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Star Tee Minneapoli JUNE Average Daily Net Paid Circulation Exceeded 130,000 Price Two Cents in Minneapolis HI P. UNITED ASSOCIATIONS (INS) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 31937 World Plane Is Missing in Shark Areas Aviatrix, Navigator Report Fuel Exhausted Near Howland Island, Goal of 2,550 Hop Over Southern Ocean NAVY SHIPS, PLANES JOIN IN SEARCH Honolulu, T. H. (U.P.) A far flung search by sea and air Avas begun from here today in an effort to trace faint radio distress calls from the plane of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Capt. Frederick Noonan, lost in a shark-infested ocean, while attempting to reach Howland island from Lae, New Guinea, on the most hazardous lap of their 'round-the-world flight The coast guard reported it received a "strong signal" at 12:45 a.m.

Pacific time or 2:45 a.m. Minneapolis, time. A flurry of excitement was caused when the radio station KGU here broadcast a mistaken report that a British freighter had rescued the fliers. 'Rescue9 Proves Garbled SOS Signal Investigation developed this newscast was a garbled version of a report from the British warship Achilles that it had intercepted two SOS calls from Miss Earhart. Coast guard and navy authorities believed the plane was down somewhere within a 100-mile ladius of Howland island, tiny dot that offered the only haven for landing.

't f'lJ jVv v. Vfr MINNEAPOLIS HOMES. HOWLAND IS. On a large scale map of the southern Facific ocean, Howland island is only a dot, situated between New Guinea and the Hawaiian islands, just north of the equator and east of the international date line. A United States possession, its importance lies in its potential value as a plane base on the route to Australia.

Two other islands, Baker and Jarvis, are within 40 miles of Howland, but are virtual sandbars. So minute is Howland, that If a flier misses it by more than 25 miles, he will not see the bit of coral reef in the Pacific. These dots of land are the last for hundreds of miles in mid-Pacific, and are beyond regular shipping lanes. They are 1,800 miles southwest of Honolulu and 2,550 miles from Lae, New Guinea. WHEAT FUTURES SHOW GAIN HERE Influenced by a sharp rise at Winnipeg, wheat futures prices climbed l'i to 2 cents on the Min- neapolis grain market today in a lively pre-holiday session.

July wheat closed today at 51.494, up Pi cents. September at up 1, and December at up 2 cents. Even greater gains were recorded, with September gaining 4 cents, but late selling pulled prices down from their peaks. PLAYING WITH MATCHES Boys playing with matches set fire to an old barn at 912 E. Twen ty-eighth street Friday.

The firs caused slight damage. Vol. 32, No. 116 4 BANDITS TIE 3, FAIL TO OPEN BRAINERD SAFE Strongbox Withstands 3 Blasts; Fire at Watchman HEAD FOR CITIES Bralncrd, Minn. (U.RV Four ban dits who.

trussed up Ihree em ployes of the Brainerd Bottling Works early today and exploded three charges of nitroglycerin in an effort to open the company safe fled from Brainerd without loot. The men entered the bottling company offices in the early morn ing hours. They fired a bullet at the night watchman who found them in the building. The shot was wild. The watchman tfien was cap tured with two other employes and the three were trussed up while the burglars continued their ef forts to blast open the safe, which contained $1,000.

It was believed the burglars headed toward the Twin Cities, after abandoning their safe cracking efforts. NORTH ATLANTIC FLIGHT STARTED Clipper Blazing Air Trail Ends First Lap of Hop Shediar, New Brunswick (U.R) The Pan-American Clipper III. blazing a commercial air trail across the North Atlantic, arrived here at, 9:52 a.m. (Minneapolis time) today and took off a few minutes later for Botwood, New-fnundlawd. The Sikorsky flying boat, whose Atlantic route leads 1o Foyncs, Ireland, and thence to Southampton, England, is the United States' entrant In a four-nation competition for leadership in the trans-Atlantic air transport.

The flying boat took off from Port Washington, N. at 5:30 a.m. CST. Great Britain, represented by Imperial Airways; Germany, through the Lufthansa, France, with Air France Trans-atlantique, are the other nations surveying or planning to survey service routes over the ocean. Also scheduled to take off foday from Southampton, England, is the monoplane Caledonia of the Imperial Airways under the command of Capt.

A. S. Wilcockson with a crew of four. THUNDERSTORMS FORECAST HERE Nature is expected to provide fireworks of her own tonight in the form of a thunderstorm, the weather bureau said. The 4th will be partly cloudy and somewhat cooler, with Monday fair and cooler.

The forecast was made as the mercury, after dipping to 72 at 6 a.m. today, climbed to 85 at noon. Friday's maximum was 91. Showers fell throughout the state, the Dakotas and. Montana.

MRS. T. F. RYAN DIES Lynchburg, Va. Mrs.

