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TWO TYPES OF jj|\ * ^ V ' F 1 >it> >.. _ W^* B.XB W : wfcc":* ^^ BBfc?<-x - M : Typo < in avy for petrol wo . 'i:i MIKDH OF .AMERICAN FK.HTFRS Varing Kiyloiis of Soldtei-s unci Sonmen Ofer There / % Philip Wayn in Philadelphia Ledger. Will the stalwarts of the new National Army uphold the splendid battle traditions of this Republic? Have the American soldiom in ihn taking today the same resourcefulness. the same grit and the .same indomitable courage which made the maates of Stephen Decatur, John Paal Jones, Isreal Putman, "Mad" Anthong Wayne, Ulysses Grant and Phil Sheridan known around the Will the legions of the United States go "over the top" with the oidtiiae Yankee rush when General Pershing gives the command, or rather are the Huns correct in their diagnosis of our case?that we jre; Matters, that our morale is a flimsy aa paper and that our new National . Army will surge helplessly against > Germany's "iron ^all of supermen," i and fall helplessly back in defeat? < To the doubters and to the pro- j German propagandists who are ( working with might and main to aid to the ranks of the doubters, I point i the records of the hundreds of I c American boys who have been busy^almost since the beginning 'Pj warld wnr. burnishing anew tb< tie traditions of the Uni*^^!ar'r',e bat These Lads of St-ites. am not wait ^hcio Sam's domair te k?apMBei?/*v - 'or tbte -United States the chip from the shoulder the Honbefore they waded in and 4M their nil. Swept along by that tmpetousitjr which has been a characteristic of the American since the Besten tea party, th^y jumped in reasons l/#Thel & ITAUAN FLYERS iiMO^SSHBBBwr 1 ? M.vim; bout Mncchl, used bj the Italian tic. with both feet and contributed their brains, bodies and courage to the cause of civilisation. What red-blooded American can- j not feel a thrill at the story of Wil-1 lium Pol"'- "*' ' "" ?J^? ? u u.>vd \uu lcianuii 10 John Paul, except in spirit) ? , Jones was known among his assoelates in Harlem as "Big Bill," be-j, cause he was six feet three inches ( without his shoes. "Big Bill' was a . good-natured as a hound pup, but! under this sunny exterior slumbered a temper like a bull. Few personsj1 had ever probed deep enough to; reach it, but thq few that did never' ^ cared to repeat the performance, for1 the way "Big Bill' carried in was aw- * ful. ? "Big Bili" got into the big war as j quickly as he was able to borrow' car fare for Toronto, Can., where he enlisted in a Canadian regiment.!0 Reaching uio iTo:u-iiue ii'-..vnes, the American selected as his "buddy one i p James McAllister, a Canadian, smaU^ of stature but stout of hearty afternoon a shell exalte*' _ .. . , j'vr.outu in the Canadian trench, , T , Mlister "went w^^ aD(i aJmes Mc' uuster went his head belng ill stove iy *>? Bi|>l?^^ll ' Kazed dumbly at the lej'f/ body of his friend. SudI'Or'aly the Canadians in the sector 'i were startled with something like ? awe when they saw "Big Bill" swing ing his great arms about his head, his eyes blazing with rage. The i American grabbed an armful of hand I grenades, and before his companions could stop him he was "over the tAn" n n/1 ~ ~ J iu|, uuu i atiug line a luauiiiiiu across No Man's Land toward the Boche trenches. The Huns saw the bulky hulk of humanity hurtling toward them, but they were so dum UJHV a lood W 1 J t friend: Steadies nerves Aliays hirst Aids -petite Helps digestion f Keeps teeth clean It's economical rs supplied I NglPk tllllllllk | P 1 ai i CHEWING Glftffr ^<Z5U,/ v.z r/Av^iSj^gf it after every flavor Lasts! > t I III I I founded - by Um ijirtiili (lar ?>?t?d to l?Tt bm nddmljr atHdnt with paralysis and did not flrs s shot. eBforo ths Twtou 1 sow what was coming off, "Big Bill** was down among them, hurling bombs to the right ami the left. A dozen or more Huns crumpled np as the bombs exploded. The Boche turned a machine gun on the gigantic Yank, j but before they could spray him with shot "Big Bill' landed a bomb in their midst, and the gunners werei wiped out. "Big Bill" grabbed the' machine gun, turned it back aloog the trench and riddled several more1 eGrmans with their own * bullets, j Then covering the survivors with the guu the powder-stained Yank from Harlem bellowed "March." The Boches couldn't understand English, but they understood