Arizona republican., 1919-02-19

1sl9; copyright 1919 by the trioune eompanyl.
 PARIS, Feb. 1S.-His name was Frank Luke of Arizona and he swatted the sausage balloons like We kill sum mer flies at home.
 He lived and died in forty three blazing days of glory, and in this brief arc he wrote his name forever among the stars of aviation.
 They have just found his lonely grave near Murvaux, where he fell be- hind the German lines. He had been buried like a doe.. But on it's way to Washington is the record of his Valor and his bunkies of the skies will lay you ten to one that he gets a cross from congress.
 One of them told last night, in a little French cafe, where fighting men often gather, of Luke, the sausage killer. With elbows touching elbows we crowded closer in. Let a dapper little captain tell the story as it runs: observation balloons just naturally were pie for that boy. He picked the eyes from the enemy faster than they could blow them up.
 Was a Whirlwind
 "On the rolls they call him Lieut.. Luke from Arizona. His full name was Frank Luke, Jr. On the ground, the boy was a violet, but when he gave her gas and went gunning for balloons he was sure a whirlwInd.
 "When he came to US last August we wondered who let him into the service. In four weeks he was show ina the old timers a new system for .I. 1Fr .rh..e l~. teen days more he knocked down four teen flaming sausages in the Verdun and Toul areas.
 "ln the old days we would go after a Boche balloon when it was riding over some field, surrounded by every anti aircraft aun the Germans ever invented. So it was just like going against machine guns clad in pspamas.
 duke hit upon the idea of tracking the balloons to their lair, at sundown, when they were being lowered and put to bed, in the uncertain light. He would ride behind the clouds all day and then follow them home at night.
 "The next afternoon, just at dusk, out swept Luke, flying low. Zamm! Zamm! From right over the Boohes heads came torrents of incendiary bul- lets and he was gene in the darkenns shadows.
 "ons night near Buzy they tried to gang him with eight Fokkers, and he burned the balloon right under their very noses. Gave Boehe the Razz
 "The next time he caught a flock of aerial guards near LabeuvilIe, and he touched off two balloons and shoi down three planes, all in ten minutes I'll say that boy was going strong.
 "They got Luke on September 29 but not until he had plunged right into a cluster of sausages at Avecourt anc burned three. He got away and came back and let go his bombs, just to give the Boche razz.
 "A lucky shot esuoht him in th' shoulder. He made his landing anc fought it out with an automatic. They next morning rushed his little bush to find Luke cold. The score of tha raid was three balloons destroyed, f Germans killed and one yank."
 "Now listen to this" said the cap. tain, as he drew forth fold of carbor copies.
 "The undersigned equally testify tt having seen the German commandan Of the village of Murvsux refuse |, let him stay placed in the cart whic' was carrying the dead aviator to tn cemetery. The same officer drove away women who came with a shee for a shroud. He kicked the body an, told them to get it away from hi sight. The Germans took his boots leggings and money"
 They Found His Grave
 Then followed the signatures of if teen village witnesses of Luke's las and glorious fight.
 "We found his grave" continued tn captain, evenly. And today, it bear this legend;
 | Second Lieut.. Frank Luke, pilot 0 the Twenty seventh Aero Squadron Nineteen victories. Killed in actio Sept 2e, 1e1s.'
 "Thats all right for fancy stuff an the family album, but if they had lief t to me, I'd have put just one line an , let it go:
 "lieut. Luke, the Sausage Killer"
 Nobody shed any tears. No siIenc followed, as in all we'll kept magazine. Our table was riot of joy at the gen eral introduction of 20-year old Ca madam, who joined the first 30,o0I while still in his Boy Scout uniform had been in every big Canadian show wounded four times, and now, a senior captain of his battalion, wear the D. s. C. and everything. -O--