Show FLIER NEARLY KILLED IN TESTING COLD SUIT Workman Prevents Tragedy a an as s 50 Professors Look 0 On n Mindedly Absent Absent Mindedly Y I 1 CAMBRIDGE Mass March 7 7 Fifty Fifty minded absent-minded professors scientists scientists scientists and doctors stood stOod today when an attempt to test a newfangled stratosphere suit In in a vat artificially chilled to degrees below z zero ro almost proved fatal for Mark E. E Ridge stunt flier filer who plans to pierce the upper r spaces above London England next month It wasn't cold but carbon dioxide I gas from 1000 pounds of carbonic gas ga that overcame Ridge Just before the lid id was to have bave been clamped over his head for far a minute five test testA A workman whose name nobody bothered to find out saw the flier wave his arm In the nick of time Hes fainted shouted the em em- with the unscientific mind and a. a assisted b by several onlookers pulled Ridge out of the vat Only then did one of the scientists present sniff snit the vapors arising from the dry ice and realize what the trouble was The professors shocked shock d dat at the danger declared that J if Ridge had remained In the vat two minutes he would have been killed The dramatic test was attempted with a suit constructed froman aluminum alum alum- alloy Through perforations in inthe inthe inthe the mask for breathing purposes purpose the gas gu penetrated Ridge undaunted declared that he be will make another test tomorrow using an ammonia freezing process |