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Show BEAR RIVER- - VALLEY LEADER i;-- In certain lines of women's apparel America has become independent of other countries in the production of styles and materials. In some things we are conceded to excel, as in the designing and making of tailored suits and shoes. We have been driven to depend upon ourselves in producing the bulk of the readyinade underwear worn by women whose demand's are peculiarly American. The proportion of undergarments made of washable silks grows larger, and crepe de chine gains on fine cotton materials every day. There are several very good reasons for this, but the main one Is the inborn lev: of luxurious clothes, especially In the matter of undergarments, which Is rooted in the eternal feminine nature. Hand stitching is the k of elegance on undermuslins, so that women who know how to sew for themselves hk.ve a great advantage over those who do not. But there Is not much hand sewing or hand embroidery on manufactured underwear, which. hall-mar- . Ready-Mad- '; ' ' - hnnd-mad- inating mother. Neatness Is the outAs mothers become busier, or less merit of the frock and wrap orin standing In to spend time sewing, tJiov. n In the picture nbove. der to give it to other affairs, they The little girl at the left wears a have learned to look to the specialist checked to help them out with frocks and other And manufacclothes for children. turers have met the growing demand clothes, or partly-mad- e for ready-mad- e by turning out examples of good de--" signing, in practical materials, that the most gifted amateur cannot hope Even those mothers who to excel. prefer to have the children's clothes made at home, look to the display of children's frocks made In the shops for models to guide them. Wraps they nearly always buy ready made. Since the school girl must be outfitted by the time September appears over time's horizon, dresses and wraps for her make their entry In July. These forerunners of fall styles this year show that the neat effects that were featured In spring have come to stay a while, all because they were so heartily welcomed. They nark an advance in taste and are use-ful In educating tne little girls themselves to like neatness. A flue sense f clothes Is sometimes Inborn, but oftener It Is acquired unconsciously by the fortunate daughter of a diserJn dress of black and white woolen goods made with a plaited skirt and a wrap that Inherits its style from the spring season. It Is a coat and cape combined with buttons for ornament and has a small cape collar over laid with silk. It will be noliced thai it is longer than the dress (which If knee length) In the cape portion, and that the shorter eoat Is belted across the front. There are very practical set-Ipockets on each side. The frock of cotton poplin at thf right might be made of chambray gingham, or other sturdy cotton goods, or In plain wools. It Is a pretty design with bodice simulating a Jacket Small buttons and a plaited skirt. and a childish collar, set oft by very simple embroidered sprays, that are repeated on the bottom of the jacket, reveal the Ideas of a designer who hat no superiors. They are the signature of trained talent. n SSW 1, ,1. PASSIN3 OF GGf7AA C&S&?M.TQySAJ.OCWGOVGi e for Little Maids es " , nevertheless, contrives to be verj dainty. The manufacturer who turned out the two envelope chemises shown here will not dread a comparison between them and their hand-madcounterparts. They are just as effective and Just as durable. It is in little details ol e finish that the garment gets beyond the limitations of machinery The and cannot be exactly copied. chemise at the left is of white silk with a crossbar of green. There is a yoke of plain silk, also a border about the bottom and bands over the shoulders made of it. Bows of narrow ribbon with their hanging ends finished with soft silk balls make fascinating and original finishing touches. The lovely garment at the right is made of pale blue satin with heavy silk embroidery and real fillet lace to enrich it. The empire waistline makes it graceful. This is gathered In with satin ribbon tied In a bow with long loops and ends. The same models are not less beautiful or less elegant when made of fine cotton fabrics. - A HERO 4 Arizona, not to say Colorado. Xew Utah, Nevada and Southern it would be safer to Wyoming, Montana and Idaho AIL . ! I : .. .. ....... i January 3. 1010. Fromi Graves Registration Officer, Meufcbateau, o. 1. Area Toi Chief Air Service, A. E. F. Snlljeet: Grave. I'nknuwn American Aviator. 1. Units of thin service have located the grave of an unknown aviator, killed on Sunday, September 2H, 11I1S, in the vilinKe of Murvaux IMeuse). 