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Show I i THE MAMMOTH RECORD. MAMMOTH CITY. UTAH Iicti.Raik Luke ; sncat ' for Vacation Campers Fire Don'ts , . , , in Cl Forests - Jirt WASHINGTON. Now Is the time to stop forest fires by not having any, from (he American Forestry association. fire last yfear is still fresh in the public mind and when it is estimated the fire loss in 1918 was $28,500,000 and ' , that 8,400,000 acres were burned, every precaution should be taken by summer campers. Here are some donts to be posted on every tent door flap: Dont throw your match away un-ti- ll you are sure It is out. Dont drop cigarette or cigar butts until the glow Is extinguished. Dont knock out 'your pipe ashes while hot or where they will fall into dry leaves or other inflammable ma' rdf 11 terial. Dont build a camp fire any larger than is absolutely necessary. Dont leave a fire until you are sure it is out; if necessary smother it with earth or water. , Dont burn brush or refuse in or near the woods if there is any chance the fire may spread beyond your control,' or that the wind may carry sparks where they would start a new fire. Dont b ny more careless with fire in the woods than you are In your own home. i Dont tid idle when you discover a fire in the woods; if you! cannot put it out yourself, get help. Where a forest guard, ranger or state fire warden can ' be reached, call him. on the nearest telephone you caw find. . 11 - - ' ? Increase on the Divorce t t) in the United v e States t of every ten marriages in the United States one ends in divorce. Tnese from the, United States census bureau are startling or npt, as one may view them. The ratio is increasing rapidly. In 1890 6 per cent of all I marriages ended in the divorce courts. In 1900 the ratio wras 8 per cent. Now it is 10. It is noted that in the Dls-trict of Columbia there were only 13 divorces for every JOO.OOQ of, popula-- 1 tion, hut in Nevada there were G07 for the same unit of population. Outsid-- j , erg raised Nevadas showing. The wife applies for the divorce s of .the cases, but here in again statistics mislead. When a pair agree to separate it is customary for man to permit his wdfe to b.ing the suit toj end a' condition of which they are equally tired. , Moreover, the wife has more legal grounds for divorce than the husband. A husband can be divorced for cruelty, for instance, and the statistics show that she advances ' this cause four' times as often as the husband. Then she can divorce' her husbahd if he falls to provide fotTfer; but a husband can only in rare instances bring such a charge against his wrife. Of the 108,702 divorces granted in 1916, ' only 12,486 were based oh unfaithfulness. - Those-vh- o believe that the increase of divorce is'due to a growing desire lor freedom on the part of women, and to their now economic independence. Will be shocked to learn that more and more' of 'the women demand and get alimony, Indicating that freedom is not the only thing they want. In the period preceding 1906 alimony was sought in only 13.2 per cent of the cases, and granted In only 9.2 per cent. But in 1916 alimony was sought in 20.2 per cent of all cases and was granted in 15.2 per cent. OUT A Gft7Ay in ,.T i G&J?mrCW SALLOW V,r , GOVG 1jP 11 Colorado, , LL Arizona, not to say New Mexico, Utah'," Nevada and Southern California it would be safer tp, in- 'wc!ufe ijQXX f WypmTr, Jilo'nttma and Idaho also is fedllnVeiIttTO sort of grim. satisfaction f these'" daya. For Frank h LhfiS, Sr.Y Bf'ThOeAi'xOlias got the Con- A A ft posthum- Graven Registration Officer, Neufcliateau y Area No. 1. . t Tot Chief Air Sort Ice, A. E. F. Subject: Grae, Inkuown American Aviator. i r 1. Units of this service have located the grave of an unknown aviator, killed on Sunday, September 28, 1918, in the tillage of Murvaux (Meuse). 2. From the inspection of the grave and interview held with Inhabitants of the town the following; information wan learned In regard to the heroism of thin aviator. Any assistance you can furnish us that will enable us to properly Identify this body will be greatly appreciated. The following: might assist you In gaining; for us this Information: Reported as buying light hair, young, of medium heavy stature. Iieportcd by the inheight andthat habitants previous to being killed this man dowrn three German bulloons, two German broughtand dropped hand bombs, killed eleven Gerplanes, man soldiers and wounded a number of others. He was wounded himself In the shoulder, nnd evidently had to make a forced landing, and upon his automatic and fought landing opened tire with Is also reported thnt the until he was killed. It Germans took his shoes, leggins, and money, leaving his grave unmarked. CHESTER E. STTE, Capt. of Infantry, G. R. S. Officer. ' - rank I.uke, yes, It was-'- presented with proper 'cei 'einbni W'at th ArUoiallstatQ capitol in Phdenix by Frig. Gen, H,.R. Hlckok, Governor But the main Campbell,,' an,d other dignitaries. thing isfthat the, medal was awarded and is now wher is belongs: l'Ahd the1 flgfitYhg men 9 f this western cofihtry are iflKefl hit their feelings divided- between- grif'thatliih.e,v man no longer, wish their' pet" flyer "Happy. ljtuoiUigs and pride that he so welt represented them that he was the' first flying officer to get the Congressional Mediil of Honor. 