CROSSING THE ATLANTIC.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18642, 21 May 1932, Page 5

CROSSING THE ATLANTIC.

MRS PUTNAM’S FLIGHT, HARBOUR GRACE REACHED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. HARBOUR GRACE, May 20. Mrs Amelia Putnam (nee Earhart), who contemplates a flight from Harbour Grace across the Atlantic, has reached 'hero from St. John (New Brunswick). She has been accompanied so far by Burnt Balehen and Eddie Gorski, but intends to fly solo across the ocean. Mrs George P. Putnam, formerly Miss Amelia Earhart, was born at Boston in JS99. As a recreation she went in for aviation. In .1920 she established an altitude record for women, attaining 14,000 ft. in 1928 she realised her ambition lo lie the Ural woman to cross •the .\tlantic by itir, for she started from Trepasscy, Newfoundland, and gained the honour. Her aeroplane the Friendship, was a Fokkcr. The pilot was Mr Wilmer Stultz, an airman of much experience, and lie had .Mr Lou Gordon as mechanic. The flight was accomplished in a few minutes less than 22 hours. When in London Miss Earhart received many offers of cinema and stage engagements, but site refused them prefering lo return to her social work as head of the Denison House (a Boston social settlement). In February, 1931, she married Mr George P. Putnam, a publisher and author and president of the Knickerbocker Press.