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PAGE FOUR Twenty-Five Aviators Owe Lives to The U. S. Army’s New Parachutes THEY CHEATED DEATHWITH A PARACHUTE Twenty-Five Aviators Have Been Saved by the Use of the U. S. Army Parachute DAYTON, 0., Nc”. 30.- Twenty -1 ur men and a woman are walking l. earth today when they should be uead. A little package of folded silk and turd is all that stood between them and destruction. Each one, dropping like a, plum met through empty space, pulled a little brass ring and turned a head long plunge to instant death 'into a gentle glide to safety. These 25 are aviators who were .saved by the U. S. army parachute —a development that adds a new ( thrill to flying butt at the same time, reduces the risk. McCook Field developed this para chute, and it is proud of it. The field records here give the details on the 25 lives it has - saved. The offi cers tell you proudly that England l>as scrapped its own parachute in favor of the McCook Field type. It was over fjve years ago that the first life was saved by one of these devices. The tabulation, of course, does not include test leaps, but only cakes where it was a ease of Use a parachute or die. W. C. O'Connor came to the field ’ heke to demonstrate another type of I parachute, lie was taken aloft by ' an army aviator, with his own para chute strapped to his back. Before he jumped, however, oficials here in- i sistted that he also wear an army parachute. Reclmtantly he consent- I ed. , At 2000 feet he jumped. Down he dropped like a stone, trying fran- I ticilly to get his own parachute to > open. It wouldn’t. When he was a s ant 500 feet from the gTound he i pulled the cord on the army para- I e Ute. It opened at once and he de- i s. ended safely. The official records of parachute ■ jumps read like fiction. Lieut. H. R. Harris, for example, ; t< ok up a new monoplane for a test i fight. At a 2500-foot altitude.—a tad place for accidents—-a wing gave way. Harris stood up and pull ed the cord on his parachute. It ■ opened, he was blown clear of the plane and descended gently to a grape arbor, while his plane fell with ; a crash that could be heard halfway ' to Cincinnati. Lieut. Harris maintains that it’s : highly pleasant to make a parachute jump. "You jump out of the plant* and ' ’ ave no sense of speeding through space, except for the difficulty in 1 1 eathing,” he says. “Your arms . id legs are absolutely free, body ; tion is not hindered in any way. 5 "u just sort of rest in the wind. "When the 'chute opens you feel a j< rk, but it is the most pleasing jerk . fellow ever had. Then you fasten our eyes somewhere near the center of the chute, to avoid the swaying n otion that makes a fellow sick, and just float down.” But he admitted that it's mighty thrilling, ahyhow. When you land re explains; you strike thg ground with a force equivalent to what you would feel if you jumped from a six foot elevation. An exhibition jumper named C. Bottonfield last year went up at Kelly Field, Texas, to edify a throng with a "leap for life.” He wore five of his own parachutes. Just before Fe went up the army officer got him to add an army parachute to his equipment. He jumped at 4000 feet. One af t r another, he pulled the cords on h's own parachutes. They had be come entangled with one another end not pne would open. The army ‘Feel Glorious! \ Nicest Laxative, ; D o n’t stay headachy, bilious, constipated, sick! One or two pleas ant, candy-like 'Cascarets’’ any time will gently stimulate your liver and start your bowels. Then you will both look and feel clean, sweet, refreshed; your bead clear, stomach right, tongue pink and your akin roay. Because cheery, harmhss "Casca reU” never gripe, inconvenience or atckan, ’’Csacan-u" has become the iargMt selling laxative la Ue world for bm, women, chlMrva Bay a box at any drugstore r V ’V 1 ’7 ’ 7.7 W M -WOW S & k Wf ? parachute saved him. Walter Lees, veteran . ivilian pilot I has the distinction of making Lhe shortest leap