The sun., 1919-10-18
IN N. Y. TO-DAY.
MAYNARD'S AIM
Flying ParsOn Works All
Night, Repairs Broken Plane
and Makes 778 Miles.
CLEVELAND IS REACHED
Only 500 Miles More to Com
plete Coast to Coast Round
Trip Air Voyage.

After working almost all night in a
cornfield and succeeding in placing a
new motor In his De Haviland, a Job
that in a well equipped shop ordinarily
takes two days, Lieut.. Belvin w. May
nard, the flying parson, zoomed into
the air at Wahoo, Neb.. forty miles
west Of Omaha, yesterday morning and
by nightfall had reached Cleveland, IT'S
miles further east. He is expected at
Mineola early this afternoon.
The breaking Of the crankshaft of
his heavy Liberty motor, a misfortune
which many expert fiiers declared
would put him out of the race, and
which all said would at least mean the
losing of his lead, did neither. Lieut..
Maynard and his mechanic, Sergeant
w. E. Kline. proved as fast on the
ground as in the air.
Lieut.. Maynard rested last night
several hundred miles ahead of his
nearest rival, Capt. ]. o. Donaldson,
with only 5O3 miles separating him
from Roosevelt Field, Mineola, where
his wife and two baby girls are wait
ing for him. On his way he met Capt
Lowell H. Smith, the leading San
Francisco airman, now bound back to
the Golden Gate. who reached Chicago
last night.
Lieut.. Maynard himself got some sleep
during the night. but Sergeant Kline and
the owner of the cornfield where the
plane landed. a nameless Nebraska
farmer with sporting instincts. worked
steadily until IN the morning, when
the Liberty engine. which had been
mounted in the wrecked Martin bomber
| piloted by Capt. Roy Francis, was ready
to whip the De Haviland through the
| air at two miles a minute.
100 Miles in 7s Minutes.
| When the big Liberty motor had been
! tested and shown to be developing all of
its 400 horsepower Sergeant Kline
| grimy, red eyed and unshaven. grabbed
| Trixie, Maynard's German police dog,
| crawled into the rear cockpit and went
| to sleep. He slept most of the morning
| despite the terrific roar OF the motor
| and the rush and chill Of the wind. hug
| ging the dog for warmth. The mishap
| has merely added to the parsons deter
| mination to shoot across the continent
\ faster than any other contestant, east
| bound or westbound. and his nVe stops
| during the day were as brief as 1t was
| humanity possible to make them.
MAYNARD dropped his heavy machine
on Herring Field. Des Moines. at 1O:1S
A. NJ He made the next hop OF 15s
miles to Rock Island, ILL.,, In Just SO
minutes, breaking the record he estab-
lished for this leg of the journey on his
westward trip. A huge crowd was wait
ing for him. and the heartiest greetings
he received there were from Billy ano
Ma Sunday. who, with Mayor II. M
Schriver. headed a big delegation. Billy
told the flying parson Just what he
thought n his vigorous Christianity
while Ma piled both the Lieutenant and
the grimy mechanic and the blase puI
with real food.
| 81 shouldn't have a bit more trouble
all the way East after Billy and Ma
both have put their blessing on me anc
my machine" said Maynard. Just before
he climbed into the plane. and he didn't
as far as Cleveland. anyhow He gol
10 Grant Park. Chicago. at ;3s :b7. anc
finding himself too high above the helt
TO land without overshooting the en-
| closure, pioA'S
In a way that made the spectators gasp
When the time came to leave Maynart
decided he hadn't time to taxi to the enc
of the field and then take-off into thu
wind. as is customary, so he simply
sneeded up from the spot where the me
ohanics had been filling his tanks ant
cot into the air squarely across wind
Almost as soon as he got into the air h
xoomed up-almost perpendicularly, l
seened TO the spectators-snd sped on
across Lake Michigan instead Of huggin'
the shore, as is commonly done. HI
hesded for Michigan City. Ind, on hi
way across country to Bryan ohio' tn
next control stop.
sleeps as Plane whfHEes On.
The flying parson covered the l6
miles In rs minutes. arriving at SAs
and took off again in thirty-one minute
!, FOR his destination. Cleveland. At BryaI
he learned that Lieut., j. p. Richter. on
~ the stragglers bound from San Fran
cisco 10 Mineoia, had left for Bryal
seventeen minutes before he himself In
tsnded 10 hop on He reached Clevelan
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