The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1918, Page 11

AWAY A\\ at » oa CK SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1918 | a How Pilot on “High Patrol” _ Flying 20,000 Ft. in the Air. “Clears Sky of Enemy Planes THE How the Air Fighter Finishes His Foe Remarkable Feats of Markmanship—Warriors of the | “YOU GLUE YOUR EYE TO YOUR SIGHTS AND DIVE ON HIM, POURING YOUR FIRE INTO Sky Flying at Top Speed Described by Lieut.| HIM. IF YOU DO IT SUCCESSFULLY YOU SEE HIS MACHINE GO DOWN IN A SPIN, PERHAPS IN Sheppard, Australian Aviator Who Has Been FLAMES.”—LIEUT. SHEPPARD, | Fighting in the Air Over the European Battle | Fronts for Three and a Half Years. | By Willis Brooks Goprright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). ‘ce ARKSMANSHIP in the air? Yes, tt fs marvellous at times. I have seen three direct hits of a machine flying at a height of | Some going, you say. 12,000 feet and travelling 100 miles an hour. Yet this is just one of many remarkable things told me yesterday | when I asked Lieut. Fred H. Sheppard of the Australian Flying Corps, it the work of a flying fighting squadron in France. Lieut. Sheppard has beea nghting tn the air over the European bat: | te fivats for three and a half years. He is staying in New York a few days on his way to Australia, here he and Capt. Frank E. Tregilles, who accompanies him, are to be) Jef instructors in the great school of aviation to be opened there. Lieut. Sheppard has been shot down iF times and wounded eleven times, it getting information from him con- img these personal incidents of day’s work is as difficult as in- &@ small boy to go to the den- though I happen to know that he wears a ghastly red welt an inch wide land six or eight inches long across Dis breast where a ragged piece of | German shell went in just above his De beart and tore iis way through the flesh to.the other side. Also a long fore-and-aft scar, beginning at the top of his brow and running well back into his hair, tells where a Boche bul- let just missed “getting” him. Then, 00, he carries a bit of souvenir just Ugder his scalp at one side of his head in the form of a piece of shrap- soprt cre “Now,” he went on, “the Boche comes near enough and is in position to open fire on you. Above the roar of your own motor you hear the sharp | ‘pop, pop, pop’ of his gun, and you! know your chance is now or never. | By a skilful movement you throw, your machine bodily over in a roll, and the enemy goes rushing by j “Then you giue your eye (» your | sighta and dive on him, pouring your | fire into him. If you do it successfully | you see his machine stop and qitiver | momentarily, then turn over and over, going down in a spin, perhaps in flames, | “With a grim smile you congratu- | lute yourself that you have won, but| you know that you are in quite a9 SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1918 j | rs. Vernon Uastle Writes for EVENING WORLD —@ fin The Evening World To-Day Publishes the First of a Series of Articles Prepared for Its Readers by America’s Most Copied Woman in the Matter of Attire. STUDY YOUR OWN CHARMS Let Your Individual Taste Select Only Most Becoming Style. By Mrs. Vernon Castle RESS—appropriate, sensible and becoming dress—that is whet IT shall try, as far as I am capable, to advise you on; and yet, every time I am asked to express an opinion on this subject I feel a hopeless task, for there are few of you who will listen to my arguments or change your own tastes and ideas on my suggestion. | The only reason that | assume the! ,, right to make suggestions or seem) | to dictate to you ts that for the past five years people have, to a large ex-| | tent, copied my style of dress or the | arrangement of my hair and various | other little originalities which they seemed to admire. I have been very | surprised and flattered that they | should wish to do so. I had no Idea! | when I wore Dutch bonnets or out my hair or banded my forehead, with |what afterward became known as ‘The Castle Band,” that any one in| | the world would admire these atyles to the extent of following my lead. | Because a number of people have | | been flattering enough to do so [| have been asked to write these arti- | jcles, and I will try to tell you to} nel, which he says doesn't bother him, so he leaves it there as a@ little me mento, “made in Germany,” to remind him of his good luck in ewtaping death by @ very small fractior of an inch. “A flying squadron,” said Lieut. Bheppard, “consists of from eighteen Who are responsible. for