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EARHART TAKE-OFF
Start of World Flight Is
Postponed Because of
Storm at Sea.
BULLETIN.
tr the Associated Press.
OAKLAND, Calif., March 15.—
Amelia Earhart today postponed
the start of her 27,000-mile globe
girdling flight until tomorrow be
cause of a storm at sea.
BY C. B. ALLEN.
•pedal Dispatch to The Star.
OAKLAND, Calif., March 15.—
Mead winds of unexpected strength
on the 2.410-mile course to Honolulu
yesterday caused Amelia Earhart to
postpone for 24 hours the start of
her projected 27,000-mile equatorial
flight around the world. Unless
weather forbids, the take-off will be
made today between 4 and 5 p.m. (7
and 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time),
ihis being the time originally sched
uled for Miss Earhart’s departure on
her globe girdling adventure.
The determining factor in the wom
an flyer’s decision not to get under
way across the Pacific yesterday after
noon were reports received Saturday
night from the Hawaiian Clipper,
which turned back after flying a little
more than a third of the way to
Hawaii. Capt. Ralph A. Dahlstrom,
who returned to Pan-American Air
ways Alameda base at 6 a.m. today,
reported that he had bucked a 30-knot
wind for hours in his efforts to reach
Honolulu and had ridden back to port
on a wind that had increased to 40
knots when he finally abandoned his
flight.
Saturday’s weather map of the Pa
cific had indicated favoring winds on
ihe course to Hawaii by yesterday
afternoon, but yesterday’s reports
showed that the high-pressure area
on which Miss Earhart and her flight
companions—Capt. Harry Manning,
Paul Mantz and Fred Noonan—were
counting to assist them had not moved
eastward so fast as expected. They
were virtually certain yesterday aft
ernoon, however, that conditions over
most of this area would be ideal for
their purposes today.
Airport Hails Delay.
The delay was hailed as a gift from
Piovidence by Oakland Airport offi
cials, who were spurred into feverish
activity Saturday afternoon by the
decision of Miss Earhart and Mr.
Mantz that the rain-softened runway
which they had planned to use here
was too hazardous for a heavy-load
take-off, and that they would start
ihe flight from Mills Field, San Fran
cisco’s municipal airport, 11 miles
“cross ths bay. A crew of workmen
•o.uippcd with tractors, trucks, scrapers
s.na a steam roller was set to work
to put the Oakland runway in proper
condition, and returned on the job
again at dawn yesterday.
The flyers inspected the work ac
complished yesterday afternoon and
said they were satisfied the runway
would be. safe to use today, unless
there is another heavy rain. A brisk
wind out of the west was drying up
the soggy field and aiding in the run
way repair work. A. H. Abel, Oakland
port commissioner, who assumed
personal charge of the situation when
it became apparent that San, Fran
cisco might capture the honor of
Miss Earhart’s take-off, said he was
“positive” that the runway would
meet the flyer’s full approval by
today.
Miss Earhart has experienced “run- ;
way trouble’’ here before. The morn- j
lng after her solo flight from Hono
lulu to Oakland on January 12, 1935,
when she taxied out to resume what
originally was intended to be a
Honolulu - Washington flight, her
Lockheed Vega monoplane became
stuck in the mud at the end of the
field's long runway and there was
so much delay in extricating It that
the Washington phase of her air
journey had to be canceled.
Miss Earhart put yesterday’s delay
to good use by arranging with Dr.
E. H. Padden, Oakland medical
examiner of the Bureau of Air Com
merce, to give her the semi-annual
physical examination required of all
licensed pilots. Government officials
at Washington already had granted
her a waiver on this requirement be
cause her license was due to expire
during her round-the-world flight, but
she will not have to avail herself of
this privilege now. Dr. Padden having
passed her without question and add
ing for her reassurance that she was
in “excellent’’ condition. This finding
was no surprise to her friends, who
know how carefully she has been
training for the flights during the
last few months.
Airport Phone Swamped.
The Oakland airport telephone
switchboard was flooded with calls
yesterday concerning the time of
Miss Earhart’s take-off. Despite the
fact that all who asked were told
ihe flight had been postponed because
of weather conditions, a crowd of
nearly 10.000 had assembled on the
field by mid-afternoon. Some of therrt
were rewarded in part by a sight of
the woman flyer as she visited the
Navy hangar, where her Wasp
motored Lockheed Electra “Flying
Laboratory” is kept, to assist Mr.
Mantz in placing the plane’s emer
gency and other supplies aboard In
anticipation of the take-off today.
