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Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • Page 6

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Shamokin, Pennsylvania
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6
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SHAMOKIX DISPATCH, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1928 V- BTEtiffi miffing HERS PIC1MS Hope To Circle Globe In 23 Days FOLLOWS LINDBERGH'S TRAIL Fl 13 i Br If l.U 1 -I i y. Miss Amelia Earhart, Boston society girl, who is flying to England with Wilmer Stultz as pilot, is of a blonde type and lias many facial characteristics which closely resemble the "Flying Colonel." You can see for yourself that she does look a greatjienl like Undbergh inset. John Henry Mears (left) and his pilot, C. B. D.

Cdllyer, won't have any time for tarrying by the wayside if they succeed in cutting the present world-girdling record to 23 days. Fast ocean liners and the plane shown in the picture will be their only means of transportation. The ship was christened by Mrs. Jimmy Walker, wife of New York's mayor, WOULD BE WITH DAUGHTER-FLYER (International Illustrated News) 41 v-jm avAv Europe anH Return- 0UT jQ AT GJRL pLYER ON HOP In a tri-motored Fokker monoplane, fitted with pontoons, Miss Amelia Earhart, Boston society pi rl, lias cast her lot with those women who havedared Atlantic non-stop flights, hoping to be the first woman; I '1 to accompasn tne ieat. netting out secretly irom uoston, wun ana a return nigm as tnej cbject, Miss Earhart, Pilot Wilmer Stultz, and Lou Gordon, mechanic, flew their plane, Friendship, to Halifax, and then to Trepassey, Newfoundland, for the take-off.

The flane is shown above in flight. Below are the flyers, left to right, Miss Earhart, Stultz and Gordoe. Trusted Stranger QUEEN OF DIAMONDS READY, TO HOP C4' I Im Ki too i vov xw r't1 J. Af i 5 A is ft vV l-w ..1 i fs: -K4-r AUilce uus Jiniiinul, inotiici' Ox niutna jjuciuii welfare worker, daring the Atlantic in a non-stop flight with Pilot Stultz and Mechanic Lou Gordon, has declared that she wishes she could be with her daughter on the air adventure. Mrs.

Earhart is shown at her home in Medford, Mass. Inset is the girl flyer. I i Amelia Earhart, Boston so- ciety girl and welfare worker, Off on Most Perilous Hop 5 Mian Backed by Charles A. Levine, transatlantic flyer, Miss Mabel Boll, above, known as the "Queen of Diamonds," has hopped from Curtiss Field, L. to Old Orchard, in Levine's monoplane Columbia for a transatlantic flight in an effort to beat Miss Amelia Earhart Boston, welfare worker, for the honor of being the first woman to fly the Atlantic.

While Miss Earhart has been waiting with her pilot and mechanic Trepassey, Newfoundland, for favorable weather, Miss Boll has been making ready with Pilots Oliver Le Boutillier and Arthur Argles for the attempt. whose desire to be the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane, has led her to set out with Pilot Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon, mechanic, on an attempted flight to England and return. Irs. Edward Budd of New York are bemoaning their trusting natures. A stranger (vho called himself Frank! Howard and said he was ai farmer, ingratiated Jhimself with the parents of Grace Budd.

They let him take her to a at his sister's home is the last have or her and the gracious stranger. 1 if MiLel Uoll, so-called "Queen of Diamonds" (upper), says that she is all set to make her Ions' delayed flight to England. The -nsj Ready For Their Trans-Atlantic Fliglit ouiunjDia, camea Lnanes Levine ana Liarenre "rr-. 'J I IJU berlin to jrerlin, is at her disposal and is being made ready for the hop. According to Miss Boll, Bert Acosta (lower)j will jact as pilot for the 3'ht.

U.i5. I CAN Plane Tuned Up for New York-Rome Flight f- n' "-car Ah i- 4. 1 I 1 i 9 SI 111 In the little harbor of Trepassy, Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart, Boston's "Lady Lindy," Wilmer Stultz, crack big ship pilot, and Lou Gordon, mechanic, are poised to hop off in their tri-motored olane Friendship for a trans- (left), Miss Earhart (right), and Gordon (inset), together with a view of Trepassy harbor, and a map showing their course just south of the great circle, a coirse plotted bv no less a personage than Commander Richard' E. Brd Cesare fc'abelli infiet), who, TTitK Eogcr Q. Tilliams acd Piero Bonelli, will undertake a non-ttop New.Yorkrto-Komc flight, has completed instrument and loading tests of his huge Bellanea plane Eoma, and novr awaits enlj; favorable weaker.

The start will be made from Here is an interesting study of Capt. Charles K5n.rsford-Smith, commander of the staunch monop'ane Southern Cross now en route for the island of Suva from Hawaii, taken prior to Ihe hop-oil (Oakland Airport. Atlantic crossing to England. Here arc. SlllluJ.hiinclL..

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Years Available:
1923-1968