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WORLD FLIGHT

... WORLD FLIGHT HELD UP. Miss Earhart Cool in Runaway Crash. HONOLULU, Sunday Presence of mind saved Miss Amelia Earhart and two men companions in her M-e aeroplane, Flying Laboratory, tikinc off at Honolulu yesterday on e‘ l secoTd stage of a 27.000 miles ...

Published: Monday 22 March 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PJaying Fields, Odsal, Bradford, last night. (By a Mercury photographer.) MISS DIFFICULTIES NEW YORK. Friday ..

... a Mercury photographer.) MISS DIFFICULTIES NEW YORK. Friday The coastguard cutter Itasca is preparing search for Miss Amelia Earhart after receipt of a wireless message at 1.12 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time), stating that she had only half an hour’s fuel ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

What She Told Her Husband

... Itasca, which has again been cruiaing to-day in the region of Howland Island, has failed so far to find any trace of Miss Amelia Earhart’s ’plane. It is now over forty hours since she and Captain Noonan, her navigator. took off from Lae (North-Eastern New ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

: CHEERING MINISTRY FIGURES ‘LADY LINDY’ BELIEVED STILL ALIVE

... : CHEERING MINISTRY FIGURES ‘LADY LINDY’ BELIEVED STILL ALIVE British Ship Draws Near MISS AMELIA EARHART and her navigator. Captain Noonan, who came down in the Pacific on their round-the-world flight, are believed to be still alive, though whether they ...

Published: Tuesday 06 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“LADY UNDY” STILL MISSING But Hope Not Yet Abandoned NEW YORK, Thursday The fate of Mrs. Putnam (Miss Amelia ..

... “LADY UNDY” STILL MISSING But Hope Not Yet Abandoned NEW YORK, Thursday The fate of Mrs. Putnam (Miss Amelia Earhart) and her navigator. Captain Noonan, who have been missing for six days, remains mystery. United States vessels collaborating in the Pacific ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE SEARCH FOR MISS EARHART U.S. Battleship Withdrawn WASHINGTON, Monday The Navy Department announced to-day ..

... that the U.S. battleship, Colorado, and its three aeroplanes have withdrawn from the search of the South Seas for Miss Amelia Earhart, the missing airwoman. It is only after a complete search the Phoenix Islands and other islands in the neighbourhood that ...

Published: Tuesday 13 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

warships

... Tuesday Sixty ’planes have taken off from the United States aircraft-carrier Lexington a final attempt to locate Miss Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Captain Noonan, missing since last Friday week. Sudden squalls had postponed the flight, which is planned ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 788 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Story

... Story WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE disappearance of Miss Amelia Earhart on the last lap of her round-the-world flight last month is recalled by the arrest of a New York man here to-night. The man has been detained in connection with an attempt to extort ...

Published: Thursday 05 August 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CENTRAL 36819

... There Were Other Swindlers, Too AN American janitor has been arrested on a charge of trying to extort money from Miss Amelia Earhart’s husband. He claimed to know where the airwoman could be found alive after the wreck of her aeroplane in the Pacific ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

STORY

... American delegate s message she said she ' the missin flier, Amelia hart ers of Winsconsin, claimed that v « message from Amelia Earhart, v ® up for dead after an exhausm the South Pacific. that it was the practice of sl t round a box containing a 4.?® microphone ...

Published: Tuesday 07 September 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

a Truly Great Man

... Czechoslovakia. Good old Britain! We can still lead the world. T TURN to another record of true adventure, Last Flight,” by Amelia Earhart, The happily named “Lady Books Reviewed Phillip of Australia By M. Barnard Eldershaw. (Harrap, 155.) Last Flight. By ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1938
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 794 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Grace Darling

... Vikings sailed and the rounded hills of the Border. Women have done many brave things in our generation. Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Queen Marie of Rumania, Helen Keller and many others will be remembered for their patient courage or spectacular daring ...

Published: Thursday 21 July 1938
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 4 | Tags: none