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The Lenoir News, Established 1898 Consolidated April 1, 1919
LENOIR, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919
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Property Transfer and Buildings
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Falls Other Interesting
News Items
(By J. E. Yount)
Rev. G. C. Ivery has moved to
Louisville, Ky., and is attending the
Baptist Theological eminary there.
Miss Myrtle Ogle, who answers to
the name of "Hello, Central," at
Hickory, visited horns folks Sunday.
Mrs. P. L. Terrell, who came home
with her daughter, Mrs. Russell, re
cently, is so sick at this time that her
husband and all her children have
been called to her bedside.
The two Misses McDonald, who are
teaching in the graded school, were
called home Sunday by the death of
their little, brother.
Misses Mary Joe and Evelyn Estes
and Mrs. Morris and little daughter
of Rutherford College spent Wednes
day visiting and shopping in town.
Mr. W. P. Whitener, who lives on
Rhodhiss street, has lately remodeled
his home, giving it quite an up-to-date
appearance.
Miss Lois McAfee has bought a lot
from Mr. Tilley and will build on it
at once. Mr. Tilley is himself build
ing a nice bungalow on his lot. These
new homes will be quite an improve
ment to this part of the town.
The night force at the Cord mill
went on a strike Monday evening.
Wanted more pay and did not want
more work. Everybody's doing it.
Prof. Barnes and his assistants are
getting along finely in the school
here. Some of the good little boys
are strenuously protesting against
being whipped with a leather strop.
The young lady in tne posiomce
here who hands us our mail and reads
our postcards, gets better looking ev
ery day. She says so herself.
It is said that some of the young
men of Granite who are rather expert
performers on the checker board at
Moore & Hoke's have never been
known to play a stovwood solo on the
chopping block at home, leaving that
for their women folk.
Caldwell county i3 losing some of
her best families from along the Ca
tawba river, having sold their farms
to the Southern Power Company.
They are moving over into Burke
county, nearer the South mountains.
What is that? Oh, let's hope that is
not the reasoji, even though it does
look suspicious.
Add hound pups to the list of life s
necessities that have gone up out of
the reach of the average family. A
fellow tried to buy an ordinary mean
looking, long-eared one the other day.
It wasn't for sale at any price, but
he might buy buy a young, untrained
second cousin of that one from a
neighbor for $10. The fellow who is
compelled to get one this year cer
tainly is up against it.
On the Lenoir-Hickory road driv
ing an old-fashioned horse, is not
much satisfaction any more. You
hardly get on it till "TooMoot" goes
a John Henry and then you have to
get out of the way and then eat dust
till "G-r-r-r gr-r-r" goes another, and
the dust business is repeated, and this
over and over till "Bang" somelbody's
tire goes, like a fellow firing a shot
gun. Your sympathy don't seem to
Ue on the job when the man has to
get out and soil his hands and spoil
nis Sunday britches. Neither are you
in a state of mind to feel sorry for
the fellow lying on his back under
Tiis, with the oil dripping in his face,
fooling with the dofunnys and jim
nammers on the under side of the
thing and breaking the seventh com
mandment at the same time.
PALMER SAYS PRICE OF SUGAR
MUST NOT ADVANCE
Steps to prevent an abnormal in
crease in the price of sugar because
of existing shortage were taken by
department of justice Monday. At
torney General Palmer notified beet
sugar refiners, who have been with
holding their products from the mar
ket until the price situation became
more stabilized, that the. United
States sugar equalization board had
determined that 10 cents was a fair
price to be charged the wholesaler,
and that any charge in excess of that
amount would be regarded as in vio
lation of the food control act. Re
finers were asked to telegraph their
concurrence in this price, which
would mean that they would put their
supply on the market immediately,
thereby relieving the present strin
gency. The price to the wholesaler hereto
f ore hag been 9 cents, so that the new
price means an increase of 1 pent a
pound. Retailers have Ibeen allowed
to charge 11 cents a pound for con
trolled sugar under the old prices.
"While the department of justice and
the sugar board did not state what
the new retail price would be, it was
assumed that the increase woUld be
. :aot greater than the wholesale price.
