Show NAV ARRE IS LIONIZED BY PARIS CROWD IN CAFE i He- He Was w s Frances France's Premier Aviator Until German Bullet B Halts Career OVATION IS GIVEN Money ey He HeT Tenders enders Refused rj by ly Bartender Taken by Woman as Souvenir I r l i Sept 23 Gerny's Gerny's cafe inh in h te R Bue R de Port Port-Mahon was crowded recently 8 o'clock one night just before with wilh its usual crowd Thero were a umber number of Englishmen in British officers a a. few Clothes lothes s several veral American newspaper correspondents of French usual sprinkling and the The In horizon blue uniforms officers this advantage French French women taking were their knowledge of English I to ordering o air cocktails and whisky and except except ex ex- ex- ex in the place soda and every everyone one and waiters was the bartenders ept In very long and smoking cigarettes Jn n the cases of women very elaborate and nd bejeweled cigarette holders walked The door opened and in j Jean Navarre until a few weeks weel s ago the ho he premier French aviator demonstrative demonstrative demon demon- We have nIt alt heard of 01 how hoi F r r. r the Germans are in the vatious va- va cities clUes of the Fatherland toward ious i-ious But the he heroes the war has produced French people particularly Parisians ar are different Nothing seems to stir them to show openly their enthusiasm for er the individual actions of French- French ro mm n In the war nor the achievements t OJ French arms In the mo picture plc- plc ture ure theatres where films of t the pre- pre weeks week's fighting are shown from scenes of war the films the he varlo various s scarcely ever evol evoke e applause and the parades which marked G General Gal- Gal of funeral and the Fourteenth July Tuly UlY- UlY celebration did not cause any in intense in- in tense ease ensa cheering from the thousands who lined ned the sidewalks But Navarre Navarro was greeted with a re respectful re- re quiet demonstration in Gerny Gerny's Ger- Ger nys ny's ny s cafe that must have equalled the best jost than was ever of offered of- of in Ia his visits to Berlin before he helas Vas las as killed It seems that Navarre was pretty widely known as a man about town by Parisians and nearly every everyone everyone everyone one in the cafe seemed to remember him before the war and before he joined the aviation corps of the French army rl rt a He was not hoisted on mens men's should- should Vers ors ers nor mauled by his friends as eroes usually are for the sufficient is still in deason that his right arm ja sling and he still wears a medical corset about his torso life Despaired of at First c fT Three months ago a German machine ma- ma chine gun from a l Fokker Folker was trained iOn on him and besides his arm bones beIng beIng be- be Ing shattered in several places he was plugged twice through the chest For weeks the surgeons at the base hospital hospital hos hos- pital Just behind Verdun where Verdun where by bythe bythe bythe the way Baisley the American aviator aviator aviator avia avia- tor and William Willlam Barbour the American American Ameri Amen can ambulance driver were also taken despaired of saving Navarre's life liCe Gradually he came around however and as the various bullet splinters and pieces of uniform were taken talen from the wounds and blood poisoning was off the doctors congratulated themselves that they had saved the Comets life iCe For it was La Comete that Navarre was called fellow aviators after he began dropping Roches' Roches oches' oches machines so fast rolling fast rolling up a total of an even dozen before he was wounded and at that time surpassing Georges Guynemer his nearest rival by Y three Since Navarre's mishap has nas forged to the fore again his ac activities ac- ac over the Somme front bring bring- ing hi his total up to fourteen at this time and with reports from his headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters indicating that he is going better petter than ever and has no trace of ot nervousness from the wound which put him out out of action for a couple of months in the early spring during I I which time Navarre began hi his run of ot fillings t which shot him past his more nore youthful opponent Instantly nsf Recognized j When Navarre entered the cafe with J half alf a a. dozen medals hanging across his hest a silence allence settled around the barnd bar barnd barnd nd the dining room just across the threshold of the wide doorway Navarre Na Na- varre arre must have have been recognized even ny y those who did not know him personally personally per per- by his large nose and burly l shoulders familiar enough to all aU since the illustrated papers have been printing print print- ing ng his photographs ft t. F Walking straight to the bar stop- stop Sing only to salute a captain Navarre t ron for a glass of vermouth II III He I Pushed a five franc note across across th the thear Sar ar arh for for payment but the bartender pus pushed h e. e l