American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-08-06

ed fire and saw that after some fifty
shots his tracer bullets had penetrat-
ed the fuselage of the nearest German
plane. The machine went into a spin
ming nos dive and fell through the
clouds 1000 yards below"
A correspondent of the Associated
Press sent this account of the battle
In which Lieutenant Roosevelt met
his death:
Lieutenant Roosevelt was last seen
in combat on Sunday morning, July
II. with two enemy airplanes about
ten miles inside the German lines in
the Chateau Thierry sector. He start
ed out with a patrol OF thirteen Amer
lean machines. They encountered
seven Germans and we're chasing them
back when two OF them turned on
Lieutenant Roosevelt.
Lieutenant Roosevelt was return
ing from the patrol fight when he was
attasked.
1T was seen that Roosevelt suddenly
lost control OF his machine, having
probably received a mortal wound.
Philip Roosevelt. Quentin's cousin,
witnessed the air battle and saw the
machine fall but did not know until
later that the airplane was that of his
cousin.
He appeared TO be fighting up to
the last moment"
Quentin Roosevelt was not yet
twenty-one. He was born In Wash
ington, November 10, 1897, while his
father was assistant secretary of the
navy. A writer in The Tribune tells
Of some of his very youthful pranks:
From 1901, when the assassination
OF President Mckinley made Colonel
Roosevelt head of the nation, until
1908, Quentin. starting as the white
House baby" kept Washington inter
ested and amused for seven years.
Sturdy. impetuous. frank, and dem
ocratic. he was friends with everybody.
He rode locomotives between Wash
ington and Philadelphia with his
chums. the engineers and fremen Of
the Baltimore q Ohio and the Penn
s%ylvania.
Meantime, he was captain also of a
crew of warrior Indians |recruited. from
members of his classes in a public
school.
"One day. during an illness of his
brother Archie, who, IL is reported,
may be inyalided home on cou of
his wounded arm. Quentin decided hat
a sight of a pet pony might prove bet
ter than the White House DOCTORS
prescriptions.
without waiting for permission he
went out to the stables, introduced the
Shetland into n of the private ele-
%vators, and had the little horse on the
way into his sick brothers room be-
fore he vas stopped.
con another day in school, while the
teacher was asking the boys what
their fathers did for a living. Quen-
tin piped:
Mine is IT.
shortly afterward for some infrac-
ton of school discipline. probably in
connection with the adyenturing band
OF feathered Indians Quentin was re-
ported TO his father. And the presi-
dent sent word to the teacher next day
that he had been attended to in the
good oldfashioned way-in the wood
she'd"
At Harvard college in 1915 Quentin
took a prominent part In athletics. He
inherited his fathers pluck and de-
termination. and before his election
to a Greek letter fraternity he was
put through a particularly severe in
itlatiOn ceremony. the public part of
the ordeal including shining shoes,
selling newspapers, and the delivery Of
a long lecture on why | am a Paci-
fist" OF his later life The Tribune
says.
Like his father. Lieutenant Quen-
tin suffered from a defect of vision.
When the first officers training camp
was organized Archie was admitted
and won a commission. but Quentin,
on account of his eyes. was rejected.
He thereupon applied for enlist
ment in the Canadian flying corps.
That was In April. 1917. A few days
later. on April 20, It was announced
that the war department had accepted
him for enlistment in the United
States aviation section.
He underwent a brief period of
training at MineOla under Capt. Philip
Carroll. who was his commanding Of
hcer when he went with the first fly
ing unit to France in the following
July. He reached France just a few
weeks after Archie. who had been
made a captain by General P%ershing.
and Theodore. Jr, who commanded
one OF the first American ~battalions to
10 under fire. Kermit also had sailed
for the war zone. having been COM
missiOned a captain in the British
f1rces in MesOpOtamia.
Captain Archie was wounded March
II. Quentin. who was given his rank
last fall, was first reported in action
July 3. His service was rendered en-
tirely upon the Chateau Thierry front.
while at Mineola, Quentin Roose-
Welt ranked as a private. rs a stu
dent he showed such aptitude that he
was doing stunts" in training planes.
which highly elated his instructors.
"One day. just after his brothers.
Theodore aud Archie, had gone to
France. and his father was entertain
ing about a thousand visitors at a pa