Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1928 — Page 2

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PROPOSES NEW WIDENING PLAN FOR SIXTEENTH Works Board Considers Hack Suggestion for Joint Assessment. Widening of Sixteenth St. from Boulevard PI. to Alabama St., and elimination of the hazardous jog at Sixteenth and Illinois under anew plan of assessment was recommended to the city plan commission today by Oren S. Hack, works board president. Hack said the works board favors combining the widening and straightening project in one resolution under the thoroughfare law which provides the city can pay 75 per cent and property owners 25 per cent of costs. The former works board had started the project under the assessment plan where property owners were assessed from Washington St. to Thirty-Eighth St. There was considerable objection to the plan, hundreds of residents contending the improvement was for public welfare and should be paid for by the city. Project Long Discussed The Sixteenth St. project has been a matter of contention betwen city administrative boards and citizens for years, the improvement plans being modified at various times. Plan Engineer Macklin estimated the project will cost about $356,000. Under the plan presented by Mack the board will rescind the former action of the works body and pro* ceed at once with the improvement under the joint resolution. He said there are several advantages of a joint resolution which is being drawn by City Engineer A. H. Moore. City plan commission members will approve the plan Tuesday, it is said.

City Engineer A. H. Moore will submit Morris St. bridge plans to the plan body for its approval Tuesday. The Duvall board contract on an alternate plan for lengthening the bridge did not conform with the plan’s recommendation for an eighty-foot span with sixty-foot roadway. Law provides the new bridge must conform with the city thoroughfare plan width. Drafts 1929 Program Mack is drafting a program for 1929 to substantiate the request for a maximum 2-cent levy for the thoroughfare plan. The program which will be submitted to the plan commission Tuesday probably will include: Extension of Cruse St. from Maryland to Bates St.; elimination of jog at Maryland and Shelby; cutting off corner at Prospect and Shelby Sts.; elimination of jog at Michigan and Highland PI., and widening of Michigan St. from the east city limits to White River on the west. It is planned to make Michigan an east and west thoroughfare to relieve heavy traffic on Washington St. Mack said the commission had about $204,000 balance in the thoroughfare fund. If the 3-cent levy request has been cut to 1.5 cents as was reported at city hall, the commission will receive only $96,000 for the street widening and straightening program in 1929. CONGO MISSIONARY TO TELL OF WORK Moravian Union Holds Last Convention Session Tonight. George E. Eccles, a former missionary in Congo, will address the closing meeting of the thirty-fourth annual convention of the Moravian Christian Endeavor Union tonight at the First Moravian Episcopal Church, Twenty-Second St. and Broadway. Bishop Karl A. Mueller described the Moravian Church missionary work in Nicaragua at the meeting Friday night. “Our progress has been steady there,” he said. “Twenty foreign missionaries work at twelve states, chiefly among the Indians and Creoles.” The Rev. E. H. Oerter of the Romona Indian Mission, California, greeted the delegates in behalf of the Indian school there. GROTTO NEWS ON AIR WFBM Will Broadcast Lodge Program. Sahara Grotto program for midsummer and early fall will be announced at 7:30 tonight over WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company station, by Raymond W. Murray, past monarch and president of the Indiana State Grotto Association, and Charles G. Walsh, Sahara Monarch.

Grotto auxiliary units of Indiana have arranged a musical program which will be given under the direction of Fred Knodle, chairman of the entertainment committee. Several numbers will be given by the Pirate band and the newly organized Blue Devil Glee Club.

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PIONEER OF CITY DIES H. C. Griffith Was Indianapolis Resident More Than Seventy Years. Funeral services for H. C. Griffith, 81, who made his home in Indianapolis more than 70 years, will be conducted Monday at 3 o’clock at the home, 2214 IT. Pennsylvania St. Mr. Griffith died at Methodist Hospital late Friday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Born in Elkton, Ky„ Mr. Griffith came to Indianapolis in 1854 with his father who operated a grocery near the present site of the Union Station. He is survived by two sisters, Cora Griffith with whom he made his home, and Mrs. A. R. Monroe. Mr. Griffith was unmarried. SHAW FOB GOVERNOR Zionsville Farmer Named by National Party. Henry O. Shaw, farmer of near Zionsville, Ind., today was announced as the National party’s candidate for Governor. John Zahnd, national chairman of the party and its presidential candidate, made the announcement, together with names of the full State ticket: Miss Mable La Rue of Indianapolis, for secretary of State; Wiley J. Rominger of Indianapolis, for treasurer; Orlando R. Ricketts of Madison, for auditor; Mrs. Nancy A. Hicks of Indianapolis, for superintendent of public instruction, anu H. Earl Brown of Franklin, for attorney general. Meeting Friday night, the State executive committee adopted a resolution placing equal blame upon the Republican and Democratic parties for alleged misconduct in office.

