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Evening star., 1916-08-06
Boy Aviat0rs Of the French Army

enemy machines, was nineteen at the
beginning of the war. Latin Quarter
student, of old Alsatian family. he
wanted to be a poet.
Chaput, six citations, six enemy ma
chimes, nineteen years old, looks like
schoolboy. He is almost as frail as Guy
nemer, but was great student.
Chainat, seven citations, four enemy
machines (plus the double shot with
Navarre). passes for eighteen and looks
less. You might take him for a rather
light-headed boy.
Quennehen, four citations. five enemy
machines, twenty-five years old. is an
all-around athlete and of excellent
Breton family. He would probably have
done nothing but live on his lands.
Varcin. seven citations, five enemy
machines. twenty-five years old. was a
professional racing chauffeur, known
for his courage.
Tmey are the seven French paladins
of the sky.
They are the free-lance knights who
have won reputation, who must go
about on high. seeking and accepting
combat.
They are seven today.
Tomorrow they may be five or eleven.
Flying beside them, still unknown
but ardent. are young fellows with a
record, one, two. three machines de-
scended, eager to cut the fifth notch on
their machine guns. Such are the
members of the American squadrilla.
which. though only recently formed.
was cited, with names. for its great
fight over Verdun. OF the last twenty
machines lost by the Germans on the
French front. only five fell in French
lines, two came to earth in French lines
of their own accord. by breakdowns.
and fourteen fell inside the German
lines, where they were sought and shot.
And all the while bombarding squad
rons. 81. 30, 100 strong, 'sout papa" BIZ
planes. manned by unnamed pilots and
observers, risk their lives against the
"super-falcons."
In the most recent statistics 1.227
French and British aeroplanes crossed
the German lines to 310 Germans cross
ing French and British lines. EFT VOLTA!
STERLING HEILIG-
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FRO BPLANE EVER MADE. TIL
OF

the word among French aviators. In the
war in the air. where all IS new, surprise
Navarres twin brother by placing
second machine gun to fire from the
front of their elephant biplane as well
with the baby do and Immelmann.
In the German accounts themselves the
incidents stand out clearly-only the ex-
PLANTATION lacking. We see little scouting
Two ferocious Fokkers with the Siding
turret for machine guns, each OF which
lets loose 1000 cartridges) fell on them
in true super-falcon manner:
One of the helpless biplanes started
falling and the German soldiers down
below were already preparing, to ap-
plaud the victory of the tokker as tne
biplane tried to save itself by descend
ing and mounting" when suddenly, to the
surprise of the spectators, the Fokker
tottered, then regained its balance oy
supreme effort, then pitched head1oremost
and fell from height of 1000 yards"
Running to the spot the Germans found
the aviator crushed beneath the motor.
quite dead They do not tell how many
balls We're found in him. On his breast
was the cross of the Order for Merit In
his pockets were his papers.
1t was Immelmann, the super-falcon.
To this day the German public thinks he
fell by chance balls of a volley. No
French ace claims him: They were
simple scouting biplanes, but they had
their tactic ready.
They are all brave men-it is just
matter of method. And they are not the
least brave, on both sides. who risk their
lives in scouting biplanes by accepting an
unequal battle with the aces and the
super falcons
l shall never forget how one fell on
the front near Chalons. Afar of
bugle sounded three notes of alarm. A
rumbling noise was heard on high.
Every one made for tree and sat
down in its shelter. "A Boche avion. to
an hour veil be bombarded."
Silence TRANQUILITY. up there. as il on
exhibition, Boche biplane circled,
-,frri ing no bombs, busily photograph
Evening star., 1916-08-06

ing the ground. where's the aircraft
cannon" the men grumbled. That's
how we're protected"' Then a joyful
shout: Look! VOLTA" And they settled
to enjoy the drama.
Up there a French monoplane was
bearing down upon the German scout.
The latter tried Highland no wonder.
Too late Courageously. he opened fire.
The French eagle neither swerved nor
to twenty yards. Nobody breathed. 1t
looked like a collision. Then the French
machine gun cracked, diving under
meath the German. who ceased nrlng,
staggered wheeled and fell like
dead leaf" now diving and now flutter-
ing, until it came to earth, quite gently.
Everybody ran. The German "ob-
server" was a tall, lanky blond. smooth
shaved, close cropped, with blood flow
ing from a little round hole near his
ear, and a monocle glass still in his
eye. He spoke. How high did we fall?''
he asked in good French. Before any
one could answer him he died.
They got the pilot loose and half un-
dressed him, a big. ugly, red-headed
boy, with a ball in his ribs, another
in his shoulder and a broken leg. DO
YOU suffer-" some one asked. What do
YOU Think" he answered. Then he
tainted and 1 do not know what hap
pened to him, except that he was taken
to hospital.
The moral of it was this.
The victorious French machine came
down almost beside it's victim. Its sole
Evening star., 1916-08-06
Under the Skin

