The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-01


and see Il the Government desires him
to keep In the service. He said. IL am
not going back into mtor racing. The
air game, especially war flying, is more
interestins-more fascinating. may
go into flying in a commercial way, bur
France was luck, plus the desire TO de-
feat the Boche, I fe% only in French
machines"
Major Meissner's story.
Major Meissner, the Brooklyn ace.
who was a Junior at Cornell when he
began flying, told Of his experience aloft
with four German planes when he was
with the Rickenbacker outfit. He said
I'VE were flying in formation when we
spotted four Roche planes and attacked
got broken wing and had TO go down
from 5000 feet. We had brought down
one CT the enemy The three others saw
my plight and made for me. R!cken-
hacker saw me, made a headlong dive
and brought down the nearest Boche to
me in flames and the rest of the outfit
fed At the beginning Rickenbacker
took no chances. but when he got famil-
| lar with the game he did nothing else.
| dying is largely a matter of luck. II Is
| simply you or tho other fellow. and when
| you descend after a fight and notice your
| plane dotted with bullet holes it is only
your luck that one OF those bullets did
| not get you
Douglas Campbell OF Mount Hamilton,
Cal. Is another aviator with decorations
| who praises the lighting methods OF
Capt. Rickenbacker. He said that when
L -..i. .tat 1sakr
| the Captain came along just in time and
| helped him out Lieut.. r. +. Raer of
| Fort Wayne. Ind. brought down four
Boche planes. His last fight WAS on
May %. when he was attacked by eight
Germans. His shipmate, Ernest Giroux.
was killed and his plane fell in flames
| on German territory and he was taken
| prisoner.
| Major Frederick Palmer. chief military
| censor, praised the American soldiers in
other countries They forgot" he said,
! that they were anything but Americans
| Va the grim task before them and were a
credit TO the army" The chief senti-
! meat of the soldiers now IN France and
| Germany was TO get back home.
| Sir Horace PIunkett on BoI-d.
| Sir Horace Plunkett. head OF the con-
| vention that made an effort in Dublin
| to bring about an agreement between
| Irish factions said he was here on a
| listening expedition, and that he hoped
| to find enough interest among Ameri-
cans IN the Irish problem to help solve
II before the adjournment OF the Peace
Conference. lie will rest on a Western
ranch several weeks and will then return
| 10 New York and have a conference witt
| Irishmen and Americans interested IT
! .he Irish situation.
Rabb! Stephen =. Wise, who went to
| Europe to help the Zionist movement
| said Its success was assured. He added
| England has pledged herself. President
| Wilson and Col. House may be said tc
| be advocates of Jewish Palestine, and
France. with Lorraine restored &c
her, will not oppose the project"
ether passengers We're Sir Montague
Barlow. NJ p: Mrs. Vernon Castle, g
Louis Boissevain, Ralph Pulitzer Walter
Camp, the Duchess of Manchester. the
Countess OF Granard. Mrs. Mabel Corey
and Mrs Norman Whitehouse.
Mrs. Castle denied the report curren
a few months ago that she was to b
married TO Tom Powers, the actor frien'
OF her late husband. The rumor proba
bly originated through the fact that sh
and Mr. Powers were In war work to
eether in English hospitals for som
time. "Mr. Powers and I are merel,
good friends and will remain so.' she eX
planned.
The troopship Minnekahda, which
locked yesterday morning, brought 2,'3
officers and men. chiefly OF the 329u
Infantry. which did not go into actor
as a unit. hut furnished many men Il
the fighting lines to replace disabled
soldiers. and trained many more.
Others arriving by the Minnekahd'
we're Col F. NJ. Rumbold Of the l2StI
Field Artillery. n physician of St Louis
| who fought AT St. Mihiel and In tn
Argonne, where he was knocked out b,
shell shock; Col Bruce Foulkes. surgeon
OF San Francisco, attached to the sat-
Sanitary Train, who was put out OF bust
ness when the Hoche airmen bombed tn
base hospital. where he was operating
. fourteen days before the armistire; Capt
William II. Wallace, rye. y. Y. mem
, her Of the New York Stock Exchange
who went TO France as an ambulanc
, driver and entered our army when "
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