Former War Aces Plan Ocean Flight

FORMER WAR ACES PLAN OCEAN FLIGHT
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Hope to Make Trans-Atlantic Flight in Interests of Peace.
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   London, July 23.—(AP)—Two former World War fliers, who drilled at each other with machine guns over the western front 15 years ago, planned today a trans-Atlantic flight in the interests of peace.
   They are Baron Von Schleich, once the "black knight" of the kaiser's flying warriors, and Major Christopher Draper, the "Mad Major" of Great Britain's war time army of the air.
   They plan to make the westward flight some time in the near future, they said, sitting side by side in the same cock-pit.
   "Fifteen years ago we fought each other over the battle front," Baron Von Schleich said. "Now we are going on a peace crusade across the Atlantic, and our only bitterness arises from those misspent efforts in the war years.
   "I have come to realize the futility of war. We propose to make a long tour of all the big cities and try to instill in people's minds the ghastliness of war. We want to meet Eddie Rickenbacker, Colonel Bishop (Canadian airman), and other American aces and try to get them to join our peace crusade."

Ironwood Daily Globe - Saturday Evening, July 23, 1932