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FOUR GENERAL NEWS i CHEERING CROWD! GREETS AMELIA1 THE DES MOINES REGISTER SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1935. AMELIA WRITES Wirephoto Shows Amelia Smiling After Long Ocean Hop STORY OF Tired Flyer Declines to Reveal Plans. Calls Plan CriticiJ Greatest Her Story- Continued From ptgt FLIC! Flight- Continued From Pufie 1. strain more difficult than discounted the Idea. Airport at rm I wx tendanta said she had left etructlons not to refuel her plane Weather conditions to the east were reported unfavorable.

"I had enough fuel in my tanks to have lasted another two hours," Misa Earhart went on, In contrast ith the statement of Lieut. Com. Clarence Williams Indicating her IV r' pply was due to be exhausted 7 "'out the time she landed. With on of her first breaths Amelia denied any intention of jiving- up long dia- tance flying. "Not while there's life In the 1" Md horse left," she said with a tired grin.

Tor thra. hour California coastal cities had been awaiting her, but when she swooped down on the airport she took the crowd by surprise. Crowd Nears rropeller. A mighty cheer arose from the fi.OOO persons assembled at the field. The crowd surged toward the plane and stopped little short of ltt whirring propeller blades.

It was at that point feminine Instinct got the better of the globe-trotting flyer and she reached for the comb. Tired of Sitting. 3 Attendants quickly pushed her plane Into a hangar and closed the doors against the admiring crowd but only after many hadl wirephoto A. p. A hupe bouqiiot of Amprican Beauty roses was handed Oakland, Cal.

Wirephoto brought these pictures, snapped less than 15 minutes. W1KEPHOTO A. P. to Amelia as she climbed out of the cockpit of her plane in just as Amelia landed, from Oakland, to Des in Though tired from her solo flight, Amelia Earhart could still smile at the crowd which welcomed her as she "dropped in" at the Oakland, airport Saturday afternoon, as this Wirephoto shows. succeeded In grasping her hand and shouting words of pralae at her, Log of 'Lady LindyV Hawaiian Hop "I don't want to sit down," she aaid firmly when an attendant 2 her fatigue and offered her a chair, "I've been sitting down a long time." 2 Wanted to See Und.

Someone mentioned that she had not been heard from for a considerable time before landing; that there were reports she was battling fog; had strayed from her course; that her gasoline was running low before she reached WIREPHOTO A. P. While the propeller of her plane still whirled, the crowd at the Oakland, airport rushed past police barriers and surrounded Amelia Earhart's plane. This was one of the first pictures flashed by Wirephoto from Oakland to Des Moines soon after she landed Saturday afternoon. the coast.

They asked If aha had been worried. "Worried she echoed. "Oh, thought I would like to have the sight of land a couple of times," Was Never Lost. 'First Lady of the Air' Formerly Lived in D. M.

a. Miss Earhart asserted she never ishlng there, she left to join the Canadian Red Cross in 1917 as a "I'm tired," were Amelia Earhart's first words on arriving In Oakland, after her trans-Paciflo flight. This Wirephoto, snapped while aha talked to reporters, shows the drawn lines In her fare, the fatiguing result of her long hours in the air over the Poctflo ocean. WIREPHOTO A P. Honolulu to Oakland airport made her: The first to make a solo flight between the North American mainland and the Hawaiian islands.

The first woman ever to have, completed the flight. 1 1 was lost but said she veered south of her course and first sighted land about 60 miles south of San Francisco. "I wasn't sure that It waa land 2 1 lighted," she said. "I throttled back my motor pur- poaely to save fuel and I don't understand why anyona should have been worried about me. Couldn't Give Position.

I 'The reason I didn't give my position was because I didn't 'shoot' the atari (with a sextant) and therefore couldn't give It." An Interviewer mentioned seeing a rainbow over the Golden Gate as ports visibility "fair." 8:48 a. m. Dane sighted by U. S. navy tanker, Tampopo, 1,000 miles from coast.

6:18 a. m. Flane reports visl bllity clear, receiving messages. 7:25 m. Miss Earhart reports "everything okay; flying 6,000 feet, solid overcast." "8ky Overcoat" 7:48 a.

m. Miss Earhart radioed: 'Flying 6,200 feet, almost solid overcast, everything okay." 8:48 a. m. Miss Earhart reports: "Everything okay." 9:48 a. m.

