The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1928, Page 12

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SLOPE FAIR GIRL PARACHUTE JUMPER » HOPES TO FLY ACROSS ATLANTIC SOON Gene DuRand, 18, Has Thrilled + Crowds in 38 States of ? } Union furns Eyes to Europe After j Having Flown Over United ‘ States (BY CLARICE BELK) Small, dark, and eighteen—that's Miss Gene DuRand, world’s champion woman parachute jumper, who leaps 2,000 feet from the wings of an air- lane each afternoon at the Missouri 10} in Mandan. Wing-walking, rope-ladder work, lane-changing, and parachute jump- ee are all part of the day’s work to Miss DuXand. At 18, she has two years experience in stunt flying and several narrow escapes to her |s eredit. No peril of life or limb holds ny terror for this little dare-devil. At first glance one might take iss DuRand for -~ extremely good- looking little boy. She is slightly ap ch over five feet tall and weighs 910 pounds. In her flying costume, ith her dark hair shingled close, it hard to believe that she is a girl. “Oh, I’ve been all over!” she will Soee's with a wide sweep of a arm. “Thirty-eight states per seen me fly, and I’m going west ‘is fall. George and Harry are try- pe to suade me, but why go back to Flori I've seen all that coun- try, and I want to see all that there is to see. Then I'm going to Eu- Tope.’ eorke Bogart and Harry DuRand fre Miss DuRand’s traveling com- panions and promoters. Mr. Bogart ‘owns the plane from which Miss Du- Rand does her aerial work, while ‘DuRand is the girl's brother. q Wants to Hop Atlantic “{ suppose you are going to fly to too,” the Tribune reporter iss DuRand, jokingly. girl was serious. she said, “they are work- ing on a proposition for me now. I lwant to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone. All I need is the If I can get that I “Afraid of what?” she retorted. is Miss DuRand’s outstand- ling characteristic. She can think of o reason to be afraid. The risk of life means little or nothing to this clear-headed little girl. Two years ago Gene DuRand, then la Minneapolis high school gir!, read f a girl parachute-jumper who had lachieved some note. The story ap- I led to her, and before long she hed down to “Doc” R. D. Elliis, iwith whom she has been flying ever “I don’t know just why I began it ipll,” Miss DuRand said. “I thought { it other girl sized up pretty and if she could do the things did, so could I. And I did.” i Newspapers Interest Her | “I started to take up journalism in PNorth high when I went to school there,” she smiled, when questioned Bs to her unusual interest in newspa- pers. it I found it was too much work,” Miss DuRand added, “and so 1 went into parachute jumping.” Dr. Ellis, who pilots Miss Du- /Rand’s plane, was formerly a prac- ticing phys: in Chicago, but gave Ep his medical work for aeronautics. le is credited with having saved the Nife of his little flying partner in lmore than one near accident, es- ly on one occasion. Miss Du- nd‘s chute caught eight feet below jth ee e wings and she was unable ito climb back to the plane or to loose. Dr. Ellis landed the plane on one wing in a ground loop im order to save the imprisoned girl instant death. Strained arms minor bruises were the only in- i" she suffered. Among other thrills Miss DuRand had during her short experience |an extremely high jump to a small yy off the Florida coast, the sur- Ading waters of which were k-infested. , q Little Bit Worried “I knew I'd be all right if I landed the Gulf of Mexico,” the girl ughed. “Of course, it would be deep and pretty wet, but I 4 swim. My big worry was that HE might land in the little bay off the ‘island where a swimmer had been lost the day before.” Accordingly, Mies DuRand jumped fat an unusually th altitude and ” her chut i brder to affect a landii Miss DuRand will finish the sum- r stunt-flying at various places ind will then a contract with WIVES CAN’T TEACH Youngwood, Pa., Aug. 2.—When the bell tolls in the belfry of the opening of the September term, school children will go back to school and a staff of single teachers. After a heated argument is was decided by directors to har married teachers. =i —— A GUUD SHEPHERD London, Aug. 2.