Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1928 — Page 8

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CUT IN AIR MAIL RATES EXPECTED TO QUADRUPLE BUSINESS IN SKY ROUTE

5 Cents for First Ounce to Be Charged After. Aug. 1. Amount of mail carried on the Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Chicago air mail route is expected to be increased to four or five times its present volume after Aug. 1, when the new reduced air mail postage rate goes into effect. Announcement cff the date of the hew rate of 5 cents for the first ounce and 10 cents for each additional ounce was received by the Embry-Riddle Company, Cincinnati, operators of the route, from William Irvin Glover, second assistant postmaster general in a telegram. Indianapolis postoffice officials have not received official notice of the date. The new rate, to have a letter speeded by airplane, is only 3 cents more than by the regular method of delivery. The old rate, still in use, is 10 cents for each half-ounce. The reduced rate is regarded as a great forward step for development of commercial aviation in America. The postoffice department has estimated air mail business generally will increase from 100 to 300 per cent when the reduction becomes effective. Aviation Course Ends Airplane rides and inspection of planes at the Indianapolis airport Saturday completed the Y. M. C. A. aviation course, which has been directed by Capt, H. Weir Cook, National Guard aviation instructor, and A. F. Williams, Y. M. C. A. education director. Instructions in operation of various parts of an airplane were given class members at the airport by Lieut. Matt C. Carpenter and Sergts. L. M. Johnson, R. A. Long and C. W. Depka Members of the class were Leo Amend, Carl Baker, J. T. Bartlett, William Beck, J. A. Blettner, A. Brodeur, Miss Louise Brodeur, G. W. Bundy, L. Cameron, Troy Coakley, E. De Coursey, E. Doriot H. Entriken, Earl Gannon, George Gamsjager Kenneth Hittle, H. V. T. Hobbs, Lyman Irwin, R. P. Joyce, James Keaton, Charles Lamb, G. O. McMillin J. Miller, Paul Moore R. Parrish C. C. Jones, Paul Pickard, A. B. Snyder, Sam Talbott, W. F. Wisehart, Harold Wayman, Edward Zingsheim, Carl Hammick, W. H. Collins, Parker Askren, I. P. Scott and Orville Wilson. Gliders to Visit U. S. First official public demonstration of glider flying in the United States will be staged in connection with the Detroit air-Olympics June 30. Six of the motorless flying machines now are on the way to Detriot, accompanied by three famous German glider pilots. The visitors are Capt. Paul Roehre, Peter Hesselbach and Dr. Paul Laubenthal. Germany probably has gone farther in development of gliding than any other nation since the World War, due largely to restrictions laid down in the peace treaty. Denied her full expansion in airplanes, Germany turned to motorless ships, with the result that some 20,000 young men now are enrolled in more than 100 gliding clubs. These students learn the trick of riding favorable air currents to rise from the ground and remain in the air. v One of the gliders brought to this country from Germany holds the world’s endurance record, made in Germany last year by Ferdinand Schulz, in remaining aloft fourteen hours without a motor. While here the German fliers, all licensed motor pilots, hope to establish new records. At the Olympics, the fliers will be towed into the air by airplane. They will be cutUoose at a height of 2,000 feet and allowed to glide at will over the Ford airport. With this initial altitude they will be able to remain in the air most of the day, soaring and dipping over heads of spectators. Other events of the Olympics are the National Air Tour, the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Some twenty ships are expected to participate in the tour, which includes Indianapolis in its itinerary, while sixteen balloons from eight countries are slated to compete in the Bennett race. Air Mail Increases Out bound air mail from Indianapolis on the Cincinnati-Chicago route showed a 33 percent increase in May over April, according to figures announced by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. During the month the Indianapolis postoffice dispatched 382 pounds of air mail, mostly on the

