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Show FE WAR HEROES M COMMISSIONS - ) -Lafayette escadrille. and during .all that time had only about five hours of flight and not one aerial duel. He has ''ton made a first lieutenant in the United States army on the strength f his assertions. A man who deserted from the French aviation corps after France had spent over SCi.000 teaching him how to fly is today a lieutenant and chief pilot at an American aviation school. He never flew at the front and was never under tire, although be has given out many Interviews describing his heroic exploits ex-ploits while fighting the Germans. A number of other Americans who enlisted in the French aviation corps and were trained as flyers at "the expense ex-pense of the already overburdened French nation went to the United States directly after being brevetted, without ever having gone to the front, and have not yet returned to face the German foe in battle. Some of these men are so shamelessly lacking in honor that even in the training camp they announced to their American comrades com-rades that they had not enlisted with the Intention of fighting, but to learn a paying occupation, so as to return to America and make money. oapef CorrespondentfijJ LATEST CONFIDENCE GAME fraudulent "Warriors" Exploit War Fever In United States by Impersonating Imper-sonating Real Heroes of Foreign Legion and Flying Corps. Paris. One of the latest and most successful "confidence games" in the United States today, judging from letters let-ters and newspaper imports, is the assertion as-sertion of nondescripts that they are returned American "heroes" of the French foreign legion, or of the Lafayette Lafay-ette escadrille. Almost daily the legionaries le-gionaries and aviators at the front send me clippings from American, papers pa-pers which tell of the valorous exploits of a certain man "back from the war," whose deeds and often whose name are unknown on the battle front. It is at the request of many of the brave Americans who are really fighting that I write a word of warning against tie fraudulent "warriors" who are exploiting exploit-ing the war fever in the UniteO Stales, writes Paul. Ayres Rockwell in the Chicago News. Some Never ReachEurope. Some of the impostorsS,''lever been In Europe at all ; some cvm. over and enlisted in the allied rauvTT7 " managed by one means or ai i f even by downright desertion, to V r to America before ever vlewlnlf firinir Unp F 'V Others impersonate the men wh' are , In France offering their lives If the I fight against the Germans. grgt. Frederick Zinn of Battle Creek, ych., the famous aviator-observer, recntly received a copy of the Hood liver (Ore.) News for July 11, 1917, corain-lng corain-lng a story beginning: "Frederic. W. Zinn, an American who has seen acire service in the aviation corps of 'ify' lied armies in France, spent sal days last week in Hood Elver, 'nd those who met him ire thrilled by is I stories of aerial combat in the war ' zone. Mr. Zinn came west to find a half brother and sister, from whom he has become sepa""tV '"e he went to Europe. He traced them, to Portland, Port-land, and was told there that tiiejj"j'l been adopted by a Hood Elver famiT; The article goes on at length anu, gives some personal details about Sergeant Ser-geant Zinn which the impostor probably prob-ably gleaned from news reports. The real Sergeant Zln has no half brothers broth-ers or sisters. He returned to France from a short leave in America last March. Another clipping from Pasadena, Cal., tells of Richard L. Bryner, who Is referred to as a lieutenant and the youngest member of the Lafayette escadrille, who "has been very successful success-ful In battling against German war planes. Several of his heroic deeds are chronicled." The name of Bryner has never appeared on the roll call of the Lafayette flying unit. I have before me the official stenographic steno-graphic report of the interrogation by the senate's committee on military affairs af-fairs of two Americans who have worn the French aviation uniform. Senator Sheppard asked : "Have you a record of the number of battles in which you have participated?" Army Adopts Impostors. One of the men replied that he had been in 17 different engagements. Yet he has never once flown over the front. The other claimed to have had thirty or thirty-five air battles. The truth is that he spent seven months with the |