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...much interested in the proposition of Clem Sputter in his little "apple butter stirrers" in TIME, Sept...
...CLEM SPUTTER (Hugh J. Crossland) Marion, Ohio Nice To Be Glad...
Died. Major General John Lincoln Clem. 85, U.S.A. retired, "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga"; in San Antonio. Tex. Last Civil War veteran on the active list (until 1916), and youngest U. S. soldier ever to win a sergeant's chevrons. Orphan John Clem joined the Army by stowing away at 10 in a baggage car bound for a mobilization camp at Covington. Ky. He met the Civil War President in 1864, and decided to take Lincoln for his middle name...
Last week Clem Sohn was in Vincennes, France, to do his specialty for 100,000 spectators at an air circus. While the crowd howled with delight, Sohn stepped from his Farman at 10,000 ft., pirouetted toward the ground at 2,000 ft. per minute...
When 250 ft. from the ground he pulled the cord of his emergency 'chute. It also failed, opening only enough to foul the canvas wings, thus prevent him from desperately attempting his prime ambition -a stall landing without aid from a parachute. Said a witness: "When I realized Clem Sohn was doomed, I felt worse than ever during the World War. . . . The hush coming over the crowd was the most impressive thing I have ever seen. . . . And when Clem Sohn hit the ground, it sounded like an explosion...