it back at a a. glance from the proprietor A A. woman sitting on one 01 ef f the high stools ranged along the thear bar ar ar such a as were provided in in th the gLadies' gLadies L dielS' dielS Bar which was an tion ion of the hotel and b be bett be- be tt fore ore that the Cafe des Be Beaux ux Arts Arte- Arte Reached over and ancl appropriated Nas Na- Na arres arre's arre s money and substituted a f Jle t anc note from her handbag SI S- S She anted the airmans airman's bill lill as a s souvenir I e eral Handshaking P After Navarre a arre had d gulped down clown W his vermouth e t he swung around facing rth room full 0 pEople Those P on e either ither side of him grasped his hand a and nd he wa walked ed along the bar shaking h hands ands modestly with eYer every one sitting sitting sit sit- t ting ing there Then as he noticed that p persons were getting ready to leave eave t their heir tables to go to him he lie walked ar a across cross the barroom and through the r restaurant stopping at every table to te s speak peak and shake shale hands with those t there here Women called his attention to the Navarre sticks they carried The c cane ane is similar to the swagger stick c carried a few years ago in the United Sc S States tates except that it is usually en encased encased en- en c cased ased in pigskin and has a leather l loop to encircle the wrist It Is called the t tt he Navarre stick because the aviator avia avia- t tor or always carried one Instead of a c cane ane When it was seen that Navarre declined de declined de- de d ined an Invitation at the bar to have a another nother drink no one pressed him f further urther One woman insisted that he lie throw throwaway t away his Maryland cigarette made of French tobacco and try an E Egyptian not Egyptian not Turkish as Turkey Isn is isan isan an a n enemy countr country country cigarette cigarette which she was smoking How long before you will be fly fly- lying ly- ly I ing ng again was the question most often o asked ed Navarre Very soon certainly he lie answered The doctors thought at first that I c could never use my arm again much l less ess fly fb But I can use my arm aIm soon a and nd already I can drive my automobile automo automo- b bile ile so I think it will wl not be long after fter a I get rid of ot this h harness point point I ing ng to the elaborate metal and linen b bandage when bandage when I can go up again Tribute to American Aviator He was asked by the Amei Americans leans Ife if h he e thought he could overcome Guynemer's Guynemer's Guynemer's Guy- Guy nemer's advantage and roll 1011 up a b bigger score after he gets back in ac ac- ac- ac t tion ion I II II ionI I I think it will neither be Guynemer Guynemer Guynemer Guyne Guyne- mer nor noi myself who will hold the record record rec rec- o ord rd for Boches Boches' machines when the I war is over ovel I think it will be one of y your our countrymen one countrymen one of the men In t the he American Navarre replied replied re replied re- re plied smiling The TIle Americans are c certainly wOnderful won woe flyers flers Some f of them have haye bagged three already and they have not been fighting in the air all for fora a year All the French pilots with a string of Boches to their credit have been in the game two years since the beginning of the war For the first year none of us scarcely did lid anything It was only after a year and a halt half of oC experience that we began to get go goIng going go- go ing good It was back in February last that the fir first t Frenchman was officially mentioned In the That was when shot down his fifth Now there are a score of ot French pilots who have bave five Boches to their credit But after r a a. much longer preparation preparation preparation pre pre- than the Americans who have three I J should not be surprised to see Americans with records of a score or more by next summer With our Nieuport machines we can beat the best German aviators aviator because our aeroplane is better even than their new which is supposed to be ue an Im im- im- im provement on the Fokker Coming to America Navarre I has hail never been in the I United States Slates When asked if he would like to go he said Yes and I am going as soon as the war is over I am going over to enter some of those transcontinental aerial races that I have been reading about They are wonderful for de developing developing de- de eloping aviation next to warfare they are arf the best thing I know of Then Navarre had to go He lIe was due back in the hospital where he is being treated at 8 30 o'clock every night and he must be there on tim time or have next days day's liberty curtailed Gerny's cafe was emptied as he took his seat in his two two-s two seated auto auto- mobile Sliding behind the steering wheel he threw in the clutch and snorted up the street Then came caine the only actual outburst of ot the up pent-up French enthusiasm Vive Viva Navarre several men and women called after him |