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FEBRUARY 6, 1921.
[[caption]] Ruth Law, famous aviatrix, is here shown standing on the top wing of an airplane while it is looping the loop.  As the picture was snapped she was standing, head downward, with arms extended above her hear, in what seems a position  to defy all laws of gravity.  Miss Law can be better seen if the paper is turned upside down.  Underwood. [[/caption]]

[[newsprint photograph]] [[caption]] Woman flyer and her Belgian trench dog photographed today in Rice park. [[/caption]]

2,000 Airplanes Needed By U.S., Ruth Law Says
Machines Must Be Lighter Than Those Now Used, Woman Flyer Asserts - State Fair Contract Sought.
"We need at least 2,000 airplanes instead of the present 200 now forming the aviation branch of the defense forces of America.  They need to be lighter planes.  The whole standard of the government requirements, based on advice that is not the most expert, should be changed."

This is the opinion of Ruth Law, American aviatrix, who is in St. Paul today, and which is based on six years experience in flying, and especially on three months' spent on the ground or in the air studying the way France has developed its aviation arm.

IN ALL PATRIOTISM.
Her suggestions, Miss Law explained, are made in all patriotism, for she has a letter from Brigadier General George O. Squier, chief signal officer, acknowledging her tender of her services to America in case of need.

Miss Law, who really is Mrs. Charles Oliver, her husband who is with her also being her manager, came to St. Paul particularly to see Thomas L Canfield, secretary of the Minnesota State Fair, and possibly a contract for flights at this year's exposition may be signed today. 

With Miss Law also is Pollu, originally a Belgian police dog, transformed by the war into a French trench dog, and the quintessence, even in the cannonadeless land of America, of alertness and vigilance.  He's half wolf, and won't fight unless something is started, "then he's a dandy scrapper," his mistress explained.  Poilu, who also responds to the American name of Harry, used to retrieve caps and helmets for the playful soldiers in the trenches, and he also did full sentry duty twenty - four hours each day.

HAS METAL HELMET.
Poilu also has a little metal helmet all his own to shield him from Prussian bullets.  The helmet has a most woeful effect on the dog's alert ears, however, and in America is worn only on parade.

Miss Law, who flew at the Speedway, prefers to get into actual fighting if it arises in teh present alignment of America with the Allies, rather than to have the government send her to some aviation school as an instructor.

"I am afraid school work, however, will be my portion," she said, "because even in France there are no women aviators in the army.  I made a flight over Paris, during my visit there early this year, and am the first woman to make a flight in that country since the war began.  In recognition, I was given the aero emblem of the French service, the same that is worn by members of the American esquadrille, and all other French aviators."

"The United States requires a six to one safety factor in the construction of its airplanes; that is, the wires must bear a weight six times as great as the customary load.  This
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NORTHWEST ROADS TO IMPROVE LINES FOR WAR PURPOSES

RELEASE IS ASKED FOR LIEBKNECHT
Exact Status of  Trouble Unknown but Indications Point to Big Part of War Plants 
Involved
(By Associated Press.)
Interest in the great French offensive on teh Aisne gives way today to startling news from the interior of Germany.  Veiled though the situation is in the mists of rigid censorship and obscured by the shackled condition of the German press, enough has leaked through to indicate that the German empire is facing a great economic and political crisis.

The latest information received is that 10,000 striking munition workers have engaged in a bloody riot in the great Prussian fortress town of Magdeburg and were only prevented from burning the city hall after a sharp clash with the military.

DEMANDS REVOLUTIONARY.
This story comes from the Dutch frontier with sufficient detail to make its claims to authenticity impressive.  

On its heels arrives the account of demands made by the leaders of the Berlin strike, demands of such a revolutionary character that compliance with them would mean a prompt ending to the militarist regime in the German empire.

Similar demands have not been voiced publicly in Germany since the imprisonment of Dr. Karl Liebknecht on a charge of treason.  It is significant that they include a requisition