it and faust see that it is always In per- fect order, ready to take the air at a much danger as ever, for you are back of the German lines (most of the | air fighting is done there) and the) archies (anti-aircraft guns), which | have until now been afraid of hitting their own machine, let loose on you is you start to climb back to your rushing away for thelr lives and it is up to you to do the same, for as the |and help you all I can to become equally noted for good taste and chic, acquire a chic appearance—it does | your first mistake probably lies. You ‘see something in a shop window, or | what I attribute my success in dress | | There are none of us who cannot} not reat with the size of your ward-) vas” VEFNOn People will remark upon your smart- te. twenty-four singie-seater scout] rormation and assist your brother tobe or the price or style of your) ness; that applies to hats, cofffure, Machines, whicli kal now eee: pilots. If perchance they have downed \clothes--It simply comes down to) shoes and costume, thing in speedy aero! ae ee poo \their lot and n that you have | being becomingly garbed. We can-| If clinging, snug, draped skirts pe—has.iis own pilot an: |downed your man, they are probably not all dross alike, and that Is where] suit you best, wear them always re- eardiess of what is proclaimed the ‘coming or present style. If you find Pe ee ee ae a ee , ee SRIRAS TEKST 2eate archies begin firing you sea smali ot s < ne else, that attracts you,| one a % Bement’ notio hia hine as a T!M8® of black smoke In the air abont = ea be " pais we . ‘ve Baik one particular dress undeniably be it “The pilot treats hi vs a nine as @ | you and hear the explosions of thelr }and without ever stopping to MK) coming, stick to it—have it made in or father pone we bee a : . wy | shell Hike the ‘woot of a barking | wneter . is your ee or not you! different material or colors, altering ts comes to love it. And wel tae | t one like it, and then you are sur y tho « ost deo Be veirealeen that ut all times in tho | C® | get one Ii and then y sur-/ only the smallest details, auch as ys 9 life may depend on ita respon. | Then the fun begins. The sky is prised to find it is not as smart as|euffy, belt or collar, Moro partieu- ad sada (6 bls emands upoa tt. | soon full of those little rings of smoke; you thought It was. Of course, It 18) larly be careful of the shape of your ¥ — squadron is divided into! 9nd if a shell bursts at a level with | just as amart, really, but it doesn't) collar. A round, rolling, graceful i ‘fights’ of six machines each, which you it signifies that they have got | guit you. That's where I think many| tine about the nock is almost tu- + work in shifts or patrols, as they are bhi height e P | people have made a mistake in Copy-| variably the easiest to wear—some- 9 ow comes the real flying for the allotted. y ing me thing soft and creamy or white. |star performer. He must loop, sp | »| is “Fighting squadrons have numerous) 40 1 Ciose height) and otherw, I cannot set a style that will be Dark colors are never becoming wd Jobs to do, such as ‘bigh patrol toate aoe eet for the Ar becoming to all--I only try to study| close to the face. A little touch of * is, flying at heights of io mena to-day is a good shot. I have my own face and figure and per- white at the neck and a sma)! turned “ 20,000 feet and clearing the | ¥ 01 *\ three direct bite of a machine flying sonality, and dress accordingly. If back cuff of the same on the sleeve he my machines; ‘contact patrol MINE! at a height of 12,000 feet and travel- you will only stop to consider that add youthfulness and give that tidy, along the eneny se ands drops | URE 100 miles an hout. Some of these there are no two of us moulded alike clean and well groomed appearance a — ae machine guns ani 2rop.| bits may be flukes, but T am con- /of all the millions of people on this| which every one must admire. One's ee ee ey Meiitiae the mone acod! vines ey many are not.” jearth—-that God hag made us all in |elothes need never be expensive to to Necort work'—-going over In company Sribeaneress cone | Pa ee — r [dividual and unique and moulded) took well, and they should never be 4 with two-seater machines which are] yo ag with meant antes me ae , 7 " > —_ Mi 4 “a | and formed us one by one—you will) conaple' us, Conspicuous elothes— no doing ‘artillery shoot’ (directing tho) i. he came nearest to being prio F e ° s | come to realize what @ blessing it 15,11 mean exaggerated styles or very 4 firing of our own batteries) or droD- | down