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DARING EXPLOITS AH OUTDONEBYHEROICDEEDS OF OUR MODERN AVIATORS A British airman was, on May, 10, 1915, up alone in a single seater ma chine. Sighting a German airplane, he went in pursuit and was soon do ing his hardest to pump lead into his enemy;. Then came the unexpected. While trying to reload his machine gun he lost control of his steering gear. His airplane, taking the bit in its teeth, as it were, turned upside down. As ill luck would have it, the belt round the airman's waist hap pened to be loose. The jerk of the machine when it turned completely over almost threw the pilot out; he only savedj himself by clutching hold of the rear center strut. His belt had by then slipped down around his legs. Thus he hung, head downward, as the airplane whirled down, spinning round and round the while falling like a leaf from a height of 8,000 feet to about 2,500 feet, making frantic ef forts to free' his legs frorn the belt. At last the pilot managed to disengage himself and reach the control level1 with his feet! By a miracle he suc ceeded in righting the machine, which completely looping the loop, where upon the airman slid back into his seat. He had been within a three seconds' journey of Death! Being out of control, it promptly nose dived and fell like an arrow for 5,000 feet. "I had given up all hope," wrote the observer. "The earth seemed rushing up to meet us, and I prayed that our agony might not be prolonged. I shut my eyes and waited for the final crash; when, wonder of wonders, the machine began to right herself. Hard ly daring to believe my eyes, I looked to the pilot's seat. The headlong rush through the cool air must have brought him round and he was mak ing strenuous-efforts to regain con trol. "Luckily, the -enemy had given us up for lost, had ceased to shoot, and we immediately began to climb again. Then the Germans opened fire and we only escaped with our lives through the superb pilotage of Liddell, with one leg shattered and blood flowing in streams. At 8,000 feet he again seem ed to b sinking. I hastily scrawled a note urging him to descend. He read it, shook his head decidedly, turned to me with a smile on his drawn face, pointed in the direction of our lines, and carried on. At times he would almost faint, and then re covering himself redouble his efforts, Y. M. C. A. DOING ITS PART IN WORLD WAR NEW YOR The need of conserv ing peach seeds or pits, apricot pits, plum pits, prune pits, hickory nuts, walnuts and butternuts for use in At last we were over the lines, but it making carbon for gas masks is urg- i ., i !i i ii i i M in n KTnfpmPTifr. irqiiivI fnlnv Kv V10 seemea uueriy impossiDie mai ne .. . . --j -j " Sergeant George C. Wilson, Supply Co., 60th Artillery, writing home France says in part: "Over here the Y. M. C. A. is absolutely a part of the army. Every, body is welcome and they do everything for you. It may sound funny, but you find the "Y" secretaries selling you a plug of chew ing tobacco, cigarettes or cigars. They help you. mend your clothes, change your money, take a bath, take you a tour of the city, or teach you French. There are a lot of American girls inj the canteens and we often buy things just to hear a real Amer ican feminine voice. If you ever hear any one saying they would like to do something to help win this war just tell them to go down and drop some of their plunks into the Y. M. C. A. war fund." AMERICA SQUARELY BACK WAR SAVINGS COMPANY - SAVE PEACH SEEDS The late Capt. John Aiden Liddell, V. C was engaged in July, 1915, in a long reconnaissance trip behind the German lines, and had already turned for home when a shrapnel shell burst immediately beneath his airplane smashed part of the body of the ma chine, and shattered the pilot's leg. Captain Liddell fainted. The machine was then at a height of 7,000 feet. should be able to land the machine in his condition. But he did. Choosing a large green meadow about three miles behind, the trenches, he landed as gently and easily as if he had on ly been up for a practice flight, brought the machine to a stop and fainted) dead away. While the French aviator, M. Ser gent was flying over Douamount in March, 1916, he was attacked by four Taubes. The machine gun duel was brief. The French machine was struck by hundreds of bullets. Sergent's left arm was injured and hung helpless. The next moment his observer was killed and here comes the unexpected gas defense division of the United States army. Three hundred tons of this raw material is being used daily. The gas defense division advocates that schools- libraries, department stores and banks be used for the col lection of pits. Thirty-six thousand American sol diers were landed in France last week from an armada of thirteen great transports. "Contemptible little Amer ican army," eh? Plumbing, Steam Fitting Sheet Metal Work A. ER1CSON, Kingman, - - Arizona Phone Blue 230 for SASH and DOORS FIRE BRICK SEWER PIPE PLASTER WALL BOARD NAILS TERRA COTTA CHIMNEYS RIVERSIDE CEMENT LIME BLACK ROCK SCHUMACHER his body fell and was pinned be tween the levers. The position was critical. The airplane was listing dan gerously, the petrol tank was pierced and the petrol was running out. With his one sound hand Sergent disengag ed his dead comrade. Then he dived down vertically, resuming a normal position within abouty 300 feet from the ground. An amazing instance of the unex pected happening at the front ended in a French and a German Jpilot land ing together and laughing over their unusual adventure. This was the way of it: The Frenchman and the Ger man were circling and dipping for battle position. Suddenly the French pilot, thinking he had the advantage, charged his enemy from the rear. But the German did not swerve sufficient ly and the left wing of the French machine struck the righd hand struts of the German. The collision caused the French airplane to spin around violently until its tail whizzed be tween the wings of the German and stuck. Apparantly being too busy or per haps too astonished to shoot at) each other the opponents spiraled side by side in a close embrace, ultimately crashing into the boughs of ,vsome trees. Neither pilot was hurt, so they clambered out, looked at each other and laughed heartily! Then, as they were behind the French lines, the German was reminded that he was a prisoner. A Large Stock of Oregon and Arizona Pine Constantly on Hand. Also Fire Wood in Large or Small Quantities. PROMPT SERVICE. Mohave Lumber Co. KINGMAN CHLORIDE OATMAN "65ucn THE F. THOMAS PARISIAN of know. DYEING AND CLEANING WORKS 'Inthou . 