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DAILY, FIVE CENTS Amelia Earhart Well on Way Over Pacific [[image]] Photo of Amelia Earhart [[/image]] FLYER SAYS "ALL'S WELL" OVER RADIO Storm Dangers Encountered Aviatrix Takes Plane Off Soggy Field in Hawaii With Heavy Load HONOLULU, Jan 12. (AP) -- Signals from Amelia Earhart's California-bound plane were gradually becoming weaker tonight as the noted aviatrix sped farther along on the great circle route to the American mainland. "Everything fine; [[cut off]] [[inverted text]] INSURANCE PLAN The unemployment insurance plan was developed from a study made by a joint legislative committee appointed in 1933. It would provide that each employee of seven or more persons contribute an amount equal to 3 per sent of his total pay roll and [[cut off]] [[/inverted text]] Times JANUARY 12, 1[[cut off]] Winging Its Way Over Pacific Waters [[image]] Photo shows Amelia Earhart's gold-striped red monoplane in which she took off yesterday for flight from Hawaiian Islands to California [Pan-Pacific Press Bureau photo] [[/image]] AMELIA EARHART SOARS FOR COAST OF CALIFORNIA (Continued from First Page) the Weather Bureau advised the weather was unsettled off the Northern California coast. Naval observers said she probably would reach Oakland, her California destination, in about fifteen hours. In that event she should land about 10:15 p.m. Saturday, P.S.T. NOT WORRIED Apparently not at all worried about the weather, Miss Earhart refused to alter her plans for a tropical downpour. The storm had barely passed when she and her husband sped to Wheeler Field, twenty-five miles out of the city. She gave the plane a quick inspection and sped away. All day Paul Mantz, Miss Earhart's technical adviser, and George Palmer Putnam, her publisher-husband, worked to make ready for the flight-an undertaking that had been accomplished only once before from West to East. TEN-MINUTE WARM-UP At 2 p.m. a downpour struck Wheeler Field and the situation looked unfavorable for an immediate start, but the aviatrix declined to change her plans. Two hours later her plane, already loaded with 522 gallons of gasoline and elaborate radio and safety equipment, was rolled from its hangar. It was given a ten-minute warm-up and Miss Earhart climbed in. With a wave of her hand Miss [[cut off]] down the runway. FALTERS FOR MOMENT The plane, weighing 5800 pounds over all, got off the heavy field after a 3000-foot run. It faltered for a moment then, but she drove it hard and it began to climb as it gathered speed. Six minutes after the takeoff she was 2000 feet up and speeding for Diamond Head, last point of land on the long trek. It was just a year ago today that six naval sea planes made their notable "precision flight" from San Francisco Bay to Pearl Harbor, Honolulu. TOOK LONG REST Ten persons have lost their lives attempting to negotiate the 2400-mile all-water route by flying westward. Miss Earhart rested well before starting. She arrived at the field in an automobile driven by Lieut. George H. Sparhawk, at whose home she had spent the afternoon. She gave her plane a careful examination and then lost no time climbing aboard. She flashed a smile to the crowd and waved. Then she reached down to shake hands with Mantz and then said farewell to her husband. TAKES LIFE BELT Miss Earhart wore a brown, fur-lined flying suit. Close within reach was a collapsible life belt with compressed air cartridges to inflate it quickly in an emergency. Her radio equipment, permitting two-way voice communication with distant points, had been tested and found effective. She turned her plane to the northeast and gave the motor "the gun." Roaring down the runway and spattering mud that collected on the red fuselage of the plane, she soon overcame the obstacles of a heavy field and a heavy load and was blithely on her way. Putnam appeared somewhat worried. SURPRISE TAKE-OFF Asked if Amelia took other pre-cautionary equipment besides life raft and life belt, he shrugged his shoulders and replied: "What else could she take?" Until half an hour before the take-off Putnam was unprepared to say whether Miss Earhart would start. He said it all depended on the field and the action of the plane in the air. Exactly at 4:30 p.m., Miss Earhart and Putnam arrived at the hangar, however, and a few minutes later the publisher announced his wife would start toward Oakland in thirty minutes if everything went right. The motor had been warmed up by Mantz and was idling when Amelia, smiling and ready, clambered into the cockpit. RADIO ALONG After settling herself in the cock-pit she listened intently to the sound of the motor, "gunned" it and then let it idle, while she watched the actions of her instruments. The plane, with a speed maximum of about 200 miles an hour and a cruising range well above the mileage of the long route, was well filled with instruments. The ground crew, holding the [[cut off]] the aviatrix expectantly while the large red ship thundered and trembled. "Not yet," Miss Earhart said, shaking her head at them. A minute later, however, she waved her hand and they yanked the blocks from the wheels. The ship began to roll. WIDE ANGLE TURN She swung it around at a right angle and began slowly taxiing to the center of the field, followed by two automobiles. One car carried Putnam and the other contained army officers. She swung around, lined up against the wind, opened the motor and shot away. The plane started