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                                         Weaver
                  Page 3   Friends of GEo. E. "Buck"

continued: THE PATHFINDERS Page 139 thru to 148 Jimmy Doolittle

Wiley Post             (1929 Mitchel Field L.I.
                       (blind flying by instruments.
1931 Post & Gatty      (Sperry Gyroscope
Pages 154 Floyd Gibbons(Janet Junkin, daughter of Mrs. & 
          filed in Signature (Elwood J. "Sam" Junkin, Secretary

correspondent: letter to HMJunkin (Sperry 1940s. Great Neck, L.I.
 under pen name (1939, Doolittle met Geo C. Weaver)
 Hattie Meyers (soloed by Jimmy Taylor, Grumman)
 FAI Soaring pilot (Aircr. Test Pilot. Reminded him)
For return trip First for women U.S.A. (of Buck Weaver said, "If we had had your Dad War 11 would have ended sooner.)
Was asked to be Graf Zeppelin cc.
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1935 Washington, D.C.
4536 Lowell St. N.W.
Divorce from Lt. Comdr. R.S. Barnaby, Junkin name returned. Was Hostess all thru 1930's for Aviation events, Ford Reliability Tours 
        Williard Hotel dances and Receptions

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1935
                   Hotel
After the Mayflower/etc. ceremonies, reception by Hattie Meyers Junkin Wiley Post had to leave early to join Will Rogers ^ at 4536 Lowell St. N.W. residence. for what proved their fatal trip. I grabbed by Eastman movie Kodak/taking [[?]][[?]] all flights by Parker Cramer) 16 mm. took Wiley Posts picture as/he [[?]] left the front door.
Wiley Post was given all the handicaps, first his eye..to save the other the jealousy invading the pioneers, more injuries added to the "devil" politics and War Two rumbling in Japanese and German Embassies...Like Geo. E. "Buck" Weave, these youths were like the three colors in the paint box of Life from which shades are still drawn into Infinity. U.S. Stamp 1980 found a real hero.
                 Hattie M. Junkin - July 26, 1980 
                 Hattie Meyers Weaver Junkin, J.D.
                 Soaring FAI #37, First for Women
                                  U.S.A. Aug. 1931
                 (as Barnaby)