Flying With Shaffer OUT IN A RAINSTORM LETTER FROM A DAUPHIN BOY TO HIS MOTHER > Eseadrille Spad 28. Secteur Postal 102, G. C. 22. Sept. 29, 1918. Dear Mother: Sunday gone and I have not been to church, are you properly shocked now? If so, I'll begin to make excuses, for I have a good one as I had to work. Not that 1 think of It in that light for flying to 'me is like dancing to a girl—it sure tires one out but Oh Boy! what a time. As for today we were sent out on our usual work, which we have been doing lately, that of protecting the big two-men planes which fly close to the ground and take some target practice on the fleeing Hun. He is running all along the line now, you know—and here's hoping he keeps on running. Bnd Weather The weather was fierce for any kind of flying, for the sky was full , of clouds and as they were at only I 500 meters it made it very easy for the pilot to get lost, since you can 1 easily see that the higher one is the larger the panorama spread out be- I fore htm. As we would surely fly thru the [ clouds a number of times, only three ; of us were sent in a patrol, as this number made maneuvering easier, i and prevent disaster in the clouds, for a large number of planes going in and out of clouds might run into j each other. This type of tragedy j has indeed happened. When we got in the air, the leader | decided 500 meters was too low an , altitude to stroll over the Hun lines | so he steered for a hole and climbed thru, only to find another layer! some distance above the first. How- | ever, since the hole we were spiral- j ing up ended in blue sky. We continued to climb and soon , we hit a third layer. We were then at 2000 meters, and since that top j layer seemed to have few holes and I we could keep our direction by get- j ting a glimpse of country thru the , many holes below, we headed for , the lines. Wonderful Cloud Effects Never did 1 see a more beautiful | sight. Many times have I tried to describe the wonderful cloud ef fects I have seen and failed, but this one took the cake, as the sec ond layer of clouds was merely a filmy veil over the first layer of those round white billowy kind of clouds, which look so pretty, and give one such awful bumps when one sidles up a little close. I don't know whether they have the flirting habit like some girls, but the fact remains that they sure give some awful love taps. I was not making love to them this time tho, but was looking down on them. | And it sure was some sight too, for j that second layer of filmy clouds reminded me of a person passing a broom over a smooth plot of soft mud. Only in this case, the result- ( ing streaks were not black, but the I purest white, and of the fineness of j cobwebs. Sight For the Gods To see the ground and those white ! spongy clouds thru this medium was iNFeed a sight for the gods only it defies description. Really, considering the heavenly scenery and aviator sees he should j have no regrets if he never reaches Heaven, for its my opinion the only part of that place he has missed are the angels. And as for the latter | they can be found right here on this j old earth. Didn't See Balloon Probably watching all this scenery was what caused me to miss the j sight of a Boche balloon right un- ' der me. That wasn't the only rea son tho, for I was one busy boy following my leader and finding out where I was, for since I have two : Boche. more responsibility is being shoved on me. In this particular patrol I had' been ordered to take the lead if the leader's motor broke down, and naturally if he left I wanted to know j where I was. So I followed him faithfully and kept my eye on dif- \ ferent landmarks 1 knew. When we landed I learned the > Lieutenant had dove on a balloon, ! but not being able to see a black ; cross painted on its side he did not ! shoot, thinking it was a French one. i We teased him quite a lot about that because the closest he had been was 2000 meters, and from that height i its impossible to see their highly- , camuflaged insignia. Not a Hochc in Sky- One has to be about 500 meters away. Just the same, I am still ! kicking myself for not seeing it. i What a shame indeed, for there was I nary a Hun in the sky. Oh yes. j they would chuck all their usual : fire works at me if I attacked, but j I'm beginning to think its all chance | tf one of those hits me. As-one of my friends remarked:! I Between common corn flakes and the wonderful POST ; TOASTIES "there's no differ ence in price "the difference jn flavor is "tremendous. • • i TUESDAY EVENING, I "They say the good die young, so w-e're pretty safe". Yesterday I sure was one busy man. Six times ! was I in the air, which is a record I for nie, as twice is generally the , i limit, but we were continually being . j ordered out to protect the bigger j French two-seaters and then in the 1 : early morning I went out on my own hook after balloons, as the sky i was full of clouds to hide in. j But luck was not with me, for the | Hun balloons were sleeping late that i morning. An hour later I landed. ! we were ordered out on a protection j mission. Since the clouds were low we ! never got higher than 1500 meters. IWe saw no Boche and only were i shot at several times by "Archie."' Stays Close to lx-ador Nevertheless, I was highly praised by the leader for following htm so . closely. I merely state this as a | fact, and because it may please you | to know my officers are pleased with I my work, and not because I am get ; ting a swelled head I've seen too I many aviators killed on account of [ a too good opinion of themselves j and their ability. Take it from me, the lesson sunk j in, and I have a mighty humble I opinion of myself. To come back to