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Show AVIATOR FIGHTS Pill PLANE Smoke Bomb Intended for Sham Battle Explodes in Machine j NFW YORK. Feb. A real fiRht i for life was held above New York Friday when filteen army airplanes "bombed" the city with smoke bombs and rattled a Inttoo with machine guns In a sham battle tn stimulate 'recruiting for the' air service. While thousands of persons, out to their noon iftty lunch, watched the I thrilling spectacle. Lkutrnani Ed I ward Black, an observer m one of the machines, was fighting unbeknown unbe-known to the crowds below, a fito which threatened the destruction of the machine, and the lives of his I pilot. Lieutenant FIv FPes (). J 'and himself. Black, who was m Up. gunner's pit behind the pilot, was dropping i smoke bombs when one of them fV nloil.,1 ill ttir. nit Ilia rA our! hands were burned and his Clothing land the fuselage of the plane caught on fire, .loney turned and saw the strugglo. but was povvrrh to help. He kept an eve on the nearest river ready to plunge 2.000 feet below if j it should he tier . sat v . I Black kept his head. however, grasped a fire extinguisher and pumped its contents on the flames When .lyii. s aw that his .eompanltui had won the cxlm battle, he turned his plane towards Mlneola field twenty miles away, making the trip In about ten minutes. Black was hurried lo a hospital Where he will be laid up for several dayt |