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TOLEDO WOMAN IS ELECTED TO SELECT CLUB
Dec 19/28
Aviatrix Is Made Member of "Early Birds;" Only Fliers Eligible to Roster.

 Honor came to a family of aviators in Toledo Tuesday when news was received that Mrs. Hattie M. Junkin, 29, of 4123 Packard road, had been made a member of the "Early Birds," a select air club.
 Mrs. Junkin, who is a member of the board of directors of the Advance Aircraft Co. at Tory, and Marjory Stinson, sister of the famous Eddie Stinson, were elected members of the "Early Birds" at a recent meeting. they are said to be the only two women members in the world.
 In addition to having a famous mother the Junkin family believes it boasts the youngest aviatrix. She is Janet Junkin, 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. Junkin, who has been up in an airplane five times with her mother.
 George Weaver, 10-year-old son of Mrs. Junkin, is planning to be an aviator when he grows up and has been a passenger in a plane several times.
 Mrs. Junkin has been widowed twice. Both of her husbands, George Weaver and Sam Junkin, were aviators.


The Toledo Daily Times, January 26,1929

Aviation Club Hears Views Of Experts
Local Technologist And Woman Flier Are Speakers.

 Charles M. Mohrhardt, technologist at the Toledo public library, and Mrs. E. J. Junkin, nationally known for her interest in aviation, were the speakers at the regular meeting of the Toledo Aviation club at the Chamber of Commerce Friday night.
 Mohrhardt spoke of the modern inventions to make planes noiseless. The navy, he said, is experimenting with planes in which the exhaust passes through the propeller shaft and is forced through the propeller which is made of hollow vanadium steel.
 In the more expensive cabin planes, fiber insulation is used to keep out both noise and wind. he said.
 Lieut. Frank Hoffman led a discussion on meteorology and the influence of weather conditions on flying.
 Mrs. Junkin talked about her experience through which she has attained nation-wide fame. She is a stockholder and director of the Advance Aircraft Co., Troy, Ohio, where Waco planes are made. She and Katherine Stinson are the only women who are members of the "Early Birds," aeronautical club. The next meeting of the Toledo Aviation club will be held at Mrs. Junkin's home, 4123 Packard street.


Mildred Doran Enshrined With Women Air Pioneers
By HARVEY ANDERSON
(Copyright, 1927.)

NEW YORK, Aug. 20-Miss Mildred Doran, Michigan school teacher, whose fate on her Hawaiian [[?]] has held the world's attention, [[?]] one of a number of brave women who have pioneered the air along with men. The monument being built in Oklahoma to honor the "Pioneer Mother" may well be followed by a memorial to the women who have met the hazards of a new element with unflinching courage. 
 This writer stood beside Miss Lillian Gatlin 12 years ago, and watched Lincoln Beachey drop into San Francisco Bay.
 "I'm going to make the world remember him!" she said.
 Miss Gatlin was later the first woman to fly [[obscured]]

jumper..  When the airplanes on the recent national air tour reached New York, they were escorted to Curtiss Field by a woman flier - Miss Jessie E. Horsfall. Miss Horsfall is a skilled air woman of wide experience and is on the editors of Aero Digest.
 Fraulein Thea Rasche, German flier, is in New York planning a trip across the Atlantic. She has thrilled crowds here with her performances in her plane, and although she crashed recently, trying to dive under a Hudson River bridge, she is at it again and tells the world she will ride the air to Germany. She has ordered a plane similar in design to the one Chamberlin use.
 In Germany, Japan, England and France women are beginning to fly.


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