the patrol, as | we were coming home I swung away j from my leader's tail and swung in behind one of my comrades. I This particular one was an ace, a very young fellow with 12 Boches to his credit. He has his plane ! painted red, trimmed with white, j which certainly makes a pretty I sight in the air. Mock Combat i Seeing- me swing in behind him. 1 guess he thought I wanted to play —we were nearly home then —for he stood right up on his tail and , started to turn. And then began one of the fastest mock combats ; that one wanted to see. The idea, you know is to get be j hind your enemy, since that is his I blind spot, and as I was on his tail to start with. I stuck there, and I nothing he did could shake me, and i goodness knows, he tried enough of ; ways. But every turn found me I ready, for I had just returned from j Paris and was iceling great. We had a great time up there for fully ten minutes, and since we were right over a very large town, the natives must have enjoyed the j spectacle immensely. Everything has an end tho, and ! the red and white plane giving up | the idea of shaking me finally dove : for home. Praised by Lender i Getting over the "piste" I tried ; my guns on the target below, lm- I agine my surprise on landing to not \ only be praised by my leader, for 1 following him so well, but to have this young "ace" pat me on the back and also praise me for my ' maneuvering. I heard him talking to his com rades about it to the effect that never had he seen such acrobatics jas I did, which was another sur- j | prise to me, for I had done no acrobatics in the literal sense of the word as far as I knew. I merely did what was necessary ' to keep my advantageous position, ; which same required my using the plane pretty rough at times. It was [ this brutal way I handled my plane , that caused the admiration of the ! young "ace," and Incidentally i heightened the impression that all Americans are crazy. This "ace" is very young, and 1 being a Frenchman, naturally hot I headed. It "was several weeks ago that this incident occurred when a | ) rumor got abroad that there was a : Boche biplane floating around in our [ | sector painted red and white also. I This roused the ire of our young i friend, and you can bet he kept his eyes pealed for that Boche who had ! the gall to copy his colors. Goes After Rival One day he went out with a Lieu- ' , tenant under special orders to fol i low him strictly, and only to at tack when he attacked which he did: but on reaching the lines who should I he see but his Boche rival in all the j 1 glory of his red and white plum- > age. Far be it from me to excuse his ' | actions, but he was young, a hot- I < headed Frenchman and there was i that Boche painted exactly like him. | ;It was too much for him. All or ders went by the board. Allez! j Allez! en route! and he was after : I that Hun full speed. Believe me that sure was a battle , royal and my only regret is that I I did not see it. for the Boche did not I shirk the fight. In fact he came ' to meet his adversary. Like Knights of Old Three times these two red and • 1 white birds came at each other head on, with throttle wide open and guns going full blast, for all the world ' ; like knights of old breaking lances j iin the lists. Only in this case bul- ! lets were the weapons, and it was ' a mortal combat. It was after the third attack that the Boche red bird went diving straight for the ground. Whether he crashed or not is still a question, as no confirmation ever arrived to that effect. We hope so however, and it's a significant fact that no Boche of i that color has appeared on the front since. j Such is the type of man I do most of my flying with, and since I J have proved my mettle by getting two Boche, as well as doing other things, he has taken a fancy to me I with him on his flights, i This attention is indeed flattering, j and I am very anxious to make good j in his eyes by knocking down some ! more "Dutch hogs" as Dad calls ] them. ■ Yesterday evening we were sent ! out agHin on another protection. The weather was fierce, the sky be ing filled with low hanging clouds. Also, it had just stopped raining. But orders were orders and up we went. There were only four of us and owing to the slowness of mechanics two of us got up so long after the first two that they did not wait for us, going on out to the lines alone. Takes lead Thus when I and the other Frenchmen got off I had to take the lead as the Frenchman did not know the lines at all—and I did not know them much better. But since it was up to me I took the lead and headed Berlin way, hoping I would run into the first two before we had gone far. No j such luck tho, and to make matters I worse, a terrific rainstorm was com ing our way. I Golly! It Just looked like a white | wall coming at us. Altho I could see no use in going forward, neither could I see my way clear to return ing to camp and when asked why I came back, say it was raining. It sounded foolish, so I kept going. We were flying very low (800 meters) on account of the clouds, and what with the bad weather it was Impossible to see far. Sees Big Plane But soon I made out a big plane some distance away and thinking it was a Boche, signaled my partner to that effect, headed that way. It proved to be one of the big planes we were protecting, however, as the red, white and blue circle showed ! up quite plain when I got close. Almost immediately afterward I saw another and dove on that one. my comrade right behind me, but it merely proved to be another big French plane. Hunting a Target Since I was then some distance over the Boche lines and not very high I began looking around for something to try my guns on. With