1935 - Cheery Amelia Earhart Won Vermonters. Famous American Aviatrix Made Happy Landing at Montpelier. GAVE EXPERIENCES ON OCEAN HOPS. While a Thousand People in State House Hung On Her Words.

State House, March 8.

Amelia Earhart Putnam-evangelist of aviation-added to her converts yesterday.

More than a thousand persons, several hundred of them school children, crowded into the Hall of Representatives, blocked the aisles and all but hung from the ornate chandeliers to see and hear the world's premiere aviatrix when she addressed the Vermont general assembly.

They were the converts-that is, all except a handful who admitted rather shamefacedly they wouldn't ride in an airplane under any circumstances.