Show Tara parachute chute jumper Is saved by shoe string coffeyville Coffe K kan an clinging only to I 1 shoe string under the wing of 0 an airplane itlane after his big parachute had fasted to open johnnie howe twenty three Coffe coffeyville pilot won well a fight against death 1000 feet above the fair grounds here from a plane piloted by jay bodow sky who participated in the new york tork spokane air derby recently howe was to mate make a leap that would climax an afternoons entertainment over the fair grounds he swung out over the lower wing and pulled a string bow knot to open the parachute bag three feet below the wing he was jerked to a stop only one side of the bag had bad opened then the shroud cords fell from the bag and became hopelessly entangled about his big body for the bag to opened then would have spoiled dis aster carefully inowe climbed upward and grasped the loose end of the shoe string which was whipped away several times by the rush ol of wind before he could wrap it around his hand band with the string cutting into his bis hand howe pulled himself upward grasping the canvas bag and then the edge ot of the wing ing almost exhausted howe rested himself momentarily with hla big chin on the edge of the wing as pilot bodow i sky who had had bad a similar experience before held the plain steady then alae climbed to safety on the wing he was suffering from nervous exhaustion haust ha lon when the plane landed lande and bad to be carried to a motor car c r |