Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-10-09
Bynun HolSCIaw In the Lime LIght.
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t N"iu "cIi COUNTY jail, OelnG recal
= tured, tried and banished fro,
e from the county by Judge Lyo
f several years ago, G. B. Holscla,
: returned here Tuesday wearin
; a CroiX de Guerre, won in one c
> the most daring and brilliant e,
: plolts of the war and possessin,
the final patent rights on an ,ir
vention that may net him unto],
wealth.
. 1t has been seven years sine
HolsclaW was tried before Judg,
Lyon on the charge of carryin,
concealed weapons. Other chare
es had been broughtagainst him
lie had a bad record and a ba,
reputation:-He had made seyero
escapes from the Watauga coun
ty Jail at Boone. Judge Lyon tolt
him that he wanted to give hin
one more chance and ordered
him to leave the county until he
could come back changed man
The entry of Juege Lyon is now
on record here in the clerk of the
courts Office.
Holsclaw did as Judge Lyon
bade him do. He left the county
and was not heard from for a
number of years. Following the
outbreak of the war, when Eng.
land was calling on Canada to
send troops to the aid of t h G
mother country, Holsclaw saw
the adventure in such trip, and
on Jan. ., 1915, joined the Cana.
dian forces and entered the ayia.
ton service. IEe was soon sent o.
yer with his outfit and was placed
in active service in Flanders. He
was in the never,t to, be- forgotten
second battle of Ypres, when the
Germans made their first gas at,
tack. Later he foughtin the KEN.
mel sector, Vimy Ridge, Pass,
ceendael and later on at t h @
Some. Twice he was shot down
by anti-aircraft guns while over
the German lines.
Holsclaw was a machine gun.
ner and observer on a plane with
Capt. Wellerman, Il. +. c.. as pi-
lot, They experienced MANY dor.
ing exploits before finally being
captured wilhelm the Sommearea
Ho!sclaw was senttovarious Ger
man prison camps and finally to
a camp about II liilometers out
Of CoblenZ, where laterhe esuccee.
ded in making a daring escape
and returned to the Brit sh head.
quarters. Holsclaw made his Get
away in aGerman airplanc. which
h. had succeeded in making his
way to, 1t was a great fight, he
said. After reaching his own
lines he turned back over h g
German line and turned { heir
own ammunition against them
until he had exhausted the entire
amount on the machine.
Holsclaw is over 30 and is of
that dare devil type that is not a.
fraid of anything. People here
who knew Holsclaw as a boy are
not surprised at his record of
daredeyiltry in France.
A CroiX de Guerre and rec
ord of unusual exploits are not
the only things HolscIaw has
brought ont of the war. Mon.
day in Washington, D. G. he re.
ceived the final papers from the
patent office givieg him absolute
rights on an invention he pnrfec.
ted while in England and France.
1t is a cooling system forairplane
and automobile motors. 1t is a
perfect system and is of the
greatest Importance in the air.
plane industry in which the
greatest trouble has been because
Of the lack of an adequate cooling
system for trips of longduration.
Holsclaw's system will enable an
engine to run for an indefinite
period, or run so long as no 9th.
er trouble arises. 1t does not