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♦ • *. SOME OF WASHINGTON’S NEW. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS pip? ' i"'niiiin hi r Photo byHFr -• ' W—urn N«w«p«p«r ITnloiy. Vv^V'VTvW 1—-Entriwice lo a dugout in the Alps between the Brentu and the 1‘iave, where the Austrians have been trying to break through into the pluins. 2—Camouflage shop at the front and some women workers.. 3~Miss JKlnrvne^ M. Gornpers, granddaughter of Surnuel Gomj>ers, with the bureau of development of the national headquarters. Amerh- can Ited Cross. . • - ■ ELEVEN-YEAR-CLD’ ’• J WOULD JOIN NAVY 2 BRITISH IN PALESTINE BAKE BREAD IN THE SUN Philadelphia. — Perhaps Hhe 9. most disappointed hoy in the • Is eleven- • Jacobson oY ^ Lnndsdowne. He made a round j> • of all the recruiting offices In * • this city and failed to enlist. "1 • • want to go to France," he plead-* 'j • ed. "I utn certain' you want a ri- <i drummer boy to go along with * • the troops.” The young patriot • • ijia^je-a splendid impression und ^ ^ at the Naval Reserve recruit- <i ing office he was pcripltted to * • fill out an application blank. He • • „ stated that he was in the sixth • q grade' at school and that his # "nearest of kin” was his baby r> ? brother,'Mirrens, three years old. • • Philadelphia district * yeardld Roilo Lieutenant Winslow Writes in His Diary Graphic Story Describing - His Exploit and That of Lieutenant Campbell—-Given to Public by War Department Because of mm Its Historical Value Washington, P..C.—The story of the 300 meters up. i first Victory over a German alrplune by the ground and an AmeHcnn aviator is told by the and if took pla< American victor himself, Lieut, Alan aviation field. F. Window, Signal Reserve corps ’of dropped about P Chl<'ngo, in notes from his diary, and I long s 100 y wiu< h were made public by the war field, These are .department. Written witli no thought one of our ma of publication, and merely for the pur- French army si pose of preserving his own impreg> doVvn 17 luachim slons, Lieutenant Winslow neverthe- in France—and less has produced a document which the hat and stage the war department regards as of drome, and brlnj, great historical value and which Im- right on it. It v presses the reader by Its descriptive a lifetime—a grt power. Here is Ids story: '"When we ian “On Sunday morning, April 14, I- the mechanics w was ‘on alert* front 6 a. m. till 10 Nj help us out i n. nt„ that Is, I, with Lieut. Douglas TliXwhole camp Camplieli of Harvard and California ing foot, ii Msince designated as the first American,- tniimbilex- soldi* ‘ace’) was on emergency call duty. We | majors, eolqnels, were sitting in the little alert tent playing cards, waiting for a call. Our machines were outside, ready, at a mo ment’s notice. I was patrol leader. At 8 :45 I was called to the phone/ told by the informalU»n officer, who Is In direct touch witli all batteries and ob servation posts, that two German air planes were about 2,000 meters above the city, which is only a mile or so from here. We were told they wit going east. We were rushed down to our machines in side cars, and in an other minute wer^nfT In the air. "I Was Furious.” "Doug started ahead of me, as 1.was to meet him above a certain point at 500 meters and thep take tin* lead. 1 gave him about 45 seconds’ start, and then left myself, climbing steeply In a left-hand spiral in order to save time. I lui(1 not made a complete half turn and -was at about 250 meters when “They got much valuable informa tion. from my man; the other couldn’t speak. He was a role;" said he was not an officer because he was h Pole, although he had been an ‘aspirant’ arid a'pilot at the front for two years.. He said to me, witli a sort of sigh of re lief, throwing up his hands at the' same time. ‘Alors, la guerre est fini i^»ur Just as did the arieloilL.people of Palestine bake their unleavened bread iii the-sun, -<• are the British lighters who have captured the Holy (Tty baking their bread. Th Intense heat of the land has provided the cooks with natural heat with which to do the cooking. • ■ ' ' • "That afternoon my wrecked Roche plane and the charred result of Doug’s good work were exhibited in the*pub lic" square of the town, surrounded by an nfilled guard and overlooked by a French military hand. It also was a great day for the townspeople* and lias had a good moral'effect. -You can im agine it when you realize it took place above their rooftops, at only 300 me ters, and that they were able to see 4he whole light. The Americans are indeed welcome in tlie town now, and Dougsaml I can buy almost anything half price. Grounding’s Ear Punctured.* CAPTURED BY AMERICANS AT SEICHEPREY | LIEUT - Rickensacker must have gathered*. Don gratulated each otheK and my me chanic, nh longer inilltar$yjumplng up and down, waving his hat, phntided me on tiie hack instead of saliitmg, and yelled : ‘Damn it! That's' the stimVvold kid !