Thomas Ryan, 78, thrice-married and widow of one of the country's leading financiers, died at. her Virginia estate late Friday night as the result of a heart attack. PARIS HOTEL STRIKE OFF Paris (U.R) Hotel, restaurant, cafe and food shop owners cancelled early today their scheduled one-day general strike against a government decree imposing the 40-hour working week. THE WEATHER Thunderstorms Tonight; Partly Cloudy and Somewhat Cooler Sunday; Monday Fair and Cooler. Temperatures Midnight to Noon H12 1 2 3 5j 61 7 8j 9101112 7877,74 7373 7372735,798083 85 Highest year ago, 8fi; lowest, 65.

Hay fever count: 22 total grains polltn per cubic yard past 24 hours. Complete data, Editorial page. 'Attended Central High in St. Paul Amelia Earhart was a student at Central high school, St. Taul, in 1913 and 1914, it was revealed today.

Sh had an average of 89 per cVnt In studies for the latter year. She lived with her father, Edwin E. Earhart, 825 Fairmount avenue, until he moved to Boston In 1915, when she went to live with an aunt In Hyde Park, Chicago. She was graduated from Hyde Park high school in 1916. -V 'V ''A4)'' DEATH Sharpening SCYTHE Nine hundred men, women and children will die today, tomorrow and Monday in automobile, drowning and fireworks accidents and from falls the National Safety Council estimated today.

R. L. Forney, council statistician, predicted the following toll: Automobile accident deaths, 500; drownings, 300; fireworks deaths, 80; fatal falls, 75. Forney said July normally is the month of the greatest number of violent deaths. N.W.

Holiday Starts With 2 Men Dead Two deaths, explosion of a fire works stand, and heat prostrations marked the start of the three-day Fourth of July week-end celebra tion in the northwest as thousands of motorists crowded highways and filled lake resorts to capacity. Dead were: Gust Anderson, 63, 1512 E. Nineteenth street, killed by a car driven by Marvin Hermanson, 2617 Harriet avenue, as he attempted to xr. Holiday Starts Evanston, 111 Two trains hound for northern Wisconsin collide, 109 persons hurt St. Cloud, Minn.

Fireworks stand blows up, youth burned slightly. Nampa, Idaho Death toll reaches six in fireworks explosion. cross the Shakopee highway, two miles west of the St. Paul cutoff. George Raiter, 55, Alexandria, drowned in Lake Carlos, near there, when he fell from a dock after apparently being overcome by the heat.

A fireworks stand in St. Cloud blew up Friday night when the fireworks were set off accidentally, the skyrockets, sailing in all directions, driving everyone nearby to Truck Zones Set Truckers, except those transporting livestock or perishable products, will not he permitted to operate their trucks within a radius of 25 miles of the Twin Cities, from 9 a.m. Sunday until midnight Monday. cover. A youth employed In the stand, which was next to Mac's drugstore, was burned on the arm.

Joseph Fox, 28, 6520 Irving av enue was overcome by the heat at Twenty-seventh avenue S. and Thirty-sixth treated at General hospital, and sent home. Virginia Arneson, 4, 659 Van Buren street, was slightly injured when struck by an automobile at Van Buren and Summer streets N.E. Max Le Vinson, 62, 903 Plymouth avenue, was taken home after being struck by a car at Washington and Nicollet avenues. Donald Lesch, 13, 4107 Forty-first avenue was injured in a collision at Lake street and Forty-second avenue S.

At Third avenue N.E. and Fifth street Norton Levercon, 13, 422 Third avenue N.E., was struck by an automobile and injured. Fun with Colors! Li'l Abner, Dan Dunn, Jane Arden and all your favorites romp through the big colored comic section today. Get in on the fun! Another Parade! Not only on holidays, but day in, day out, month after month, The Star brings all the news, the headline parade from all corners of the world. Another reason The Star is the largest evening newspaper in the northwest FIRST IN CIRCULATION! Kl Miss Earhart's plane is a land craft a Lockheed-Electra mono-plane.

A United States navy plane commanded by Lieut. W. W. Harvey left Honolulu last night for Howland to aid the search. Howland is 1,800 miles southwest of Honolulu.

The coast guard cutter Itasca, at Howland to await Miss Earhart, started searching for the missing pair yesterday afternoon. U.S. Service Boats 'Are Ordered to Aid The USS Swan was ordered to proceed to Howland from a point midway between the tiny island and Honolulu. Preparations were being made simultaneously to send other servict craft army, navy and coast guard to Howland later today. Lieutenant Harvey's plane normally carries a crew of six men.

The crew, however, was augmented for the rescue attempt. U': 1 1 1 4 I.m ftiHiiK Mil Amelia AMATEURS HEAR AR Mayo Doctor Isolates Polio Germ how he tracked down the germ spinal fluid taken from nurses the disease at the Eos Angeles during an epidemic, in f3t. carrying infantile paralysis from spinal fluid and from bits from patients' suffering from Rabbits and mice inoculated with promptly contracted the same disease. fi2-year-old bacteriologist has been working infantile paralysis problem 19 years. Eos Angeles (U.R) Isolation of the infantile paralysis germ was claimed today by a Mayo Brothers' foundation bacteriologist.

