The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-12
AMELIA OVER COAST LINE
AFTER FAST PACIFIC HOP
Famed AViatrix Estimates
Her Position Few Miles
OFF Oakland.
ABOVE FOG, SHE SAYS
Spans 2400 Miles of Ocean
Without Event, Radio
Reports Indicate.
By United Press

By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. II.
Anxiety as to her course
was voiced by Amelia Ear
hart, flying from Honolulu to
Oakland, CAL, at 1880 p. m.
indianapolis time) this aft
ternoon after she had been in
the air 16 hours and seven
minutes.
Talking to the Globe Wireless
Station near San Francisco she
said:
I'D sure like to see land soon"
Previously she had told the De-
partment of Commerce station at
Oakland airport that she believed
she had sighted land but her later
conversation indicated that she had
been in error.
ANY one who hears this please
call radio station KPO, in San
Francisco and ask them to broad
cast right away the weather re-
ports and other data" she said
The radio station was notified
Immediately.
The data, she said, was need to
check her course. Previously she
had said she believed she was to
the south of the route to Oakland
Airport.
Miss Earhart's voice came strong
ly and it was believed she was in
the fog bank which had been how
ering along the coast near San
Francisco all morning.
Before signing off her brief mes
sage Miss Earhart added her usual
word of:
"All we'll"
Her voice gave no indication of
nervousness.
Reports Every Half-HOur
She was sighted at SAB a. m. On
dianapolis time) by the U. S. Navy
tanker Rampopo 1000 miles from
the California coast. At that time
she had come 14O0 miles from Homo
lulu in little more than eight and
one-half hours.
Every half-hour through the
flight her calm, fiat voice told of
the progress Of her adventurous
flight, the first ever attempted by
a woman and the first by any f1ier
alone. Each bulletin recorded brief
ly her altitude-ranging from 1000
to $1,000 feet and noted that she
was flying through scattered clouds,
or above a thick blanket Of clouds,
or through clear skies.
When she flashed over the
Ramopo, directly on the great circle
route between the Hawaiian Islands
and California, she was flying above
fog, the tanker reported to Navy
Radio here.
Starts in RsinstOrm
Starting in a rainStorm from
Wheeler Field, with her husbands
kiss on her lips, Miss Earhart found
clearer weather once she passed
Head and turned her plane
eastward.
Once through the night she met
a rain squall She flew above it,
commenting briefly on the incident
in the half-hou1ly broadcasts she
made from the 50Watt radio equip
ment on her plane.
Sometimes low clouds forced her
to heights above 10000 feet; some
times she was forced to come down
to 5000 feet A moon lighted her
path part of the way. Visibility al
ternated between fair and good.
A threatening storm was delayed
in the far northwest, holding off
long enough to give her clear skies
and fast winds on the last lap.
Although she volunteered no in
formation in her regular broadcasts
on the half hour to the dot ex-
Cept that her clock was two minutes
slower than those on shore-it was
apparent that no accidents marred
today's flight.
Held Off Flames
She had not been so fortunate
in May, 1892, when she braved the
Atlantic alone in another mono
plane. Then, with the Newfoundland
coast only four hours behind, flames
burst from an exhaust pipe The
fire licked at the in1ammable parts
Of the plane, but by expert flying
Miss Earhart managed to hold them
off. Her next trouble on that fight
came from a leaking gas tank.
In constant danger of death, she
dropped quickly to the first land she
sighted and landed in a pasture
outside the quiet town Of London
derry in Ireland.
Her flight in 1927 accompanied
by Wilmer Stutz and Lewis Gordon,
had carried her to Burryport, IN
Wales