TRIBUTES TO FLIER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 21 July 1937, Page 9

TRIBUTES TO FLIER.

MRS PUTNAM’S VALOUR. HONOLULU, July 20. Agents for Mr Putnam, husband of Mrs Amelia Earhav? Putnam, are reported to be attempting to locate Captain Anderson, a veteran midPacific skipper, for tlie purpose of a further search for the lost fliers. A message from Los Angeles says Mr Putnam said he was not organising a further search. It would take a year for a yacht to do what the Navy did in a few days. Such a search would be fruitless and ill-advised, he added. He was still clinging to the hope that a miracle would happen. Amelia herself would be the last to give up. The New York TimcSj in an aditorial, says the worst that could be said about Mrs Putnam was that she set out over the Pacific without knowledge of the equipment to enable her to ride to safety on the Itasca’s invisible beam. However, it would not have been Mrs Putnam if she lacked a touch of recklessness. She rebelled against a world made too safe and too unexciting for women. She possessed a deejily feminine valour, capable of looking life and death in the eye as unflinchingly as any man. A message from Jfedford, Massachusetts, says Mrs Putnam’s sister, Mrs Muriel Morrisey, said if Mrs Putnam were dead, she went the way she would have wished —in her beloved ’plane.