14,000 PREACHERS URGE THAT
TREATY BE RATIFIED
-' The Senate received last Saturday
a petition signed y 14,000 clergy
men in every State of the Union, rep
resenting virtually every section, and
including jrotestanis, tjainoiica na .., '
Jews, urging, the prompt ratification BILL PASSED TO BAR RADICALS,
of the peace treaty. Asfl result of a j .The House has passed a bill extend
mail canvass the committee received ing for one year war-time passport
14,450 favorable replieshile only restrictions so as to keep radicals ana
80S clergymen sent word that they 'undesirable aliens out of the United
opposed Qie league of nations or were States. It is significant that! the ass
not ni favor of ratifying the covenant , age was by an overwhelming ma--without
radical change. - "1 Jority.
Including Protestants, Catholics and
State Architect and Enginere Visit
Boone Heating Plant, and Oth
er Improvements to Build
ings and the Grounds
(By J. M. Downum)
Mr. James A. Salter, State archi
tect, and Mr. H. A. Underwood, State
engineer, were at the school the firt
of the week looking over the school
grounds with the view of locating a
central heating plant for all the build
ings of the school and planning pos
sible walks and drives that would
make the entire school plant a unit.
This all was looking to future devel
opment of the school.
Miss Horner of the Valle Cruci3
Mission School, with several of her
teachers, was at the school Thursday
of the flast week.
Mr. an dMrs. Stroud, Mr. Gilliam
and Miss White, all from Wilkesboro,
were at the school Saturday to see
Mrs. Stroud's and Mrs. Gilliam's
brother, who is in school.
Mr. and Mrs. Avery Graybeal, b th
former students of the school, came
in Saturday to spend some days with
Mrs. Graybeals mother, Mrs. J. M.
Payne.
A Mr. Roberts and Fiss Lockabill
of Pineola were married at the Meth
odist parsonage Sunday afternoon by
Rev. H. F. Powell.
A large number of the members of
the. Methodist church met at the par
sonage on Sunday afternoon, and af
ter a talk by the pastor and some
others, decided to begin at once to ar
range for the building of a new $20,
000 church in Boone. Those present
agreed that tfie church here could
raise $10,000 of this amount, and ow
ing to the peculiar conditions here
would ask the board of church ex
tension to help us in securing the
balance. Rev. H. F. Powell, Dr.
McD. Andrews and Prof. J. M. Dow
num were appointed a committee to
lay the matter before the conference
board of church extension at the an
nual conference at Greensboro. Mr.
Powell and Mr. Downum left Monday
morning for the conference.
PACKERS RULE FOOD MARKET,
SAY REPORT
Reiteration of the claim that the
five big packing companies of Chi
cago bid fair to dominate the whole
sale grocery trade and already han
dle more than 2UU foods unrelated to
the meat packing industry, many of
them directlv competitive as meat
substitutes, is made in Part 4 of the
Federal trad ecommission's report on
the industry, published a few days
ago. Included in the list of commod
ities said to be falling under control
of the "Big Five" are poultry and
game, dairy products, lard and butter
substitutes, canned and dried vege
tables and fruit, canned, cured and
frozen fish, coacoa, coffee, molasses
addition, ArmourahrdluspRbuaAship
and cane, corn and maple syrups.
Four of thge packers, Swift, Wil
son, Armour and Cudahy, the report
states, through their subsidiaries and
not including family-controlled com
panies, handled in 1918 49.5 per cent
of the estimated total of shipped
dressed poultry and 33 per cent of
shipped eggs. The same four han
dled 49 per cent of all factory-made
cheese in 1918, the report says.
Libby, McNeill & Libby, a Swift
concern, alone handled 10.4 per cent
of all evaporated and condensed milk
in 1918, according to the report.
Production of lard compounds and
substitutes by the five packers during
the first six months of 1917 was
placed at 49.4 per cent of the. total,
tand oleomargarine at 51 per cent.
There is sufficient evidence, the re
port continues, that the "big five" are
dividing the fields among themselves.
"If Armour's grocery specialties
are largely concentrated along such
lines as rice, cereals, certain kinds of
canned goods and cheese, and each of
the other of the great five packers
concentrates his specialties along a
few well chosen lines, the profitable'
fields become pretty well covered and
pretty well ruled by the five."
Th report declares the meat pack
ers "are large speculators" and that
their control of capital and credit
enables them to buy in such a way
as to resell "upon a market in which
their purchases have forced up the
price." It also asserts that the pack
ers ,fhave extraordinary buying and
markteing power, due to certain ad
vantage, perhaps not always unlaw
ful but certainly often unjustifiable."
Among these advantages are enu
merated packer control of 44.3 per
cent of all cold storage facilities.
