The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 2, 1918, Page 12

38Q) PAGE 12 TURDAY, NOV. 2, 1918. AMERICANS HAVE LARGEST FLYING . CAMP IN FRANCE Field Covers Area of Thirty-Six Square Miles, MANY TYPES OF AIRPLANES Reservation fs Divided Into Nine Sec. thons, Through Which Men Advance to Proficiency—Three Branches of Aviation for Warfare: Chase and Combat Work, Bombardment, and Reconnolssance. The Atoerican flying camp is the Jargest in France and Is sald to be greater than any other in the world. A fiying field of 86 square miles, the area of xn American township, with nine sepurate fiving fields on which American aviators advance to the stage of flight combatants, and air- planes—Libertys, Nieuports, pronis, wand all the others, with officers, in- structers, and newly equipped avian- tors swelling our squadrons cach wnouth— these were some of the main features of this vast a jon ground. As the Associated Pr correspond: epi entered one of the fields a big gray wachtue rose from a nearby fleld with a loud. droning noise. “There goos 2 Liberty airplane,” said one of the officers, Te was one of the increasing munber uow coming every Bleht was watched with eat Interest and growing enthy by those whe will put it to the sn- preme test on the igh front. Only one opinion was heard among these men—thar if was the higgest aud fast- est machine of them all. Groups of avintors were lined up as we arrived, preparatory te taking the wir. Chey were stocky. young men, like fivo foorhal! clevens ahout to take the Held. The minds atretched off for miles--nine fields of four square tailes ench all clean-cut stubble fielde on which Ube tnachines contd na without shock Above them ¢ ed taxay plines, singly and in squad drawn out like wild geese, looping diving and all the evolutions, of th with groups of acrobatic planes over to the right making headlong spirals, wiog slips and reversements, Barracks Form a City. Tn the foreground rose a city of bar- racks, one-story pine shacks 100 feet Jong—not very highly ornamental, but very practic: Fully a thousasd of these barracks had risen on this levei plaia to house the army of flying men on the way to the fighting Hnes. nd We went from fleld to field to note | each stage in the development of com- bat avintton, Generally speaking, it wea explained, there are three distinct branches of this aviation warfare— ehese and combat work, in which most of the fighting occurs; bombardment of enemy forces, cainps and. towns; aud scouting or reconnolssance work for purposes of observation of enemy activities, It is for combat and bom- bardment that the training is done bere, and of those going forward genthly about four-fifths are combat: er. and one-fifth bomburdment pilots. “These are the ‘grasshoppers,’ ” said the captain as we came to feld No. 1, where the initial groundwork and the- oty of flight begins. The grasshoppers were dimtnutive machines with just enough horsepower to Jump over the ground, and occasionally rise ten feet. The.men call them taxis, They were skipping about singly and in squads. ‘Inyo were having a race across the plain, and one taking a dive buried its nose in the ground. This was the clr- cua part of fiying, at the start, but there was plenty of very practient work beside with motor Instruction, xunuery, trap shooting. rifle range and machine gun firing. Small dummy alr- planes dotted the fleld as targets, and | the bounding grasshoppers took their shots and were rated by the watching ; inetructors. On the second field the yviators had ; left their grasshoppers and were in a double-contro) machine accompanied | by an instructor. They were getting the “feel” of the machine in aetual | flight, and if the rudder was not ma- nipulated deftly the instructor was there to make the correction, And it was necessary here to learn how fo come down as well us to go up, and to come down at a definite point. Sinal] numbered flags marked the land- ing point of each machine. ‘The captain of field No. 8 was about to step into the “Flying Dragon,” ane , of the most curious machines of the | fleet, for besifles being a very feet. 1Smeter car, it was fameus for its dragon body, with flaming scales and tentacles and great red eyes. on this field the aviators gtructor, and for the first time took their own risks. Tricky Type of Machine. On field 4 it began to develop wheth- | et the aviator could qualify as a com- bat airman, ar for bombardment or scout observation. He was now in a fast machine with a large wing sur- face; and used for high air maneuver- ihg. He was being accustomed to all types of machines. There was a flect of ane. of these strange types drawn across the plain. Their chief noy- elty was in having ball bearings on all thefr mechanism, giving a hair-trig- ger response to the slightest touch. Progress is rapid now that it is evi- ‘Worry is the mother of sick, nerv- ous and troubled mentality, it upsets |Turnips, per bu. . the stomach, bowels and kidneys. You | Salsify, per bu. . feel- bad all-over: Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea soothes and freshens the stomach, bowels and Moneys » Tea | out of It. th | Here | entered + afngle-control machines, without an in- | dent whut