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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1929
Page
12
Dr. William F. King warns air travel risks importing foreign diseases with aliens bypassing sea and train quarantines. He cites past leprosy cases in Gary linked to smugglers and predicts inland air routes could spread illnesses nationwide.
Airline and aircraft movements list multiple crews and aircraft types including Curtiss Robin Cessna Travel Air and Fokker at William Barton Anderson Evansville Champaign Culver and other cities. Notable names include Horace Huey Herman Teetor Walker Winslow Charles Cox Jr and James Voyte with several flights overnight or return trips.
The baby dirigible powered by motorcycle engines rose twice on Sunday and landed the second time in a small field. The pilot deflated the bag and hauled it back to Elmhurst airport in an automobile.
The dedication of the Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana hangar and administration building at Curtiss Mars Hill airport was postponed from October 20 and held Sunday. An estimated crowd of 200 to 10,000 witnessed maneuvers including a parachute display.
Curtiss woman pilot LaRene earns the nation’s seventh transport pilot license. Walker W. Winslow stages a balloon bursting exhibition. Night flight carries passengers until midnight in an Earl W. Sweeney piloted plane. LaRene becomes the third woman to carry a parachute jumper.
O. E. Ruth, known as Mile High Ruth, performed two parachute jumps Sunday at Hoosier and Capitol airports. Large crowds gathered at both events and many passengers rode the show. Capitol airport hosted Ayres & Co as the employer presenter.
Fred Werts of Silver Fox Airlines in Muncie announced plans to launch a daily passenger route linking Indianapolis and Muncie with two round trips daily starting in November. He said the venture could extend later to Fort Wayne and Detroit if successful.
Dr J T Stewart of 1818 Shelby Street has enrolled as a flying student with Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana.
Esther A. Mack, aged 88, endured fifteen minutes clinging to an eighth floor window ledge in New York before losing strength and falling to her death.
On November 1 the moon will cause an annular solar eclipse visible in parts of the United States. An annulus will surround the dark lunar disk as the moon is smaller than the sun. The next major U S eclipse visible here will be August 1932 in New England and Canada.
Funeral rites were held at 2 30 p m today from the residence for Homer Hilbert Smitha 54 Penn sylvania railroad telegrapher for thirty six years who died Saturday at his residence 4226 Cornelius avenue Surviving him are the widow Mrs Georgia O Smitha two daughters Misses Audrey and Janet Smitha a son Homer Jr two sisters Miss June Smitha and Mrs M E Armel all of Indianapolis and three brothers Elmer Texarkana Tex Charles San Francisco and Clarence Seattle
Berlin dispatch reports Prince Bernhard Von Buelow, former chancellor of Germany, died in Rome at age 80. The obituary confirms his death and location, noting his longtime role in German politics.
Three men were arrested on charges of impersonating officers and vagrancy after allegedly disturbing pedestrians on roads east of the city to shake them down for money. The suspects are Harry Bergman, LeRoy Smith, and Doak L. Wells.
In Janesville Wisconsin sixty two pupils were barred from physical education when they sought enrollment due to warts. Doctors link the infections to public bathing beaches. Times want ads offer a dependable buying or selling channel.
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