Evening star., 1937-07-04
Earhart
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station in the Nurru Islands picked up
a message on the Earhart wave length
saying "a ship in sight ahead"
The message was untimed and part
of it was unintelligible, but the Brit
ish station was quoted as saying the
voice was similar to Miss Earharts.
This station is on almost a direct
line with Miss Earharts flight route
and heard her Thursday as she passed
within so miles of Nurru.
The unsuccessful searching plane
reported encountering the snow and
sleet at high altitude. Snow is un-
known at Howland Island, only so
miles from the Equator
Great Hazard in Sun.
Rescue workers said the sun there
would be great hazard to survival
OF any one exposed to its merciless
equatorial rays. Reports indicated
clear skies and calm sea In the
region OF the hunt.
Searchers put little faith in numer-
Gus reports of amateur radio operators
OF supposed messages from the Ear
hart flying laboratory" and asserted
there was no convincing proof that
she and Noonan remained alive.
But the radio messages purportinp
TO come from the lost -motored
plane continued TO flash despite off,
ciaI skepticism.
Paul Mantz, Miss Earharts techni-
cal advisor, expressed the conviction
that two Los Angeles amateur wire
less operators had really picked up
message from the plane and that
Miss Earhart and her navigator had
reached an atoll in the South Pacific.
Searchers said they had reason to
believe the last message from the
plane came at 1:45 am. today GAS
am, z. S. I'd as series Of dashes.
But amateur listeners insisted thev
had heard reports at o42 am. s:55
am. and 10 am, E. S. T., indicating
they were from the plane.
Recognized Her Voice.
One reported he recognized Miss
Earhart's voice saying "KHAQQ S OS,
KHAQQ S O S. KHAQQ S o s."
These are the call letters given Miss
Earhart for the Just for fun world
hight that came to grief during an
attempted 2.570-mile flight yesterday
from Lac, New Guinea, to Howland
Island
After a 2lhour search of the waters
about Rowland, the Itasca returned
to the island, intending to remain
there as base ship for other search
ing craft. Failure of the flying boat
to get through from Hawaii caused it
to resume the hunt.
From Oakland, Calf, George Pal
mer Putnam cabled q request to radio
station KGU here to broadcast hourly
messages to Miss Earhart in efforts to
locate his wife and Noonan.
Putnam asked that her initials.
"A. E." be broadcast on the hour.
followed by SOS. Land or water?
North or south?'
He said he hoped Miss Earhart
might be able to pick up the messages
and indicate her location and whether
she was on an island or afloat
May Have Drifted Back.
He said the Pan-Pacific Press Bu-
reau had computed that Miss Ear
hart might have drifted back to the
original position, when she radioed
she was 100 miles from Rowland.
Half an hour later she sent an
alarming message that she had only
half an hours supply Of fuel left and
could not make the distance. The
bureau figured that with a smile
an-hour drift Miss Earhart, if afioat.
would have drifted back to the spot
from which she first broadcast.
request to the Itasca to cease
broadcasting on the same wave length
as Miss Earhart was made by Coast
Guard headquarters at San Fran
cisco in efforts to pick up any dis
tress signals she sends.
Omcials said Miss Earhart was au-
thorized to use 3lO5, e2l0 and 500
kilocycles and that the Itasca had
been using the same frequencies in
tests.
The Coast Guard at San Francisco
planned to operate three monitcring
stations. Omcers explained that
should Miss Earhart broadcast they
might be able to pick up the signals.
Besides the battleship Colorado, the
aircraft tender Pelican also was
pressed into the sea -combing task from
the Hawaiian Islands
At 2:l2 pm, Eastern standard time.