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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 3U, 1919 PAGE TWO 1 3 i ledta! i HIS DUTY. AS BRIE-GEN. WAS ttwr- -vj nnur in nunrinw 9t isiii-' .1 Hi ill hi i i isi' IllltUI- 1111 KHIIh IUI 1 CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR AWARDED TO FRANK LUKE IS GIVEN TO FATHER Jii Impressive Ceremony General Hickok on Behalf of President Presents the Highest Award This Country Can Give and Won By Arizona's Immortal Son Large Crowd Gathers On Capitol Lawn to See Presentation on East Portico Gen. Hickok, Who Present- CAN YOU DIGEST YOUR FOOD? If you cant digest food you get no nutriment from it.

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ing of America by the high school band, with everybody standing uncovered and at attention. Acting Governor McGillan then, in a few words, introduced the chairman, Justice A. C. Baker of the state supreme court. "We are here to witness the confer ring on the meniory of a soldier the greatest honor the country can said Justice Baker, "the Congressional Medal of Honor." Heathen went on into a eulogy of the dead hefo.

Justice Baker's Eulogy "His career lcnight errant of the I sky was brief," said judge Baker. "In seventeen days he took down eighteen Hun balloons or airplanes." Judge' Baker told of Luke's brillian record i and his intrepid victories. "Wherever these things are recount- ed," concluded Judge Baker, "one other thought comes another Arizona boy i received the Congressional medal. Cor- i poral John Pruitt, who single- ded took two machine guns and 40 prisoners." duty, by an act over and above those required in the ordinary line of action. "Such was the case of Frank Luke.

Fortunate are those who had the privilege of knowing him, of having been his associates and comrades. His example will ever be a spur to them, leading them on to a higher conception of duty and sacrifice." Turning to the father of Frank Luke. General Hickok then formally awarded the medaf. The father of the Phoenix hero received the-medal, bowed and re AU that his country could do in recognition of the life that -was laia down in its behalf was paid yesterday by the United States to the glorious memory and everlasting honor of Lieutenant Frank Luke, when the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest tribute this country can render, was presented by Brigadier General Howard K. Hickok, United States army, to Frank Luke, Sr the father, in simple nut expressive ceremonies that were witnessed by ji large gathering of citizens.

Deeply impressive were the exercises at the state capitol that wrote into history the last page of the brilliant career of Arizona's immortal son. America's most imtrepid airman who went to a glorious death in France twenty blazing days during which this wonderful young man made a record that never has been approached and which placed his name on the lips of every aviator in the world. Ceremony is Impressive The presentation ceremony, which began at 4 o'clock, lasted'just an hour. The setting was simple and beau Ufa 1. Members of the Luke family, General Hickok, bis aides and escort of honor, high state officials, friends and comrades of Lieutenant Luke were gathered on the east portico of the capitoL Below on the lawn was a crowd of about 500.

Four companies of high school cadets, under arms, stood at parade rest along the sides of the pavement that stretched to the street, while in the center of the lawn were the Stars and Stripes and the high school colors. The portico was profusely decorated witb flags. A guard of honor, composed of aviators led by Lieutenant W. W. Hearne, Royal Frying corps, was also on the portico.

A beautiful picture of the dead hero -was draped in the national colors. In the center, on the lawn, was stationed the high school band, and opposite was a truck, decorated in the national colors, carrying the singers who were to take part in the program-Luke Family Present Among those occupying seats of honor at the presentation were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Luke, their remaining children; General Hickok, his aide, Lieut L. H- Nachman.

Col. James H. McClintock, E. E. McGillan, acting governor; F.

R. Milnes, secretary to Governor Campbell; Lieut. W. Hearne and a group of returned military aviators as an escort of honor to the Luke family, members of the supreme court, former governors Sloan and Kibbey and Col. William A- Glass-lord.

The ceremonies opened by the play sumed his seat beside the mother of i Brigadier peneral Howard R. Hickok, commander of the Arizona military district, performed one of the last aets of his administration yesterday in the presentation of the Frank Luke congressional medal of honor. The presentation, ceremony was the last in which will rank as a brigadier general of the United; States army. Tomorrow (Jeneral Hickok will turn over the command of this district to Colonel Carna-han of the Twenty-Fifth infantry, the last act he': will perform as a general officer. He: will then go to Fort Bliss to resume his former rank as lieutenant colonel the Seventh cavalry.

The beginning of the war found General Hickok a lieutenant colonel in the regular arrny. and in the urgent need for higbly-ijrained and experienced officers he was taken. were manv other regular army officers of his' rank, serve as a general officer in the new army. Wit the ending of the war and the demobilization of the greater part of the amty he reverts back to his peace-time I rank in the regulars, as other officers who have bad the same experience will do. Served in France General iHickok is a native of St.

Louis, and a graduate of West Point. He; has passed practically all his life in the regular army, ranking as lieutenant colonel of regulars when the ivar broke out. Some months later Colonel Hickok was' ordered to overseas service and entered V.A American general staff college at i.angres. France, the highest institution! established in the army, where officers were trained for highly-important After his graduation from! the staff college lie was assigned to Ihe Fifth (regular) division as its chie of staff. General iHickok served in this capacity during June and July, 191S, at the front with the division.

So satisfactory was his work that the following month; he was ordered back to the United Suites to assist in the organization and; training of the 50 additional draft divisions then being formed. General Hickok was immediately Siven command of the 19th Infantry brigade oi; the Tenth Division, organized at Camp Funston, Kansas, last August. Shortly after, he commanded the troops or the division in their review before Major General Leonard Wood, its commander, when the men of the Tenth, after less than two weeks training together, impressed witnesses as being among the finest and best-trained in the entire array. To Arizona District The armistice was signed while General Hickok's division was still, at the camp, and he remained with his brigade until was demobilized last February. He was then assigned to the command the Arizona military district, which he since has held.

