Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1927 — Page 5

AUG. 18, 1927

DEATH DODGED 1 IN AIR WAITED FOR ACERELOW Dangerous Parachute Leaps Vividly Described by Champion. EDITOR’S NOTE—The thrills of his first parachute Jump and his closest call at? rsrrated in the following article by Ahra F. Starr, king of the Navy’s “Death C%ters. ’ It is the second written exclusively in The Times. BY ALVA F. STARR Chief Petty Officer, U. S. N. *ivy’ Champion Parachute Jumper For NEA Service The biggest thrill I ever got out of parachute jumping was at Chanute Field, Illinois, six years ago. Prior to that time I was in the service at Chicago. It was there that I received ar S. O. S. for volunteers for the parachute department of the air service. I went to Chanute, completed the prescribed training and was taken up over the field In a plane for my graduation “exercises.” As I look back now, after having turned out nine classes df recruits myself, I can appreciate for the first time the sensations I then experienced. To make matters worse I had witnessed only three days previously a Jatal Jump by a close friend of mine. ™ 5,000 Feet Idea! Two of us embryo graduates were flown up to about 3,000 feet. It is never advisable to practice ’chute jumping for beginners at anything lower than 2,500 feet. I would say that 5,000 feet is the ideal altitude. Well, anyway, here we were in the bright August sunlight high up above Chanute Field. The ground never looked so far away and I had never before realized what a nice, comfy and safe place the earth is after all. And in the bargain, my suspense was further heightened by being forced to wait for my companion to leap first. When he received the signal I looked at him. The most hideous expression came over his face. It was ghastly. Grim determination drove him into attempting what he himself believed would be his death. He launched himself Into the air and—then came MY turn. Thrill of Death I must have been suffering from the same fit of desperation as my companion. As I received my signal I drew a deep breath and threw myself savagely from the speeding plane, passing into what seemed eternal darkness. It must have be.n only a sub-con-scious effort thf.t compelled be to jerk the rip-cord and release my parachute. I cannot consciously remember doing so. My first thought afterward was I that dying was not so bad after all, |or a death-like silence prevails around you once you leave the plane. To me this still denoted only one thing—l had been killed. There was not a more surprised or happier person in the world when, after a severe awakening shock on landing in a wheat feild, I found myself walking around absolutely unimpaired. Dropping on Track That was the most vivid jump in my memory. But the most dangerous, as I look at It now, I made a short time later at Jamaica, Long Island. You know I have so gauged myself from constant that, when I am 300 feet above the ground, I can tell within a certain

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definite limit, just where I am going to light. I was dropping fast Just outside Jamaica, near the electrified Pennsylvania Railraod tracks, when to my horror, I saw I was going to alight on the right of way! And there shining up at me were five third rai.s! I could do nothing to save myself and landed squarely on the center of the five. Hurriedly I Jerked my body away to find, to my amazement, that I had been uninjured by the high tension voltage. Down the track came the explanation. He was the foreman of a section gang at work on the roadbed noffar away. "Gosh!” he panted. “That was a close one! We saw you falling and one of jny men ran back to the emergency shut-off switch. He reached it just ten sdeonds before you landed!” MARRIES IN MORGUE Bride Selects Brother’s Undertaking Parlor for Rites WASHINGTON. Aug. 18.—Florence Anne Chambers selected her brother’s undertaking parlor as the scene of her marriage today to Robert E. Tolson. “All my life I’ve lived in the atmosphere of death,” she explained. “As soon as the wedding is over. I’m going to leave it for good.”

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