Pap Two CLic:a~o SaDday TribaDe
That First "Dog Fight"
INATHRILLING" dog fight"over no man's land In theregion of Chambley, France,
on Friday, Sept. 13, 1918, 22-year-old Second Lieut. Frank K.Hays brought down his first Ger-man plane.Although he continued on as
an aviator throughout the re-mainder of the war and de-stroyed five more enemy planes,earning for himself the coveteddesignation of ace, he remem-bers most vividly that day inSeptember when as an untriedfiyer he vanquished his first foe-man.
UThe first that I knew of thepresence of danger that day," hesays, ••was when machine gunbullets began cracking past myears and I saw tracer bulletss n e a kin g by uncomfortablyclose."Lieutenant Hays, who was a
member of the 13th aero squad·ron of the 2d American pursuitgroup, based on an airdrome atToul, was out with a flight offive planes under the leadershipof Capt. J. D. Este. It was abouta twenty- minute filght from theairdrome to the sector of thefront line that Hays and his com-panlons had been ordered topatrol for two hours, and thefive planes were sailing back andforth from one end of the sec-tor to the other at a height of5,000 to 6,000 feet. Overheadwere bunches of clouds. Throughthe openings between the s eclouds here and there the sunwas shining down.
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The 1Ughtunder the leadershipof Captain Este, a quintet ofFrench Spads motored wit hsingle 22()'horsepower Hispano-Suiza V-8 engines and e a c harmed with two .3Q.callberVlck·ers machine guns, mounted onthe cowling and synchronized tofire through the propeller, hadjust reached the west end of itspatrol sector and was turningwhen seven enemy Fokkers spot-ted It through rUts in the clouds.The German planes, according
to Hays, were capable of a speedabout equal to that of the Spads,approximately 135 m 11e s anhour. They could not dive asfast as the planes fiown by theAmericans, but they could climbmuch faster. Those of this 1Ughtof seven,lt was ascertained later,we r e piloted by experiencedfiyers.The Germans peered down
upon the American planes whilethe latter were out of alignmentIn the business of turning. Theenemy pilots pushed forwardtheir sticks and went into dives,swooping down upon their un-suspecting adversaries at terrificspeed.Hays, on account of being one
of the least experienced of thepilots of his filght, was supposedto fiy at one of the open ends ofa V formation. This was cus-tomary among war aviators. Hewas maneuvering his plane toreach the position and wasslightly above the other planes
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A .querdron of Allied figbtera retW'lliDg from 1917 bombing rerid.
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By JOHN A.MENAUGHof his flight when the Germans Germans were taking turns fir·dropped In to pay their call. ing on the American, who wasThe cracking machine gun bul- In a desperate situation.
lets from the rear jolted Hays Hays dove on the enemy planeinto the realization of danger. more distant from his comrade.He was m 0 r e startled than He immediately got upon the.trightened, however. He had no tall of the Fokker, and almosttime, he says, to .become really the first bursts from his gunsscared. registered on the enemy plane.The enemy in their eagerness He could see his tracer bullets
to destroy the Americans over- entering the cockpit of the Ger·
Frcmk Hery. with Sperd beerring grim reaper iDaignia of 13tb erero .quadroD.
dove, and as they did so Haysput his plane Into a verticalbank. He made a complete ver-tical circle, and when he cameout of it he sawall of the otherplanes, both friends and foes,some distance below. He singledout one of the Fokkers, droppedupon its tall, and pressed thetwo triggers at the end of hisDying stick that controled thefire of his twin machine guns.
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But both guns jammed. Therewas nothing for him to do butpull out of the m~l~. He gotaway in this manner and beganworking on the guns. Therewere five or six routine manlpu-lations prescribed for jammedmachine guns. He tried all ofthem and finally got the weap-ons working again.In an aerial engagement such
as t his planes often becomew1dely separated. A fight mayrange over several miles. So bythe time Hays was ready torenew action there were onlythree planes within his range ofvision. These were one Amert-can and two enemy, and theywere directly below him. The
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man. He saw his antagonist gointo a steep dive. The van-quished German quickly fell outof sight. American troops sawhim crash in German territory.Planes in battle lose altitude
rapidly, and Hays by this timewas fiying at a height of onlyabout 3,500feet. There still wasthe other German plane withinhis sight, but when he got closeto it and began shooting itstreaked for its base somewherebehind the enemy lines.Hays and the other American
fiew back to their airdrome atToul. The man in the otherplane was Captain Este. Soonanother plane of the originalfiight of five dropped down from
the sky. These three were theonly ones to survive the battle,since two of the trio that hadbeen separated from Hays andEste in the fight were shot downby the Germans. Against thisscore the Americans had two ofthe enemy to their credit, theplane that Hays had destroyedand one other.Sate on the ground, Lleuten-
ant Hays found that his plane,although It was not disabled,bore fourteen bullet marks. Notone of these bullets, however,had so much as grazed him. Ob-viously the worst that the jinxof a FrIday the 13th could do tohim was to put a few holes inhis plane. Thereafter for theremainer of the war no planethat Lieutenant Hays fiew everwas touched by a bullet, notwlth-standing the fact that hebrought down five more of theenemy.
