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PAUT 1 PAGE rA iMELIA "EARHART SOS SIGNALS FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN SPUR HUNT FOR AMELIA EARHART AMELIA'S PLANS TO QUIT PERILOUS FLYING REVEALED BY HUSBAND Oil WHO Z4fO MILES To MFMKC1SCO 't (Story Harts on page 1.) HONOLULU I. Battleship Colorado or- idered to aid search. 2. Aircraft tender Pelican joins nunr. 3.

Coast guard checks reported SOS calls. 4. Four naval vessels rush to aid of rescue plane. SNOW AND SLEET- TURN fa BACK RESCUE PLANE UOtfOLULU TO univtitn mnnM U. S.

CUTTER ITASCA SCOURS BARBER I. Jf HOWLAND ISLAND PALMYRA rm MttWTOSKk FANNING GILBERT 15 twl'tniiui; MM OA SOME THINK FLYERS LANDED ON BAKER I. OR' CORAL ATOLL SEARCH OF PHOENIX AND GILBERT ISLANDS ASKED awomid This map of the Pacific shows I 4 4 a i i if Amelia Earhart and Capt. Fred in the Pacific ocean on around the Miss Earhart spurred the hunt for 7 "If HEW2EAIA1TD the principal island groups, including Howland Island, scene of the search for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, her navigator. Most of ocean and have been accentuated by the artist to make them clear.

i airplane in which Miss Earhart and Capt. Noonan were flying around Pacific ocean ne ar Howland Island. J7 This is the Lockheed Electra the world when forced down in the flh jt Miss Earhart carries a rubber boat in case of emergency on over water flight. This one she used in a recent flight and is similar to the one aboard the plane that is down in the Pacific. cf any one exposed to its merciless i equatorial rays.

Reports indicated clear skies and a calm sea in the immediate vicinity of the hunt Searchers put little faith in numerous reports of amateur radio operators of supposed messages from the Earhart- "flying laboratory" and asserted there was no convincing proof that she and Noonan remained alive. But the radio messages purporting to come from the lost twin-motored plane continued to flash despite official skepticism. Searchers said they had reason to believe the last message from the plane came at 1:45 a. m. 17:15 a.

m. Chicago daylight time. As a series of dashes. But two amateur listeners insisted they had heard reports at 9:42 a. 9:55 a.

and. 10 a. m. Chicago daylight time, indicating they were from the plane. The amateur operators are Carl Pierson and Walter McMenamy of Los Angeles.

Pier-son reported he recognized Miss Ear-harfs voice saying KHAQQ SOS, KHAQQ SOS, KHAQQ SOS." These are the call letters given Miss Earhart for her "just for fun" world flight. Ist Messages Made Known. Coast' guardsmen in Honolulu failed to verify the reports that Miss Earhart had been heard from today, and after lack of word increased concern, they released the last three messages known deflnitly to have come from the woman flyer. All three were sent yesterday while she was in the air, her position unknown, and the fuel supply almost exhausted. At 2:12 p.

m. LChicago daylight time yesterday she had reported the necessity of landing soon In her 5S0.0G0 flying laboratory," saying no land was in sight. The cutter Itasca, on its fruitless search, belched black smoke in the tope of being seen by the flyers. An alert eye was kept by all searchers for an orange kite, which Miss Earhart and Noonan took along to fly as a distress signal. One of the host of theories advanced, that the flyers may have landed on Baker Island, a southern neighbor of Howlana, was blasted by information that four colonists there are equipped with a radio which could have quickly relayed the information.

Gouds and some wind were pre- dieted in the weather report from Washington, D. for the vicinity of Howland Island. Believes Plane Is on Land. Paul Mantz, Miss Earhart's technical adviser, said in San Francisco that if reported SOS calls were received it probably meant the plane vc as on land. He said the plane's main battery, or generator, and the emergency set for the radio probably were jut out of commission if the plane came down on the ocean.

He said the main battery was under the fuselage and the emergency one was inside. The emergency battery might have been protected from the water, Mantz said, but added that he doubted this. He said that if messages actually were received today it probably meant the plane was on land. NAZIS ANNOUNCE HELICOPTER IS EFFICIENT IN AIR Chicago Tribune Press Service-1 BERLIN, July 3." One of the biggest problems of aviation has been solved by Germany," the Berlin press declared tonight, in announcing the successful test flight in Bremen of a new helicopter, the "FW-61." It is claimed to have smashed all existing records for this type of aircraft. The new wingless helicopter, which is able to hover motionless in the air and land and take off vertically, was designed by Prof.