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES WERE
COMMITTED BY BOLSHEVIKI
Prof. Guido Schnider of Riga, in a
lecture at Stockholm, stated that the
bolshevik! shot 23,632 men, women
and children in 1 Riga, The execu
tioners, intoxicated and unable to
aim straight, wounded their victims
time and again, laughing at their ag
onies, which some time lasted a whole
day and night, he said. Young girls,
elegantly dressed, volunteered as ex
ecutioners and, promenading up and.
down with rifles, fired at .the. prison
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Number of Candidates Pack "Hot
Sands" and Feed Jerry Expect
ed from Hickory, Statesville
Rhodhiss, Other Place
The Divan of Bagdad Temple No.
213 of Asheville, of the Dramatic
Order Knights of Khorassan, will
hold a ceremonial at Morganton to
night, when on eof the largest classes
ever initiated in this section of the
State will be led over the "hot sands"
and at the end of the journey become
feed for "Jerry," the Dokie tiger,
whose ravenous appetite has been
whetter up by a long fast. Bagdad
Temple is the banner temple of the
country for the. number of Tyros in
itiated within the past six months and
will within a few months be one of
tne large temples oi tne imperial
Palace. Beginning last May 27 with
116 members, when the temple was
nstituted, they now number 46j2,
and the membership will, at the pres
ent rate, pass the 600 mark by Jan. 1.
The temple, has its own band of 30
players, every man a musician and
all of them Dokies, and a splendid
brigand team of 24 members. This
will be the last opportunity for get
ting into the order at $15 initiation,
as the fee goes to $25 on Jan. 1 by
imperial edict, and it is hoped that
as many as possible will avail them
selves of this opportunity. Tyros are
expected from Statesville, Hickory,
Rhodhiss, Lenoir, Marion and other
cities in addition to those from' Mor
ganton. Luncheon will be served
prior to the ceremonial. A monster
parade led by the temple band and
brigands, followed by the Tyros and
Votaries, with the. famous Jerry,
Bengal tiger of the temple, will move
over the principal thoroughfares of
the city.
Quite a number of Lenoir Pythians
attended the ceremonial at Statesville
several weeks ago and traveled the
trail over tfee "hot sands." Ton'ght
a bigger crowd goes to Morganton.
SENATE COMMITTEE DAZED BY
I. W. W. ATTORNEY
Whlie members of the Senate labor
committee investigating the steel
strike sat fairly dazed and dum
founded, Jacob Margolis of Pitts
burgh, I. W. W. attorney and admit
ted advocate of social revolution,
Monday told them a story of ultra
radical activities which he said under
lay and were associated with the na-tion-wid
estrike of steel workers.
Even more remarkable to his hear
ers was the Pittsburgh attorney's de
lineation of a partially successful at
tempt covering the past two years to
fiisp at Pittshnrc-h for an unstated
but vague hinted revolutionary pur
pose the combined forces of tne 1. yv.
W.. hnlshpvik and Russian industrial
workers whose imagination, he ac
knowledged, had been caught by the
successes of Uenine and irotzky in
Russia. All were working, he told
the committee calmly, "to create a
now snriptw within the shell of the
old. Margolis calmly classified him
self as "anarchist syndicalist," in
which rnnncitv he had worked with
and for the I. W. W. organization,
and a "Tolstoi anarchist." Govern
ments, he said, will be of no use
"when proper industrial conditions
are established," as he put it, and
these industrial conditions he pre
dicted would be established when
wnrlrpra nrcrnnizpd along- I. W. W
ttnps irpt-. tpbHv "to take over and
operate industry for themselves,
more efficiently than private owner
ship can.
THE
U. S. 'SENATE CANNOT
HINDER LEAGUE
While no official declaration can
be made in advance of the action of
the Senate on the treaty of Ver
sailles, it has been learned unofficially
that plans were being laid for bring
ing the leaeue of nations into exist
ence, almost immediately upon the
Dublication of the ratification of the
treaty by Great Britain, France, Italy
and Germany, which will put it into
force. Although the United States
cannot, participate in the initial
stages of the league's work, it is un
dexstood that the decision has been
reached to have President Wilson is
suea call for the first meeting of the
council of the league within the 15-
day period provided in the treaty for
the appointment by one council or
three members of the commission
which is to determine the boundary
of the Saare basin.
Article. V of the covenant provides
that decisions of the council "shall re
quire the agreemnt of all of the mem
bers of the league represented at the
meting," and it is held in Washington
that this does not specifically require
the attendance of an American mem
ber to legalize such decisions.
