Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1918 — PLANS TO DROP BOMBS NEAR DAD’S OLD HOME [ARTICLE]

PLANS TO DROP BOMBS NEAR DAD’S OLD HOME

Madison, Wis. —“I’m going to fly back to Berlin, where you came from, dad, and drop n bomb somewhere near your old home.” That’s the way Lloyd A. Lehrbass, a student in the course in journalism at the State University, informed his father that he had enlisted in the aviation service of the United States Army. The father’s reply to the message was: “God bless you, son. * I’m proud of you.” Lehrbass’s father was born in Berlin, but came to America with his parents when only four years old.