General Hickok yesterday said his administratis in this district had been very quiet. One or two trifling raids by Mexicans having been the only events nearing importance, and these amounted to nothing. General Hickok will relinquish his temporary; rank of brigadier general tomorrow and return to his regiment at El Paso. His place as commander of the district will then be taken by Colonel Carnahan. A singularly appropriate duet, "The Battlefields of France," was sung by Sailor Brown and Billy Cochran, and during its rendering wet eyes were observed jn the crowd, in which women largely predominated; while on the portico Mrs.

Frank Luke, mother of the dead hero, tried bravely to repress her tears. Dean Scarlett's Address "The career of Frank Luke in Franco occasioned no great surprise to his friends," Dean Scarlett said in beginning his address, which paid simple tribute to Luke's memory and recounted incidents of his life. "They had not realized the supreme height to which he would go, but when it came it seemed the natural and inevitable consequence of his career here-" The day Luke left. Dean Scarlett recalled, it was the comment of his friends that Luke would make a great flier "he had the stuff in him." The impression ho left, said the dean, was one of great loyalty, determination and gallant courage. "The boy who here, when captain of his team, in a game against Flagstaff broke his collar bone in the first quarter but steadfastly refused to leave the field, fighting on and finally making the winning touchdown, was the man who in France would come limping home to his airdome, his machine useless, and in a few minutes be sitting in another machine pleading with his commander to go back into the fight." Recalls Brave Acts of Youth Dean Scarlett recalled an incident of Luke's boyhood, when at the risk of his life he saved a boy friend from rOLFERS all! Come to Santa Barbara- the wonder play-place where there are 18-hole golf courses as perfect as Nature and.

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Medal is Beautiful The medal is a beautiful thing, solid gold, and properly inscribed on the reverse side with the name of Frank Luke and the date of the exploit which cost him his life and won the honor. The design is a star, with a medallion in the center signifying Mars, or war, the star surrounded by a wreath, the whole depending from a bar inscribed with the word held in the talons of an eagle with outspread wings. The whole medal hangs from a ribbon of blue, dotted with 13 stars. His Last Brave Act Following is the particular citation for which Frank Luke was awarded the congressional medal of honor, as read yesterday from the war department records by General Hickok: (Page 20, of cable 2369,. April 9, 1919, shows medal of honor posthumously awarded to: Frank Luke.

second lieutenant. 27th Aero Squadron, first pursuit group, air service. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy near ilur-vauz. France, September 29, 191S. After having previously destroyed a number of enemy aircraft within seventeen days, he voluntarily started on a patrol after German observation balloons- Though pursued by eight German planes which were protecting the enemy balloon line, he unhesitatingly attacked and shot down in flames three German balloons, being himself nnder heavy fire from ground batteries and the hostile planes.

Severely wounded, he descended to within fifty meters of the ground, and. flying at this low altitude near the town of Murvaux, opened fire upon enemy troops, killing six and wounding as many more. Forced to make a landing, and surrounded on all sides by the enemy, who called upon him to surrender, he drew his automatic pistol and defended himself gallantly until he fell dead from a wound in the chest. LIEUT. FRANK LUKE, JR.

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Adams and 1st Ave. death in the White River, when the two were returning from a camping trip. Although Luke got across, he plunged back into the stream three times to rescue his companion, who had been swept down the river into a clump of brush where he clung in imminent danger of drowning, and at last succeeded. Frank Luke knew only one moment of depression in France, the dean said, and that came when his friend and comrade flier. Lieutenant Weimer, failed to return from a flight they had taken together.

"His friends knew he had the stuff," declared Dean Scarlett. "His life, was the logical outcome of his life here." The speaker mentioned that at the outbreak of war young Luke volunteered for the navy, but on account of an attack of pleurisy was told to wait. Three months later he was sent to Rockwell Field. In one of his first flights he attempted to loop the loop in an old training plane not meant for stunts, and fell 1000 feet before his machine would flatten out and recover. He was penalized by being kept on the ground a week, but then he was Just as eager to practice.

He would fly off out of sight and practise, gaining the mastery of his machine. Knew He Would Not Return On his way overseas, when he stopped off here. Dean Scarlett remarked to a friend that he would never return. It was his knowledge of himself, said the dean, the knowledge that he would never give up, that prompted the words. The speaker then sketched vividly the young Arizonan's meteoric career, which began September 19.

the first day of the' all-American drive. A German baloon had held up the American advance by its efficient direction of fire, when Luke, returning from a flight, asked permission to attack it. In spite of protecting planes, he shot it down. From that day on, his career read like a. romance.

There was no holding him. He fought against immense odds, and finally sought other airdromes for his gasoline and shelter, fearful that if he returned to his own. he would not be permitted to fly for a time. As Dean Scarlett put it, it was "anvthinfir to SUMME TERM keep the air clean." The young flier PRATT-GILBERT CLUB FROLIC always thought of balloons and airplanes; some new way to send them down. His Last Flight The effect on his comrades of Luke's gallantry was cited by the speaker in the fact that of 50 enemy balloons sent down by American aviators, all but two were accounted for by Luke's pursuit group.

Luke sent down or helped send Ciown nearly 20 of the total. "His effect on the enemy can only be estimated." said Dean Scarlett. "But Uie balloonists would not wait for his attack. They would jump first and look afterward, for they knew he would stl until the balloon was down. The path of glory led into his grave." speaker then recalled Luke's last tilght on the 29th of September.

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