Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1928, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0., MONDAY, JANUARY 30. 1928. \ 5 . 57 PUPILS RECEIVE DIPLOMAS AT HINE Assistant Superintendent of Schools Presents Sheep- skins Today. Part Forty-four ninth grade pupils of Hine | Junior High School and 13 senior high | school students who returned to their former school earned CHAPTER XVI. Maj. Raoul Lufbery. BERY was the White K he Esca le Lafayette. Born in ance of a French mother and father, Gerva ¥ was one of b Modes . he soi Miss Jessie LaSa intendent of night of h, ¥ b cises, int tainers. Rev. L. B. Franc the Emanuel Episcopal Church, nounced the invocation and the Junior High School Orchestra the direction of Miss H. W. Mer presented a pros c Arsena Beat of the class’ gift—a in the new school and H. E accepted 't on be- ,_one half of the lian Bandel e\ d through the Balkan States and Ger- salling from Hamburg for the S cars he ON BIBLE MIRACLES sailed for Europe the day before. Father and son were never to meet again. Lufbery went from Wallingford to {Cuba and then to New ’an Prancisco, where he e the United Sta Army, ng | two years in the Philippines. Cites Use of Figures of Speech by Writers of Ancient Days. Orl The modern generation ither must | believe that miracles destribed in the | Bible can happen today or else musi| Tegard the Bible 2s obsolete, it was de- | clared yesterday by Dr. John O, Knolt. | Holy Land explorer and Egyptologist, | in an illustrated lecture at the Y. M. C. | A Dr. Knott sssisted in the opening of the tomb of King Tu Howard Cart f the Bible tells of men and women an angels talked to m said Dr Knott. “b of continued interco with men. then our Bil extent an obsolete book “Sgne interpretation of the Bible €oes not seek to take out of the book | $ts miracuious element, but it does seek | 1o put the miraculous element into our | modern life. Men in other days ex-| pressed themselves in figures of speech | which called for literal angels and a| literal voice of God. bu! of today have the same persons had of old” Dr. Knot lecture ries being given w S ers and others on of the skies” s 1o Drom: as one of a se- school teach- | e Blank Pages of final lec- DROP ABDUCTION CHARGE | The services for this distinguished The Fact Story of American Aviators in the World War | 2—The Lafayette E ns and By JOHN i KNOX | b The batterles ceased firing and seemed to have scored a hit, for the German machine began a long virile, spinning faster and faster as it neared the ground. Just as the onlookers were sure that it was about to crash it straightened out and turned back to- | ward the German lines. | Lufbery Down in Flames. | Lufbery's own machine was out of T = X | SRR commission, but another Nieuport w: adrille has already been told. He continued to add to ht re until he was credit- ied officially with 18, with at least 20 more not so verified, but undoubtedly | won by him. When he was transferred to the United States Army with the rank of he passed the examination a board of flving officers. His file in {the War Department at Washington , shows this entry in the report of the be most expert pilot of the Ameri- t the front and considered by French officers to be the best He has brought down officially 12 machines, unofficiaily Very quiet. self-controlled and seif-re 5 2. very serious and a man whose Capable some pilot in France inspires confidence LUFRERRY JUMPS FROM RURNING PLANE of commanding men and actually com- anding in patrol work.” s career in the American Army . After being shifted several times from one command to another during the confusion of the early months of 1918, he resumed his soli- tary patrols over the German lines. Lufbery’'s One Fear. of | | standing on the field, apparently ready for use. The mechanicians admitted |it was ready and without another word Lufbery jumped into the seat and immediately took ofl. About five min- utes after leaving tne ground he had reached 2,000 fect and was in range of the German six miles away. The first attack was witnessed by all ot watchers. Lufbery fired several short bursts, then swerved away and ap- peared to busy himself with his gun, which seemed to have jammed. An- other circle over their heads and he had cleared the jam. Again he at- tacked from the rear, S his machine s flames. He passed the Gern three or four seconds proc straight course. Then he j His body fell into the flower g of a prasant woman's house in tle town just north of Nancy. was a small_stream about 100 distant and it was thought bery, seeing a slight chance, ed in the hope of falling stream.” | Lufbery's body bore only one wound | —a bullet mark on his thumb. The passing of Lufbery was the last the romantic