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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 232, 23 May 1932, Page 5

Mrs George P. Putnam, formerly Miss Amelia Erhardt, was born at Boston in 1899. As a reereation she went in for aviation. In 1920 she established an altitude record for women, attaining 14,000 feet. In 1928 she realised her ambition to be the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air, for she started from Trepassey, Newfoundland and gained the honour. Her aeroplane the Friendship, was a Fokker. The pilot was Mr. Wilmer Stultz, an airman of mueh experience, and he had Mr. Lou Gordon as mechafiic. The flight was occomplished in a few minutes less than 22 hours. When in London Miss Erhardt received many offers of cinema and stage engagements, but she refuse-d them preferring to 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 Knfcker-hocker Press.