AMERICAN VISITOR

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 78, 28 September 1940, Page 17

AMERICAN VISITOR

INTEREST IN CO-OPERATION MOVEMENT

"PERSISTENT FIRST FLIGHTER"

! On Thursday afternoon representatives of the British-American Co-opera-tion Movement spent a very enjoyable hour with Mrs. Clara Adams, of Long Island, New York, who arrived in New Zealand on the first commercial flight of the American Clipper. Sir Ernest Davis, Mayor of Auckland, persuaded her to postpone her return until the next trip in order to. see something of New Zealand. She brought with her two embroidered American flags, the gift of Mrs. Alice Hunt Bartlett. One of these was presented to Sir Ernest Davis and the other to the Rt. Hon. the Prime Minister. A third one from Dr. Henry Woodhouse, of the Society of American Poets, has been left temporarily 'with Sir Ernest Davis. i "FRIENDS OF CHILDREN." i At home Mrs. Adams takes an active interest in the "Friends of Children" (Inc.), an organisation which was, founded to assist in looking after Bri-| tish children sent overseas. Very feeling and" eulogistic reference was

Mrs. Clara Adams. made to the great work being done] by Mrs. Clarke Williams, Dr. Joseph! Goodbar and his wife. Mrs. Adams is an ardent supporter! of all organisations that promote andj foster British-American good will andi co-oper-ation, and she expressed the) sincere hope that the efforts of the New Zealand body would ba wholeheartedly supported by the public. , HISTORY IN THE AIR. j This visitor, who will leave on her; return journey by the American Clip-! per today, made a very great im-! pression with her natural charm, ready! wit, and pleasing personality. She is' the holder of the world flight record j by regular air lines, and is known as a persistent first flighter. Her first flight was made in 1914 at Lake Eustis, Florida,"her" pilot' being Walter j jE. Johnson, later a captain in the | United States army during the Great j War. In 1924 she was, whilst in Germany, the guest of Dr. Hugo Eckner '■ in a Zeppelin test flight. J Her most notable flight took place j when she was a passenger in the Graf j Zeppelin when, in 1928, it made its i pioneer round -trip from Europe to the U.S.A. and back. Mrs. Adams was the only woman passenger. She was also a passenger on the maiden commercial flights of the Dornier Do-X (the giant flying-boat), the' Hindenburg (the super-dirigible), the China Clipper, and participated in the first round trip for commercial passengers between New York and Bermuda. Mrs. Adams created a world passenger record by travelling round the world in 16 days 19 hours and 4 minutes, using only regular air passenger lines. During her many years of flying she has also gone aloft in free balloons and gliders. Those who met her in Wellington included Mrs. Weston (wife of the president of the British-Ameri-can Co-operation Movement), Miss A. Kane (president of the Pioneer Club), Mrs. Johannes Andersen (president of the Lyceum), Mrs. Schloss (Lyceum Club secretary), Mr. Leigh Hunt (chairman of the movement's executive), and Mr. Johannes Andersen.