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[THEY CHEATED D EATH ?Ti&ienty-Fivc A viators Owe Lives to U. S. Army's New Parachute n. by Tit AiMiml Dec. 4. ? Twenty-foui I* ft- woman are walking :ta today when they nhould d. little package of folded silk rd Is all that stood between and destruction. b one. dropping like a plum hrough empty apace, pulled a brass ring and turned n mg plunge to instant death 'a gentle glide to Hafety. ?p!5 are aviators who were by the 17. 8. army para development that addH u thrill to flying but. at the time, reduces the risk. ?pPleld developed this .01?, and It Is proud of it. field records here give the de the 2 5 llve? it has saved, leers tell you proudly that nd has scrapped Its own par ef In favor of the McCook tJVm *over five years ago that [t life was saved by one of vices. The tabulation, of f\ does not Include test but only cases where it was of. use a parachute or die. C. O'Connor came to the here to demonstrate another of parachute. He was taken tyr an army aviator, with his parachute strupped to his ? Before he Jumped, however, rllt here Insisted that he also oU'krmy parachute. Iteluct ?tly he consented. l.At 2,000 feet he Jumped. Down Bjlf'bpped like a stone, trying Mhtlcally to get his own para Inite to open. It wouldn't. When b was a scant GOO feet from the hound he pulled the cord on the Hply parachute. It opened at ||Ce and he descended sately. I'The official records of purn Mfb* J?mps read like fiction. L,L*ieut. H. K. Harris, for example. ^Ok .up a new monoplane for a M flight. At a 2.500 foot altl bad place for nccldents ? | g gave way. Harris stood * polled the cord on his par e. It opened, he was blown it of the plane and descended S~TtlX tfl a grape arbor, while his be fell with a crash that could Ffcoard halfway to Cincinnati. . Five Fall Him BJbut. Harris maintains that ^highly pleasant to make n RICH LEARNED IN RADIO TESTS | Willi" ,Sl; lift Covering Kntirr ??#r Give Many Iiiler Mling Olht rvulioiiH By ROBKHT MAC K " Wtat. mi. By TM A<MHNl htgton, Dec. 4. ? The opln n expressed that listeners near a broadcasting station not able to hear the signals ~ as listeners living at great ,nces has been verified by of actual tests conducted hy of StnndardH on the It of KDKA. Pittsburgh. A c fo the report on the testn, ed by C. M. Jansky. Jr.. de public today, there are lying somewhere between iundred and two hundred ".from the station, at which are actually less re at greater distances. {^Interesting facts con the phenomena of broad plgnalH gained through the f, |Whlch Included 8.500, re by 101 observers be ust 1, 1922, to August ore the following: ?The worst atmospheric* found to occur in June and , In February, with the next | ,hs In the following or- 1 [arch, January. November, her. May, October. April, ist. July and Boptember. iThe worst fading, was en ln October, and the Itt. February with the fading _ "iWg In the following order: I^July, March, June. January, if, August and Beptembor. at other broadcasting sta- ' form the great obstacles to Ion. with atmospherics fad id other Phenomena follow- ' to that order. That. Inference from other 'tag sets Is worst In April rcely noticeable in July, month of ths year for the llatener is February al- ! on accaslons in other; reception was generally than certain times In win ifhs. The tests in which j Is based form the most ive study of broadcast slg- ! " attempted In any part of ^fld. The observers were at distances up to 450 4 | parachute jump. "You jump out of the plane unit have 110 sense of speeding through space, except for the difficulty in breathing',' he says. "Your armn ami legs nr- abK<.!ulely free, body action hi not hindered in any way. 'You j 11 si Hort of rent in tin* wind. "When the Yhule opens you feel a Jerk, hut it Ih (lie most ( pleasing jerk a fellow ever had. : Then you fasten your eyes some- , where near the center of the chute, i lo avoid the swaying motion that makes a fellow nick, and just I i float down." Hut he admitted that it's mighty < thrilling, anyhow. When you land, lie explains, you strike the ground with a force equivalent to1 what you would fed if you j jumped from a six-foot elevation. | An exhibition jumper mimed C. [Dot loin field hint year went up at i Kelly Field, Tpxiis, to edify a Ithrong Willi a "leap for life." He: wore live -of his own parachutes. > Just before be h- nt up the Army officers got him to add an Ariny parachute to Ills equipment. Ilo Jumped at 4.000 feet. One j utter another, he pulled the cords | on hi:i own parachutes. They had become entangled with one anoth er and not one would open. The I Army parachute saved him. Only i: no Feat Walter I*ees, veteran civilian ? miles from the KDKA transmit-' ter and reports made that Includ ed. practically every phase of sig nal as it was received, inirlng the testa KI)KA operated with an avorapre of one kilowutt in Its atennao and on wave lengths of flrnt 300 and then 3f0 meters. In commenting on the phenom ena which was noted hot ween 100 and 200 miles from the transmit ter. where at certain points, re 'eeptlon was found to be unusually unreliable. Hip report slates that facts indicating this 'theory were fiotl06<l In preliminary tests made on both KDKA and on WI-B. the station operuted by the University | of Minnesota, on 485 Qltt<ni. A second interesting comment | is to the Affect i hat. with the al location of all stations changed j from the 360 and 400 meter bands . 