on record. A leap from ■ a great height is the safest of ail -for I then the parachute has plenty of time 'to vpen. But Lees had to jump i when his controls jammed at an al itaude of only 150 feet. He made it | in safety. I , Ligut. John A. Macready, hero of I the non-stop transcontinental flight lis the only aviator known to have . made a parachute jump at night, j When his engine went dead at 5000 licet, he jumped into the ' darkness. I His parachute opened safely, and as lhe glidgd down he saw his plane , burst into flames and drop down like .a plummet beneath him. Usually when two planes collide in i mid-air it means certain death for jloth pilots. But parachutes saved Lieut. C. I). McAllister and Cadet C. A.L inlburgh, at Kelly Field, early mis year when their planes'came to gether 5000 feet up. Both planes fell an dwere broken to fragments. Lindburgh made a second leap for life less than four months later, com ing down from 2000 feet after his control jammed. j ’ The one woman to be saved by a parachute had as thrilling an expe rience as any aviator that ever lived She was Mrs. B. E. MacFarland, and she went up at Cincinnati in June 1925, to make an exhibition jump with her own parachute. When she jumped from the plane the cords of her parachute became caught in the landing gear and she swung suspend ed beneath the plane. Fortunately she wore an army ’chute as an aded precaution. So she cut the cords of her own parachute, opened the army one and came float ing down to safety. Most exciting of all, however, was the leap taken by Lieut. Leonard S. Flo at Selfridge Field, Mich., on No vember 11 last. Flo had to jump at a 400-foot altitude when his mo • tor stalled—and then he couldn't j find the ring to open his parachute', i Down he dropped, head first—with | only 400 feet to fall! He searched land fumbled desperately—and just i 150 feet from the ground he found | the ring, opened the ’chute and came 'down safely. These are just a few of the stories i they’ll tell you at McCook Field, j They’re proud of their parachute ■ here. , RIOT AVERTED SUNDAY NIGHT IN LOCAL NEGRO CAFE j (Continued From Page One.) I knocked Green down, taking his gun i away from him. Green claims he I did not fire the gun, that the neg.-i I took the gun away from Green and BAYER ASPIRIN PROVED SAFE Take without Fear as Told in “Bayer” Package / X kO\ Does not affect) the Heart I n lees voti see the ’Bayer Cross’’ oi iwckag'v or on tablets yuu are not getting th< Bayer Aspirin rsfi •>.' millions ami pre „ In :I •. sii-'aua over twwity -11.. years for < olds Ib-adache S. untie Lumbago liM/tba.-be Llieiiinslism Neuralgia Pain, Pain I nch uniinihcii ’ Bayar" package routs.nv pro. eli direction*. Heiuly boxes of twelve tablets coat few ■ vine HruggiMs also ael) lollies id -t unu ltd). > A Wv7 *<***s■>'? ' Will ! .wj * 4 ' I I // :; 4h|H ■ all I ■■■■ W'‘ . r / ' • - .. ; •7■" Vi 1 . Above, an aviator letting his para-| i chute pull him from th'- wing of an ■army plane. Below, the parachute! I opening. I ired it at Green. j Officer Silver testified that he I rushed to tne scene of the battle where he found something like a hundred negroes gathered, many of them fighting and that but for his presence the two negro soldiers would have been lynched by the en furiated local negroes. Silver fol lowed Green up the alley in the dark. Half way up the alley he was met by a local negro who handed the officer Green’s army gun with the statement that he had taken it from Green af ter Green had shot at him. Officer Silver found Green a few minutes la ter, hidden in a lot of old rubbish. He arrested Green. | Officer Glawson heard of the row . and went to Silver’s aid. The two | fficers caught Perry and with Green ! ook them to the jail. After the trial this morning it was l developed that \V. H. Pantone also : was present at the fracas, having gone to aid the police. Mr. Pantone said there was a third negro soldier who had a gun leveled on Silver, but I Pantone covered the third