Dane flying at 7,800 feet; weather clear; Miss Earhart's voice showed no sign of fatigue. 10:17 a. m. Miss Earhart re ports "skies overcast." Message fades out before completed. 10:47 a.

m. Miss Earhart reports "Everything okay." Falls to give her position. 12:19 m. Miss Earhart radios: "Must be near If my course Is correct." Fog Impairs visibility. 1:38 p.

m. Passed over President Tierce, 275 miles out of San Francisco. 7 Sen Land'' 1:48 p. m. Miss Earhart advised efforts of KPO, San Francisco radio station, to locate her position had not been successful.

"I can't get my latitude," she said. "Will you please give it to me, also miles and position." 2 p. m. Plane estimated about 250 miles from San Francisco. 2:50 p.

m. Miss Earhart told Globe wireless: "I think 1 see land but I'm not sure." 3:20 p. Plane resembling Miss Earhart's passed over Lobltoa, 35 miles south of San Francisco, and was sighted by Mackay radio station. 3:31 p. m.

Miss Earhart landed at Oakland airport, 18 hours 17 minutes elapsed time since her takeoff. tlgue. Throughout the felt this, yet I never expert Hiuni lie a fUUDiiCHU, On the flight I carried the prepared eparea ny uiarence William- Angeles consultant In one to Oakland, the other to Angeles. The choice upon weather. Oakland Was Cn.

Before the takeoff picked 0i land, shorter by 150 milea wl was able to stick to because of the favorable conditions. The chsrti MMf! almost hourly changes course, calculated on an v(nI speed of 150 miles per hour speed that I did not llv, through the entire trip, On them too were nlotiM J- department of commerce radio beams reachin? from ftnklonri nA any mis AngHjj, Had Three Clocki, To maintain the flylnar irtu i planned, I had three three clocks. One of tht tljJ" pieces was aet at 12 so that ticked off from the of the flight the actual elapsed. t. Besides being the first flight across the Pacific, this the first long flight in which tit radio telephone was used, found it almost miraculous accuracy.

Aided by Radio. I had remarkable receptioi throughout the night and splendid co-operation from statiej" ts.uL, ana kfo, after 7 a. m. Th kept open all night to assist si I had my responses from thesi a 12 minutes, and eometimei less I wasted aoma time in mv if hours and 15 minutes flight cause the type of compass I us proved very difficult to follow night. 140 1tfl.es Average.

Feeling I was losing time, i throttled down in order to iw gasoline. The ship's normal spe; is 160 miles per hour, but I ivc. aged throughout the flight lii.j tie over 140. I was conMantly over fog bar.iii but I didn't find these at all du- gerous. Had Little Appetite.

1 For food, I carried with nt canned tomato juice, hot cocttj some sandwiches, chocolate ir.j water. I also carried a lunch prepared for me by the wife of island officer. I sipped a bit of the juice, drank a little water and hard-boiled egg. But I wasn't very hungry. Carried Few Letters.

For cargo I carried a srai! bunch of letters and a numbtr i unique covers painted In minii-ture by Olaf Beltzer of Hontui, and, as special philatelic treasury a few envelopes that had alread' crossed the Atlantic by air will me. As some safeguard In a forcri andlng at sea, the plane con- tained a collapsible rubber boat, in stantaneously inflated from I cylinder of compressed carbon oxide. This I found to be the on' really unnecessary cargo I carried Had Emergency Food. In addition I wore a life jacks; similarly arranged. Approprli'J emergency rations were packed is the watertight pockets of the Three times toward the end the flight I thought I saw land U1 ul waier.

Knew Goal Near. Then, when I actually saw tt' California coast shortly before Saturday, I knew my goal wu nMr I was surprised to find a re ception at the Oakland airport The thousands of people WW waiting to see a bedraggled plM climb out of an airplane. Surprised by Internet It never occurred to me that anyon, might be Interested In tM What mv sensations wen: I rinrinv tha ti-ln I rannnt tell Any one who wishes to knew should attempt surh follv himself. Certainly I didn't eperlenr nervousness, knowing enough to save whatever iter ousnees I might have for tM time when It would be nec- aary. I only knew I sat a vr long time, and got exceeding dirty.

But always when I fly 1 a Impressed with the beauty of the loveliness of what 1 see. Some kinds of flights are uncertain to worth ta'Kl'S t- -t things that can happen to plane Pji0t 0r weather tilfilled' Ambition. uuiiuia mere rc It heli)ed mv ceace of mine 1 hive 'r cheri'hed-t0 thJ -outhwest corner 1 United States that is Ha HO)ER RETURNS H)Mt PALO ALTO. CAL. W-Wi mer President Herbert Hoover re turned to his Stanford rsF home Saturday aftr a brief vale buwiaaa miaaioa" to C5uc nurse's aid for war service.

