State Fliers To Visit Here For Air Tour
National Guard fliers entertaining crowds at the Speedway will welcome twenty six planes in the national air tour. Capt George W Vawter Lieut Harold Doak and Lieut Fred Mai bacher will fly Curtiss C 11 biplanes. Hoosier airport officials Robert Shank Harold Brooks will greet the visiting pilots. Sergt Earl Halstead will give an exhibition over downtown Friday noon to call attention to the visit Saturday. Wilbur Wright Field officers invited to participate. Marmon Motor Car Company president G M Williams sponsoring the visit reports aviators from across the state will attend. The tour leaves Detroit at 10 pm Saturday and arrives here shortly after 12 30 pm for the first stop of a 6000 mile trip through fifteen states.
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Speedway
George W. Vawter
Harold Doak
Fred Maibacher
Robert Shank
Harold Brooks
Hoosier
Sergt
Earl Halstead
Flying Cop
Wilbur Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
H. Weir Cook
G. M. Williams
Marmon Motor Car Company
Detroit
Field Sold at Sweebrock Airport by Means
Fort Wayne correspondent reports that the Sweebrock airport buildings and equipment were sold by Sweebrock Corporation to Guy S. Means president of the G S Means Company who also signed a ten year lease on the field site. Means plans to form a firm to sell planes and develop commercial flying.
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Ft. Wayne Field
Times Special
Wayne
Ind
Sweebrock Airport
Sweebrock Corporation
Guy S. Means
G. S. Means Company
Means
Rotary delegates fly to international convention
Four Evansville Rotary Club members used a plane for a trip to Minneapolis to attend the International Rotary convention. The flying delegates were Owen C. Carr Emmett Rodgers Wilhelm ee and R B Webster. Rodgers plans to buy a plane soon.
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Evansville
Ind
Rotary Club
Minnneapolis
Minn
Owen C. Carr
Emmett Rodgers
Wilhelmee
R. B. Webster
Rodgers
Wrights to Be Honored On Wright Brothers Anniversary
Dayton to host a December 17 civic celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the first flight at Kitty Hawk. Surviving Wright brother Orville Wright will serve as the guest of honor. The event organized by the Chamber of Commerce aims to spotlight aviation history and Dayton’s role in it.
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Dayton
Ohio
Chamber of Commerce
Monster
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
N. C
Orville Wright
Airport to Be Opened with Aviation Stunts
Wabash ind June 27 new airport to be formally opened this weekend with an aerial parade Saturday morning. Prize money of 245 dollars posted. Races parachute jumps and stunt flying on the program through Sunday.
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Wabash
Ind
South Bend Becomes Indiana Stop On New Chicago Air Route
South Bend is set to be the sole Indiana stop on a Chicago air mail route, per Thompson Aeronautical Co. vice president R C Marshall. The city council weighs municipal airfield plans, with the St Joseph Valley Aviation Club offering its landing field needing 15 000 to 20 000 dollars to upgrade versus 200 000 to 300 000 dollars for a new site and equipment.
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South Bend
Ind
Indiana
Chicago
R. C. Marshall
Thompson Aeronautical Company
Cleveland
Ohio
St. Joseph
Marker to guide aviators to Elkhart water works tower
Elkhart Ind June 27 The 150 foot tower of the city water works will be marked with an arrow north with the word Elk as a guide to aviators It is intended to aid pilots flying over the city and locate the water works tower from the air.
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Ind
City Water Works
Cities Lose Air Mail Amid Fields Shortage
United Press reports the Post Office Department announced new limits preventing cities from joining the airmail program without adequate fields. The move affects plans for expanding the Michigan Airmail System as part of the broader effort to establish suitable landing areas and facilities for mail flights.
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United Press
Washington
Post Office Department
Plan Long Hop Starts July 17 Without Three Michigan Stops
Assistant Postmaster General W. Irving Glover announced a revised airmail plan beginning July 17 that will skip Pontiac Bay City and Flint, Michigan. Inspectors cited lack of landing fields despite urgent local requests. The route will run Chicago to Kalamazoo with two spur lines.
