Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1928, Page 3

CHAPTER IL Norman Prince and His Great Idea. that they had pilots' certificates. Thaw managed to pass the test flights with the help of Capt. Degorge. commander of Esca- & drille Deperdussin, No. 6, but the other R two didn't fare quite so well. Hall played £ his bluff out and climbed into the ship given him for his test, although he had never before seen an airplane except at & distance. “Off he went, zigzagging like a drunk- en duck.” writes Capt. Georges Then- ault of the French army. “He actually left the ground. but crashed headlong into the wall of a hangar. The ma- chine was in pieces, but the instructor picked Hall up unhurt to hear their wverdict on his qualifications as a pilot. ‘Then he began his training at the be- ginning. Thaw was quickly assigned to Caudron 46. a bombing escadrille, but Hall and Bach had to stay at the aviation school § at Avord until they mastered the tech- . AC ! By JOHN KNOX | # taken after careful reflection by your predecessors.” By this time a year of work had LL three of the friends declared | smoothed out most of the first objec- A tions to Prmce'seglnu. Many arguments | had been offer nique of fiving. Then they were sent to Pau to learn the control of the dead- Ir Nieuponts, France's new masterpiece among fighting planes. Meanwhile the young eagles were gathering in America. Outraged by the rape of Belgium and stirred by the growing fear of Hohenzollern “wetpoli- tik” and “schreckligkeit.” one by one they took flight for France, where the red pit of hell roared before the gates of Paris. Norman Prince’s Great Idea. Norman Prince came from Boston and | Elliot Christopher Cowdin from New York: both sons of Harvard, they en- listed together in the French Air Serv- fce. Prince brought with him an idea which was to blossom into orie of the most dramatic chapters of the war. He planned to organize a flying corps whose members should comprise the American pilots then in French service or eager to join it. In his plan the ob- jections of French bureaucracy were to ‘be overcome by financing the purchase ©of the necessary airplanes and offering to the imperial nation a fully equipped hting unit. n‘m‘:\’ge's enthusiasm was infectious and the non-combatant Americans in Paris quickly formed a committee to further the plan, electing William K. Vanderbilt to the onerous position of chairman. Dr. Edmund Gros, who had been working on a similar plan. joined the committee. as did Frederick Allen of the American Ambulance Division and Robert Bacon. They took up the long battle with French officialdom. while Prince and Cowdin, impatient of delay, joined bombing Escadrille Voi- sin 103. Other Americans left the ambulance division and through the good offices of Frederick Allen were sent to Pau for training in aviation so that they might be ready for the day when the first Yankee escadrille would take to the air. | | 0 do some shooting of their own. At the close of 1915 seven American ence 50 mecessary in the moral equip- ment of the soldier. : Early in the fight, Capt. Georges The- npault of the Prench aviation had ex- | Slowly one French official after an- | other withdrew his objections and be- f wolves. On March 3, 1916, they wrote him this now historic letter: llowing our letter of January 24, addressed to M. Rene Besnard, and of which a copy is attached, allow us o respectfully call your attention to the situation of the Americans enlisted in the French Army. M. Millerand, Gen. Hirschauer and M. Besnard, after care- ful study of the questions, have decided that the should be united in one squadron. General he uarters also took this view, and it was further- more decided that Americans should fly | the Nieuport fiying planes | & nstanding this, only four have ped at Plessis-Belleville, The others are scattered, and most of them | have not been assigned 1 Nieuports | ‘The Franco-American committee which | has taken upon itself the task of select- ing volunteers from the United Btates would be very grateful if you could find it poss 1 THUE, Becretary. T WILT I THE I NEVER DISAPRO] i tion of Capt. Thenault, Lieut. Col. Mitchell, a * graph of Lafayette Escadrille. isit to the flyers. convincing was written on February 20, 1915, by M. Jarousse de Sillac to his friend, Col. Bottieaux of the ministry of war: “It appears to me that there might be great advantages in the creation of an American squadron. The United States would be proud of the fact that certain of her young men, acting as did Lafayette, have come to fight for France and civilization. The resulting sentiment of enthusiasm could