vsE kings tooth hurts hard The royal
made that could ache Sciatica ermne
less agonzng An assured income doesn't render
indigestion bearabe We're pretty much alike all the
that count.
Happiness isn't listed the stock market Health and wealth
often nodding acquaintances.
misery respect neither puocrat monarch Any
germ lief drink blue blood The misery of queens
These exalted folk perfectly commonplace inside
Evening star., 1916-08-06

screw" They supposed him hit hard,
bound for earth. Instead. by an in
explicable manaeuver, he rose In
short arc and dashed like an arrow
diagonally onward and upward, safe
to the French lines. 1t seemed as II
all the momentum of his fall and all
his motor force were transformed into
speed.
Which brings us to the super-falcon's
fall
A boy named Varcin, they say practiced
the maneuver and taught it, up and down
the front. to biplane aviators. This would
explain Varcins early admission TO the
ranks of aces known by their names.
although he may not have shot down
Immelmann with his own hand. Shortly
before. though enjoying seven citations,
Varcin had only two enemy aeropanes
to his credit. l. e., brought down inside
French lines or officially 'homologued
when falling in the German lines, and the
French authorities regularly cite aviators
by name to the army only after their NTH
victim.
Varcin, they say. learned the tactic from
Nungesser, who discovered it while run
ming a bombarding biplane. The slang
name of 1t, the baby do refers to the
movement Of cradle, by which the cork
screwing machine, while diving to earth.
ing full speed and rises diagonally or
even almost vertically as swiftly as it
fell.
Again and again this lace" or that
would go out in a simple scouting biplane
to lay for" Immelmann or Capt. Boelke.
Both these dangerous Germans were sup
posed to have strong appettes for easy
marks Boelke's record being eighteen.
mostly biplanes. Their habitual maneu-
yer being to plane in great circles at
some 1000 yards altitude and dash down
like "super-falcon" on their victim.
squirting their machine gun volley as they
. passed him, and straight on, away.
away, with all acquired speed. II they
missed him. rendered the French aces .
favorite tactics-to run in" 'envelop'
and confuse the enemy by caper-cuttings
round and round him-practically i'm
possible
I'VE sill get tf.'- n = H'-'ano aat
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was hobbling on crutches with an
apparatus supporting his jaw. learn
ing to talk with a silver roof to his
mouth, and honorably discharged from
the army as a hopeless invalid.
II WON'T he cried, and by force OF
supplications they let him re-enlist,
ito help his cure" supposing that time
would convince him of his incapacity.
They gave him three months conva-
lescence leave. Instead he dragged
himself to his aeroplane and steered
got" two German machines and
drachen and was promoted lieutenant
Despite his condition." runs the cita-
ton he fought twelve combav in SIX
days four times returning with his
aeroplane riddled."
Mammals boy fears nothing now
Outside of his machine he can scarcely
drag about, but once strapped in he
becomes a flying demon. On April 25
a new citation, for attacking, alone,
three enemies and bringing down one.
on May 26, attacked by five-three
Fokkers and two l.. V. G.'s-he got"
the hindermost, and to escape the rain
of balls from five machine guns burst
into the middle of the troupe, pepper
ing the two foremost. while all five
were forced to watch their chance to
shoot at him for fear of hitting each
other The Fokkers rose. Nungesser
made two loops and got behind two
l.. v. G.'s The latter separated and
Nungesser fell 200 yards in cork
Evening star., 1916-08-06
SSBgli@ve Me, Bo"

BEEN readn by the papers and if what they true
Certain railroads this country ought make change
Did you hear about the way boys to Mexico?
rough be pulln them lads, Believe Me- Bo.
If can't find handle forty thousand soldiers right
Can you the muddle, if we get into fight?
thing they call efficiency" bunch of booey bunk?
they % the army like it of junk?
Somen headquarters with the the head
When travel round in without bed
What's the of casn cannonbuldin plants for plate
defenders the
Till organize and drill bunch bring them the front?
Must we up that America amt equal to the stunt?
Will hghbrow gent explain the dub.
How it's possible overlook active troopers grub?
I'm Hck don't know nothin, yet got private views
But the only amt refined enough
Evening star., 1916-08-06
Brother Dr@amners

