Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1928 — Page 2

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NEW EAST-WEST AIR LINE TO LINK PRINCIPAL CITIES

TWO RAILROADS TO RE USED IN 48-HOUR TRIP New York to Los Angeles k Calls for Day Flying, Night on Trains. PLAN TRI-MOTOR SHIPS Each Plane to Carry 14 Passengers: Cost Near f Rail Fare. SP,|/ United Press NEW YORK. May 16.—Detailed plans of the Trans-Continental Air the new air and rail system will be extended to include most of the principal cities of the United States. Further plans of the new company, which will cut travel time between the Atlantic and Pacific to forty-eight hours, were announced by C. M. Keys, president of the new company and head of the Curtis iAeroplane and Motor Corporation. William B. Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford Motor Company, will be a member of the board of directors of the corporation. Keys said. M?yo is in charge of design and buildiOfl of the Ford tri-motored transput planes. Railroads in Link-Up 1 No official of the Ford company tvould confirm the report that the Detroit plant is to supply planes for the transcontinental system, but it is known that the plant was at work on twenty large planes for an unearned customer. Another director will be Col. Paul Henderson, former assistant postmaster general, vice president of the National Air Transport, which operates the eastern division of the Chicago-Dallas trans-continental air mail. Cooperation with railroads in order to realize full possibilities of the new system is necessary, sponsors said. The Pennsylvania and Santa Fe Railroads will play an important role in the new company. The New York to Los Angeles route, which will be the first put in operation—probably within the next six or seven months —was chosen because there would be no night flying involved and the country over which day flights would be made is favorable, according to Keys. Modern tri-motored planes carrying fourteen passengers each and with a scheduled flying speed of ninety miles an hour, will be used Keys said. The planes have a maximum speed of 120 miles an hour and the scheduled speed will allo'£ for any delays. The planes will be equipped with every known safety device. Rates will be a reasonable advance over railroad rates, he said, and light luggage will be carried on the planes. Plan Branch Lines “Among the other routes now in contemplation is a branch from Chicago to the twin cities and other Western cities will be added eventually by airplane or railroad connection,” Keys added. “St. Louis and Kansas City will be on the trans-continental route. Principal landing fields will be maintained near Columbus, Ohio, and in New Mexico. The company plans to draw travel from north and south to the main crosscountry route. Present plans are for year-round service.”

REPORTS CAR STOLEN Says Auto Taken Soon After She Purchased It. Mrs. Mayme Condon, 1632 Union 6t. bought an automobile Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday night she had it parked at the curb in front of her home. A man drove it away. Lawrence Davis, roomer at the Condon home, leaped on the running board and tried to stop the thief. He was ordered off with a jgun. Mrs. Condon told police that the Jinan from w'hom she purchased the machine said he represented his brother, the owner of the car. She believes the brother came and took it. .UTILITIES VALUED HIGH That utility tax valuations are tele tively higher than other properties was the contention of Manager Howard S. Morse of the Indianapolis Water Company in a speech before the Rotary Club at the Claypool Tuesday. He declared that in the case of his own company the United States courts had placed the value at $19,000,000 and tax valuation is $17,000,00, which is 82 per cent and considerably higher than most other valuations. The company is now prepared to supply water for a city of 500,000. he said. fyaihr Comment Air Derby to Stop Here Word has been received Here that Indianapolis will be the first stop of the Ford Air Tour on May 30. There will be planes of about 25 airplane, manufacturers in the group, Mr. G. M. Williams of the Marmon Motor Cos. will sponser the visit to stimulate local interest in aviation. The men who will make fortunes from the manufacture of airplanes are practically all men who saved ; their money to get a start. Why not 6tart a savings account at the City Trust Company and go into business for yourself when you get your nest egg.

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INDIANAPOLIS AIRPORT WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 9:30 A. M. (Compiled for The Times by Government Weather Observer J. H. Arminston and airport officials.! South wind. 14 miles an hour; barometric pressure. 30.10 at sea level; temperature, 64: ceiling, about 5,000 feet; visibility, 5 miles. “Help make America first in the air.” This is the plea of the National Aeronautic Association, which has begun a drive for 1,000 members in the local chapter. President Coolidge recently indorsed the association with this statement: “There is need to give the fullest encouragement to aviation and its interests, and the National Aeronautic Association is one of the valued instruments through which to accomplish this.” Speeding up of air mail service, commercial transportation, national defense, prosperity in peace, security in war, defense against forest fires, defense against insects injurious to vegetation are planks in the association’s platform. National officers are: Porter Adams, Washington, president; Elmer A. Sperry, New York, vice president; Benjamin F. Castle, New York, treasurer, and Valentine Gephard. Seattle, secretary. F. Trubee Davison, assistant Secretary of War; William P. MacCracken Jr., assistant Secretary of Commerce; Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief, bureau of aeronautics; Dr. Joseph F. Ames, chairman, national advisory committee of aeronautics; Howard P. Warner. Assistant Secretary of the Navy; W. Irving Glover, second assistant postmaster general; Maj. James E. Fechet, chief of United States Army Air Corps; Charles F. Marvin, chief, United States Weather Bureau; and Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, United States Army, retired, are members of the national advisory board. Indianapolis aviators v.’ho fly to the Kentucky Derby at Louisville Saturday have been adivsed in a communication to The Times by the Logan Company of Louisville to look for the huge sign on top of the Logan conveyor factory, directing the way to Bowman landing field. The sign, with an arrow reads “Bowman Field—Airport—4 Miles.”

