Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1925, Page 123

WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER 29, 1925 Chief Petty Officer Lyman Ford, one of the Navy's daring parachute jumpers and former member of the crew of the ill-fated Shenandoah, making ready to jump from a plane 2,000 feet in the air. His parachute is strapped over his shoulders. The Sunty Shar Leaping Into Space From A Speeding Plane “The grand and glorious feeling” after the parachute has opened beautifully and the jumper feels himself slowly gliding to the earth. Then there is nothing to worry about except finding a suitable place to make a landing. Dorothy Gish, who vehicle of the movies, release. plays oppos “Clothes M ite Leon Errol in his first starring ake the Pirate,” a First National Shallerass & London from P& A Leon Errol, stage comedian, in GRAPHIC SECTION IN TWO PARTS—PART 2 The leap. A photograph which is regarded as the pic- ture sensation of the year. It shows Chief Petty Officer Ford within two seconds after he leaped from a speeding plane, his parachute not yet open. When the picture was taken Ford was falling at an esti- mated rate of 64 feet per sec- ond. Chief Petty Officer Ford sliding closer and closer to the ground, the world growing big- ger and bigger. Photograph snapped a minute or more after Ford had leaped from the plane. In the descent the parachute has a gentle rocking motion. Shallcross & Londo And then the landing! It is not so easy as it looks, for even with a parachute the jumper is traveling at a rapid pace and the fall must be met with muscles relaxed. The jumper is sometimes treated like the tail of a huge kite, being dragged along the ground by the wind in the parachute. “Clothes Make the Pirate.” Shallcross & Lo Blanche Sweet, whose newest photoplay release is “The New Commandment.” The First National picture is a romance of France before and during the World War.