MICROSCOPE useless individual without imagination.
N of calculation plus
locating verifying hidden facts.
applied research Carrel
brother dreamer each pursuing the method
which best his ability There's little distinction be-
tween the qualities Hans Christian Andersen and
Metchnikof.
Evening star., 1916-08-06

dbvtfe Distinguished
AgDeath
Sch Of Battles Above
Vun LneThe Machine Gun
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Not AS Black AS Painted

TXPERTS Department of Agriculture have been taking
IL gizzad discover what birds eatheyre teaching
where point the shotgun ignorance has long
confused the leading policemen of the with the
criminal there the OF he does
grains and occasional ccunt stalk
begrudge him such hes? Let him take his little bit
board Old stanch ally of
man. doughty hunter omnivorous killer and weed
eater He isn't nearly as black as he's painted.
Evening star., 1916-08-06

III ~ tor, was circling over the Alsa-
tian frontier, on guard. From
q high above, like diagonally
falling arrow, an enemy racing mono
plane came down upon him
Pegoud knew the German "superfal-
con" and his tactic-to dash like a bird
of prey upon the victim, pass him,
squirt a machine gun volley in passing,
and continue scorching on, away, away.
with his acquired speed. never return
ing for a second attempt If his broad
side failed.
II was the Oberleutnant Immelmann.
as the world learned from Germany,
after he had dropped a great wreath OF
roses, the next day at twilight, flying
low over Belfort. On a blank card at
tached he had written these words,
simply:
Homage to Pegoud from his enemy
II you get me. do not praise your skill.
l shall fly low, not to injure the roses" ="
The superfalcon had sentiment.
How did he get Pegoud? 1t was
earlier in. the war than now. and Pc
goud was grand fier and lOoper. but
not a trained man Of war like Immel-
mann All we know in France is that
Pegoud fell. though in full knowledge
Of the superfalcon's tactics. while the
latter continued descending" French
and English. rolling up record Of hf-
teen victims. according to the German
Official communication last month
when ne was brought down. dead. by an
anonymous French or English scouting
biplane.
How a scouting biplane. without su-
perspeed or tricky darting, could de
scend'' the superfalcon in his dueling
Fokker with machine gun turret. is
all the same. very much the story of a
French boy with crutches and a broken
jaw-one Of the seven aces" cited by
their names to the French army as
Evening star., 1916-08-06
You can't play
the other mans
position and hold
your own.
Save Something
While the Goimg's Good

VNTERE very prosperous at present. plants are running
Wv double shifts; work is plentiful; wages are high;
banks bloated with surplus can't last indefinitely
Europe won't fight forever peace must come and before
peace long discussion of terms the outcome of which
body can exactly forecast Billions of securities will be af
cted by the final settlement The present losses OF the losers
will be increased bv appalling indemnities which will de-
pete the already exhausted of the defeated
that their bonds must decrease ncalcuaby.
The instant negotiations start promotion will stop
Finance will tighten its purse strings loans will be recaled
credits reduced and gold boarded.
Conservatism will rule the money market factories now
engaging mutitudes will trim sails or close completely
The metal industries will lay off thousands of operatives;
railroad earnings will tumble business in general will mark
time
Are you preparing for this inevitable situation Are you
setting aside surplus carry you the lean months!
This is not alarmist talk. Anybody familiar with the
simplest fundamens of trade acknowledge the neces
sity for caution and conservation
Save something while the going good In times of profit
provide against loss. Pess1nsts exoptimsts
who didn't locate the escape before the blaze started
Evening star., 1916-08-06

