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RUTH LAW WEARING THE UNITED STATES' AVIATOR CORPS UNIFORM, AND RUTH LAW IN HER BIPLANE.
[By Moffett, Chicago and by a staff photographer of the Daily News.]

RUTH LAW LIKES TO FLY.
Five or six years ago while most other girls her age was thinking about parties and beaux and pretty frocks Ruth Law was watching the aeroplanes down at Marblehead.  Her home was in Boston and she had gone through high school there, and fast upon the heels of her graduation came the fever for flying.  No man would listen then to a woman's plea to be taught to fly-that was something beyond the sex, but the pretty, blue-eyed, fair-haired daughter of New England was not to be denied.  She coaxed the instructor of aviation at Marblehead to teach her the rudiments of the art, which she mastered in six weeks and then she began her flights.
Since that time she has passed whole winters on the Florida coast taking up fashionable winter residents as passengers, among them Mrs. Henry Clews; she has won the medal for long distance flying between Chicago and New York; she has soared over the battlefields of France and now she is flying in Chicago to help the allies in their efforts at recruiting.
Yesterday while the kilties marched along the streets her biplane swooped and circled in the air above them throwing down bombs which scattered messages to eligible men to join the colors.  Tomorrow she will go up again to continue her patriotic work.  Just how patriotic that is is told in the fact that she is doing it as a labor of love with no one cent of remuneration, and it is known that her regular price for flying is $1,000 a day.  She is helping Maj. Kenney, who has charge here of the recruiting for the American army.  Later she expects to fly for Uncle Sam in France, and she applied for a commission.
Apparently the morning's experience yesterday had given Miss Law, or Mrs. Charles Oliver, as she is in private life, an appetite, as she was calmly finishing her luncheon in company with her husband when she was asked to talk a little about "how it feels to fly."  The flyer and her manager-husband had just come from the hangar on the lake front where Miss Law's machine is being fitted out with an electric sign which will illuminate the heavens to-morrow night.
"It is only the second time an electric sign has ever been attached to an aeroplane. I used the word 'Liberty' when I circled the Liberty statute in New York the evening after the liberty parade in New York, and to-morrow night I shall have the word 'Enlist' in electric letters under my machine," she said.
There had been no intermediate time for rest or primping after the flight, and Miss Law was still wearing her flying costume, which is the regulation United States army uniform.  At the collar are the eagles which denote the aviation corps.
Miss Law is slight, with little white hands that belie their looks, for she has a strong grip particularly with her right.  She will not confess to any fear of flying, but admits that she does not like to fly over water.  And she carries a lucky stone.  It is a milky opal.  "A gem expert gave me a piece of meteorite which is supposed to be extremely lucky, but I kept on carrying my opal.  It was once set in a ring, the first my husband ever gave me."  This in defiance of the popular superstition that opals are unlucky unless worn by an October child.  Mr. Oliver has charge of his wife's machines and always is the last one to look her plane over before she starts up.  Their trip abroad last year was made for the purpose of studying the advance made in aviation abroad.
It makes a woman thrill with pride to hear this clever, cool headed, very normal and sane woman tell of her achievements.


IT'S ENGLISH, Y'KNOW!
Referring to Uniform, of Course, for Miss Law is Very Much a Yankee.
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MISS RUTH LAW.
Miss Ruth Law, who became of worldwide note last November when she broke the long distance flying record, became a uniformed adjunct of the United States army yesterday.  In the uniform of a United States army flier she will engage in the campaign for recruits.
Under the direction of Capt. Franklin Kenny, in charge of Chicago recruiting, Miss Law is to fly over towns in central west distributing literature of the recruiting department.  Miss Law says there is no established uniform for American fliers and she finds the British uniform the most comfortable and useful.  The boots she is wearing are French and her medal is for her long distance flight.  She also wears the pilot's pin of the entente allies.  She was supplied with her uniform by Capt. Kenny.


