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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1928
Page
10
United Press reports Langley Field experts say bombing aircraft will carry a ton of bombs at 16 000 feet, 200 to 300 miles, with improved load, speed, navigation. New devices including radio beacons gyroscopic controls and fog dispersal could enable night high altitude raids unseen by defenders.
Atlantic City report says W Octave Chanute a Denver financier may have interfered with the Junkers controls causing the crash that killed him and injured six others. Pilot George Edward King says he cannot be sure but answered yes when asked if the banker influenced the controls. The plane struck wires and mud, sparing the other six occupants from worse harm. Chanute died hours after the crash.
The War Department avoids public dispute over bomber defense while individual pilots say the conflict with airpower is growing. Joaquin Amard travels to Hal Magnum's Bahia ranch in Coahuila for a two week hunting trip. Friends say Lindbergh may drive to the same ranch.
Lindbergh arrives in Eagle Pass Texas anticipating a Stinson monoplane provided by the Secretary for travel to Mexico City. The offer signals continued government support for Lindberghs post aviation ventures.
Anderson city council approves plans for a municipal airport with a projected cost between 74 000 and 75 000 dollars. Estimated annual maintenance is 4 450 dollars.
Eleanor Smith a 17 year old aviatrix from Freeport Long Island flew solo in a small biplane beneath the four East River bridges starting at Curtiss field. She first passed under the Queensboro then Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges and finished with a dive under the Brooklyn Bridge before returning to Curtiss field amid whistle protests from tug crews.
Times Special reports that flood lights and a revolving beacon will be installed at the Junior Association of Commerce field and local airport within two weeks. The beacon will emit 3,000,000 candle power and will be visible up to 75 miles on clear nights, according to manager Arthur Thompson.
Dedicatory services for the Eighth Christian church educational unit on Fourteenth street and Belle View place featured a cash campaign, sermon by acting pastor Rev. Lynn Tripp, and an oil painting in memory of late Rev. R. E. Callahan. Afternoon offerings totaled 1454 in cash with pledges toward 17000 for the building fund.
Six men overpowered the night watchman at Solar Sturges Manufacturing in Chicago and made off with two truck loads of tin valued at $3,000.
In a 61 degree, 29.94 inch windless day with 20 mph tailwind, S. M. Snider and a Kissimmee passenger arrived in a Waco-10 at Indianapolis airport after a trip from Kissimmee to Grand Rapids.
S. F. Ruff flies a Hisso-Waco biplane from the Waco factory in Troy Ohio to Austin Texas and lands at Indianapolis airport Sunday for fuel en route.
Major Gilkinson and Lieutenant Caylor, aviators from Wright Field Dayton, arrived at Indianapolis airport Sunday in a Curtiss C-11 biplane and returned to Dayton later that day.
E. E. Whitehill assistant manager of Banner Furniture Company, 3447 Washington boulevard, flew to Iron Mountain Michigan Sunday in a Travel Air biplane piloted by Capt. Earl W. Sweeney Hoosier airport. He expected to return late today.
Lincoln October 22 A hard fought effort to win Nebraska for the Democratic ticket gains momentum from Senator Norris Progressive Republican praise of Governor Alfred E Smith Senator Robinson Democratic vice presidential nominee spends more time in Nebraska than elsewhere delivering speeches schedule shows him visiting at least nine states including Dayton Ohio with a heavy two week pace and an address tonight in Hastings last Saturday he lauded Norris as a man who votes as he talks
The body of Wild Bill Hopson of Decatur Illinois was found in his wrecked plane near Polk Pennsylvania twenty seven miles west of Franklin. He had flown the night air mail between New York and Cleveland for eight years and was the third flier killed in fog over the Allegheny mountains in the past three years.
New York October 22 two prominent Metropolitan Opera Society members Clarence Mackay of the Postal Telegraph Company and banker Clarence Dillon are absent from this season's box holders list. Mackay may have given up his box after his mother's death as the Met opens its twenty first season with Rosa Ponselle in Love of Three Kings under Giulio Gatti-Casazza.
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