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As the war progressed Haysdiscovered that he was calmerand calmer each time that hemet the enemy. His first fightwas his most exciting exploit ofthe war. For bringing downthat first German plane he wasdecorated with the distinguishedservice cross. For another etta-tion he was awarded the silverstar medal.Hays was born in Louisville
and came to Chicago with hisparents as a small child. Heattended Englewood High schooland had had two years at theUniversity of Illinois' when warbroke out and he enlisted in theair service. He got his firsttraining at the ground school atChampaign. From there he wassent to Kelly field at San Anto-nio, Tex., and then to a camp atDallas, Tex. When he landed inFrance he had only forty hoursin the air. In France he wassent to the U. S. army air fieldat Issoudun. He got further in-struction at the aerial gunneryschool near St. Jean de Mont onthe west coast. When ready forfighting he was assigned to the13th aero squadron, commandedby Maj. Charles Biddle.After the war Hays returned
to Chicago, where he was em.ployed for nearly two years inthe securities business. In 1920he entered the service of theLake Shore Trust and SaVingsbank, of which at present he isa vice president. He is married,Is the father of a l().year-old sonand a 6-year-old daughter, andresides at 10016Longwood drive,Beverly Hills.
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Ill., produced Fred MacMurray,Gladys Swarthout Is from DeepWater, Mo., and John Beal wasknown as Bliedung in Joplin,Mo. Mae West, Clara Bow, andSigrid Gurle are Brooklyn prod·ucts. So Is Barbara Stanwyck.Grace Moore always sang at thechurch socials In Jellico, Tenn.,and the daughter of the firstsuffraget in Hartford, Conn.,bobs up years later as KatharineHepburn. Kay Francis was bornin Oklahoma City, where herdad had gone to buy up Indianponies to convert I n t 0 polomounts. Frederick Bickel ofRacine, Wis., collects $150,000apicture, but the check Is madeout to Fredric March. The DeWitt Clinton High school <NewYork) schoolmates meet later inHollywood as Dlrector George
Glender Farren. from town namedby trCIYeUnljJ.ateaIDan.
Cukor and Director J. WalterRuben. Cukor of De Witt Clin-ton High will direct" Gone withthe Wind." Ruben marries Vir·ginia Bruce, the girl from Min·neapolis.Enid, Okla., owes its name to
a traveling salesman who waspassing through on a train andstopped there tor a cup of coffeeand ham and eggs. Sitting Inthe depot restaurant, he heardsome of the citizens arguingover the choice of a name forthe hamlet. "We'll leave it upto you, stranger," said thespokesman. "We can't agree ona town name. You name it."The wayfarer spelled out thename on the restaurant window-ENID-whiCh Is DINE back-ward. So that's how Enid, Okla.,was named. The girl who usedto watch the trains go by thereis Glenda Farrell.The boy who lived in Fleming-
ton, N. J., during the Haupt-mann trial is in the movies now-Dick Foran. His father wascollector of the port of NewYork. Son of University ofPennsylvania's famous M ikeMurphy hoofs on the screen asGeorge Murphy. The girl from
\I••~eef .I.e~.,.,ileF••Dear Mias T1n~: WUl you please print
In your column some facts about DonAmeche? Do youthink you canaqueeze In a plc-ture of him? Tryto p r I n t It assoon as possible.M u c h obllged.Sincerely yours,
MISSS.K.Editor', not e :
I guess we ca"oblige. Mr . .Ame-che was bom i"K e " 0 s h a, Wis.Educated Colum-bia college andU"iversitYof Wis·consi". He's mar.ried and has twochildre". Beforeentering motionpictures he appeared on several radio pr0-grams in Chicago. .And here's his picture.
