The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-02
THE AUTO DEALERS WILL MEET TONIGHT Make Final Plans for Big
 Show April 15-20 PECK BREAKS RECORD New Duration Record for Air Cooled Motor Is Made at Augusta.
 Business Men Will
 Meet Today
PECK BREAKS RECORD

The Birmingham Automobile Dealers association, comprising all of tie local gentlemen engaged in the automobile business, will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the offices of Judge Dan Greene and make final plans for their share of the big aviation meet-automoblle show and races, under the auspices of the Business Mems League and direction of the Ser ger Aviation company to be held at Ala bama State Fair grounds from April 15 to 20 inclusive.
 There will also be a meeting of the Business Mems League at their offices today for the purpose of putting on some finishing touches to the great spring cele- bration.
 The Berger Aviation company has 9 men advertising the meet with flyers and other literature and staff of bill post CTS and distributing men working in city and country.
 An important feature of the meeting of the Business Mems League today will be the advance tickets thoroughly dis- trlbuted. as every out of town person who gets a ticket will easily interest half a dozen others to attend. They will ask the business men to send out the , tickets without delay as over 100000 out of | town people are expected here. J. S Berger announces that there will be nine ayiators at the big meet instead of eight as he originally promised and wifi f x.rfn Ja ha t.ef aviation meet ever held in this section of America.
 At the meeting of the Business Men S League today committees will be chosen to call on the business interests and ask them 10 decorate liberany for the meet. All the leading business men are already advertising the celebration on their sta tionery.
 Peck Breaks Record
 Word has been received at aviation headquarters in the offices of the Bnsi- ness Mems League that Paul Peck, of the Berger staff, on Wednesday, March 27, broke the American record for air cooled duration flight, at the grounds of the United States Signal Corps Avia- ton School, al Augusta, Ga, by remain ing in the ar for two hours and IS mln- | utes.
 | Mir Peck was in his Columbia bi-plane at the time and used a Gyro motor. 4 l significant fact showing the excellent quality of the motor is that when tn. machine left the ground it was turning | over at the rate of 100 revolutions q minute and when MT. Peck landed it was making 1150.
 He wrote about the performance as fol- lows. "I was perfectly warm, but l be- came very stiff from my cramped posi- tion along toward the end of my flight. Not that my machine is uncomfortable, but that one has to keep on the jump all the time"
 MT. Peck holds the endurance record for the Augusta camp. This latest achievement of Mir Peck is another laurel added To the camp of the Berger ayiators. And the new triumphs will cause a friend ly rivalry at the Birmingham meet from April 15 to 20.
 Nine Aviators
 The terms Of the contracts with the various aviators are such that they will get a bonus for outvieing each other In their aerial eyolutions MT. Peck Is looked to to create new records at the big spring celebration. He Is the same aviator who astonished Washinetonians ny Sd1ilHB bAti tue thpltpi blt HlBHl, lust at dusk, after he had spent but a few days studying the new science of aviation. @thiie at Harrisburg his ma chine hit a tree and was demolished, both machine and aviator failing into creek. from which he emerged unhurt few minutss later, to face his three weeks old bride, who mortified had has, tened to the scene expecting that he was killed.
 MT. Peck is 24 years old, of good habits and attends the Baptist church in each cify he appears.