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Amelia. Earhart Putnam, America's bcst luIo n woman O'er 'who ,a
t~t bould he mak~ a flight from Hawaii to California he' ill 0 it
trlctJ 010. he arrl ed on today' Lurline
or Haw'all, and ma be a prlva e lee-I
ture to the tudents.
Her husband, George Putnam, is
an ex-new paperman. He like to
make statements in her behalf but
he is hesitant what to call her.
Nervously he says: "Miss Ear- AMELIA PLANNING hart," then he corrects himself,
FLIGHT TO COAST says: •. rs. Putnam." Like his
famed AmeHa, he Is the essence of
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we'll take advantage of the kmd in- Quoted by II. mainland weekly as
vitation of Stanley Kennedy and fly saying about Charles Ulm's ill-fated
in Inter-Island planes, I guess we plane, Star of Australia: "I woul~'t
won't know what we'll be doing for fly to sea in that offee grinder,"
at least two days. We are in no Amelia today wanted the statement
hurry, either to fly around locally contradicted,
or about returning to the mainland. Said she: "I saw the plane for
Why come so far from home and only a minute, had not the slightest
bustle about?" idea that Ulm and his companions
That Amelia and her party plan would be setting of! II. few hours
to do a lot ot t1ying, either Within later for Hawaii. Even 1! I thought he Joined the army air corps at
the Hawai1an I land or" 'omewhere it, which I do not, I would never
in the Pacific" i borne out by the make ueh II. cruel statement." March 1i ld, Cal. Later he et up B.
fact that the Standard 011 Co. here I tunt .1an For i\Iones school of instruction in San Fran-has
on hand a peelal upply of ColorfUl has been the career of cisco, and at it taught an auburn-
1,000 gallon of 87 oct ne ga , like Paul antz, the pilot who i aeeom- haired girl to fly.
that used by Srilithy in his last panying the Putnam, A well known She flew so well that she flew
transpaclfie fight. I west eoa, t commercial pilot, he spe- Into his heart and they were m r-
,nre sed In a gray tailored uit clalizes In stunts for the mOvies. It ried. Ever since, five years ago, they
With brown felt hat. brown shoe was he who made 3'OU hold 'our have flo n as partners.
nd brown bag, for the sake of newsIbreath when he flew through a Mr . Mantz's fir t name Is .1: Ttl£',
photographs A~elia rrmoved her han~ar twice in "Air Mall." "But don't call her that," cautioned
snug hat, alIa 'mg her short fair When he left the coast h . IPalll. "E 'er 'body knows her as
hair the freedom of the wmd. She working in II. movie l\'th we II as 'JUod: after h l' hair."
10~~el~~lan~pr~eft· her exact age- Bee!?' called "We, t pOi~t Of
a ~~ o~Ref~~as 800 fl 'ing hours, Paul
over 30 I near enough, he say . ~.Ir. I~ I h flies an old 1910 _'__' _
Sh does no smoke or dnnk. But- pusher plane, sl t~~g out 1n front
t rmilk is her long uit. She struck at t?,e controls like II. monkey on II.
me a beme: an ou tanding type of box,
flier: Level he dcd. clcan cut and To date he ~as had no aC,cident In
CHIci nt. You canno , ampede her. his stun mg, American bUIlt planes
She tries to Ii\ e what she preaches and their engln s ne,'er let 3'OU
in her lecture. dOl\D if you eep your head;' he
Ideal Woman'~ sport says.
Real flying is fe, she says, and He learned to fly In 1927 When
an Ideal sport for women. By inci-den
from her career. which n w
totals orne 2,000 flying hours, e
tries to persuade 'omen Ii tener to
take up he rt. On the mainland
sh Is constantly flYing, takes her
hu b nd along "11 he happens tCl be
going my way."
Although not t certain,
hopes to I e one publIC I
abo 5 usa he n
L E
~akes 0 Statement As To
Her Plans Upon ~er Ar­rival
This Morning
Plans To Tour Territory By
Air While She and Her
Husband Are Here
By JOHN WILLIA 18
, ill Amelia Earhart Put­nam,
, ho wa the fir t wom­nn
to fly the north Atlantic
ocean, be the fir t woman to
fly from Haw. ij to the main­land?
pon arrival by the Lur­line
in Honolulu to lay i h
her hu b lld, Geor Palmer
Putnam, publi her, of Tew
YOlk, h r fu ed to ~ay,
But with liPr 8h brougbt pI nty
a videnc from which 3'OU may
d1 our 0 conclusion,
1rst, her Lockheed Vega mono­pI
ne, painted a. vivid r d. Powered
'Ith a IiUp rehargcd Wasp SIDl, it
cruise at 160 miles per hour. con­suming
30 gallons of gas hourly,
T plane has normal fuel wing
n' ge of 210 gallons, but in the
hold of the Lurline are more tanks,
vtng the plane a total capacity of
460 gallons, mple gasoline to take
her from Hn all a thp mainland.
Taken To Pearl Harbor
Mrs, Dutnam' pI ne was swung
from the Lurllne's deck oon after
rrl~al a d plac d on a pontoon
upon which it was towed to the fleet
air b e. Pearl H rbor.
ormally 51:' p "n er plane
the Ion ran e tankG will be set in
the pa nger cahm. The cockpit
ha sp ce for onl one plio
TIle plane Is equipped with two
ay volcl:' radIo a used by the
tran continental commercial planes,
It is not the plane In which she !lew
the Atlantic, although It is of the
same type. But the engine Is the
'ame Which carried her for 15 hours
over the Atlantic In 1932
At night, during the v~yage from
the mai;nland, Irs. Putnam carried
out radiO te ts, u Ing the two way
voice equipment in the plane With
oakland alrport. '
Conversations were carried on
back and for h as adjustments were
made to the pi ne's t. Reception
a perfect.
se of 'oic radio rquipment
o lid be Inv luablc In making a
:flight from Hawaii to the main­land.
With . Putnam came Paul
n z, a well known 'cst coast
pUot.
£: plain drs. Putnam: "Paul is
an old family fn nd. He Is an ex­cellent
p lot and 0 is Mr , Mantz,
ho is with u too, B d ,Paul
i a swell mechanic and he knows
all about Wasp motors. It is com­forting
to have a good mechanic
friend. '
Wlll Mantz fly to the coast with
her? "If I make the flight, I would
not take II. cat along" she said.
Al! the spare space in the plane
outside the cockpit will be taken up
with vital gas and radio equipment.
To Tour the I land
"1 ant to :fly every inch of the
ailan i land. My hu band and
and his if ill go 'Ith me
• 'll e my plane-ma.Yb~
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