Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1928 — Page 5

JULY 31, 1928

—Aviation — RUSH STUDY OF PLANS FOR NEW CITYJRPQRT U. S. Expert Indicates Municipal Field Should Be West of Town. With appointment of a subcommittee by Mayor L. Ert Slack to prepare a definite report on cost and -vailable fields, Slack’s committee nd the Chamber of Commerce in”.strial commission today were pre"’•”ng to hasten establishment of a niripal airport. Haste, in establishing the mucipal airport, at the same time •sing great caution, is necessary, Slack said Monday, in order to assure a suitable field for the Transcontinental Air Transport, which is expected to include Indianapolis as \ principal stop on its plane-train oassenger route. The committee is awaiting a reoort from A. P. Department of Commerce airport expert, cn the most suitable sites. Taliaferro visited numerous sites here last week.

Shou'' Be West of City Industrial Commissioner Clifford L. Harrod, at the meeting Monday said Taliaferro hr"' indicated a municipal airport northwest, west or southwest of the city would be most satisfactory, because of the prevailing wind being from the west. Taliaferro was quoted as saying a field east of the city would be covered with coal smoke, making landing difficult, unless the airport were so far east of the city as to make transportation to and from it difficult. Slack’s subcommittee is composed of Herman P. Lieber, Edward B. Raub Jr. and George T. Wheldon. Slack said he believed a suitable arrangement might be made to operate a municipal airport adjoining the Indianapolis airport, Mars Hill, operated by the National Guard, but added he still opposed joint operation of a field. The committee has under consideration options on 282 acres of land adjoining the Indianapolis airport. held by a local real estate reiterated his belief that the airport should be part of a large park. The committee discussed plans to seek legislation next year permitting Indianapolis to own and operate an airport. Slack said legislation Is necessary, suggesting'that the industrial commission or some other organization, working with the committee, obtain a lease on ground selected by the committee, and that the city arrange to purchase the site in 1929 after suitable legislation is enacted. With suitable airport facilities, Indianapolis is destined to become a great aviation center, JPa.ul H. Moore, aviation secretary, said. Great Air Center Moore said Indianapolis probably will be a stopping point on a Wisconsin to Florida transport line now planned. He added he has received letters from several new air transport companies, including one asking that a mooring mast be placed on the municipal airport to accommodate dirigibles the company intends to operate within a radius of 400 miles of Louisville. In pointing to Indianapolis’ future growth in aviation, Slack compared it with crime. “Indianapolis is in the great circle of large cities, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Louisville, Toledo, Pittsburgh and others. “Criminals work mostly in the large cities in the ring, and many of them, when they find things hot for them in these cities, come to Indianapolis to hide. “We are not proud of this floating population, but they come here, fortunately only temporarily, to hide because Indianapolis is centrally located in relation to the larger cities. “Aviation will center about these large cities and Indianapolis, being in the center of the circle, will be an air terminal. Many large transport lines which will be operated in the future between these cities will pass through this city.” Airport for $56,200. Bit Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 31.—This city’s proposed airport will cost $56,200, according to an estimate by Lieut. Frank McKee, Chesterfield aviator, presented to E. S. Ridley, airport committee chairman. Sets Model Plane Mark Robert Atkinson, 2534 Broadway, is believed to have established anew city record for model airplane flights Monday, when his model plane remained aloft eight minutes and then disappeared from sight. The model was not recovered. Young Atkinson recently was awarded a trip to Cincinnati in the mail plane when his craft won first place in the model airplane contest sponsored by the Indianapolis Model Airplane Club. Fourteen mniutes is the world’s record flight duration for model planes.

Contests Slot Wing The Hadley-Page slotted wing, an aid to safety in flying that has created a sensation and the rights to which have been purchased by the United States Navy Department at a total cost of nearly a million dollars, is likely to become a subject of litigation in this country if the claims of Alfred G. Leigh, a you.ig Chilean engineer and flier are substantiated. Leigh asserts that his patents on a similar device antedates those of Hadley-Page. His claims concerning a patent and the efficacy of his device were brought to the attention of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation through a group of men introduced to Leigh by a representative of the Chilean government in Washington. His device is now undergoing tests in the Curtiss Company’s laboratory at Garden City, L. I.

