Viewing page 22 of 39

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

SPENCER'S LEAP THRILLS 25,000

PILOT BAILS OUT 2 MILES OVER AIRPORT

Wins Race to Earth in Beating Opponent By Five Minutes

Five thousand air-minded Race citizens were among the 30,000 persons who jammed Harlem airport at Eighty-seventh street and Harlem avenue Sunday afternoon to witness a host of thrills supplied by Race and white amateur pilots. 
    Although the meet was restricted to planes not exceeding 40 horsepower spectators were treated to practically everything in the book in the way of air performances splendidly executed by the 48 pilots entered in various events. 
     Loops, wing-overs, barrel rolls, power dives, spirals and immelmans they all went when the winged wagons came on the scene. 

Wins Chute Race
    The highlight exhibition of the meet was a parachute race between Chauncey E. Spencer, young Race pilot of Lynchburg Va., and Sidney Ruben (white), both students of the Aeronautical university, 1938 S, Michigan avenue. 
    It was Spencer's fourth leap and in beating Ruben back to earth by fully five minutes from an elevation of over two and one half miles, the Lynchburg Youth bailed out and plummeted nearly two miles of the distance before pulling his rip-cord. 
    Spectators held their breaths as Spencer hurtled downward, his body scribing tiny arcs in course
See Spencer, Page 2

[[Image]]
AFTER THE GREAT LEAP

"Back to good earth" said Chauncy Spencer, left, and Sydney Ruben, right, shown here among spectators at Harlem Airport last Sunday in Chicago after they had leaped from a plane flying two and one half miles in the air in the show's feature contest which was won by Spencer. Spencer plunged 8,000 feet before he pulled his rip-cord. Mrs. Adeline Ruben, wife of white jumper in center. 

'LIBERTY OR—!'
[[6 images]]
War plans proceed feverishly in Ethiopia as Emperor Haile Selassie modernizes his fighting equipment, but relies on the same strategy when was baffled his empire's foes for thousands of years. Top picture (1) Ethiopian routing planes at Dessye, supply base of the northern army; (2) fighting planes at Addis Ababa, head in readiness in case the Italians get frisky; (3) interior of the airborne at Akaka; (4) Ethiopia's only woman aviatrix, Mobin Gretta, standing between an Ethiopian aviator, Bario, left