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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
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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:
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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.
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Talk Well Received
At Demo Convention
Bob Boyer of Medford, chair
man of the state Democratic
Central committee who returned
Sunday from the party's national
convention in Chicago, reported
that Oregon's Sen. Wayne Morse
was the best-received of any
speaker at the convention, ex
cepting only Adlai Stevenson,
Estes Kefauver and former-President
Harry Truman. .
He said that press reports and
roving television shots which
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delegates were inattentive or an-
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Named in Complaint
John B. Hamacher. doing busi
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tagonistic entirely misrepresent
ed the response of the delegates,
most of whom were enthusiastic
and attentive. The demonstration
which greeted Morse when he
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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.
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This was the situation as Boy
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on the first ballot, but dropped
well below Kennedy's total on
the second ballot. Senator Gore
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burn, who had the understanding
that Gore was to swing the
Tennessee vote, previously cast
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Before the balloting, however,
Boyer said he learned that an
influential Tennessee newspaper
man talked to Gore and told him
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didate (Kefauver), who might be
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Gore, according to this story,
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newspaperman said, and at the
last moment swung the Tennes
see vote to Kefauver, a move
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Boyer said the convention was
much more orderly and serious
than some might expect, with no
rowdyism and little drinking.
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