WATSON WILL CONFER WITH HOOVER IN lOWA Senator to Speak at Frankfort, Ind., Following Conference. After conferences with Herbert Hoover, Republican presidential nominee, and farm reprasentatives from corn belt states at Cedar Rapids, la., Aug. 22 and 23, Senator James E. Watsvn will discuss the agricultural question at a meeting at Frankfort, Ind., Friday, Aug. 24. The Senator made this announcement Friday while in Indianapolis for a few hours. The store was made en route to Washington from Shelbyville, 111., where the Senator spoke at the request of the Republican national committee. His visitors at the Severin included Miss Dorothy Cunningham, national committee woman, and Harry C. Fenton, secretary of the Republican State committee who has just returned from Rochester, Minn., where he underwent an operation for throat trouble. Republican State Chairman EJza O. Rogers will name a business man’s committee and finance committee as result of conferences with James W. Good, Western Campaign manager, Senator Watson announced. Polls throughout the State indicate the Hoover-Curtis ticket will carry Indiana, he said. Grave to Be in China Bn Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 4.—The body of the American wife of John Long, Chinese laundryman here, will eventually rest in Hongkong, China, he has announced. He will sell his business here and with his four children, go to China to live. Mrs. Long, a native of Decatur, 111., was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hess, this city. Ingrown Nail Causes Death Bn Times Special COATSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 4. Joseph Sharp, 73, is dead of poisoning that developed from cn ingrown toe nail.

|5,000 ATTEND M’CLURE FETE First of Series of Water Carnivals Held. A crowd estimated at 5,000 witnessed the first of a series of water carnivals at McClure Beach, Twen-ty-Sixth St. and White River, Friday night. Dick Mills orchestra played, and swim races, for men and women, and men’s fancy diving featured the affair. Bud Hook, Purdue University star, won the sixty-yard free style swim for men. beating Frank Hodges of Broad Ripple A. C., by a head. Robert Dow den, Riverside, was third. Alexander Sabo, Riverside, and Abner Nutall, Riverside, tied for first in the fancy diving, and Sabo won in an extra dive. Bertha Cornelius, Riverside, won the women's sixty-yard free style, closely pressed by Bertha Greenberg, Riverside, most of the way. The team of Howard Taylor and Marshall Williams won the canoe tilting matches. Earl (Monty) Montgomery, head life guard at the beach, entertained the crowd with a series of clown dives. At the conclusion of the program he was heaved from a boat tied up in a sack, with a weight to his feet and came up free in less than a minute and a half. Another carnival is planned for | next Thursday evening.