a flyer can do. He enters a very fast machine at No. 5, with 15 meter wings capable of making 120 | miles an hour. Some of the men drop | lout of the training at this point, as it ; {nas become evident that they lack the | jdeftness or get faint at the helght or | the heat of the motor. The rest go ; on to field No. 6, where they begin i pursult work and some of the early | stages of acrobatic uose dives and | slips. H “There 1s nothing freakish about ; ; these acrobatics,” sald the officer, “for they are one of the most essential parts of combat aviation. To be a chase and pursuit pilot one must be / able to out-maneuver the enemy avia- itor; to make quick turns under fire jand get above your adversary or on his tail. One of the other will be out- maneuvered, and the enemy is very skillful at acrobatics, and he must be beaten at his own game.” Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt was in | command of field No. 7 while he was here, and his machine stood in the hangar with a group of filers about it, |paying tribute to the splendid quall- tles and daring of their late leader. This Is the fleld on which formation | | flying is begun, in squadrons up to 18 | j machines, but usually with five. The} Daw: - ~ dil |squadron’ files in V-shape, with the | Maj. Gen, John Edward Capper, di. | ds 1 f the V . | rector general of the Bri commander at the apes of the ¥. et | corps which did such fine work in Lo eae ae nt Teen cnine | smashing the Hun defenses. He eae oe: sy metal ena Bie ! served in India, South Africa, and the other had just come in after two hours | Present war, and was formerly col mander of the balloon school and the [in the afr, ending with a figure elght,a | —. SR ea ee Aa | (dificult evolution executed by “cross | school of military engineering. . The } | tank Is a British invention which wa SB Piiote’ by & ‘Western Newspaper Union| | 5 ling the controls” so that the rudder | i bites ae ny serves as elevator and the elevator be alters the rAtnerican farm iserves us rudder. pieces Camera Like a Gun. SAYS SHELLS WERE CLOSE: On the combat and acrobatic fields, | iNos. § and 9, scores of muchines were Gaisson Driver From Indiana Tells of in ihe alr gotng through their fighting , His Experience Under [evolutions or dipping and looping. The German Fire. | " (combat airplanes carried camera guns, io novel device combining a dummy ma- | Rushville, Ind—Some of the ex | | chine gun and a photographie camera. | nerjiences of a caisson driver while un- | {ft looks like u gun, but as the trigger | qor fire are described in a letter re-| jis pulled the camera takes a plcture | ceived here from Private Raymond B, f the target, showing just what would | Cotestock of Batter One Hundred ‘of [nave been hit if a shot instead of @ ong Fiftieth field artillery. The let- ter, written by him to his parents, fol- ilens had blazed ahead. | Tt was over the acrobatic field that jows in part: the real wonders were going on, in “On Monday morning we got a little ihe vertical virage spirals and wing ‘taste of real war and German. shell- j slips. Spectacular as these seemed » fire, and shortly before noon we cais- to be, exch had fts use fn the fighting | gon drivers got our baptism of fire. jane. The “vrille” is that dizzy head- We had to take a load of shells up to first tumble, and the chief thing iS the guns and shells were falling all} [not fo do it but to undo it and come | sround the road we had to travel on. | It has its uses, too, in de- | We went on the run, one jcelving the enemy into the belief that ‘time, and all got th zh the jthe aviator has becn hit and is tum- | shes nit uncomfortably close. I got | bling, then as the enemy is of€ guard, | yp to the guns all right and started | attacking him suddenly as the aviator | yack as I got up on a small raise comes out of his headlong dive, One | 4 , ell about fifteen feet off the ‘of the flyers made four vrilles as we road, ng over the back of my | watched. jeaisson, The force of it nearly threw ot is dangerous only when neal, the | me out of {he saddle and I got hit with ground,” said the escort. “High im | q chunk of dirt, but was not hurt, but the air ‘there is comparatively 10 | pieces of steel whizzed rather wickedly idanger, for there is plenty of time to past my eurs, set your levers so that you're sure to |” apyt pad luck scemed to be after! come out of the vrille.” me, for I had gone only + few feet un- Others were doing the spiral, an- ti) the horse I was riding stumbted | other form of head-first dive, except (and fell, with all three teams on the | that the car Is always under control, | goad run. ‘The horse and I were whereas In the vrille the control is | dragged about twenty fect. I got my lost until the aviator succeeds 1m | foot out of the stirrups sume way and emerging from his fall. Often the | was not scratched. ‘The wheci driver machine seemed to stop suddenly, turn | came to my reseue and took the cals- | over, and then glide away in the oppo- | son on in while I gathcred up the site direction right side up. ; pieces of harness.” One of the best maneuvers for es- | cape from a dangerous fight fs the |e vertical wing-slip, as it is the fastest means of losing altitude and getting | below an unequal combat. When an: acrobatic maneuver misses or ts badly done it 1s a “pancake” or a “barrel.” | Marysville, Cal—One lone There is as much lingo to the aviation | cigar filched from the stock of field as there is to the baseball dia- | § her father by a young girl work- mond. !