2. From the inspection of the grave and interview held with inhabitants of the town the followwas learned In regard to the hero-Ini- u Information ing of thin aviator. Any assistance you can fnrnlHh us that will enable us to properly Identify this hody will be greatly apprerlnted. The following might assist you In gaining for us thiM in formation i Reported a having light hair, young, of medium by the Inheight and heavy stature. Reported habitants that previous to being killed this man German brought down three German balloons, two planes, und dropped hand bombs, killed eleven German soldiers and wounded a number of others. He was wounded himself In the shoulder, and make a forced landing, and upon evidently had tofire with his automatic aad fought landing opened was he killed. It Is also reported that the until Germans took his shoes, leggins, and money, leaving his grave unmarked.CHESTER K. STATEN, Capt. of Infantry, G. I. S. Officer. ....... nf satisfaction these days. For Frank Luke, Sr., of Phoenix has got the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously awarded to Lieut. Frank Luke, Jr. Oh, yes. It was presented with proper ceremonies at the Arizona state capitol in Phoenix by Brig. Gen. H. R. Hickok, Governor But the main Campbell and other dignitaries. thing Is that the medal was awarued and is uow where is belongs. And the fighting men of this western country are mixed in their feelings divided between grief that they can no longer wish their pet flyer "Happy Landings" and pride that he so well represented them that he was the lirst flying officer to get the Congressional Medal of Honoi.. ...... .....,....f Moreover, the mystery of Luke's fate that for " many months kept all the fighting men of this western country on the lookout for news of him is now solved. And these western fighting men are now doubly proud that their air hero "died with his boots on" that his grand finale was fittingly glorious and as heroic as was his whole meteoric career. Eighteen Hun planes and balloons In seventeen days is part of Luke's official record. "And Balloons I" Yes, balloons. Don't make the mistake of thinking lightly of an aviator destroying a balloon. Regulars, marines, national guards, national army, doughboys, artillerists, engineers all have their heroes. But don't overlook the airmen when apportioning honors. And If there Is any war business more dangerous than combating enemy airplanes it Is destroying enemy observation balloons. The quality of the job Is indicated by the German practice of crediting with two victories every pilot who strafed a balloon. And maybe this Is why strafing balloons was the chosen business and specialty of Prank' Luke. Here's a glimpse of what Lieut. Frank Luke's comrades think of his work: The other day J. Loy Maloney returned to the Chicago Tribune staff. He had a pair of R. M. A. wings and three gold overseas service chevrons, and his pilot book shows 350 hours In the air, 150 of which were over the lines. He was with the famed aero was squadron Eddie Rickenbacker's own. pressed for "news" of his exploits. "Well, I didn't do a' darn thing, but I can tell you a story about a hero a real hero, the bravest man In the war," said Maloney. "His name was Frank Luke, Jr., he lived in Phoenix, Ariz., before the war and he was probf ably the most brilliant flyer we had. "He would fly over .our balloon officers and drop a note telling them he would knock down a blimp at a certain time and at that time down would come the bag. "On Luke's last trip up he made the most sensational flight In history. He had dropped a note saying two German balloons would be crashed. They were, and then his air went bad and he had to pump by hand, which means handling the stick, the gas and all the guns with one hand. He saw two Fokkers knock down an American scout, so he went up and knocked down the bodies. On his way back he saw seven Frenchmen trying to get a huge German triplane. Luke got the ship, but shrapnel stopped his motor. Below' win Germany and, "Down he went. German troops.- That 20 year old kid dove the ship over the marching columns of boche troops and turned his machine gun loose on them, knowing he would be a prisoner. "But he killed eight men. then set his ship down on the ground and whipped .out his automatic. He hit three bodies when they came up to capture him and they bumped him off. "When he died he had eighteen victories to his credit and was keeping Rick humping." ' This Is the Judgment of a trained newspaper man, used to getting facts, appreciating their value, and sizing up men. Perhaps nobody Is better able to tell the troth about Luke than the man who commanded his squadron in the fighting In which he took so brilliant a part. That man, Harold E. Hnrtney, now a lieutenant colonel and chief of punnery In the air service, describes his first Impression of him as that of "a youth keen and aquiline, blue-eye- d and fair, with a strong Jaw and hair brushed back from a broad, high fort head." ( lAike was 20 years old when he entered the He was train tret rice tt the University of " . - VV 2i: .1 AT WQJZK Texas, at Rockwell Field, at Issoudun and at Cazenux, in France; joined the 27th aero squadron near Chateau-Thierrlate in July. 1018; had an Insatiable appetite for flying, defied all rules of fyrmation and safety in the air. '"If any layman or landsman reading the history of Luke's career is inclined to fancy that balloon strafing is an easy trick, no experienced pilot shares that illusion," says Colonel Hartney "In reality it is the most dangerous exploit anj man in any branch of the service can undertake The concentration of fire from the ground makes it much more hazardous than other On every occasion of such attempts fighting. y anti-aircra- ft Luke's machine was literally riddled with bullets and twice he was compelled to abandon his airplane and break In a new one. "Here Is a sample of the work Luke did : September 15, 191S, the enemy succeeded in getting another balloon up at Boinvllle, and a second at Bois d'Hingry. Luke had been watching like a hawk this area, and the moment a balloon ascended he spotted it and returned to his own aerodrome with data and an appeal to be allowed to destroy It. "Before