BOTH CAPITAL AND LABOR
MUST SHOW COMPROMISE
The fate of the Industrial confer
ence hangs on the outcome of the
efforts of the committee, of fifteen to
reach an agreement on "collective
bargaining," representatives ; of the
three groups public, labor and cap
ital declare. Several conferees said
that unless both capital and labor
showed a spirit of compromise so that
the committee could make nrotrress
in framing a declaration of the right
Of workers to organize in terms ac
ceptable to" all groups, tht confer
ence might as well announce frankly
that fcfrreemn tcould not Jbe reached
and adjourn.
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ROMULUS DIXON KIRBY
The Beaver Creek lodge I. O. O. F.
will unveil a monument Sunday at
King's Creek church to Romulus
Dixon Kirby, a member of the lodge
who was killed in France. The un
veiling services will begin at 1
o'clock. The Beaver Creek lodge ex
tends an invitation to all other Odd
Fellow lodges to be preesnt and as
sist in the unveiling exercises.
Romulus Dixon Kirby was a mem
ber of Battery E and was the first of
the battery to fall. He was wounded
in action Sept. 12 and later died in
the hospital. He was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. H. Kirby, who live near
King's Creek.
SOME OF THE NEWS OF BOONE
AND WATAUGA COUNTY
(Watauga Democrat)
Since the heavy rains throughout
the county on Sunday and Monday
the weather is agtin tine.
Attorney J. C. Fletcher of Lenoir,
with his s'.enographer, Miss Celeste
Seehorn, hns been in town several
days looking up titles government
lands.
Mr. Salter, State architect, has
been-t the Training School for sev
eral days making plans for the heat
ing plant for the boys' new dormi
tory, we understand.
Dr. R. K. Bineham was called to
the bedside of his brother. Dr. Plato
Bingham, at Russellville, Tenn., who
is sufferng wth blood posonng.
Mr. Boldin of the firm of Boldin &
Turner, wholesale grocers in Boone,
was over from Lenoir last week and
spent some time among the. mer
chants of th ecounty. It seems that
the merchants of Watauga should
Datronize this new business in their
home town and, aside, from this, they
are prepared to save you money,
Mr. John W. Hodges
has pur-
chased a lot near the depot from Mr,
W. L. Bryan and will erect a large
building thereon to accommodate his
increasing wholesale feed and grain
business. He now owns 100 feet front
on the commercial extension.
Dr. Dula of Lenoir was in town
Monday and told the Democrat that
all Watauga lacked of having a visit
from an airplane was a suitable place
to land this side side of the Kidge.
He had contracted with the aviator
to make the flight, and the two as
cended to an altitude of 2,000 feet
out from Lenoir, and Mr. Aviator de
cided, after taking a view of this
section tfiruuK11 "is Ki;5BC:5 llat i
would not take the risk, and returned ,
to Lenoir, where he had been making
flights for the Caldwell county fair.
WON'T PERMIT COAL MINES TO
BE SHUT DOWN
C. W. Gilbert, writing from Wash
ington to the Greensboro News, says
if President Lewis of the soft coal
miners, an 1 he soft coal operators,
do not accept arv ration with Secre
tary Wilson of .ib labor department
the United States trover' i nt is like
ly to take over the 'ft coal mines
and operate them its i A strike in
the coal fields, if effecu. e, would be
vital to the. country. There is only a
few days supply of soft coal ahead,
as is usual, for this fuel does not
admit of storage m large quantities.
A strike would soon tie up the rail
roads and a large part of the Indus
tries of the country. It would af
fect adversely the administration's
campaign to reduce the cost of living
and would vastly complicate the
whole relations of capital and labor,
which are already difficult enough
and which the industrial conference
in Washington will be able to do
nothing to improve if the industries
of the country are permitted to de
velop into caos by the addition of
a soft coal strike to the steel strike.
The government has the power un
der war legislation to take over the
coat mines. . It has never exercised it
If it;, should be forced to exercise it
now by reason either of the obstinacy
of the operarot sor the miners it
would undoubtedly operate the mines
through the present operators, as it
has the railroads. And while being
unable to force the striking miners
to work it would be able to operate
the mines with a smaller force than
now used in the industry and operate
them at great economy.
'The longer intakes the. world to
settle down, the longer it will take for
it to settle up. Boston Transcript
Secretary of Southern Furniture
Manufacturers' Association Is
Here;Chair Men Meet To
day in High Point
A meeting of the furniture manu
facturers was held here yesterday
with Mr. J. F. Ryan of High Point,
secretary of the Southern Furniture
Manufacturers' Association, and Mr.
