Show fr I i 1 T J I J L 1 ft tf a j i i i JI t cx I It 1 r lof 1 t j K Jj I a- a i tf r t Jf fT FY tL r t tr t 1 r I tS X 4 1 F f r Y a w x r wk y yo ti r S SK SS r 9 3 ar S r fly id N M e rf riz F 3 9 K r 6 N iS rw t r Ni Asa V lY i i y J br w CG fi r t n mn mn 1 A Q Y P 4 LL Arizona not to say Colorado New cw r Mexico Utah Nevada and rn 1 California It It would be bC safer to Include Include Include In In- clude Wyoming W Montana 1 a and Idaho j also also Is Is feeling a it certain sort of grim I. I satisfaction these days s For Frank Luke c of Phoenix has has got Conz Con Con- z gressional o II Honor nor posthumously g. g awarded I Ito to Frank Luke e t Jr Oh yr ye It was presented with 1 proper ceremonies at nt till the Arizona state capitol In Ins s Phoenix by hy Brig Gen II IL R. R HIckok Governor Campbell and other dignitaries B But t the main 4 t that the medal was awarded and Is now how t where Is belongs And the We fighting men of this lids western western country are n mixed hed In their feelings feelings feelings-di- di- di I 1 between grief that ther can no long longer r wish j. j their p pot pet t flyer Happy Landings and pride that i n l t tie lie e so well represented them hem hera that b he was the first firstE E i flying fly officer to Ito get the the Congressional Medal Medil of r Honor If d s Moreover l the mystery of L Luke Luke's g fate that for for r t many l kePt pt all t the the fighting e men mere of this his i 1 western country on on- the lookout for fot news of Mm him himi 4 1 lis Is now solved And these western estern fi fighting I ipen luen en mare are now doubly proud that their air hero died with writh his Loots oa that ott that his Ius grand gran finale was fit fit- I f tt rt- rt to tingly glorious and as heroic as was ills his whole l i meteoric career a eer t l Eighteen n Hun Him Ul planes nd b balloons balloons balloons' in In seventeen en ent t d days y of s. Luk official rec record rd And tal- tal ft lo loons ns r 1 Yes Tes es bal balloons oo s. s Dont Don't mil make ke the mistake v. v Y of thinking lightly y of an aviator destroying a aJ J r balloon Regulars Regular marines marmes national guards Dai national na- na i army doughboys artillerists engineers engineers all all t. t I have their thel ber heroes es But ont don't overlook the airmen i wh when n apportioning honors l And If it there Is any uny war wm war business more dangerous than combating t enemy airplanes It Is destroying enemy observation 1 of r tion tIo b balloons lIons The rhe quality of the job Is Indicated f w by the German pr practice cUce of crediting with two victories vie vic tories every pilot who sr strafed fed a u I balloon And Y maybe this Is why strafing balloons was as he 4 r c chosen osen business s and anti sp specialty of Frank Luke Lule 0 f Heres a glimpse of or what Frank Lukes Luke's mac comrades d s think of his work The rhe other day J. J by Loy Lay Maloney returned to the Chicago Tribune Tribune- t. t tr staff r. r He had a pair o of R. R Rl I M. M A A. A wings and three thle gold overseas service chevrons and his pilot hook d shows hours In the air of which were over oYer the lines He lie was with willi Ule the famed fumed aero aero squadron squadron Eddie Eddie own He lie was pressed for news of his exploits Well Vell I didn't do a darn thing but I can tell t YOU you a story about a hero hero n a rein real hero the bravest man In the war said Maloney HIs Hie name was Frank Luke Jr Tr he lived In InD D I f Ariz before the war and he was probably ably the most brilliant flyer we had hull lIe would fly over O our balloon officers and drop a note telling teli them he would knock down downa r. r a n blimp at a n certain time time and and at that time Ume down clown would come the bagOn bag On Lukes Luke's last trip up he made the most sensational sensa flight In history lIe He had had dropped n a note saying two German balloons would be crash crash- ed d. They ey were and then h his 8 air nIl went bad and he had hud to pump by hand which means handling the stick the gas md all the guns with one hand tia lIe He saw two Folkers knock down an un American r scout so 80 h he went up and knocked down the bodies On n his way back lIe he saw seven Frencht Frenchmen French French- t m men men n trying to get a huge German Luke got the ship but shrapnel stopped his motor v v Down he be went Below wa wn Germany and r German troops That 20 year ear old kid dove the K r ship ov over r the marching columns of boche troops f and imd turn turned d his machine gun loose on tu them knowIng knowIng know- know Ing tn he w would uld be a prisoner i 5 But he killed eight men men then set his ship down on the ground and amI whipped out his auto auto- matic lIe He hit three thre boches when hen they came caine up to capture and him and they bumped him off otTo off k When Mien he died he had eighteen victories to to tot tol t l his credit and andrus was rus keeping Rick nick humping This Is Is' the Judgment of a newspaper newspaperman r man used to to tog g getting facts appreciating their j r I alu value and sizing up men P Perhaps nobody Is better able to tell the truth truthy y Ui