27-33 Tenth Street Sn Francisco ' 1 1 Some of the exploits of the late Captain Ball, V. C, were of an as tounding nature. He. was only 19 when he was killed, and for long held the record among British aviators, having downed forty-three boche ma chines. Upon one occasion he had gone some twenty miles across the enemv lines when he encountered two of their ma chines. Without hesitation he) attack ed them and fought them until his ammunition had run out. The two ene my planes had apparantly had enough and seized this opportunity to escane by diving to) the ground. aaii was much disgusted at this I and emptied six rounds from his revol ver at the two diving machines.! He then seized a piece of paper and a pen cil which he had with him and wrote out a challenge for the same two ma chines to meet him at the same spot the next day. At the appointed time Ball turned up at the rendezvous and a few min utes laier me same two enemy ma chines approached him from the east. He flew toward litem to engage in a fight, but at that moment thiej more of the enemy came down from the J sky and attacked him from behind. It was a carefully laid trap and he had fallen into it unsuspectingly. The three enemy machines that had attacked him were of the latest fight ing type and were; all flown by ex pert men. At every turn, Ball, who was un derneath and thus at a slight disad vantage, found himself out-maneuvered. Turn and twist as he would, he al ways found one of the 'enemy on top of him and another just ready to catch him if he turned the other way. Sev eral times bullets passed within inch es of him. Finally, deciding to escape he realized that he must do something extraordinary, so he dived toward the ground and picking out a large field glided' into it and landed. The three enemy pilots at once im agined that he had been shot and forced to land, and they all glided down and landed, either in the same field with his or in the adjoining one. Then, jumping out of their machines, they ran over to Captain Ball. How ever, Ball, who had foreseen exactly what would happen, had kept his en gine running slowly while he was on the ground, and the moment he saw the Germans get out of their machines he flew off again and so escaped. Imagine, if you can, every man, woman and child in the United States handing Uncle Sam during July a two dollar bill as an investment of person al savings and as a loan to the gov ernment in support of the war. That, speaking broadly, is one way of vis ualizing the actual results of the War Savings Campaign for the month of July when the cash receipts in the Treasury Department from the sale of War Savings and Thrift Stamps sur passed all previous records and totaled (for the montH only) $211,417,942.61. Of course, not every man, woman or child in this country is as yet a war saver, but the National War Savings Committee athorizes the conservative estimate that approximately 34,409, 000 Americans have acquired partner- chip with Uncle Sam through the ownership of War Savings and Thrift Stamps. A large majority of this army of War Savers have definitely pledg ed themselves to save and economize in suppor of the war, and to invest in War Savings Stamps a definite amount of such savings during the re mainder of 1918. If you are not a pledged war saver, remember that there are approximately one and one quarter million reasons "over there" why you should enlist in this great army over here. Some of the statistics recently re leased by the National War Savings Committee show in a most illumniat ing manner the magnitude and the splendid success of the War Savings Campaign to date. For instance, War Saving and Thrift Stamps are on sale at over 275,000 authorized sales agen cies in this country; while on July 31st there were 116,433 War Savings Societies registered at Washington Headquarters. Also, up td and in cluding July 31st the Treasury De partment has received in cash from sales of War Savings Securities $518 510,334.03, this representing the pur chase of War -Savings Stamps to a maturity value of approximately $624 711,245. And there are still outstand ing unredeemed pledges for the pur chase during the last five months of 1918 of War Savings Stamps to a to tal maturity value of over one billion dollars more. In a few words, these Treasury Re ceipts mean three things: 1. An investment by over a third of the country's population and Thrift at this time is a patriotic achievement. 