Captain Wm. Stokes
Back From World War
WINS FAME AS FLYING ACE IN FRANCE
FLYING ACE
The many friends of Captain
Wm. Stokes, World War Hero and
Flying Ace, welcomed him back
home by a banquet given last night
at the Hotel Pennsylvania in his
honor. Captain Stokes is credited
with bringing down seven German
planes during the "big push" and
bears many scars of the encounter.
Captain Stokes was a flyer of
some ability before the War. Own-
ing his own plane, he had learned to
fly here on the local field and only
a brief training was necessary be-
fore he was sent to France. Before
his entrance in the war, he was a
railroad detective for the M. N. &
Q. Railroad and he was instrument-
al in clearing up mysterious freight
thefts and bringing about the ar-
rest of a clever gang of box car
thieves operating of the railroad.
Stationed at Chateau Thierry
Going over with the first con-
tingent of flyers recruited in this
country, Captain Stoker first saw
service at the front at Chateau