what he meant, and they marched to the Canadian j lines with "Big Bill" stalking grimly behind them. "Big Bill" was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and, the Legion of Honor medal. His j feat is still the talk of the Canadian contingent i The unblemished character of | American courage as exemplified in the career of Kifilin Rockwell, a twenty-four-year-old American flier, who recently gave up his life fighting in France. Rockwell was a member of the j American escadrille, and a few I weeks after his arrival in France he * showed the kind of stuff Americans are made of. On this occasion he was making a little tour in the airj 1 over the French lines. He was | 1 fbout to skim back to hts hanger) < when he saw a Moche machine about j 1 kuv meters uncier nun and a little in-j ' side the French lines. Rockwell immediately reduced his ~ liotor and dived for the enemy. The i atter saw that trouble was on the vay and started to scoot home. The 3ocbe machine had a pilot and a gunner and carried two rapid-fire j runs, one facing the frdnt and one; 3 n the rear that turned on a pivot so' ] t could be fired in any direction. j The Boche gunner immediately; pened fire on the American. Iiock^jfP '-.'ine v.-as hit, but hj^Hftf^vt >ay any autuiicuL^i;^f ior j u. n<f ?d was up. He swooped Jfor the enemy until lu got withia J twenty-five or thirty meters from hisj \ machine. Than Rockw i fired five r.uick shots and swer his airplane j the rignt to keep t'Oi i having a I Cillision. As ' e An<eilcnt> swept by the enemy he had satisfaction of seeing the Boche gunner fall hack dead on the pilot; the machine gun which the gunner had operated fell from its position and pointed straight up into the sky; the Boche pilot went limp, as if he had been badly wounded. The Hun aircraft careened dangerously and then dived vertically toward the ground with a lot of smoke coming from the rear. It landed 'a flaming wreck, just behind the Oer- , man lines. For this exploit Rockwell was proposed for the Medaille Militiare. On another occasion Rockwell attacked a Boche machine J | at 3,000 meters high and killed the i observer with the first shot. Then j the American's machine gun.jamm-i ed, and while he was fixing it he followed the Hun plane down to 1,800 meters. At that altitude he sue-1 ceeded in repairing his gun. He i riddled the Uoclie with buMets and j soon the enemy craft fell crashing ! into the German trenches. At this juncture two other Boche fliers apeared on the scene and attacked the nervy American fler at 1 close range. It was two against one, j but Rockwell did not flinch. Like a hornet he maneuvered here and . there, inflicting .stinging punishment. \ i The Iloches soon tired of playing' with fire and returned to their lines, j Later this brave American bay was ^ killed in aerial combat over Itodern, ' in Alsace, and army orders have this i to sav of him; "Kiffin Yates Rockwell, an Ameri-i jean pilot, who ceaselessly won the, admiration of his chiefs, and his comrades by his sangfroid, his cour- [ i age and his daring. Killed in the J ! course of an aerial combat, Septem-I i ber 23, 1916." I Have American fighters the re-j sourcefulness of old? Jim Norcross of Denver, Col., a! : member of the French ilying squad-1 ron, was scouting fifteen miles bhek i or the Boche lines when engine' trouble obliged him to alight in the 'enemy's country. He repaired the 'engine without being observed, but | discovered to his dismay he had not enough gasoline to get back to his hangar. It was a desperate situa-j |tion, but Norcross, being an Aineri-; ran, had confidence that somehow be' would squirm out of the difficulty.; I He hid his machine in a dumb of i woods and, armed with a coper con-' tainer, started foraging for gasoline. Outside a farmhouse he found an' uuiuuiuuiit' , anu ne nau jusi coin-; j pleted borrowing the container full, | of precious gasoline when a car full of German officers whizzed around a bend in the road. Norcross jumped through an open window in the farm-' house, ran upstairs arfd bid under a j bed. By the sounds the American1 ' soon concluded that he had butted' 'into the very thick of a German staff headquarters. There was nothing in the world i i for him to do but remain under the i bed until things quited down. 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