*. Then Campbell and I rush**d. to our respective German \yrecks. * . A Surprised German. "On the way there—it was only half a. mile—1 ran into a huge crowd of soldiers, blue and khaki, pressing about one plan. I pushed my way through tiie crowd and heard some body triumphantly say to the sur rounded man in French: ‘’There lie is;, how you will believe he is an American'?’ I looked at jin* man—a ■Scrawny, poorly clatl little devil, riiVssori in a rotten German uniform. It w\is tin* Itoche pilot of tin* machine I hipKsliot <h>wdl. '“Ni-t-i 11 ess to-say, 1 felt- Tnnn-r Ircrughty to . come face, to face witli\my victim, now a prisoner,' hut did not know twiiat tu. say. It seems he wmrid not believe that an American oftiiV- had brought him down.- lie looked me all .over, liiul theim'sked nn* in g\>d French if I was un American. When Isanswcrcd, ‘Yes, In* had no mope to sav. \ “An anmsirigvincidiMU was tliis—the tight was so noihvtfie earth that hub: lets wen; tlyiiTg-(liim*m-oiisly all aboilt •tin* ground. No one whs hurt save n French worker in the fnH<l, who re celved a hole'through .hisYar'inuu one of my bullets apd-is very proiuPHf it." Two days. later the two aviators were decorated .by the French with the Croix de Guerre witli a palm, and litter were mentioned in general .order'* and proposed ■ for the American Di“ tinguished Service Cross. SHAVING UNDER DIFFICULTIES ' I here was a huge crowd around tiie wrecked plane; and tliXfirst man, 1 ran into, was our major—-fche cone mandipg officer—and ire was'the hap piest man in the \Vorld outside ink me and Doug. A French and an American general blew up in a limousine to* congrUtulate us— colonels, inq-jors. all the pilots, all the ‘French officers, mechanics, everybody in-the town and camp. All had seen’ the light, due woman, an innkeeper, told me she could sleep well from now on, aiul held up her hahy for me to kiss I looked at the baby and then, tel ('grateful to my major, who pulled me away in the nick of time, '\ . Splendid Souvenirs. “I had ttry mechanics fake otT cvcry- tliin^r available., ^Thy machine.was a wreck, but I got some splendid sou venirs. ’The big black German crosses from ,^he wjugs, his rudder, pieces canvas with holes from my btilietsdn them, all his spark plugs,’ epjrfpass, altimeter.. Iris clumsy slgnal/fevoiver, etc.; it is h great collection. L)ritfg had set his Bovlp* machine eril fire at 300 ffieters and it. Jiad fallen in flames, rolling over three times, and then completely burning "Up. There remained hut a charred-wreckage, like the sacrifice of some huge animal. The Roche pilot had been thrown out und These doughboys are wearing (Vniiin lints and tire displaying other souvenirs? etiptured by the Americans when. 1 hey routed lho Germans at the battle of Seicheprey. Among the other trophies in the picture may be seen a gun, gas musk, wire cutter and cant gen. \ r uu Eddie Kickcnb:icut~; r ~st;uiding s machine tit an Amejlean tivfti- field in France. Ricl’.etritffcker a prominent: ntifo racer^ in tiiis ry and was formerly Chatrfl'ctir •ii"rtii I’t-rsliing in Franci*. hut'he ed something Jtfor'e exciting,' so Jnen ,he mw.corps and has made Ih> hajj/fieen .oflicially credited; hring^tg (lowrua nui-nhi r of'^ocha nip'Omd is known as a daring tind •fa'otis Aver. t • . Was Not Responsible. ; * A letter find be»*n received by the sergeant major of artillery from the war office with reference trf one Gun ner Green, who. reported killed, htnl * arrived at Woolwich. For rid a full und satisfactory cxplanutffm of same be forwarded? Tht N..£\ O. gave i-h*- matter much (thought, and then forwarded this re- ply : ^ - V “Green was Htlohfcotnrade of mine. ,i visited him w hen he *wpsdying of his ; wounds,- and then saw "film buried. Hence I know that, he Is’denfT/ timf W French I’oilu, w!io nihirac'tc tuin-rculosts-during an is m mthsN^tu'y in a Gcr-maii jiri'son camp, shn '*ng uhs dcr ditliculties. The American Rod Gross, which is forking with th* Frencli in the fight against fiibctcu losis. has rccentl.Vr shipped thmisam's of safety razors to France titul othm vFuropean ^nTitrlc^.. Offers Walnut to‘Uncle Sam. Atlanta,Mrs. Lucy R. Reid *n Pe KalhCountv. oxyncr of several inm dred wcr**s of land on'which urh grow Ing a number uf walnut groves, bus of fered the government all 1 the walnut timber to make gunstocKs. assert hi v his j6b of ditch digging I her willingness to let the government down on wus badly off. . His fare; hands, Jeet I iVi-H-L-—--- "■ ■■■■ A.. ——— . - 1 < I T V* "iP- - . - •* about to Are when I saw the German oonsiderahly surprised tn iTPnf return to Woolwich; nut. pleW exom erate me from further blame, inas much as I am not responsibly for hU subsequent movements. plane* go up In flames anC crnsTi ITT ea^th, Doug had sent his German plane down one minute after I had An Italian Soldier who has gone on his last /urhtugl om the firing line, and'who tyu* given his Jlfe so rhat,democraey might live.. He hod juat started to go over the‘top to attack when his life wqs flicked out by an Aus trian bullet * . ' . •hot down mine. London An jou. the fight took place only set own price. — f/.y.. -i -1-1)111 jo liitiSm t •