menind the enemy lines. O ROocKii e aiser Jand instead of behaving like sheep! brilliant and startling colors—ere | ping bombs. “L was flying along in clouds at a ® > | we should make the most of our own| not in good taste. Very few people’ — i “A fighting flyer doing escort ‘work height of 400 feet,” said he, “when | - - — qualities. In no way can you express | can wear them, and then they should od flies high above the machines he 18/ ran into the enemy's barrage: and a F . . i a a A ‘| . oo tae | them or bring them out as in dress./be limited to stage appearances, be, escorting, keeping ® sharp lookout for| big gun shell exploded juat at the That fs, Not Knocking Him More’n a Mile, and That's What a Yard of W. 8, Therefore dress should be given a| where one goes to see the elabenhte enemy Ares mAs teal Asie si Hark 6 buy aaching Vlowing ile tat S. Will Do, While a Sockful of "Em Will Everlastingly Flatten Out That great real of thought and consider-|and unusual in dress. You don't any machine b " off and wounding ime in five places ey $ m , . »>eg ’ 7 » magazine: Ps oo Pena vianes ab ih to. delarmial powe want my Gkonine in a enter eck Klown Prince And There’s No Upkeep ona W.S. S., for It Doesn’t Have to ou n. ae i care sda Bee Has ma to Hy Ik Me bp a bs ee it ts an enemy, and if It 18] 5¢ control, of course, pane? ji RS she . eam : 4 i +h dows tell you that hoops or bustles) made up for a fancy dress ball. 4 Rete ies aces ip number, Bélite erucd fo oe eae Be Waiered, Like a Rubber Plant, or Kept in an Aquarium, Like a Gold- or tight skirts or full are being worn| For those of small income, clothes engages it or them in a fight tO] ished up for a four-months spell in| fish, or Fed Up, Like a Pomeranian No, Indeed And Don't Forget the W. don't let it Influence you one bit.| should be dark, unobtrusive and 2 @nable his escort, which is a slower! houpital, but at the end of that time S.S.1s Not Intended to Aid the Boys in the Trenches but to Lift Them Out | You don’t want what every one else) simple in design, only revealing their 4 machine and not equipped for (hi8)] was back again and flying, quite as - lis wearing-—I never do. Study your]originality and daintiness in detail kind of fighting, to get away.” eager for a ecrap as ever. For flying BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. own features in every way, from]on close scrutiny, However simple, 4 “What are some of thy sensations! i» a real sporting proposition and the| a : ‘i z ; ; 5 i , Jevery angle, and decide what suits|they can be smart and becoming; in ie ofa flyer fighting at, say, 15,000 feet} most fascinating game I know of, No| °°)! 1918, by ‘The ¥ Put ne Co. (The New York Evening World goldish. You don't have to feed tt, iike a Pomeranian, Just kiss tt | YOU, $f you aro becomingly dresstd] fact, more oflen will they be beoem-) ‘above the earth?’ I asked, man who has ever been in it wants to | AP Saving Coupor Notte help our boys in the trenches, but {| and put it away | tae a they are simple. There are. * “Phe patrol—that is, four ma-| get out of it.” to help ‘em out of the trenches x d ae chines,” Liout. Sheppard answered in —_— | That old eockful of W will fatten’ the Klown Prince flatter | Auge Wooden Dishes Used] nt many woman he an evennyes Py r ” «| Z ully « d y his own impersonal way, “are flying | EXCEPTION, | War Saving Stam They're the MP pellets will remove thup @ gander’s instep. fnilndian Caramonis fully wear gaudy and elaborgte te along when the leader, who ts flying} HE teacher was giving the sehool| grease, lar and Kalsers from the pren ate pots eg Yas uee 7 scares 7 the Hel! Syndicate, Ine,¥ x a little enrit of the baad three, no- | @ little lecture on good eonduct.| and Klown Pri from the roamer Angna eczema l t 1 he Shah Id b 4 th ene i i: Le : i - ae 4 tance, eight or nine ma- ” 5 ” dow't be a fowl bell a your life Shake a wi oot ty ra the racrdinary dimensions have “0 phierts for, inate i SR oF Re Bias Avoid eriticising,” ae wald.| and Kultur; heal chil quinzy and autocracy; banish warts, Parr we hee tart ; bigest ren Wile acetone aakntie hada euckiaeds tue ONE STOUT WOMAN eg o bd = 25 “Don't make @ practice of tinding bi 1 f 1 or oak wen noni BF wartime ane pac YO! ‘ wW a 5. 5, Mm ne V YLL STICK TO ST. toward him. Ax soon a4 he recvg-lrauie with other people, or picking! OU and militari works, and last t t, posa Kaiser a wcodan kimonn ul ot War @avinks staue an Indian tribe on , WHO'LL TICK 30 | AYS! 8 them as enemy machines be sig i a ; dut remove 1 grown hairs and Pru 10 com Vancouver Island t . ing Wee Mae ig the others of his patrol by |"A¥s 18 What thoy say or do | plex arth n ' So Dr. Mary Halton tells your . firing a colored light from over the “th pe eee M4 thine we gif Nobody exempt from the W. 8. 