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Show Aviators Circle Above Grave' of Lieutenant Thaw WITH THE AMERICAN TROOPS IN FRANCS, Oct, 5 (Correspondence of the Asnooiatod Proao)' Airplanoa swung in circles r.bovp the IUUr chapel chap-el behind tho firing lino during tho funeral of tho American aviator, Lieu-tonant Lieu-tonant Blair Thaw of Pittsburg The aviators In tho filing qquadrona per mltted their airplanes to oirolo lower as his body was lowerod into (he grave near a littlo cometery not far behind the trenches, Lieutenant Thaw was killed when his plane developed euslno trouble two thousand feet from the ground and fell, striking telephone vrirta and tipping tip-ping ovor before it struck tho ground Every avaitor in Lieutenant Thaw'a squadron who could obtain loavo of absence attended his funeral. Hia mother and sister were in Paris at the timo of the accident also were present. A solid phalanx of aviators from Thaw's squadron preceded the body as it was borne from the chapel, by six American aviators. Scried ranks of aviation officers and men followed. The burial was in a cemetery where lies the body of Major Raoul Lufbery, another rioted American aviator. At the freshly turned grave stood a group of mechanics holding upright the propeller pro-peller of Thaw's illfated machine as taps were sounded and the last vol- i ,H ley was fired over tho grave. l |