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imiikMmim NOON EDITION ' ' MYSTERY IN DEATH OF PROSPEROUS MAN IN LEVEE DISTRICT ' NOON EDITION WOMEN'S FIGHT MAY' RESULT IN DEATH OF TWO BABY SHOT - Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the PostofBce'aJf Chicago, DL, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 500 SouthJ?eoriaSt. f tyccs fegccwai 9 398 Tel. Monroe 353. By Mail, Except in Chicago, $3a Year VOL. 3, NO. 254 Chicago, Monday, July 27, 1914 ONE CENT WOMAN WHO FLIRTS WITH DEATH WANTS TO DIE AS HUSBAN Firm In Belief That She Will Meet Same Fate as "John- - ny" Who Plunged to His Death From Sky, Mrs. ' McKey-Bryant Plans to Win Altitude Record. Seattle, Wash., July 27. A pledge made to her ill-fated "husband, killed in a horrible pitch from the sky last year, is keeping Mrs. Alys H. McKey Bryant, aviatrix, in the business of courting a similar fate in an 80-horse-power biplane. "It was his wish," she says, stoic ally, to the pleas of her friends that she discontinue flying, "to have me go ahead after he had gone. -That is reason enough for me. I shall not quit. It is my work my profession. "And when I go" squinting into the blue zenith whence her husband came hurtling on that fatal day in which he was dashed to earth and horribly mangled at Victoria, B. C "I want to go like Johnny did. "Just a little while before we went to Victoria he said to me, If anything happens to me I want you to go ahead just the same with your flights. Make a mark for yourself. I know you can do it, old GirL and it would please me." And so Mrs. Bryant is going ahead. And this year's PoUatch celebra- LU jggg :jjsia$&;. Hr.agaij