Model of Air Carnival Field and Prize Cap

Here is a scale model of the new airport at Los Angeles where the coming national air races will be held, being displayed by Dudley M. Steele, chairman of the contest committee. At the right Miss Elizabeth Rod-

Lawyers are searching the records of the Patent Office in an effort to verify Leigh’s claim to a prior “patent.” Seeks Glider Record Btl United Press PROVINCETOWN, Mass., July 31. —An attempt to break the world’s gliding endurance record of fourteen hours and twenty-three minutes probably will be made this week by Peter Hesselbach, German flier. Anew American record of four hours fifteen minutes was established by Hesselbach Sunday. Previously he had broken the American record by remaining aloft for fiftyeight minutes. Hesselbach is one of several German gliding experts who are making test flights near here in an effort to popularize gliding in the United States. Flies With Air Mail Charles Shields, new EmbryRiddle Company air mail pilot, flew the mail plane from Ci: cinnati to Chicago, Monday night. Pilot Charles Werung, Embry-Riddle Company, was a passenger on the plane on his way to Moline, 111., to return anew Velie Monocoupe to Cincinnati. The Embry-Riddle Company is distributor for the Monocoupe at Cincinnati and has sold four in the past few weeks. Learn About Airplanes Thirty members of the Indianapolis branch, American Association for Promotion of Aviation, visited the new Capitol Airways, Inc., airport, W. Thirtieth St. and Georgetown Rd., Monday night and heard an explanation of operation of an airplane. The members, all young business men and women, plied Elmer H. Jose, airport president, and Chief Pilot Edward M. Johnston with questions for two hou,t\ Johnston and Jose explained theory of flight, operation of controls, working parts of motor and various other parts of an airplane. The next meeting of the association will be held at the Chamber of Commerce next Monday evening. Here From Dayton Lieut. Miuo McCune, flrvv to Indianapolis airport Monday from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, in a Douglass C-l transport biplane and returfied to Dayton in the afternoon. Pilot Elmer Dempsey, St. Louis, flying a Travelair biplane, landed at the airport Monday for fuel. Go After Army Plane Lieut. Raymond J. Barbin and Lieut. Fred Maibucher, 113th Observation Squadron, Indiana National Guard, flew a Curtiss 0-17 biplane to Wright Field, Dayton, today, to return a PT-1 army training ship which has been completely rebuilt. They were expected to return this afternoon. Marion Flier Here Paul Payne, Hoosier airport pilot, who is managing the newly established municipal airport at Marion. Ind., flew to the Hoosier field Monday to confer with Bob Shank, Hoosier president. Payne is flying a Hoosier airport Travel Air biplane from Marion to help establish the new port. He reported heavy passenger business since the field \\as laid out several weeks ago. Formal dedication was held Sunday with an air circus witnessed by 18,000 persons. Payne was accompanied here by Fred Johnson, of the Marion Junior Association of Commerce, which financed establishment of the Marion airport. Capitol Plane Moved Capitol Airways Inc. planes were moved to the company’s new airport near W. Thirtieth St. and the Georgetown Rd., from Indianapo’is airport. Mars Hill, where headquarters have been maintained since incorporation of the company four months ago. The com-

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Enter Contest Now, Is Advice to Woman and Girls of City. Enter now! This should be the slogan of all girls, women and children in Indianapolis. The Normal Foot Contest, conducted by the National Association of Chiropodists-Podiatrists and The Indianapolis Times is certain to find some prize winner who in return for pany has two Eaglerock and one Swallow biplanes and expects soon to receive another Eaglerock and a monoplane. The new field is level and is sufficiently large for heavy planes, being approximately 2,500 by 2,800 feet. The company has room to expand the field as it has a lease on the 175 acre farm on which the field is located. Student instruction is to be started within the next few weeks, President Elmer H. Jose announced today. The company has a number of applicants for student training. The field will be in charge of Edward M. Johnston, chief pilot. The new hangar is virtually completed. having space for eight planes. Johnson said the company plans to operate transport lines later, and to form a solo flight club for graduated students of the company. Air Rates Down Wednesday More than 1,000 letters were expected by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson by tonight for dispatch on the aii mail planes Wednesday, when the new reduced air mail rate becomes effective. Five hundred letters had been received early Monday, most of them asking signature of Bryson on the envelope. Most of the letters received for Wednesday were sent by philatelists. “Wednesday will be a red letter day in the history of air mail,” Bryson said, “as volume of this class of mail is expected to be doubled or trebled.” The new rate is 5 cents the first ounce and 10 cents each additional •ounce. The old rate was 10 cents for each one-half ounce. The reduced rate is expected .to result especially in greatly increased letter mail. The Chicago bound plane leaves Indianapolis airport, Mars Hill, at 6:15 p. m., daylight saving time. Oppose Low Flying By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 31.—An ordinance prepared by the park commissioners will be presented at an early session of the city council to prohibit flying planes lower than 1,000 feet above the city. If passed, the ordinance will be this city’s first aviation regulatory measure. Von Huenefeld 111 p,y United Press BERLIN, July 31.—Baron Von Henenfeld of the German transAtlantic airplane Bremen, was said officially to be in serious condition today after an operation for appendicitis at a local sanatorium. Professor Bier performed the operation. Sanatorium officials said Vop Huenefeld’s condition was “serious, although as satisfactory as could be expected under the circumstances.”

