Show flag caused boys boy s death new york entangled in the folds of 0 a large american flag which he had bad waved as he made a parachute drop of 2 feet from a balloon at hillside park near passaic N J late sunday frederick L wood an 18 cearold ear old aeronaut of new haven conn fell helpless in the passaic river and alid was drowned it was while the parachute was nas only a hundred feet above the river that a puff of air caught the floating flag and wrapped it t around wood s legs the aeronaut struggled to free himself from its en te eloping loping told fold but tailed failed I 1 |