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[[Fa]]-med Ruth Law Here, [[g]]-rounded by Marriage [[Surrounding Sentences Cutoff]] Post Staff Photo. Ruth Law. Earhart of '17 Returns to Look Upon a Strange City. First Catholic Bi- [[Cutoff]] By Edward T. Folliard. It was June, 1917, and the war spirit was rife in Washington. America had joined the Allies. Now he time had come to raise money for the conflict, and the first Liberty Loan drive was getting under way. To fan the ballyhoo, celebrities were flocking to the city, among them Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Ruth Law. No Ruth Law was not a movie actress. She was an aviator, the third woman aviator in the United States to get a license, and she gave Washington a thrill that June day that it did not soon forget. Today, 18 years later, it may not sound so exciting. People no longer stare aloft at the sound of an airplane motor. Indeed, the Goodyear blimp is as familiar in the sky as the tip of the Washington Monument. But when Ruth Law, a pair of goggles over her blue eyes and a helmet pulled down over her titian hair, flew low over the trolley cars on Pennsylvania avenue and landed on the Ellipse south of the White House- when she did that back in 1917 to help the sale of Liberty bonds, it was something to see and talk about. Confesses to 48. Miss Law came back to Washington yesterday. She came back to find the city transformed, as different from the Washington she had last seen as the modern airplane is from the kite-like think she flew in the early days. She is 48 now, she confessed to a reporter at the Capitol Park Hotel, and she has given up flying; not because she lost her zest for it, but b e c a u s e her husband, Charles Oliver, asked her to stay on the ground. She explained that her husband a promoter of aviation shows and automobile races, had been worrying while she took her "flying circus" around the country in the days following the war. "Those in charge of fairs," she said, "were demanding more and more dangerous stunts all the time. We looped the loop at night, tossed fireworks from our planes, but even this was not enough. "My husband worried so much over the risks I was taking that he finally had a nervous breakdown. It was then he asked me to retire. I felt that, since he had allowed me ten years of the sport, I owed it to him to give it up." Flew in 1912. Miss Law, who now makes her home in Beverly Hills, Calif.. was born in Lynn, Mass.. and she admits that in her childhood she was a "tomboy." Her brother, the late Rodman Law, was the outstanding daredevil of his day and is credited with making the first successful parachute jump in history. It was his exploits, Miss Law said yesterday, that led her to go in for flying. She made her first solo flight August 12, 1912, at a time when Amelia Earhart was running around in pigtails. Thereafter she did exhibition flying all over the country. In 1916 she made a record flight from Chicago to New York. Then, in the following year, she volunteered her services to Uncle Sam and was assigned to campaign for the Liberty Loan drive. From this city she flew to scores of others, dropping dummy bombs to show what might happen unless America won the war. Today Miss Law and her husband will view the great array of Federal buildings that have sprung up along Pennsylvania avenue since that day what she skimmed above the trolley cars. [[Cutoff words surrounding this text]] Policem- Shoots Police Dog [[More cutoff words]]