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Show PARACHUTE JUMPER DROWNED AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, Wash., July 19. Francis L. Thayer, aged. 4.7 years, a parachute jumper known throughout tho west, was drowned here today while making a parachute descent from an aeroplane as part of tho Golden Potlatch. celebration's cele-bration's air sports. Thayer went up in an aeroplane with Johnny Bryant. At a hoight of 600 feet ho dropped from tho aeroplane, his parachute spread above him and the descent began. Almost immediately immediate-ly Thayer broke loose from the para-c'luitc, para-c'luitc, falling into Puget sound. |