—This good shep- herd, Rev. G. R. Channer, reaped what he had sown. When dismissed recently from the parish of Folke for what he termed “no reason” his flock went with him, and each contributed illing a week to support him for a month, during which time he con- ducted services as usual. AND A WHEELBARROW Murphy (before a jeweler’s shop): How'd you like to have your pick I'd sooner have my little red schoolhouse here at the | boy: Cieerceieniniaaiacnininie 1 : The Old Army Game’ THE EYES HAVE IT! “Do any of you know how to use a knife?” piped an army sergeant at Fort Lincoln Wednesday morn- ing. “You bet,” chorused some 10¢ dashing madly out of the pro- ig tent to answer the “Gen- request. “Are there 20 boys here ready to volunteer? Are you all brave enough to look at the white’s of the enemy’s eyes,” the sergeant de- manded. The whole group moved forward as one man. “Fine,” smiled the sergeant. “You guys there in the front row grab these knives and carve the eyes out of these spuds!” POPULAR POST SONG You're in the army now, You're not behind a plow, You'll never get rich—by digging a ditch, You're in the army now. BRIGHT BOY IS CASUALTY Fort Lincoln’s first casualty was reported at the mess hall. A bss ved ft Rhee oe from Du- luth was ordered to cut 250 loaves of bread for Wednesday dinner. Two slices later the knife slipped and the sea-going soldier suspended work (?) (Editor's Mark) NOTES FOR THE BUGLER By Arnold W. Shutter For many years I’ve served the flag And wandered to and fro And of the Army and its ways Full many things I kno’ b ‘J t Universal Exhibition company. (This contract will take her from linneapolis to Hollywood wh ill double in from a Hi originally f inks, who holds the world’s loop records. When not at the fair, Dr. Ellis and Miss tand take up passengers from a east of Mandan on the Memor- A BIDS ken Schoo! District No. 33 will sealed bids for 3 bus drivers, East, ans vers must furnish bonds. for janitor work. Feceived until August me bos has a right to reject any wits sens. PAUL HOLMES, | 4 ARK E. Wi 34-88-20-3TAE 0-11: BP |. Something like 8,000,000 trees are annually for slegragh and tele- ph wires; we use 500, ‘Not many things now puzzle me That once perplexed me so stopped— Where do the buglers go? marc! And drilled with cannoneers, T’ve thrilled at charging cavalry And worked with engineers; They’ve taught me how to run a plane. I’ve studied radio But one pe still eludes my search— The place where buglers go. They’re never seen upon fatigue They’re never out for drill, But while we sweat, their lousy " notes ‘Come wafting o’er some hill; After I’ve done my trick on earth And seen Hell’s fires aglow, T'll die content, for them at last Tl see where buglers go. CEMETERY DISCOVERED A young fellow from Essex, N. D., who has enrolled in the C. M. camp at Fort Lincoln, awakened in the post graveyard at 3 a. m. today. T’ve seen the doughboys on the /d: He lost no time in scampering back to his tent to roll in with his But here’s one thing that has me |budd ly. After a hard day in camp, the boy had gone to bed tuckered out. Shortly before he awakened he reamed he was riding in an air- plane. His efirst thought upon awakening was that he was in the midst of a nightmare. But the mos- quitoes soon brought him out of the trance. Discovering the soundly, his tent bu the boy and the cot from the tent as steadily as they could and deposited their load in the middle of the ceme- uth sleeping dies had taken ae? fter awakening, the youth would take no chance on returning to the T.|graveyard for his cot during the night. He brought it back to his tent after daybreak. HANDING OUT A LINE The life of a rookie is hard. One newcomer at the C. M. T. camp spent all day ey, visit- ing every officer and office at Fort Lincoln in quest of 40 yards skirmish line which his sergeant had ordered, Another appeared at the post in- firmary in quest of a shirt that would fit him. Two more were sent to the camp stables for 25 pies. But the youth who was sent for the captain’s golf clubs had the toughest task of all. Little did he know that the bag on the captain’s shoulder which so much resembled a golf bag was ony a range-finder. MUST BE SCOTCH Here’s a dyed-in-the-wool Scotch- man, BISMARCK WELCOMES Every Member of the Citizens’ Military Training Camp The merchants and business men whose signatures are listed below take this means of extending their welcome greetings to every member of the Citizens’ Military Training Camp CENTRAL MEAT MARKET: BLACKSTONE BILLIARD PARLOR BARKER BAKING AND CANDY CO. AMERICAN BILLIARD PARLOR KLEIN’S TOGGERY R. T. GROCERY GUSSNER’S GROCERY 8. E. 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