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Chicago flight to connect with the transcontinental lines. In April only 260 pounds were dispatched. Daily average for the two months is eight pounds, ten ounces in April and twelve pounds and ten ounces in May. A part of the increase was due to shipments of news articles and films to Chicago, Memorial Day. Incoming air mail in May totalled 8,425 pieces compared with 6,154 pieces in April. Aerial Taxi Service By United Press ROME, June 4.—An airplane taxi service has been inaugurated by the National Aeronautical Company at Lictorial Airport on the outskirts of Rome. 1 On receipt of a telephone message, a machine will be got ready in half an hour, and will fly anywhere in Europe at mileage rates. The Lictorial Airport is one of the best equipped in Europe, and it is the ambition of the directors to make it the principal aviation center of southern Europe. The airport, being by the side of the Tiber, can provide a landing and taking-off station for hydroplanes, and as it is in the direct line for the most important Mediterranean communications, it is hoped to attract international air traffic there. The airport is provided with an hotel, customs house, and well-fitted repairing works, containing spare parts of most of the best known makes of modern aeroplanes. Aviation in Alaska By United Press SEATTLE, Wash., June 4.—Alaska now has more than forty landing fields for airplanes and plans are under way for the construction of sixteen more, according to C. F. Crawford of Fairbanks. Busy Day at Airport Sunday was a busy day at the Hoosier airport, Kessler Blvd. and Lafayette pike, with more than 125 persons taking flights in the Hoosier's passenger planes during the afternoon. Among those taking flights were Miss Flora Marshino, Carta Robinson, W. H. Robinson, A. Oertle, Miss Emma Oertle, Fred and Lee Daily, L. E. and William Wishart, Miss Pansy Roach. Misses Ellen, Edna and Mary Belle Noel, Lester Terrell, Ralph Rondebush, B. G. Ruckley, George W. Pangborn, John Morton, Cart Lauber, Bill Schwert, Charles Hovey, Delman Hall, Harold Waldon, R. A. Meunch, Sr.; R. A. Meunch, Jr.; R. D. Brown Jr.; Donald Herron, D. R. Montgomery, J. J. Tyler, Misses Ruth and Esther Wishart, Edw*ard Lewis, Miss Edith Siler, John G. Wallich, Miss Cora Pierce, R. A. and Jean Brown, Joseph Perkins, Eugene Harrison, W. A. and R. S. Power, T. J. Cleland, Miss Elsie Dillord, Comber Smith, Dr. Homer W. Jones, R. W. Shellbourne and Mrs. Marguerite Ryan. Wilkins at Amsterdam Bu United Press AMSTERDAM, June 4.—Sir George Wilkins and Lieut. Carl B. Eielson, polar fliers, arrived at Schiphol airdrome, near here, at 3:20 p. m. today, after a flight from Berlin. Plans for Mew Hangar Bn Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., June 4.—Erection of a hangar 90x120 feet at Paul Baer field, local airport, is being considered by the board of park commissioners. Fly to Indianapolis By Times Special j VALPARAISO, Ind., June 4. Vaughn L. Harvil, this city, and C. L. Harvil, Chesterton, made an Indi-anapolis-Porter round Crip flight with Russell Hankforth, Porter aviator, as pilot. The flight down was made in two hours. On the return flight, a stop was made at the Kokomo ahport. Realtors Want Airport By 7 imes Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 4. Petitions urging Terre Haute city and Vigo County officials to cooperate in establishing a municipal airport have been presented by the Terre Haute Real Estate Board. It is proposed that public money to the amount of $12,000 a year be appropriated for the airport. Keeps Up With Parade By United Press NEW YORK, June 4.—The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad joined the Trans-Continental Air Transport, Inc., to “keep up with the procession,” Will B. Storey, president of the railroad said today. “We thought it would be better to get what we could out of the traffic than to have an all-air

