Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1937, Page 8

A—8 %% THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, B (B4 MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937. EARHART TAKE-OFF DELAYEDONEDAY Start of World Fiight is Postponed Because of Storm at Sea. BULLETIN. By 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. Mpecial 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 pm. (7 and 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time), this 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- moon 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 But Wilma, Charlotte and Shirley, left to right, shown with their nurse, Miss Virginia Diles, didn’t have any say about the matter, for they were born triplets just two weeks ago. They were born at the Preston retreat in Philadelphia, and they're very healthy babies. —Wide World Photo. packed about the steel fence near the | ship, a rubber lifeboat with oars and % : . 2 hangar and Miss Earhart waved and | a kite sail which also may be used &5 RO e LRy e done RIS e e o Ebe I Ibs he | Ve Tl i e i fore ducking inside the building. | late bars, raisins, canned tomato juice y's of the Pa- | mfiscm}‘]xgai‘ndl::&gw;a\??né \\'mi& :n Between 200 and 300 pounds of | &nd standard ayrrny emergency rations. the course to Hawaii by yesterday|equipment was weighed and stowed| There also S ol of fibing afternoon, but yesterday’s reports [ 1R its proper place inside the plane’s "‘Lc,k]&' fa han -operlated st showed that the high-pressure area | Cabin, under Miss Earhart's watchful | Charger for use if the Electra’s motor- on which Miss Earhart and her flight | ©Ve, so that she would know where to | df“":‘rgmgflf&b‘ofl“s, a spare tail companions—Capt. Harry Manning, | ind things when they were wanted | Wheel for the ratory” plane and Paul Mantz and Fred Noonan—were | & Various stages of her world dash, | & small P““ka&e of ; N"’gfi‘-h‘usecm eounting to assist them had not moved | The supplies included five vacuum mng.:r}orlc ’m‘“ e 1 selc castward so fast as expected. They | Dottles for carrying hot drinks for | to be effective in dissipating fog over were virtually certain vesterday aft- Derself and her companions, water | 3irports. S N ernoon, however, that conditions over | ¢anteens, a desert water bag for keep- Radio Checked Again. most of this area would be ideal for | 108 Water cool in hot climates, life| Earlier in the day Wr. Mantz and their purposes today. preservers for every one aboard the | Capt. Manning, Miss Earhart’s trans- Airport Hails Delay. 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The morn- ing 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 | Tockheed Vega monoplane became stuck in the mud at the end of the Ask About Our Easy Monthly Payment Plan field's long runway and there was | #0 much delay in extricating it that the Washington phase of her air Jjourney 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 #witchboard was flooded with calis vesterday concerning the time of | Miss Earhart’s take-off. Despite the fact that all who asked were told the flight had been postponed because of weather conditions, a crowd of nearly 10,000 had assembled on the field by mid-afternoon. 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G & 1 11h Sts, KW, i Copyright by Usited Asbestos Pad Corp., 193 THOLATUM COMFORT Daily Mak Gives Pacific radio operator and navigator, Wwho 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 & similar fadeout as relief nav- igator at Howland Island, Miss Eavr- hart's second stop—went up for o short radio check flight in the “Flying Labcratory.” 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. 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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 “govers” 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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