Paladins of the sky, all under twenty
two years old.
Should you see Nungesser dragging
himself on the torn muscles of his legs
when he gets down from his aeroplane
or should you hear him talk with his
replaced" mouth roof or see him eat
with his reconstructed" jaw, you
would feel that something strange had
surely happened to the blue-eyed youth
with yellow hair and gentle ways, but
you would not imagine him a killer.
Cavalry volunteer. aged nineteen. he
began as the hussar who captured an
auto" II was during the retreat from
Charleroi. His peleton being surround
ed and his officer wounded Nungesser
put the chief in safe place and then
broke loose.
Literally falling on German staff
automobile. he put its officers "out of
combat" pocketed their papers and
dashed to French lines-with thirty
eight balls in the machine on arriving.
For reward his colonel let him drive
it, One day he heard foot soldiers
grum billing at mothers pet in his
auto" He stopped short. saying: Get
in If you want to- and marched on
foot with the regiment. leaving the
auto abandoned by the roadside.
He went into the aviation.
He participated in ffty-three bonn
harding raids. won three citations and
broke loose again. over Nancy. trying
a new Voisin biplane. he attacked and
brought down a swift duelling Alba
tross-he in the fat, slow, bombarding
papa" as they call bomb carrying bi-
planes. New citation.
He passed to the Chasing aviation"
in a rapid "parasol" -Saulnier.
When he had descended" two enemies
in two months they gave him a one
place Nieuport-veritable eagle-and
the Legion of Honor.
Then the blue-eyed boy, with his
charmed life among explosive bullets,
fell 200 yards while trying a new type
machine at Buc, near Paris. They
picked him up with a broken leg,
smashed jaw, hole in the skull. three
ribs cracked, internal contusions and
the muscles of his legs torn. He lay
five days in coma. month later he
Evening star., 1916-08-06
bert Kaufman's w Weekly MESSAGE
If advancement
has hurt you, 1t
proves that you
haven't advanced.
The Tame Shark

I'M July tame shark up the Chesapeake bay
and into the harbor of Batimore-the killer has become
burden bearer-the opening written in
chapter of navigation hsoryhe first undersea eghter
had crossed the Atlantic.
North wind south wind, wind and wind seized
the wireless spark and scured with the message the
posts of empire.
By morning all civilization had learned of the spec
tacular stunt 1t courageous emprsea deed to stir
the blood of imagination.
But that we've had time to think about it, the
voyage of the Deutschland such wonderful thing after all?
Didn't really expect something of the later?
What is 4OOO-me trip but extension of 1OOO-mile
ourneya long vessel but enlarged model of short one?
The first submarine far astounding than the last
Evening star., 1916-08-06
Realize How Well Off You Are
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The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1916-03-11
GRAND JURY INDICTS
THREE PROMINENT MEN
Charge SubOrnatiOn of Perjury and
EmbeZzlement. Bonds Made
In Each Case

The grand jury returned indict-
ments Thursday against Carl Elk
lund, president of the Eklund Hotel
Ranch and Irrigation Company and
Oscar L. Toombs. attorney and re-
publican state representative from
this district. charging "subornation
\ of perjury
} The indictment is sequence of
fUhe, testimony given by Benjamin p.
Harlan in defense of Robt. Il. Man.
skier, dcpOsed sheriff of Union coun-
~, at the trial DEFENDING himself
against the charge of having ac-
gepted S250.00 as a bribc to protect
: gamblers and gambling interests
during a certain week when car
nival company was filling an en-
gagement in Clayton.
Minus the preamble of technical
terms and superlluous language the
grand jury charges that Benjamin
p. Harlan gave false testimony at
the instigatiOn of Carl Eklund and
D'Aul iVbiilnN anu llidi TIT llltil-
ey contributed by Fklund Gray.
Harlan, Carson and Starks was paid
to Oscar +. ToOmbs who in turn
paid it to. Sheriff Manskcr for pro-
lection from arrest of house
gamblers and other participants of
gambling during the carnival. The
jury charges that Harlan know
ingly, wilfully and unlawrully'' gave
false testimony and that Carl Elk
lund and Oscar r. Toombs "insli-
gated and induced him to.
Saturday afternoon the grand jury
returned an indictment against G..
l.. Collins prominent attorney, al
leging embezzlement Of clients
money. Owing to the latencss of the
hour The News was unable to get
the full particulars of this case.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1916-03-11
Democrats HUite
Martinez to Speak

one of the biggest and most en-
thusiaStic crowds ever 10 turn out
to II meeting of its kind gathered at
the court house Friday night, at the
meeting of the Democratic County
Central committee.
No particular business came be
fore the meeting but about y speak
crs made it interesting, Among 9TH
or things an invitation was extend
ed to Hon Felix Martinez to visit
Clayton during his trip over the
state. Mr.. Martinez is one of New
MeXico's most able orators and Tn
ion county will welcome him. May
10th is the date Mr.. MARTINEZ is eX-
pcctcd in Clayton, but the date may
be several days later.
Harmony, and enthusiasm for
democracy was the keynote of all
addresses made. The meeting be-
ing held so late in the week makes
it impossible 10 give a more extend
ed account.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1916-03-11
VILLA OUTLAWS ATTACK
AMERICANS = KILL IS
Raid New Mexico Town in Early
MOrning Hours. 18th Cavalry
Chase Them oil

