DESCENT INTO SEA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 3 July 1937, Page 10

DESCENT INTO SEA

FEARS FOR MRS PUTNAM. (United Press Association- —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received July 3, 12.30 p.m. HONOLULU, July 2. The San Francisco coastguard station has advised that the cutter Itasca is starting out on a search for Mrs Earhart Putmnn, who is en route from New Guinea to Howland Island. The airwoman sent a radio from her ’plane at 7.42 a.in. (Howland Island time) that she had fuel for half an hour’s living left and could not make landfall.

An earlier message appears on page 9.

As Miss Amelia Earhart, Mrs Putnam ■achieved l'amo by being the first woman io fly the Atlantic! This flight, was made from Newfoundland to Wales, with two male companions, in 1928. Four years later she flew from Newfoundland to Ireland solo, setting up four world records—first solo flight by a woman; first double crossing by anyone; fastest passage; record women's straight-line flight. Six months later she set another record by making a non-stop flight from California (o New York, 2600 miles, in 19 hours. In the following January she made a wonderful solo fight from Honolulu to San Francisco, 2400 miles over ocean, being the first woman to make the crossing hv air. In March last she started her present world flight in a westerly direction. She flew with a number of companions to Honolulu, but her ’plane was almost wrecked in a faulty take-off. She had planned to fly on to Kingman Reef and Suva with the Pan-American Clipper hound for Auckland. Her machine —the famous ‘Hying -Laboratory”—was shipped hack _ to America. Repairs were effected in Arizona and she restarted her world flielit in an easterly direction from Miami, Florida, on June 1. Her stop were Puerto Rico, Paramaribo, Port Natal (Brazil), St. Louis chi Senegal, Dakar, Gao. tort Lamy, El Easher, Khartoum, Massawa, Karachi, Calcutta, Akyab. Rangoon, Singapore, Bandoeng, Koepang. and Darwin.