FETE IS ARRANGED Beech Grove Festival Set for Aug. 7, 8 and 9. The Holy Name Lawn Festival will be held Aug. 7,8, 9, at Beech Grove, on the church lawn. Supper will be served Wednesdayevening from 5. to 8 p. m. by the Altar Society. The general chairman is J. A. Klebes. The following committees have been appointed. Tuesday Aug. 7. Chairman, Charlps McDonough. Nov e.t.v Wheel—Chairman. Joe Gold; Joe Co.'ity, Dan O’Connor, Fred Smith, R. E. Ker.nedv. Henry Sahm and Willis m Sheridan. Country Store—Chairman, E. Schilling Sr.: Tom Logan Sr.. A. Simon. H. HagiSt and Joe Sahm. Ring Game —Chairman. William Roth and Dr. Carter. Baby Rack—Chairman. C. Datzman and Al. Kuhn. Soft Drinks—Chairman. Mike Spalding; D. Padgett. A. Sahm and J. Brinson. Wednesday, Aug. 8. Chairman. James Murphy. Novelty Wheel—Chairman. Dr. Carter; William Roth. Frank Hessma-n. A. Simon. C. Datzman and P. Smith. Country Store —Chairman. Joe Gold; A. Kuntz. F. Dux. P. Hermann and J. Francis. Ring Game—Chairman. Joe Cosby and Joe McDonough. Baby Rack—Chairman. L. Dickhoff and S. Busald. Soft Drinks—Chairman. J. Knust. R. Withem. R. Kennedy and Gus Jones. Thursday, Aug. 9. Chairman. T. Gill. Novelty Wheel—Chairman. E. Schilling Sr.; T. Teegardin. Joe Dux. A. Kuntz. H. Cook and Mike Murphy. Country Store—Chairman. Dr. Carter; William Roth. O. Keller. E. Dux. Jr., Dan O’Connor and Urban Merl. Ring Game—Chairman. Joe Gold and Fred Smith. Baby Rack—Chairman. P. Smith and Joe McDonough. Soft Drinks—Chairman. D. HeLstand, C. Hilker. A. Hessman Sr. and W. Cri. tenson. Fish Pond (3 Nights*—Mrs. C. Lamkln. Ice Cream and Candy—Young ladies sodality. Stand Erecting—Chairman A. Sahm; L. Clements. M. Spalding. A. Hessman Sr., J. Gottomollor J. Messling and Bert Wilhelm.

RECEIVES DIPLOMA; DIES Girl High School Honor Student Had Been Bedridden Five Months. Bn United Press PALMERTON, Pa., Aug. 4.—One hour after she had received her diploma, and pin denoting a National Honor Society membership, Elaine LY. Wertman, third honor student in the high school, died. She had been bedridden for five weeks by perichondritis. Bishop Hughes to Speak Bp Times Special WINONA LAKE, Ind., Aug. 4. The Sunday program at the Winona Lake assembly includes an address in the forenoon by Edwin Holt Hughes, Chicago, Methodist Episcopal bishop. A vesper concert will be given by the De Pauw University choir with Dean R. G. McCutchan conducting. NEW METHOD OF SURE HEALING For Leg Troubles, Varicose Vein Suffering, Sores, Eczema, Swollen Legs, Milk Leg, Phlebitis, Inflamed Leg, Poor Circulation, etc. New Viscose Home (Walking) Treatment heals, no matter how old, by removing the cause—congestion in the leg. Pains, aches, cramps, itching, swelling and misery disappear. .4 positive method. Get our Free Book, state nature of ailment. Address nearest office. Dr. I. T. Glason Viscoe Cos., 1038 S. Alvarado St., Los Angeles, Calif, or 140 N. Dearborn St.! .Chicago, 111.—Advertisement.

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DIES ON TRIP TO WEST Mrs. Agnes Strange to Be Brought Here From New Mexico for Burial. Funeral services for Mrs. Agnes H. Iliff Strange, 70, Fifty-Second St. and Allisonville Rd., who died unexpectedly in Albuquerque, N. M. Friday, probably will be held here Tuesday. Mrs. Strange was taken from the train at Albuquerque while returning to Indianapolis from a trip to the west, and died in a hospital there. The body is to arrive here Monday, and although arrangements have not been decided on definitely, funeral probably will be Tuesday.

Before her marriage, Mrs. Strange was Agnes Iliff, a member of one of Indianapolis’ oldest families. Her husband, who died in 1914, also was a member of an old. family. She lived on the Strange farm. BUILDING TREND UP Past Week’s Totals Continue Favorable. Building permits, which during July exceeded June totals by several thousands of dollars, continued to show good volume this week, according to the Indianapolis Real Estate Board’s compilation. Total for the week was $348,310, which included twenty-eight residential projects amounting to $150.560. Several apartments were included in the list among them the one being erected by E. Kuntz, 3762 N. Pennsylvania St., an addition to the Sheffield Inn, 960 N. Pennsylvania St., and one industrial project, a $15,000 building by the Acme Works, Inc., 433 S. Harding St. Permits for July reached a total of $2,367,686, slightly higher than the June figure of $2,321,913. June and July, 1927, were $4,078,642 and $1,565,132 respectively.

