Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — The General's Drop. [ARTICLE]

The General's Drop.

I have been told this story of a “flying”, general, who has had experience as a parachutist, says a writer In the London Evening News. A fewdays ago lie was a passenger in an airplane going north.- After a while he picked up a village where he Intended to stop for a day or two, Lnformed the pilot, who at once signifietT his intention of making a landing. “Oh! don’t stop!” shouted the general,- and he- proceeded to attach himself to a parachute and his suitcase to another. He dropped the case overboard and then stepped off hitn~gptf:—General—and down gently and safely t_o earth, while the airplane continued its flight.