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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-14
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-14
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-14

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-02-14

OLD FALSI; TEETH WANTED
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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-21

ting it out. 1t takes less than min
ute for the fabric to burn off the wings
and then the machine drops like al
arrow, leaving trail of smoke like 8
comet.
AS their tracer bullets came closer
and closer to me I realized that my
chances of escape were nil. Their very
next shot, 1 felt, must hit me.
Once, some days before. when I was
| flying over the line, l had watched a
fight above me. A German machine
was set on fire, and dived down
through our formation in flames on its
way to the ground. The Hun was div
ing at such sharp angle that both
his wings came off, and as he passed
within few hundred feet of me I saw
the look of horror on his face.
Now, when l expected any moment
to suffer similar fate, 1 could not
help thinking of that poor Huns last
look of agony.
! l realized that my only chance lay
In making an Immelman turn. This
maneuver was invented by German
one of the greatest who ever few and
who was killed in action some time be-
fore. This turn, which I made success
| fully, brought one of their machines
right in front of me, and as he sailed
| along barely ten yards away. l chad
the drop" on him, and he knew it.
His white face and startled eyes
can still see. He knew beyond ques-
ton that his last moment had come,
because his position prevented his TAX
ing aim at me, while my gun pointed
straight at him. My first tracer bullet
passed within yard of his head, the
second looked as if 1t hit his shoulder,
the third struck him in the neck, and
then let him have the whole works,
and he went down in spinning nose
dive.
All this time the three other Hun
machines were shooting away at me.
l could hear the bullets striking my
machine one after another. l hadn't
the slightest idea that l could ever
beat off those three Huns, but there
my hands were full.
In fighting, your machine Is drop
ping, dropping all the time. / glanced
at my instruments, and my altitude
was between 5000 and 5000 feet.
While I was still looking at the in
struments, the whole blamed works
disappeared. A burst of bullets went
into the instrument board and blew
it to smithereens, another bullet went
through my upper lip, came out of the
roof of my mouth and lodged in my
throat, and the next thing knew was
when l came to in a German hospital
the following morning at five o'clock,
German time.
was prisoner of war.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-21
CHAPTER III.
Captured by the Huns.

I 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 l was captured myself. / 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, I noticed
two German balloons. / decided that
as soon as my patrol was over l
would go off 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 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 a 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 a great number of
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-21

smiled. At this time was Just De-
ginning to say few words, as my
wound had prevented me from taking
but | said enough to let him know
what | was doing there and now L
happened to be there. He evidently
had heard my story from some OF the
others, though. because he said 1t was
too bad | had not broken my neck;
that he did not have much sympathy
with the flying corps anyway. lie
asked me what part of America came
from, and | told him California.
After few more questions he
learned that I hailed from San Fran
cisco, and then added to my distress
by saying, "How would you like to
have good, juicy steak right out of
the Hofbrau?" Naturally l told him
it would hit the spot" but l hardly
thought my mouth was in shape just
then to eat it. l Immediately asked,
of course what he knew about the
HOfbrau, and he replied, Il was con-
nected with the place a good many
years, and l ought to know all about
it,"
After that this German officer and
l became rather chummy that is, as
far as | could be chummy with an
enemy, and we whiled away q good
many long hours talking about the
days we had spent in San Francisco,
and frequently in the conversation one
of US would mention some prominent
Californian, or some little incident oc-
curing there, with which we wero
both familiar.
He told me when war was declared
he was, of course, intensely patriotic
and thought the only thing for him to
do was to go back and aid In the de-
Tense of his country. He found that
he could not go directly from San
Francisco, because the water was too
well guarded by the English, so he
boarded a boat for South America.
There he obtained forged passport
and in the guise of q Montevidean took
passage for New York and from there
to England.
He passed through England without
any difficulty on his forged passport.
but concluded not to risk going to Hol-
land for fear of exciting too much sus-
picion, so went down through the
Strait of Gibraltar to Italy, which was
neutral at that time. up to Austria,
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-21

