The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-18

mN y sssvaator who recently won 0he Victoria Cross and the Legion of Honor for destroying Zeppelin in nlid-alr, lost control of a new areoplane he was. testing at Buc AerodroIae, near Paris vaster7ay afternoon and tho, machine, f,,ynlgaesd fo earth from a. great height Lieut. Warneford was killed instant
 Henry Beaoh Needhan, tho zAnzer1- can writer, in Europe to get impress sions Of the war, was a passenger with Warneford4 Re 4oo was killed
 The exact cause of the accident hsH unknown and wiERrema1n sos as the> aeroDlane and its engine aEe mass of tangled wFeckzge. But the cause may be found in part, at least by thes 4acf thai Lieut.. WarneforA remarked, to friends on leaving the Hotel f1tz for Buc yesterday morning that he felf sack and dizzy and would not fly, althoHgh he had been asked to exper-' iment with some new machines
 By tho time Warneford reached the aviation grounds, however, he had re- lowered his usual buoyancy of health. and immediately set about to ascend in one Of the laeroplanes to be tested fHe took the machine up alone, put IL Itbroueh some of the customary man foeuyres, and alightedA without u1shap-
 Then he got into the second ma -i chine which was Of the same type as the first, and taking Needham as a passenger soared into the air There were a few spectators on the grounds a7,sd s4oxne officers and men connected with the aerial corps The aeroplane s ended from earth with no hint of anything wrong and the young heu-' tenant and his American passenger had soon become but a speck h the sky.
 It was a perfect day for tsgtdngi work. The sky was clear; faerei was no wind There is no telling the ex- act height the aeroplane had attained occurred But 1t was so high that ! Enotkin9 out of the ordinary could be detected by the spectators on the ground until the machine came Ip1ung1ng downward
 Lieut.. Reg1naId A. J. Warneford 2 Joined the British Flying Corps In Great Britain on1x few months ago. Prior to that time he had never op- peraHed an aerop1ane- He proved so adaptable however, that he soon re- ca4ved a military license and was sent Ito northern France
 On June r at o'clock in the morn ing while reccnnofter3ng near Ghent, P in Belgium, he sighted a Zeppelin air ship and Immediately went into battle with if- By flying above the Zeppelin he was able to drop bombs on t. One of these struck it squareIy in the centre The resulting explosion tore the. gas bag to pieces and the afrship with it's crew. of tWenty-elght officers and men fell to the ground from a great height The concussion from fhe explosion was so great that it Turned Warneford's aeroplane com pletely over. He was able, however, to regain control and to make a safe landing behind the British Hnes-
 Two days later King George be- sstowed the Victoria Cross on the kycung aviator in recognition of his distinguished ga1lantry. On the fol- loving day Lieut. Warneford was decorated with the Legion of Honor
 Cheered in Paris Resfarant-
 On Tuesday of this week he was ' recognized in the Arnbassadeurs res faurant in the Avenue des Champs E1ysees and was wildly cheered as the hero of the hour by throng of en- , fhusiastic diners- A party of Arneri- cans sent him note of congratu1a- ton. An elderly BrenchTnan rose and remarked that all France owed him deep gratitude for the performance of the most remarkable feat since the beginning of the war Warneford was too confused to speak, but he wrote a few words on piece of paper, say ing that he had merely performed his duty, and these were translated into French and read to the diners.
 Henry Beach Needham was widely known through his work for Mo Cures Magazine, Golfers and the which, prior to the present war, had been of a political and economic character. He had spent most of his time abroad for the past four or five years living by Aurns in Paris and in London, and was in Paris working on series of studies of life in the Latin Quarter when the war began At that time he and his wife, who was Miss Mary Master of Grand Rapids, Mich, also writer, were occupying a studio lat IA Rue Edgar Quinet, in the Guar ter.
 With the beginning of the war MT Needham was engaged by Golfers as war correspondent. He visited the front, but because of ths strict regu1a- actual fighting as he had hoped; went to England for time and described conditions there with regard to recruit ling and the other problems presented iby 41ae war. While in England he in- i&erv1ewaed Premier Asquith and Chan scellor Lloyd George.
 Planned to Return Soon.
 On his return to France he became Interested in the work of the flying corps and despatches reaching Ameri- ga said that he was going to take ur aviation in order to see more of the actual fighting than he had been able Ito see Having nearly completed the work on which he was engaged he was planning to return to America within Two weeks to write a series of politi- wal articles.
 MT. Needharn was born at Castle rS. r., on August 10, 1871. the son ,o1 lef George Washington University .ai