New Mail Schedule Used The Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Chi-cago air mail route today was operating on the new time schedule announced last week by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. Under the new schedule, effective Tuesday, the north-bound plane leaves Indianapolis for Chicago at 5:15 (Central Standard time) each evening, instead of at 4 o’clock, as in the past This permits business men to place air mail in the postoffice as late as 4:30 p. m. Closing time under the old schedule was 3 p. m. Under the new schedule connections are made at Chicago with all important night air mail lines, as under the old schedule. The change, made because of the longer daylight hours, is expected to result in increased air mail business. Slack Willing to Help Mayor L. Ert Slack has had several conferences on the need for development of the Indianapolis airport, he said today. “I am in favor of the city helping to build up the local airport, but the city’s hands are tied because of ,lack of funds,” Slack said. The airport should be lighted adequately and have a suitable system of markers leading to the landing field,” he said. Boost for Air Mail The seventeenth day of each month, beginning Thursday, will be observed in Indianapolis and throughout the country as National Air Mail day, with a view to stimulating public interest and increase use of air mail routes. Strong approval of the plan was given tod ' by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson, who is expected to ask business men to send at least one air mail letter on each regular National Air Mail day. “We must do all we can to make the Indianapolis air mail route, from Cincinnati to Chicago, a paying venture,” Bryson said. “The contractors, the Embry-Rid-dle Company of Cincinnati, have not had as much business as they deserve since opening the service here Dec. 17, 1927. We do not want to lose the service.” B. A. McConnell is Embree-Riddle representative at the Indianapolis airport, where the air mail plane lands. Radio Station WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company, will call attention to the air mail service in regular announcements. Lecture Course Slated An aviation lecture course, to be conducted by Paul H. Moore, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce aviation secretary, will be opened at 7:30 p. m., Thursday, at the Chamber. Classes will be held each Tuesday evening. The course, open to any person interested in aeronautics, \ has for its purpose, giving the layman a non-technical course in aeronautics in which all general

Flies at 87 Bp Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., May 16. Col. David N. Foster, 87, park board president, took his first ride into the clouds during the visit here of the Stanolind, giant three-motored plane owned by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana). Landing after a flight over the city, Col. Foster said the trip was “very enjoyable.”

En Route to Greenly

Lieut. Muir S. Fairchild, Fred Melchior and Maj. Gen. James Fechet are pictured from left to right in the upper photo. With Capt. Ira C. Eaker, these three flew from Washington in two amphibian planes with Greenly Island as their goal. At St. John, N. 8., Fairchild became ill and was replaced by Lieut. Elwood Quesada. Getting the Bremen to New York was their mission.

New Devices Forecast Great Aviation Advance

BY WATSON DAVIS. Science Service Staff Writer LANGLEY FIELD. Va.. May 16. Future progress of aviation was forecast at the annual inspection of the laboratories of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics here today. Orville Wright, pioneer of aviation, joined with leading manufacturers, Army and Navy officials and pilots in vitewing the past year’s technical developments, upon which design of future planes will be based. Anew type of engine that uses practically nonburnable oil as fuel and fires on the Diesel principle without spark plugs or carbureters, was given a trial run for the visiting experts. At present only the single test engine of one cylinder is in existence. But the results obtained give promise of motors for transport, bombing, and other relatively slow planes which will eliminate the fire risk of extremely inflammable high test gas now used.

