Arizona republican., 1917-11-05
BUY RUNS AWAY
 TO JUN ARMY
 AVIATION CORPS

Hanging a note on the door-knob of his bedroom door, in which he bade his parents goodbye, Glenn Patton saturday night ran away to war.
 Parental lbiections, lack of age and a former refusal of the army officers fu allow him to enter the officers training camp. did not serve to dampcn ih. enthusiasm of this Phoenix yoang man nor 10 lessen his determination fo serve his country in time Of war.
 The note was as follows
 Dear folks.
 have gone to Fl Paso to try and pass the examination as mechanic in the aviation corps. I know you will feel very bad. but it is for the best, and in a short time you will be proud of me. l have always felt like si-cker and so am clearing my consci- ouce and leaving. l would not go in such a slippery way, but if I waited could not bear to leave. All my suunts ale paId up. sO II aIiy bll..5 come in send them to me. l will let Fou know my address soon, and if l do not make it I will return home and go in business. 1 have a very good kid coming to work Monday. l would advise putting him to work. iiease try and forgive,
 Your loving son,
 GLENN PATTON. Glenn Patten is the son of MT ar'l Mrs F. F. Patton, of 10 North Tenth avenue. The father and sons conduct a grocery store at Tenth avenue and Washington street
 The note was discovered by the boys mother yesterday morning about Il o'clock when she entered his bedroom Her suspicious. previously aroused, that Glenn might be contemplating s lnc sHch action. were confirmed when she discovered that his grir was missing and also his best clothes. Farming to leave the room to inform his father. she saw the note hanging Q thv inside khob. After readinS 1t Sli. scres. ned and alarmed M~. Pat ;un. The mother spent the day in eri-yi'c and Wa, binr, for the j. -n's act, l.3lSn'r. tu become ltcCnciled tu his ascuct.
 Glenn paved the way for his de- lariurc Ly informing his par a1ts on . c .,rv,-iAus day tat i:e expected to sreYd .I. might w.th st friend of his sIaImar BOstrOm. timekeeper for the with whom he frequently visited over night. Glenn assists his father in the grocery store during Jne days.
 Coming from the store on Saturday
 
 and mother at 6: 30 At the conclusion of the meal he announced that he a.ould go to his friends house for the night and kissed his mother.
 Maternal suspicious, either through the warmth of the kiss, or inherent, were aroused. and after the boy Was gone the mother asked the father if it were possible that Gienn could be contemplating such a thing as run ming away to join >ne army, having talked much of the aviation corps and his desire to enter it.
 MT Patton decried any such sus- picioB and sought to allay them on the part of the mother That was the last they saw of the son. He did moi spend the nigh, with his friend, nor Was he again seen by anyone whom the parents could find. How he lett fowa had Eot been learned by them.
 Glenn Patton is only 20 years old, and for that reason had been refused admittance to the officers training camp although he passed fine ex- animation. For the past year he has been talking about the aviation branch ar the army and of his desire to enter lt. He is first-class motor mechanic and has become proficient ih repair ing and operating a motor car and Is au excellent driver.
 iiss failure to get into the officers training camp was a great dissap- pointment to him, according to his rather He then asked their perrals- sion to enter the aviation corps. but the parents refused on account of his age. Repeated requests brought fur tucr refusa.s. The parents had been hureful that the SJn had become rec onciied to the life of q civilian.
 There is one other sOn in the family lc. F. Patton, who also assists in the grNccry store