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Auburn Girl Lands on Tent In Parachute Leap at Fair— +-Fat Lady Flees as Gladys Johnson Comes Down in MidwayMiss Gladys Johnson, dlminultlve parachute Jumper from Auburn, who.«Is appearing In exhibitions at the! State fair, landed on ft tent in the jirUci**y when she dropped from a I plane at 11:45 A, M. today, j The Klfl Jumped frorn the pl3n* lilirtcUy over the heads of thousands of persons who were watching her perform stmreAlthough she tugged with all her might on the rapes of the parachute jln nn efforl to guide It bck to the : field inside the race tracks, the wind j whirled her lo the north toward i Onondaga Late.The crowd shouted with excitement | as Lh« girl wes carried clong by the wind, but a sudden shift dropped her I or or the midway. To prevent lauding ' i on the a»s««d thousands in front orithe midway attractions. Miss John.' [son gave a final tug at the “chu-.eV I Hines and came down on the tent j which houses the fat woman 1st a 'midway Bideshow.Badly tangled in the lines of the parachute, ehe remained on the top of the tent until S'mil Roth, manager or the air how, arrived with hHo^iv. to rela»e her and help her down to the ground. Sbe was, uninjured.The midway crowd got a free h»5c at the fat woman, who wobbled.! frightened. from the tent.[ Ernie Hannum tvns piloting the t plane which took Miss Johnson lalnlt,300 Expected At Joint Dinnner Of Two OrdersAbrmt 3Wl are expected to attend the dime: of Armory Lodge o? Odd Fellows and the Junior Order nf American Mechanics Sunday, which j is yiven each year by A. C. Schu-l rnr.cher. The get-together will be ihcld f-*. Milh rariu on the Sense* Ii!v*ir. Efsr Haiti wijir.vlllc.ntrt Wilbur tx chairman Of fir-i rs a semen1-*, William D. Douglas. ,ch.vlr.T.a:i ef reservations, and Charles iF. N:itrinr; Is chairman nf athletic I events anj prize awarding- A prlr.e j will i;c awp.rdcd to the old ini. active i ■ member of each, organization,
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Thu, Sep 04, 1930
Page 19
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