this idea in mind I ' flew along a road for several miles, but nothing seemed to be moving thereon, so I ; turned my attention to the country alongside. Motor Truck Hides ! At a town some distance away, I • suddenly noted a big motor truck ! run under a shed, and he did it so ; abruptly as to give the effect that he was hiding from we two birds ! circling overhead. But I was a little 1 bit-hazy about this part of the lines \ —they change so quickly lately— and was not quite sure whether that town was in the hands of the Boche or French. Having no way of finding out I did not shoot, but continued further towards the Boche lines. Soon they began shooting at us and then there : was no doubt whatever over whose land we were trespassing. Not only "archie" was barking, but the crackle of machine guns could be distinctly heard also. This Just made me sore enough to want to do some shooting my self. Sprays Trenches Seeing a big round object far be low whose lines reminded me of a tank, I got a bead on it and let go. also spraying trenches round abouts j quite thoroughly. By this time the rainstorm was nearly on us so I turned homeward, and luckily ran into the first two I whom we had been hunting. My I responsibility was at an end then. It was up to the Lieutenant. The rainstorm catching us then, he de cided to go home, but the rain was so thick and the drops so big that he headed for another eseadrille I nearby. You cannot Imagine how hard rain water is until you have it driven at you at the rate of two miles a minute. Man! I'd Just as soon i face a bullet! Varnish Pounded Off You can well believe little Walter [ stuck his head behind that wind shild and kept it there. . 'Twas well j I did for when I looked at my pro i peller on landing I found all the : varnish had been pounded off by the pelting raindrops. Not only were there three coats of that varnish, but it was doggone good stuff at that. After seeing that propeller I hate to think what would have happened to my face had I stuck it above the windshield. Incidentally, while the Lieutenant was rolling his plane toward the hangar one of his wheels dropped in a deep shell holp, breaking both the ; wing and propeller. As several me i chanics were standing nearby and I had not warned him of the danger, | there was sure one hopping mad j Lieutenant "tout-de-suite." A Word Battle I Inside of 10 seconds after the I accident French words were plying back and forward thicker than the rain, and that was coming down mighty thick just then. And it looked as if the Lieutenant won every round too. Golly! I wish I could talk English as fast as he could talk French! I never would use a gun on a Boche. It would be simpler to talk him to death. Thrills on Ground, Too That night we went home in an auto. The chauffeur didn't know the road and we were lost many times, one time a big American truck nearly running over us. No ma'am, the thrills aren't all in the air! WALTER. Ammonia Tank Explosion Rocks Lebanon Houses Lebanon, Pa., Oct. 29.—A large am monia tank at the plant of the Mer chants Ice Company, at Ninth and Water streets, exploded last night at 8.16 o'clock, rocking the northwestern section of the city and almost suffo cating people for many blocks in fumes of ammonia. The terrific ex plosion wrecked a 5000-gallon water tank on top of the building and when this 'fell in carried down a large set of cooling racks and the entire wreck age fell down through the roof of the main tank room. The building is a wreck, entailing a loss of up ward of 110,000. As the place was closed two weeks ago no one was in the plant and no one was Injured. The plant is oper ated by a subsidiary concern of the United Ice and Coal C.ompany.of Har rlsburg. Only 43 Yanks in 1,000 111, Says Maj. Gen. Ireland Aa Atlantic Fort, Oct. 29—Major General Merrltt W. Ireland, head of the medical department of the Amer ican expeditionary forces In France, 1 who recently was relieved in order to Rarhisbukg TELEGRAPH 1 succeed Major General William C. Gorgas as surgeon general of the United States Army, asrlved here to day on a British ship. He was ac companied by Brigadier General J. R. Kean, his deputy. Both will pro ceed to Washington. Major General Ireland, who accom OPENS AT 9 A M.—CLOSES AT 5:30 P M | lmportant Events For Wednesday, Tomorrow! Iff . 1 ' ? I I Thousands of Smartest Suits - Coats - Dresses 1 | Marked at Special Underselling Prices in Line with the Savings I 1 Policy This Store Practices for All Its Customers at All Times | || Tomorrow, Wednesday, Should See Unrestrained Activity In This, The Largest Ready-to-Wear |j Department Store In This Section Of The State | 1 ven Market Conditions as Abnormal as jjj P®* s§l j | it would seem possible to be, S*ylish, Quality Sm . 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Including the wounded, he said, only forty-three men in 1,000 are 111, anil of these only 2 per cent, suiter from disease. Society Women Upset Hotel Waiters' Strike New York, Oct. 20.—Society women, bartenders, porters anil housemaids were pressed into service to wait on ' OCTOBER 29, 1918. the tables at a luncheon given by the Red Cross In the McAlpin hotel yes terday. when the regular waiters and cooks went on strike. Many of the guests volunteered to wait on themselves and friends, and I others evtjn volunteered to help In the I kltehen. Vhe luncheon was voted one of the most successful of the season. Walters and some cooks at tne Waldorf-Astoria and Clarldge went on strike at the noon hour, too, leav ing the lunch-hour ci >wd at those hotels wfthouj service. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator— Ad 5
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