SEARCH OF PACIFIC.
ESTIMATES OF COST
PROTEST BEING PREPARED
NEW YORK, July 17. Mr Byron Scott, a member of the House of Representatives, Washington, and of the Naval Affairs Committee, has sent letters to the chiefs of the Navy, Coastguard and Air Commerco Bureaux demanding information on the cost of the search for Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam.
He said he is preparing legislation to prevent the use of Federal facilities in searches for fliers lost on “publicity flights.” . . Other representatives are giving support to Mr Scott. One estimate of the cost so far is 3,500,0000 dollars. The Navy Department has released the coastguard cutter Itasca from the search and ordered her to Honolulu. Forty-two ’planes from the aircraft carrier Lexington took up a survey of 28,000 square miles along either side of the inter-date line to a point 220 miles north of the Equator to study equatorial winds and currents, leading to the closing phase of the search to the north.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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