'i 5v He G,1 Moreover, the mystery of Lukes jfate that for many months kept alb the fighting men of this westernopountry ion th lookout for news of him "' Is now solved. Aisl these western fighting men are now doubly proud that their air hero died with his hoots on that his grand finale was fittingly glorious and as heroic is was his 'whole ' ' v meteoric career. ,,, 4:. cl, ' Eighteen' Hun planes and balloons in Seventeen days as.. part- - of( Lukes official record. And balloons! Yes, balloons. Dont 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 dont overlook the airmen ' when apportioning, honors. And If there Is any war business more dangerous than combating enemy airplanes it is destroying enemy observa-,- . VI W,', ,, ! 'lASt lion balloons. The quality-of-th- e job is indicated e 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 Frank Luke. l-tXAT MGZX J? Heres a glimpse of what Lieut. Frank Luke's : The other day J. comrades think 'of his work Texas, at Rockwell Field, at Issoudun and at Loy Maloney returned to the Chicago Tribune Cazeaux, In France; joined the 27th aero squadron stuff. lie had a pair of R. M. A. wings and three .near Chateau-Thlerr- y late in July, 1918; had an insatiable appetite for flying, defied all rules of gold overseas service chevrons, and his pilot book shows 350 hours in the air, 150 of which were over formation and safety In the air. y the lines. He was with the famed 94th aero If any layman or landsman reading the of Lukes career is inclined to fancy that squadron Eddie Rickenbackers own. He was balloon strafing Is an easy trick, no experienced pressed for news of his exploits. .Well, I didnt do a darn thing, but I can tell pilot shares that illusion, says Colonel Hartney. In reality it Is the most dangerous exploit any you a story about a hero a real hero, the bravest . man in the war, said Maloney. man In any branch of the service can undertake, His name was Frank Luke, .Tr,, he lived 'In The concentration of fire from the Phoenix, Ariz., before the war and he was prob-'abl- y ground makes It much more hazardous than other the most brilliant flyer we had. fighting. On every occasion of such attempts He would fly over our balloon officers and Lukes machine was literally riddled with bullets and twice he was compelled to abandon his alr-- ' drop a note telling them he would knock down at that 'time down ' plane and break in a new one. a blimp at a certain time-a- nd ' Here is a sample of the work Luke did : Sep- would come the bug. On Lukes last trip up he' mnde the most tember 15, 1918, the enemy succeeded in getting another balloon up at Boinville, and a second at sensational flight in history. He had dropped a Bois dHingry. Luke had been watching like a note saying two German balloons would be crashhawk this area, and the moment a balloon ascended ed. They were, and then his air went bad and he spotted it and returned to his own aerodrome he had to pump by hand, which means handling1 with data and an appeal to be allowed to de- the stick, the gas and all the guns with one hand. He saw two Fokkers knock down an American stroy it. Before Luke went out on that afternoon, therescout, so he went up and knocked down the boches. On his way back he saw seven Frenchfore, new tactics were decided upon. Three friendmen trying to get a huge German triplane. Luke ly escorting patrols of five machines were to dart " to Lukes rescue, timed to arrive at the objective got the ship, but shrapnel stopped his motor... CO seconds after Luke. Our balloons were advised Below, was Germany and Down he went. by courier that at 5 :05 thnt afternoon Luke would Germun troops. That 20 year old kid dove the shoot down the Boinville balloon and asked to be ship over the marching columns of boche troops on the lookout. Almost to the second Luke wns and turned his machine gun loose on them, know-- i n , perceived diving homewnrd, with a formation of ing he would be a prisoner. But he killed eight men, then set his ship , five enemy Fokkers sitting on his tall and n burning balloon falling In the background. He mandown on the ground and tvhipped' out his autoaged to dodge the fire of the enemy and landed on matic. He hit three bodies when they came up his own side of the line and not far from the most to capture