In Air Today

INDIANAPOLIS AIRPORT WEATIIER CONDITIONS AT 9:30 A. M. (Compiled for The Times by Government Weather Observer J. H. Armington and Donald McConnell. Government aerorv autlcal observers Raining; east wind. 21 miles an hour; barometric pressure. 29.76 at sea level; ceiling, 200 lect; vlslbi.ity, one-hall mile. The ice-cutting ship Braganza was forcing its way to the north coast of Spitzbergen in the hope of reaching Reindeer Land and taking up the search for General Umberto Nobile and the missing dirigible Italia. An S. O. S. picked up in Russia said the Italia was in Franz Josef Land. Lieut. Luetzow Holm, Norwegian flier, prepared to start o search from Kings Eay in his naval seaplane. Captain Arrachart and Major Rignot, who attempted to set a longdistance flight record from Le Bourget Field. Paris, were forced down at Constantinople. India was their destination. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh flew for an unknown destination after landing at El Paso, Texas, from San Diego, Cal. Capt. Cesare Sabelli flew his Bellanca sesquiplane from New York to Hartford, Conn., for Anal adjustments in the motor before starting a flight from New York to Rome Noel Wien and R. S. Merrill, with their two planes, which carried three cameramen each, were lost somewhere near Point Barrow, Alaska, after starting on a photographic expedition. The mail plane which left Buenos Aires May 24 landed at Paris after one of the fastest Atlantic crossings every made by a mail plane. Installation of twenty-two observation points between the Pacific and the Sierra Nevada mountains to provide weather data for fliers was announced by the Guggenheim fund for the promotion of aeronautics.

service across the continent giving us no traffic,” he said. The Trans-Continental Air Transport, Inc., will combine railroad and plane service between New York and San Francisco. Other concerns connected with it are the Pennsylvania railroad, the Wright Aeronautical Corporation and the Curtiss Aeronautical Corporation. Storey said the gross income of his line this year would be "about equal to that of last year.” He said the wheat crop in the territory served by the Santa Fe might be better than in 1927, and that the cattle situation was normal.

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AN elaborate and unusual program has been prepared for the Baldwin Hour of Music which will be radiocast over WFBM at 7 tonight. Guest artists are Maxine Moore contralto, graduate pupil of Edward Nell of the Metropolitan College of Music. Miss Virginia Lucas and Sarah Elizabeth Miller, artist pupils of Bomar Cramer of the Indiana College o fMusic and Fine Arts, will play two piano ensemble numbers and solos. Popular duets will also be featured by Miss Harold, soprano, of the Baldwin ensemble and Miss Moore, guest contralto. Miss Moore has recently returned from a concert tour through California. The popular Baldwin string ensemble will feature selections from “Oh Boy’’ and the overture to “Madame Butterfly” (Puccini.) Berta Miller Ruick, director of the Baldwin Hour, announces that requests are unable to be granted on tonight’s program owing to the length of progremmed numbers. They will be given on the next program. WFBM (275) INDIANAPOLIS , (Indianapolis Power A Light Cos.) 4:oo—Time Signal. Julius C. Walk A Son. 4:ol—Baldwin hour of classic Records. s:oo—Live stnck market. Indianapolis and Kansas City and weather forecast. 5:10— -Record. Baldwin Piano Com'nany. s:ls—Late news flash**.. Indianapolis Times. s:2o—Farm flashes. s:3o—Record. Baldwin Piano Company. 5:40—1T. S. Radio Farm School. s:so—Baseball scores. 6:oo—Time Signal. Julius C. Walk A Son. • 6:OI—WFBM dinner music. 6:so—Play and photoplay review. Indianapolis Star. 7:oo—Baldwin Piano Company hour. 8:00—WFBM gypsies. B:3o—Male quartet.. WFBM. 9:oo—Aviation news. 9:lo—Dance music. 10:00—Earl Howe Jones, staff pianist. 10:20—Baseball scores and news. In. dianapolis Star. 10:30—Skouras. Publix Nite Klub. WKBF (252) INDIANAPOLIS (Hoosler Athletic Club) s:oo—Late news bulletins and sport*. 7:ls—Panatrope program. 7:3o—lnternational Bible Students Association. B:3o—Beard’s happy brake service. 9:oo—Brunswick hour.

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