Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — FRENCH ACE COMING HERE [ARTICLE]

FRENCH ACE COMING HERE

LEQUONTESSE, AIR ACE, WHO SUNK 22 PLANES, TO LIVE HERE. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Duyall received a radio message Friday from Monsieur and Mme. Lequontesse, aboard the S. S. La France, one day out of New York, announcing that they would be in Rensselaer Sunday to make their future home. 2he Lequontesses are very close friends of Mrs. Duvall, and it was upon her suggestion that they decided to make America their home. Lequontesse was a name much known and admired throughout the allied countries and one much feared by Germany during the late world war. Lequontesse was one of the French air aces and bears decorations of every description. During the three years of his service at the front he downed twentytwo German ■planes, and in turn was wounded on one or two occasions. Lequontesse comes from Brittainy, on the cost of France, but for the past few years has resided in Paris where he met the future Mme. Lequontesse, their marriage having occurred about a year ago. The illustrious Frenchman and his wife will reside With the Duvalls on a farm north of town where he will be engaged in the dairying business With Mr. Duvall. Mrs. Duvall will go to Indianapolis Sunday to meet them.