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Second Section Medford Pages 1-6 RIBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1956 Amelia Earhart Disappeared on Pacific Plane Trip 19 Years Ago San Francisco, Calif. (U.B Nineteen years a so the most fa mous aviatrix of them all, Amel ia Earhart, disappeared in the Mid-Pacific on the last lap of an epic-making world flight. Amelia, the "Lady Lindy" of the 1930's, never was heard from again. But the speculation about her fate and that of her navigator Fred Noonan, never (topped. Amelia would have celebrated her 58th birthday July 24 if she had survived the July 2, 1937 flight. She racked up a whole string of firsts in flying. She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic and fly it alone. She was the first woman to fly most of the Pacific the distance from Ha waii to California. She was the first woman to fly across the United States, both by stages and non-stop. Twice, she established speed records, and also set a new altitude record. Her ill-fated attempt to circle the globe began from Miami, June 1, 1937. She flew east in a two-engined monoplane called "The Electra," and made the 22, 000 miles to Las, New Guinea, without major incident. The last 7,000 miles was the most dif micult part of the flight, for much of it was ov'er a route never before flown. The destina tion July 2 was Howland Island, a tiny, barren strip in the mid- Pacific. Search Cot Millions The Coast Guard cutter "Ita sca" was stationed near How- land to give her radio and weath er signals. At one time, the ship picked up Miss Earhart's report that her plane was circling and was unable to find land. In the following two days Amelia Earhart's voice reported ly was heard by radio several times, and a mass air-sea rescue effort began in the area. The third day after her disap pearance a Naval radio station Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Washington President Press Secretary James C. Hagerty after telling newsmen to ' wait and see" on whether President Eisenhower will make a .statement in San Francisco about the vice presidency: "Am I stalling? Yes. Do 1 know what will happen when we get to San Francisco? No. I'll wait and see." Libartyrill. 111. Democratic pridntial nomine Adlai Ste venson on the charge of Republican Governor William Stralton of Illinois that he will lose Illinois and the nation by a wider margin than in 1952: "I'm not impressed with the gentleman's views now any more than I have been in the past." Castel Gondolfo, Italy Pope Pius XII in a speech on the pres ent status of cancer research: "The present period is still one of observation and defense, without the possibility of launching against cancer the great bat tle, the decisive battle, universally awaited." Vienna Zoltan Csillard, 26. the only one of four Ciech refu gees whs attempted to flee io Austria Sunday to make it alive, on their leap from a passenger boat into the Danube river where the three were shot by Communist police: "A hall of bullets swept the water all around us. I swam as fast as I could without looking left or right." Titusville, Fla. Mrs. Ellerbe W. Carter, after delivering her ninth child unassisted: "It's the way nature intended babies to be born and it's a won derful experience." Springfield, 111. Deposed Illinois Auditor Orville Hodge, sen tenced to a long prison term for swindling the state out of over $1 million, during cross examination at his trial: "I've been under a terrible strain." near Honolulu picked up what it believed was a message from the plane that said in part, "Don't hold with us much longer . . . above water . . .shut off." Miss Earhart 's husband, Geerge Putnam, had a theory that the Electra was on a reef and the fuel used to power the radio was about gone. Before the search was called off it included 102 American planes, 10 American ships, sev eral Japanese aircraft, and three thousand men. The search cost the United States an estimated four million dollars. Mother Had Theory But the rumors about Amelia never stopped. Some of the re ports were that she died in the crash; some that she landed on a Japanese - inhabited island where she was taken prisoner and later executed: one rumor was that she was alive and held by the Japanese. In 1945 this was denied officially by the Japanese government. Amelia's mother, Mrs. Amy Otis Earhart. subscribed to the Japanese prisoner theory, and believed her daughter died in Japan on a U. S. government mission, and not in the Pacific Ocean. She advanced thif theory as late as 1949 when she said Amelia had told her there were some things that were of a "secret" nature and could not be revealed. "She landed on a tiny atoll, one of the many in that gen eral area of the Pacific, and was picked up by a Japanese fish ing boat that took here to the Marshall Islands, then under Japanese control," Mrs. Earhart said. "There she met with an ac cident an 'arranged' accident that ended her life," she added. Mrs. Earhart said she had thought her daughter might be returned to this country during World War II in exchange for some captured Japanese general or admiral, but said she gave up hope with the end of the war. San Francisco iU.P.) House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. says delegates to the Republican National convention can vote for Massachusetts Gov. Christian A. Herter for vice president even if Herter's name is not placed in nomination. Use Tribune Want Ads QUICK and EASYl Just in time for back-to-school! NEW! 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He claims that the Tumy insurance agency had not procured an in creased policy at the time of the fire and that as a result of "negligent, careless, and unskill ful" failure to do so, caused him to sustain a loss of $34,770.29, which was uninsured. tagonistic entirely misrepresent ed the response of the delegates, most of whom were enthusiastic and attentive. The demonstration which greeted Morse when he arose to talk was the greatest accorded any speaker until the Friday sessions. Boyer stated. National Attention He also said that national at tention definitely is focused on the Morse-McKay senatorial race, that many delegates asked him about Morse's chances, and that one Alabama delegate told him that state group for a time seri ously considered naming Morse as a "favorite son" candidate for the presidency. Boyer, in giving a previously unreported sidelight of the con vention, said he was told on good authority that the vice pres idential nomination would have gone to Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts except for Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee. This was the situation as Boy er related it: Kefauver was ahead on the first ballot, but dropped well below Kennedy's total on the second ballot. Senator Gore obtained the floor, and was rec ognized by Chairman Sam Ray burn, who had the understanding that Gore was to swing the Tennessee vote, previously cast for Gore, to Kennedy a move which was considered to be de cisive. Political "Death" Hinted Before the balloting, however, Boyer said he learned that an influential Tennessee newspaper man talked to Gore and told him that if he had any part in de priving Tenn.essee of hav ing a vice presidential can didate (Kefauver), who might be come vice president or even president, he would be "dead" politically in Tennessee. Gore, according to this story, realized the truth of what the newspaperman said, and at the last moment swung the Tennes see vote to Kefauver, a move which was decisive. 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