era of the drille Lafayette. His ral was attended by Gen. G rd, | Commander of the 6th French Army, with his entire staff: by Gen. Edwards. nis old commander in the Philippine: by Gen. Hunter Liggett, Col Mitchell and hundreds of French and American officers of all ranks. Licut. Kenneth Culbert wrote of the funeral: “In all my life I have never heard ‘taps’ blown so beautifully as on_that afternoon. Even some of the officers joined the women there in quictly dab- bing at their eyes with white hand- kerchiefs. Truly Frauce and America had assembled to v a last tribute to one of their bravest soldiers. My only prayer is that somehow. by some means. I may do as much as he for my country before I go west—if in that direction I am to travel.” Licut. Culbert was killed in combat the next day. Here we leave the heroes of the La- | favette Escadrille to history. Later we shall have more to say of the great monument to their memory, which is nearing completion in the beautiful Park of St. Cloud, near Paris. We have told too little of their story., but per- haps enough to make clear their labors as the First American Expeditionary Force—a little band of unselfish men who gave their lives for an ideal and opened the gate through which Persh- | Ing’s two million were to pour to end the war. I (Comyright, Tomorrow—Read the thrilling story | of the first air battle in American | waters—the only battle of the World | War fouht in sight of American shores | —in which the men at home showed into the 1928, by John F. Dille Co.) themselves of the same caliber as those who went to France. Of undoubted courage, he had one ' fear—that of being burned to death in a flaming airplane. He always said that if his plane caught fire in the air, he would jump to his death rather than burn. On May 19, 1918, which coincidence was the twenty y of Frank Luke, Lufbery made his last flight. At that time he was with the 94th United States Aero Squadron, curious The funeral of Maj. Raoul Lufbery near Toul, France, May 19, 1918. fiver were attended by notable officials. At the foot of the casket stands Gen. Clarence Edwards. he went on to Japan and At Calcutta a mechanic o darc Pourpe, wav- aeronautics at he Pourpe had—by er Marriage—Bride Was Thought to Be Lost Smith Girl. By the haa At aeronauts the Orient ich was local kitefiyers ton was at stake would | amous | | which was hampered by the lack of machine We will let Capt backer, later tell the story of that fiight “IL was about 10 o'clock.” Capt. Rickenacker, “when afreraft guns on the top of Mont Mihiel began shooting at a very high altitude A warning came to us that a German photographic plane was coming our way and was at that moment almost directly over our fleld guns and flying equipment Bdward V. 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He saw a physician a few days ago regarding his physical condition but was able to fulfill a number of pub- lic_engagements afterward. Yesterday he took a walk in Hyde Park and was contemplating a visit to the Riviera if the doctor would permit A flood of tributes quickly publication of the news that Earl Haig| was dead. One of the earlicst was from | David Lloyd Grorge, Enclands war premier, who, speaking of the time when unity of command in the war was dc cided upon and the Britich Army W | placed under Marshal Foch. said ‘Whatever might have been his per- sonal views, he carried out honorably cvery particular of understanding ar- rived at. He behaved. not merely like a great patriot. but like a great gentle- man.” Military Famil hievements of Lord Douglas Haig consummated seven cen- turies of military service by the an- cient and aristocratic family of Haig of Bemersyde., in Berwickshire. The Haigs fought umder_Clive, Earlborough and Wellington. In more peaceful times they were distillers, and. as such | the family fortune was made and in- creased through several centuries. From the day he was born. June 19 1861, the third and youngest son of John Haig. J. P.. of Cameronbridge. Fifeshire. a military career was planned for Douglas Haig. He went to excly sive Clifton and later read at Braseno: College, Oxford. He left therc in 1883 to entér the army staff college. He entered the cavalry because of his fond- I ness for riding and his belief that this e A AN EXTRA ROOM ? [J Then why not close fn the hack WY T We ) everything From The military DO YOU NEED v for the Window Frames Windows—Hardware Paint and Sheetrock Small or; Job, ra given eareful attention Delivers Charge J. Ffank Kelly, Inc. 2101 Georgia Avenue N.W. ER—MILLWORK—DU LUMB PONT PAINT—HARDWARE Wednesday Semi-Annual Round-Up Sale Read all details in the Tuesday Evening Star. At Saks! 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