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Show HOPES TO SERVE UNCLE SAM Captain Griffith, Lata of His Majesty's Air Forces, Seeks Further Thrills. ft will take an act of congress to get him Into the air service of the United States X?v- navy, but CapL I ft John S. Griffith, I Seattle, Wash, Ifjw, late of his ma- fpifiiiiSill Jesty's air forces IS'W'' Sit and wearer of five ffWr(;? WM decoration, 1 s KkTSfy hopeful that X Uncle Sam will '- k accept him. I -t9! T young t0 I Mt 'I enter the Amer- trvA Aakmdl ican army, Captain Cap-tain Griffith left a high school in Seattle Se-attle to enlist In the royal flying corps at Toronto, Canada. He served through four years of fighting and is officially credited with having shot down nine German airplanes and two balloons. He received the British Distinguished Flying Cross and four Russian decorations. In the Archangel sector, Captain Griffith, flying for the British, fought the Bolshevlkl with such success that ' they set a price of 15,000 rubles on his I head. All the wars having ceased, he was sent to Egypt. Seattle post of the American Legion, which Captain Griffith Joined Immediately upon bis return to his native land, are helping , him in his effort to have congress so j legislate that he may find an occn- ! sional thrill in the naval flying squad- j rons of America. j |