Taxvned Her Jewels. She entered Columbia university after the war to take a pre-medi-cal course and a year later went to California, where she became interested in aviation as a recreation. She pawned her Jewels, fur coat and other clothing to buy an airplane in Los Angeles in 1921 when her father refused to aid her in the purchase. Her Air Feala. In addition to being the first woman to conquer both the Atlantic and Pacific on solo airplane flights, she piloted the first Pan-American plane in 1029 from Havana, Cuba, to San Juan, Porto Rico; established an International women's speed record In 1930 of 181.18 miles an hour; made in 1931 the first national auto-gyro tour; was the first woman to receive a National Geographic society gold I medal in 1932; was the first VL-nman tn raraiva tha HlatlnirnlaKarf 8AN KRANCISCO, CAL.

(U.P.) Log of Amelia Earhnrt Tut nam's flight from Hawaii to Cali fornia: Friday, Jan. 11. 9:13 p. m. Miss Earhart took her single-motor Wasp-engine Lock- head Vega land monoplane off the runway at Wheeler field, Oahu, Hawaii, carrying 620 gallons of gas enough to fly 600 miles past the California coast.

"All Okay" p. m. Sighted over Honolulu, heading southeast and disappearing into the haze over Diamond Head. 9:49 p. m.

Dane flying at 4,000 feet, Miss Earhart radioed: "All okay." 10:23 p. m. Globe wireless inter-. copied mrssHRe: "Flying through overcast skies." Saturday, Jan. 12.

12:28 a. m. Miss Earhart esti mated 400 miles from Honolulu; reported briefly: "All okay." 1:30 m. California stations un able to hear broadcast from plane. Asked Miss Earhart to change wave length.

2:20 a. m. Kingman. sta tion reported faint message from plane, "Everything okay." "Don't Worry" 2:30 a. m.

Mutual wireless, Honolulu, intercepted message from plane: "Everything okav. Don't worry. Am passing Into rain squall. 3:30 a. Earhart estimated 1,000 miles out from Honolulu, about a half hour ahead of schedule.

4 a. Pacific coast stations pick first clear message; Miss Earhart reports "Okay," flying at feet with "visibility good, weather okay," 4:47 a. m. Miss Earhart re- slopped just short of the danger line. One I nn Males, The fiold was a bedlam of noise, ,.1.

a. Beauty roses and other flowers for the woman who became "one up" on the male flying fraternity. Amelia's hair didn't need much trek and the plane stopped only for an instant before being eased Into the hangar. first one dnor of the hanKsr was mmmrn pnui. unci iurn ine murr, cutting Miss Earhart and her plane off from the milling crowd.

Escorted to Hotel. Many persons reached the aide, 'Swell, But Don't Make It Says Amelia's Mate Miss Earhart was nearlng the coast. "Oh, rainbows!" she exclaimed. "I flew through many of them, 2 Bothered by Compass. "I wasted a lot of time because lome of the equipment was new, and a new type of compass threw Amelia Left School for War Service, Won Air Fame.

Amelia Earhart Putnam, whose aerial adventures have electrified the world, Is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantle ocean and over the Pacific ocean between Hawaii and California. Amelia, who has accomplished these feats without the slightest trace of braggadocio, Is a former Des Moines girl. Attended West High. The nation's "First Lady of the Air" attended the old West High school at Fifteenth and Center streets as a sophomore. She lived In Des Moines In 1912 and 1913, while her father, Edwin E.

Earhart, now an attorney In Los Angeles, was claim agent for the Rock Island railroad. Moved to Minneapolis. Her parents moved to Des Moines from Atchison, where she was born In 1S98, later moving to Minneapolis from Des Moines. While in Des Moines, the family lived at Forty-second st. and University ave.

and also at Thirty-first st. and Cottage Grove ave. Amelia graduated from Hydej watch through the long hours and wonilered wny gie bur.j-.ed along so blithely without ever reporting her position. 2 me off. "The ventilator blew off and thl bothered me considerably also.