him and they bumped him off. advanced American troops. Those 0.1 the ground When he died he had eighteen victories to' ' thought thnt he was lost. He had, in fuct, landed his credit and was keeping Rick humping. to get his own bearings nnd those of the second This is the judgment of a trained newspaper' which he had seen at n distance. tlielr balloon, appreciating1to facts; used getting" ifinn, ' si Without getting' out of his machine, without value, and sizing Up men. to tell tlw' truth - even stopping his motor careful only of hidden Perhaps nobody Is better able commanded his shell holes which might smash his undercarriage, who man the about Luke than he took off skillfully from ground which was never which he took so brll- in the In fighting squadron now Intended as a titldng-nf- f place for airplanes and limit u part. That man, Harold E. Jlnrtrtey. made in the Of straight for the Walloon at Bois dllingry. gunnery a lieutenant colonel and chief Without escort and with no companion, at exof him air son Ice, describes his first impressionblue-eye- d 20 minutes after shooting down- his first)' ' as actly nqiliUne, and that of a vouih keen back the second fell actually unler the noses brushed balloon, hair and n'stron with jaw and fair, , the of formations near b;l enemy from a broad, high forehead. Later observing north of Verdun nnd east of entered the he when old 20 was years Luke the Meuse an attempt to send up another balloon, of He was trained st Wm University dot vice . - , j 4 by-th- ' ' , hts-tor- , anti-aircra- ft ' . i 20-ye- ar Aliens, Going Home With Good AfaericairDofiHrs i i , j to the number of 1,300,000 in the United States are planning to ALIENS this country for their homeland and they' will take with them approximately 4,000,000,000 American dollars. These facts are disclosed in , a report by Ethelbert Stewart of CM- . .j cago, director of the investigation and inspection service of the department of labor, after an investigation of pro; spective emigration from America. The estimate, Mr. Stewart says, is conservative. That the ailens will take $4,000,000,000 is figured on the basis that the average amount each alien will carry is $3,000. An official statement from the department of labor says that up to June 1 investigations covered Chicago, the Indiana steel mill district (South Chicago, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor, South Bend, Gary, etc.), Detroit, Pittsburgh and surrounding steel districts, Johnstown, Pa.; Youngstown, O., and Wilkes-BarrPa., and surrounding coal mining area. Of 163,498 Poles covered by the investigation, 24,950, or 15.04 per cent, 28.02 per cent; Russians, 35.70 per will return to Poland; cent ; Croatians, 21.75 per cent ; Lithuanians, 9.72 per cent ; Roumanians, 64.29 per cent ; Italians and Greeks, 11 per cent ; Serbs, 36.90 per cent ; Slovaks, 34.50 ' , per cent. Lajos Steiner of the intelligence bureau of the war trade board puts the money to be taken out at $1,500,000. He says the abolishment of several thousand postal savings stations,' unscrupulous private bankers, steamship agents, hard-uforeign language newspapers that grab at advertising urging the foreigners here to send tlielr money back to Europe and an alluring picture by the schemers that Europe is about to experience a great wave of prosperity these are some of the causes of the failure of this government to assimilate the raw immigrant. e, Austro-Hungarian- p -- he hurried back to his squadron and begged to be ordered 1o go out in the dusk of the evening, surprise and destroy it. It was found that his machine was not In con- Uncle Sam to Healthier Nation Campaign for dition for this flight. Luke got another airplane, and though he was unfamiliar with this machine and uncertain of the reliability of its motor, he JN THE hope of meeting the physical deficiencies revealed by the draft examinations the United States public health service, under Surgeon Gen-s- i 'determined to risk it for night flying. Rupert Blue, has prepared for congressional consideration a With express Instructions not to attempt to go health program designed to raise the down on the balloon until 7 :50, Luke left his home standard of physical fitness throughfield at Rembercourt, accompanied by Wehner. As out the country by correcting the conbefore, nnd precisely at 7 :50 In the dusk of the ditions responsible for the poor showhis comrades on the aerodrome watched j evening, ing made in 1917. the balloon fall In flames, giving Luke his third For that it was a poor showing, official victory of the day. f have all the details of his meteoric career. nobody can deny, Doctor Blue says. Think of it! Out of over' 3,000,000 For his glorious- work on September 29, 1918, the men examined men whose age should He medal. was he the awarded his of death, day