TRIBUTES TO LOST FLYERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20785, 21 July 1937, Page 9

TRIBUTES TO LOST FLYERS

AMELIA EARHARTS QUEST “ REBELLED AGAINST SAFER LIFE” HUSBAND BELIEVES THAT “MIRACLE MAY HAPPEN” United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright Received July 20, 9.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 19. ’’The New York Times.” in an editorial, says: “The worst that could be said about Miss Amelia Earhart was that site set out over the Pacific without the knowledge and equipment to enable her to ride to safety on the Itasca’s invisible beam. However, it would not have been Amelia if she had lacked a touch of recklessness. She rebelled against the world made too safe and too unexciting for women. She possessed a deeply feminine valour, capable of looking life and death in the eye, as unflinchingly as any man.” A message from Medford (Massachusetts) says that Miss Earhart's sister, Mrs Muriel Mossisey. said: ’’lf Amelia is dead, she went the way she would have wished—in a beloved plane.” MIRACLE MAY HAPPEN VIEWS OF HUSBAND OF LOST FLYER United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 20, 8.20 p.m.) HONOLULU. July 20. Agents for Mr Putnam are reported to be attempting to locate Captain Anderson, a veteran mid-Pacific skipper, for the purpose of a further search for Miss Earhart. A message from Los Angeles says that 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 was still clinging to the hope that a miracle will happen. “Amelia hcrs?lf would be the last to give up,” said Mr Putnam.