Luke went ont on that afternoon, therefore, new tactics were decided upon. Three friend ly escorting patrols of five machines were to dart to Luke's rescue, timed to arrive at the objective CO seconds after Luke. Our balloons were advised by courier that at 5:05 that afternoon Luke would shoot down the Boinvllle balloon and asked to be Almost to the second Luke was on the lookout. perceived diving homeward, with a formation of five enemy Fokkers sitting on his tail and a burning balloon falling In the background. He managed to dodge the fire of the enemy and landed on his own side of the line and not far from the most advanced American troops. Those o.i the ground thought that he was lost. He had. In fact, landed to get his own bearings and those of the second balloon, which he had seen at a distance. "Without getting out of h!s machine, without even stopping his motor, careful only of hidden shell holes which might smash his undercarriage, he took off'sklllftilly from ground which was never Intended as a taking-oft- " place for airplanes and made straight for the balloon at Bols d'Hingry. "Without escort and with no companion, at exactly 20 minutes after shooting down his first balloon, the second fell actually urtler the noses of the enemy formations near b. I "Later observing north of Verdun and east of the Uevie an attempt to send up another balloon. i i Affidavit. ,' The undersigned, living In the town of Morvanx. department of the Meuse, certify to have seen, on the 2Hth day of September, 1!1S, toward evening, an American aviator, followed by an escadrille of in the direction of Liny, near Dun Germans, descend suddenly and vertically toward (Mount-- . the earth, then straighten out close to the ground, and flew in the direction of the Briers Farm, near balloon, Doulcon, where be found a German captive which he burned. Following this he flew toward balloon; Milly (Meuse, where he found another which he also burned, in snlle of an incessant lire directed against his machine. There he was apparently wounded by u shot fired from rapid-fir- e cannon. From there he came back over Murvaux, aotl still with his machine gun killed six German soldiers and wounded many more. ont of his maFollowing tills he landed and got chine, undoubtedly to fliiench Ms thirst at a nearby when, seeing stream. He had gone some fifty yards, him. still had the strength the Germans come toward to defend himself, and a moto draw his revolver "d, following a serious wound ment pf'er -- H received in the chest. German comCertify ofequally u have seento the have straw placed the village mandant in the cart carrying the dead aviator to thesome cemetery. This same olllcer drove away lage women bringing a sheet to serve as a shrond for the bodyi "Get that out the hero, and said, kicking of my way as quick as possible." The next day the Germans took away the airalso saw another Amerplane, and' the inhabitants ican aviator fly very low over the town, apparently looMng for the ilisappenred aviator. of the following inhabitants: Signatures Rene e. Auguste Cuny, Henry lerton.Ensrcne Colin, Collne. Odll? Patoche, Richard Victor. Valentin Gnrra, Gustnve Garrn. l,con Henry, Cor.Iac Delbart, Gabriel Didler, Camitle Phillip. The undersigned themselves placed the hody of the aviator on the wagon and conducted it to the Gun-tav- cemetery. VOI.INER MCHOI.AS. CORTI.AE DEI BART. Seen for legalization of signatures placed shovel 181(1. THE MA YOU, 15, Marvrtux. January Gnrre. (Seal of Mnrvnux.) Auguste he hurried back to his squadron and begged to be ordered to go out in the dusk of the evening, surprise and destroy it. "It was found that his machine was not in condition for this flight. Luke got another airplane, and, though he was unfamiliar with this machine and uncertain of the reliability of its motor, he determined to risk it for night Hying. "With express instructions not to attempt to go lown on the balloon until 7:50, Luke left his home field at Betnbercourt, accompanied by Welmer. As before, and precisely at 7:50 in the dusk of the evening, bis comrades on the aerodrome watched the balloon fall in tlames, givin.; Luke his third official victory of the day. "I have all the details of his meteoric career. the For his glorious work on September 2f. day of his death, lie was awarded the medal. He started out to destroy three Hun observation balloons. When nearly overhead lie was attacked by ten enemy machines, lie engaged all of them and crashed two of the ten. Then single-handehe dropped out of control, as it seemed, but most likely only pretending to be so. When lie reached the level of the balloons he shot them down one after another In Haines all three of them. The guns were very busy about the second balloon. After that he disappeared." The Americans made every eflnrt to' solve the mystery of Luke's disappearance. Th report of Captain Staten and the affidavit of citizens of Murvaux given herewith, show the situation of one stage of the proceedings. The remains of the Intrepid air fighter were burled close by In a grave marked as that of an "Unknown American aviator." It was stripped, aR the Germans thought, of everything that It, but they overlooked a wrist watch, which was found later and sent to the Identification bureau at Paris. Then Oiptaln F. W. Zlnn of the air service went to Murvaux and made an Investigation which seemed to prove conclusively '.Im tb body was that of Lieutenant luke. d anti-aircra- ft would-Identif- |
