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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-24
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MATCHING EGGs-Phone 6s1S.
GOOD FAT SQUABs-7I5 Copia.
FINE Minorca Matching eggs setting Sl-25
1873 2. Missouri Phone 4s1-
60 TRAPSESTS Tor sale. sos Blsaee-
Phone 6556-
HOME FATTENED Rhode Island Red
spring chickens Phi 5141W.
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK eEgs for
Matching. trap nested and bred 20 lay
s. for 15- ISIS Memphis Phi 1915
BELGIAN HAREs and New zealand
Reds. pairs. trlos AID young stocks Ped
igraed and utility Altura Poultry Yards
Phi 6613.
HOOVERIZE-RAISE SQUADS IN your
back yard All kind- old pigeons for sale,
prices right Visitors welcome. Ranch
one mile below city 20 your right Dusl-
ness phone SIS. Ranch fS7-J7. Young
SQUAD Ranch. r T. u. No J.
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FOX SALE BY owner. 800 acres seed
farming land. under ditch in Rio Gralde
valley santa Re Rv. runs through f.
9sclr Lifferlnc- Bernzrdo. y. 1.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-24
For SaIe-Pianos

PIANO loans. SIS Trust Bldg.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-24

RIGHT IN ElA r FulAle DlsLhlNA
Substantial 5 room bungalow. base
ment heat. hardwood floors. glassed
in sleeping room, paved street nea-
alta vista school; worth at least
$1,000. Pay $3.50 cash. balance reason
able. Our advice is: Buy this today
PARK W. PITuAN REALTY co.
500 Two Republics Bldg Phone 612
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-24

8 rooms. sleeping porch, basement
heating plant. substantial consruc-
tion, splendid arrangement OF rooms,
furnished complete with strictly high
grade furniture. including linens sill
verware, cut glass. beautiful rugs,
victrola and many other valuable
items We VIII sell this place for
only $4,000. about half cash We con-
slider this a rare bargain.
PARK W. PITMAN REALTY co.
800 Two Republics Bldg Phone 612.
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FOR SALE BY OWNER
MRS. j. w CROWDUS
1890 west Missouri Street
Telephone 7f21.
Mahogany dining room set, mahogany tea
wagon. mahogany and green velours. Nv
ing room settee arm chair and rocker
Thlte Hoosier kitchen cabinet, 6 foot step
ladder. GALVANIZED coal buckets.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-08-03

OF probably two hundred miles an
hour. shooting all the time as fast az
possible. Their only chance lay in
the possibility that the force OF my
drive might break my wings. ! knew
my danger in that direction. but as
soon rs | came out Of my dive the
Huns would have their chance to get
me. and | knew | had to get them first
and take chance on my wings hold
ing out
Fortunately some of my first bullets
found their mark, and | was able TO
come out of my dive ut about four
thousand feet. They never came out
of theirs
But right then came the hottest sit
uation In the air | had ever expert
enced up To TINT time. The depth of
my div" had brought me within reach
of the machine guns from the ground,
and they also put II barrage around me
of shrupnel from antiairCraft guns
and | had an opportunity to ride the
barrage," as they call 1t In the X. +. &.
To make the situation more interest
ing, they began shooting flaming on
Ions at me. planning onions" are
rockets shot from rocket gun. They
ar" used to hit machine wheE 1t Is
flying low, and they are effective up
to about five thousand feet Some
times they are shot up one utter an
other in strings of about eight. and
they are one of the hardest things to
go through. II they hit the machine.
1t is bound to catch fire and then the
liz Is uD.
(TO be Continued
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to cross the lines at low altitude, fly
ing so near the ground that the man
with the antiaircrnft gun can't bother
you. You fly along until YOU get to the
level of the balloon and If. in the
meantime they have not drawn the
balloon down. you open fire on II and
the hullcts you use will set 1t on fir"
If they land.
The other way is to fly over where
you know the balloons to be. put your
machine in a spin so that they can't
hit you, get above them spin over the
balloon and then open fire. In going
back over the line you cross at few
hundred feet.
This Is one of the hardest jobs in
the service. There is less danger In
attacking an enemy's aircraft.
Nevertheless. | had made up my
mind to either get those balloons or
make them descend, and | only hoped
that they would stay on the job until
/ had II chance Mt them.
When our two hours duty was up,
therefore, l dropped out of the forma-
ton as we crossed the lines and turned
back again.
l was at a height of 1900 feet, con
sidernblv higher than the balloons.
Shutting my motor OFF. dropped down
through the clouds, thinking to find
the balloons at about five or six miles
behind the German lines.
Just rs l came out of the cloud
banks ] saw below me. about n thou
sand feet, two-seater hostile ma
chine doing artillery observation and
directing the German guns. This was
ut n point about four miles behind the
German lines.
Evidently the German artillery saw
me and put out ground signals to at
tract the Hun machines attention, for
saw the observer quit his work and
grab his gun. while their pilot stuck
the nose Of his machine straight
down.
But they were too late to escape me,
I was diving toward them at speed
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CHAPTER III.
Captured by the Huns.