features of flying will be considered. , , At the close of the eight-weeks course, the students probably will take some flights. Prepare for Reception Preparations for reception and entertainment of aviators participating in the Ford national air tour, which will start at Detroit June 30 are being made by G. M. Williams, Marmon Motor Car Company president, sponsor, of the Indianapolis stop. Indianapolis will be the first stop on the aviators’ itinerary of thirty-two West and Middle West cities. Approximately forty planes have been entered to compete for the Ford reliability trophy. Only airplane manufacturers are permitted to enter planes, under rules of the National Aeronautic Association. Expenses of the visit here will be contributed by Williams. He ha-, announced plans to appoint a committee within the next few days to receive the visiting fliers. The planes probably will land at the Speedway infield, the largest landing field in the city. Luncheon will be served for the visitors by the Marmon company. Williams at one time was head of the Wright Aairplane Company, Dayton. Recently he has made many trips in a Stinson plane owned by the Marmon company. Itinerary of the tour will beLeave Detroit, June 30; arrive Indianapolis for luncheon; overnight stop at St. Louis, Mo. Other cities will include, Tulsa, Ft. Worth, San Antonio, El Paso, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Butte, Fargo, St. Paul, and Chicago. Mail Line Is Opened TAMPICO,' Mexico, May 16.—An air mail line between Tampico and Mexico City has been inaugurated. The planes handle an average of thirty kilos of mail a day and can accommodate four passengers with a limited amount of baggage. Airport Is" Registered Hoosier Airport, Inc., Kessler Blvd. and Lafayette Rd., has received word of the acceptance of its registration by the United States Government, Robert Shank, president, said today. The commercial field is registered with the United States Department of Commerce, and is listed on the aerial map of the United States. Harold C. Brooks is secretarytreasurer. Produces First Plane Bn Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 16. A four-passenger plane, the first produced by the Wabash Aircraft Company of Terre Haute is on display in a downtown show window. It will make its sky debut next Sunday. The manufacturing company is conducting a contest for a name to be given the plane. D’Oisy Plane Crashes Bp Times Special CALCUTTA, May 16.—Lieut. Pelletier D’Oisy, noted French aviator, crashed in his airplane at Akyab, near Chittagong, today, while on a flight to Indo-China to survey air routes. D’Oisy was not hurt, but both bis

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I The Diesel engine fuel, which in the single cylinder test engine developed 30 horse power at 2,000 I revolutions a minute, will extinguish ! a match that is stuck into it. Into one of the testing tunnels a | full-sized airplane fuselage can be i placed with motor running. A bat- ! tery of 2,000 horse power Diesel enj gines drive a ninety-foot fan to create a 100-mile-an-hour gale. The | airplane under test stays still and ! the air moves. But as all motion Is relative, the ' effect is that of an airplane in full flight. The new information obtained through the use of this large wind tunnel is expected to aid manufacturers in producing safer and better airplanes. The automatic slotted wing, which allows airplanes to fly at | hitherto impossible angles and low speeds without disaster, was flown. Predictions are that all commercial and pleasure planes soon will be equipped with the slotted wings, since they allow a relatively poor pilot to fly with comparative safety.

companions in the plane were injured and taken to a hospital. The plane was wrecked. Form Air Express F! i/ Times Special FT. WAYNE. Ind., May 16.—’The Midwest Aeroplane and Transport Corporation has been formed here to carry on an aerial express in Indiana, with connections in Illino.s, Ohio and Kentucky. It is capitalized at $50,000. Carroll L. Maxwell, Indianapolis, is president of the corporation. Other officers, all of Ft. Wayne, include Arnold A. Lee Jr., vice president, and Robert A. Buhler, secretary. A tentative route for the air express follows: Ft. Wayne to Marion, Anderson, Indianapolis, Louisville, Ky., Cincinnati. Ohio, back to Indianapolis and thence to Ft. Wayne. Start Work on Hangar Concrete work on the new tenplane hangar to be constructed at the Hoosier Airport was started Wednesday. The hangar will be completed probably June 1. The present hangar accommodates only six planes. The airport owns seven planes and iri addition has two planes in storage for private owners at all times. The increased hangar space will accommodate several Indianapolis aviation enthusiasts who plan to purchase planes in the near future. The airport has distribution rights for the Travelair plane in Indiana, Illinois and western Kentucky, receiving an average of one new plane each week from the factory.

When That Boy of Yours Graduates Will he be able to go to college? Will you be able to help prepare him to meet the competition of other bright young fellows? Will he be denied the equipment necessary to help him climb to the place in which your dreams picture him? To these question, all of them, you can answer, “Yes,” IF—you have done h little planning with your wishing. It takes money. And money is accumulated in only ONE way—by saving. Which might seem to be an up-hill business—until you start an account here at the Celtic. And then you find how really easy it is.

Plan ahead for YOUR boy now. Just a few dollars a month earning dividends compounded semi-annually—which we have ALWAYS paid at 6%—will INSURE him the training you want him to have.