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Pontiac
Bay City
Flint
Mich
W. Irving Glover
Michigan
Chicago
Kalamazoo
Attorney Pierre F Goodrich flies to Chicago on mail plane
Pierre F Goodrich an attorney at 711 Continental Bank Building flew to Chicago on the Embry-Riddle air mail plane for a business trip and expects to return on the mail plane Tuesday evening.
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Pierre F. Goodrich
Continental Bank Bldg
Chicago
Auburn Flier Stays Overnight in Indianapolis
J. C. Kelley of Auburn Indiana piloting a Stinson monoplane spent the night at Indianapolis airport en route home and was to resume flight back to Auburn today.
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J. C. Kelley
Auburn
Ind
Stinson
Indianapolis
Cincinnati Aviators Fly To Indianapolis On Business Trip
Pilot Raymond E. Harris and passenger A. B. Wunder flew a Cincinnati based international biplane to Indianapolis on Tuesday for a business trip and planned to return to Cincinnati that night.
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Raymond E. Harris
A. B. Wunder
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Kokomo Airman Clyde Shockley Visits Indianapolis
Kokomo airport owner Clyde Shockley and his wife Mrs Shockley flew to Indianapolis in a Waco 10 on Tuesday for a several days business visit.
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Clyde Shockley
Kokomo
Altitude Flight By United Preas
Philadelphia officials report Lieut. Arthur Gavin may have set a seaplane altitude record near 16,500 feet with a 2,000 kilogram war load. A barograph is sent to Washington for official check by the National Aeronautical Association while the Swiss record stands at 15,327 feet. Earlier, Gavin reached about 18,500 feet in a trial to beat a separate seaplane record for a 1,000 kilogram useful load.
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United Preas
Philadelphia
Arthur Gavin
Washington
National Aeronautical Association
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Switzerland
Flanders and Sanders Stop at Indianapolis Airport En Route
J C Flanders piloting a Standard biplane with passenger J M Sanders refueled at Indianapolis airport Tuesday while traveling from Carmi NL to Akron Ohio. The stop marked a routine fuel break on the cross country flight.
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J. C. Flanders
J. M. Sanders
Indianapolis
Carmi
Akron
Ohio
Wabash to Open Port Airport Aerial Circus Weekend
Wabash prepares to open the new 84 acre airport a mile north of the city. Charles Wenrick leads the Flying Service as pilot-manager. Aerial parade Saturday at 10 30 a m over the city, anOX 5 powered plane race with a 245 prize, a free for all race Sunday for 260, and parachute contests for 85. Contestants jump to land in a ground circle.
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Wabash Flying Service
Wabash American Legion Post
Charles Wenrick
Three Held in Slaying Probe
In Bloomington Indiana Ross Stone 25 was arrested in Indianapolis Tuesday night and three men Robert Buchanan 22 and Jean Steele of Bloomfield are in custody over the Easter shooting death of Orville Wires 27 at his Gosport Road home. Sheriff Curry reports Buchanan confessed that he and Steele planned to steal money from Wires after a poker game. Buchanan says he returned to the door as Wires opened it and the revolver fired wounding him in the abdomen. Wires died about thirty minutes later in his wife's arms.
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Times Special
Bloomington
Ind
Ross Stone
Indianapolis
Orville Wires
Gosport Rd
Here
Robert Buchanan
Jean Steele
Bloomfield
W. S. Curry
Buchanan
Steele
Wires
Ocean Flier Returns to Lisbon After Flight Problems
United Press report from Lisbon details Captain Frank T. Courtney’s two hour trans Atlantic sea plane leg toward the Azores. He radioed that he would return to Lisbon due to a broken water pipe and strong adverse winds.
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United Press
Lisbon
Portugal
Frank T. Courtney
Azores
Weather Conditions at 9 30 A M From The Times
South wind at 4 miles per hour with barometric pressure 30.03 and temperature 65. Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Compiled for The Times by Government Weather Observer J H Armington andDonald McConnell Government aeronautical observer.
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Donald McConnell
Government Aeronautical
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