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Show CHEERS FOR FORMER SOLDIER J. N. Hoffman, Disabled Ex-Servlce Man, Rescues Woman From Death in Lake Michigan. J. N. Hoffman, former service man, didn't stop to consider the fact that he was only an In different swimmer and that a disability dis-ability Incurred in his army service serv-ice made swimming swim-ming even more difficult for him, when he saw a woman floundering flounder-ing In Lake Michigan, Mich-igan, off Ardmore beach In Chicago. Fully clothed, he rushed Into the 1 ' f " i water, his sole thought that of rescue. Spectators stood on the beach and watched the heroic struggle. For many minutes they feared both Hoffman and the woman would be drowned. It was night, and only by the lights of the beach could the crowd watch the two dark forms bobbing up and down on the water. And there were cheers when Hoffman, exhausted," towed his limp burden onto the beach. The woman declined to divulge her name. She said she had gone out for a drive In, her limousine and decided on Impulse to go swimming before she returned home. She swam beyond the sandbsr and, finding herself In deep water, became panic-stricken and shouted for help. She declared she would have drowned In a few moment" more had not her rescuer reached her. |