a THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 1, 1918. Thirty IMMENSE CROWDS ARE THRILLED BY ! AERIAL WARFARE ' ' - General Lee, Only British Flyer in Parly, Provides Added . Attraction by Landing in Field Club Golf Course " and Then Sailing Off Into Space Again. . By ROBERT J. HORTON. Thirty thousand people watched a mimic air battle fought fit the skies over the Field club golf course yesterday afternoon by members of. the British-American touring squadron and gasped or cheered as the airmen twisted and turned in a series of amazing convolutions. ' yr . t It was a osmotic crowd, strewn . fcbout over the fairaways, below the greens, and on the grounds about the clubhouse a throng that had bought i Liberty bonds and war stamps and tent its sons to war, and it was there to see further tangible evidence of the ski!lwhicb is fast making Amer , lea supreme in the air; It was not disappointed. t Speck In Sky. 'Shortly after 3 o'clock a speck was seen in the sky far to the northwest There was shout of welcome. The epeck grew larger, approached .a lightning speed, and almost . before the spectators realized it was circling high overneaa. the rea, wmte ana :-i blue circle of the Royal Flying corps showing plainly against the drab sur- fact ot the pianes. . , A arrest roar of SDDlause was Sud denly hushed as the pilot dipped Steeply into a dose spiral and spun slowly toward earth:, it broke loose again from thousands of throats as ioe airpiane rigntvu uu dwuu rrnarl once more into the-wind. :Many- who were there were getting their first look at "an airplane in ac tion. Hundreds of others were see ing for the" first' time the stunts about .which they had read, . and which all pilots who would be fight ing pilots jnust. learn before they can command a battle plane. , Loops Three Timea. rThe flyer climbed again and looped, once twi3e three timesl They were graceful loops, so well executed that the crowd forgot to be frightened. Then ' came a spinning nose dive, with the machine twirling on its nose. " No doubt now about the dis position of that .huge 'audience. It was tickled to death and showed it as the cheers swelled into a veritable roar of approval And then the thing happened that everyone had 'wished - tor and none had been led. to expect. J - iThe aviatof came downl jit was General Lee,, the intrepid Xb-itisher, ranking officer with the touring squadron, who was flying ... that plane, v ;..,,: , -, Bisr-Hearted Generosity. r . 'General Lee knew tnat tne neart of his big audience was longing to see him make a landing and he did not want to see them disappointed. It was big-hearted generosity which prompted his decision to fulfill the wish of those below, s i . He swooped down in a wide spiral, swung into the wind, vaulted between . the trees and made a perfect land ing on the fourth fairaway; on the West side of course. It was pretty work and nervv. ' ' :The crowd unfurled upon the lib eral grassy stretch of the fairaway ' like a banner. Soldiers,'; quick .to take . in the unusual situation, rushed for- a.J A .H...nnJ.f1 nti. keeping the spectators at a distance. Genetal Lee laughed delightedly and waved his hand as . the crowd showed Jts Appreciation" in. cheer after cheer. , . He did not leive his machine, nor did he stop hi; engine. Under his hooted instructions the soldiers turned .the , big mechanical bird around and guided it to the. lower end of a long declivity.' The pilot motioned them off; , threw open his throttle, sailed up the .little, hill, above it, crept slowly back into the skies and was gone. ' Leant Lesson of Air.'i y'. They talked, then the people in that crowd did. They realized had had it driven home that air work was an actual and indubitable factor in . the war. jAnd they were glad that that pilot had shown them. Soon three more planes appeared. They seemed larger perhaps they were not they seemed so. And it was not a case of "straight" flying with this trio, either. They spirated. '. looped, dipped; spun, and fell for short distances like a ' leaf in an autumn J " wind. And then they, too, hurried off into the west leaving little ribbons of smoke .that trailed behind like a swirl of water behind a boat. ' The crowd ca to itself for the . moment- Some rubbed their necks and others their eyes but none frowned.. They were satisfied. They move j about From the wide veranda ti Field clubhouse came the strains of- a band. It was a good band. . Why not? Was, it not the Great Lakes Naval Training school hand? This splendid organization part of the largest band in the world t and trained by the March Kind him self had been taken to the clubhouse '- in big motor trucks with improvised r "seats by soldiers from Fort Omaha. The eailor bandboys had volunteered to do this. They wanted to do their share in making it a real occasion and iney succeeded.' rew mere