Heinrich Focke of Bremen. It has a 160 horse power motor, propelling two horizontal revolving trebble blades or screws. During the test flight it is claimed the machine attained a height of 7,500 leet, as against previous record of 500, held in France. It attained a speed of 76 miles an hour, as compared to the previous record of 28, it was said. During the test flight the pilot repeatedly shut off the engine in the air and was able to glide to earth.

The German press described the new helicopter as the "first serviceable aircraft of this type." SLEET STORMS NEAR EQUATOR CALLED UNUSUAL Washington, D. July 3. (JP) The -weather bureau said tonight it "vould be unusual but not impossible "for planes flying at high altitude near the equator to encounter enow and sleet. Reports from- Honolulu said a naval -plane had turned bach before reaching the scene of the Earhart search after fighting snow. or sleet could result, the bureau said, if a mass of moving cold if collided" with warm, moist air, hut would not be likely except at a high altitude- The bureau said an observation plane from Pearl Harbor reported temperature of 33 degrees Fahrenheit an altitude of about 15,000 feet today.

An upper air report from Howland island today did not indicate any unusual condition, the bureau said. Woman Movie Censor Is Slugged and Robbed Mrs. Richard Salter, chairman of the Oak Park' board of censors, vas struck down by a thief last night and robbed of her purse, containing several dollars and a number of theater passes. She was returning to her home at 1140 Ontario street, Oak Park, when, near Harlem avenue and Holly court, the thief hit her on the head without warning. As she lay on the sidewalk he took her purse and fled.

Lindbergh Visits Friend After Landing in France DINAN, Brittany, France, July. 3. (JP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was understood today to be spending the week-end at the home of a friend near Treguier.

He landed at Belair airdrome here yesterday after a brief flight alone from England, placed his airplane in a hangar, and drove off in an automobile. At the airport it was understood he would return to England Monday. iFLEW TO GLORY Daring Puts Her at Top Among Women Pilots. Amelia Earhart Putnam, No. 1 woman flyer of the world, is a slim young daughter of America's middle west.

She was born in Atchison, on July 24, 1898. Her father, Edwin E. Earhart, was an attorney. Amy, as she was known, lived during her teen age years in Chicago and was graduated from Hyde Park High school in 1915. The tousle-haired Amelia was well known here and on several occasions told Chicago audiences of her air ad ventures.

Known as Able Student. She was known as a brilliant stu dent as well as flyer, taking advanced work in experimental chemistry at Columbia university and the Univer sity of California and learned to speak five languages. But aviation became the first love of this girl with the shaggy blonde hair. She entered a plane for the first time when 20 years old, and after only ten hours of instruction made her first solo flight. Within two years she set a woman's altitude rec ord of 14,000 feet and a year later became the first woman to win the coveted license of the' Federation Aeronautique International.

Honors Come Fast. It was the first of a long string of aviation honors for slim Amelia, which have brought her almost as much fame and as many headlines as CoL Lindbergh, whom she resem bles so much that she has been dubbed Lady Lindy. Her feats, achieved after many a courageous brush with death over ocean, jungle, and desert, have definitly stamped the young woman as without a peer among flyers of her sex and as close to the top even in comparison with men pilots. She is the first woman to fly the Atlantic; the first woman to span the Atlantic alone; the first person to conquer the Atlantic twice; the first woman to fly both the Atlantic and Pacific; the first woman to fly an autogiro; the first woman to be awarded the gold medal of the Na tional Geographic society; the first woman to attempt a round the world flight. And those firsts touch only the peaks in her dramatic air career.

Makes Front Page in 1928. Amelia first burst across the front pages in 1928 when, as a passenger, she flew from Boston, where she was a settlement worker, to Burry, South Wales, with Wilmer Stultz, pilot, and Lou Gordon, co-pilot. Despite her in sistence that she had not once han dled the controls during the 2,010 mile trip, she immediately became famous. There was nothing to do, Amelia apparently decided, but to set out to make all the nice things that were being said about her come true. So she did.