W. H. Coye, national field man for
the furniture makers. The meeting
was' held in the office of the Lenoir
Furniture Corporation. It was plan
ned that this meeting represent this
section. Furniture manufacturers
from Morganton, Marion, Drexel,
Hickory, Statesville and other places
in this section were to be present,
but the weather being unfavorable
for cross-country trips, none of the
manufacturers arrived.
A meeting of chair manufacturers
of the State will be. held in High
Point today. Messrs. S. S. Jennings
of the Lenoir Chair Manufacturing
Company, M. L. Cornwell, J. M. Bern
hardt and B. L. Stone of the Bern
hardt Chair Company and Ethel
Chair Company left yesterday to be
present.
THE SHANTUNG AMENDMENT
REJECTED BY THE SENATE
The long-debated Shantung amend
ment to the peace treaty, presented
by enator Lodge and approved by the
foreign relations committee, finally
was rejected by the Senate last week
with a majority of an even score
against it. In the vote of 35 to 55
fourteen Republicans swung over to
the pro-treaty forces, while three
Democrats lined up with those sup
porting the proposal. Of the six Sen
ators absent, two Republicans were
put on record as in favor of the
amendment and one Republican and
three Democrats as opposing it.
The roll call really swept away six
amendments instead of one, each
change in the treaty text having been
numbered separately by the commit
tee in its decision to strike out the
word "Japan" and substitute the
word "China" throughout the sections
relating to the province of Shantujng.
RIOTING IN NEW YORK OVER
GERMAN OPERA
Despite, decision by Mayor Hylan
that German opera should not be
given in New York until the peace
treaty was signed, "Die Meistersin
ger" was presented in German at the
Lexington theater Monday night,
while thousands of soldiers, sailors,
marines and civilians lougnt witn tne
police in attempts to reach the thea
ter and stop the production. Several
shots were fired as the former service
men time and again charged the po
lice lines or laid down a barrage of
bricks, stones and other missiles in an
attempt to force their way through.
The fighting lasted until midnight,
hut. nnlv a few nersons were iniured
j as far as the police could learn, al
though scores had felt the weight of
the officers night sticks and a few of
ficers had been struck by missiles.
PAY OF STEEL WORKERS LEADS
IN INCREASE
The increase ill the earnings per
hour of employea in eleven principal
industries during the last six years
was greatest in the iron and steel in
dustry, according to a statement
made public Monday by the bureau
of statistics of the labor department.
While in some department the pay
was greater than in others, in all de-
, partmentg collectively the hourly
wage of steel and iron mill workers
in 1919 was 271 per cent higher than
the hourly wage in 1913, or 2 1-5
times sa great.
AMERICAN ARMY STRENGTH IS
NOW 290,477
The United States army is now
well below the 300,000 mark, an offi
cial statement giving the strength as
290,477. The net reduction since
Nov. 11 last has been 92 per cent.
American forces abroad total 35,
000, including the -8,0T)0 in Silesia.
The actual number of American
troops now in France is less than
15,000 and is rapidly diminishing.
Within a month virtually all the sol
diers will be gone, as the task of re
patriating the German prisoners is
now completed.
EVERYBODY BUT THE U. S.
The Austrian national assembly
last week ratified the peace treaty
of St Germain.
The Cuban congress has been con
vened in extra session to consider the
question of ratification or rejection
of the German peace treaty. :
The Uruguyan house of represent
atives last week voted approval of the
treaty of peace between the allied
and associated nations and Germany.
SHOT WIFE AT CHILDBIRTH
James Hobson, colored, is being
held in jail on the charge shrdlupu
held in jail at Winston-Salem on the
charge of shooting his wife twice last
week soon after she gave birth to a
child. Little hope is entertained for
her recovery.
DR. LANSING BURROW? DEAD
Dr. Lansing Burrows, aged 77, who
for more than 30 years was secretary
of the Southern Baptist Convention,
and one of the leading ministers of
that denomination in the country,
died at a hospital In Americus, Ga.,
last week of bronchial pneumonia.
Distance Covered in Little Over an
Hour Wai a Wonderful Trip,
Mix Penny Said, After
Arriving at Raleigh
Lieut. Harry J. Runser, after leav
ing here late last week, stopped at
Lexington before continuing to Ral
eigh, where he is giving exhibition
flights at the State fair this week.