have constituted them the very flower started out to destroy three Hun observation balof this country's manhood only 70 loons. When nearly overhead he was attacked by per cent were found to be fit for full ten enemy machines. He engaged all of them and crashed two of the ten. Then single-hnmle- d military service Among the rejections for military service, 13.7 were due to affections of he dropped out of control, as It seemed, hut most he reached the so. to When and blood vessels : 12.35, bones and joints ; 8.65 to eye troubles ; 8.7 heart be only pretending likely one down of ; 8.37, development defects (height, weight, chest measurement, to he tuberculosis balloons them the level shot the after nnorher In flumes all three of them. The muscles); C.04, hernia; 5,24 to mental deficiency, and 5.07, to .nervous and guns were very busy about the sec- mental disorders. ond balloon. After thnt he disappeared." Many of the conditions discovered," according to Doctor Blue, could Tin; Americans mnde every effort to solve the have been prevented or corrected, especially if there had been 'brbper health Th report of supervision In early life. Doctor Blues program includes:- mystery of Luke's disappearance. Staten citizens of of The adoption of measures for the adequate chre and IDstfuctlori' of exnlildnvlt and the Captain ' ' v ' Murvaux given herewith, show the situation of pectant mothers. one stago of t lie proceedings. Safeguarding the health of expectant mothers' Engaged in Industry. ' Accurate registration of all births. The remains of the Intrepid nlr fighter were burled dose by in a grave mnrked ns that of an UnAdequate care of babies In homes, welfare stations nnd day nurseries. It was stripped, ns the known Amortcnn aviator. Instruction of mothers In baby hygiene. Gormans thought, of everything that would idenSafeguarding of milk supplies and estnbljsbment, pusteurizaon plants. . Health supervision of children of preschool age, tify it, hut they overlooked a wrist wntch, which 'was found later and sent to the Identification Including Supervision of home and school environment of school children, ' " bureau lit Iarls. Sanitation of school grounds and school buildings Yor school of Then Captain F. W. Zlnn of the air servleo the correcchildren, Including provision Medical inspection went to Murvaux nnd made an Investigation tion nnd treatment of physical defects. which seemed to provo conclusive1? Unit tbv body Mentnl examination of school children and to determine and prescribe wns Unit of Lieutenant Luke. nullable trentm'Dt and training for children who fall in cluss work. ' 1 .it 1 anti-aircra- ft ' - - - , ' AFFIDAVIT. The undersigned, living in the town of Murvaux, on seen, to have of the Meuse, certify department the 29th day of September, 1918, toward evening, an an escadrllle of American aviator, followed by Duu Germans, In the direction of Liny, neartoward and vertically tMeuse), descend suddenlyout to close the ground, the earth, then straighten and flew in the direction of the Briers Farm, near balloon, Doulcou, where he found a Gernmn captive which be burned. Following this he flew toward Milly (Meuse), where he found another balloon: Are which he aisa burned, In spite of an incessnnt directed against his machine. There he was e aprapid-firfired from a shot wounded by parently From there lie came back over Murvaux, cannon. and still with his machine gun killed six Germun soldiers and wounded many more. got out of his maFollowing tills he landed and quench his thirst at a nearby chine, undoubtedly to some fifty yards, when, seeing stream. He had gone come toward him, still had the strength the Germans to defend revolver his himself, and a moto draw ment after fell dead, following a serious wound received In the chest, Certify equally to have seen the German commandant of the village refuse to have straw placed In the cart carrying the dead aviator to the vilcemetery. This same officer drove away some lage women bringing a sheet to serve as a shroud for the body: Get that out the hero, andas said, kicking of my way quick as possible. airThe next day the Germans took away theAmeralso saw another plane, and the Inhabitants ican aviator tty very low over the town, apparently disappeared aviator. looking for the of the following inhabitants: Signatures Rene Colin, Auguste Cuny, Henry GusPerton, tave, Eugene Collue, Odlle Patoche, Richard Valentin Garra, Gustave Garra, Leon Victor, Henry, Cortlae Delbart, Gabriel Didler, Camille Phillip. The undersigned themselves placed the body of the aviator on the wagon and conducted it to the cemetery. CORTLAE DELBART. VOUNER NICHOLAS. Seen for legalisation of signatures placed above: 1019. THE MAI OH, Marvaux, January 15, Auguste Garre. (Seal of Marvaux.) two-third- a ' , 1919. January Fromt ( - |