She survived half a dozen crack- ups. bhe raced across the continent a dozen times in both directions, blaz ing new records as she went. Becomes Publisher's Bride. Amelia became acquainted with George Palmer Putnam, the publish er, when she wrote a book about her flight with Stultz and Gordon. Later Mr.

Putnam was divorced by his wife and on Feb. 7, 1931, he married Miss Earhart. Marriage did not interrupt the ca reer of the daring young flyer. On May 28, 1932, she roared away from Newfoundland alone, bound for Eu rope, and landed 14 hours 56 minutes later near Londonderry, Ireland. It was the fastest ocean flight on record.

She flew across the United States in July, 1932, breaking the women's record by nearly 10 hours. She broke her own transcontinental record in July, 1933, setting a mark of 17 hours 7 minutes from Los Angeles to New- ark. She continued to write articles and wrote another book. She was made a chevalier of the French Le gion of Honor and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by congress. Flies Alone Across Pacific.

Then came another high spot. On Jan. 11 and 12, 1935, she flew alone across the Pacific from Honolulu to Oakland, the first woman to per form the feat. Miss Earhart's first around the world flight ended at Honolulu last March 20, when her $80,000 plane cracked up after hopping from Cali fornia. The plane was shipped back to Los Angeles, repaired and tuned ud for a second attempt, this time from west to east.

Accompanied by her navigator, Capt. Fred Noonan, Amelia flew from Oakland, on May 21, to Miami then hopped off on June 1. She flew down to Natal, Brazil, dashed across the south Atlantic, and by easy stages, following the equator as much as possible, she piloted her plane "Good thinas come in small paocages is sTrmngiy true of the Cable Pnmette. For this new style Piano, sensational in tone and action, is so small that it immediately solves the problem of space. at Oakland, Cal, July 3.

(JP) The Oakland Tribune said George Palmer Putnam disclosed today that his wife, Amelia Earhart, planned to give up record-breaking flights after satisfy ing a "life dream" of a round-the-world flight. Putnam said he and Miss Earhart had planned to "settle down to a normal life in southern California close of the present venture. 'We decided that when she re turned to Oakland from this flight there would be no more spectacular water flying," the paper quoted Putnam, no more jumps over oceans. If this trip had been successful. she would have been across all the oceans there are to fly over.

"It had been her life dream to fiy completely around the world. She could not rest until she was ready to start out." across Africa, Arabia, India, Siam, and to British New Guinea. It was from Lae, British New Guinea, that she took off on a 2,570 mile flight to tiny Howland Island, about 2,000 miles southwest of Honolulu. A Flyer Just for Fun. Amelia insists that she flies just for fun.

And it is in this spirit that she started on the round the world trip. She said one of her greatest interests would be to find out more about the reactions of human beings to flight. "I'm going to be the guinea pig this time," she said in talking about her plan. It will be fun to find out what happens to us humans after hours and hours of flying and why. But it'll be more fun just to fly and fly and fly." Fred J.

Noonan, 44 years old, navigator with Amelia Earhart on her trip around the world, is a native Chica-goan with twenty-two years of ocean travel behind him. He is a master mariner, a former transport pilot, and an authority on aerial navigation. He was selected by the Pan-American Airways as the navigator on the experimental flight of th5 an-American Clipper when that fly ing boat blazed the trail from San Francisco to Honolulu in April, 193d. His wife lives in Miami. AMELIA'S PLANE BEARS $25,000 OF STAMP FAN MAIL New York, July 3.

(JP) Stamp col lectors, who pay much of the expense of pioneering airplane flights, have a $25,000 stake in the around the world flight of Amelia Earhart When her first attempt was halted by a minor accident at Honolulu last March 20, her plane was carrying 5,500 letters which collectors had addressed to themselves. These covers, which had been postmarked at Oakland, were stamped to indicate they were carried on the first flight. An additional 1,000 covers were pre pared to accompany the original con signment of the second attempt to circle the globe. These also were postmarked in the United States before she departed. It was planned to attach additional stamps to these covers and obtain foreign postmarks along the route of the flight.

The covers, which were serviced by the stamp department of a New York department store, cost $2.50 each if they were not autographed by Amelia, and $5 each if they bore her signature. Chicagoan's Body First Taken from Wrecked Plana Salt Lake City, Utah, July 3. (JP) The first body, recovered from the Los Angeles-Salt Lake City transport plane that crashed last December, was brought down the Wasatch moun tains today. It has been identified tentatively as that of Mrs. John F.