From Lexngton to Raleigh Lieut.
Runser was accompanied by a woman
ptssenger, Miss Eunice Penny, home
demonstration agent in Davidson
county. Miss Penny's home is in
Wake county, near Raleigh, and she
surprised her parents by going home
through the clouds.
They left Lexington at 4:40 Sun
day afternoon and made the trip in
one hour and 25 minutes. The dis
tance bv air is 93 miles and the avia
tor maintained a speed of 68' miles
per hollr on his hop to Raleigh. The
trip from here to Lexington, 72 miles,
was covered in 58 minutes. They
landed in a smooth pasture about
one miles south of Raleigh after
Lieut Runser selected this field as
his landing place in preference to
the race track at the fair grounds
and other available clay fields be
cause of the recen theavy rains. He
explained that a grass landing field
afforded less dangers in landing than
a dirt field.
"It was a wonderful trip," said
Miss Penny to a newspaper man that
night at the home of her parents,
"and I am certainly glad that I had
the opportunity of riding in the air
for my first time. I was not fright
ened in the least and felt just as
safe as if I had been riding in an.
auto.
Miss Penny then explaiffned how
she was lucky in securing the air
journey. Lieut. Runser had arranged
to brine a Lexineton man with him to
Raleigh when a gentleman friend of
Miss Penny spoke n her behalf for
the trp. Lieut. Runser agreed to
take the young lady to Raleigh pro
vided the arrangement was satisfac
tory with the Lexington man. The
I new arrangements were satisfactory
to all involved and Miss i'enny was
told to prepare for her journey.
"I have always wanted to ride in an
aerodane and when I learned that
Lieut. Runser was going to fly to Ral
eigh I at once planned to go with
him. We made a straight flight and
I had a grand time viewing the
ground scenery from the clouds. The
trip from my standpoint could not
have been more perfect and our land-
jnr was almost as nice as the start-
ing. it was my nrst trip, dui i am
ready now to repeat it-should the op
portunity arrive. It certainly beats
auto riding, for there are no bumps
to shake, you. The trip was a com
plete surprise to my relatives here.
They were not acquainted with my
plans because I was afraid they
would be worried over my adventure
in the sky."
FLYING AT TWO MILES A MIN
UTE, MAYNARD GETS BACK
Steering by compass and flying at
an average speed of nearly two miles
a minute, 4,500 miles across the con
tinent and return, through snow, fog,
clouds and rain, Lieut. Belvin W.
Maynard landed on Roosevelt field,
at Mineola, N. Y., Saturday after
noon at 1:50 o'clock, the first avia
tor to finish in the army's great trans
continental air race and reliability
test. He carried as passengers Mas
ter Electrician William E. Klein of
Harrisburg, Pa., whom he described
as deserving "the greatest credit,"
and "Trixie," a Belgian police dog.
Unofficial figures show that Lieut
Maynard's actual flying time on the
return trip was 24 hours 45 minutes
and 8 seconds, only a few minutes
less than his unofficial flying time on
his westbound trip. Under the rules
of the contest, however, time spent
between control stations must be
counted in the actual flying time as
computed by the army in deciding
the winner of the race. This means
that the 18 hours Lieut. Maynard
spent changing motors in a cornfield
at Wahoo, Neb., where he was forced
diwn because of a broken crank
shaft, will be added to his official fly
ing time. The unofficial total elapsed
time on the return was 92 hours 32.
minutes and 48 seconds. Including"
three days spent in San Francisco,
the round trip was made in approxi
mately ten days and five' hours.
The grim specter of death winged
its tragic flight with the army's great
air derby. Ten lives had been the
toll to the time Lieut Maynard .
crossed the finish line. Seven had
died actually in the contest and three?
in connection with it. ,
From New York to San Francisco
the route oft the flight, was dotted
with disabled planes which were
forced to destruction from the air.
Many fliers were injured, and the
twenty control stations between ter
minal points saw first-aid work front
day to day as the derby progressed.
Sixty-two contestants started the
big .': race the most adventurous
peaceful ait competition the world
has known. Forty-seven took the air
from Mineola and 15 from San Fran
cisco, Oct 8, for the 6,200-mile,
round trip, high speed aerial journey.
Lieut. Maynard announced within
an hour after he had landed that
within a few weeks he would attempt
a one-stop flight from Mineola to Sail
Francisco, with Dallas, Tex., the only
stopping point