Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1929 — Page 7

JAN. 25, 1929.

CITY CONSIDERS LEASE OF LAND FOR AIRPORT Plan Would Speed Work, Otherwise Held Up by Red Tape. Leasing of the ground which the city proposes to buy for an airport to rush conditioning of the field was considered today by city officials. The 1920 airport statute permits cities to lease property for airports Mayor L. Ert Slack said the plan | to lease Site 8, south of Ben Davis,! and start work on conditioning the farm land is being considered. There are about 1,000 acres in the tract. “I do not know yet whether such a thing would be practical. We will know within a few days,” Mayor Slack said. About three months will be required for city officials to comply with the specified “red tape” in advertising the project and acquiring the land. This would delay construction of hangars and necessary work on the property. Bond Issue Next After the intention to buy the airport has been advertised for three weeks, the council will proceed to pass a bond issue for $892,000. if no remonstrance is filed against the improvement. The legal advertisements have been prepared by Smiley N. Chambers, assistant city attorney, and are expected to be started in a few days by City Clerk Wiiliam A. Boyce Jr. Mayor Slack was not disturbed over reports that the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., may locate at the Mars Hill landing field, instead of the municipal airport, because of the need to start servce before the city field is ready. "We’re not going to buy an airport to please any air line or any railroad compahy. If the city at large would not benefit sufficiently to justify the expenditure, there is no reason for going ahead with the project. We’ll have a municipal airport, regardless of where Transcontinental locates,” Slack declared. Refuses to Enter Agreement H. Weir Cook, Curtis Flying Service of Indiana manager, conferred with Slack Thursday, relative to negotiating a lease with the city for establishing a station at the city airport. Slack said the city could not enter into an agreement with the Curtiss representatives, who are associated with the Transcontinental interests, until the city is sure the land will be acquired- “ After we’re sure we’ll have that land, then we will talk turkey,” Slack remarked. * Beacon at Princeton Bu Times Special PRINCETON, Ind., Jan. 25.—A beacon for guidance of aviators is to be placed on top of a water tank at the H. J. Heinz plant here. Plans for the light have been approved by H. E. Bender, department of commerce engineer. New Type Plane Tested An airplane with two staggered wings, a “gear shift” with eleven “speeds,” no stabilizer, heretofore considered by airplane engineers an absolute necessity for safety operation, and many other revolutionary features is the subject of an experimental design tested by Donald A. Hall, designer of Colonel Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. Secrecy has surrounded the project since the beginning of the work on plans more than a year ago. This secrecy was merely due to the experimental nature of the undertaking and a wish not to permit conjecture to overweigh scientific investigation. Hall designates the new plane as a low-winged tandem monoplane: it was designed for the MahoneyRyan Aircraft corporation of New York. Since the plane itself was com pleted early last summer, it has been subjected to severe tests. The advantages are instant response to manipulation, extreme ease and speed in maneuverabiilty, great strength and the utmost stability. Cites Aviation Advance “The new business of aviation compares more than favorably with any other method of travel in all aspects,” William P. MacCracken Jr., assistant secretary of aeronautics, department of commerce, said at the annual Indianapolis Association of Credit Men meeting Thursday night at the Columbia Club. “Aviation is financially sound and has overcome the inferiority complex that characterized the industry immediately after the war. “Two thousand applications for physical examinations to operate planes in the last two years is a greater number of pilots than was trained by the army during the World war. “Modern passenger planes are the most comfortable means of travel known, and cost of riding rapidly Is being reduced. “Increased safety of flying is demonstrated by reduction of more than 40 per cent in air insurance rates in three years.” Nearly three hundred attended the dinner. Merritt Fields, manager, presided, and Ulysse- Jordan, president, introduced McCracken. Pole Plans Ocean Hop Bu United Press WARSAW, Poland. Jan. 25.—Finishing touches are being put on the airplane “Polonia” at the Caproni factory near Milan for the flight which Captain Kowalski plans to make from Ireland to the United ' Stataes early this spring. Equipped with four motors totaling .200 horsepower, the Polonia will carry a pilot, naviagator. and possibly one passenger. It is estimated its top speed will be close to 140 miles an hour. [ The flight is being financed by a f committee of Polish emigrants in . the United States headed by Alder- [ man Stanley Adamkiewicz, of Chi- | sago.

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Weather conditions at 9:30 a. m. at Indianapolis airport: West wind 36 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 29.86; temperature, 16; ceiling 1,500 feet; visibility, 4 miles. Stunt Flier in Air Mail Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.—After stunt flying in “Lilac Time” and

other movies for several years, Harry Crandall has joined the ranks of the air mail pilots. He makes the hop between Medford and Oakland, Cal., one of the mountainous divisions. Crandall is a veteran of the sky lanes, having been an aviator for sever-

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al years. Air Medals Awarded Bu United Press PARIS, Jan. 25.—Captain Arturo Ferrarin of Italy was awarded the international air laureate for the greatest accomplishment in aviation in 1928 by the International League of Aviators, it was announced today. Lady Bailey, wife of Sir Abe Bailey of England, was awarded the womens international trophy. Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson of the United States, was awarded a medal of honor. Among others receiving medals of honor awarded were Captain Emilio Carranza, Mexico; Carlos Martinez de Pinillos, Peru; Bert Hinkler, England; Captain Hermann Koehl, Germany, and Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith, Australia. Medal Flier Missing Bn Unfed Press NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—The government has a perfectly good distinguished flying cross similar to that given Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, but can’t find the hero to whom the award is to be made. The hero is James D. Long, a former air service sergeant, who in 1920 made a flight from Mitchel field to Nome, Alaska. Wins Air Insurance Suit A passenger in an airplane is not “engaged in aviation” and is entitled to collect insurance, even where there is a clause in the policy eliminating accidents occurring “while engaged in aviation or ballooning,” the Indiana supreme court has ruled. The opinion was handed down in answer to the question raised in the appeal to the supreme court by the Mutual Accident Insurance Company, when it lost its case in the Marion county superior court on suit to collect by Mrs. Leona Jackson, whose husband, Ralph L. Jackson, was killed in a plane crash in 1923. SHOT IN WHIPPING BOY Mother Chastises Youth With Gun; Wounded, by Bullet. Bu United Press PITTSBURGH. Jan. 25.—When Mrs. Nellie Garrett again finds it necessary to chastise her son, she will not use a sawed-off shotgun for a paddle. The youth had about completed arrangements to buy the weapon from another boy, when the mother interposed. She took hold of the muzzle and proceeded to emphasize previous instructions about firearms. Then the gun went off and a bullet lodged in Mrs. Gairett’s abdomen. FINE BACKWARD DRIVER Speeds Wrong Way to Keep Meter Down, but It Costs $lO. Bu United Press DENVER, Jan. 25.—Henry Fallico rented a “drive-yourself” auto, the fee to be in direct ratio to mileage. He got a bright idea and started to drive in reverse to prevent the speedometer from registering. But a policeman couldn’t figure it out and arrested Henry. Speeding backwards didn't appeal to the judge either, so Henry was forced to pay $lO for his smartness.

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