Wh- Wh flout about b ut I. I Luke than thUD the man who commanded hIst his v t squadron In the fighting In h he took so bril- bril hunt llant a part That t man Harold E E. Hartney now Jie colonel an and chief h ef of pm gunnery ery In th the hIs first Impression of him himas Service e describes describes' as as that o of a youth keen leen and aquiline eyed blue eyed blue IU f. f r. r d y and hair brushed back Jaw w an and d fair with a strong 1 from a broad h high gh forehead fort en d the tho entered Luke Lukeas was as 20 20 years old when he tramcar d at t the e U University of ot He was WIlS vice rice I 1 w 0 r rob S 6 Cel a rl 3 LV LUKE LVE E RT W AT-W Texas at Rockwell Field at Issoudun and nt at Cazeaux In tn France Franc Joined th the aero squadron near Chateau Thierry late In Jul July 1918 had haul an insatiable appetite for flying defied all rules of formation and safety In inthe the air all If ail any any lu layman man or landsman reading the history history his hrs tory of Lukes Luke's career Is Inclined to fancy that balloon strafing Is an easy trick no exi eril pilot shares that Illusion on says Colonel Colone Hartney In reality It Is the Ute most dangerous exploit any man In any branch of the service can undertake The concentration of ot anti-aircraft anti fire from flom the tho ground makes It ft much more hazardous than other othor fighting On every occasion of such attempts Lukes Luke's machine was literally riddled with bullets and twice he was compelled to abandon his airplane air air- plane and lint break in a new one Here Is a sample of the work Luke did September September Sep Sep- 15 15 1918 the enemy succeeded In getting another balloon up at nt Boinville and md a second at Bois Bols Luke had been Jeen watching like Uke a hawk this area and the moment a bt balloon ascended he spotted It and returned to his own ne aerodrome with data duta and an appeal to be allowed to to destroy de dl destroy de- de stroy It Before Luke went out on that afternoon therefore therefore there therefore there there- fore new tactics were decided upon Three friendly friend friend- ly Iy escorting patrols of five machines were to dart to Lukes Luke's rescue timed to arrive at the objective e CO Go seconds after Luke Lukei Our balloons were advised by courier that at al 50 05 that afternoon Luke would shoot down the Boinville balloon and asked to beon beon be beon on the lookout Almost to the second 1 Luke was perceived percel d diving homeward rd with a formation of ot five enemy Folkers sitting on his tall tail find and a burnIng burning burn burn- Ing balloon falling in the background lIe He managed managed man man- aged to dodge the the fire of the enemy nn and landed on his own side of the line Une and not far from the most advanced American troops Those pj oa CM the ground thought that he was lost He lIe had In fact landed to get his own bearings and and those of f If the second balloon which he had had seen seen fit at a distance e. e Without getting out of or his bIs machine e without even eren stopping his motor careful only of hidden shell holes boles which might smash his undercarriage he took off skillfully from ground which was never Dever Intended l as ns a taking oft place for airplanes airplanes' and made straight for th the b balloon at Bois Bols Without escort and with no companion at exactly exactly exactly ex ex- 20 2 O minutes after sh shooting down do his first balloon b balloon the the artier the noses Doses of the en enemy my formations near b t l Later Luter observing north of Verdun and east of th the Jeue e an nil attempt to send up another ballo balloon n. n 1 T PASSING OF A HERO I January un 3 3 1010 1919 From 1 Graven Grave n Registration om Officer u 2 u Area Aren No 1 Toi Top Chief Air AIS ben Service Ice A. A E. E F. F SubJect Subjects 1 Grave Grae Unknown American Aviator 1 Units of till till- service Henlee have located the grave of nu an unknown ill aviator In tor killed on Sunday September 28 1818 1318 In the village of Meuse 2 From the Inspection of the grave and Interview Interview Inter Inter- view Ie held with Inhabitants Inhabitant of the town the followIng following follow follow- ing Information was wan learned In lu regard to the heroIsm heroism hero hero- ism IHm of thin this aviator Any assistance you can furnish us that will enable us to properly Identify this body bolly will III be greatly appreciated The following might night assist you In gaining for us this ns nN having hating light ht hair huir young OUD of medium hel height ht and heavy henvy stature Reported by the In Inhabitants In In- habitants that previous to being killed this man brought down three German balloons two German planes plane and dropped hand bombs killed eleven elfen German German Ger Ger- of others man soldiers and wounded a number r lie Ill was as wounded himself In la the time shoulder r and ande e evidently had to make nn n a. a forced landing and upon Ollon landing are with his hIli automatic and aDd fou fought bt until he ht was II killed It Is IN also r reported ported that the Germans took bl his shoes leggin and money lensing leaving lens leav ing his grave