Arizona republican., 1919-06-29
Several Thousand Witness Big Program of Flying and Other Events - No Accidents Mar the Tour nament

Tribute. in voice and action was paid last night to the memory of the Mari cCpa county men who lost their lives i1 the war. IL was a simple tribute, yet impressive, given in a worth while program of addresses, musx, motor races and daring flying by Rockwell Field army aviators. And when the program was over at 9 o'clock last night 4,000 persons left the state fair grounds satisfied that the Frank Luke Air Memorial Tournament had been a success.
 The tournament program went off without 8 hitch It was not the pro gram the committee had planned at first, but it was a good one, and the best that could be had Cantain Eddie Tickenbacker and Miss Marguerite Fisher were not there, and the army airplane squadron was reduced to two machines by accidents before the tour nament, but the program mad plenty of added attractions to make up for the losses.
 Many Thrills
 Aside from the memorial addresses by Lieut.. O. r. Johnson. Dwight E. Heard and Judge A. C. Baker. and Sen ator Ashursts address. read by Cap tain L. E. Appleby, of the air service the motor races and the stunt air flying vied for thrills while the Tenth Cav airy band, brought from Fort Hua Cbuca for the tournament, won high praise. The various addresses voiced the keynote of the memorial, however, fOi in them were the words of tribute for 6S fallen service men from Mari copa county, Arizona, the tribute that the thousands at the tournament eX- pressed in their mere attendance.
 The tournament began soon after 6:30 o'clock, though all through the afternoon there were hundreds of people about the grandstands. As evening be- gan the crowds increased until there were fully 4,OO0 people assembled to honor the memory of the 6S gallant young AriZonans from this county who gave their lives for their country and freedom.
 Reads Rickenbacker's Regrets
 Lieut.. O. ?. Johnson, American ace, was the first speaker on the program. taking the place of Captain RiclSe1- packer on the program. Lieut.. Johnson first read telegram from Captain Rickenbacker. his friend and cOmpan- for ace, expressing the latters regret at being unable to attend and wishing the tournament all success. Lieut.. Johnson then thrilled the crowd with tales of aerial warfare as he had ex- perienced it and seen it.
 Enlisting early in the war. Lieut. Johnson got his training in Canada and England, and then. although in the American air service. served through out with British squadrons at the front He was among the first Americans to win the title of ace by shooting down five Hun planes, and after taking part in combat after combat at the front was wounded in a general aerial action last September.
 Tribute to luke by Ace
 Lieut. Johnsons talk was well re- ceived by the crowd, and his story was intensely interesting. He told of the daily lives of the flying men, the traits they developed and the daring they displayed. His own thrilling experi- ences merged into the general story ot the flying service at the front. Ther he told of how the German balloons were downed-the most dangerous feats the fliers could attempt, for to attacl balloons meant to fly through two circles of shell fire, in plain view O. the enemy, and often also entailed . general engagement with German pa. trol planes.
 In Lieut. Frank Luke, said Lieut. Johnson, the allies had a man who wa. he greatest and most successful nunte of balloons that the war produced. Int Phoenix ace was prNised highly by th' speaking ace, whQ paid him ampl honor. And in conclusion Lieut.. John sor voiced the sentiment of every serv ico man at the tournament: '1t make me glad to know you are honoring tn, memory of the dead who lie in France
 Ashursts Address
 Lieut.. Johnson was followed by Cap tain Appleby, H. D. McVay chairman of the committee, acting as chairman o the meeting. Captain Appleby req, Senator Ashurst's tribute to the dead the address which follows:
 When the great war broke out an, Won Kluck's legions with cynical kultu crossed the Belgic border, the Belgian with a valor unparalleled in histor, walked the via dolorosa that led t duty, death and glory: vet no individ ual strokes of genius were exhibited.
 La Belle France. with a bravery be yond the range of eulogy, was the nex 10 meet the impact of the Germal . hordes. General Foch sent his laconi message; My right is crushed, m left is broken, I shall attack with m center" but still there were no indi yidual strokes of genius and valor.
 
 gene. The powerful British armad then melted away into the mists of tn North Sea, and lighthouses along tn Irish and Scottish coasts that by nigh had pierced the darkness with friendl fingers of light, and guided storm tossed ships to harbor and to safety were darkened
 "Cavslry of the Clouds"
 Europe resounded to the tramp c millions of armed men. Energies C war were assembled and projected wit scientific precision. The color, pom nnd circumstance attendant upon wa gave way 10 mathematics and chem istry. There was the marshaling ( millions of men, of machinery, ( money, of ships, but save now and the for the dash oe submarine chasers an destroyers that cleft asunder tn tumbling pillows there was no the atricalism to the great war. It wa drab and unlovely. The touches of re manticism and knight -errantry ar peared to have faded from moder warfare, and it seemed that all oppor tunity for personal valor, for person; initiative and for flashes of individu: genius were swallowed up or smothere in the machine methods of war maxim which deployed the soldiers by masse armies, by divisions and by brigades.
 "But as the great war still furth progressed there suddenly shot forth romantic coloring, a brilliant penci ing. It was the Cavalry of u Clouds" It was the aviator. who le the smoke and dust and fog of ear far below him and sailed to Alpine a titudes with eye that never wink and wing that never tired. These ay