Arizona republican., 1919-06-29
Air Tournament To Establish
 Luke Memorial Field Fund
 PrOVeS To Be Entire Success

were solid steel and whose limbs were silk and linen and finest cotton.
 Warriors of The Sky.
 Here at last, was tournament and these warriors of the sky entered the lists with all the gallantry and ardour of the Knights of former days that tilted with Ivanhoe at Ashby. Strokes of individual valor had now found a field where genius could perform dar- ing exploits and sweep as wide as it would. The Tank, solid iron rhinoc- eros with hell-fire in it's horn, had chugged along and stuck close to na- ture with a heavy scorn of danger but somehow the tank lacked the golden omance of the Crusader on the silken paifrey. Thus the nervous and tenn permental airplane became the epic of the war.
 Out in Arizona, near to freedoms heart, beneath the starry stiffness of the desert night and amidst the rugged scenes of the southwest border which make men self reliant; out in the land of industry and idealism, Frank Luke was born and reared. He knew that the magical key of courage solved life's difficulties and that energy was life's purifier Honor's clear bugle- U o fence. Fresh and young and pure and strong he responded to the call. He become warrior of the sky. He con ceived the grandeur and holiness of l the American cause, and with a pa ] trictic enthusiasm which luminously | burst forth, he mounted his steed of steel lungs and silken wings and flew an eagles flight, bold and forth straigh at the enemies of his country. In the brief circle of seventeen fam ing days of glory, Frank Luke wrote his name forever, among the Stars of Aviation. He left a fame that will never die. He sleeps enwrapped in the American flag and in a wondrous robe of noble romance whose brilliancy is the pride of America.
 D. B. Heard Speaks.
 Dwight B. Heard followed Capt. Ap- pleby, paying an impressive and sin cere tribute to Corporal John Pruitt, and others who died in war. His ad- dress, in part, follows:
 We are here today my friends to pay tribute to the 6S gallant fighting men from Maricopa County who gave their lives that we might live in free dom and security under the flag of this nation that we all love and honor. 1 ''In the case beside me on the plat form are two medals which express the highest tribute which the country can offer it's patriotic sons, the Congress 1 sional Medal or Honor, given for con spicuous gallantry and bravery on the battle field. One of these medals is given to that fearless knight of the air, Lieutenant Frank Luke, and the other to Corporal John H. Prlitt of Al hambra. a mighty fighting man who after accomplishing almost impossible feats of arms was killed by the she'll fire of the Huns in the battle of the
 Argonne on the fourth of October last, the anniversary of his birthday.
 "This wonderful fighting man and inspired patriot, a devoted son, loyal
 friend and an all round wholesome American, was & member of that fam out fighting unit, the Marines, classed by the Huns as the American Devil
 Dogs.
 Arizona Boys Record.
 He fought with unsurpassed gal lantry at Belleau Wood, where on June
 6. the mad rush of the Germans fol
 Paris was checked by the invinciblt
 American Marines, and the drive fol
 the Rhine commenced. He was con
 spicuous for gallatrny in the battle O
 Chateau Thierry and was severely
 gassed but as soon as he was out O
 the hospital, returned with uncon
 querable spirit to the front, and th' day before his death in the great Ar
 gonne battle singlehanded attacked and captured two machine guns anC before the close of the great day cap ! tured forty German prisoners.
 This is the record of the fearless
 Arizona boy whom with his comrade we honor today. Not only should WI honor these men by fitting memorial to their loyalty and valor but in ou lives prove our loyalty to the grea principle of freedom and justice 10 which they fell"
 The memorial address of the evenini was delivered by Justice A. c. Baker and in it simple and impressive hom ,, age was paid to the sterling fightin
 men from Maricopa county who gav
 their lives in war. The address fol lows
 Judge Bakers Address ,, Those who think that I am t weave beautiful rhetorical garmen in which to dress my thoughts relativ , to the memory of the brave and gallan F men who went to the worlds grea war from this county. will be muc disappointed. I am not the maste 0 , language rich elough and vIgorou enough to express the need of prais
 and declare the honor which thes heroic men and their comrades Tn arm t i so gloriously won.
 I Not quite two years ago they lei e us eager in their enthusiasm for tn ' great work that was before then ' They went pouring across a submarin infested sea into France in a wid
 golden stream, and there turned bac the red tide of battle Rhinewart l But for the American soldiers Eng e land, Italy and France would, in m 9 estimation. have been defeated an t crushed.
 y Americans Good as the Best . "The American soldiers were a ', good as the best shock troops of tn
 allies; as good as the Alpini, as goo
 as the blue devils of France; as goo I as the naked-kneed Highlanders T Scotland as good as the best of tn n bulldog breed of New Zealand pr Aus p tralia, and as good as the bravest ( T the Lions litter from England an . Canada IL is claimed that the Trenc < and Italians are best in the. charge Il that the English fight best at bay ali U against desperate odds, but the Amer can soldier is an ideal fighter whetl CT charging or on defense. The .. fought the Jaeger, Saxon, Bavaria Y and Prussian Guardsmen, and droN
 these seasoned veterans from ever n bloody field where they met them, { = could overtake them. They went in' |, action like blue-eyed Vikings. The II bled with smile on their lips or die d with a jest between their teeth. The ? possessed the Puritan steadfastne