'on which all stations operated up until May 1923, a very noticeable decltae in Interference from oth i er stations was noted. The tests were continued, from August 1. 1923 to August 1. 1924 and the report on 1he findings for i his period is in the process of preparation. KIIOKK OF OSTICM'H Itoston, Dec. 4.-? Shoes made I from ostrich skins arc helng fea tured In the windows of one of Itoston's large department stores. They are said to be an strong as j calf skin ef soft russet color, with j a peculiar grain and dots that stand in relief. VITAMINS Many grown people do not realize the importance of the right selection of vitamin rich foods to assure a sound body and health. Scott's Emulsion i? the food-tonic rich in vita mins that helps solve nu trition problem*. It sup plies vitamin-nourish ment to build health. ?(?Ott A IV-'wnp. flWmfltkl. N. I. 25-11 Above, an aviator IrttliiK hi* pantrhtrte pull till 11 from the wlnjc of mi Army ptowe. lirlow, the inindiute <>|?entnic. pilot, hiut the distinction of mak* ! In;', the short**Ht leap on record. A leap from a Kreat height In the safest of all. for then the para chute has plenty of time to open. But :..eo* nae :i r?inp when his controls Jammed at an altitude of only 1&0 feet. Ho made It In safety. V Lieut. John A. Maclleady. hero of the nun-stop transcontinental (light. Is the only aviator known to have made a parachute jump at night. When his engine went dead at fi.000 fid, he Jumped Into the darkness. His parachute op ened safely, and as he glided down be saw his plane hurst into fliime? and drop down like a plum met beneath him . Usually whrn two planes col lide In mid-air it means certain death for both pilots. Hut para chute saved IJeut. C. D. McAllis ter and Cadet. C. A. Llndburgh, at Kelly Field, early this year when their planes came together 6,000 feet up. Hotli landed without In juries while their planes fell and were broken to fragments. Llnburgh made a second leap for life leas than .four months la ter, coming down from 2,000 feet after his controls jammed. The one woman to be saved by Wo make a >|?<lalty of WMhln* blank*** and n?IT? Alliemnrle Laundry PflON'K 1*5 * parachute bad as thrilling an experience any aviator that ev er lived. She wan Mrs. B. E. MacFariand, and ahe went up at1 Cincinnati In June, 1925. to mak? an exhibition jump with her own parachute. When ahe Jumped from the plane the cords of her parachute became caught In the, landing gear and aho swung sus- , pended beneath the plane. Cut* Her*elf Ixxwr Fortunately the wore an Army 'chut** uh an added precaution. So ; ahe cut the corda of her own par- i achute, opened the Army one und came floating down to safety. Mont exciting of all, however, was the leap taken by Lieut. Leonard S. Flo at Selfrldge Field. . Michigan, on November 11 last. Flo had to Jump at a 400-foot ul tltude when hi* motor malted ? and then he couldn't And the ring to open his parachute! Down he dropped, head first ? with only 400 feet to fall! He searched and fumbled desperately ? and Just 160 feet from the ground he found the ring, opened the 'chute and came down xafely. ? These ore Just a few of the stor ies they'll tell you at McCook Field. They're proud of their para chute here. TRADE EXPANSION | SALE Now On at \ | Mitchell's j HTIiKKTS J VMMKI) WITH CHKISTMAS SHOI'l'KKS i Chicago, Dec. 4 Holiday trad?* to far exceeding any previous buy In*; period in Chicago. Str^t* an* Jammed though Christmas is ?till three weeks away. Let Us Help You to gel ihe kind of prcMMil that would I ??? ?|)|irr<*iatr?l li \ I li e young and old. Suggest : WASHIMilDN lloMK hiKVAii: TAIII.K KVIVttS \\l? WttlkS IIM'KKT K.NIVivS t'AltYIM; SKI imxok STlSSOKS IIAMM?;r. ii vrrilttr SAW SU A I.I. TOOL sirs FOOII liloi'I'MS Fi.ooit Mors AIIC ItH-'I.K 22 <Ai.uti:i: 1:1 lit: MHOT (a \ tu vn\(i (oat himtim; v MKTs HU.N'TIMi I 'Al*s MTKUli nHSTKI.'S NciNrrh'KM HKDAIi ItlKtiK ami ICOIXKIt SK ATMS A ydfrlt llnrdwni-t* \ /*A 16-18 Wm?*r Ml. 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Tfcttw pcp ?iiT.tii iHPojR Mr nTn-- - ?? a?E VMII1 IVIlSrt -"J hXVESJ 4< ??*-*? BEEN) fcov:o . ? ,-X3 What Are You Going to Do With Your Christmas Savings Check? Your merchant , the one trho has extended yon creilil , is deserving of first consideration uhen you rush your Christmas Sa r ings Check. Your Christmas Sarin#* ( liech affords an oppor tunity to prore your gtHwl uill and place your ac count in flood standing it presents the one big op inntunity to prove heyond a shadow of a doubt that your intentions are above reproach. 1 tm undoubtedly realize that your standing in the community in largely judged by the manner in which you meet your obli gallons of course there is another angle to the situa m lion; namely, are you treating your merchant fairly ? IT'hen you o penal a charge account you agreed to pay your bill when it became due ? no provi % ' sion was made for exten sion of credit; for thai reason alone you should provide for the payment of your account from your Christmas Savings Check The local bureau is com piling a revised credit file which will be in use after January I. Pay your bills mnt' and get your rating right on the records. Retail Merchants Bureau Elizabeth City, North Carolina
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