MR PUTNAM IS STILL CONFIDENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 147, 9 July 1937, Page 5

MR PUTNAM IS STILL CONFIDENT

(Eeceived 9, 1.0 p.m.) SAN. FRANCISCO, July 8. Mr Putnam 's confidence in his wife's rescue increased with the Colorado 's search despite the fact it was at first fruitless. "I have not in the lease given up hope. The actual search has just started now that the Colorado 's planii- are on the job. My wife's plane L on land if, as experts believe, Saturday's and Sunday's carrier signals are authentic. The plane will thevefore be found as the search from the air broadens with the arrival of the Lexingtom, if not bef ore. ' ' Mr Putnam has cancelled his earlier plans to fly to Honolulu. He said: "1 can do just as much here as in Honolulu. ' ' Spealcing with Pressmen, he momentarily touched on the possibility of her death. "It was the way she would have chosen," he said. "It was to have been her last flight of inajor iinportance, but she had no premonition of disaster. Her messages from Africa expressed delight over lier performance. " Mr Walter Lippinann, the publicist said: "The best things of maukind are as usoless as Mrs Putnam 's ad venture. They are things undertaken uot for a definite and measurable rosult, but because someone not counting tho costs of calculating the consequences is moved by curiosity, love of cxcellence, a point of honour, or compulsion to rinvent or to understand. They have that free and useless energy with which alone men surpass themselves. ' ' Mrs Noonan reeeived a package of pictures from Venezuela and a letter from Java from her husband. Tlie letter praised Mrs Putnam. "Amelia is a grand person for sueh a trip. Slie is the only woman flier with whom f could care to make such a trip because in addition to being. a fine companion, she can take hardships as well as a man and work likc one." Mrs. Eoosevelt, in a statement, said: "I am told by people who have flown a lot that well-balanced persons likc Mrs. Putnam and Mr. Noonan havo a better chance of holding out under a long strain than amateurs. AiHelia has poise and courage, She's a grand person. I do not ihink she would give up bef ore the last ditch. "