Sails From Hawaii for Los Angeles to Join Wife. HONOLULU, HAWAII (U.P.)-"I am verv hantiv what more Ing of his wife's flight He then radioed her: "Swell 1ob. but don't make it a hahit Ijnv" "But the motor functioned per- fectly and It was only little things, like the ventilator, that bothered me. "I feel Just filthy and I want a bath." Misa Earhart said commercial flights between the islands and California were "entirely feasible." 'They are inevitable," she said, "and we'll be flying everywhere The pilot of the second planell was wrong twice. What I ever to have made the flight shadows and clouds flying cross, bestowed by 1 M-vT" Gorf? United States congress in Putnam, publisher-hus-set a woman's transcontinental band of Amelia Earhart, Satur-f light record from Los Angeles to jay whpn ne read dispatches tell- day for the United States, had Pfk High schoot In Chicago, then said she might continue to tn Ogonta School for, Utiih city about 750 miles rom tn Philadelphia.

Before fin-1 In a short time." Listened to Husband. Asked about the three hours during which the outside world Putnam and Mr. and Mrs. Aleutian Islands.) ii a nawmi rasiwHra io in mainland. The only flyer who has made both Atlantic and Pacific flighta.

(Other flyers, including Lind- an( Wlley mo 'Rhts lto the orient but via Alaska and ONLY TIIRKE HOIKS LONGER. OAKLAND, CAL. Amelia Earhart Putnam took only three hours and 36 minutes more to fly solo across the Pacific ocean tha- heard little or nothing from her; 'continued hntiuuet of American plane she said "I listened to a message broad-east from my husband (George Palmer Putnam, New York pub- Four coast guard cutters the crowd of about 200 and by hla voice. I also listened despite hrr long oversea rir cnariesiij-ht. out 100 miles from San Francisco bay at 2 a.

Iowa time, ready to speed to her aid if necessary Mantz sailed on the Lurline for Los Angeles at noon Saturday. Mantz is mechanic for Mrs. Putnam's plane. "I KNEW SUE WOULD." HOLLYWOOD. CAL.

IP) "I HOLLYWOOD. CAL. knew she would do it." That was the simple remark iSaturdav of Mrs. Amv Oti Ear- hart after her daughter landed at Oakland fM Amelia' made It. Amelia and I like try- ing things.

My f.mlly, the Otises. the Boston Otises. mere that way. Sne's a g5od child, unspoiled iSnme time soon I'm going to get her to fly across the sea with m. i here, for a new distance non-stop record for women If conditions proved favorable and her gasoline suiY'y wuuui Coast on F.dge.

For almost three and a half hours prior to the landing the f-a a fn.il It'll nn eu. ctice over her whereabouts. She whs reported variously -A Ml.a 1 inousiy ni prn, in- iii'ui hi. m'ooi, from the coast, oifi her course, south of San rancis- i ri halMfn 1n mnA nnaalhlv far. nf fl, tanks while still over the sea.

All through Friday night the daring holder of many aviation Iwnll hundreds of Interested per- ln on lrlr mainland ana in, 600 of her plane and managed to grasp.twea new coolly into he hnH mnA uv nrH nr inoiclouds, fog and capricious winds he'before the pollce'closed In. Which sea? Oh, it doesn't Newark, N. In 1932 In 19 hours minutes and 8 seconds, and set a new women's transcontinental flight record in 1933 from Los Angles to Newark in hawk'a home, where Miss Earhart ested for the ordeal. A Wave of Her Hand. She waved her hand and smiled taxied Into position.

The glittering propeller bit Into the light wind as the motor took. haayv feedlnp of fuel. feeding of fuel. Virtually full of nothine but ess- oline and instruments, it weaved li.u of mud behind It. Three thousand feet of this and It leaped into the air at 0:15 p.

m. Iowa time Friday night. It started to settle and ap-i peared about to touch earth. Feared Disaster. veteran airmen gsspeo.

a dod- "rBU vl l'" 'f aa 8n to Kin and climb. in mlniitp. 9 OOO aat 1 in The worried husband mopped his brow and said: k. wuu'm mo I'd rather have a baby." Italian Police Detain News Correspondent MILAN. ITALY (U.P.)-Dr.

Mario Borsa, for years correspond ent in Milun of th I-nnrfon Tim. was held bv Police for ouestionlr.e Saturday after his residence had paer profeeiion. Kingsrord-Smith, Australian. Kincsfrvrrl. Smith niHa west-east trir.

Nov. and m.u in his long journey from Austra ha, in 14 hours 59 minutes. Miss Earhart made the flight in II hours IS minutes. HER "MLLV PURCHASE. KANSAS CITY, MO.

