... THURSDAY FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM (BBC 2 9am) (1943). Dramatic biopic of famous aviator Amelia Earhart (Rosalind Russell). It throws up a touch of controversy by suggesting she was on a mission for the govemment. (BgN) ...

... She took 'MI again at 7.30 p m. for Basra. The present long distance record for women is that set up by the late Miss Amelia Earhart with a flight of 2,462 miles. The distance from Istres to Basra is approximately 2.650 miles. From Istres to Alexandria ...

... HUSBAND HOPEFUL N THE hope that Miss Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Captain Norman, may have reached some unknown island or coral reef, the U.S. naval expedition that is searching the Pacific for the lost flyers, is to-day speeding towards the Phoenix ...

... arranzrd: South Shields v Jarrou ; Walker Celtic v. Jarrow HEPBURN AS AMELIA EARHART? Hollywood. Wednesday Miss Katharine Hepburn is to star in a film based on the lit* Amelia Earhart. the famous American air-woman, it is reported in trade circles here ...

... OTHER SHIPPING NEWS ON PAGE EIGHT AMELIA EARHART OFF AGAIN Karachi. Thursday. Miss Amelia Barhart. who arrived here on Tuesday on her flight round ♦he world left for Calcutta at 7.25 a.m. (local time). Weather permitting, she should reach Calcutta in ...

... BOOK WITH ANOTHER NAME Amelia Earhart last book will be published next month. She has meant to call it World Flight. It will now' have another name. It will entitled Last Fltem (stales Peterborough in the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post*. At i landing-place ...

... Over 8,000 Melbourne workers went In protest reduction accordaiM'e with reduced cost of living figures. Mrs Putnam (Ml— Amelia Earhart) set up a new women’s record flying nolo non-stop across the I'nited States. Maminoml. Cilmwester^iirf. m’oishJ 264 (th** ...

... EARHART—NEXT STOP BANGKOK Rangoon. Saturday. After a false start from Akyab (Burma) owing to bad weather early to-day Mis* Amelia Earhart finally left there at 10.12 a.m, (local time) and landed here 1.05 P- - w The next stage of her round-the-world flight ...

... Samuel Spitz, creator of the marine depth sounder- Reuter. “LADY LINDY” ON HER WAY AGAIN Batavia. Java. Thursday. Miss Amelia Earhart took off from Bandoeng, near here, for Kupang. Timor Island, at 1 pm. local time to day-7.120 a m. B.S.T. At Kupang Miss ...

... certainly better than 1 do “ This was the tribute paid Mr J. A Molllson. the British airman, who is on holiday here, to Miss Amelia Earhart. Mr Mollison said that believed that experimental flights had outlived their usefulness, and they were better left to ...

... proud possession of Labour MP Bryan Gould, proved to be Westminster dog of the year. 2 ® ’ Flier ‘executed [ Famed flier Amelia Earhart was captured by the Japanese and executed because they wanted to steal her plane’s technology for use on their Second ...

... unusual plot. Notable players portray the principal roles and nearly third of the picture takes place in a replica of Amelia Earhart s ” flying laboratory.” Peter Lorre, as an apparently harmless lunatic, although in fact he is a foreign spy, and Brian ...