The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-10-09
NORTH CAROLINA BOY
ECLIPSING ALL THE FLY
ERS IN SPEED AND EN-
DURANGO. HE DROVE
S13 MILES IN 4O5 MIN
UTES

Chicago, Oct. 9.-Lt. B. w. May !
nard, the leader in the $500 mile air
plane race took the air from Ash
onds this morning.
Maynard at Rock Island, Illinois
Rock Island, ILL.,, Oct. 9.-Lt. B. |
w. Maynard, driving a Dehaviland
plane arrived at 8:37 this morning. |
He made 155 miles from Chicago in
80 minutes. He was the first cross
the country flyer to reach this place |
After aboard supplies he again took
the air at 900 a. m. and headed for
the next control station at Des
Moines which is 158 miles from
here.
S13 Miles in 4O5 Minutes.
Chicago, Oct. 9.-In the van of
At planes in the New York to San
Francisco airp1ane race with more
mileage to his credit, in the endur-
ance and speed contest of 45OOl
miles, Lit. B. w. Maynard of Mt.
Olive, N. c., arrived here this morn
ing. The lieutenant drove his plane
a distance of S13 miles in 4O5 min
utes. His elapsed time was nine
hours and 25 minutes.
Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 9.-Lt. B.
w. Maynard landed at Herring Field
at 10.45 O'Clock this morning in his
westward transcontinental flight
North Carolina Minister Leading
Mineola, N. Y, Oct. S.-Forty-
seven airplanes piloted with one ex-
ception by American Military avia-
blaze an aerial trail 5,40O miles
across the continent and return in
the greatest speed, endurance and
reliability contest in history, while
from San Francisco fifteen planes
took the air for the East. Five
more planes will leave here tomor-
row.
At sundown tonight Lieut.. Be1vin
w. Maynard, a Baptist theological
student of Wake Forest, N. c., and
winner of the recent trip contest
between New York and Toronto, had
flown $40 miles from Mineola and
landed at Chicago, while several 9TH
er westbound contests were resting
over night at Binghamton, Roches-
ter, Buffalo, Bryan and Cleveland
control stations along the way.
Eight accidents in which three
persons were killed and one injured
had been reported tonight to the
headquarters of the American Fly
ing Club here, which is cooperating
with the army air service in conduct
ing the contest.
Major D. H. Chrissey was instant
ly killed and his observer, Sergeant
Virgil Thomas, received injuries from
which he later died when the plane
in which they had left San Francis
co early this morning crashed in at
tempting to land at Salt Lake City.
Sergeant w. H. hewitt died this
afternoon of injuries received when
a plane in which he and Colonel Ger
old Brandt were riding fell to the
ground at Deposit, N. c. Colonel
Brandt was reported to be not Sc
riously injured.
An element of mystery was in
iected into the race when a plane,
bearing the number "SS" descended
from the sky and flew toward the
starting line. Col. Archie Miller
commanding all aviation fields on
Long Island, thinking that the plane
had checked out" waved for it to
proceed. The plane touched Its
wheels to the ground and contin-
ned without stopping. Official time
keepers marked the starting time
as 11:56-36, but when they came to
check up they found that the plane
was not entered on the official list
and all attempts to learn its identity
had proved unsuccessful at late
hour tonight.