unmarked CHESTER E. E STATEN Capt of Infantry G G. G R. R S. S Officer AFFIDAVIT The undersigned living In the town ton of Murrain x department nt of the Meuse leue c certify to have seen Heen on the day of September 1018 1918 toward evening un an American aviator rollo followed d by an escadrille of Ge Germans In In the direction of Liny LinT near Dun Meuse descend nd suddenly and vertically toward the tIle earth carth then straighten out close to the ground and fie hew lew In the direction of tire the DrI Driers Briers rH l n near nr Doulcon where he found a n German Ge captive balloon n which bleb he le burned Following this he be flew toward Meuse I where bere he be found another b balloon which he also 10 burned In la spite of an nn Incessant fire directed against bl his machine Tb There re he lie was as ap apparently Il wounded by u n shot tired fired from sapid rapid cannon From there he lie came caDle back buck over ocr Murvaux and still with his bl machine gun killed six German Germun soldiers and wounded many more machne ma- ma Il j I l Following this he be landed and got and got out of his machine ma chine undoubtedly to qu quench his thirst at n a nearby when hen seeing stream II gone some Home fifty yards the Germans come come toward him hint still till had the strength to draw his bin revolver to der defend himself If and a a moment moment mo mo- m ment Dt after fell 11 It d l Ml nd following a n serious Berlou wound received ID chest t Certify equally 10 so have seen the die German Germun commandant com lom mandant of the village Hinge r refuse to have JIDe straw placed eel In the cart carrying the dead aviator alator to the village vil 11 Inge lage cemetery This Thill same o officer lc r drove droe away anny sonic Nome some women omen bringing a sheet to H serve re as aN a n shroud for forthe forthe the h hero ro and said kicking tb the body Get that out of my way ay as nil quick ns nil possible The next Dext day the Germans took away the airplane airplane air air- plane and the time Inhabitants Inhabitant also nilio saw nw another American Amer Anier- the town apparently lean ican aviator a fly ay very sery low lor over oer lookIng for the disappeared d aviator Signatures SI of the following Inhabitants R Rene De Colin Auguste Cuny Henry Gu Gustave Gus Gm- tave Eugene Odile Richard Victor Ictor Valentin Garra Gustave Gutave Garra Leon Henry Delbart Gabriel Camille Phillip of The undersigned themselves placed d the time body and und conducted It to the the in In lor on the wagon ngon cemetery E VOLINER NICHOLAS Seen for tor legalization of signatures signature's placed above 15 IS 15 1011 1019 TIlE THE 1 MAYOR Yon Seal of Auguste he hurried h bo buck k to his squadron find and begged to be I ordered to 10 o go out In the d dusk sk of he the evening e surprise surprise surprise sur sur- prise and destroy it i It was found til that t his machines machine was waR not In con eon condition HUon for this his flight I Luke uke got another airplane and thou though h he was unfamiliar with this this machine and and uncertain of the reliability reliability of Its motor motor he he determined to rl risk k It tor for night flying ng With e express Instructions not riot to att attempt to go JO godown godown down oa on the ball balloon on until 7 Luke Lule left his home homefield field at Hember ourt accompanied by Wehner As before and pre precisely at In the le dus dusk of of thae the tha comrades the ne- ne aerodrome drome watched e evening evening his on n the on fall in flames giving ln Luke his third official victory of or the time da dayI dayI day I have hn all nIl the time details 0 of his meteoric career For his glorious work on September 29 9 1918 the i ida da day of hi his death I he e was Wl awarded the me medal lal He lie started out to destroy three Hun observation bal bail loons When n nearly overhead he lie was was attacked by ten ten enemy mn machines lines He Ile engaged nil all of them single handed d and crashed two at of o the ten Then h he d out dropped out of control as It It- g PI rl but Jut most mot likely only pretending to be so When he reached the lie level of the balloons he tie shot hot U eni down one after another In flames s All three Ih cof of them The anti aircraft guns gun were very er busy husy about ut the sec sec- st cond c- c ond balloon After that he ht disappeared t The Americans made every effort to spire solve the mystery of Lukes Luke's disappearance Th report report of Captain Staten and of citizens of Murvaux Mur given gl herewith show the situation of o one e stage i ge of the proceedings The remains of the ithe intrepid nil air fighter wore were ra buried burled close by In a grave grae marked an as that of an on Unknown Un Unknown known wn American aviator a aviator It was teas wa stripped as the Germans thought of e ld identify Identify identify iden Iden- It but they overlooked a n wrist watch which was found later and sent f to the Identification bureau at Paris Then Then- en- en F FW W y lV f WP 4 t service went to Murvaux aux and made an nn investigation which seemed to pi on prove lest tb ho body was that of ot Lieutenant Luke I J |