were -who listened that had heard a better band, r. - : Fly In Battle, Line. The real sensation arrived when six planes, flying in . battle . formation cafne racing toward the grounds. .The machines were first in the formation of two ahead, one on each side, and . two behind, but as they swung over the course they changed so that one i was" ahead, , then, one , on . each ' side one , in the center, one on .each side nd one'behind. This, it was under stood, is the best battle formation for six planes. " ' - After 'circling above the grounds two ot the planes the scouts darted awajr-acd took to the high skies. Thousand Omahans See Battle in the These were the attacking planes for soon they swooped down upon the four below, which scattered liki frightened rabbits. This brought the prettiest man euver of the day. Incidentally it was a perfect day for flying, There was a slight wind and the sky was clear except few fleecy clouds which drifted above ttye horizon like cotton-bobs strung on a trick, wire., Not once was the sun obscured. Far to the north three "sausage" balloons hung stationary as though sentinels on guard Indeed, so far as the setting was concerned, and if the little clouds had been puffs of shrapnel smoke, it might have been a lazy day on the western frontl The crowd seemed to sense this and after all it lent a subtle air of seriousness to the whole perform ance. No one forgot that we are at waf. - Stage Sky Duel. Two of the machines a scout and a larger plane became separated And they fought it out! They fought it out for all the world as two planes would have to fight it uot if they clashed above the shell-scarred battle fields over there. ' First one attacked and then the other. They looped, and side-slipped and dipped, and felt each apparently striving to gain the advantage over the other. And they kept it up until they had demonstrated every move in an actual air' battle to- the en thusiastic people below. Then they broke away, swooped low over the course, the leather- helmeted oilots waving a farewell, and streaked toward the distant land ing field. That was all But ' it was an exhibition that brought home with a bang the con vincing realization that airmen are not merely sky performers, but. col lectively in fighting units, are an in tegral part of the whole- scheme of winning this war., " , Whatever else this air mission is accomplishing that is one result which makes the venture worth while. mayIThIe in ten-minute flight in air "Wonderful' Exclaims Smith After Spin Over City With Brigadier General Lee ' of British Army. Pale but determined was Mayor Smith as he walked onto the aviation landing field yesterday afternoon and approached the airship In ' which Brigadier General Lee, the veteran British aviator, was preparing "to take him up in the air. A number of citizens who were in side the fence of the field passed out their choicest jests. , . "Jim Dahlmati ought to be here to bid you goodbye," said one. . , "Well, mayor, goodbye, and if I never see you again" began John W. Gamble in his most funereal tone. i "All form in line to shake his hands for the last time," shouted another wag. . . Ihe mayor grinned. ' General Lee made the suspense as short as pos sible. He got out an extra cap, tied it on the mayor's head and a mechan ician helped the mayor into the seat of the bis Avro ma:hine and fastened the strap about him. The , general took the back seat, which is for the pilot Only the heads of the men showed above the body of the car. The photographers took their pic tures, the mechanicians spun the big propeller and the flying machine sped down the field afid-rose gracefully into the sky. .Speeds Toward City. Around the field it circled, gaining height and then sped off across the city until it became a mere speck in the distance. , , , Soon the machine grew bigger again and 10 minutes after the start the general and his passener swooped down and stood again on the field. A little round of applause from the few inside the fence and the multi-f tude outside the fence greeted them. "Fine I Great I Bully I", exclaimed the mayor in response to the queries of friends as to how he liked it. That's wonderful. Finer than silk," "You were ; up an hour and ten minutes," Howard - Baldridge told him jestingly, .t , ' "Oh, no. not that long," said the mayor. "I don't thintr iwa more than 20 minutes." " In fact, the mayor was in the air exactly 10 minutes. Many Are Envious. And on the ground watching him were many men who cussed softly to themselves because they, , didn't happen to be mayor so they could be taken up in the air by General Lee One of these was John W. Gamble, who had his bid in as alternate for the mayor. The American flyers are not permitted to take any civilians along as passengers,' ' , ARMY FLYERS GIVE OMAHANS A TASTE OFHIGM LIFE IN AIR Zoom at Violent