DON At.4ECHEA fen 90ts picture end
blo9rephy.
Dear Mae: I have never been stirredenough to contribute to your column untllafter seeing Edith Fellows last week InIf Little Miss Roughneck." Have neverseen enough of this Uttle star and there-fore anticipated with pleasure .eelng th1lmovie. I was lI.abbergasted and complete-ly disgusted when they had our clever UttleImp sing! Must everybody sing to stay inthe movies? Miss FeUows' acting Is With-out fault when she plays the Uttle meanle,but why, 0, why must they make asecond Deanna Durbin out of her? We
Carole Lombard. from a MaiD streetof Tribuneland.
Washington Irving High schoolwho studied commercial draw-ing is Claudette Colbert. Th.eassistant stage manager forSam H. Harris develops Intocomical Allen Jenkins. The voicebehind the screen at Fall River,Mass., in the days of silent pic-tures steps out Into the open asHugh Herbert ot ••Woo·Woo"fame. The pretty little Britishgirl who used to play with thelittle Japanese children on thestreets of Tokio Is Olivia DeHavilland.
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Main streets of the Tribunestates sent out a great batchof performers - Spencer Tracy,Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Young,Charlie Wlnninger, MargaretLindsay, Walt Disney, Billy andBobby Mauch, John Litel, PatO'Brien, Ronald Regan, EdgarBergen, Doris Weston, Ken tTaylor, Harriet Hilliard, FredMacMurray, Dick Lane, BetteJaynes, Nat Pendleton, JeanChatburn, A I a n Curtis, DonAmeche, Carole Lombard, BillFrawley, Jack Benny, MarshaHunt, Louise Campbell, CharlieButterworth, Beulah Bondi.From Massachusetts Ma i n
streets came Bette Davis, JackHaley, Parkyakarkus, Veda AnnBorg, E I e a nor Powell, BobBenchley, Ray Bolger, LewisStone, Sophie Tucker, Mary Car-lisle, Charlie Bickford, Jed Prou-ty, Song Writer Jimmy McHugh,Benny Rubin, R I t a Johnson,Edna May Oliver, and BorrahMinnevltch.The Main streets of the deep
south were responsible for Mar·garet Sullavan, Melvyn Douglas,
FROM IDAHO• The girl in eolora on pageone 11 Lema Tumer, who wcrahom in Wcrllaee. Idabo. Feb.•• 1920. Her father wer. VirgilTumer. a profeufonat dancer.Lana was educated in tbe Hoi.lywood. CaL. Higb .ebool andtint attracted attentiQn in themoYie. in WarDer Brothera'••They Won't Forge"" HerfCIYorite per.time. erre teDDisand boraeback ridiDljJ.
Frances Langford, RandolphScott, Sidney Blackmer, BartonMacLane, Buddy Ebsen, GallPatrick, Dorothy Lamour, Mlr.lam Hopkins, Leah Ray, JaneWithers, J u d y Canova, CoraWitherspoon, and Una Merkel.Arkansas contributed D i c k
Powell and Bazooka Bob Burns.Texas sent up John Boles, NanGrey, Joan Crawford, the lateTed Healy, Guy Kibbee, and Ju.dlth Barrett. Missouri's 'Mainstreets sponsored Ginger Rog.ers, Jane Wyman, John Beal,Janet Beecher, Lynn Overman,Gladys Swarthout, Betty Grable,Dick Baldwin, Cli1f Edwards,Dorothea Kent, and Robert Cum.mlngs. Miss Wyman comes fromSt. Joseph, Mo., which was JesseJames' hangout. Minnesota batshigh with June Lang, VirginiaBruce, Joan Davis, Walter Abel,Suzanne Larson, Warren Wil.ltam, Lew Ay res, and AlanDinehart. North Dakota's Val.ley City contributed Ann Sothoern. Salt Lake City hasn't manyto offer, but one Is LorettaYoung. Idaho rests its vote with
Andy Deme. gravel· throated giftof Arizona.