Wolfe of Chicago, one of the seven persons aboard. OCEAN SHIP MOVEMENTS. Arrived. At From. Columbus Cherbourg York Scanpenn Copenhagen York Pilsudskl Gdynia York Rex Naples New York Emp.

of Britain. Southampton. Quebec Pres. Roosevelt. New York Sailed.

From. For. Am. York Manhattan Cobh New York Transylvania New York Seythia New York Andania Xiverpool D. of York Liverpool Vulcania P.

Delgada. New York Koniestein New York Santa Clara New York Am. York Santa Elena New York FrancisiJo Champlain New York Conte Di Savoia.New York Berensraria New York Southampton JAilET GAYtiOR'S DOUBLE Remarkable likeness of km Rutherford, Hollywood to the heroine of "A Star Is Bore" In today's INCOMPARABLE PICTURE SE5TS3S HAWAIIAN il AREA AROUND MARQUESAS these islands are mere dots in the to find Miss Earhart alive and afloat shown just before the rescue. CHICAGO DOCTORS DOUBT PARALYSIS GERM DISCOVERY Chicago specialists yesterday warned the public that it should not put too much hope in the announce ment at Los Angeles Friday night by Dr. Edward Carl Rosenow, professor of experimental bacteriology at the Mayo Foundation at Rochester, that he has isolated the germ which causes infantile paralysis, an important step toward the conquest of the disease.

They agreed that a demonstration of the actual prevention or cure of infantile paralysis will be necessary before the truth of his announcement can be confirmed. Similar announcements in the past have not stood up, they recalled. "I have known Dr. Rosenow very well and regard him and his work highly," said Dr. Irving S.

Cutter, dean of the Northwestern medical school and health editor of The Tribune. "However, there is doubt that the experiments will stand up under necessary tests. There is always a possibility of misinterpreted findings." Two Jap Naval Pilots Die as Plane Hits Residence TOKIO, July 3. (JP) Two naval plane pilots were killed today when a plane crashed into a residence in Azumigun, Aichii prefecture. WABASH and I CABLE( T- -k.

JT TT1 XT' 1 Easy CABLE to WAS' r. The experience of these flyers encourage thos who are hoping in her airplane. This picture was taken of two Germans and a Portugese companion who spent 158 hours afloat when forced down on an attempted Atlantic flight. They are Associated Press Wirephoto. Aslociated Press Wirephoto.

It was toward this tiny sandspit in the middle of the south Pacific ocean that Amelia Earhart was flying from New Guinea when she was forced down in the sea Friday. A ground crew was waiting at the government house (at right) for her arrival. Noonan, her navigator, forced down world flight. SOS signals from the flyers yesterday. 1i MM TROOPS STAND BY FOR ELECTIONS TODAY IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY, July 3.

(JP) Troops were held ready today and barkeepers prepared to suspend sale of intoxicants tomorrow, when Mex ico will go to the polls to elect a new congress. Leaders of the National Revolutionary, or government, party predicted they would remain in power and na tional policies would not be affected. The party had candidates for all the 173 seats to be filled, chosen in primaries and plebiscites considered in most cases equivalent to election, The new congress will convene Sept. 1. Congressman Long's Wife Hurt in Bridle Path Mishap Washington, D.

July 3. (JPy Mrs. Lewis M. Long, wife of Representative at Large Lewis M. Long of Sandwich, 111., suffered a compound fracture of the left ankle today when her foot caught in a stirrup as she was dismounting from a horse.

She was taken to the Naval hospital. it' I 1 I' Mm i i 't ft -i i i '1 IV mi Associated Press Wirephotos. George Palmer Putnam, husband of Amelia Earhart, calls at Oakland, Cal home of Mrs. Fred J. Noonan, wife of navigator on flight.

Together they wait and hope for good news from the Pacific. RUTH ELDER, RESCUED ON OCEAN HOP, THINKS AMELIA WILL BE SAVED LOS ANGELES, July 3. Ruth Elder, another woman flyer whose plane once was forced down at sea, said today: "I feel in my heart that Amelia Earhart will be rescued. "I know exactly how she feels, floating around some place in the Pacific, the sun beating down on her as she prays that a ship is somewhere nearby," Miss Elder said. It was only an hour before we were rescued, but it seemed like ages." Miss Elder and George W.