§ ing at the Barney Dolan fruit Leaving the field we passed a crip- |e shed, near here, brought an even pled aviator limping on crutches. | 21 at an auction held smong “He has had 21 crashes,” said the |e the employecs. jofficer, “which is about the record. ‘The young woman, wanting But he goes back every time and he’s {@ to do something for her coun- eager now to get in his machine again. /$ try, decided this wrouid be a good And that is the spirit of every man .@ way She turned the money ikere, to be ready for combat and to over to the Ned Cross. , beat the Boche.” eeccccccccce ecvecece e FILCHES DADDY’S CIGAR TO ASSIST RED CROSS MOVIE STARS IN RUSH RAT PROOFING FIGHT | | A LITTLE PRANK | ; Woman's Committee of Council of De- | 1 fense Is Playing Part of Pied Piper. | Washington.—Playing the part of | the Pied Piper in a national campaiga | for {he extermination of rats and miee, | the department of home economics of ithe woman's committee o2 the council of defense is co-operating with the plans inaugurated by the biolegt survey of the United States depart: ment of agriculture in its effort to com- bat the national indifference on a sub- | Jeet which be: an intimate r , to the general field of cons “Nat proofing” campaigns have been “carried on successfully in certain i places in Europe, notably in Denna ,and have been tried out in this co2zn- try. @hat they are urgently needed is manifest in the fact that $200,000, 000 worth of foodstuffs are destroyed yearly by rats and mice. FRENCH CORPORAL TAKES 700: Member of Tank Corps Receives Cross of Legion of Honor. With the French Army in France.— i The capture of 700 Germans is the ex- ; “My mind is burdened down with: ploit attributed to Pierre Cellier, twen- ; thoughts of you,” says Douglas Fair- ty-three years old, a corporal in the | banks in a whimsical man ‘ French tank corps. Two fieldpieces | Charlie Chaplin, iu a most serious | ylso were taken. Cellier has received tone replies: “I hope you don’t lose! the cross of the Legion of Honor, a re- your mind, for if you do, it will mean! ward rarely given to anyone but a my downfall.” commissioned officer. “If that’s the case I'll get up.” | Cellier was in command of a tank “Tf that's the case I'll come down.” | manned by 15 Americans in the recent So runs the daily conversation be-| fighting in the Marne salient. A shell tween these two famous comedy stars struck the tank and rendered it use- uring letsure moments at the studio, | less, The men then advanced on foot. Cellier discovered the Germans am- | bushea in a cave. He kept guard at 50c j the entrance for an hour until a Ger- 75c | man appeared with a white flag. Be- - $1.00 | hind the first one came the rest of the 700, one by one, The Germans VEGETABLES FOR SALE. Beets, per bu. . WILL'S SEED STORE. their arms before 3 and Es x0'an in ig. | Maa to Whe Fear Ok Bib Se NUUGUGOSSNNUOUEOOONEOS.t UUCUCECOUEDCEO OUR OCCUERECUOAUE TET NUCUNUNUCONAAUDCUAUONERUEROOOL OCU OOG avnvenuenvenunnecsovscavencnauevotocaesvenueceaueceqectedt =—=TO THE= Mothers and Fathers OF NORTH DAKOTA FROM STATEHOOD YOU HAVE DE- manded that the office of State Superinten- dent of Public Instruction and the schools of Nérth Dakota be kept out of politics. IF TODAY YOU STAND FOR HAVING the schools TAKEN from politics and have them placed in the atmosphere around which you desire your children educated, it is your DUTY to vote for the only can- didate for State Superintendent unpledged to a political machine--Minnie J. Neilson. oe HERE IS PRESENTED YOUR OPPOR- tunity to bring North Dakota’s educational system back ‘to the place it deserves. IT IS YOUR OBLIGATION TO KEEP Socialism out of the public schools. DURING THE PERIOD MISS NEILSON served as Superintendent of Barnes county the number of districts was reduced by 8; the number of one-room rural schools re- duced 47; the number of graded schools increased from 12 to 26; and the number of consolidated schools increased from 1 to 18. MINNIE J. NIELSON AFTER COMPLETING HER PRELIMI- nary education in the grade and high schools of Valley City, took advanced work in Universities of North Dakota, Michigan and Chicago. She holds a Life Professional Certificate, the highest issued by the state. Taught 13 years in the rural, grade and high schools in the state, is now and has been for the last 12 years county superintendent of schools for Barnes county. She has made good in many responsible positions requiring ability in or- ganization and leadership. Is now and has been for a number of years a member of the executive committee of the North Dakota Educational Association. Her extensive travels, many years of teaching and wide experience as a leader in educational work, together with her high educational standing, qualifies her for just the kind of service North Dakota needs in its Department of Public Instruction now. 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