East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, October 21, 1918, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT PAGK3 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN. PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1918,; PACE FIVE jm 'uli-.t.fflJU'Jl..l-.-'- t . : mm- e -. v n ,elM t.v . 'A ;.. j. i'j .J r ; n ; , f? BViHMJK Famous Italian Airman, y PT10 bomb Berlin; that's m object!" I Captain Hugo V. d'Annumlo. I klkln, InMnlia iiiil - .... , Urn- brtelle d'Annunzio, the Italian au thor and poet of world (am. leaned against the wine of tha propallor of hli Liberty Ca pronl biplane In tha Capronl hangar on Avia tion Field No. I. Mlnaola, Lone Island. Ha had not ralaed hla voice, but something tn hla tone' attracted tli attention of four of hla mechanic, who bad been tinkering with tha machinery jof the aeroplane. Along with three or (our Italian office, a stray French man and one American aviation lieutenant they gathered about to listen the young captain told of tha work ha haa been doing toward war aviation perfection at Mlneola alnce be waa aent to this country ten monthe ago by tha Italian government. Hla audden audience disturbed the aeroplane expert a little, but a queatlon soon had him speaking fluently, eagerly, on the subject that haa en grossed his Interests ever since It, when he saw Glenn Curtis, tha American aviator, - err a flying exhibition In Italy. "Yea, Indeed," continued young d'Annumlo, Oss. a traoa of Italian pronunciation In his vaada, V tha war lasts more then another year tha Allies will be flying sll over the Oermsa Unas In flying tanks! Do you un derstand what that means? Heavily armored biplanes and triplanes will soon be skimming low above the German lines, mowing down Huns with torrents of machine gun bullets. Just aa ball beata down a wheat fir Id. "And the gunners and pilots In tha ma chines will be aa safe as soldiers In one of the big tanks tbat America Is sending serous these days, Tanks, then, will be divided Into two classes .land tanks and air tanks. Noth ing but a huge shell will have any effect on either variety." "And afirr the jwar what will happen to aviation ri Captain dAnunzle waa asked., I "Hmm!" meditated tha Italian; stroking his smooth shaven, handsome face. "I believe tbat thla world war in many ways may have hindered tha progress - of aviation. Every energy Is bent on developing all sorts of ma chinery to Its hlgheat war efficiency. For Instance. Capronl, whom I call my master, although the Italian Inventor la only two years older than myself, at the beginning of thla war constructed a wonderful three engine trlplana of J.lflO horse power, and it was his object to attempt a transatlantic flight In the machine. , "But the war, of course, stopped the de velopment of such a machine and prohibited , any auch attempt. Of course, with aviation In its swaddling clothes, so to speak. It was useless to think of perfecting a flying con trivance big enouffh and strong enough to. act aa transport or sa aca.patl carrier of aaunltlons. .At the otitbrenk of wsr France, ear "At Hrltatn. Italy, America and Germany end Austria began P'mhlng the development sjf machines that onald be need toff bombing'. Crnaees. tor scoufJitf.duty. fse ppaed. Nat- ' ally. 11. experiments of peace times wero 1 Sndeeicd. Hew, It r-cems to in, the next tap la tha bulldfng of a machine tnat will be the equivalent in the utr ef what a tank at on land, ; Xt is almost certain to come be sere the war is over." Ana mac win oer- . M . , "When Itetlln has been bombed' TtomhedJ,j thrice as thoroughly as she ha bombed Lon- i don and Paris; bombed until the Germans erf for mercy , as they acuttie for shelter like rata. Every advance the .Allies make means a shortening of tho time when the capital , of Hunland fa treated to a1 los; of Ha own; baptism of U re and death- J-o"g before the tilled troepa march triumphantly into Ber n will tlstt city have