Halde- man in 1927 attempted a flight from New York to Paris, but were forced down near the steamer Barendrecht, 350 miles from the Azores, when their oil line broke. CRASH AND BURN IN RUNNING FOR TAKEOFF; 3 DIE Oneonta, N. July 3. (JP) Three persons were killed and another se verely burned today when a motor failed and an airplane crashed and burned in taking off at a private landing field near Morris, 12 miles from here. The dead: Herricks H.

Linn, 60 years old, founder of the Linn Manufacturing company, trailer manufacturers, and owner of the four passenger cabin monoplane. Capt. George Stead, 43 years old, Norwich, N. army air corps serve flyer and pilot of the plane. Mrs.

Dorothea Hansen, 30, of Endi- cott, N. Y. Arthur Hansen, 34 years old, husband of the dead woman, escaped with burns. He was taken to Bassett hospital, Cooperstown. STRICKEN BX HEAT; DIES.

Frank Ernster 48 years old, 631 South East avenue, Oak Park, died in the West Suburban hospital last night of heart dis ease brought about when he was stricken by the heat while working on a job in Elmwood Park about ten days ago. Deafened Persons Have been helped greatly by article written by a noted physician. His pamphlet will be sent on receipt of 3c postage. W. O.

BROADDUS 5 S. WABASH CHICAGO, HX. DOCTOR, NEAR 102, HAS ZEST OF BOY AND NERVES OF 32 Perturbed by Condition of a Patient Aged 70. Bethel, July 3. (ff Dr.

W. E. Thompson, the nation's eldest practicing physician, approached his 102d birthday today "with the nerves of a man of 32 and the zest of youth for the work he has done for nearly fourscore years. Slight statured but erect, and hin dered only by a rather pronounced deafness, Dr. Thompson daily attends whoever may call at his oflice-home.

Several times weekly he is driven to and from the bedsides of patients in outlying areas. There will be no departure from the daily routine on his birthday next Tuesday. Fears Sufferer Won't Make It." Only last week he excused himself from visitors with the explanation: "I've got to go see a patient who has a heart conditon. He's 70 and I don't think he'll make it." One of Dr. Thompson's proudest boasts is that he has delivered more than 1,800 babies "and never lost a mother." A physical examination disclosed, his surgeon said, that nerves and arteries were those of a man of 32 and that in general physique he is superior to the average man of 62." A sharp appetite and a never failing sense of humor continue to lighten days which, to Dr.

Thompson, probably are numbered." Expects to Live Some Time." Only "probably," however, he conceded, "because, unless I should fall or develop pneumonia, I don't see why I shouldn't live for some time yet." Recently a man whom Dr. Thompson had brought into the world as a baby called at his office for a copy of his birth record to complete papers in which he was applying for a federal pension. The physician scanned yellowed and musty ledgers. Finally his eyes came to the entry. "H-M-M-M-R-R-F!" he snorted, Yep, yours, all right and ain't paid for yet.

ROB WOMAN CAFE MANAGER. Mrs. G. E. Fopros, manager of Eradshaw's restaurant, 661 North Michigan avenue, was robbed of $150 last night by two men in the lobby entrance of the restaurant.

Tlicre were no customers in the place at the time. PLANE PONTOONS SACRIFICED FOR SPEED BY AMELIA Oakland, July 3. V-Why didn't Amelia equip her plane with pontoons? "Weight and speed" were her reasons for leaving them off, she said last spring as she was preparing for her hazardous world flight. At the time she pointed to the hop between Howland Island and Lae, New Guinea, as the most risky stretch to cover without pontoons. She had to choose between the precaution of carrying them and the hazard of the extra fuel their weight would require.

She chose to go without, counting on emptied gasoline tanks to act as "water wings" and keep the plane afloat. The rubber lifeboat she carried was described as "instantly inflatable" by means of chemicals. JAPANESE FREIGHTER GBOCNDED. MANILA, July 3. OP) Storms in and near northern Philippine provinces grounded the 5,000 ton Japanese freighter Bosan Maru off Sin Virnte and damasred property, reports reachins here today disclosed.

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