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1.0.0. F. WILL CONFER HONOR ON CITY MAN Arthur Landes to Receive Chivalry Decoration Tonight. C. Arthur Landes, Indianapolis, will receive the Grand Decoration of Chivalry of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at 8 tonight at the Denison at the conclusion of the first day's session of the two-day tivrty-fourth annual spring meeting of the Grand Lodge of the order The honor is given for meritorious and outstanding work in the Odd Fellows. The decoration will be conferreud by his father, H. K. Landes, past department commander. Twenty-five other members will receive the decoration of chivalry tonight. Elmo Gustin, ' Elwood. Ind., department commander; Joseph A. DeHority, Elwood, Indiana department clerk, and Col. H. E. Roesener, Indianapolis, will be in charge of the work. 1,000 Register Approximately 1.000 registered this morning in the Grand Lodge hall of Odd Fellow Bldg. Most of those who attended the Rebekah Assembly sesssions. which closed Thursday, and all Odd Fellows who registered this morning, visited the Odd Fellows Home at Greensburg. The trip was made in a special train of thirteen coaches, which left here at noon. The party was to return to Indianapolis at 4:35 p. m. today. A model first-degree initiation will be exemplified at 8 tonight by the Meridian Lodge at the hall, 23*i S. Capitol Ave. Nomination of officers will be held Thursday morning. Election will be held in the fall session. Frank Houston, Salem, Ind., will be nominated for past grand master; J. Clyde Crane, Bloomfield, Ind., for grand master, and W. W. Zimmerman. Rochester, Ind., deputy grand master. About fifteen nominations will be made for grand warden, the first in line of officers. 672 Lodges In State George P. Bornwasser, Indianapolis, will be nominated for grand secretary, and Frank McConaughy, Franklin, Ind., as grand treasurer. Among the most important items in the report of the grand master this morning was the suggestion that the meetings of the Grand Lodge be held annually instead of semi-annually. The grand secretary’s report this morning showed 672 lodges in Indiana with a membership of 75.673. There are 5,722 Odd Fellows in Marion County, the report showed. PLAN ANNUAL BENEFIT FOR POLICE, FIREMEN This Y’ear’s Circus Netted $6,200 to Fund, Report Shows. A benefit performance for the police and firemens emergency fund probably will be made an annual affair, Mayor L. Ert Slack said today. “We may not have a circus next year. A horse show or some other event may be substituted, but we’ll do something to raise the money for the emergency fund,” Slack saiA Police Chief Claude M. Worley and Fred W. Connell, safety board president, deposited $6,200 in the Security Trust Company to the credit of the fund, proceeds from the recent circus at the State Fairground. The city received 25 per cent of the circus proceeds which totaled $24,826. The emergency fund will be used to aid police and firemen and for charitable purposes. TRACTToN TiA)TSLASHED Nearly $1,000,000 was lopped off the tax valuation of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company by the State tax board today. Decreased revenues was the reason given for the decrease. The new valuation is $8,062,537, as compared to $9,021,106 in 1927. Peoples Motor Coach Company, which the street car company now owns, was given an increased valuation from $113,000 in 1927 to the new figure of $200,000. (

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F. R. Law The Capitol Radio Company has announced the appointment of F. R. Law as its sales manager. Law formerly was connected; with the H. T. Electric Company. The The Capitol Radio Company has been appointed exclusive Indiana distributors of the Mohawk radio. CHILDREN NEAR DEATH IN CRASH Truck, Out of Control, Hits Curb: Hold Driver. Three Sacred Heart school children narrowly escaped injury when a truck, driven by Hosea Chatman, 26. Negro, 342 W. Twenty-First St., skidded out of control and ran over the sidewalk at Madison Ave. and Palmer St., Tuesday afternoon. The children, Louise Zoellner, 8, of 619 Weghorst St.; Rose Mary Dietz, 7, of 1847 Singleton St., and Rose Schaad, 10. of 701 Lincoln St., although knocked down by the vehicle, only were bruised. Chatman was charged with speeding, reckless driving and assault and battery. Mrs. G. T. Johnson, 1234 Linwood Ave.. riding Tuesday night in an automobile driven by Ernest Ley, 232 S. Rural St., who was arrested for driving while intoxicated, and reckless driving, suffered arm lacerations when the machine side swiped a car piloted by Robert Foltz, 233 N. Jefferson Ave., at Oriental and Washington Sts. Ley’s car turned over from the impact. Mrs. W. P. Griffin, St. Louis, with Ley and Mrs. Johnson escaped injury. Thrown from the auto of her brother-in-law, John Reinhardt, Mrs. Ida Koester, 62, received serious wounds and a fracture pelvic bone when, several miles east on the National road, Reinhardt’s car hit a machine operated by an unknown man. Both are residents of Grass Creek.

