Evening star., 1932-12-17
REGULAR SEA HOPS
F0RESEEN SHORTLY
Amelia Earhart Putnam Says
Service Will Be Launched
in Few Years.

A prediction that regular transatlantic
flying service will be established within
the next few years was made by Mrs.
Amelia Earhart Putnam, noted aviatriE
speaking Before the National Geographic
Society in the Washington Auditorium
last night.
While denying that she contemplated
another transatlantic fight before such
regular service is established. til,
speaker asserted avistion is advancing
at such rapid pace that it will rot be
long before the trip can be made in a
regularly scheduled plane.
Miss Esrhart as she is Known in fly
ing circles. briefly reviewed her second,
or solo, flight across the Atlantic from
Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. to pas
ture near Londonderry, Ireland. Motion
pictures showed the take-oT ana the
plane shortly after landing. There were
also brief flashes CT London. Paris.
Brussels and Rome. At the later place
Miss Earhart was shown the giant fly
ing beats which the Italians will hy-a
squadron of 80 of them-t0 the Chicago
exposition next Summer.
Best and Busiest Airlines.
There were pictures, a'so. OF her New
Yolk welcome and OF her reception mere
by President Hoover, who presented her
with a special gold medal of the Ma
tional Geographic Society,".
Miss Earhart paid tribute to the re-
markable advances that have been
made in American aviation during the
last few years. America. new has the
finest transport planes. the bcst equip
ped SirlineS and the busiest alr.lneS IN
the world. Miss Earhart urged these
who regularly fy abroad to t.y Ameri-
can airlineS now.
About GO per cent of the success Of
any long distance. flight is assured by
the work done on the ground, Miss Ear
hart declared Equipment motor. and
the experience of the mechanical per-
sonnel ere vital
But the ideal food for aviators on
these long hops has not yet been found
she said. On her solo fight across the
Atlantic she found that the soup in her
thermos bottle was too salty. and. as
she does not drink tea or coffee, Mls1
Earhart had to rely on canned tomato
Juice Her mechanic devised an in
genious way of opening these cans while
still holding on to the stick" BY jab-
bing the top of the can with a thick
ice-pick hole big enough for a straw
could be made. Another good aviation
food is chocolate. preferably the bitter
kind, although this is likely to melt and
run away, as it did when Miss Earhart
made her nonstop fight across the
continent.
Tells of Solo Flight.
Several incidents of the transatlantic
flight that are not widely known were
related at last evenings lecture by Miss
Earhart. She said she had not in
tended to make any secret about her
destination; that her main interest was
in getting across the Atlantic to soma
landing place on the other side. But
the New Foundland authorities made
her name a destination before she
could obtain clearance papers. SO she
said Paris.
In ireland, contrary to the early
cable reports, she dii not kill any cows
upon landing-"unless one died OF
fright she added. Also, she had more
than the one gallon of gasoline left
that first reports declared. She had
more than 100 gallons, and the proof
is in the tax imposed upon 1t by Irish
authorities for importing" gasoline to
the islands. The landing was made in
Ireland becauee the exhaust pipe had
burned through, and also because
stormy weather blew up shortly after
she sighted the coast.
Miss Earhart had a number of pic
lures of other woman flyers and record
holders She said women have made
remarkable strides in aviation, and par
ticularly so when it is considered the
women do not get access to planes and
training as readily as men. She said
she had tried flying several types OF
planes including the autogyro, but she
had never made a parachute jump.
Among the people for whom she said
she had been mistaken since her flight
Miss Earhart named Mrs. Franklin D
Roosevelt, Mable Walker Willebrandt
"the woman who swan the Atlantic
and Col Lindbsrgh's mother" In the
Audience last night was Miss Earhart's
husband, George Palmer Putnam, the
publisher.