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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1929
Page
10
A lone bandit robbed J. L. Wilson, proprietor of a pharmacy at 6128 East Washington Street, of 100 dollars as he counted receipts late Sunday night. Alfred Bopp, 53, of 301 South Harris Avenue, claimed two men robbed him of 6 dollars after a Sunday poker game.
Public dance planned at the Indiana ballroom Thursday night to raise funds for Lieutenants Walter R. Peck and Lawrence Genaro’s endurance flight debt. Benefit followed an air circus at Hoosier airport drawing 35,000 spectators and raising about $800. Flight organization tickets were sold to roughly 3,000 attendees.
Lt. James H. Doolittle pilots four teen miles landing within feet of takeoff in fog using new instruments from Guggenheim Fund. Inventions include a barometric altimeter artificial horizon and radio direction finder aiding landing in fog. Demonstration at Mitchel Field Long Island drew crowds. A separate note covers balloon bursting at Curtiss Mars Hill airport and various test flights between airports. plus used car listings in The Times.
Curtiss-Mars Hill Airport listings show tenants Paul Hartman and D D Stowell with a Douglass 02H biplane to Marion and back. Lieutenant Hayne Boyden and Mrs Boyden with Challenger Robin to Los Angeles. Clyde Shockley with a Waco biplane Bloomington to Kokomo overnight. R H Wepen with a Fairchild Pittsburgh to Tulsa. Lieutenant Barbin and Herman Teeter with Command Aire Bloomington and return. Transcontinental Air Transport passengers include Mrs C A Williams and son, Boyd Atwell Jr and Mrs John Means, Mrs David Sutherland to Columbus, Donald McConnell and Miss Cecelia Riley to Cincinnati and return, and F C Couey to Chicago.
Dr. E S Shumaker head of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, bedridden at 2232 Broadway, issues a message urging supporters to continue the temperance fight. He notes illness, hopes for recovery, and asks that the organization keep momentum, carry on without him, and strive for victory against the enemy of the race.
United Press report from Chicago details Eddie Anderson junior lightweight claiming his wife battered him with plates and a vanity case in March, leading to a divorce. He seeks custody of their 3 year old daughter.
The Marion County Good Government club will hold a closed meeting Tuesday night to select candidates for the coming general election. President Roy T. Combs says a general precinct chairman will appoint vice chairmen in 255 precincts and badges will identify precinct workers on election day. The club reports 6 000 members and aims for 10 000 by November first. In Gary, Mrs Gladys Balisko 38 died today a month after being struck by a car driven by John Clifford of Valparaiso.
The city again weighs accepting a donated dog pound at Pendleton pike and Phipps street from Mr and Mrs Edwin Patrick. Opposed by a council majority due to neighborhood protests, the issue is up for action after prior delays. Also on the agenda are funds for airport entrance work on Banner avenue and transfers, plus a $5,000 appropriation for metal street stop signs.
Five searchers are missing after a month long hunt for Colonel C. D. McAlpine and seven explorers. C. H. Dickens left Fort Resolution for Fort Reliance, no word on his fate. Pilots Andy Cruickshank and H. Hollick Kenyon, with two mechanics, departed Stony Rapids for Baker Lake and have not been heard. Dominion Explorers officials ordered cautious daily reporting.
Reverend William L. Stidger attacked the D A R during a Copley church sermon, calling it a group of old ladies and urging a church black list. He accused William B. Shearer of using the D A R as a cat's paw to aid his causes and condemned war propaganda.
Enthusiastic endorsements pour in for Konjola a new medicine claimed to relieve rheumatism neuritis and stomach and digestive troubles. An Indianapolis dealer distributes its merits and a Maywood Indiana user reports rapid relief after long suffering and constipation elimination.
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