and thence to Germany. He said when
they put in at Gibraltar, after leaving
England, there were two suspects
taken off the ship, men that he was
sure were neutral subjects, but much
to his relief his own passport and ere.
dentials were examined and passed
o. X.
The Hun spoke of his voyage from
America to England as being excep.
tionally pleasant, and said he had a
fine time, because he associated with
the English passengers on board, his
fluent English readily admitting him
to several spirited arguments on the
subject of the war, which he keenly
enjoyed. One little incident he related
revealed the remarkable tact which
our enemy displayed in his associa.
lions at sea, which no doubt resulted
advantageously for him. AS he ex-
pressed it, he ''made hit" one evening
when the crowd has assembled for q
little music by suggesting that they
sing "God Save the King" Thereafter
his popularity was assured and the de-
sired effect accomplished, for very
soon French officer came up to him
and said, Its too bad that England
and ourselves haven't men in our army
like you" 1t was too bad, he agreed,
in telling me about it, because he was
confident he could have done a whole
lot more for Germany If he had been
in the English army. In spite of his
apparent loyalty, however, the man
didn't seem very enthusiastic over the
war and frankly admitted one day that
the old political battles waged in Cali
fornia were much more to his liking
than the battles he had gone through
over here. On second thought he
laughed as though 1t were a good Joke.
but he evidently intended me to infer
that he had taken a keen interest in
politics in San Francisco.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-21
CHAPTER ~.
Clipped WINGS.

The hospital in which 1 found my.
self on the morning after my capture
was a private house made of brick,
very low and dirty, and not at all
adapted for use as hospital. 1t had
evidently been used but few days on
account of the big push that was TAX
ing place at that time of the year, and
in all probability would be abandoned
as soon as they had found a better
place.
In all, the house contained four
rooms and a stable, which was by far
the largest of all. Although I never
looked into this wing" of the hospital,
was told that it, too, was filed with
patients lying on beds of straw around
on the ground. do not know whether
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a few, "such as they We're" and read
lily observing that nothing could be
done with what was left, l made my
way back to infantry headquarters,
where | was able to telephone in a
report.
A little later one of our automo-
biles came out after me and took me
| back to our airdrome. Most of my
/ squadron thought 1 was lost beyond
doubt, and never expected to see me
again; but my friend, Paul Raney, had
held out that | was all right, and as
l was afterwards told, said, Don't
send for another pilot; that Irishman
will be back. if he has to walk" And
he knew that the only thing that kept
me from walking was the fact that our
bring me home.
l had lots to think about that day,
and had learned many things; one
was not to have too much confidence
in my own ability. One of the men in
the squadron told me that had bet
ter not take those chances; that it
was going to be a long war and /
would have plenty of opportunities to
be killed without deliberately wishing
them on" myself. Later / was to learn
the truth of his statement.
That night my "f1ight"-each squad
ron is divided into three flights, con-
sisting of six men each-got ready to
go out again. AS l started to put on
my tunic l noticed that I was not
marked up for duty as usual.
asked the commanding officer, a
major, what the reason for that was,
and he replied that he thought 1 had
done enough for one day. However,
1 knew that if l did not go, someone
else from another "fiight" would have
to take my place, and l insisted upon
going up with my patrol as usual, and
the major reluctantly consented. Had
he known what was in store for me, I
am sure he wouldn't have changed his
mind so readily.
AS 1t was we had only five machines
for this patrol, anyway, because as we
crossed the lines one of them had to
drop out on account of motor trouble.
Our patrol was up at s p. m, and up
to within ten minutes Of that hour it
had been entirely uneventful.
At 1850 p. m, however, while we
were flying at height of 1900 feet,
we observed three other English ma
chimes which were about 5000 feet
below US pick fight with nine Hun
machines.
1 knew right then that we were in
for it, because I could see over toward
the ocean q whole flock of Hun ma
chimes which evidently had escaped
the attention of our scrappy country
men below US.
So we dove down on those nine
Huns.
At first the fight was fairly even.
There were eight. of us to nine of them.
But soon the otter machines which 1
had seen in the distance, and which
were flying even higher than we were,
arrived on the scene, and when they,
in turn, dove down on US, there was
just twenty of them to our eight!
-Four of them singled me out. / was
diving. and they dived right down after
me, shooting as they came. Their
tracer bullets were coming closer to
me every moment. These tracer bull
lets are balls of fire which enable the
shooter to follow the course his bull
lets are taking and to correct his aim
accordingly. They do no more harm
to pilot if he is hit than an ordinary
bullet, but if they hit the petrol tank,
good night! When a machine catches
fire in flight there is no way of put
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the Huns.
these balloons. 1t was considered a
very important part of our work to
keep them out of the sky.
There are two ways of going after a
balloon in a machine. One of them is
to cross the lines at low altitude, fly
ing so near the ground that the man
with the antiaircraft 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, sou open fire on 1t and
the bullets you use will set it on fire
If they land.
The other way is to fly ever 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 a few
hundred feet.
This is one of the hardest jobs in
the service. There is less danger in
attacking an enemy's aircraft.
Nevertheless, I 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 q chance at them.
When our two hours duty was up,
therefore, dropped out Of the forma-
ton as we crossed the lines and turned
back again.
was at height Of $4,000 feet. con-
Aiderably 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 as I came out Of the cloud
banks saw below me, about thou
sand feet. a two-seater hostile ma
chine doing artillery observation and
directing the German guns. This was
at a 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
I 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.
/ was diving toward them at a speed
Of probably two hundred miles an
hour, shooting all the time as fast as
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 as I came out of my dive the
Huns would have their chance to get
me, and / knew had to get them first
and take a 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 at about four
thousand feet. They never came out
e. 0eirs!
BUT right then came the hottest sit
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-21
From his prison, o'Brien wit.
nesses a thrilling air battle,
which results in the death of his
chum, who is shot down by a
German flyer. Don't miss the
next instaliment.
(TO BE CONTINUED,
Wives Evidently His Hobby.