! shall not easily forget the 18th Of
August, 1917. | killed two Huns in
the double-seated machine in the
morning, another In the evening, and
then | was captured myself. l may
have spent more eventful days in my
life, but | can't recall any just now.
That morning, in crossing the line
on early morning patrol. | noticed
two German balloons. decided that
as soon as my patrol was over /
would go on on my own hook and see
what German balloon looked like
at close quarters.
These observation balloons are used
by both sides in conjunction with the
artillery. A man sits up in the bal
loon with a wireless apparatus and di-
reefs the firing of the guns. From his
point of vantage he can follow the
work of his own artillery with re-
markable degree of accuracy and at
the same time he can observe the enc
my's movements and report them.
The Germans are very good at this
work, and they use great number Of
these balloons. 1t was considered n
very important part of our work to
keep them out Of the sky.
There are two ways of going after n
balloon in machine. One of them Is
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seaters. coming toward us. This type
of machine Is used by the Huns for
artillery work and bomb dropping. and
we knew they were on mischief bent
Each machine had machine gun In
front, worked by the pilot, and the Oh
server also had gun with which he
could spray all around.
When we first noticed the Huns. our
machines were about six miles back
of the German lines and we were lying
high up in the sky, keeping the sun
behind us, so that the enemy could not
see us.
We picked out three of the machines
and dove down on them. i went right
by the man ! picked for myself and
his observer In the rear seat kept
pumping at me to beat the band. Not
one of my shots took effect us | went
right down under him. but | turned
and gave him another burst of bullets.
and down he went in q spinning nose
dive. one of his wings going one way
and one another AS saw him crash
to the ground knew that l had got my
HTkl IOSllIp ollt VI tbii
rndes was equally successful. but the
other two German machines got away.
We chased them back until things got
too hot for us by reason of the appear
nnce of other German machines, and
then we called ii day.
This experience whetted my appetite
for more of the same kind. and did
not have long to wait.
1t may be well to explain here just
what Il spinning nose bend is. a few
years ago the spinning nose dive was
considered one of the most dangerous
things Il pilot could attempt. and
many men were killed getting into this
spin and not knowing how to come
out of it. In fact, lots of pilots
thought that when once you got into
spinning nose dive there was no
way of coming out of it. 1t is now
used, however, In actual flying.
The machines that are used in
France are controlled in two ways,
both by hands and feet, the feet
working the yoke or rudder bar
which controls the rudder; that steers
the machine. The lateral controls
fore and aft, which cause the ma
chine to rise or lower, are controlled
by contrivance called n 10y stick"
IT, when flying in the air, a pilot
should relense his hold on this stick,
1t will gradually come toward the
pilot.
In that position the machine will
begin to climb. SO If pilot Is shot
and loses control of this 10y stick"
his machine begins to ascend and
climbs until the angle formed be
comes too great for it to continue or
the motor to pull the plane; for u
fraction of second it stops, and the
motor then being the heaviest, IL
causes the nose of the machine To fall
forward pitching down at a terrific
rate of speed and spinning at the
same time. If the motor is still run
ming. t naturally increases the speed
much more than 1t would If the mo-
tor were shut off. and there Is great
danger that the wings will double up
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A scout, sometimes called a fighting
scout, has no bomb dropping or recon-
noitering to do. His duty Is just to
fight, or, as the order was given to me-
,"You are expected to pick fights and
not wait unth they come to you."
When bomb choppers go out over
the lines In the daytime n scout squad
ron usually conveys them. The bomb
choppers fly at about twelve thousand
feet, and scouts thousand feet or so
above them.
If at any time they should be at
tackled. it is the duty of the scouts to
dive down and carry on the fight, the
orders Of the bomb choppers being to
go on dropping bombs and not to fight
unless they have to. There is seldom
time that machines go out over the
lines on this work in the daytime that
they are not attacked Mt some time or
other. and so the scouts usually have
plenty of work to do. In addition to
these attacks. however, the squadron
is invariably under constant lombard
ment from the ground, but that doesn't
worry US very much. as we know pref
~ well how to avoid being hit from
that quarter.
On my first flight, after Joining the
squadron, | was taken out over the
lines to get look at things, map out
my location in case | was ever lost,
locate the forests, lakes and other
landmarks and get the general lay of
the land.
One thing that was impressed upon
