Bisbee daily review., 1919-06-01
LUKE FORBIDDEN TO FLY FOR MONTH"; IN VAIN EFFORT TO SAVE ARIzONAN| FROM DARING WHICH CAUSED HIS END.

A recent issue of Golfers Weekly contains a picture of Lieutenant Frank Luke, Jr., the head hero ace" of Phoenix, Ariz., together with the fol lowing story of his last flight:
 LUKE'S LAST FIGHT
 By Sergeant Seth T. Bailey of the
 Stars and Stripes
 As I remember it, it was late in the afternoon of September 29, 1918, when l saw an American avion streaking aero. stthe sky over the Argonne head ed lc g German balloon. The puffs of smoke in the air about him caused b ythe bursting of shrapnel shells, attracted my attention. Would be get the balloon9s The shells were bursting close to the plane. I stopped in my tracks, arrested by the desire to see him through. The plane hovered over the balloon for only a second and then dived straight for the inflated bag Ruppity-pup-pup-pup- It relieved me to know that his machine gun was working was also relieved and thrill ed, when the balloon gradually col lapsed and burst into flames The plane, side-s1ipped, dipped and then rose again, headed straight for another balloon kilometer or so away.
 Again I enjoyed the same sensation of hearing the machine gun talk" to the balloon. The plane side-slipped again, turned the nose for a dive and then shot straight up, side-slipped again and came back at the balloon. Again the machine gun went into ac- tion, and simultaneously the second balloon burst into flames and fell be- hind the German lines
 My eyes followed the balloon down, and when looked again I had lost the plane. Where had he gone? Had hei continued his mad dash straight into the avion-infested country of the enc my-and alone!
 Late that night at divisional head quarteds I was told that Spad had dropped message reading: Look for burning balloons" It was signed luke" According to the report at divisional headquarters, at 5:O5 o'clock that same evening two boche balloons were seen to fall in flames. Seven minutes later, so the observers reported, third was seen to fall.
 Luke was not seen again.
 The final chapter can now be writ ten in the story of Lieut. Frank Luke, Jr., the young Arizona .flyerswho. after a meteoric appearance among the | foremost American ayiators, vanished l from sight over the German lines in the first days of the Argonne drive. His grave has been found in the cem- etery of the little village of Murvaux east of Dun-sur-Meuse.
 Lieutenant Luke scored his first, victory on September 22-the first day of the St Mihiel drive. He was killed seventeen days later On that day he brought down his eighteenth boche. The observers said that he seemed to be possessed by a notion that he must tie Fonck's record in a single season, There was no holding him in check. He picked nights against heavy odds, flew alone when he was under. orders not to, flew at times and under weather conditions when he was supposed to be safe in camp, and toward the end, went scout ing to strange fields for his replenish- ments of gas and ammunition, fearful, if he showed up at his own airdrome, that he would be held there. In fact, on that last day, there were orders out to sentence him a month of ground work as soon as he returned.
 On October Is, a telegram rom the International Red Cross reported him ''kflled in action,'' and late in. Decem- ber1an America soldier. returning to France from a prison camp in Ger many. reported that in the village of Murvaux and the countryside about there had already grown up a legend of a young American flyer who, just before sundown on the fourth day of the great battle, wrought great de- structioR among the German balloons, and who then, mortally wounded, came to earth and, gun in hand. stood off the. enemy until he fell dead in the field. He was buried, they said, in the village church yard. From that le- gend. as enlarged and corrected by the affidavits of 15 French men and women, the Luke Identification has been made. They saw his plane streak