Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-22
Miss inS

army, mysteriously vanished during the
last week in Sep
.. s:: tember and has not
HHHtdn htSSN"s been located since.
for Soro, II poIS 4 letter from Major
w. Amphri commander
of his squadron, in
formed his mother, Mrs. Isabel Adams,
Of 37OS Spruce street, that no one had
seen the young officer fall. so 1t was be-
,ievcd that he ran out Of gasoline or his
engine had gone dead and he had been
compelled to land behind he German
lines. He was flying a, the SO00-foot
level will several companions when the
little squadron was forced to pass
through some clouds and became scat
tered. He alone did not get safely back
. the hangar.
Lieutenant Adams enlisted in the avia-
tion corps of the American army at
Columbus, o., in July o. l9l1, graduated
with honors from the ground school at
Columbus University and was sent to
England to complete his training. For
light months or more he was Kept busy
flying airplanes from England to France,
returning by boat or In n two-seater and
| taking Others over from the British fac
! tories TO the front.
He was noted cool and steady driver
! and never had an accident while on that
! important but not exactly exciting job
| Finally he was sent to France and as
signed to front-line duty with a British
escradrille.
he mentioned that while scouting with
his major one day the latter's machine
had turned turtle, buckled and crashed
to tiac ground. Il followed expecting
to find the major killed." he said In
sead he was very much alive and very
angry He bundled me out of my ma
| chine, jumped in himself and scared
away. leaving me marooned IN a French
meadow for twelve hours. ! was an OBJ
| iect of great interest to the populace,
! but time passed heavily, as l could
! speak no French and they could not
understand a word of English. Finally
| one of my comrades arrived in a two
| scatter and rescued me-
Sergeant Thomas J. Greenwood,
wounded. is the son of John Greenwood.
a prominent tile manufacturer, who
| lives at Rose Hill avenue and Louden
| street, Olney. He was injured in Au-
| gust, having been dosed with mustard
gas, and also struck by shrapnel. He
was blind for week. but is recovering
slowly in convalesCent hospital
He was drafted in September of 1917
trained at Camp Meade and later at
Camp Garden. and sent overseas as a
TALON. He Is twenty three years old
| and ATTENDED the public schools of
Olney before going into business with
his father. A younger brother. Arthur
Greenwood, nineteen years old. is at the
motor transport training camp at jack
sonvile. Fla.
Corporal John NJ. Unholtz. wounded in
the right arm on September 7. Is a
member of Company A, 109th Infantry
He enlisted in June of last year when
only sixteen years old was trained at
Camp Hancock and has been in France
since June OF this year. He Is slowly
recovering, and only recently was abl,
to use his arm sufficiently to write t
his mother. Mrs. Catharine Unholtz. of
1896 De Lancey street. A brother, Wal
ter UnholtZ. is a member of the 312th
Field Artillery.
Sergeant James 4. Dawson, wounded
in both legs by machine-gun fire two
and half months ago, is still in the
hospital but expects to eventually re-
cover completely. He is a member OF
Company |. 10th Infantry. and lived
with his parents at 6025 Florence ave
nue.. 4 brother. John Dawson, twenty
three years old, is a member Of the