Tombstone epitaph., 1918-12-08
STATES SHOULD COMPILE RECORDS OF MEN WHO
 FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM

Every state now would do well to compile a record of its men in army and navy service. and especially of those men who were decorated. who were wounded or were killed in ac- ton. This should be a matter of state pride. on to enlist interest because of love for the men and admiration of their deeds The war department keers records. it is true, but these are not records by state
 It is of especial interest 10 know the records Of men who gave up their lives for their country and those who were wounded In Arizona. unofficial compilers have kept track of most o; the killed and wounded men and the nature of the actions in which their casualties occurred
 The following. for instance. is statement of the casualties sustained by some of the Arizona men:
 From abroad has come word that many of the Arizona men were in the last of the fighting. but that the Ari- zoaa National Guard regiment. the 18th. did not get an opportunity to go into action as an organization. IL was q part of the 40.h division. held back of the lines for depot and re- placement purposes. There seemed. however. to have been policy or at taohing officers from the division to front line organizations. for practice and experience. and thus many Of the commissioned Arizonaas have seen actual battle service. ~ least a rart of the 3f0th artillery went on the line in he American campaign This regi- meut was organized at Camp Funston and had q large number of Arizona members. despite a heavy draft upon them for the Ar.z3na infantry at Camp Kearny
 Thus t happens that most of the casualties reported have been or Ar!- zola men who had volunteered early n the war and who were in many sub divisions of the expeditionary forces. Though nobody has been report ed. there now apeDars TO doubt of the death Of Lieut. Frank Luke. the young aviator from Phoenix. who pctted three balloons in the last flight that took him into the unknown.
 Possibly wi;h fully as large q de .-ae oi glory was the death of Henry Rothrock of Lehi. son of 9 pioneer Phoenix Photographer. He had bee-l in France nine months and was a mechanic in an aviation replacement station While at work on the wing of a machine. a comrade started the engine. probably wi,aou; design. After a short and ove-balanced flight, the machine crashed to the ground. Roth roch. uninjured, rose from w.;ere he had been thrown and ran to the res cue of the man strapped in the seat. Private Arthur Worden of Edna, Cal. Before Worden could be hauled from | the wreckGge. the gasoline tank eX- ' p,oded and both men were in the cen < ter of a torrent of fire. French sol diers gallautly ran to the rescue. to 1 find Worien dead and Rothrock in such condition that he died soon after reaching the hospital.
 Still indefinite is word received of the death in action in France of First Lieut.. James Higley, graduate of a 1 training camp and assigned to the ! infantry l. is understood he was charging at the time, in command o! company. He was a graduate of i the Phoenix high school and of Stan | ford university, son of s. W. Higley of this city. former owner of the Morn ing Republican. He was young man of remarkable promise.
 Lieut. Morgan McDermott, son of Capt William McDermott Of Tucson. has died of wounds received in ac. tion. He was a graduate of the Fort Benjamin Harrison training camp and was serving with the Seventh en. ! gineer regiment. He attended the University of Arizona for a year. later graduating in electricity from Cornell.
 Tn the Argonne Forest fight was killed First Lieut.. Joseph Swift of the machine gun comnanv of the 26ad in.