Angles, Make Falling Leaps, Barrel Rolls and Nose Drives. (Continued from Pare One.) pumped Connell full of machine gun bullets. A falling leap was executed by the pursued in an effort to throw off hi enemy. Then he did five Immelmann turns in succession. This consists of turning the machine over upside down, turning it sideways and finally righting it again. Several 'barrel roils" and "falling leaps" were exe cuted also by the two lieutenants, and they provided a good program of thrills for the thousands below before they sailed off to the other "audience" at the Field club, which was being entertained by General Lee. Omaha Officers Fly. Four other machines were in readi ness by this time, all of them Curtiss Hispano Suiza machines with room for pilot, gunner and four machine guns. Three officers from Fort Oma ha went up with the pilots in these machines. The Fort Omaha passen gers were Colonel Hersey, Major Van Nostrand and Lieutenant Lase. The four machines took the air one after the other at about half minute intervals, piloted respectively by Lieutenant Kelleher with Colonel Hersey as passenger, Lieutenant Battles alone. Lieutenant Stanley with Lieutenant Case as passenger, and Lieutenant Davidson with Major Van Nostrand as passenger., After getting into the air they disappeared behind the hill to a "ren dezvous" where they got into V shaped battle formation and then sailed back over the starting field. Just at this moment General Lee appeared from the east coming back from giving the multitude at the Field club a series of thrills. He came down from a high altitude in a thrill ing "tail spin" until he was only a few hundred feet from the ground. Then, being right over some trees, he "side- slinned to get over them ana then came down on the field. Fly Over Fort. Along came the four planes from the "rendezvous" in battle formation and at the same time the two scout planes were seen at Fort Omaha fly ing around the observation balloons there. They stayed only a short time and then flew back to the starting field in about three minutes, a dis tance of six or seven miles. They joined the four in battle formation and performed stunts for both crowds of spectators. After an hour and a half of flying the machines returned1 to the starting field, their youthful pilots cutting up all sorts of capers in the process of coming down and landing as light as a leather on tne Dig meaaow. The young aviators take their pro fession with the greatest non chalance. It is real sport, they say, and not dangerous. Safer Than on Street. IWe feel no more nervous when we are up in the sky than when we are walking along the street," said Lieu tenant Earl Carroll. "In fact, I rather think we are safer in the sky.'V And say, don t the ladies love the aviators) Well, the fair young dames were out there in their prettiest clothes looking at the handsome chaps and talking and joking with them and inviting them to dinners and parties I Two of the flyers wore, each on his head, a green silk stocking, wore it in place of a cap, wore it for good luck and because a girl somewhere had asked him to wear it. So it seems that, though flying may be what the flyers say it is, a hum drum, easy sort of thing, there is plenty of romance in the lives of the young knights of the air. About eight men are required to take rare ot each airship. There are 154 men in a squadron of the Ameri can air army and a squadron con sists of' only 18 flying machines. Each squadron has a sign that is all its own. The one to which the flyers who visited here belong has a oicture of a big, black cat in the act of making a flying leap through the air. This is painted on the side of all the fuselages. Each machine bears the large circle painted on the wings. a circle red on the outside, blue next and a white dot in the center. American Red Cross Cares For Wounded From Ussuri Vladivostok, Aug. 26. Thirty- eight wounded French and Czecho slovak soldiers a have arrived here from the Ussuri fighting zone. The men were transported by the Ameri can army medical corps, which over came the greatest obstacles, to obtain sanitary train to move them to Vladivostok. They were turned over to the care of the American Red Cross. Adventurous Scribe Seeks Sky Ride With Flyer, But General Says "Nay, Nay" It is not an easy thing to get a ride on an aeroplane these days. This was discovered by a reporter for The Bee in negotiating with Gen. C F. Lee, of the Royal British Flying corps. The Peporter applied early but the general crushed his hopes, gently but firmly. It wouldn t do. you know, he said "If I'd take one up there would be no place to draw the line. Besides the mechanism of the engine is so delicate that I can't take any chances of hurting it as I haven't an extra ship with me. Sorry, old chap. When Mayor Smith got the gener al's consent to a ride in the