me very emphatlCally was the location
of the hospitals, so that in case | was
ever wounded and had the strength to
pick my landing I could land as near
as possible to IA hospital. All these
things a new pilot goes through dur
ing the first two or three days after
Joining Il squadron.
Our regular routine was two flights
a day, each of two hours duration.
After doing our regular patrol, 1t was
our privilege to go off on our own hook
II We wished. before going back to
the squadron.
soon found out that my squadron
was some not SquHuTon, our myers De-
ing almost always assigned to special
duty work, such as shooting up
trenches at height of fifty feet from
the ground.
received my baptism into this kind
OF work the third time | went out over
the lines, and would recommend 1t
TO anyone who is hankering for excite
ment. You are not only apt to be at.
tucked by hostile aircraft from above,
but you are swept by muchine-gun fire
from below. | have seen some Of our
machines come back from this work
sometimes so riddled with bullets that
/ wondered how they ever held to-
gether. Before we started out on one
of these jobs, we were mighty careful
TO see that our motors were in perfect
condition, because they told us the
"wcr bread was bad in Germany"
One morning, shortly after | Joined
the squadron, three OF us started over
the line of our Own accord. We soon
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causing TIE machine to break apart.
motor on, you are dropping like ball
being dropped out of the sky and the
velocity increases with the power Of
the motor
This spinning nose dive has been
frequently used in "stunt" flying In
recent years but is now put to prac
teal use by pilots in getting away
from hostile machines, for when n
man is spinning it is almost impos-
sible to hit him, and the man making
Me attack invariably thinks his en-
envy Is going down to certain death
In the spin.
This Is all right when man is
over his own territory, because he
can right his machine and come out
of 1t; hut IL 1t happens over German
territory. the Huns would only follow
him down, and when he came out of
the spin they would be above him,
having all the advantage, and would
shoot him down with ease. II Is a
good way of getting down into a
cloud, and Is used very often by both
sides. but 1t requires skill and Cour-
age by the pilot making 1t If he ever
expects To come out alive. A spin
being made by a pilot Intentionally
looks exactly like a spin that Is made
by machine actually being shot
down. 50 one never knows whether Ii
Is forced or intentional until the pilot
either rights his machine and comes
out of 1t, or crashes to the ground.
Another dive similar to this one Is
known AS just the plain dive. As
sumo. for instance, that n pilot flying
ut n height of several thousand feet
is shot. loses control OF his machine
and the nose of the plane starts down
with the motor full on. He is going
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at tremendous speed and in many
instances is going so straight and
swiftly that the speed Is too great for
the machine. because il was never
constructed to withstand the enor-
nous pressure forced against the
wings, and they consequently crumple
up.
If, too. in an attempt to Straighten
the machine, the elevators should be-
come affected. as often happens In
trying to bring machine out of
dive, the strain is again too great on
the wings. and there is the same dis
astrous result. Oftentimes. when the
patrol tank Is punctured by tracer
bullet from another machine In the
air the plane that is hit catches on
fire and either gets into spin or
straight dive and heads for the earth,
hundreds of miles an hour, II mass of
flame, looking like a brilliant comet
In the sky.
The spinning nose dive Is used to
greater advantage by the Germans
than by our own pilots for the reason
that when fight gets too hot for the
German, he will put his machine In
spin, and as the chances are nine
out of ten that we are fighting over
German territory. he simply spins
down out OF our range, straightens
out before he reaches the ground. and
gets on home to his airdrome. II Is
useless to follow him down inside the
German lines, for you would In all
probability be shot down before you
can attain sufficient altitude to cross
the line again.
1t often happens that pilot will
be chasing another machine when
suddenly he sees II start to spin. Per
haps they are fifteen or eighteen thou
sand feet In the air, and the hostile
machine spins down for thousands OF
feet. He thinks he has hit the other
machine and goes home happy that
he has brought down another Hun
He reports the occurrence to the
squadron, telling how he shot down
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his enemy; but when the rest Of the
squadron come In with their report.
sends In a report, II develops that
when few hundred feet from the
ground the supposed dead man in the
spin has come out of the spin and
gone merrily on his way for his air
drOme
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Copper River
and Northwestern Rv.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT

FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays
Leave Chtina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays
and Fridays
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes-
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
The above schedule subject to change without
notice.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from a M to 5 p M, except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
ON" hour before departure of trains.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-08-03

Have you looked over our STOCK of
Congoleum rugs? The Northwestern
Hardware store.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of the Interior, |. s.
 Land Office at Little Rock, Ark
 July l9, 1918.
 Notice is hereby given that Albert L. Magby, of Jesseville, Arkansas, who, on November 6, 1914, made homestead entry No. 0l1414, for northwest guar ter, Section 12, Township 1 North, Range 19 West, 5th Principal Meridian. has filed notice of intention to make three-year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before United States Commissioner at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on the 27th day ol August. 1918.
 Claimant names as witnesses: Will liam M. I.owder. of Beaudry Ark, Thomas L. Johnson, of Jesseyille Ark; James M Green, of Jesseville Ark. John L. Johnson, of Jesseville Ark.
 JOHN w. ALLEN, 7-23-Tues. Register
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, U, $. Land Office at Little Rock. Ark.
 July 19, 1918
 Notice is hereby given that Abe L. Caldwell of Gladsotne, Arkansas, who, on J...y &, 1914, made Homestead en- try No 010993. for s i-2 NE l-4 SEE IA. IN l-2 SEE IA SEE 1-4, Sec. II, SW 1-i SW 1-i and $ l-2 NV 1-l SW l-l, Section 12, Township 1 N Range 22 W. 5th Principal Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make 3-year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before U. s. Commissioner at Hot Springs, on the 27th day of August, 1918.
 Claimant names as witnesses Jell II. Ratcliff, of Hot Springs, Ark; Rory E. Richardson, of Cedar Glades, Ark George F Melton. of Cedar Glades, Ark. Daniel M. Caldwell. of Cedar Glades, Ark.
 JOHN w. ALLEN, T-22-Tues. Register
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF GRANT OF LETTERS TESTA-
 MENTARY.

