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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1929
Page
12
British aeronautical designers are urged to create a slow moving aircraft to widen flying access. After Schneider cup speeds, experts propose a machine with cruising near twenty miles an hour, landable in small spaces and operable by less skilled pilots, with lower risk in forced landings and accidents.
Clarence Chamberlain, who flew the Atlantic a year earlier with Charles Levine, reports Jean Assolant and Rene Le Fevre landed safely at Hoosier airport aboard a Crescent monoplane with a stowaway. Chamberlain, Crescent Aircraft president, lent his induction compass and notes the plane is the first manufactured eight passenger model. Harold C. Brooks praises the aircrafts safety features.
A list of aviation movements includes Hoosier Airport departures with Hoosier president Bob Shank and his family in a Travel Air monoplane to the factory for equipment installation then to Bedford with Paul Brown. Marlin W. Boyd reports 4701 Sangster Ave. Travel Air biplane to Fort Wayne and back. William Hackett with Travel Air to Milwaukee and return. H C Brooks with Louis Schwitzer on a business trip to South Bend. Capitol Airport shows Harold Schultz in a Ryan monoplane with George Sweet, and a Fort Wayne to Detroit run by Bob Kamm and Ralph Gordon in a Kittyhawk plane. Providence Rhode Island to Wichita Kansas field hops by fifty persons. Ryan plane sent to Barbour Indiana for a field opening with seventy five carried in the day. Mars Hill Airport lists Lieutenant Berry. Fairfield air depot Dayton to Wisconsin with FE J Cochener and W H Roesti. St Louis to Dayton in a Travel Air biplane from Cincinnati and return.
Three Embry Riddle employees were passengers on the air mail flight to Chicago Saturday. Miss Maxine Weigant the school secretary Miss Ruth Huff the information operator and George Cunyus the ground school head were aboard. Huff and Cunyus returned Sunday morning.
Indianapolis will host eight Aristocrat monoplanes as they embark on a 50000 mile cross country tour through the United States Canada and Mexico. Sponsored by General Tire and Rubber Company the voyage will span a year with stops planned across multiple cities including Akron Ohio on July 2.
J H McDuffee vice president of Prest-O-Lite Storage Battery Corp left for Lake Seneca New York aboard the Ryan monoplane Vision of Prest-O-Lite to attend an SAE convention. He landed at Capito airport after a 3300 mile tour begun June 10 visiting dealers in Dallas Fort Worth Houston Waco San Antonio Kansas City Little Rock Shreveport and more.
Georg Clingman formerly with Duncan Airways in Cleveland has begun work as a mechanic at the Curtiss Flying Spice hangar at Marsills airport. Two new students, Frederick Wood and Baxter McBane, are enrolled in Curtiss flying courses at Newcastle.
Movie reviews detail George Bancroft in Thunderbolt as a gangster who relentlessly pursues a lost love amid arrest and a bank frame up, ending in a two cell standoff. The Idle Rich, adapted from White Collars, stars Bessie Love and Conrad Nagel with witty dialogue and social satire. Apollo hosts The Time The Place and The Girl, a Betty Compson musical comedy misfit about stock sales and romance.
The Indiana marks its second birthday this week with Charlie Davis leading a medley of popular tunes from the past year. Neil O'Day delivers notable six-partner dancing, Cirillino and Fortunello provide clowning, Llora Hoffman and the Gamby Hale girls offer dance ensembles, and a wedding scene frames Broadway Babies starring Alice White with Sally Hilers and Marion Byron. The underworld ambience is provided by Fred Kohler, a gambler with a heart of gold, in a leading role that adds punch to the production.
Burglars and stick up men netted about 850 dollars in weekend crimes as police logged five arrests. Victims include S B Keel robbed of 450 near Senate avenue and St Clair street. Orbie Dart robbed of 300 on Clifton street. Fe Hiatt robbed of 30 at West New York street poolroom. Lewis Hornburger 350 on Forty first street. H F Zimmer robbed at barbecu stand. Frank Randall robbed on West street. a Western Oil filling station burglary. Paramount Optical Company thefts. Omer Carmean questioned on vagrancy and holdup reports. Police continue investigations.
Paul V. McNutt national commander of the American Legion told the Seventh district picnic at Broad Ripple park that Indiana lacks sufficient government hospital beds depriving seventy five disabled veterans of proper treatment. He compared Indiana unfavorably with other states due to crowded state institutions and mental illness among victims. The report notes theater entertainment and film features including an overture by Ed Rosener and Dessa Byrd, with multiple movie listings at local theaters.
A Sugar Institute advertisement presents five distinct roles for sugar in daily eating. It notes sugar as a food conserver, a flavor enhancer, a satiation factor, a rapid fuel, and an emergency energy source while urging balanced meals and desserts to complete the diet.
Central Standard Time listings show a packed lineup across WLW and Chicago outlets. Programs include orchestras, hotel performances, educational talks, weather, and a long sequence of NBC network exchanges with detailed times and station crossovers.
Morning to late night program lineup lists local shows on WFBM and NBC network. Highlights include Pep Unlimited Club, Aunt Sammy hour, Navy band concert, CBS and CBS rhythm blocks, weather and livestock reports, organ programs, chess talk, and a Milwaukee vs. Indianapolis game segment with multiple regional feeds.
International Falls and Big Falls react to the killing of Henry Virkkula by Customs Agent Emmett J. White. Citizens urge disarming agents of sawed off shotguns, while President Hoover promises no lawbreaking by the federal government. The town leans toward court action and restrains fear with faith in legal due process.
A committee of trustees will meet in Indianapolis in July to select a successor to Dr William A Millis who resigned in March. Several leading educators were interviewed at the Columbia Club Saturday, but no agreement was reached, according to M E Garber Madison chairman.
The schedule lists a 4:15 concert trio and soloist, 4:45 Jim and Walt, 5:00 newscast, 5:05 Twilight musicale, 5:45 Martha and Helen, 5:59 Longines' time by Julius C Walk & Son, 6:00 Musicale Vignettes on CBS, 6:39 Columbia Club dinner ensemble, 7:00 Sunny Meadows, 7:30 Navy band, 8:00 The Rollickers on CBS, 8:30 Night Club romance on CBS, 9:00 Paramount Hotel orchestra on CBS, 9:30 Banner Roosters, 10:15 vaudeville from Lyric, 10:30 Longines time by Walk & Son, Columnists, weather, M 0, late news and sports, 3:30 Commerce department, 6:30 Dinner concert, 7:00 Studio program, 8:00 WKBF trio, 8:30 Broad Ripple wrestling bouts.
City Controller Sterling R. Holt received a $161,000 payment from County Auditor Harry Dunn for the White River flood prevention project. The county will pay $400,000 in total as its share. A bond issue authorized by the county council financed the payment.
Mrs Minnie Henry age 60 of 1427 Montcalm street is recovering from head injuries after she mistook a basement door for another door in her home and fell downstairs on Sunday.
Seventy five Knights of Columbus candidates received the second and third degrees in a Sunday ceremony marking the Indianapolis council's thirtieth anniversary. John Donovan led the degree team from Ludlow Kentucky, followed by banquet remarks from James E. Garvin and other dignitaries.
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