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AMELIA MORE THAN ON TIME Arrives in Atchison Early to Keep Appointment LIKES REPORTERS TO WRITE Famous Flier Is Interviewed by Globe Member While Visiting
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Amelia Earhart, record breaker of the air, has made another
record. She not only was on time for her appointment today
in Atchison to be guest of honor for the Kansas State
Editorial convention, but she arrived the night before. You
men who make accusations about a woman never being on time
remember that. Wearing a pale green flower negligee (almost
feminine) Amelia Earhart received a Globe reporter this
morning, shortly after nine o'clock, at the home of her
cousin, J. M. Challiss, a few doors from the home of her
maternal grandparents, the late Judge and Mrs. A.G. Otis,
the home where she was born. After a few preliminaries, when the interviewer did most of
the talking, Amelia Earhart, observed the reporter's
notebook to go into action, said: "I am glad you make notes;
I am not so apt to be misquoted." Then she told of being
interviewed in England, after her flight across the
Atlantic, and observed that the reporters took their notes
in shorthand. She thought it wonderful and told them so.
They said they did it so as to take everything down word for
word. "I was amused, upon reading their interviews." Amelia
Earhart said, "to note no two were alike." Amelia Earhart calls her plane 'Her.' "I have promised her,"
she said, "that I will never ask her to make another record.
I am taking her to California to be rejuvenated. After one
of the gas tanks, and the motor (the same one I used on my
solo flight across the Atlantic), are taken out, and
comfortable, upholstered seats installed, I shall turn her
into green pastures. She has earned her rest. I do not
believe, with her equipment she could make any greater
record than she has." When asked if that mean Miss Earhart
had other records for herself in view, this agreeable,
charming young woman replied, "Well, you might hint, darkly,
that possibly I have." Accompanying the reporter to the Challiss home this morning
was an Atchison visitor from Wellesley Hills, Mass., who had
asked to meet Miss Earhart that she might brag about it when
she got back home. The visitor said, "I sat up all night by
the radio longing to hear you had landed from your Pacific
ocean flight." Amelia Earhart replied, "I have been
apologizing ever since that flight to the people who wrote,
or else told me, they remained up all night awaiting news of
my landing." O.O. McIntyre wrote in his New York column that Amelia Earhart
is the most famous of all fliers. She is utterly unconscious
of her fame. And she does not pose as a shrinking violet,
either. She is doing what she loves to do and doing it the
best she can, and that is better than any one else has done
it up to this time. In private life Amelia Earhart is Mrs. George Palmer Putnam of
Rye, N.Y. She said this morning that she and Mr. Putnam
expect to spend most of the summer at their cabin in
Wyoming. When asked if her husband enjoyed flying Mrs.
Putnam replied: "He will enjoy it more from now on, because
heretofore, when flying with me and 'Her,' he has been
obliged to hold two gas tanks in his lap. From now on he
will be comfortable in upholstered seats."