been paid In full with Ita own coin of destruction." Captain d'Annumlo bent swiftly, gracefully ta show the trsp door under his I.iberty-s-Wronl machine's body through which may be dropped the l.aiO pounds of eaplosives his bl plsne can carry. Hia Is an atheltlc, stalwart form, well set off by the neat, gray-blue uni form of an Italian aviation captain. Hla face and hands are tanned by hla outdoor life, and the breadth of his shoulders Is such that it snakes him look a trifle under medium height. The eyea of the young captain are a dark haxel quick, brisht and full of the keenest Intelligence. When he spoke of bombing Berlin they grew black and flashed their amotion. He la thirty-two years old. But shout him there is nothing of the poet thst one might expect In the son ef Gabrlelle d'Annumlo. Indeed, aa the good looking young caiplan says himself: ' "My father has all the poetry of the family, although just now he Is too busy aa com mander of a wing of Italian aeroplanes that is. twenty-four machines to do much in the line of literature and verse. However, aa be baa written something like twelve books of verse and prose alnce the war began, I think he haa done his share In writing .the world's literature about the war. "I, personally, never fell the poetlo org save onoe when I thought myself In love: My bent haa always been toward machinery, and ever slnoe I saw your Glenn Curtlss fly . r Italy, In 190. I have been devoting myself to aviation. Hy Die way, there Is a story 4rustratlve of my father's character in Cur tlss' rial, ta Italy. He was invited to go up with the American, but as there waa but one eat In the machine, my father, now Major d'Annunalo, climbed out on a wing of the machine and sailed over the clouds, retaining hla seat by clutching a wire support. "When Italy went to wsr," the captain con tinued, willing to talk more freely a boat him self, now that most of his audience had dis persed and rone back to thnlr duties, "I en tered the artillery branch of the service and arved for nine months. But Glsnnl Capronl, Je Inventor, waa doing splendid war work k tha advancement of aeronautics, and. aa he knew 1 had made some effort in that di eotton myself, he asked the government to -lease me from the artillery so that I could work aa chief engineer tn bis factory. Than ten montha ago Italy sent ma to America ta see If I could not fit American Liberty twelvs ytlnder engines to a Capronl biplane design. t have succeeded. In tha moat recent test of sjas Llberty-Capronl bombing biplane. inixf with three Ubarty motors of tha . tx, rsssBSBswelon type and eaca of x borsa paw sis climbed to a heigna of 1 "0 feet tn thli ty swa minutes. We raado 10. feet la Caeatva, and mind yea. Sba cratshlna weighs U.00O and Just for tha fun of tha . thins -wa lor rods above tbo alsod ao-pa with tarn gssnsnnn . some of then my machinists , ark sanas.il a be left behli)4 and whw went wana ant cUaatng to guyropos or anything aiao they awM. The work has bean sue. 1 1 infill. Tha IJbrty-Capronl la the fastest baa baanbtns machine that baa boam pro duced. "Boon I shall go b Detroit, where X ahall mjiiiIm -he. manufacture of tbo maohtoeg far Has Ut 'ttaA-Statea.' Tba hrlrrvter wast Interrupted at thai Point Vy Ueatestaat (Mullano Farvla, tho Italian Aoa who has etrht German asid Austrian i lassie to hla credit. Lieutenant Parvla, a sdrakanalr haBdanme young fellow, dark of hair and area and tanned of joountananee, waa mtredooed aa the pilot who. with young eVAawunMo, will attempt to fly aorasa tbo Ataantio la tha Capronl trlplana aa soon aa fMMe makes such a trial ftta-ht possible, I'ervM In Italy haa bean e J wool a led with Jsalor yranolaeo naraeoa, tho farnnue Italiasj ao.eea killed In the. last Aastrtaa of .ax-boa Xllrur till. Jeot Suxar-eOio ZIO SEES FLYI Son of the Gallant Poet and and Pay Back in the kry. w Alt trench, cutting dowa tho AuFtrlnns with hi machine gun fire. lnJor Karaica had