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Roy Volstad Files Expense Statement of Primary Campaign. Manner of making up the numerous political slates that flooded Indianapolis primary day. May 8, was disclosed naively when Roy L. Volstad, defeated candidate for Republican nomination for joint State Senator, filed his expense account with County Clerk George O. Hutsell today. On Volstad's expense list there appeared these entries - To Doc. Norrell for slate, $lO. To Lee Smith for slate, $lO. To Luke Duffy for farm slate, $lO. To Mr. Cook for G. O. P. slate, $lO. To Service Printing Company for my share in factory labor slate. $5. To William Boyce for slate, $25. Dr. James R. Norrell, Negro, was a candidate for Congress nomination. and organized a slate for use election day. Lee Smith was a former worker in the Ku-Klux Klan. William Boyce headed the BoyceRobert McNay faction which tried to elect precinct committeemen. Most candidates fail to list such contribution in just such language as did Volstead, most of them being veiled behind such words as “donations.” Volstead's total was $131.86. j Other expense accounts were filed to day by these candidates: Republicans—Winfield Miller, State Senator. $246.52; Robert L. Moorhead, State Senator, $143; Jack Fisher, sheriff. $37; Thaddeus R. Baker, Representative, $43,500: Elmer E. Houze, Representative, S2O. Democrats—Henry C. Cox, Representative, S2O; Joseph A. Wicker, representative. $115.18; John E. Flaherty, county commissioner, no expense. POLICE JOIN SEARCH FOR BOY RUNAWAY Lad, 15, Sends Note to Teacher; Left Monday. Police have been asked by parents of Carson Combs, 15, to aid in finding him. He ran away from his

home, 422 Haugh St., Monday, after leaving a note to his teacher at School 15. According to his father, Elbert Combs, the boy told his mother he was leaving, but she didn’t believe him as he had often threatened to run away before. Neither the teacher's note nor the talk with his

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mother gave any clew to his whereabouts. The note said that he hated to leave his teacher. As far as the father could learn the boy had not more than $1.50. He is large for his age, with light brown hair, grayblue eyes and wore a light colored cap, brown coaat and trousers with small white stripe, black shoes, light shirt and black bow tie. Veteran Plant Head Dies Bn Times Special ELWOOD, Ind., May 16.—S. Earl Clark. 73, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company’s local plant for thirty years, is dead of heart disease.

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PLAN BANQUET AS OPENING OF LINCOLN DRIVE Leaders to Meet May 21 to Launch Campaign for Memorial. Plans were completed today, for the dinner at the Claypool next Monday night which will formally launch the Indiana Lincoln Memorial campaign in Indianapolis. Colonels, majors, captains and workers from the various solicitation team will attend. Final instructions regarding the drive will be given. Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier will preside. Dr. Louis A. Warren, noted Lincoln biographer, will deliver an illustrated lecture on Abraham Lincoln. The campaign is state-wile and sponsored by the Indiana Lincoln Union to build a $1,265,000 memorial shrine at the site of the Lincoln homestead in Spencer County. Team commanders who will attend include Col Sidney S. Miller; majors, Mrs. John Kern, Garrett Olds, Russell Ryan, John Ragsdale, Wood Unger; captains, John MoNutt, B. W. Caughran, Gideon Blain, Marvin Curie, E. Kirk McKinney, Lester Negley, Byron B. Williams, Fred E. Schick. All of Regiment 1. Regiment Two officers are Colonel Earl T. Bonham; Majors Cliff Wagoner, H. O. Goett, Merrill Woods, Roy Milbourne, Thomas Batchelor; Captains Joe Beckett, E. Blake Francis, T. B. Orbison, J. R. Mannon, William C. Middlesworth, Howard Bates, Lyman Rhoades, Albert Loesche, Howard Maxwell, George Bowman and Roland Schmedel. Regiment Three: Colonel Robert J. Aley, Lieut. Col. Robert Briner; Majors Walter White, Pliny Wolfard, Leßoy Breunig, Fermor S. Cannon. Robert Kendrick; Captains Roland Blair, Howard Young, R. L. McKay, George Taylor, J. C. Millspaugh, John J. Brown, Frank Singleton, L. S. Bowman, Lawrence Orr, Theodore Kingsbury, William C. Ranscom, Ray Holcomb, George A. Mac Lean, Harry Speyer, Ray Northway, John Praed, Birney Spradling, Leonard Maddox, Barrett Woodsmall, Reginald Garstang, C. W. Weathers, Maurice E. Mackey and Walter Boyer.

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