airplane the reporter again broached the sub ject, proposing to rid part way from Some Gossip Heard Among TheNew-Made Air FansWho Saw the Army Aviators Fly The weather was just right for the big show in the air. Clear, still and not top hot The aviators will all leave today for Minneapolis, where they fly Monday. Several theater parties were ar ranged for the aviators last night by Omaha society young women. Each officer, it is said, had several invita tions. It takes "nine tailors to ' make a man" and it takes about eight en listed men of various kinds to take care of an airship and Keep it in proper flying trim. Lt. F. K. Meany, who was ill at Des Moines since Thursday, arrived in Omaha by train at 1 o'clock Sat urday and joined his comrades at the starting field. He did not fly. He had indigestion, resulting from too many good "eats." Roofs of Omaha's skyscrapers were popular yesterday afternoon. Swarms of people dotted every roof and here and there a sky gazer was startled to see some daring and hasty youth skinning up a fire escape to a place of advantage. Thousands of people came in by automobile and train from a radius of 75 mUes around Omaha to see the great flying exhibition. The Lincoln highway from the starting field to Fairacres was one long procession of cars going in both directions, country people going home and city people trying to get to the city from the starting field. A business man or rather a newspaper man was sitting in his kitchen about 2 yesterday afternoon when his chickens began to run wildly for the henhouse. He was puzzled for a moment and then be- American Aviators Increasingly Active in Aerial Raids on Huns By Associated Press. With the American Army on the Lorraine Front, Friday, Aug. 30. American bombing machines this morning successfully attacked rail way yards and buildings at Conflans. Several direct bursts were observed and enemy pursuit planes followed the invading Americans back to their lines but did not attack them. At noon American airmen dropped bombs on the railway yards at Lon guyon, scoring several direct hits Late in the afternoon Conflans was again raided but poor visibility made it difficult to ascertain whether the bombing was effective. Enemy anti aircraft guns were active against the American raiders in all three of the day's excursions. All of our ma chines returned. One lone American aviator today attacked a German, who was diving at a French balloon. Despite the fact that there were six German machines above him, the American forced the German machine into a nose dive. The six other Germans then attacked the American and forced him to de scend. He landed behind the Ameri can lines uninjured. Americans, Including Consular Officers Are Sent From Moscow Washington, Aug. 31. Ninety-five Americans, including all consular of ficers except Consul General Poole all the personnel of the young Men's Christian association and Young Women's Christian association, rep resentatives of the American bank and a number of private citizens left Mos cow for Petrograd on a special train the evening of August to. American interests previously had beetj turned over to the Swedish consulate. With the Americans were the Ital ian military mission, a party of 1 persons. This news was transmitted today through the Swedish govern ment Grieves .Loss of Husband Anct Tries to Kill Self Mrs. Frank Jackson, 501 William street, attempted suicide at 7 o'clock last night by shooting herself with a .32-caliber revolver. She was re moved to the Lister hospital and probably will recover. The bullet en tered her left breast dangerously near the heart, plowed downward through her lungs and was extracted from just under the cuticle on the right side of the spine above the kidneys. She was attended by Police Surgeon A. J. Edstrom. Worry over the loss of her husband, who was killed about four months ago, unbalanced her mind, it is thought. Neighbors say she has been acting strangely and talking of suicide for some time. Omaha to Minneapolis in the gen eral's Avro. But here the barrier was still more secure, for the general car ries a mechanician with him in the only spare seat of the machine. The reporter mentioned with a touch of reproach the fact that the mayor was to be taken up. "Yes, but. that is different. As the head of the city he has something of a claim, you know," said the gen eral. "And 1 seldom even take a mayor up." So street cars and railroad trains will have to do for a while, at least, though the general says after the war airplane riding wHl le .omn-v nd anyone will be able to ride that can pay the fare. ing a newspaper man and conse quently exceeding bright exclaimed: "The airplanes are coming." Sure enough, there they were, and the chickens had caught sight of them and run to cover. The trip to Minneapolis will take about four hours. It takes about 12 