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Show Motion Picture Actor Falls From Airplane LOS ANGELES, Feb. C Earl Burgess, Bur-gess, a motion picture actor, was killed here when he fell several hundred feet from an airplane on which he was performing in the making of a comedy. com-edy. Burgess was flying with Lieutenant Walter Hawkins, an aviator who had a record of never having' met with an accident. The actor was to cast off la dummy from the plane, but in some manner in attempting this he fell himself. him-self. The camera, men and the director direc-tor thought the falling body was Ihe dummy and continued photographing. They did not discover their mistake until they went to remove the sup--posed dummy from telephone wires j where it had alighted, and dlscoverco iH j lb.it it was Burgess' body. Ill Burgess was a professional "stunt v man" and had been employed in mo ill tion picture work for ten years. Ht 1H , was said to have been the first man 11 to make a successful parachute jump ijl ; from an airplane. |