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“Three’s a Crowd”
But Wilma, Charlotte and Shirley, left to right, shown with
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packed about the steel fence near the
hangar and Miss Earhart waved and
smiled In response to the tribute be
fore ducking inside the building.
Between 200 and 300 pounds of
equipment was weighed and stowed
in its proper place inside the plane's
cabin, under Miss Earhart’s watchful
eye, so that she would know where to
find things when they were wanted
at various stages of her world dash.
The supplies included five vacuum
bottles for carrying hot drinks for
herself and her companions, water
canteens, a desert water bag for keep
ing water cool in hot climates, life
preservers for every one aboard the
ship, a rubber lifeboat with oars and
a kite sail which also may be used as
an emergency radio antenna, choco
late bars, raisins, canned tomato juice
and standard army emergency rations.
There also was a supply of fishing
tackle, a hand-operated battery
charger for use if the Electra’s motor
driven generator fails, a spare tail
wheel for the “Laboratory” plane and
a small package of “Nofog,” a secret
mixture of chemicals which is said
to be effective in dissipating fog over
airports.
Radio Checked Again.
Earlier in the Cay Mr. Mantz and
Capt. Manning, Miss Earhart's trails
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Pacific radio operator and navigator,
Who is to accompany her as far as
Port Darwin, Australia—after Mr.
Mantz steps out of his role of relief
pilot at Honolulu and Mr. Noonan
does a similar fadeout as relief nav
igator at Howland Island, Mbs Eav
haii’s second stop—went up for a
short radio check flight in the “Plying
Laboratory.” Capt. Manning was per
turbed over his inability Saturday
to "raise” the San Francisco Coast
Guard Station on the regular steam
ship operating frequency of 500 kilo
cycles, and when the plane came
down he said the Lockheed’s radio
set still was not functioning on this
wave length, although he got perfect
results on its radio telephone frequen
cies of 3, 105 and 6,210 kilocycles.
A radio expert was summoned yes
terday afternoon from Los Angeles
and another test flight was to be made
this morning to see if the trouble
has been remedied. Capt. Manning
said that this wave is most important
frequency of the three for which the
plane is licensed, since it is the only
one enabling him to communicate
with ships at sea and most of the
radio shore stations which he hopes
to work as the plane approaches the
far side of the Pacific. All sending
and receiving over the 500-kilocycle
band is done by code, in which Capt.
Manning Is an experienced operator,
the only one aboard Miss Earhart’s
plane.
Since arriving here from Burbank
Wednesday, Miss Earhart has spent
nearly every spare moment of her
waking hours scribbling autographs
on seemingly endless hundreds of
souvenir “covers” which she will
carry with her for the benefit of
stamp collectors. Each time she sits
down to a meal—be it breakfast,
lunch or dinner—her husband, George
Palmer Putnam, apologetically
shoves a fresh sheaf of the specially
prepared envelopes, stamped and
addressed, but empty so that the
10,000 she is to take with her weigh
but 35 pounds, beside her plate to
gether with a fountain pen.
Write During Meals.
Automatically, the famous air
woman begins to write. Almost
effortlessly and with so light a
touch that there is no need to use
a blotter, she traces "Amelia Ear
hart" across the upper left face of
the covers, lifting her pen only when
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she moves from one to the other.
A dozen or more may be dashed oft
before the waiter comes to take her
order; before the first course Is
served another score has been done,
and at intervals throughout the meal
the work goer, on.
So accustomed Is she lo the task
that long ago it became a sort of
reflex action; as she writes she
carries on conversations about her
forthcoming flight or on any topic
with complete detachment from what
her hands are doing.
Autographs are what the stamp
collectors want—signed “covers” of
the Earhart flight cost 'the collector
(5, or twice as much as unsigned
ones—and Miss Earhart Is making
good on her promise to see that they
get them. The proceeds of these
sales will contribute substantially to
underwriting the cost of her flight.
It was estimated originally that the
demand for autographed "covers”
would be only about one to every 10
of the unsigned envelopes, but this
ratio has been at least doubled
Even at night, at the Oakland Air
port Inn, she takes a batch of her
philatelic “home work’’ with her to
do before she tumbles into bed.
In addition to this remunerative
writing, Miss Earhart, of course, is
constantly beset by professional auto
graph hunters and well-wishers
wherever she appears. Her husband
endeavors to steer her clear of every
one with little books, scraps of paper
and pens or pencils, but she hardly
ever refuses a signature once some
one reaches her side.
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