on the train. A supply of gasoline and oil is awaiting the flyers at Spencer, Minn., which will be the only 8top made in' the journey. The distance is about 400 miles. In a lull during the exhibition at the Field club golf course a little girl was heard to exclaim: "Look, mamma, the airships have scared away all the birds I" Whether this was indeed-the truth or not it is a fact that there was not a bird in sight during the flights. Pos sibly his was due to the fact that no body was looking at the ground for birds, but several remarked the co incidence. One of the Fort Omaha balloon lieutenants asked an aviation lieuten ant whether he had ever been up in a balloon and how he liked it. "Yes, I've been up, but it seemed awfully dull and uninteresting to me," said the aviator. "I don't see how a man can stand it to be up there three or. four hours. I should think he'd be bored to death." The balloonist, however, "stuck up" for his branch and contended that "it doesn't bore you when you are busy all the time." "Maybe not, but I really wouldn't care for it Too slow," said the avi ator. The big crowd did some damage out at the Field club yesterday. Just how much damage was done could not be estimated last night. People crossing the greens, despite the ropes put about them to prevent it, and hundreds of others who climbed up and down the bunkers, and some even who opened the wire doors and tramp ed across the tennis courts, left their mark on the grounds which will have to be put in shape again. But, as one member put it, "the club won't kick." They consider it is another "bit" in the work of winning the war. MODESTY MARKS CHARACTERS OF ARMY AVIATORS Joy Riders of Sky Dislike to Relate Incidents of Experi ences and Insist Science of Flying is Easy. Modesty, liCeableness and an ex alted pride in their profession are out standing characteristics of flying men as noted in the aviators of the American-British aviation tour who flew in the Omaha sky .yesterday. None of them will talk about him self though most of them have lived eventful lives. Gen. C F. Lee of the British Royal Flying corps, for example, is an Eng- nsn gentleman wno was living on his country estate, riding, hunting and overseeing farming operations, his stables and kennels before the war. He had learned aviation in the army before he retired to his estate. When the war started he was one of the very first to hurry into the fray and during those first few critical months when the German hordes were swooping down on the "con temptible English army" he was in the thick of it. England at that time had less than 100 aeroplanes, a mere hand ful compared with what she has now. General Lee was one of Britain's most successful flyers and did great service and service of the most dang erous kind. He has been so busy since then that he has never slept in his home. He flew down from London twice but only for a few hours. He hopes to get back to the front in about five weeks The general who has charge of bomb ing has asked to have him returned to the active forces and the general is eager to go. To Bomb Berlin. Asked whether it would be possible to drop bombs on Berlin, General Lee said it was possible to make the 800-mile flight, but the results would hardly warrant it at this time. "There are many factories in Ber lin that would make military targets," he added with a smile, and there s a beast lives there that a chance shot might get" Lieuteant Carroll, American flyer, said nothing about himself, but from other sources it is learned he was a great composer of operas before the war. He spent some years in China, where he published a newspaper. at Shanghai. Then he lived in Japan! Returning to America he composed the score for numerous successful operas, including "So Long, Letty," and "Canary Cottage." The royalties from these run into many thousands of dollars a year. As for pride in his profession, he said: "I'm only a lieutenant, but if any one were to offer me a colonelcy in any other branch of the service I wouldn't hesitate a minute to state that I would remain as I am." There is a great esprit de corps among the flyers. When they met at the Fontenelle after flying from Des Moines they shook each other by both hands, hugged and almost kissed each other. There is no spirit of nervousness in the air. General Lee said, only the anxietv to get to where they are ?oing. Se the CADILLAC at the STATE FAIR Lincoln Neb. Birdman to Decorate Grave of Comrade of Army "Flying Circus" Sioux City, Aug. 31. (Special Tel egramsFlowers will be dropped from the sky tomorrow forenoon on the grave of Maj. William R. Ream, killed in an airplane fall while flying with the United States army "Flying Circus" across Illinois, August 24, and whose body was buried yester day at his old home near Homer Neb. 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