Show British Journalists J O lists Fete Woman Flier Amelia Earhart Drinks Toast in Water to Hoover King George at Luncheon By Associated Press LONDON May 23 23 Mrs Amelia Amella Earhart Putnam the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo demonstrated today that she is exactly as efficient at the feminine business of shopping las as she is at the hardier pursuit of flying an airplane After Alter a light licht breakfast at the Amerlean Amer Amer- lean can embassy where she is staying she sped off oft to the west end shopping shopping shop shop- ping center before 9 She completed her purchases in time to attend a luncheon given by bythe bythe the he Institute of ot Journalists Journalists and and speed II had bad no effect on her efficiency On all nIl sides she received con congratulations on the excellent taste displayed in her emergency apparel emergency apparel emergency because when she landed in Ireland Friday all she had with her were the flying clothes on her back Mrs s. Putnam wore a blue wool dress with a fetching white neckpiece I Ambassador Andrew W. W Mellon was present at the luncheon as was Sir John Simon British foreign secre secre- tary The large assemblage e cheered heartily as Sir John bowed and congratulated congratulated congratulated con con- the smiling flier on her feat D KINKS TOAST Using a glass of or water Mrs Putnam Putnam Putnam Put Put- nam drank a toast to the president of the United States and another to the king Mr Mellon seated at her side performed that ceremony with the aid of ot whisky and soda The Thc ambassador paid warm tribute to the tousled haired airwoman I An event of major importance that grips the imagination such as the airplane airplane airplane air air- plane flight ht of that coura courageous young woman alone atone across the Atlantic last week can thrill the whole world so 80 I that for tor a n moment at least all of ot us have something in common and can think and feel as a unit Mr Mellon said This uni unity he hc continued was largely large large- ly the result of the service rendered by newspapers That observation led him to the problems of ot newspaper work concerning which he made this declaration OUTLINES AIMS IS What we must strive for is to present present pre pre- sent facts earnestly accurately and without malice or conscious effort eUort to misrepresent remembering that the world is no less great now than inthe in inthe inthe the time of war and that all our energies must be used in constructive efforts to counter balance the thc forces of evil and disintegration and to restore restore re re- store again the economic health of ot the world I Mrs Putnam received an ovation from the newspaper men when Ralph I D. D Blumenfeld editor of ot the Daily Express proposed a toast to herI herI her I 1 hereby retract my pet theory theory theory- that thai a woman never did anything really valuable Mr Blumenfeld said The audience arose and sang For She's a Jolly Good Fellow and lustily shouted hip-hip hip hurrahs The flier filer responded grace gracefully Cully I I am happy to to-be to be in London she said raid My first trip is just informal Continued on oa Pan Pitt T Tao To o I WOMAN FLIER GETS OVATION Continued from Face Parc e One and I hope while here to poke about the city and see some places I missed when I was here before The foreign secretary made a brief speech in m which he remarked that Britain and America never were so close to each other as right now now now-as as Mrs l Putnam had proved by flying lying over in 13 hours and 30 minutes Mrs Putnam's estimate of her flyIng fly fly- Ing time from Harbor Grace Newfoundland Newfoundland New New- to Culm ore northern Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land was 13 1312 2 1 hours Mrs Putnam Breaks Nonstop Distance Mark PARIS 13 1 May 23 Airmen JP-Airmen Airmen here today estimated that Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam had broken the worlds world's nonstop distance flying record rec ree- ord for women in her flight from Newfoundland to Ireland They said her flight outdistanced by miles the record of Mme Maryse Bastie French woman flier who flew 1800 miles without a stop in m June 1931 1031 The record will not become official I cial dab however until it has been passed upon by the International Aeronautic federation here Ocean Fliers Attend Comrades' Comrades Funeral ROME May 23 UP The UP-The The first congress of fliers who have spanned the oceans of the world was suspended suspend ed temporarily today while famous aviators attended the funeral of two comrades the Hungarian pilots George Endres and Julius Bittay killed when they landed here to attend attend at tend the meeting Endres flew the Atlantic last year Jear in the Justice for Hungary accompanied accompanied by Alexander MagyarI Magyar I regret the absence of at that noble hero Colonel Lindbergh Premier Mussolini said in opening the con con- gress I am sure the hearts of ot all present are beating in sympathy with his The fliers liers expected Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam to arrive here from London later this week and planned a welcome befitting the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone The United States was represented by Geor George e Haldeman Hugh HuSh Herndon Harold Gatty Catty and others I |