The Montgomery Advertiser
- Columbus wins the Southeastern pennant
- Complaints accuse McPherson and associates of conspiring to obstruct justice
- Airmail pilot makes a safe parachute descent
The newspaper celebrates Columbus’s pennant victory while reporting an arrest order in the McPherson investigation and an airmail emergency. The sports result is decisive, but the criminal item concerns accusations awaiting legal process. Lindbergh’s escape distinguishes the pilot’s survival and recovery of mail from the destruction of his aircraft, with fog and low fuel shaping his decision.
Translation
Columbus wins the Southeastern pennant
COLUMBUS, GA., September 16.—Hats off to the Foxes!
To that scrappy band of baseballers goes the honor of being the first winners of a pennant in the Southeastern League, which was decided here today when the Lions were subdued for the fourth straight time by the score of 6 to 0.
Complaints accuse McPherson and associates of conspiring to obstruct justice
LOS ANGELES, September 16.—(AP)—Arrest of Aimee Semple McPherson, Angelus Temple evangelist; Mrs Minnie Kennedy, her mother; Kenneth G. Ormiston, former Angelus Temple radio operator; John Doe Martin; and Mrs Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff was ordered late today by District Attorney Asa Keyes.
Airmail pilot makes a safe parachute descent
OTTAWA, ILL., September 16.—(AP)—C. [?] Lindbergh, pilot of the St. Louis–Chicago airmail plane, kept from landing at Chicago tonight by a heavy fog, dropped safely from his plane by parachute here tonight. His plane was wrecked.
Lindbergh made the flight from St. Louis to Chicago, but because of dense fog over the latter city decided to turn back in an effort to find a place to land.
When he was eleven miles north of Ottawa his gas supply ran low and he began drawing on his reserve tank. Knowing that he had only twenty minutes, he decided to leave the plane by parachute.
He landed safely in a field and proceeded to Ottawa.
The drop was about 8:30 p.m. central standard time, from a height estimated at 4,000 to 6,000 feet by the pilot. Three sacks of mail were recovered from the wrecked plane and taken to the post office at Ottawa.
Lindbergh planned to remain here tonight and will attempt to salvage portions of the plane tomorrow.
Context
A new league’s first place in local memory
The report’s excitement rests on a double distinction: Columbus won the series, and the Foxes became the league’s first pennant winners. The salutation to the players turns a score into civic celebration. A new competition gained its first champions, giving supporters a result to remember as part of both their city’s sporting identity and the league’s beginnings.
A criminal case reached a religious institution’s inner circle
The arrest order names not only McPherson but her mother and the temple’s former radio operator, alongside two other people. It thus places the evangelist within a network of family and institutional relationships. Those descriptions give readers a way to understand why a case involving a public religious figure could draw attention to the people and communications apparatus around her.
Before the Atlantic, flying the mail
Lindbergh worked as a contract airmail pilot before his 1927 Atlantic crossing. Scheduled mail flights gave him practical experience of poor weather, fuel limits and emergency decisions. His September 16 escape belongs to that working career. The recovery of the mailbags after the aircraft was lost also shows that the flight’s purpose continued on the ground: the letters still had to reach the postal system.
Original
COLUMBUS WINS SOUTHEASTERN PENNANT
COLUMBUS, GA., Sept. 16.1—
Hats off to the Foxes!
To that scrappy band of base
ballers goes the honor of being the
first winners of a pennant in the
Southeastern league, which was
decided here today when the Lions
were subdued for the fourth
straight time by the score dt 6
to 0.
Complaints Charge Aimee Sem ple McPherson and Asso ciates With Conspiring to Defeat Justice
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16.—
(AP)—-Arrest of Aimee Semple
McPherson, Angelus Temple
evangelist; Mrs. Minnie Kennedy,
her mother; Kenneth G. Ormis
tdn, former Angelus Temple radio
operator; John Doe Martin, and
Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff,
•yas ordered late today by Dis
trict Attorney Asa Keyes. v
AIR MAIL CARRIER MAKES SAFE DROP
OTTAWA, ILLS., Sept. 16.—(AP)_C.
I* Lindbergh, pilot 6f the St. Louls
Chicago air mall plane, kept from land
ing at Chicago tonight by a heavy fog.
dropped from hie plane by parachute
safely here tonight. Hie plane was
wrecked.
Lindbergh made tHe flight from St.
Louie to Chicago, but because of dense
fog over the latter city, decided to
turn back In an effort to find a place
to land.
When he was eleven miles north of
Ottawa hie gas supply ran low and he
began drawing on his reserve tank.
Knowing that he only had twenty min
utes, he decided to leave the plane by
parachute. __
He landed safely in a field and pro
ceeded to. Ottawa.
The drop was about 8:30 p. m. cen
tral standard time from a height esti
mated at 4,000 to: 6,000 feet by the
pilot. Three sacks of mall were recov
ered from the wrecked nlain tin] taken
to the postoffice at Ottawa.
Lindbergh planned to remain here
tonight and will attempt to salvage
portions of the plane tomorrow.
Source: Holding institution