INSANE CRIMINAL FLEES HOSPITAL IN HANDCUFFS Citizens of Washington AVarned of Escape. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Newspapers warned citizens today that Robert Evans, 23, criminally insane patient, was at large after a thrilling escape from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Evans, who last January ran through downtown stores and streets, firing at random until arrested, was taken to the hospital for treatment Friday night. Handcuffs on his wrists were strapped to a broad leather belt around his waist. When he left the hospital he managed, with aid of a knife, to cut the strap, and still handcuffed leaped a fence and dashed into a woods. FAIR TO OPEN TUESDAY All Booths Taken in Industr 5 1 Building at Muncie. Bn United Press MUNCIE, Ind.. Aug. 4.—A1l booths in the industrial building of the Muncie fair, which is to open Tuesday, have been engaged, Secretary F. J. Claypool announces. The horse department has given promise of exceeding the number of stable accommodations,” Claypool said. ‘‘Teams weighing 3,000 or less will compete for honors. Entries have been made of horse and mule teams in the pulling contest, from Delaware and six adjacent counties. These include Henry, Blackford, Jay, Randolph, Grant and Madison Counties.” Writes Indiana History Bp Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 5. Charles Roll, associate professor of history, on the faculty of Indiana State here, is writing a limited edition history of Indiana in five volumes. He is being aided by an advisory council and a staff of special writers.

Fined by Wife By United Press CLEVELAND, Aug. 4.—Never stop to put a few “shots” under your belt before breakfast—especially if your wife is waiting for you to bring home the bacon. A local husband tried it and wound up in the clutches of the police. However, instead of locking him up, they took him home. Then friend wife popped a few questions. No, he didn’t remember where he got his drinks and he didn’t know that he was supposed to buy bacon for breakfast. She searched his pockets, then: “I’m glad you have a short memory, because you apfyrently forgot I gave you this bill to buy the bacon.”

Aviation CAPITOL FIELD FLYINS SCHOOL OPENSMONBAY Fifteen Students Expected to Take First Lesson of Course. Student instruction will be started Monday at the New Capitol Airways Inc. airport, Thirtieth St. and Georgetown Rd., President Edward M. Jose announced today. Jose said probably fifteen students would take their first instruction Monday under Chief Pilot Edward M. Johnston. Lawrence Sheridan, landscape architect, is preparing landscaping plans for the new airport, opened this week in an attempt to make it an asset to the beauty of the vicinity. With harvesting of grain crops on part of the field, the new airport will contain approximately 130 acres for landing purposes. It is located on the 175-acre Keller farm. Jose announced a second tenplane hangar is to be started on the field as soon as the first hangar is completed. Within sixty days the' company expects to start building a factory on the field to manufacture light training typs biplane to sell probably around $3,000. Capitol Airways is one of the few flying schools in the country taking care of its solo students through formation of a subsidiary company to assure them of an opportunity to fly after graduation at small cost. The subsidiary company will have one or more planes devoted to the club members. Membership will be SSO, with probably no additional cost to the club members, recruited from graduates of the school, until more planes are desired. The club will give students opportunity to get in-their flying time for advanced flying licenses.

Form Aviation Company Bn Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 4.—A group of business men here and at Calumet City are organizing a company to be known as Dreesen Aviation, Inc., to engage in passenger and commercial flying and teaching Whirlwind Gets Test The starting of a 1,000-hour breakdown test of the new Wright “Whirlwind” 325-horsepower aircooled motor, the largest of a series of three “Whirlwinds” developed In the laboratories of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, was witnessed by officials of the company, and a group of visiting engineers and guests. The new motor, which looks like the 200-horsepower Wright “Whirlwind” used by Colonel Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Byrd, Wilkins and the San Francisco to Australia fliers, was set up on a block in a double brick-walled test shed, separated from observers and operating engineers by heavy glass windows reinforced with wire. The motor was started and for a couple of hours at a low speed. It was then opened to 2,000 revolutions a minutes and it will be held at that speed—higher than its type will be called upon to run in actual service —either until “something goes” or for 1,000 hours. At the same time final tests were started on two other “Whirlwinds,” one a seven-cylinder, 200-horse-power motor to repiace the present J-5, and the other a 150-horsepower motor for use in the lighter commercial and training planes. Guy Vaughan, vice president of the Wright company, announced that the company had entered definitely upon a $5,000,000 expansion program. New structures now under way, Including foundries, machine and assembly units, will bring the capacity of the plant to 500 engines a month by the first of the year. “When Lindbergh flew the Atlantic we were turning out thirtyfive motors a month,” Vaughan said. “Last month we built and delivered 150 engines.” Arrange Ocean Air Mail Official announcement or arrangements for an amphibian mail airplane to leave the French Line steamship He de France while more than twenty-four hours from land, cutting off one day, between France and the United States, has been re-