have but one effect; to turn the Americans in_the direction of the allies.” The financial problems had been in a large measure settled by the ready checkbooks of Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbiit a year after de Sillac's letter was writ- ten; constant reiteration of the idea had made it familiar, stripped it of the imagined dangers of violating French precedent—so it was hardly a surprise when on March 14, 1916, the committee found the following letter from Col. Regnier in its mail: The Lafayette Escadrille Is Organized. “Replying to your letter of March 3 1916, 1 have the honor to communicate to you the following information: 1 had already considered the question of an _American squadron, and as early as February 20, 1916, I asked the com- mander-in-chief to advise me of his in- tentions in the matter. General head- quarters has just replied, informing me that an American squadron will be or- mm with the pilots whose names ollow: the squadron will be constituted rapidly and I will keep you posted as to what is done in this matter.” At a dinner in Paris on the evening of April 17, 1916, the definite organiza- the Escadrille Americaine was made known. Under the official desig- nation of Nieuport Escadrille 124, the new organization celebrated its birth with the help of the following guests: Norman Prince, William Thaw. Victor MARLOW COAL CO.. EST. 1858 COAL Dependable Quality Reliable Service Fair Prices MARLOW COAL COMPANY 811 E St. N.W.—Main 311 i Specify TON- TINE -~ the waterproof, wasl , wrin- klepr SHADE! We submit for your mmportant features conne exacting homeseekers, of which the most Lieut. Col. William- Mitchell shown on a \"Wlfinow . Shades \ The Argonne SIXTEENTH and COLUMBIA ROAD NORTHWEST building which have enabled us to satisfy the most . Location in residential hub of N.W. THE Chapman, Kifin Rockwell, James Mc-! Connell, Lawrence Rumsay, Charles Johnson and Clyde Balsley, all brevet pilots. Prince’s French mechanic, Mitchel, and Kiffin Rockwell's brother Paul were also at the table. The men who had come so far from their homes to fight in the cause of a country that had helped us in our own Revolution pledged themselves to unity in the com- mon cause, a pledge which for most of them was to kept in the grave. ‘The next morning saw Prince, Chap- man, Rockwell and McConnell on their way to the airdrome at Luxeuilles- Bains in the gloomy Vosges Moun- tains on the flank of Verdun, then the center of Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm's bloody struggle to break the back and heart of France. Here they \\'m;;‘ Jjoined by Thaw, Cowdin and Bert Hall. ‘Though the German massed infan- try. charging without regard.for death, KFrench officer, S. Johnson. Rare photo- Soubiron Photo. could not storm the battered ramparts of Verdun, the German aviators held almost undisputed mastery of the air over the old fortress. Their swift and handy Fokkers circled over the French lines with impunity, “strafing,” obscrv- ing and_photographing about as they chose. The genius of Fokker, spumed by the allied countries before the war and lured from Holland by German need, gave the Kaiser's fiyers a me- chanical advantage in the air which seemed impossible to overcome, though the end of the German mastery of the air was at hand with the coming of the swift and deadly Nieuports. The turn of the tide which was to come to flood 30 months later on Armistice day began in the air before it was evi- dent on the ground. (Covvright 1928} TOMORROW—Read the all-ab- sorbing story of the first fight- ing in the air with rifles. WOMEN WILL DINE. St. Mark's Men's Club to Be Host at Banquet. 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The entire congressional delegation of the State was present, as well as Gov. Willlam K. Bulow, who was the principal speaker. The other officers chosen are B. N. Kunker, vice president; Miss Frances Davison, secretary, and Jens M. Otter- ness, treasurer. Gov. Bulow congratulated the South Dakotans on their soclety and told of conditions “back home.” The members of Congress in attend- ance, besides the newly-elected presi- dent, were Senators Norbeck and Me- Master, and Representatives Royal S. Johnson and William Williams, The speakers included Fred Miner, | State sheriff; Charles H. Burke, com- missioner of Indian affairs; Ernest Q. Patterson, solicitor of the Department of the Interior, and J. George Wright, superintendent of the Pawhauska In- dian Reservation. All are from South Dakota. JIMMY THIEF ACTIVE. Steals $150 Ring at at Cordova An- nex—Second Robbery There. 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