EARHART SEARCH

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1937, Page 5

EARHART SEARCH

NG SUCCESS NO TRACE OF MISSING. (United Press Association—By Electil Telegraph—Copyright). yi SAN FRANCISCO July 8, : Seaplane? from the Colorado Scouted McKean Island, in , Tithe •Phoenix Group, and the water between the northermost tip of the Phoenix Group and McKean Island. The flyers were unable to find any trace of Miss Earhart. The weather was ideal and visibil--1 ity perfect. The battleship’s search lights are sweeping the sea. The Navy Department has corrected an announcement about the Lexington’s aeroplanes. Sho has only 62 aboard. The National Geographic vSociety’s scientists, who have just returned from the eclipse expedition to Canton -Island, stated that the prevalence of food and water on most islands there had increased Miss lEarhart s and Mr Noonan’s chances 'of survival if they landed on one of them. Mrs ‘Roosevelt, in a statement, said: “I am told by people who have ! flown a lof that well-balanced persons like Amelia and Mr No° nan have a better chance of holding out under a long strain than amateurs. Amelia has poise and courage. She. is a grand person. Ido not think she 'would .give jup before the last ditch.” Miss Louise Tha<j(cn, who was awarded the Bendix Trophy last year for a flight across- the American continent, expressed the belief that Miss lEarhart is dead. IShe and Miss Earhart were closely associated in the past. WATCH ON MARIPOSA AUCKLAND, July 9. Radio operators on board the Matson liuer ’Mariposa, which arrived at Auckland to-dav, kept a constant watch for signals from Miss Earhart’s monoplane, hut beyond a faint message transmitted in a woman’s voice over, the radio telephone, nothing was heard. Captain ’Meyer, master of the Mariposa, said his radio room was in close communication with the United States coastguard . cutter Itasca, from the time it set out from Honolulu on Monday on the search for the missing flyers. Always in the hope that the Mariposa could give' assistance, strict visual and radio watches were kept.