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Local Flyers Feted In All White Town
   Dale L. White and Chauncey E. Spencer returned to Sherwood, Ohio, Sunday.
   Their landing Sunday was different from their landing at the same place last May when they were forced down with a broken crank shaft at the outset of their 3,000 mile air tour for the Chicago Defender and the National Airmen's Association.
   Sunday they were the guests of the little town of 552 souls. They made the trip, 187 air miles, from Harlem airport here in one hour and 33 minutes.
   There are no members of the Race living in Sherwood, but race means nothing there anyhow. Spencer and White took many of the town people for airplane rides and lectured on aviation and concluded their stay by partaking of a sumptuous luncheon.
   The trip was intended as an expression of gratitude on the part of the flyers who were treated so well last summer. They made the trip at the invitation of the town. 
   Caught by darkness, they were forced to spend the night in Auburn, Ind., and would have had to sleep in the police station had it not been for the kindness of a local innkeeper who took them in. They arrived in Chicago early Monday afternoon.

Motor Trouble Fails to Dampen Spirit of Fliers

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The air tour of Chauncey Spencer and Dale White, temporarily halted Monday when the fliers were grounded in Sherwood, Ohio, with a broken crankshaft, was resumed Thursday. They were to take off Friday morning for New York City. Cornelius R. Coffey, extreme
left, and Longworth Quinn, right, representing the National Airmen's association and the Chicago Defender, flight sponsors, are shown as they wished the fliers good luck as they took off early Monday morning. Left to right: Coffey, Spencer, White, Quinn.—Gushiniere photo.

Biplane Downed Near Sherwood
Chicago Pair Will Hop Off Wednesday After Repair of Shaft
Two negro fliers of Chicago who were forced down by a broken crank shaft Monday afternoon in a closer field on the Edwin Miller farm, two miles north and two miles west of Sherwood, today awaited repair parts preparatory to continuing their flight Wednesday. 
They are: Chauncey Spencer, 30, of 5724 Indiana avenue, Chicago, and Dale White, 32 of 4358 Michigan avenue, Chicago.
White was at the controls when he was forced to bring his Lincoln-Paige biplane down.
Spencer, who was located in Sherwood this afternoon, said they left Chicago on a business trip that was to take them to Cleveland, Washington and New York. He said they both are fliers and are employed by the National Airmen's Association.
He said they intended to land at Auburn, Ind., but got off their course and came down at Fort Wayne. They refuel there, he said, and then had taken off for Cleveland when the crank shaft went bad and forced the landing.
They stayed at the Peerless, Sherwood, Monday might.
They expect to repair the shaft as soon as parts arrive from Chicago and then continue their flight.

Engine Trouble Delays Flight To New York City
Pittsburgh, Pa., May 12
—Dale L. White and Chauncey Spencer, representing the National Airmen's Association and the Chicago Defender arrived at Allegheny airport here Thursday afternoon from Cleveland, Ohio.
The flyers who set out from Harlem airport, Chicago, Monday morning were several days behind schedule because of a broken crank shaft which forced them to land in Sherwood, Ohio.
Leaving here Friday morning the flyers expect to arrive at Flushing airport, New York, in the afternoon and deliver to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a scroll signed by Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago. Plant from that point will be determined by instructions from the Defender and the Airmen's association.
The flyers left Sherwood, following reconditioning of the plane by Cornelius Coffey, president of the association at 1 p.m., Thursday and refueled in Cleveland before coming here.
While here the flyers are the guests of Lt. James Pock, host provided by the Pittsburgh Courier. In New York, Al Monroe, manager of the Defender's New York office, will be official host to the flyers. 
The flight as originally planned was to cover 10 eastern and midwestern cities. It is believes, however, because of the delay, that
many of the stops will be eliminated.
Purposes of the flight were to awaken interest in the activities of the Race in aviation and to focus attention on the forthcoming national meeting of Race flyers in Chicago in August.
The pair probably will not return to Chicago until late next week.