Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-29
FRENCH AIR FIGHTER
TOFLY HERE SUNDAY
Flachaire, Who Fought Ger
many's Premier "Ace," Plans
: Exhibition
AT BELMONT PLATEAU
Young Women of Emergency Aid
Will Take Collection for Avi-
ators' Orphans

Lieutenant Georges Flachairc. OF the
French aviation corps. will make 4
flight in his fighting "Spad" on sunday
at Belmont Plateau. Fairmourt Park.
for the benefit OF the orphans of French
aviators who have fallen for France.
At the conclusion of the flight. which
will start at I n. M, young women from
the Emergency Aid will take coll
lection
Lieutenant Flachairc Is the holder OF
four medals and the Gordon Of honor,
given to his escadrlle or air squadron
for heroic service. lie holds tho honor
OF being probably the only aylator\who
ever had n brush with Baron Won Richt-
hofen, the German premier ace" with
whom no aviator to date has fought and
returned to tell of II. bullet from
Won Richthofen's machine gun clipped
the back hair of the Frenchman, who
escaped with no further harm. lie has
downed seven German planes officially
and five others unofIlcially, and has
never had n wound.
lie Is at present stationed at Mineola
j.. l., where he is exhibiting the "S. L,
A. D." fighting plane to American
aviators
His medals arc tho Legion of Honor
medal, the Medslle Mlitaire, the Croix
le Guerre and the British military medal.
the last having been awarded him after
a fight in which he rescued q British
aviator from ten German planes who
attacked him in midair
He stated that. everything being equal
In the number of planes engaged. the
Germans and the ALLIES are about equal
in fighting powers.
Among the visitors to the British Re-
cruiting Mission today was Joseph
r. mt. n q. II.
has just come to this city from Texas,
where he was graduated flight lieu
tenant in the Royal British Flying
Corps. He used to live with relatives
at 4046 North sixth street and is II
graduate of the Northeast High School
and of Williamson School He leaves
for the front on Monday.
Skrtlant was at the Fort Worth, Tex,
flying course when Vernon Castle met
his brave death, and is Loud in his
praises of that famous dancing man."
The British recruiting mission an
nounces that one of the most remarkable
features of their big drive to secure
10000 British and Canadian volunteers
in the United States in the next two
months is the rush Of young Jews to
the colors. About 600 of them have
already been recruited IN the United
States for Jewish units destined TO sec
service in Palestine. About $50 of them
left Boston not long ago to commence
their training/in England. and zoo more
from New York. Philadelphia and Cleve-
land marched away fro>r the New York
depot of the British aud Canadian re-
cruiting mission in New York city on
March Fl, 1918.
These recruits were all sworn in
wearing their hats according to Jewish
r--t-. 4 -.
flag of David as well AS under the
British flag. Before they left New York
they were presented with flag by
Col John S. Dennis, second in command
of the mission in the United States.
Many of them were Russian Jews who
were not in the American draft.
No event in years has caused such
a sensation among the Jews as the cap
ture of Jerusalem. and these young
soldiers are ambitions to fight in the
Holy Land to free it from the domin-
alton of the Turk.