Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, July 18, 1918, Image 2
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SOME OF WASHINGTON’S NEW. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
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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
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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
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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.
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