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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 in the loop' and making amazing flights and descents with her machine out-lined in fire. 

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

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Chicago, April 25, 1916. 
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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Photo by International Film Service.
At the left in this remarkable photograph, taken last night, are De Lloyd Thompson and the aerial Niagara of white flame from his aeroplane as he penned his preparedness warning in the letters of the fire on Chicago's sky. At the right are Miss Ruth Law and three loops of light cast from her machine's searchlight as she showed how air attaches by rival flyers may be repulsed. 

Any other great city might not come off so badly; secondly, that 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 attache 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 by important truth before it is too late.  

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Blackstone, Federal Building and Peoples Gas Attacked; Girl "Loops the Loop." 
Dropping bombs, which, had they been real, would have demolished the Blackstone Hotel, the Peoples Gas Building, the Chicago federal buildings and the Union Station, De Lloyd Thompson, the aviator, startled Chicagoans last night as he flew over the city in an aeroplane, shielded at first by a cloak of darkness and then doing two triple loops with a strong magnesium light burning from the tail of his machine. Thompson made the flight to bring home to the people of Chicago the absolute unpreparedness of the city against an aerial raid.
Shortly after Thompson landed from his flight Miss Ruth Law, in another aeroplane, dashed skyward, and, with a brilliant light, illuminated the loop so that any solid object between her machine and the earth was plainly visible. She made several spirals and a loop-the-loop turn similar to Thompson's. Her object was to illustrate the use of an aeroplane in repelling the attack of a rival plane. Thompson made the first ascension. He circled around Grant Park, out over the lake and then, flying 2,000 feet over the city, headed south. Hesitating over the Blackstone Hotel, he dropped two bombs. 
Spectators could readily imagine the disaster which would have been wrought had the bombs been real and followed their downward course until the roof of the hotel stopped them. Thompson then headed for the postoffice where the performance was repeated with equal effectiveness. Mounting higher, he went to position over the Union Station and two more bombs were dropped. Then the aviator flew into a position overt the Peoples Gas Building; there more bombs were dropped.
After this performance he mounted to a height of 3,500 feet. Flares of magnesium fire were turned and illuminated the sky, showing the aeroplane as it mounted. A sudden twist and another shoot and a comprehensive loop had been made. Three times the aviator went through this maneuver, and then circling in a gigantic spiral, he descended to earth. 
A few minutes later Miss Law sailed from the Northern end of Grant Park.
A crowd of Several thousand watched the maneuvers from Grant Park and other loop spots.   

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 arm can alight and seize the center of the city at will. 
All of this as the result of my little flight of not more than twelve minutes over Chicago last night!
AIR RAID PLANS SECRET.
No one, save the few newspaper men let into the secret, know 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 that I could have dropped!
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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 agents' hot-air-paid.

MONDAY, April 24, 1916.
Thousands Cheer as Miss Lawn 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 build 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 2,0000 feet from each 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 greated her as she glided swiftly to the ground after 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, Mill Law will fly over Grant Park with magnesium flares on her machine.  

[Word blocked] Flyer to Thrill the City Loop in Air at Grant Park 
SHE OUTDARES BIRDS IN CLOUDS
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Miss Ruth Law, un the undaunted girl aviator. She will give [an] exhibition of "lopping the loop" and other air stunts [this] Sunday. 
Miss Ruth Law, only aviatrix for whom a flying machine has been especially built, will open a series of demonstrations in Grant Park Sunday afternoon. To carry out her feats, she has has two machines built by Glen Curtiss at Hammondsport N. Y., the machines being of the model used by the late Lincoln Beachy in all of his spectacular flying.
Among the "stunts' with which Miss Law expects to thrill the city are the "cart wheel," looping the loop, flying upside down, and, as she expresses it, "other freak stunts."
During her flying in Chicago Miss Law will give a night demonstration, including an unusual pyrotechnic display...

peared, and the report from the war office should read:
"Another enemy aeroplane was brought down [cannot read word] guns and fell inside out 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 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 magnesium calcium searchlight at the tip of the planes. It radiated 5,000 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. The 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."

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