negro, | 'reventing him from shooting the of ficer. This third negro escaped, j The gun taken from Green is a' i Colts 45, oh which is inscribed, “U, IS. Property. No. 571720. Model of I 911, U. S. Army.” | To a reporter Green said the pisi tol was the property of another nej gro “now over at Benning.” Green claims that he had the gun illegally, that the gun did not belong to the squad now at the camp. It is understood that Lieutenant J. Earl Custer is now in charge ai JEW® EXTRA SPECIALS TUESDAY ONLY ICEBERG 1 EC LETTUCE JL W» LARGE gM ■■■ C BLEACHED | CELERY Jk pints —— WESSON C OIL SPITZi NBERG M -a APPLES, J V DOZEN .*■ > 5 LBS. I ARGE, SMOOTH J V POTATOES Am > LARGE, A AC FRESH I ll V COCOANUTS dk V 11*4.11." *1 i evMERICUS TIME3-RFCORDER the field, that Captain J. P . Floyd, in command out at the field now, is < '• of the city on army business. No officers from the field or Camp Benning was present at the trial. . Green’s case will go to the grand jury Tuesday and likely will be tried in the Superior Court now in session. A number of minor negro cases came before the mayor and each drew small fines or a few days on the gang. Mayor Poole and a committee of citizens were assured some weeks ago by the commanding officer at Southern Field that no site arm? were issued the negroes now station- SURE YOU WANT IT And the only possible way that you or anybody else can get it is on the popular coupon plan which is now being conducted in this city only by your favorite newspaper, the Times - Recorder You want this precious volume of dear old favorite songs when the folks return to the old heme for a visit—when company comes—when old friends call-—when you get to- | gether to recall the delightful experiences and scenes of bygone days. Here Is The Way To Get It I _ . ... ;. z r -■.- ’ * [ ? ' d clip three esupms such as ’ 'f the one printed on anomer | ■ f • "■ ■ ■ ■ < .V . ; pa2C ,ssue ’ a s ■ present them at the office i <3 n ' I of this newspaper, togeth- • «r with only qq 'i: bi a fe ?w HI ' s?pc UKReMI orders by mail n Mail orders will I.? (i"e«l MctU &WWrlow!)ahg F-t 0,1 die same terms when aa accompanied by postage K| named in the Song Bock *-A‘ --. ' ■'■' H Coupon. liftfH I GET I NOW Ri Th.* offer will positive ly be withdrawn v.’-.c-. supply of so z; 'WiYrJO books is exhausted, to £h|l ■BMMMgypgTgi ACT TODAY Beautifully Bound, Maroon Cloth, Lettered in Gilt. • '.♦*.' *’.>•»£»« ~*4 When Red Played His Last College Ga me i-u -«■ wufTlffcfett „, jHkk' -X U . ! 4 ~u - T ||v ; lifc $<V fro ’ll- vWI • ’fMx Mfrjl * - ' i » 5 ed at the camp. The conference was •.-ought following tne killing on the I streets here of a negro soldier. At j that time it was claimed that the I dead negro had a pistol. Army of ’ t icers denied that he was armed. Evidence gathered this morning indicates that the negroes are not j issued guns and that it is against | army regulations for them to carry I site arms, but of them do se icure and carry guns into the city. • The rucas last night reveals that at I least two negro soldiers were arm- I ed, were drinkikrtg and inside the .limits of the city. This was the 'contention of the citizens who inter ; viewed the commander several weeks ago, requesting that the negroes be allowed in the city after nine • o’clock at night. MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 50. 1925 Red Grange playe dhis last college game against Ohio State Univer.-nty. leading his team to a 14 to 9 vic-; tory and playing a magnificent game. Photo shows him breaking away for j A COMPLETE LINE OF BEAUTIFUL HAND ENGRAVED BRASS AND COPPERWARE Bread I rays, Cake Trays, Sandwich Trays, Serving Frays and Toasting Forks. We also have in thi» line of Brass and Copperware beautiful Vases which are also hand engraved. Mrs. Garner’s Hair Dressing Parlor LAMAR STREET a 20-yard gain in the first quarter? He is seen .It the extreme right, and right in front of him, Britton, Hli ■ nois fullback, is lunging to take an : Ohio played out of his way. 1