slowly, appearing heavy and cumbersome. Airmen watched almost breathlessly as the ship gathered speed slowly. Then after its 3000-foot run Miss Earhart hauled back on the stick. The plane responded instantly and left the ground. She turned in a wide circle, gaining altitude all the time. A long incline stretched before her as she struck out for Diamond Head. Wheeler Field is situated on a plateau 700 feet high. Aerial Laboratory Being Inspected by Amelia Earhart [[image]] Amelia Earhart is inspecting the new flying laboratory being built for her at the Lockheed Aircraft factory in Burbank. It will be powered with two Wasp S3H1 engines of 550 horse-power, each driving constant-speed metal propellers. The cruising range will be 4500 miles. Delivery of the plane is set for July at which time trial flights will be started. FLYING SHOP TO HOP SOON Miss Earhart Inspects Ship Being Built with Many Special Instruments Amelia Earhart yesterday inspect- ed for new Lockheed Electra flying lap try new under construction at Burbank and learned that the trim all-metal monoplane will soon be ready for trial flights over the Southland Purchased by the Amelia Earlhart Fund for Aeronautical Research the craft embodies the latest devel- opments in aircraft engineering and will be equipped with many special instruments. The plan will carry instead of passenger seats, additional fuel tanks for extended nonstop flights by America's first lady of the air LONG CRUISING RANGE According to Lockheed engineers, the fuselage will carry 800 gallons of fuel while wing tanks are being installed for 400 gallons additional Thus with a total capacity of 1200 gallons of gasoline and seventy-five gallons of oil, the flying workshop will have a cruising range in excess of 45000 miles. When fully loaded with fuel, instruments and supplies, the plan will weight 16,500 pounds. It will be powered with two Pratt & Whitney Wasp S3H1 engines of 550 horse power each driving Hamiltion constant-speed metal propellers. Special instruments in the sound-proof Electra will include a Sperry robot pilot, deciding appliance on the leading edge of the wings and stabilizer, and a new tape fuel analyzer which conserves fuel HOMING DEVICE A radio homing device and two way radio telephone also are to be installed. At the rear of fuselage space has been provided for a navigator and radio operator, although for solo flying Miss Earhart will be able to act as her own navigator by permitting the robot pilot to fly the plane while she makes observations from a special hatch to be built in the rear of the fuselage. The trim low-wing transport will be taken to Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., where the program of aeronautical research will be inaugurated. Delivery of the ship is set for July. Aviatrix To Be Honored For Good-Will Flight Amelia Earhart Putnam will be presented with a memorial, commemorating her good-will flight to Mexico City a year ago, at a meeting of the Breakfast Club of the Los Angeles Athletic Club tomorrow. Ricardo G. Hill, Mexican Consul, will be a guest of honor and Vice-Consul Senor Erneto A. Romero will speak on "Hight Lights of Mexico." Other guests will include Geoge Palmer Putnam, publisher and husband of aviatrix; Paul Mantz, flyer, and Sheriff Biscailuz. Amelia Earhart Makes Trip Here By Motor Car Amelia Earhart, noted aviatrix, "landed" at Union Air Terminal, Burbank, yesterday after a leisurely transcontinental "hop, skip and skid" in an automobile. Miss Earhart has flown across the continent, and several of the world's major bodies of water, on numerous occasions, but this is the first time she has ever made a transcontinental crossing by motor car. She made the trip "solo." "It took me ten days from New York," she said, "but I saw the front door of a lot of buildings. It'll take me ten hours to see the roof-tops of the same buildings on the return trip." Miss Earhart's airplane was brought here several days ago from New York by Paul Mantz, local commercial aircraft operator. The aviatrix said she is "on vacation" and will be here about a month. She will be joined within a few days by her husband, George Palmer Putnam, book publisher. Amelia Earhart at The White House WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (ap)- Amelia Earhart, who recently flew solo from Hawaii to California, had breakfast today with President and Mrs. Roosevelt. AMELIA EARHART VOTED PRAISE BY STATE ASSEMBLY SACRAMENTO, Jan. 15 (ap)- A resolution praising Amelia Earhart for her Honolulu-Oakland flight was adopted by the State Assembly today, although several legislators bickered over whether the congratulatory message should be addressed to "Miss Amelia Earhart" or to "Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam." The House finally agreed on "Miss." The resolution was introduced by a group headed by Assemblyman Maloney, Republican, of San Francisco. Miss Earhart's Flight Delayed Amelia Earhart's delayed eastward flight from Los Angeles to New York must await the simultaneous arrival of favorable weather and business conditions, it was learned last night. The heroine of the resent Honolulu-Oakland air passage was read to depart last Wednesday night, when the airlines became endangered by murky weather. And yesterday her publisher-husband, George Palmer Putnam, was forced to delay the flight to New York again because of business reasons. Weather permitting she and Mr.Putnam will take off from Burbank late tonight or tomorrow.
