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Show Flag Caused Boy's Death. Now York. Kntnngled in tho folds of n largo Amorlcnn Hag, which ho had waved as ho mado a parachute drop or 2,000 foot from a balloon at Hlllsldo park, near Passaic, N, J lato Sunday, Frederick L. Wood, an 38-year-old aoronaut ot Now Haven, Conn., foil helpless in the Passaic river and was drowned. It was while tho parachute was only a hundred f(,ot nhovo tho rivor, that a puff of air caught the floating flag and wrapped It around Wood's legs, Tho aeronaut struggled to freo hlmsolf from its on-Yolnplng on-Yolnplng folds, but failed |