Dr. Edward Carl Rosenow, the discoverer, said the next step toward curbing the disease is development of a serum or vaccine. He said preliminary work to this end already has been accomplished. Startling a meeting of 100 medical men at Glendaln with the announcement last night, Dr. Earhart on all sides, even down in Sydney, Australia," Johnson said.

They were on international airplane frequencies of 31.05 and 62.10 kilocycles and also on the international distress frequency of 500 kilocycles. DENIES GUILT ON MORALS CHARGES Marion Jerry, 26, 525 Third avenue N. pleaded not guilty to a charge of carnal knowledge when arraigned in district court before Judge Frank Reed today. Bail was fixed at S5.000 and the trial set for Sept. 13.

The offense was al-j legen 10 nave ifiKcn piare on june 13 against a 14-year-oid girl. COL. SCHICK DIES New York. (U.R) Col. Jacob Schick, 60, inventor of the electric razor, died today in Presbyterian hospital here.

Schick was named in the house-senate tax inquiry only two weeks ago. Rosenow told by working with who contracted county hospital Micro-organisms were recovered of musclo taken the disease. the germs The on the The plane will refuel at Howland, where 30 fifty-gallon drums of gasoline had been placed for Miss Earhart. Navy authorities announced the US Pelican and the USS Colorado would leave Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, within a few hours to aid the search. The USS Talbot was standing by to aid Lieutenant Harvey's patrol plane.

Dane Thought Moating The search was spurred by reports weak signals were being picked up which, it was believed, were from Miss Earhart's craft. These reports substantiated the hope the plane was floating and that Miss Earhart and Noonan would be rescued. Howland Island reported good weather in that area. Officers aboard the cutter Itasca reported they were convinced Miss Amelia Continued on rape Stren TRUCK AGREEMENT GETS RATIFICATION Trucking operations were normal in St. Paul today following formal ratification of an agreement by- employers officially ending a week- ong strike of truck drivers.

Meanwhile six men arrested on charges of disorderly conduct in connection with the strike were free on $100 bail. They were released after city officials refused Un heed thp requpst of Gov. Elmer A Benson to drop the charges against the men. Rl NGAIXmS BURNED New York (INS) A fire swept through a square block of the boardwalk In Rockaway Beach, today, razing a dance hall, a long row of one-story buildings and half a dozen summer bungalows. Ships, Coast Guard Also Pick Up Calls From Missing Pair Ry I'nifed Tress Plaintive distress signals from the plane of Amelia Earhart Putnam, forced down in the Pacific on her attempted around-the-world flight, were picked up today and throughout the tropical night by amateurs on both sides of the ocean, by coast guard cutters and by commercial ships plying the waters where Miss Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, are sought.

At Los Angeles, an operator of a powerful amateur station reported he heard a voice which he recognized as that of Miss Earhart calling: "SOS, SOS, SOS." The voice was picked up from the skies which hide the secret of the fliers' whereabouts about 3:30 a.m. Minneapolis time by Walter McMenamy and Karl Pierson. They said contact was made on the wave band of JVliss Earhart's plane and the "SOS" followed the call letters KHAQQ which the round-the-world flier is using. Miss Earharts Hying Jaoora-tory" airplane was equipped for radio transmission of both voice and code. The powerful Los Angeles amateur station had been hearing code signals all night.

Steady and clear-cut at. first, the calls became ragged and jerky hours later, as though the hand on the key was growing nervous un- der the straining, the radio men said. "It's the most jittery code I ever heard," McMenamy commented. "Faintly heard were the numbers '179' and what sounded like 1.6,' said McMenamy. "If that meant latitude and longitude, we calculate it would be somewhere 300 or 400 miles off the coast of Howland island." Heard by Cutter Other signals, none of which pave the exact position, were picked up by ships in the Pacific which are conducting a feverish search for Miss Earhart and her navigator.

The United States coast guard cutter Itasca at Howland island today had definitely identified weak radio signals picked up at dawn as coming from the Earhart plane, it was reported at San Francisco guard headquarters by Lieut. S. K. Johnson. The signals were "being heard On the Inside Inland Steel's counsel holts hearing, page 2.

The race for pennant, page 3. "Inside on Sports," page 4. CharlcR Johnson, The Star's sports editor, tells what has made the Association race interesting, page 5. The Star's all-star baseball contest opens, page fi. News of Minneapolis churches, page 8.

Budget balance in doubt as assembly nenrs close, second front pagp. Fourth of July death toll, in "Strange as It Seems," page 10. What's on at the theaters, pace II. Tair rescued from Jungles, page 18..