Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-18
ROOSEVELT REPORT
NOT CONFIRMED
Cablegram Received at Oyster
Bay Late Last Night Holds
Ray of Hope.
THOUSANDS OF TELEGRAMS
They Flood Home of Former
President and Offer
Coincidence.

| ! =" Associate! Press
| OYSTER BAY. y Y. july l7-A raw
| of hore that Lieutenant Quentin Hoosc-
welt may not have fallen to his deatl.
in combat with a squadron OF Ger
man airpanes was brought to Colonel
! Roosevelt and his wife tonight in :.
cable message sent from Paris by Mrs
! Theodore Roosevelt .I-- i'm which Sh,.
| said the report was absolutely uncon-
! 'irmcd" there. The former President
| felt. however. that there only is a
| slight possibility that his youngest son
may still live
The message from Mrs. Roosevelt.
who Is doing Red Cross work in the
| French capital. contained nothing but
| the simple statement that she had been
| able to get no Information OF Qucntins
death. and Colonel Roosevelt feared
| there was little room TO doubt tho ac-
curacy OF the press dispatches. which
said the young flyer had met "A sol
dier's fate.
Thousands Of kilograms Of coincidence
were received to-day at Sycamore Hill.
Colonel Roosevelt had nothing TO add
! however. 10 the brief statement he
/ issued earlier in the day. in which
he expressed fer himself and his wife
I sad pride that their son had been
given an opportunity to show the stuff
of which he was made before he died.
All oyster Ray mourned with its
most distinguished citizen. In Town
send Park flies the service flag Of
the village, with blue star for each
Of its sons in the service of tho ma
ton. Just at sundowr. gold star
was placed on tie flag to mar: the
first death among the villages young
warriors.
This afternoon. Colonial Roosevelt
issued this statement: "ouentin's moth.
cr ana are very glad that he got TO
the fvcnt and had tho chance 20 render
some service to his country and to
show the stuff there was in him before
his fate befell hm."
COUSIN CLAIMS TO HAVE
| SEEN HIS PLANE FALL
Press dispatches from Paris this at,
ternoon said
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt. the
youngest son Of the former President.
has been Killed in an airplane fight.
the semioflciai Havas News Agency
announces. His machine fell in the
enemy lines
Lieutenant Roosevelt. the disaatr-
says, was returning from patrol flight
when he was attacked by German
squadron. 1t was seen that Roosevelt
lost control o. his machine, having
probably received a mortal wound.
Philip Roosevelt. Oucntin's cousin.
witnessed the air battle in the vicinity
of Cha Thicrry, in which Quentin
was engaged, and saw the machine fall.
but did not know until later that the
airplane was that of hil cousin. LIE
Journal says to-day.
TOOK FART IN FIRST
RATTLE on JULY 3
Quentin Roosevelt in April. 1917.
joined the Canadian aviation corps to
train for service with the American
army He was commissioned last fall
and in the present spring began active
service with the American air forces
on the French front.
on July he took part in an aerial
battle between American and German
machines in the Marne region. and a
few days later. on July 10. it was an
nounced that he had brought down his
first German airplane in a fight north
OF Chateau Thierry.
Lieutenant Roosevelt was last seen
III combat on Sunday morning with
Two enemy airplancs about ten miles
inside the German lines in the Cha
icau Thlerry sector He started out
with a patrol of thirteen American
ma chimes. They encountered seven
Germans. and were chasing them back
when two OF them turned on Lieutcn-
ant Roosevelt.
Reports OF the fight state that the
Germans appeared to be shooting a the
lieutenant from the roar. the three
ma chimes being close together. Then
ono of the machines Was seen tumbling
through the clouds, and a patrol which
continued on second pagc)