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uniform of a United States army regular, Miss Law is planning a number of exhibition flights in various cities, at which she will appeal to the crowds attracted by her flights to enlist in the various branches of the federal service.
Miss Law recently made a trip to the battle lines on the western front and watched the operations of the allied aviators.  The organized operations of the allied forces, particularly the work of the airplanes, so impressed her that she sought a change to fly a military plane herself.  Failing in this she decided on the recruiting campaign.
Although Miss Law will make her flights and her speeches in the army uniform, she plans to supplement it with a special skirt for street wear.  She says she feels quite at home in the army costume, however, as it is very much like the one she has been accustomed to wear when she drives her plane.
The recruiting officers are confident that the appearance of Miss Law and her appeal to the young men of the nation will not be without tangible results in the number of army volunteers.


please tell all your friends.
(Courtesy Henry L. Doherty & Co.)

Yours truly,
RUTH LAW, Aviatrix
Flying for the U.S. Government

CLEVELAND LEADER, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1917.
Ruth Law Soars Over City In 'Liberty Loan' Air Raid
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RUTH LAW STARTS HER FLIGHT OVER CLEVELAND
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FLYING FOR LIBERTY LOANS

Drops 10,000 Paper Pleas Through East End in Thrilling Flight; Starts 2,500-Mile War Bond Journey Today.
Cleveland received a message of liberty from the sky yesterday afternoon.  In a fifteen-minute flight a mile above the housetops shortly before 5 o'clock, Ruth Law, champion aviatrix, piloted her airplane over the eastern half of the city, dropping thousands of paper "bombs" that carried appeals for the purchase of Uncle Sam's liberty bonds.
The course of the flight described a triangle.  Rising into the air from the plant of the National lamp works at Bela park, East Cleveland, Miss Law shot away toward the southwest.  Reaching a point above Luna park she curved toward the north and headed toward Lake Erie.  When nearly a half mile to the south of the lake she turned again and, with the wind at her back raced back to the starting point.

Her Flight Unexpected.
Flying far above the earth the airplane was seen but by a few.  The flight came unexpectedly.  After announcing Sunday that she would not ascend until today, Miss Law, who has chosen Cleveland as the point from which to start on an air journey over many cities of Ohio and neighboring states in behalf of the liberty loan, decided early yesterday afternoon to make a brief flight in her machine.
Only a few hundred employees at Nela park saw the birdwoman, who now holds a record for cross-country flights, as she stepped into her machine on the golf links of the park and was strapped into her seat.  She wore a khaki uniform, with the insignia of the United States army aviation corps on the high collar of her closely buttoned coat.
A wooden box was attached to the rear of the single seat.  It was filled with liberty "bombs"-ten thousand copies of Ruth Law's "message from the sky."

Off With a Whirl.
In a minute she was off.  There was the sudden whirl of the propeller, the popping of the engine like machine guns, and the gigantic bird, released from the score of hands that were holding it, tore away over the green turf at express train speed.
Heading straight west over the field, the great wings suddenly seemed to leap into the air.  There was shout from the throng.  The airplane, which a few seconds before had been close at hand, was climbing upward into space and growing smaller and smaller.  In a few seconds it was a mere speck, shooting southwestward.  Then it vanished.
A second shout arose from the waiting throng ten minutes later.  The speck reappearing high aloft in the northwest.  The airplane circled to the eastern end of the park, and then shot at a sudden incline toward the earth.  The descent was perfect, the machine taking almost identically the same path which preceded its ascent.  The crowd cheered as the aviatrix stepped to the ground.

Rough Going, She Admits.
"It was all right, but pretty rough," she said, as she removed her cap and goggles.  "The wind was heavy,  In the face of it, it took me about twelve minutes to make the trip out, and only about three to come back.  But it was great fun dropping the 'bombs.'  I wonder what the people whom they hit thought."
Miss Law will embark this morning on a journey which is expected to set a new mark among American air pilots.  Leaving Nela Park at 8 o'clock, she will start on a 2,500-mile trip. If successful, it will be the longest continuous flight for an airplane on record.
From Cleveland the aviatrix will fly over a course that will include Warren, Alliance, Massillon, Mansfield and Toledo.  She expects to make the first stop at Mansfield, reaching Toledo late in the afternoon.  Tomorrow morning the route will be from Toledo to Flint, Mich.  Later, she will make flights over the Missouri valley and the southwest, touching the Oklahoma oil field and winding up either at St. Louis or Chicago.