Viewing page 9 of 39

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

BACK HOME AND HAPPY

[[image left]]
[[caption]] A hearty welcome awaited Flyers Dale L. White and Chauncey E. Spencer on their arrival at Harlem airport, Chicago, Thursday afternoon completing a 3,000 mile goodwill flight sponsored jointly by the National Airmen's association and the Chicago Defender. Shown left to right: James Hill, manager, Jones Brothers Ben Franklin store; Cornelius R. Coffey, president of the N.A.A. White, Spencer and Horace Cayton, sociologist. -- Gushiniere photo [[/caption]]

[[image right]]
To Dale - My mothers 'n Dad's Favorite 'N my Best Pal - Chauncey 5/31/39

Blond Bennett
Filed

N.Y
5/13/39
13

1934
STORM DESTROYS AIRPORT

Chicago, May 11 -- (ANP) -- Robbins Airport, located at the all-colored town of Robbins, and operated by the Challenger Aero Club, founded by Johnny Robinson, was completely destroyed by a freak of the storm which swept this city's suburbs last Monday.

Airplanes in the hangar were blown 150 feet in the air and landed a block away from the field on top of a house.

The plane of Mrs. Janet Waterford, the only woman pilot in the race, was completely destroyed.

Robbins Airport was the only licensed port owned by Negroes in the United States.

Dale White, business manager of the Challenger Air Pilots Association, announced after Monday's storm that plans were to be hurried to rebuild the hangar by the time of the opening of the World's Fair.

Goodwill Flyers End 3,000-Mile Epoch Hop

(more pictures on page 14)
Ending a 3,000-mile goodwill flight intended to promote interest in the forthcoming national air meet in Chicago in August, Flyers Dale L. White and Chauncey E. Spencer landed at Harlem airport, here, at 6:27 p. m. Thursday evening, three minutes ahead of schedule.

The flight sponsored jointly by the Chicago Defender and the the National Airmen's association, did much to awaken interest in the activity of members of the Race in aviation in the dozen or more cities touched by the flyers.

Delegation Greets Flyers

Greeting the flyers on their return were Cornelius R. Coffey, president of the N.A.A.; Enoc P. Waters, Jr., city editor of the Chicago Defender; James Hill, manager of the Jones' Brothers Ben Franklin store; Horace B. Cayton, prominent socioligist and a large party of others.

Robert H. Miller, mayor of Bronzeville, who was to have headed th delegation welcoming the flyers, was unable to be at the airport because of illness.

Left Chicago May 8

White and Spencer left West Virginia State college 10:30 a.m. Thursday morning, refueled at Columbus, Ohio at 12:29; and Fort Wayne, Ind., at 4:30 p.m. From there they flew into Chicago making a perfect three-point landing.

The flyers left Chicago at 6:30 a.m., May 9 and after stopping in Auburn, Ind., to refuel were forced down in Sherwood, Ohio, 16 miles

[[arrow right]]
See FLYERS, Page 2