The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-23
AMELIA SEES
OCEAN PLANE
SERVICE SOON
Atlantic Conquerof Predicts
Regular Lines Will Be
Put in Operation.
H0N0RED IN LONDON
She Plans No More Flights
Over Sea, Except on a
Commercial Route.
BY W. G.. QUISENBERRY
United Press stan Correspondent


BY W. g. QUISENBERRY
United Press stan Correspondent
LONDON, May u. - Regular
Atlantic service in the near
future with big flying boats, which
will be safe in the air and on the
water. was predicted today By Anne
liza Earhart Putnam. first woman
to fly the Atlantic alone
Miss Earhart. responding to
toast at a luncheon of the Insti-
fute o. Journalists. announced she
was not planning another trans
Atlantic fight similar 10 the one
Just completed, but hoped to fly the
Atlantic again when regular ser
vice is established.
Miss Earhart seated between
Ambassador Andrew w. Mellon and
Sir John Simon. British foreign
secretary. was praised warmly by
Mellon for her courage.
Responding modestly TO a toast,
she said
My flight adds nothing to avia-
ton. It merely is personal JUS
tifcation. I am not planning an
other like It. II would take four
years to sell the idea to my hus-
band again.
L am convinced that we shall
see regular Atlantic flying in
our time, and I hope to be able TO
make some such regular trip.
sr o1rsftra will conducted
with biz ships. equally at home on
the water and in the air.
Referring to her flight, she said
1T was much different from what
] expected. Flying through rain
and clouds. and never quite sure Oh
where I was, provided thrilling ex-
perience in instrument flying, with
nv whole attention concentrated
in the cockpit itself.
After American Ambassador An
drew Mellon had spoken, r. d.
Blumenfeld managing director Of
the London Express, as past presi-
dent of the institute and the flrst
man to welcome Miss Earhart to-
British soil" proposed toast to
the distinguished young flier.
The toast was drunk enthusiast
ttically, and the guests broke into
for she's a jolly good fellow"
Nations Drawn Closer
Sir John Simon, in introducing
Mellon, remarked:
we have been watching the dif-
ficulties OF the United States with
deep kindred feeling. The United
States never has been closer to the
United Kingdom than at this mo-
ment. Miss Earhart has just proved
il is only 10 hours and 80 minutes
between the two countries"
The guests laughed when Guy
Innes. ce-chairman, rising to pro-
pose a toast to r. E. Loveless, to-
DAYS chairman, incidentally pro-
posed one TO George Palmer Put
nam, Miss Earhart's husband, who
represents the highest type of 100
per cent American husbandhood.
Miss Earhart joined heartily in
drinking the toast.
Miss Earhart. wearing clothing
borrowed from an Irish woman at
Londonderry and from members of
Ambassador MELONS official house
hold. early today went on the first
OF several shopping trips planned
here before her trip to Rome.
Amelia Goes shopping
Miss Earhart rushed out shop
ping with Mrs. David K. E. Bruce.
daughter of Ambassador Mellon,
soon after breakfast. and greatly
refreshed after a good nights sleep.
She was taken 10 a large Anglo
American department store, and
made numerous purchases to sub
stitute for her borrowed clothing.
Miss Earhart said her plans would
depend on answers to several cables
she sent to the United States this
morning.
The Rome flight will take her to
che congress of the transatlantic
f1iers. the first woman TO fly the
ocean alone. the second person TO
make the solo fight. the new
women's record holder for straight
line distance flying. and the holder
of the speed record across the At
lantic
The slim. blond social worker
from Boston. who turned flier after
Colonel Charles A. Lindpergh'S
transatlantic solo flight five years
TO a day before she made the trip,
was saddened by the death Of two
who greeted her at Londonderry.
Putnam Is Best Cook
They we're a photographer and his
pilot, killed in the same fog-blank-
eted storm through which the wom-
an flier few as a passenger TO Lon
don, where she was greeted at Han
worth airdrome by Ambassador Mel
Ion in a downpour Of rain.
The men killed were Victor Bar
ton. staff photographer OF the Lon
don Daily Sketch, and Irwin Napier
Clarke, an Australian.
Then the woman flier gave de-
tailed account OF her own flight in
which she left Newfoundland with
a rs per cent fuel margin Of safe
". The flight, she said, was not
great test OF endurance. as peo-
pie stay up all night dancing, and
there was no reason 10 be any
more tired in my case"