NOTED WOMAN FLIER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16705, 24 July 1928, Page 11

NOTED WOMAN FLIER

MISS EARHART'S CAREER SILENT AND RETICENT GIRL NKW YORK. June 27. .Miss Amelia Karhart, the first woman to lly across the Atlantic-, bears a striking personal resemblance to Colonel Lindbergh, hence the soubriquet, " Lady Lindy, now applied to her. She is tall, lair and slim, with the same elongated cast of features. She is silent, eschews publicity., and prefers to keep outside the social whirl. She has resolutely refused t" coutmerciali.se her flight by accepting stage or film contracts. She, says she intends to continue employing her modest income, in .social betterment work in Boston.

During the war Miss Earhart was a V.A.J), worker in Toronto, where her quiet demeanor and nursing efficiency woe noted by those with whom she worked. A woman of strong character, she was blown as being very fearless. On one occasion, at the Canadian National Exhibition, she accepted a, challenge to ride a bucking bfbucho, and " lode him to a standstill."

.Miss Earhart is the antithesis of liuth I'.lder, ami docs not get a tithe of the publicity that went to " The American (iiil." ' No lipstick or powder puff is used by the slim Boston girl. Her outward 'calm, fixity of purpose, and •' monosyllabic reticence," a. determination which, overcomes all obstacles, and a thoroughness which prevents mistakes before they happen are other characteristics that entitle her to be ranked with •' Lindy." Born in Kansas 30 years ago, Miss Earhart graduated ill Philadelphia. She carried out her resolution to read a book a day to improve her mind. Her earlier bent had been toward literature, but she took to flying 10 years ago and has been Hying since. After 10 lessons in California,, she made a solo flight, and was granted an aviators license Her world's record for altitude for a woman—l4,oooft.—stood for two years. Then she returned East, and . attended courses at Columbia, and ITar- ! vard, where she was a lecturer oil

" proper English." When Poston's first airport was established. Miss Earhart was appointed trying instructor there. Latterly, her ambition was to flv the Atlantic, and she was almost ready with her plans when a Boston lady, Mrs. Frederick Guest, undertook to finance her venture. Miss Earhart, who lives with her mother and .sisters, wrote to her mother on the eve of setting out, " I am playing for a big stake. If I succeed, all will lie well. If not, I shall be glad to pop off in the midst of such a great adventure."