In the Air

CONDITIONS AT 9:30 A M. •Compiled tor The Times by Government Weather Observer J H. Armington and Donald McConnell Government aeronautical observer l Celling 5.000 feet: visibility 5 miles overcast: barometer 30:09; wind, south. 12 m. n. h.

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riguez shows the Santa Monica Arch Hoxey trophy, to be awarded to the winner of the speed trials. This cup was the original trophy given the winner of the first national air meet, held in Santa Monica, Cal., in 1909, and is named in honor of Arch Hoxey, pioneer flier.

entering the contest will receive prizes of silver, gold, beautiful shoes and other gifts. The normal foot contest is part of the special features of foot health week in Indiana, held during the seventeenth annual convention of the National Association of Chiropo-dists-Podiatrists opening at the Hotel Lincoln, Aug. 7. Contestants may enter until Aug. 10. To enter the contest it is necessary to bring a photograph of your feet to the editor of the Normal Foot Contest at The Times. If you do riot have a plhotograph the contest editor will arrange to have a staff photographer take your picture without expense to you, if you come to The Times office between 11:30 and 1. A board of judges composed of the most prominent and reputable podiatrists in the United States are at work already on the foot photographs, classifying and marking percentage of perfection. The entrants will be asked to appear for a final judging before news and movie cameras on Aug. 10. Chiropodists-Podiatrists are conducting this contest as part of their educational research under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Lelyveld of Boston, Mass., a nationally known foot authority.

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PLANE BUILDING ONJPTREND 65.4 Per Cent Increase Over 1926 Shown. By Times Spc 'iat WASHINGTON. July 31.—According to the bureau of census 1,857 airplanes valued at $12,024,085, and 105 seaplanes valued at $2,226,520 were built in the United States in 1927. The production in 1926 was 1,125 airplanes valued at $7,448,679 and sixty-one other types valued at $1,422,348. The combined production of all classes of heavier-than-air flying machines increased from 1,186 valued at $8,871,027 in 1926 to 1,962 valued at $14,250,605, a rate of increase of 65.4 per cent for number and 60.6 per cent for value. Os the sixty-one establishments reporting for 1927. fifteen were located in New York, nine each in California and Michigan, four each in Illinois, Missouri and Ohio, three each in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, two in Maryland and one each in Colorado, Connecticut, lowa. Kansas, Nebraska, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Work Begins on $250,000 Home MUNCIE, Ind., July 31.—Construction was started today of a $250,000 nurses’ home for Ball Me- [ morial Hospital.

—Aviation — ALL AIR ROADS TO LEAD WEST IN SEPTEMBER National Sky Races, Exhibit Expected to Draw 1,500 Planes. By XBA Service LOS ANGELES, July 31.—Airplanes from the north, airplanes from the south, airplanes from the east—all will be headed toward Los Angeles, where they will swarm like giant sea gulls as their pilots jockey them to a safe landing on Mines Field, near the outskirts of the city.

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The occasion will be the National Air Races and Aeronautical Exposition to be staged here from Sept. 8 to 16. During the nine days six races will be staged, all with their termination at Mines Field. In addition there will be airline distance events, endurance record contests, parachute jumping contests, special events for Army and Navy fliers and other contests. All in all, 1,500 airplanes are expected to compete for the $125,000 which has been offered in cash prizes. •Work now is progressing rapidly on the construction of Mines field, which will cover many acres. Ground was broken in a novel manner when Vonceil Viking, screen actress, guided a plow attached to a giant tri-motored Fokker monoplane which taxied back rnd forth across the field. Heading the list of races now on the program will be a free-for-all non-stop contest from New York to Mines field. Cash prizes aggregating $22,500 await the lucky fliers. Only civilians will be eligible to

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compete in three other New York to Los Angeles hops for three different classess of planes. Cash prizes totaling $40,000 and other trophies will go to the winners. All three of the races for civilians only will be elapsed time contests, with stops being made at designated control cities. Another race, open to Canadians only, will start from Windsor, Canada.) Still another, open only to contestants from Pan-American countries will have Mexico City as its starting point. Purses of SIO,OOO in cash and other trophies have been hung up for the winners of these two flights. On the day of the finish of the New York to Los Angeles nonstop race, “Famous Fliers’ Day” will be observed. It is expected that Orville Wright, many of the Atlantic and Pacific fliers, the around-the-world airmen and scores of army and navy aces will be present for the occasion. It also is hoped to have Col. Charles A. Linsbergh here on that day, but officials of the meet have not yet received his assurance.