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Show iff BULLETINS - ) OMAHA. Neb . Oct. 9. Lieutenant B. W. Maynard leading the field in the transcontinental air derby, arrived at Ak-Sar Ben flying field here at 12:48 tod.iy. He made .the trip from D? Momes. a distance of 118 miles, in one hour and 14 minutes. CHICAGO. Oct. 9 Lieutenant Bel vin W. Maynard. leader in the 5400 mile twice transcontinental airplane race, took the air from Ashburn field, here si 7 09 i- o'clock this morning.! He headed for Rock Island. 11!. f 155 miles away. BUFFALO, X. Y.. Oct. 9 Colonel C. C. Culver, sold to be the oldest flier in the contest, was forced down by the storm at 9:16 a. m. between Rochester Roches-ter and Bullulo. He is out of the contest. con-test. Of the thirty airplanes checking in at Curtis field, thirteen havo been held up by unfavorable weather conditions. con-ditions. DpS MOINES, la.. Oct. 9 Landint; tl Herring field here at 10:54:30 this mornlnc. Lieutenant B. W. Maynard left the field on his way to Omaha, lis miles away, at 11:34 o'clock. CHICAGO. Oct. 9 Captain H. cj Dryton in plane number 47. who '.eft Bryan field. Ohio, at 9:15 a. m. today, arrived at Asbburn field, at 11:48 a in. CHICAGO. Oct. 9. Colonel W. H. Johnson, commander at Ashburn field, today sent word to the officials at Bryant field. Ohio, asking that all vestbound machines be held tht-re until un-til further notice before of unfaor-able unfaor-able conditions In Chicago. ROCK ISLAND. 111., Oct 9- LI 111 tenant B. W Manard, driving a de Haviland 4; arrived at Frantns field' here at 8:37 this morning, hninc made thp 155 miles from Chicago in t 92 minutes. He was ;he first cross country flier to reach this point. After taking on supplies, the ma-1 chine driven by Lieutenant Mavnard again took the air at 9.09 a. m., head ing for the next control station which i is Des Moines, la , 158 miles from here. CHICAGO. Oct 9 At 9:45 a. m Captain Hoag, commander at Ashlr-nd field, sent a message to Bryan field, Ohio, to start all westbound airplanes from that point as soon as they were read, as weather conditions in Chicago Chi-cago had sufficiently Improved to make flying safe. CLEVELAND. O.. Oct 9 The second Ulfi to land here this mornlnK was Cap-! Cap-! tnln J. O. Donaldson. Maehine Number 1 .".0. who landed in a S. E -5 at ? 23 28 from Buffalo. Lieutenant , Pearson and Serjeant Royal Atkinson in Machine Number 8 hd a narrow escape from injury when their machine skidded on the soggy flc'd v hen they landed. Sacramento, cai, net 9. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant G. E Rice, piloting a Sopwlth, last of the eastbound transcontinen'al racers to reach Sacramento yesterday took the air at Mather field for ho 'flight across the Sierras at 8:09 this morning. BRYAN. Ohio, Oct. 9 Spurred on bv news that Lieutenant B W, Maynard May-nard had already left Rock Island. Ill , in the coast to coast air race. Captain II C Brayton, in a de IIaviland-4, left here on his western dash at 9 51 a. m. In a drizzling rain with heavy clouda hanging low Neither Major II J. J Miller, or Lieutenant L. S Webster, both driving de Havilands. were wlll-inc wlll-inc to take the air under conditions prevailing here. The field at Bryan is soggy. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 9. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant B. G Newman, driving Machine No. 108, the third to reach here from Butfalo this morning, made a safe landing at 9 57 a m New York Central railroad officials say that four fliers have landed at Falrvlew, Pa , and two more at Erie. Pa , en route from Buffalo to Cleveland, Cleve-land, because of the rain All landed safely. |