I-The who Prduced the $400 with which Amelia Earhart Tutnam bought her first airplane ntirht that -a. 1 "sillv." nc ii a. m. r.arnin. M-vrir-on He is A.

uncle of the darini? Mrs. Putnam who arranged a loan on her mother's house when Amelia wanted to buy her first plane. I I believed it was silly for heri jer much. EXCELLENT CONDITION musical programs broadcast throughout the night." r.h.rt aM ha huiri the use of two-way voice radio! eommunicatlon was advisable for ilanas maklnr distance flichta Thl. r.dic was a BnrHon Of her elaborate equipment She Want Sleep.

As aha anuggled down Into soft bed in her hotel room sighed and said: "I want aleep mors than any thing la moment ahe waa aleeplng urrp.jr uu, aUa a HakAflt ft AlalaHKaaaa lu.A alb I J.a.Ui mmA atlai4ait an. F.u..rU lU lu hours maybe more." A Short Finale. The finale of tha epochal flight waa ahort aa It waa swift On reaching the coast she made a bee-line northward for tha air port She dldnt waste a foot of dis- tance or A aecond of time. She Wanda strained their ears forking the army field soggy withbl thta mlht hve meant fire and u'h th ords ne "Po' mud during early Fridav after- disaster. But Miss Earhart kept v.ik lie nUIIl he said the purchase was' Euriwri as lii i linn linn ni npr v' fori she landed.

A Clle Takeoff. Miss Earhart's takeoff from Wheeler field, Honolulu, was a classic. Her secret rrenaratinns for the hop were given a sudden setback when the tropical downpour came. noon. Nearly everyone took It for granted that she "would not at- lempi 10 nil me neavuv-iauen a plane nom a smnery runway.

ju d. iusi aiier me talning Miss Earhart, Putnam and Ufut GcoTf.t Jpearhawk rolled t0 the A Uwt Inspection, motor started. i The famous fiver save her shio a close inspection, clambered into the cockpit and tested her motor en route. Dropped to "110 I Sh KM i.n down thmnrh the sky to make the most of what 1,111. Ir '1 "11 Vo oniy u-u icn aoove me waier.

Except for her first remark on landing, only once on the whole. grilling Journey did she admit Journey did she admit The fiver had chance to nmve was lady of the air" al 'most as soon as the wheels of her plane hit the runway. croWlird about her 1 l(h man shoved them off. "But we have dcndlines to make, argued one of the reporters "To with deadlines," re torted the policeman. Deadline Important.

Mrs. Putnam settled the argu- Mrs. Putnam settled the argu- mcnt. "But officer." she said, "dead- are Important sometimes." The reporters asked their ones-; Her landing here disposed of a pun nisciosen estiy morning by her husband to con- tlnue on to Salt Lake fit v. rondltlona proved favorable.

ewzniOm at aa sailed SaUifx to buy a plane," he said. '1 pro- know obllgtU(i to tested to her mother but I sent the: nothing at all beyond the fulfil money and soon I received a 0f an ambition Mr. Puts-- fatigue. Eleven hours out she' Her monoplane, already fuelled said: land equipped, waa wheeled out and Earhart Putnam was mlnrt hv- arnuri I umara was exammea Oy r. i ln rxcrneni conamon alter is vuuuillUU hours 15 minutes in the air.

Only a bloodshot eye. caused by wind streaming into her face from a broken ventilator, bothered the flyer. PLANE 4 VEVRS OU. IELES, CAL. (TH-The' which Amelia Earhart, the Pacific is four LOS ANGELES, "Irplane in yMrl 0lJ nd hl" n'd three own MOKE FIRSTS.

OAKLAND. CAL. (U Miss did not circle the field as a ing ot delight over her extraor- dinary and exciting feat as manyitlons unmolested. tnT rx riU PUEBLO, COLO. iV)J, Gam Monijo, who is 1923 taught Amelia Earhart to fly, recalled Saturday night thst she waa an apt pun), soloing after aevea lea-, "I'm becomine ouite tired." Forty-five minutes later, at 9 a.

Inwa time, she had forcot- ten the Irksome feeling, however, ana reported she was "enjoying the scenery." Miss Fsrhsrt was a lot lr run. cerned about her venture than coaat' and array of instrument. jbecn searched. Police denied he Putnam atuck his head lnside'wss held for political reasons and the rnrlinlt tnr a final m-nrrt ft Kim nt flyers do. She slid straight down mf ninwty inn orovi mt puni to the ery doors of a hangar.

For moment it looked like Jm wdly tntojif iwvvciiav cui W4 was obvious that they already hedlties In the practice of newa. uaxd ni rjivai ofiioan bo aUtodaald Uteur ral fare a el. At 5eajt Earhart a JtOS-mila nht frooaon.