The sun., 1918-10-18
LIEUT.. MOORE KILLED
IN AIRPLANE BATTLE
Rejected by L. S. He Entered
Royal Aviation Force
in Canada.
GIN GOOD CAUSE" SAID son
Private Minervini Wrote His
Father Not to Worry
Slain the Next Day.
gin GOOD CAUSE" SAID son

News OF the death of Lieut.. Raymond
Moore, Jr. Of the Royal Air Force, a
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Moore.
Peekskill. was confirmed yesterday In a
letter sent his mother by william s.
WINS, assistant director OF the Bureau
Of Communication of The Red Cross.
August II, Mr.. Moore received n cable
from the Air Ministry In London. stating
that his son was reported missing Au-
gust ~.
Mr.. Ivins's letter said that two cables
had been received listing Lieut.. Moore as
dead. Tho first, from the Red Cross
Commission In Switzerland. announced
that he had been killed in action August
10. and that he had been buried near the
road between the towns of Epinette and
Globes in France. 1t is believed by Mr..
Twins that this news must have come
from some one behind the German lines.
The second message came from the
Commissioner of the Red Cross in Great
Britain, and said that he had been adj
vised by the British Red Cross Of Lieut..
Moores death i'm action September II.
Mr.. WINS has cabled the London office
OF the Red Cross asking that the correct
date be ascertained.
Served First in Cavalry.
Lieut. Moore was born in Everett.
Wash, December 10, 1894. and was
graduated from the Mohegan Lake
School He was a student In the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania when he enlisted
June "a. 1916, in the Second Troop, Phil
adeiphia City Cavalry. After serving
seven months on the Mexican border he
entered the Officers Training Camp at
Fort Niagara. After having been re-
jected for the American air service he
entered the Royal Air Force at Toronto
Lieut.. Stanley Phillips, 106th Infantry,
formerly reported Killed in an accident
was yesterday listed as severely wound
ed. He is a son of Charles G.. Phillips
III Cooper avenue, Upper Montclalr
president of the Dry Goods Economist.
He was graduated from the Montclair
High School and entered the Plattsburg
Training Camp from Williams College,
where he was member of the senior
class. He was member OF the Will
Jams Club of this city.
Vice Admiral Sims has reported to the
Navy Department that Lieut.. Artemus
L. Gates. Naval Aviation Service. for
fnerly captain OF the Yale football team,
mas been missing since October 4. He
played tackle on the 1915 and 1916
teams and was elected captain of the
1917 team. which played no games be-
cause of the war He was mentioned
Tor the All-American eleven.
Lieut.. John w. Mcconnell. Company
g, So7th Infantry. was killed in action
August IS. according to word which has
reached his wifa at their home at 1873
Last Thirty-e!ghth street She was for
iuerly Miss Margaret NJ Atkinson Of
Workers, and they were married Just
before he went overseas in March. He
received his commission In April. He
was sent to the front line trenches al
most Immediately upon hts arrival and
was In action nearly continuously up
TO the time Of his death. Lieut.. Nc
Connel1 was graduate of Middlebury
College and the Albany Law School He
was member of the legal staff of the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company,
brooklyn, when he entered the service.
Nephew of summit Mayor Killed.
Lieut. Edward Willis. 107th Machine
Gun Company. has been killed In action,
II was reported yesterday. He was a
nepew of Mayor Ruford Franklin, Sum-
nit. n. j., and lived in that town. Lieut.
Willis was rs. and real estate broker
In New York. He married Miss Dorothy
Bard two years ago and enlisted soon
afterward.
Don't worry. II do die, I die for
n good cause read a message written
September IS by Private Attilio Miner
vtni to his father, Ettore Minervini, 1929
Hoe avenue. The Bronx. According to
telegram from the War Department
Minervini was killed in action the fol-
lowing day. I'VE have the Huns just
where we want them," said the message,
which was written on postal card.
I'VE have just captured a big town and
am too busy to write more just now.
Life Is great at the front and we are
having hell of time"
Minervini was a member of the old
Second Field Artillery of The Bronx.
which was taken into the Federal mill
tary establishment. He had five brothers
in service.
Oswald r. Love. 311th Infantry,
wounded September II, lived with his
mother in Plainfield, y. j.. and was a
member of the choir of Grace Episcopal
Church in New York. He was a bond
salesman and married Miss Marion A.
Vollmers soon after being drafted In
April.
First Port Chester Man Killed.
The first Port Chester. n. Y. soldier
killed in France is Harry ]. Connolly.
Company l., 311th Infantry, a letter
FIe was son OF Mrs. Sarah Connolly,
who with two brothers and two sisters
survive.
Sergeant Harry p. Bruhn, 165th In
fantry, Is dead of wounds received IN
action, according to War Department
advices received yesterday by hlS par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Neils Bruhn, at their
home, Fair Oaks. Cedarhurst, L. I. He
had previously been reported wounded.
lie was a graduate of Lawrence High
School and had been in active service on
the front since last February.
Gerardus Cloves, n son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel V. Cloves, is the FIRST man
IN the army from Hampstead. l.. l.. to
die during the war. He was buried
there yesterday. Cloves was drafted
last summer and died in camp at SYRIA
cuse. n. Y, OF scarlet fever.
Mrs. Fannie Abramowitz, 437 Dunont
avenue. Brooklyn. has received a letter
from her son, Benjamin NJ. Abramo-
WITT. Company M. 106th Infantry, tell
ing how he was wounded late in August
I'VE were ready to go over the top" he
wrote. THE machine gun men went
;irst. All of sudden we heard some
one cry for help. / recognized II as
the voice Of my pal and jumped over to
aid him. While ] was bandaglng him
a sniper picked me off. i got II In the
cheek. but that did not stop me-
finally managed to get him back to the
trenches. Then they sent both of us
TO the hospital"
Two days after receiving a telegram
from the War Department that her hus-
band was missing in action September
II Mrs. Thomas +. Larkin, Princeton
N, j., had a letter from him written IN