Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1920 — GIRL DOES DARING FEAT AT FAIR GOUNDS [ARTICLE]

GIRL DOES DARING FEAT AT FAIR GOUNDS

Crown Point. Ind., June 21.—4 A, young woman stot d on the top plane o ■ a rapidly ‘lyrng aeroplane here yesterday with outstretched arms, ne was about a thousand fee\ up in tl c air watching ’be sporoacu of nnother plane about ’ to fly directly above the one upon' which she Ptood. , From the lower plane of the pursuing plane a rope ladder dangled. It looked like a broken cobweb from the earth. Then as the laddered plane swept above the plane on which the young woman stood, with the rope ladder swaying at an angle of 45 degrees m the wind, the girl leaped from one plane to the other and hung rocking -from the ladder, dangling beneath the aeroplane abovp her. it was the most daring deed ever seen m the county and the thousands of spectators gasped when it was oyer. The young woman was Miss Ethel Dare, of Marion, 0., and is the only woman in the world to hove performed the really desperate feat for a score of things might have happened in the performance. Miss Dare’s feat made, the thrilling auto races tame to the crowd by comparison. .