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New Issue Once a Week .Proposed to Make Service Pay. All that is necessary to place the mail service on paying basis is to provide anew air mail stamp about once a week and use a different cancellation mark every day, Paul H. Moore, Chamber of Commerce aviation secretary, jokingly remarked today. Stamp collectors alone would Insure a profit, he added. Today Moore received a letter from a stamp collector in Chicago, enclosing ten stamped and addressed envelopes, to be forwarded on the air mail the day Col. Charles A. Lindbergh inspects proposed municipal airport sites here. Postmaster Is Flooded The writer asks that if more than one special cancellation is used, the ceived by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. The plane will leave tht steamship at such a distance from the American or French coasts that air mail it carries will be delivered twen-ty-four hours in advance of regular delivery. The new service will start Aug. 8 from Le Havre, and Aug. 17 from New York. Postage, prepaid, will be $1 for each half ounce for letters and postcards and 25 cents for each two ounces of other articles. Arrangements probably will be made later to forward onward from France this mail by air route, although such provision has not yet been announced. Mail intended for this special service should be marked "Via S. S. lie de France and airplane ship to shore,” and in addition to the special postage should bear the air mail fee of 4 cents for the first once and 8 tents for each additional ounce. Activities at Kokomo Bn Times Special KOKOMO. Ind., Aug. 4.—Visiting fliers at the Kokomo airport this week included Martin Young, Gary, who flew a Velie Monocoupe here on business. Marion Schellcnger, Bloomfield, has been enrolled as a student at the aviation instruction school here. Clyde Shockley brought three new Waco airplanes from the factory at Troy, Ohio, during the week. Form Aviation Company HAMMOND, in' Aug. 4.—A group of business men here and at Calumet City are organizing a company to be known as Dreesen Aviation, Inc., to engage in passenger and commercial flying and teaching cf aviation.

Prepare for Camp Members of the 113th Observation Squadron, Indiana National Guard, today were preparing to leave Sunday for Camp Knox, Ky„ for the annual two weeks’ encampment. Lieut. Matt G. Carpenter and Lieut. Fred Sellers drove to camp Friday to prepare for arrival of the flying unit. The squadron members will leave Indianapolis at 3 a. m. Sunday in a number of chartered busses. More than 100 members will make the trip. The squadron’s six airplanes will be flowen to camp Sunday. The planes include two Curtis 0-11 biplanes, two Consoliated 0-17 blplnes and two Consolidated PT training planes. While the squadron is in camp, Indianapolis airport, which is managed by Lieut. Carpenter, will be in charge of Donald A. McConnell, local representative of the EmbryRiddle Company, Cincinnati-Chi-cago air mail contractors. Private Burcell Seavers has been detailed by the squadron commander, Major R. F. Taylor, to remain at the airport to be on duty at night. Stops in New Plane William Hunt, Moundsville, W. Va., stopped at Hoosier airport Friday on his way from the Travelair factory at Wichita, Kan., to Moundsville with anew biplane he purchased recently from the Hoosier airport.

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letters may be marked with each. No special cancellation has been provided for the occasion. Moore said. Lindbergh is expected to visit Indianapolis soon to view various proposed municipal airport sites assisting the Chamber of Commerce and Mayor L. Ert Slack’s airport committee in deciding on a definite location. Bearing out Moore's humorous suggestion on making air mail pay, is the .flood of air mail letters forwarded to Postmaster Robert H. Bryson on special air mail occasions. Ask for Autographs Many thousand letters were sent here to beforwarded the opening day of the Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Chicago air mail route Dec. 17, 1927. More than 3,000 such letters, many seeking autograph by Postmaster Bryson, were received in advance for dispatch to stamp collectors Aug. 1, when the new reduced air mail postage rate became effective.

Dry Flying By Times Special FT. WAYNE. Ind., Aug. 4. No person under the influence of liquor will be permitted to fly at Paul Baer municipal airport either as a pilot or passenger, under regulations adopted for the field by the park board. The regulations as based on the air commerce act of 1926, a Federal stdtute.

