New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Two New York
Men Die
In Plane Mishaps
Lieutenants Grove and Ed
gar, Both of "Sun," on
Casualty List
Lieut.. Beale Killed
Grandson of James c.. Blaine
Meets Death on
Battlefield

Dispatches received here yesterday
told Of the death in France Of Second
Lieutenant James Richard Grove, for
merly assistant dramatic critic Of Tine
Sun" He was killed in an aeroplane
accident. For few months prior TO
entering military service Lieutenant
Grove was connected with the National
Bank of Commerce. In "a letter re-
ceived here recently he said he had
' finished his training period at Tours
and expected to go to the front about
| Seplen. Der Is
Lieutenant Grove was about twenty
seven years old and was the only son
of Mrs. James r. Grove, Of l0l Park
Boulevard, Sheffield. Ala. He was grad
uated from the University of Tennessee,
where he specialized in entomology,
but was compelled to give up that pro-
fession when his eyes went back on
him.
He went TO Memphis, Tenn. where he
engaged in newspaper work. and there
| is q bar in the river off the Memphis
wharves that is called Groves Island
to-day because of story he wrote
while covering" the river front pre-
dieting that the action of the current
would form an island there He came
to New York about 1915 and became q
reporter for THE Sun" His talent
and inclination led him to the position
of assistant dramatic critic.
First Lieutenant Walker Blaine
Beaie, grandson Of James G. Blalne,
was killed in action in France, Sep
tember l8, accord ing to information
which has reached his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Truxton Beale, of Washing
ton. He had been reported as severely
wounded
He was born in Augusta, Ga, March
%, 1896, was graduated from st. PauIs
Schoo Concord NJ H.. and entered
Harvard in 1914. From there he went
to the officers training camp at Platts-
burg, where he obtained commission
as second lieutenant
Lieutenant Stuart Edgar. Of the
army air service in France, was killed
in an aeroplane accident. August
of Newark, has earned. He was 20
years old, graduate of Cornell and
q former reporter for "The Sum-.
Lieutenant Edward J. Fitzhugh,
who WAS reported severely wound
ed September IL, has written to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A.
Ftzhugh. of Union avenue, Jamaica.
Queens. that he is recovering. He is
"a years d, one of three brothers in
the service. and was on detached ser
vice in an officers training school.
Sergeant Charles Oscar Johnson, of
Company E, 306th Infantry, reported
as wounded, has written to his parents,
who live at SO Chichester Avenue. ia
maica. Queens. that his injury is slight.
Private Edward y. Reisz, of the
Headquarters Company, 306th Infantry,
who was killed in action September Z,
was twenty-five years old and lived at
81 East 169th Street, The Bronx.
Private Levi $; Tenney, jr., of Com,
pany l.. 107th Infantry, who was killed
in action August 20, was twenty-one
years old and lived in Montclair. N. j.
Two weeks before his death he wrote
TO his father of his eagerness to get
into the fight. He was killed in the
first assault in which his company
participated. He was graduated from
Andover and spent two years at Yale.
Corporal John Demic, OF Company
K, 306th Infantry, who was severely
wounded September 6, is twenty-three
years cd, and lives at 280 Fourteenth
Street, Brook yn.
Second Lieutenant Henry W. Gund
ZACH, of Company L. 10th Infantry,
who was xii ed in action August IL,
was twenty three years old, and lived
at 1852 Monroe Avenue, The Bronx.
He was sent to an officers training
camp from Camp Upton.
Private Edward Chamberlain, of Com
pany A, l65th Infantry, who recently
was officially reported killed in action
somewhere in France, is alive and re-
covering from wounds at the base hos
pital in Williamsbridge, and wants his
parents, HON he beiieves to be some
where in Long Island, to know it. Soon
after he was wounded his family moved
from Richmond Hill Queens, and it
was thought that they had gone to
Mount Sinai. L. |. Inquiries by the re-
turned soldier showed that they had
not AS they recently have visited
nde n Rich mord Hill he believes
that they are in the vicinity.