaer Indiana amid low visibility. Embry-Riddle Company was alerted through its Chicago representative and WLW Cincinnati radio aided the search.
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WLW
Cincinnati
Warren H. Vine
Donald A. McConnell
Embry-Riddle Company
The
Times
Chicago
Vine
Rensselaer
Ind
Weather report from Indianapolis airport observation
At 9 30 a m conditions show ceiling 500 feet and visibility 2 miles with haze. Wind 9 miles per hour from the west. Barometric pressure 36 95 inches at sea level and temperature 49 degrees.
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Indianapolis
York Star and Bella Harrison Named Companions
Elmer Strong, West Haven tax collector and father of a York University football star, says his son Ken will live in a fraternity house while his wife enters a new musical comedy. The couple plans separate housing downtown as Ken completes his degree.
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York University
Bella Harrison
Elmer Strong
West Haven
Ken
Strong
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