Lana Turner and Gloria Dick.son. Arizona gave us gravel.throated Andy Devine.There Is no necessity to go on,
however, as the thought of thispiece has been driven home;that is, If it weren't for thepeople Main street sends to HoI·lywood, Hollywood couldn't sendmoving pictures to Main street,••Test Pilot" o1fered the most
recent proof of this. Myrna LoyIs from Helena, Mont.; ClarkGable Is a small-town boy fromCadiZ,0.; Spencer Tracy Is fromProspect a v e n u e, Milwaukee,and Lionel Barrymore is a Phil-adelphian. The picture was dl-rected by a Pasadena native son,Victor Fleming.
Letters published in elw department should be written on one side of the paper,If ~ou wish a personal T'epl~please inclose a stamped •• elf·addressed envelope.
enjoy hearlnr Deanna sing, but, Mae, Itwas actuaUy painfUl to 11lten to Edith!According to this movie fan, the picture
would have been perfect without the operasinging scene.I want to get another Item ott my chest.
Just saw ••Stage Door" last night, withKatharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.When Katie sees herself with Glnrerdoesn't she realize how ridiculous thathalrdress makes her appear? I think shecould be very rood to look at If she onlytried. She Is a splendid actress, but whydoesn't some one teU her about her hair?Outside of Katie's appearance I enjoyedthe picture a lot.Yours very truly, EDITH FABIAN.Editors note: ((I"to each life some rai"
must fall," etc.
. Dear Mias Tln'e: I saw Wlllemina Phil-lips' letter In The TrIbune, and I think.he's darn right, It you'U pardon theforceful languare. Errol Flynn did makea fool of himself In If The Perfect Specl.men," and I hear he's doing It again In••Four's a Crowd,"When the reticent Nelson Eddy kicked
over the traces and began to raise Cainon a radio program I was first surprisedand then grieved. He's the last person I'dever suspect of taking up monkey shines.But the movies have gone crazy for sure.
They've come In droves: If Call It a Day,"If Topper," If It's Love I'm After" <LesUeHoward did' It In that!), ••Merrily WeLive." Ad adorable pictures, to be sure,but, as Miss PhllUps said, If It's getting un-bearably silly." Slapstick went over blr
in the days of custard pies and the Key..stone cops, but I believe America has pro-gressed from that comparatively Infantileage and would Ukemore &,ood,serious fare,with just a pinch of comedy now and thento keep things llvened up.A Phlll1ps supporter,
DELLA DAYTON.Editors note: You'll get plenty of an-
swer" to this tetter, Della!
Dear Mae T1n'e: I want to say I agreewith Peggy Leith about Marjorie Weaver.She was the highspot of "SecondHoneymoon" and.hould have hada birger part In" Sally, Ire n e ,and Mary."In my estlma-
tlon she Ia theb est young ae-t res s In HoUy.wood. She haseverything a goodact res sneed •.Here's hoping shegets lots of goodparts and con-tin u e d success.Also success toyou and yourcolumn.One of your f~ns, W. D. M.Editor's note: Yes, Marjorie was a joy
in that picture! Sh.e'll probably forgeright ahead-a"d be grateful for your par-tisanship. Glad you like the colum".Come again.
MARJORIE WEAVERCellod "bost youn9 edross
In Hollywood:'
Dear Miss Tln'e: Please give me thecast of actors In ••Stella Dallas." Thankyou. ANN.
Editor's "ote: FolloWi"g IS tne cast of(($tella Dallas" :Stella Martin Barbara StanwyckStella Dallas Barbara StanwyckStephen Dallas John BolesLaurel Dallas Anne ShirleyHelen Barbara O'NellEd Munn Alan HaleMrs. Martin Marjorle MainMr. Martin , .Edmund EltonCharlie Martin George WalcottCarrIe Jenklns Gertrude ShortRIchard. " Tim HoltMrs. Grosvenor Nella WalkerCon Bruce SatterleeCon (grown up) Jlmmy ButlerLee " Jack EggerJohn DickIe JonesMIss PhI1l1brown Anne ShoemakerYou're very welcome.
Dear Miss Tln'e: To settle a disputewlll you please Inform us who the childstar was that played the part of the"brat" In the picture If These Three,"starring Merle Oberon and Miriam Hop-kins? One of us says It was Bonita Gran.v1lle and the other Edith Fellows. Pleasestraighten thla out.What recent pictures have Bonita and
Edith made?MRS. HOWARD J. REILLY.
Editor's note: Bonita Granville playedthe r6le of Mary Tilford, the "brat," i""Th.ese Three." Bonita's most recent filmis "Merrily We Live," and Edith's are"Pen"ies from Heaoen " and "TugboatPrinceBB."