2. A loan to the Government in sup port of the war. 3. fit lessening of competition with the Government for man power and for raw materials. The War Savings Campaign has in the few months of its duration made a long stride toward educating the American public to the war necessity of Thrift, of lessening the normal con sumption of the things the Govern ment needs to prosecute the war, and it has offered to millions of patriotic Americans a means and an opportu nity for translating their savings into aid to the fighting men in France In England they have called the War Savings Committee the War Win ning Committee. ASSETS OVER $3,000,000 CAPITAL and SURPLUS $325,101 ARIZONA CENTRAL BANK Established 1887 A TIMELY EDITORIAL The Saturday Evening Post this week says: "Do not sell your bond. You bought it to help win the war. If you sell it you cancel that help. The bond is your backing of the boys in "France. You cease to back them when you sell it. Do not leave the bond around the house. It may be destroyed or Stolen. We have never heard of a bank refusing to take a Liberty Bond for safe-keeping without charge, and doubt if there is such a bank. Leave your bond at the bank." We can add it's true, every word of it. Arizona Central Bank Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $325,000 KINGMAN, ARIZONA XOTIOE OF APPLICATION TO A UNITED STATES PATENT. Serial No. 040373 Survey No. 3458 UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE Phoe nix, Arizona, August 24, 1918. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That In pursuance of Chanter Six of Title Thirty-Two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, M. A. SAWYER, whose residence and post-office address Is Kingman, Mohave county, Arizona, claiming 1500 linear feet of the GREAT CANYON quartz mining claim, vein, lode or mineral deposit, bearing gold and sil ver, with surface ground 600 feet in width for the convenient working there of, "situate In Cedar mining district in Mohave County, Arizona, being Survey No. 3458, hereby gives notice of her in tention to apply to the United States for a patent on said mining claim or lode, which is more fully described by metes, anil bounds by the official plat of survey and the field notes thereof on United States Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona, as follows, to-wlt: GREAT CANYON lode: Beginning at Cor. No. 1., a granite stone 6 x 18 x 30 ins., set 12 ins. in ground, with mound struggling was a general. His injur ies seemed serious, and he was at once rushed to a hospital, where in spite of every medical attention that could be given him, died a few hours later. of stone chiseled 1-3458 G. C. Cross (X) M cor. pt., whence N. W. cor. of the lo cation brs. N. 2 deg. 39 min. W. 31 ft, a mon. of stone 3 ft. high. Cor. No. 2-4-3290 A., Whale and Leviathan lodes, brs. N. 68 deg. 39 min. W. 1081.3 ft u! S. M. M. No. 3290 A. Cedar mining dis trict, brs. N. 60 deg. 13 min. 10 sec W. 1812.1 ft. Thence S. 78 deg. 19 min. E. 600 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 11 deg. 41 min. W. 1500 It. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 78 deg. 19 min. W. 600 ft. to Cor. No. 4; thence N. 11 deg. 41 min. E. 1500 ft to Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning. LODE LINES: As near as can be de termined from present develonments. the vein of this location, embraced in this survey, extends as follows from the dis covery point: 750 ft. .N. 11 dee. 41 min. !E. and 750 ft S. 11 deg. 41 min. W. AREA: 20.661. LOCATION: This -survey is located in Sec. 29, T. 17 N., R. 14 W., G. Si S. B. & M. unapproved survey. XNOtice or location recorded in book v of Mines, page 136, Records of Mohave County, Arizona. There are no adjoining claims. J. L. IRVIN, Register. First insertion Aug. 31. Last insertion Nov. 2. Bray has been captured by the Al lies. We shall now hear less noise from that quarter. ROMAN SOLDIER RAMS A GENERAL By HENRY WOOD ROME, Aug. 18. (By Mail.) Giu lio Revi, an 18 year-old volunteer from Rome, has just been granted the su preme distinction of the Italian gener al staff namely a leave of absence to visit his family in recognition of military bravery for having captured an Austrian general. That too much discredit should not be attached to the Austrian general for having surrendered without at least having negotiated the privilege of retaining his sword, it must be ex plained that the general surrendered after Revi, convicting himself into a battering ram, plunged his head with terrific force into the solar plexus of the general. This left the latter with out sufficient breath to open negotia tions. Revi's deed was cited at the time in the Italian official communique. He was one of a patrol of 8 "arditi" vol unteer soldiers who insist on pushing constantly into battle, who during the Austrian offensive of June found with sixty Austrians. Four of the 8 "arditi" were killed, and there seemed little chance for the remaining four when one of them, aj young man from Padova, suddenly shouted: "Assaulting solumn, forward! De ploy and attack!" The ruse was effective, and the CO Austrians began ' a hasty retreat, a somewhat aged officer with a group of defenders remaining behind to cover the rear. At once the four re maining "arditi" attacked this rear guard, Revi picking out the officer who appeared to be in command, and dashing forward with full speed, with his head low, rammed the latter full into the stomach of the Austrian offi cer. A terrific hand-to-hand struggle en sued. While Revi kept beating down his prey, the 3 other "arditi" engaged the officers who sought to defend their fallen superior. The latter were fac ing certain defeat through superiority of numbers when another group of "arditi" rushing up saved the day. In the meantime the "young soldier from Padova whose ruse had started the Austrian retreat was killed. Only when victory was completely won was it discovered that the Aus trian officer with whom Revi was still awwttttuttr Save- Fuel Time Food Money s ELECTRICITY LESSENS EVERY TASK OF HOUSEKEEPING, HOME-MAKING. IT SAVES THE HOUSEWIFE MILES OF STEPS, HOURS OF EFFORT, DOLLARS OF EXPENSE. Have Your Home Thoroughly Equipped with ELECTRICITY DESERT POWER & WATER CO. KINGMAN CHLORIDE fratfmmwia