Probably the modern worlds marry.
ing record for men was created by
George Witzoff, the bigamist, whose
marriages have variously been, estimat-
ed at from 200 to 800. It was report
ed that in the space Of single week
he went through marriage ceremonies
with ten women.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-21
Worse'n Boiis, Too.

Old Job had his troubles, but nobody
raised the price Of ice on him when he
was laying in his winters coal.-At.
lanta Constitution,
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-21
0'BRIEN FINDS HIMSELF A PRISONER OF WAR AFTER A
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH.

syncpsis-Pa OBren resident seeing
American flying
train
squadron in active
energies
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24
PEOPLES CANAL NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the
regular annual stockholders meeting
of the Peoples Canal & Irrigation
company will be held at the Moreland
hall, in Moreland, Bingham county,
Idaho, on the twentieth day of jan
uary, 1919, at p. m. for the pur-
pose Of electing q board Of directors
to serve for the ensuing year.
Also for the purpose of considering
and passing upon the proposition of in
creasing the authorized capital stock
of said corporation from five hundred
thousand ($500,00O) dollars to six
hundred thousand ($600,00O) dol
lars and the number Of shares of
capital stock from twenty thousand
(20,000) shares to twenty-four thou
sand (24,000) shares.
Also for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before such meeting.
Dated December 20, 1918.
PEOPLES CANAL & IRRIGATION
COMPANY.
W. T. ENGLAND. Pres.
H. A. BENSON, Secy.
adv. 23a-5m
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24
YANKEE DRIVE
DEATH BLOW TO
German army
Victory Of Argonne Smashed
Whole Line in West.
use 750,00oc0MBAT TROOPS

High Command Calls Upon General
Pershing 10 Take Argonne Sector,
the Most Difficult and Most Selen-
tihcaily Defended on Whole Front
Germans Finally Forced to Admit
Defeat When American Army
Breaks Through. :
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24
FOR A COUNTY ROAD
SUPERINTENDENT