fifty-two officlmj planes on th llMt of enemy machine that b had acnt lumbUns Cims to earth. "Tha American public does not unrlerntand tha tlai need (op threa rinc in a bombtna; plajtMd." declared tha lleotanant. Joining In tba dtaouuuon. "If aa airtmtor miffrra tha punctnra of one ensina by a bullet, he can at ill ttiAJioeuvra with tha other two, and even if two of hla engines are disabled, he oan plana to safety on tha third. Now the Gei maa Oothaa have but two enirlnea; the Atner Usmn machines have but single or double en trlnaa, and even the speedy French machines have but two. Think of the air rmpremacr ' tha AUlea will hold when their aviators begin Using bomb in ir planes with triple enKlnes!" Lieutenant Tarvla strode to one end of the CeBpronl hanjpu- and return t-d dragclna eight huce framed canvaaea, all boarlna the bifick erosa which diEtinirulflhea Oernmn and A us- , trlan aeroplanea. Tha canvasea had been rtpped from tha afiaoiey planes downed by Thfsa fellows. aald Parvls, tapping tha tJviprh.ea with his swaa-icer sUck, "ml not still ba alive if their Gothaa had had threa en gines Instead of two. Don't forget that tha lelberty-Capronl macblna has Ita three en gines) aepsrra4ed--ona on each aide of tha ma ehtne'a tvxiy. and ooa la tha rear of tha body ftt art f.- "But If tho spread of tha Oapronfs wing tips lr arventy-elx tmi, ta U not an, assy mark: for sjilltrcraft guns?" ... ...I. . - f ( x f ,,. A Uiri.ni -h.m.h,,,., mi, , - -i-i-th- 'j ? ' : . . , ; : ; t - ' (ff . . v .-. . - , I If ' - ' , $". ' " - - , ,'" " - ' 4 : , . 1 - - -'',' i '() , , j " -."f-t; ?v i J I , -''''''. ,A (Ml i - - L ' v . -' . , ; I A '"'V. "V.'" . r " - t - ,V- V is S. - - 1 l ' . '. - - t ' . ' s i J:-.- ) : f r ' ' : i W f 1 - , i" -j , I 5 . , ic' , . ' s , .: J - , -..We f a- , - f. - ;4. .ve., vs" - V i . v .-..'"" - - , v . -. , ,r - " .-.-- , i ,' V - . , - - " - . , , . '', - , - , -"; y . . - - . - . 1 ' . . & - . t -5 - " ' ; " Df-iAWKl BY F.MAT AN I A FOR THE SPHERE, LONDON j - t" L. I , 1 Cg)IH THtt UNTEP STATES BY MEW VOttK HERAt&COp .. . ...-r .' i;.'..,. ' J Philosopher, Talks Enthusiastically of the Day When Huge Airplanes Will Attack the Kaiser's Capital 1 Coin of Death and Destruction for All the Terror the bombing Is done at night. In any cane tho I.iberty-Capronl mnchlno can dimo so fet tbat It Is soon outside roach of the guns, which have very poor accuracy when firing at a plane 14.000 feat up-' "What about these new bombing planes Germany is supposed to be using tha ones or pa hi of seatnmg eight men and esixrying a bomb thirteen fact loug and containing 2,"0 pounds of explosive? Nonseneo!" aald tha captain. "That story Is just a foolish nowspaiM-r yarn, probably coined in the heated Imagination of some re porter at the front. First, since moat bomb ing Is dona at night, there Is no need for eight man. Their weight oould be taken up by so many pounds of explosives. The only heed for several gunners In a bora bit ig piano Is during daylight, Listen to a luU of what a Mlrty -Capronl carries without danger to itself by uver weigbt; Two pilots, two gunners, six gaso lene tanks, three oil tanks, three engintis. l.NUO pounds of bombs, four machine guns, and, sometimes, a gun capable of firing a one and one-half Inch shell. Nothing like a Iio-erty-Oapronl for bombing purposes hats yut been used at the front. "As for tha difference In aviators, well, there Is not very much. It takes brave men to make a nation, and It taiee bruvt and clever young men to make good aviators. Kn gland haa them; France haa them; Italy and America have them, Uermany and Aus tria, too. If I were to sneak about the rela tive effbftffncy of aviators I should point out thst one reason why AinMicaa young tntJcklfT so-lly km toecausa of NG'TANKS their ffimlllnrlty tv-ih sport. From children - tney havn been accustomed to train ineir eyes, hands and nervr. Th?y ta.ke to avia tion like -like young birds to