THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1918.
OMAHA FLYER IS
KILLED IN FLIGHT
WITH U.S. FORCES
U William B. Petersen, One
First American Aviators
in France, Dies From
Accident.
- Lt. William" B. Petersen, native
Omahan anefson 6f Mr. and Mrs. P.
K. Petersen, 101 South Thirty-eighth
avenue, was, killed in an airplane acci
dent in France July 2. He was a pur
suit pilot in the flying corps with the
American forces.
An official telegram lias been re
ceived at the Petersen home.
1 " The father of the dead hero is the
president of the Petersen-Pegau Bak
ing company.
Lieutenant Petersen was 25 years
old. He attended Lothrop and Cen
tral High schools in Omaha, w,s teller
in the State bank of Omaha and for
several years worked with his father
in the management of a baking insti
tution. Went to Plattsburg.
He went ti the Plattsburg training
camp a year before this country de
clared war. Later he went to Fort
Snelling and then decided to enter
the aviation service. He took a
grbund course at Princeton university
and received further instruction over
seas, where he was commissioned as
first lieutenant.
, This Omaha aviator was one of the
first Americans to fly abroad in a
small Nieuport pursuit airplane. A
, letter received by Mr. and Mrs. Peter
sen June 27 indicated that the lieu
tenant was happy in his work in the
air and he related the circumstances
of several thrilling aerial episodes
which were published in The Bee on
the date mentioned.
Engine Goes Dead.
A few weeks ago Petersen's engine
went dead while he was at an eleva
tion of 8,000 feet, but he made a land
ing without mishap He wrote of an
other experience when his airplane
turned turtle on a field which was
luferked by. drainage ditches. He was
under the machine, but suffered only
' ilight bruises.
Lieutenant Petersen went overseas
. last September. He was ambitious
4 to succeed in his hazardous work and
"y he was as brave as he was ambitious.
' The meager information received of
his death stated, that he was killed in
service.
. Milton Petersen, his brother, first
lieutenant in the Twentieth infantry,
is on his way overseas. ,
Omaha Aviator Who Meets
Death in Air.
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LT. W. B. PETERSEN
Ensign Condict Offers to
Speak on Work in U. S. Navy
Ensign Condict, in charge of navy
recruiting in the Omaha district, will
speak on request before Commercial
clubs and other organizations in Ne
braska or South Dakota, to explain
the work of the navy and the training
which boys receive at the Great Lakes
naval training station.
The ensign Recently returned to
Omaha from Chicago where he at
tended a conference of naval recruit
ing officers.
Many people in the middle west do
not understand the opportunities now
open in the navy and, it is for that
reason," that Mr. Condict has offered
to accept invitations to explain the
work of the navy.
Omaha Asked to Enlist
590 Limited Service Men
A telegram has just been received
from the government, casing for in
duction .or enlistment into military
service of 300 chauffeurs, 200 stenog
raphers, SO automobile mechanics and
40 butchers. Only limited service men
in Class 1 are acceptable, except in
the case of chauffeurs) for which posi
tion men in deferred classification be
cause of dependents' or men above
the draft age, are eligible, men in de
ferred classification without physical
defect being preferred. Full infor-
Fiancee of Omaha Man
Killed in Air Flight in
France, Ft. Crook Girl
K. C. in Switzerland
New York, July 19. The Knights
of Columbus committee on war activi
ties announced today that it will ex
tend the scope of its work by aiding
in the care of American prisoners in
terned in Switzerland.
The death of Lt. William B. Peter
sen, young Omaha aviator, which oc
curred in France July 2, has cast a
pall of sadness over the many Omaha
friends of Miss Katherine Krug.
fiancee of the dead hero.
Lieutenant Petersen and Miss Kru ;
formally' announced their engagement
last January in this city, which was
attended by many social affairsT" The
young couple were both popular in
the younger set.
Miss Krug is the daughter of Maj
and Mrs. F. V. Krug, who resided at
Fort CrooWfor three years, .before the
major retired from active service At
the outbreak of the war Major Krug
was seht as instructor to a military
stliool at Dahlonega, Ga., where the
family is now living.
Foreign Language Press
Protest to Business Men
The Associated Foreign Language
Press, a statewide organization of 25
foreign language newspapers printed
in six different languages, have filed a
protest with' the Omaha Chamber of
Commerce on behalf of the publish
ers. They allege that a misunder
standing of the attitude of the papers
and their readers exists and pledge
their loyalty to the United States.
They defend the aim and need of their
publications and state that largely
through their medium a large part of
the foreign population of Omaha and
Nebraska have become Americanized.
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Skinner Plant Buys Large
' Plumbing Cache at Fremont
The new Skinner Packing company
has closed a deal with the Blum
Reardon company, plumbing and
heating contractors, for more than
$40,000 worth of pipe and fitting,
which is in storage at Fremont, Neb.
The material will be shipped to the
new building in South Omaha at
once. The plumbing and heating
work on the new plant will be done
by John A. Anderson & Co. The cost
of this part of the plant will run in
excess of $100.000.
Walter Short Receives
Rapid Promotions in Army
' Walter Short, former ticket clerk in
the Northwestern railroad city offices,
who six months ago enlisted in the
engineering department as a private
is home on a furlough, returning with
a commission as second lieutenant.
He is now stationed in New York,
but expects to go overseas within a
jihort time.
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Omaha Dartmouth Students
Will Attend Plattsburg
Clarence W. Wood, Warren S. Ege
and Paul Nicholson, Omaha boys at
tending Dartmouth university, have
been selected tp represent that school
at the Plattsburg training camp. At
the close of the camp in the fall they
will return to school. vThey leave
Tuesday for Plattsburg, N. Y.
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