SHOCKS IN THE SKY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5338, 12 October 1928, Page 1

SHOCKS IN THE SKY.

I LOOPING THE LOOP. MEASURES TO CURE DUMB BOY. Unusual andd rastic measures were resort, in an attempt tQ' cure 10-year-old Julius Shafer, -a, dumb Brooklyn bo?'. The patient was strapped to i a s=.eat in an| aeroplane at Curtis's I Field l , and taken for what the boty’s I mqther described as a violent 30 minI -ut.es’ flight- Alas! the treatment fail- | ed, for next day the: boiy was still I dumb, and also suffering from fright. I Mrs Shafer, declared that her physiI cian thought a cure might follow the I unusual experience if, aS he believed, I temporary paralyses of. . the vocal I cords was the real ailment. Yqung I Julius had to be enticed into the I ’plane. The straps; were securely I buckled about his waist, and, as ani added precaution, his hands wore strapped! with double belts'. His elder brother, Irving, jumped out, leaving the youngster in the ’plane ajlone with the pilot. ' I . The ’plane is owned by the Brotok-5 lyn Aeroi Club, and was flown by RL FCullman. According to Mrs Shafed, the piloft instructed to put the machine through all the “'stunts” of which it was capable, including lobps, sideslips, steep bapks, and turns. “I 'Could "tee Julius’s hands sticking up, and I thought he had fainted,” added Mrs Shafer.