he did not and escaped... heave n knows howm many typewritten tons of
bomsb the major has dropped on how many typewritten rrr stas. We fall back
on the motto of 'rrench aceshodie mihicras tibi With our first lieut heads
together we work somehow in spite of everyone, and we are a good lot
of better heads than ever wore leaves...

Sept 28th Not one of the five who did not return but one of the two who
did with my observer shot though the head in the cokepit behind me..
This is the big story.

Oct 7th I cant decide whethern raids or the daily papers are the best exci
tion of the day.

(ALL this at LIGNY ENBARROIS or near

Oct 9I am recommended for the DSC earned by accident "Being recommd by
my particular stellar C.O is such a percentage of the" tribute that I
scarcely care whether GHQ throw me over or not.

OCT 16, Westn of bombing hospitals...erman chasse is damn hard boiled chass
and passing accurate-4 machine guns to the ship-which manoeuvres liek the
very devil at 1500 ftand sets little liberties afire so easily.Tell him
from me the bombers motto:"Women and children first.I have as I told you
see two hospitals blown to atoms t is a bully and inspiring sight from
in the eyes of a bomber and pilot and made me very proud.on fiteenth raid
again shot down and again landed by a hospital second observer wounded
rumors of peacethis week

Last night Wilsons answer. It is magnificent. "e wants Gery where gery had Russ
and the nohen zollern family one with Nineveh and Tyre."I otter went down in
the last raid.

bruce-telegram.

"Nov 5-raid from which returned again considerably incomplete and my nerves
for 3 days have held me aloof from corres.

My Boche is confirmed my DSC dead and buried... We are wondering if we have
not made our last raid. rumors of Armistice.

Dec 11th. Brest. here are about 500 casual officers here leaving in sixes and
sevens each day. he future is if anything less encouraging than the past week.

I am in for a harder tug than t eve had in the army-first with the family, then
with making my living.

Merrymas from Brest now and apprently forever Gawd damn.
Dec 13thres Wilson at Rest.

I am so glad now to have been an army man This was our war on the land
and we are a grand lot (curse the sytem as t may,
Chnerio from NY.

I (I Berkeley Jan 28th. Innre Wilson the country is offended petty and stupid. The
day in Brest I saw all the light. Nor can America darken it. then pr ess and the
people are one in denouncing him Big men are desperate their one idea to give
"ilson his chance. None too good but from this side his presence on the cont,
the avd of his tour, everything he has done seems all the more huge. Above all
his serene contmpt for Am opin and Congress.

Some day t may want copies made of them (letters.) ne or two may be records
ag the future ahniclimaxes, -such an interminable series-to remind me I was
once alive..

berkeley Feb 6th. Story of "arion Cooper... I see pretty clearly that whatever
compromise t make with myself I am interested only in physical adventure.. Soo
my head will no longer stick to creative work sooner or later t shall be
adrfot again probaly for good. lit ex no longer natural.. perhaps it is good f
for a man to admit he is mortally bored and to recognise that for a time he
was vitally interested. "omeday t shall sink low enough to be thankful for that
one ultimate blessing. t hope that t may have the nerve to kick everything
gally west and continue as unproductively alive as I was in France. But the
odds are on respectiability.

t want property Am property destroyed. The war is already forgotten because
for us it never existed. Now and then an oasis of real feeling in those to
whom it has been brought home as in the house of f arrott.

Mr. Howard entered, turned on the ignition switch of the tractor and cranked it. The ma-

ny estate. He said death was caused by suffocation from a crushing of the chest. Dr. George S. Wickham

pration on Hervey Allen's own comment that long novels are popular "because people are not so human"

Hervey Allen

The tractor, put in the garage the night before by an employe, was believed to have been

removed to a funeral parlor. The Howard estate is still in use.

Perhaps as critics have it, final pattern, has been overlooked by many of its imitators.

Anthony Allen has come out with a new version of the classic of eighteenth-century America, which was engaged at the time of his death, more than a century later, and which still is marked in publishers' lists. It is a book of great power and depth, and its success, by many authors, is doubtless to be followed by a great many more.

Anthony Allen's version of the classic of eighteenth-century America, which was engaged at the time of his death, more than a century later, and which still is marked in publishers' lists. It is a book of great power and depth, and its success, by many authors, is doubtless to be followed by a great many more.

Possibly, too, his five-volume nov-  
of eighteenth-century America, on which  
was engaged at the time of his death, me  
possess more qualities of enduring valu  
But "Anthony" launched a trend in 193  
which still is marked in publishers' list  
Its more than 1,200 pages of picaresque ad  
venture, which were advertised as "the te  
best books of the year," broke a trail whic  
has been followed with great success.  
doubt that "Anthony's" popularity gave the  
cue for the publication of "Gone With the  
Wind," even though the interest in a  
broad audience today.

Sidney Howard Killed by Tractor on Estate;
Playwright Is Crushed in Berkshire Garage

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

TYRINGHAM, Mass. —

Sidney Coe Howard, playwright, was crushed to death today by a two and a half ton tractor in his garage on his 700-acre estate here.

ness.

Mr. Fairbanks found his employe
in an upright position, his head
bent over his chest. He was died


or hard work on a new play based
on Carl Van Doren's "Benjamin
Franklin", and, as was his custom,
was going to seek employment in

tractor, which had stalled after
crushing him against the wall.

After starting the tractor and
moving Mr. Fairbanks out of the

an excellent historical novel of huge size.
Others have exploited the swift changes of
locale employed in "Anthony Allen's
novel."

cently bought to extend his prop-

was born to her ten months ago.

Driving alone to the garage a
quarter of a mile from his studio in

an response to Mr. Fairbanks's
call, Dr. Ira M. Dixon of Stock-
bridge, seven miles away, came to

vested his scenes.

there nas, indeed, been a good deal of poor
stuff among the large volumes that followed
"Anthony," enough to keep the reader in