8. draft y un women readers through Miss 4 side of his machine FeeeOE) wy My father mukea bis Chit © thes, dlusieai Marshall's column they ought to a ‘ @ most critical, ne Popular Mechan ¢ » ¢O fi | “Now, thin Is the most critical, not | wv oy yurprise me, George! What Don't ratile around all your iife like a wet roach, Aim your cars Wear Bech! ' Up. OOF both for thelp ' to say anxious, moment for every x ft | fs; igi hown here-|] own welfare and for that of the ’}is you father's occupation | Mow yard of W knock the Kaiser « mile toward the W, &. S. aad get somewhere, : as ' } pilot in that patrol, He immediately | "10 eoceren dae (eh | with, One of these,|} country | Jooks to his machine gun and at the| °° psa var te a acl | more than six feet How about the welfare of the ii same time picks out ‘She machine N¢| corse,” ime 4 ae wo | No ur c Ww. 8 't have to water it, like a rub- Dig south ‘nto your P ets until you wear out your elbows. | jong, Is a crude rep- |) v oman who is five feet In height f Ap £ODE 10 once ene enemy man joeption in the cause of your father,”—| ber plant, Yo don’t have to keep @ W. 8. 5, in an aquarium, like @ mu can always buy now elhows | and weighs 180 poundst Does : instant to lose, \ *| youth's Coinpanion | ——————EE 22a Saad Saaia ate ee —— - - -_ Dr, Halton believe she has lost 7 chines are rushing down toward him ave is “4 ve reyes rig x at the e of 280 miles an hour, ln| vg me e@ S; , 2 . AR aH "rain Fe : gs Fnoli: BF 4 all her pride and—yes, vanity— * the fraction of a second allowed hin MISNAMED, Few Safe Harbors on Pacific Coast. First Train Ferry to Cross English Channel. when she lost her graceful gitl for planning his fight he picks o WO Pullman porters met in front] PN a recent pu n hich } OR the first tt n the history ntage of these tw li " ish charn Does Dr. Halton best position he can, facing squarely | of the La Sallo Street Stution N od Wa of the } ©) nautical of railroading, a train ferry has| Popular Mechanic Train 4 demand that what has beem ‘on to the enemy machine, for his mae| | recently = ci issued by Depar t ava crossed the Enulish Channel.) ure common between Hweden and] merely an embarrassment for ehine gun, you know, is a rigid fix-| “Where's Sam Brown, Tom? He's) of Commerce of the United st pa in from Newhaven, England, to 1 {Germany, Sweden and Denmark, Italy | one of such @ “full fignee? fure on the front of his aeroplane, |been miasin’ ‘round here for de las'|Coast and Geodetic Survey, the| are no rea rs between Log An-|France,carrying about fifty cars, Since/and Sicily, é&c., but their operation resentation of a wolf with hould be made an affitction? naking it necessary to aim the yun|tW° or three nights,” superinten E, Lester Jones » Fras », a distance fearly in the war f British | in imade easy by the absence of tides.| stretched feet, Lnto the bollowed I've sent my shoes to th by manceuvring the entire machine;| “Guess dat'a ‘cause he bad a birth| public attention to the radical d rbors, ‘railway cars ha employed At » the natives place food || 5° a 4 ° and this must be done about as quick. |¥P at his house,” ences between the condition nd| 4 ie a France in tra cops and) during tribal ceremonies, am Jelgians and my Spare money ty as an infantryman can throw his| “What did old Sam git, boy orl char nf the shore lin the} wan de] su pplios, but all been |} ying also a huge wooden ladle,|| }48 Bone into War Savings tide to hie shoulder girl?” latientio and th f the I c red t nent »y| on ian tn Vessel was | Stamps, but I'll continue to wear ‘As momories of those experiencos| “Twins, dat's what he got.” Coast of the Unite tos. W the MAKING IT WORSE freightors. of terry | mod by in red-hot | corsets if T have to make them began te warm him Lieut, Sheppard| “Man o' man, I don’t call dat no| Atlantic Coast Gulf Coast | Cadger—ir, do you moun to insult |servico indicat ficulties Se et at ay’ Cm gave the fight a little more of the por-|birth; dat's wat I calls a section.”—| have many excellent harbors, the!) 4 uly tuts id giant qnow (omented hy wary + od dow bw JORGRIBOKS B28 1OGKLE rerhraae Hage r, = Le. " turn, Chicago Herald, | Papitic Cost of the United States! you could be insulied,—Boston Globe. {been avercome at last to Lue mutual |iracks dowu the contre of the deck, | homds " bandivs, ! ‘