The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24

in this city that Pat Grove. as he
 was known by his intimate friends, was
 born and reared. and it was here that
 he was loved and admired, and 1t Is here
 also that a glowing memory of him will always be held. His was an unfettered
 spirit of nobleness and ambition; and truly he was of the stuff of which heroes
 are made. The memory of him is thus enshrined in many hearts here.
 In 1911 James R. Grove was graduated at Vanderbilt university, in Nashville and immediately thereafter he entered news. paper work. While thus engaged in Mem
 phis, for a time he Covered" the news of the river front, and 1t is related ot him that there was a spot in the Missis sippi river where he detected the forma. ton of an island by the currents ever
 before the river pilots had observed the phenomenon. They laughted at the am bilious young reporter, and told him that
 if land did really appear above the water
 they would name it after him. By and
 by the island did bob up. and it is now 1 known as Grove Island"
 1 When America entered the world war | James R. Grove enlisted in the United | States air service, surrendering his jour | nalistic career on which he had rapidly
 advanced in New York city. He sailed l for France November g, 1917, as a cadet ] in the Fifteenth foreign detachment, avi- l dlIOH SeCllOn, SfgndI COIpS- Tn July, ISIS
 he was commissioned lieutenant at Tours
 France. At the time of his enlistment l he was proud of a telegram from his
 mother, which read: Enlist, my son, and l God bless you" On September 29, 1918 | while making a battle flight, he met his l death by falling with his aeroplane from a height of TOGO feet upon the field of Is- scudun.
 1 As he himself had said and since duly
 recorded in "S1ylark Views and Letters 1 from France" accredited to him witt other writings. describing his first flight T am really getting on now: I have nc fears, although one can't place any more
 onf1dence in an aeroplane than in the modern crop of girls. Sometimes I am of one of those gloriously tinted sunset clouds I will then be on the top of the
 world" His wish to reach the clouds and be on the top of the world was at tained It was his ambition, and even though cut down in his prime, Pat Grove did not live In vain.
 1 In the closing days of the war France observed Lafayette -Marne day. The ex- ercses included tributes to Pat" Grove. "Le Reveil,' by Liton-Chevalet, a young French poet, was dedicated "Au Lieuten-
 ant-Aviateur James R. Crowe."
 l Pat Grove, Aviator" recently was pub lished by Nicholas l.. Brown of New
 York. The volume contains "Jacqueline, "The Hell in Helmet" "A Birdmans S St
 Francis" and many hitherto unpublished
 letters of the Alabama boy written dur l ing his training and service days ir l France. Some of these stories and letters
 have been referred to by New York edi-
 tors as the best pieces of writing that came from the entire American expedi- 1 tionary forces.
 l Pat Grove, Aviator" was edited by l w B. Chase. and was dedicated in the 1 following words:
 These stories were not intended tc
 make history. They are but the history 1 of heart that beat it's best. And in a little house in Alabama, where these
 stories still bring joy hangs lone gold star in the window"