The matter of appointing county
road superintendent to displace road
overseers, will come before the
county commissioners at the meeting
in January, and persons interested in
getting the best road Service are in
vited to be reading up on the sub
ject and advising their county COM
missioner-el If they have a prefer
ence.
Some of the things to be said in
favor of the change have already
been said by nearly everybody. The
local overseer is at disadvantage in
bossing his neighbors in q way to get
efficient service; not many overseers
know how to build roads, bridges and
culverts anyhow, and 1t Is done by
guess and by thumb by good many
Of them; experience has proved that
the work done under the manage
ment fthe overseer is very expen-
sive and then has to be done over
in q short time.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24
GOOD FAMILY GOING Away

r. H. Clayton, who has been
cashier for the sugar company at
Blackfoot the past eleven years, has
received q promotion to position
IN the auditing department. Of the
Utah-ldaho Sugar company at Salt
Lake City, and will move his family
there about the middle of January.
The Claytons came to Blackfoot
from Salt Lake in September, 1907.
when we say that the Claytons have
SIX months old. Now there are Mar
garet, RAYMOND and Maurice added
to the trio, and when this WORTHY
family leave for Salt Lake, Blackfoot
will miss them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24
NOTICE OF DISSOLU-
TON OF PARTNERSHIP

The firm heretofore existing under
the name and style Of boyle Brothers
doing sheet and metal business In
the City of Blackfoot, Idaho, was or
December is, 1918, dissolved by
mutual consent, Mr.. P. w. Boyle
having purchased the entire interest
of G. e. Boyle in the concern. P. w
Boyle will pay all outstanding obliga.
,tions of the firm, and all debts due
or owing to said firm will be paid
to said P. w. Boyle, who will con.
tinue the said business under the
name Of Boyle Sheet G. Metal Works
Dated at Blackfoot, daho. Decem.
Der 81, 1918.
G. e. BOYLE,
P. w. BOYLE,
adv. 23a-3mf
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24
DID THE PREACHER SWEAR7
Il Might Seem So When He Agreed
with NImrod,


Several business men were seated
about the blazing fire at the club at
East Liverpool, o. They were discuss
ing the curious ways in which false
reports often start. One merchant told
Of an experience during hunting trip
out West.
my guide told me how he had es-
corted famous clergyman on hunt
for wild game" said the merchant. Z
understand he never was known to
show single weakness I said.
"That Is not true, though replied
the guide. I heard him swear
"Ts that so? Tell me about it.
said.
"'Well, sir, we were watching an
other fishing. Suddenly, the fellow
pulled in an eight-pounder. Turning
to the preacher. he said: '"That's a
id fish," The clergyman replied !:
"Yes, it ISL"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24
GARD OF THANKS

We wish, dear friends, to express
our heartfelt thanks to all who 80
kindly aided us during the illness and
at the loss Of our daughter Marion
Agnes.
/. Wish especially to express our
appreciation of the floral offerings
as we'll as the tender thoughtfulness
that prompted each act that helped
to soften the blow. They will always
be held In kindest memory.
FRANK JUST AND FAMILY.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton have always
been active in those public affairs
that are done by voluntary associa-
tion for the good it will do. They
are good musicians, and Blackfoot
has been in the habit of calling on
them to supply music or to arrange
for music for any and all occasions,
and the Claytons have responded
generously. We believe we voice
the sentiments of the community
when W esay that the Claytons have
done well their part, and that the
community has been much better and
happier by reason Of their residence
here.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24
INSURANCE MEN IN TOWN.

Last Saturday Blackfoot received
a visit from T. A. Robertson, state
manager of the Occidental Life In
surance company Of California, and
A. T. Sanders, district manager of
Idaho Falls.
They have engaged e. M. Jones
as their agent here and by having
q local representative in Blackfoot,
expect to increase the volume Of bust
ness already handled.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24

confirmed and the agreement men-
toned herein is accepted by the
Board of County Commissioners of
Bingham County.
Ordered that this board do now
adjourn sine die.
F. T. HALvERSON,
Chairman.
ATTEST:
F. M. FISHER,
Clerk. y
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24
Hunter Shot by Dog Tied to Gun.

Staunton, va.-McKinley Brooks
was removed to a hospital after he
had been shot in both knees by his
hunting dog. Brooks, thirsty, tied his
dog to his gun and knelt down at a
stream to drink. Another dog came
along and fight ensued, during which
the gun was exploded, the load taking
eject in Brooks knees.