CHARGE STONE BROKE AIR LAW Comedian in Hospital, State Probes Infraction. Bu United Press NEW LONDON, Conn., Aug. 4. While Fred Stone, his dancing legs broken and his head swathed in bandages, lay in a hospital here today recovering from injuries received when his airplane crashed Friday, State aviation officials were investigating apparent infractions of Connecticut's air regulations. Although the noted comedian holds a Federal student pilot’s license, it was said he had failed to obtain a Connecticut students’ license, before he made the hop that may end his dancing career. Connecticut laws likewise provide a plane must be reported within forty-eight hours after it enters the State. Stone's travelair biplane was reported to have been brought here nearly a week ago and was not reported. Mrs. Stone has moved to the hospital to be near her husband. The actor’s three children, Dorothy, Paula and Cyrl, went to the hospital from Stone’s East Lyme ranch today. Rex Beach, author and lifelong friend, was another visitor. Sets Altitude Mark Kermit Micklethwaite, advance flying student at Hoosier airport, set anew altitude record for the field Friday when he flew an OX-5 powered Travel Air biplane 14,000 feet above the airport. This was Micklethwaite’? third attempt at aiiitude. The first attempt ended when he became too cold, having failed to dress in winter flying clothes. The second time he wore heavy clothing, but reduced his gasoline supply and ran out of fuel. The flight Friday required an hour and thirty-five minutes. Micklethwaite said he became quite cold at that altitude despite the warm clothing. He is flying daily at Hoosier airport in order to put in the 200 hours necessary for a transport license.

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—Aviation— LEVINE DICKERS WTH GERMANS FOR NEW PLANE Amerkican Will Purchase Junkers, Probably for Ocean Flight. By United Press BERLIN. Aug. 4.—Charles A. Levine, first trans-Atlantic air passenger, has arrived at Dessau, where he is negotiating for the purchase of a Junkers monoplane in which he probably will attempt a flight from Germany to the United States. Negotiations are being kept but Miss Mabel 801 l is at Dessau with Levine and it is said she will make the flight to the United States with him. The Junkers plane for which Levine is negotiating will be similar* in hesign to Jhat in which Baron Gunther von Iluenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Maj. James Fitzmaurice flew from Ireland to Greenly Isle. Junkers representatives already have applied at the American embassy for permission to fly a, Junkers plane to the United States. This permit will be granted. It is not known, however, for whom th permission was requested. Meanwhile, Mrs. Bert Acosta, wifo of the pilot of Commander Richard E. Byrd’s trans-Atlantic flight, and Mrs. Charles A. Levine have arrived in Berlin from Paris. Neither continued on to Dessau. City to Be Air Marked Impetus to the movement to “air* mark” Indianapolis for aviators has been given by announcement that this city will be on the route of the transcontinental airplane race from New York to Los Angeles, to be held in connection with the national air races at Los Angeles Sept. 8 to 16. Paul Moore, Chamber of Commerce aviation secretary, has received a letter from the Los Angeles chamber, asking information on the air markers available here to guide the racing fliers. At present, according to Moore, the city is most inadequately marked. The only known buildings in the city, except the airports, having air markers, are the National Guard Armory, Ford assembly plant, Scutz factory, Bemis Bag Company and the Hoosier garage, on E. New York St. Information on cost and Department of Commerce specifications for standard roof air marking may be obtained from Moore or from the Department of Commerce aeronautical branch. Air Mail Popular Be Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind,, Aug. 4 Nearly 400 pounds of air-mail, or more than 10,000 letters, has been sent over South Bend’s new air-mail route in the first two weeks of its operation. The eastern plane for Michigan points leaves South Bend at 8:10 a. m. daily, the west-bound plane leaving for Chicago each evening at 6:25. More than 3,000 of the new 5-cent air-mail stamps were sold in a few days before the new reduced air-mail postage became effective. Flies at English B’l Times Sperial ENGLISH, Ird., Aug. 4.—E. E. Jones, Louisville, Ky., flier, helped provide entertainment for the fortyfirst. annual reunion and home-com-ing in English this week. Wednesday Jones dropped tickets from his plane entitling finders to free airplane rides. Thirty-Three at Airport By Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 4. Thirty-three visiting planes stopped at the new Dresser airport here in July.

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