Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1919 — SAYS "CHAIR-WARMING” PATRIOT KILLED QUENTIN [ARTICLE]

SAYS "CHAIR-WARMING” PATRIOT KILLED QUENTIN

New York, Feb. 16.—Lieut. Quentih Roosevelt was goaded into making the flight which ended in his death 'by taunts of a certain “chairwarming” officer, according to a story published today in the Evening Telegram. An unnamed aviation lieutenant just returned from France, is quoted as the authority for the story. Young Roosevelt, the narrator relates, was handicapped by being near-sighted, and for that reason had been detailed to ground work. Nevertheless, when he heard that one of the “chair warmers” had hinted that he lacked the courage to mak an air flight he determined to lead a squadron over the German lines, and persuaded the commander to let him do so. Shortly after the start, says the lieutenant, Roosevelt became separated from his squadron, and, thinking he was rejoining it, unwittingly ran into a squadron of enemy planes and was shot down.