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TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1916. * * * * PRICE ONE CENT In Chicago and Suburbs.  Elsewhere TWO Cents.


AIR RAID BLASTS CHICAGO

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ALONG CAME RUTH LAW
-and, with an insouciance that was almost eerie, mounted her aeroplane and went up into Chicago's night skies, in pursuit of another venturesome one, "looping the loop" and making amazing flights and descents with her machine outlined in fire.


THEORETICAL ATTACK AND DEFENSE.
There seems some question as to what happened in Chicago Monday night as a result of the theoretical aeroplane attack.  Aviator THOMPSON maintains that great damage was wrought-postoffice destroyed, bridge across the Chicago River demolished, people killed.  Miss RUTH LAW, aviatrix, who ascended to expose the aviator to the theoretical anti-aircraft guns below, says she did it so effectively that the attacking aviator and his craft were theoretically wrecked before they could hurt the town.
We shall not attempt to decide this difficult question.  However, the experiments suggest several reflections: First, that with a theoretical defense against a theoretical attack, Chicago or any other great city might not come off so badly; secondly, that with a practical defense against a practical attack something might really be done; thirdly, as would most probably be the case, with a theoretical defense against a practical attack there would certainly be something to pay.
This observation as to the futility and probability of our opposing a largely theoretical defense to an eminently practical attack applies not only to attempts by aviators but also to enterprises by the armies and navies of foreign countries.  Congress should grasp this simple but important truth before it is too late.

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IN SPITE of the fact that Aviator Thompson theoretically blew up the Northwestern terminal station Monday night, the train service to Winnetka and other points north never missed once yesterday.
WONDER HOW Highflyer Thompson likes having the Law after him?

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An American Paper for the American
CHICAGO, APRIL 25, 1916.  TUESDAY.
FLYER DROPS 'BOMBS' ON THE LOOP TO SHOW DEFENSE NEEDS 
THOMPSON 'BOMBARDS' CITY: RUTH LAW 'REPULSES THE ENEMY'
PREPARE! WARN "PILLARS OF FIRE BY NIGHT," HURLED BY AVIATORS OVER THE LOOP

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AVIATOR BOMBS LOOP AS LESSON IN U.S. DEFENSE

DeLloyd Thompson Wrecks Postoffice and Rail Terminal and "Cuts Off" Imaginary Army.

ALL IN 12 MINUTES

Pictures Helplessness of Nation's Second City in Own Story of Secret Night Air Raid.

by DE LLOYD THOMPSON.
(The Man Who Did It.)

Your postoffice is a theoretical wreck.
Your beautiful Northwestern station in theory is a mass of tangled steel and stonework.
The imaginary army encamped on the West Side has been cut off from coming to the aid of the small force encamped in Grant Park and my enemy army can alight and seize the center of the city at will.
All this as the result of my little flight of not more than twelve minutes in the darkness over Chicago last night!
AIR RAID PLANS SECRET.
No one, save the few newspaper men let into the secret, knew the evening was other than usual until they heard the hum of my gyro motor 3,000 feet above the city.
In brighter parts of the streets I could see people run out to learn what caused the strange noise and the terrific explosions of the four bombs I dropped.  What an easy prey they would have been to half a bushel of steel arrows I could have dropped!

MICHIGAN AVENUE BY AERO LIGHT, AIR RAIDER, GIRL WHO CHASED HIM

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Above, right-Ruth Law, aviatrix, who defended Chicago against air attack.  The fiery zigzag trail of her aeroplane above Michigan avenue is shown in the picture.  Below, left-De Lloyd Thompson, the air raider, who "attacked" city to furnish U.S. defense argument.

THAT AIR RAID sounded like two press agent's hot-air-paid.

MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1916.
Thousands Cheer as Miss Law Loops the Loop
Thousands of Michigan avenue pedestrians in their Easter raiment saw Miss Ruth Law's biplane as the young aviatrix looped-the-loop in a big black cloud over the lake front yesterday afternoon. 
Miss Law, in a machine built especially for her by Glen Curtiss at Hammondsport, N.Y., made a ten-minute flight from Grant Park, circling over Lake Michigan and the downtown section of the city.
When 2,000 feet from earth the young woman headed the plane toward a cloud and sailed into it until only a faint outline could be seen twisting and turning about.  The crowd held its breath as she came into view again and executed loops and spirals.
A burst of cheers greeted her as she glided swiftly to the ground with a drop almost straight downward from a height of 1,000 feet.
Another flight will be made this afternoon.  To-night, with proper weather conditions, Miss Law will

I had one aeroplane and was up less than a quarter of an hour all told, including the five minutes spent in looping a few loops just to flaunt my safety and their helplessness in the eyes of the astonished persons below.  Yet in that time I theoretically wrecked the postoffice, your biggest railroad station and the principal bridge connecting the loop with the West Side.

ATRIX CHASES "RAIDER"
BY MISS RUTH LAW.
[This plucky aviatrix went up in the air after Thompson, and with magnesium searchlights exposed him to the anti-aircraft guns below.]
Aviator Thompson awfully exaggerated his performance tonight.  Theoretically, he can't say a thing.  He doesn't exist.
The anti-aircraft guns began firing at him three minutes after he appeared, and the report from the war office should read: 
"Another enemy aeroplane was brought down [[?]] guns and fell inside our lines.  The aviator and observer both were killed."
"I didn't fly at the same time as Mr. Thompson because he wouldn't agree to keep south of Jackson boulevard, plainly discernible from above because of the illumination of the Railway Exchange Building.
STARTS AT FULL SPEED.
"When I started it was at full speed, and I rose 4,000 feet in two minutes.  At that height I touched off a magnesium calcium searchlight at the tip of one of the planes.  It radiated 6,000 candle power and illuminated the sky for a radius of 2,000 feet.  This intense white glare, better than a dozen searchlights, is the most powerful known to pyrotechnists.
"The enemy machine was below me theoretically and plainly visible to the waiting gunners.  They couldn't miss him.
FLIES OVER THE LOOP.
"After the enemy had been demolished I continued to fly over the loop, touching off fireworks from time to time.  I looped the loop three times over the park and then lighted the row of torches extending along the length of the bottom plane, a signal that I was coming down.  My assistants set off some flares, and in half a minute I was among them, and the movie man was grinding away.  It was a perfect night for a flight, and, theoretically, Mr. Thompson never will throw another bomb."

FLYER TO THRILL THE CITY
LOOP IN AIR AT GRANT PARK
SHE OUTDARES BIRDS IN CLOUDS
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