Evening star., 1937-07-03

to conquer. No one had Travelled
around the earth's "1CaiStlinc." It
Uds not her first record hop. She
Tds the first 1Uomdn to flu solo
across the Atlantic aud the first
ny the ocean. Among her many
other first flights uas her solo from
Honolulu to California in 1885.
Ev the Associated Press
HONOLULU, July 3.-Reports that
the voice Of tousle- haired Amelia
Earhart had been picked up, calling
IS 0 s. from the mystery spot where
she is lost in mid-Pacific buoved
hopes for her ultimate rescue today
as the United States Navy ordered a
battleship into the search.
Two Los Angeles amateur radio
operators as late as 7 am. Pacific
time 90 am, E. S. T) said they dis
tinctly heard her sound her call let
tiers, KHAQQ, after thrice saying
IS o S" some 20 minutes earlier.
At San Francisco. however. a Coast
Guard station reported at noon, East
ern standard time. 1t had received no
word whatever although radio recep-
ton was unusually good
Earlier the Los Angeles operators
Walter McMenamy and Carl Pierson-
interpreted radio signals as placing
the plane adrift near the Equator be-
tween Gilbert Islands and Rowland
Island. the latter Miss Earharts desti-
nation when her fuel was exhausted
more than 20 hours before.
Battleship Ordered to Search.
At Washington the Navy Depart
ment ordered the battleship Colorado
with three planes aboard. to begin
search from Honolulu, where it arrived
yesterday.
Il recognized Miss Earharts voice
from conversations I have had with
her, although l never heard her on
the air before" said PierSon concern
Ing his am. reception.
Walter recognized her because he
maintained wireless contact with her
plane on her flight from Oakland to
Hawaii this Spring"
Their efforts were added to an in
creasing number Of Others all be-
lieved coming from the missing plane
and prompting Coast Guardsmen to
express belief that Miss Earhart and
her navigator would be rescued
"KHAQQ" is the call of Miss Ear
harts plane, last heard from in the
air yesterday at PIP pm, Eastern
standard time. when she reported she
and her navigator, the veteran Fred
Noonan, could not sight land and were
nearly out of gas.
Another message signed with the
planes call letters and seeking radio
contact was picked up in the South
Sears earlier by the New Zealand war
ship Achilles, the San Francisco Coast
Guard reported.
The Achilles. many miles south and |
east Of Howland. messaged:
Unknown station heard to make:
Please give us few flashes if you get |
us-7 signal on 3,l05 kilocycles.' This
station made KHAQQ twice and dis
appeared. Nothing more since then"
The Achilles message said the radio |
was heard on 3,1O5 kilocycles.
In Shark-Infested Waters.
Miss Earhart was generally believed !
TO have come down in shark infested |
waters within radius Of 100 miles |
northwest of Rowland Island after |
naVlng oVershot the tiny target on
1,oio-mlle hop from Lac, New Guinea.
Coast Guardsmen suggested the
myers may have reached a mid Pacific
coral reef or sandspit and set up their
emergency radio on land.
weather conditions were reported
falrly favorable for safety of the pair
whether they were on a remote atoll
or adrift.
A heavy smoke belched from the
tunnels of the cleaning white. $50
loot cutter ltasca. visible for nine miles
from its HoWland Island ANCHORAGE
as it ploughed forward on a smooth
sea In quest of the $4,000 Earhart
Flying Laboratory
Whlle the cutter hunted by sea.
Navy hylng boat sped over the 1900
mile distance from Honolulu.
The Navy minesWeeper Swan Joined
the hunt from position halfway be-
tween here and Rowland, where it
had been stationed to give any pos
sible aid to Miss Earhart on the next
leg of her flight.
The flying boat itself undertook
hazardous night fight to join the
search. Carrying a crew of eight, it
took off from Pearl Harbor and headed