Columbus, y. NJ. March 9.-The
town of Columbus is partly in ruin
and at least fourteen United States
citizens are dead. following a muir
derous raid over the border early
this morning 10y pancho Villa at the
head of 1000 of his Mexican bandits.
Death, wounds, property destruc-
tion and terror followed in the wake
of the cutthroats and Mexican out
casts. Rifle and revolver shots
flashed i'm every street. houses were
riddled with bullets and American
men and women were decoyed from
their homes and murdered At
least nine civilians We're killed, at
least five United States soldiers fell
dead in the streets and many others
were dangerously wounded.
The MeXicans paid dearly for their
raid. Pablo Lopez Villas chief
lieutenant, was killed and scores of
the outlaws fell under the fire of the
United States soldiers and citizens.
Soldiers today said the brush
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1916-03-11
Are there any Mouie
Actors in Clayton

do you suppose any future Fatty
Arbucklrs, Chas. Chaplins or Mary
pickfords will come 10 the surface
Monday when C.. j. Kaho. of the Ka-
no Motion picture company of Trim
idad stages The Stolen Pie" ON the
streets of Clayton?
According to Mr.. kaho, in charge
of the projecting department of
the Mission theatre, he will show
in about a week from Monday "A one
reel comedy at the Mission with the
characters all home talent-all Clay
ton folks.
Mr. kaho says lac wants everybody
Ia be- on the streets at one o'clock
sharp Monday TO serve in capacity
of movie actorines and actors, he
wants to use 600 people, if he can
get that many on the street. Kaho
says while most of the settings will
be on Main street and around the C..
" ;. station the plot 0f "Ihe Stolen
Pie calls for scenes such as our
court house and 'parkings present
so the temple of justice will come
in for a look together most all other
public buildings.
BE on the streets Monday at the
appointed hour for a tryout before
the camera. Whether you eventual
y make good or not you will have
distinction of beng a member ofthe
original company of the first NOV
ing picture ever staged in Ciayton.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1916-03-11

around the town was filled with
bodies OF MeXicans.
Villa and his men crossed the
line at the border gates three miles
south of Columbus and swept into
the town at 1880 in the morning
Shreiking battle -yells, firing muir
dcrouS volleyS into every building
as they passed. the bandits iuun-
dated the city in a mad rush. a
hail of bullets smashed the railroad
station clock to bits; man fled
from the station and his body drop
ped Iifelcss in the street A woman
holding a little girl by the hand was
shot down and fell with the child
across the mans bloOd-stained fig
urr.
Americans DecOyed and Shot Down
Scattering thru the town, the
Mexican outlaws riddled every
house with lead. They called in
English to men to come out, and
Americans answered the call, be-
lieNing il rallying cry from men
of their own race-and more bodies
fell in the streets. Men and wom-
en- barricaded themselves in their
homes and from open windows an
Swrrcd the fire of Villas men.
Mexican bodies dropped beside
those Of murdered Americans.
The Thirteenth cavalry in full
force hurried to the scene and guer-
rilla warfare ragged in the streets,
men firing from every cover they
could find. Oil was poured on the
buildings by bandits and flaming
torches applied. Driven from COW
cr to cover by the caValrymen, the
MrXicanS turned at last. Villas bug
lerS sounding the retreat two hours
after the attack had started
Civilians Dead
Mrs. Milton James.
\. l.. Rilchic. hotel proprietor.
Walton Il Walker, Playas. y NJ.
J. ;. Dean
C.. o. Miller, druggist
j. j. Moore. merchant
Frank + kcndvall. horScShocr.
'nidenlilrd Chauffeur.
Soldiers Dead
Sarg. A. Dobbs, sergeant machine
-un troop.
Paul simon. corporal.
John NicVcrgelt band sergeant.
Harry WiSwaIl, corporal Troop G.
Fred A. Griffin, private Troop h.
Thomas Butler. Troop f..
Soldiers Wounded
Jesse p. Taylor. Troop F.
Theodore kalzorkr, Troop J..
Michael Barmazrl, machine gun
troop.
John Iarbrougli, Troop ~.
James Ncnncr, Troop VI.
John kcogh. Troop q.