the wing- "See! Outside the hangar a group of sol diers la marching. Fee how . thy swing atong--ewtft. may stridpd; hands owlngfiisj? Big fellows all. Aren't thy? Well, you Americans are a s'alwnrt race and your boy a from childhood are used to hard exercise. That's why they make such fine soldiers. "Young women, too, are splendid.' went on the young Italian, his hazel ryea kindling. "Tennis, swimming, skating, basket hall ami other sports they barn In school, and college helps them develop into wonderful women. I think soma of them would tnnka remsrknble aviators, and I think there are many who would like It. That's an Ideal Why not train hardy young women as aviators to carry messengers and so forth, fling behind Airman's Adventure in the Clouds TTow an airman got lost In the clouds, and after a thrilling esperienoe, during which ha wag shelled by "Archies' and fired on by pursuing enemy machines, events-ally wag tha means of turning a battle In favor of tha French, ts told by Captain Paul Bewsher. & British, soldier. . Tha pilot was flying la Franoa from oa alrdroota to anotlwr wall. lhii4.4iia Upe&w iHG' Hun Has Wrought. r the lines, aiul thus release male aviators for the fighting?" There came a shout from Lleutensnt Parvls, .who was examining a wing tip of the lower plane. Then came a quick spatter of Halts between the two offirwm. and a little later Capt ft in D'Anntmzio tarwaalatrd smilingly: "lieutenant Parvls says that oiir mawst. the little rail do I caDed a CnHy-Wauk, tied to tha end of LA lower riKbt wing tip, ta losing Its aawriut-t. That will never d Ba shall be sewed up property before wa fly again. That Jittl-j doll firxf with Parvaj ! every one of his engavgejnents ever the) lUsJlaa fronL "Once, Parr! a says, hta little maarot 5 flectsd a bullet UulL oiherwlsa would Isav penetrated his g.ilene tank." "And If the bullet had hit ths tank? "In that cae, as wa aay tn lUUl&n, U i have been. 'Buotia bera ! His was the last machine or a flight of frea, which struck across country and soon aler wand ran Into clouds, lie lost sight of hta companions and eventually found nimsslf over a rolling sea of clouds, quite alone. Looking around the sky ha saw ta tha 41 s tanoa several black specks. Thinking tawy were hia Ceotupfsniotia, ha turned around ajkag flew-sLraigut tuwaxa thtm. But wbas aa - BE jL ' .," "' ' ;' ' '" - tree Bear they dived down upon him ftrw ..- Uxatr machine guns. Ho had a antcal VtarhMt of a black Malteoo cross, and resllxing that. A ho was hopelessly oatnamberad ho fat his y,: nose dowa and sped away. , ' Hia compass showed hiss that ho waa flytac dua east, away from hla own lines. Ho ooald aot turn, for whsrarer bo looked behind la aow tha group of machines not far behind ' his tall. For twenty wilaotao be flew, hotir pursued, across tba endless carpet of whlto eiouda. and at last oatdlataacwd tho German. , How, knowing that ha waa waM over Oerxeaa ocupd territory, bo tursod oaeo gaoro an4 flew doe west for half an hour. ' J , Ho then throttled dowa and drifted slewlr down through the sunlit cloud barrier. anfl , ho came Sa view of the gray familiar world below, and at ones Began to look oat for aa irdronve on which to land Ho st aaav i aa a it of hangar soma? van or fifteen miles a . Aroas aoonuy to K ho flew and hud. Ha drew anarrr and Bean . grfMind, glided over tho tree and aegsus ta flatten sot" a faw fact off tha iho airdrome, when suddenly, to hla a mass ment, b saw once more tho Mack Brass oa the aeroplanea beneath him. Ho waa aQB In the midst of tho enemy. Kvca as ha nal bte4 the truth, tha Germans began firing; saa- . Chios guns at blm, while excited taochaales began swinging tho propellers of tha ma 1 chines in order to start tbo engines. He could- aot climb, as that would ha ta lose too much needful speed and dlxtajice. He kept only a few feet off tho ground, sad saw ' his only chance was to fly hack toward tha lines very low. Jumping over trees