The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2021-11-24
issued: 1932-05-24
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note: Semi-Finals and Finals for Wilson Cup at Links ■ —PaAc Three Toi.mg n than Hailn —7'?»L:•«,.. „....., : , ..... ..... ■J Grand Forks Has Crowning of May Queen, Field Meet — PadeEiiht I ^Ic.i'c r ■■ J '"> U^'i, ** 1 J* *a "IT NEWS, NELSON, B. t\, TLE*tTiAT MORNINO MAY 14, 193! FIVE CENTS A COPY *»t Mrrrt .*i $25,000 REWi._ OR CHILD MURDERERS *************** -* * * * * ************ Bantam Baby Blooms on Bottle JOURNALISTS OF BRITAIN TOAST HER Ambassador A. W. Mellon Salutes Remarks Most Profoundly T LONDON, May 23 (AP).—Amelia Earhart Putnam shopped today for clothes to aw.men. her flying togs, was UK. .ed by British Journalists, and rained one of the points of her solo fli**lit aorosa the Atlantic—an admission by a man that women could do something valuable. The slim, blonde flyer, whose tousled hair and frank smile have captured the fancy of the British public, said feminine resentment at all the "catty things" men say about women drivers and women pilots was the driving urge behind her ocean fllgnt. "Where there's & traffic Jam on Tilth svenue, men alwrys comment, 'Oh, It's a woman driving,'" she explained. "I have gant up with a mechanic who doesn't know tha controls from the altimeter, and when I've come down I have heard people say he probably did most of the flying. ADDED NOTHING ELSE "So I determined to show them. And outside of demonstrating that a woman can fly the Atlantic alone I don't see that V*m -tdded anything to aviation, solence, or anything else." Ralph D. Dlumenfcld. editor of the Dally Express, aaid, however, when he proposed a ' est to her at a luncheon of the Institute °r Journalists: "I hereby retract my pet theory— that a woman never did anything really valuable." The newspaper men gave her an ovation of hlp-hlp hurrahs. 81r John Simon, secretary of state for foreign affairs, congratulated thc smiling flyer on her feat ln flying alone from Harbor Orace, Nfldl, to Culmore, northern Ireland. Mrs. Putnam responded gracefully to the toast. "J am h…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0406012
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text