US. WOMAN FLYER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 13

US. WOMAN FLYER

FERRIED HUDSON BOMBER

CAREER MAPPED IN JEWELS

After her flight across the Atlantic, ferrying a Hudson bomber from the United States to England, the American flyer Miss Jacqueline Cochran studied the work of the British Air (Transport Auxiliary, so that she could, if necessary, build up a similar organisation to fly warplanes from factory to airfield in America. Miss Cochran, who holds the world's 2000-kilometre record, has flown at 450 I miles an hour. She wants to put more notches on her cigarette case. It is of j gold, inscribed on one side with her I best flights. On the other side is a map of Amex'ica, with her races picked out in diamonds, open records in emeralds, women's records in rubies, and mishaps in amethysts. "Now," she said, "I'll 'have to have the Atlantic Ocean engraved on it, and possibly the route of the EnglandAustralia race. I was forced down early fn that race. Still, I would like a record of it." Fair-haired Miss Cochran, in private life the wife of Mr. Floyd Odium, of New York, head of one 01 the world's largest investment trusts, is also head of a large-scale cosmetic business. She was limited to 401b of luggage on her ocean flight. So she brought three evening dresses, evening shoes, evening bag, a suit and blouses, crushable felt, hat, summer ermine cape, pound tin of coffee, quart can of tomato juice, 500 cigarettes, a dozen oranges,, chewing gum, and 16 pairs of sheer silk stockings.