Letters testamentary on the estate of Fred F. Brownsill. deceased, were granted to the undersigned on the 29th day of April, 1918, by the Pro- bate Court of Garland County.
 All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them, properly authenticated for all lowances to the undersigned, as ex- ecutrix of the said estate within six months from the date of the grant ing of the said letters testamentary upon said estate. or they may be pre- cluded from any benefit in the es- tate, and if such claims be not ex- hibited within one year from the date of such letters testamcntary, they shall be forever barred and pre- cluded from any benefit from such estate,
 IDA NJ BROWNSILL, t,xecutrix of the Estate of Fred E
 Brownsill, Deceased.
 6l9-Gwks
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GERMANY MAY HAVE TO
 TRANSFER TROOPS TO RUSSIA

London, July 22.-Dispatches from The Hague to the Daily Mail says that several German newspapers are prom inently calling attention to conditions in Russia and appear to hint that the possibility that Germany may now have to be content to hold the western front and transfer active operations 10 the near middle east
 The annexationist press of Germany in the past week has repeatedly re- ferred to the warning of Hakki Pasha, the Turkish ambassador to Germany, that the war cannot be ended in the west and that 1t will be necessary to smite Great Britain in her Asiatic en- pire. The general situation in the west and this much advertised east ern propaganda, form, in the corre- spondents opinion. the basis for rti- mors in Holland that the Germans in tend to fall back to the Aisne and their old Somme positions while troops are transferred to the east, but he admits thata solid foundation for tie report cannot be discovered
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LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior. L. $,
 Land Office at Little Rock, Ark, July i9, 1918.
 Notice is hereby given that Will liam NJ. Lowder, of Beaudry, Arkansas, who, on November 6, 1914 and May |2l. 1916, made Original and Additional Homestead entry No. 0llia6 and I013094, for SEE l-4 NV l-4, W l-2 SN l-4 NE 1-4, E 1-2 SW l-4 and E l-2 ,SW 1-4 NE 1--4. Section 24, Township 1 N. Range l9 w, 5th Principal Merid - ian. has filed notice of intention to make Three-year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described be- tore U. S. Commissioner at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on the 27th day of August, 1918.
 Claimant names as witnesses :: Thomas L. Johnson, of Jesseville, Arkansas, John l.. Johnson, of Jesse vile, Arkansas; James M. Green. of Jesseville, Arkansas: Albert l.. Magby, of Jessevile, Arkansas.
 JOHN w. ALLEN, 1-23-Tues. Register
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, U s. Land Office at Little Rock. Arkansas, July 12, 1918.
 Notice is hereby given that Alber: Marshall, of Blocher. Arkansas, who, on May 2t, 1915, made homestead en- try No, 012094, for E 1-2 NE 1-4, sec tion 26 township l N, range IS w., 5th Principal Meridian, has filed mo- tice of intention to make Swear proof, to establish cleam to the land above described, before U s. Commissioner at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on the goth day of August, 1918.
 Claimant names as witnesses R. Frank Tillery. of Blocher Arkansas {; Wm. & Roberts. of Blocher, Arkan- sas; R Haroe Tiller, of Blocher, Ark ansas; Thomas White, of Bloeher. Arkansas.
 JOHN W, ALLEN 7-1i-Sunday Register.
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HEARST TO BE A
 CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR

Saratoga. Springs, N r.. July 22.--
 William Randolph flearst intends to enter the primaries for the democrat
 ic nomination for governor, no matter who is recommended to the party
 voters of the state by the unofficial
 convention which will open here to-
 orrow, according to statement made
 tonight by l.. J 0Reilley. Mir. Hearsts Confidential secretary. and now com missioner of water supply in New York MT. O'Reilley's announcement served to complieate much involved situation. William Church Osborne another candidate one of the seven recommended by the comittee of 10, at it's Syracuse meeting already has an- nounced that he will go into the pri- maries regardless of what the con ference does.