aild hedges aa host he could, ha fled away, par' . sued by tho angry. German hounds which bo ' ; could see a mile or so behind him. He now realised that a at if fish wind had been .blmr ' lng from the west, which had carried him far behind the lines, and ha had not allowed him self enough time before ho dived through tho clouds. ' ' Meanwhile he flew on, pursued hotly for the second time, .and drew near tbo Uaea. Ahead of him ha could sea a cloudy turmoil - of smoke , and bursting; shells and flying earth. A big attack was evidently ta pro gress. The air waa full of tho whlto puffs of the shrapnel breaking low over tbo troops. Straight toward thla maelatrom he flew, and soon machine guns oa tho ground begaa ta fire on him. ' So low waa he tbat all around him now tha barrage biased and roared. Above the sound of the engines he could bear the thud ara crash of the great shells bursting beaeatV , Once he felt an instinct to pull back hia caa , trot stick, and as ha abet upward ha saw a shrapnel burst Just below him, .yaws ha . would fesas bean had ho nat climbed. ..Tl a .. were momenta of Intense, excitement, him at a certain point ho could at masses of Germans collecting for a gawnlor ( attack. He realized tbat this xtufcnt as saa .Important Information, and so whoa at last ha crossed the lines he landed aa aooa aa ba .-:.r. possibly oould, crashing into a shell hole. ' ., He crawled out of tho wreckage and ram - stumbling across the shell torn earth, found a French headquarters near by, and reported what he had seen. . The Information proved of notable Import ance. Action waa taken at once, and tho tide of that battle was turned la Fraaeo's favor. The next day the airman arrived, ant without a machine, at hia own airdrome. .. How Fonck Fights W. His Big Battjcs lieutenant Fonck, the leading Franca aoa, tat aa Interview has disclosed soma of tbo methods he follows la his air battles. Ha believes In gvaup formatloo for fisbting. saa lng that the time is passed for aerial fjgate lag as aa individual sport, sanh as It ansa , practised at the start by Fegood. Oarras. (Ms be rt, Navarre and svan Guynemer anal Kaa gesser. "Tha Oermana.' he ears, -whoa they bv augumtod. group flying, taught as sad. atv fortunately. mad. us pax dearlv for tha lesson, of tho dangers attending aa affota method. But I am by no meaas a partlraa of flying la over big groups like that at tho 'Ricbthofea circus.' I generally fly srtta two comrades 'a group of three' sad I are Inclined to favor several groupa of three, sufficiently distant aot to hinder each other's operations, but also sufficiently Bear ta aa. deretand one another and give kelp at crucial momenta Too big a number may easily prove a asall. especially against a dever and daring esunay capable of practising tha oaly tactics soiled to the occasion, which is ta throw himself Into the middle of a group, paralyzing thoa his adversaries who can aeithor T""-rt nor fire, for fear of Injuring ooa another, whilst be. on the contrary, retaiaa every fa cility of action. Tho Bochos have had a eas ier ax perl en oa of this, as it t of seven that I brought dowa my I maohlnes." ; If, la a combat, sa aviator gets saa 0M "blind" aide of bis eaemy. It la only a Till ef straight anal ajsasa shooting ta mi g Mas tumbling ta flies sa sty tha "bnno- aide hi Bieant thosa asottaaa ef the plena a Mist aa oft tha ovs ten's m nil iv Heeea St waa that tba Osrtwass awsatuaa the Tylmaj They Oow ta a etrcse, tha Huns, aa tbat l ma waa thaw saglily covered by behind end aa the aide ef him. la Chat way they were able be ward off : The risers and (as aa-trlsh anaa oaly way thay ssuld aanaossSalar glaat, i of these -flraag ta aW west ta y am at i a sadist i taaft Cha trlorlowaf tao nsj. beat that. flimag after eVaaat ft Isaaaasa aasaa btta a gssslmai afijogosng ttiieash the ants I is mm amssima avtoiais are new natew liasw builaea. 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