SEARCH FOR MRS PUTNAM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 22 July 1937, Page 9

SEARCH FOR MRS PUTNAM.

GREAT COST DENIED. PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT. Received July 22, 10 a.m’. WASHINGTON, July 21. President Roosevelt denied to-day that the search for Mrs Putnam had been costly. Estimates placing the total at 4,000,000. dollars wefe untrue. The mission was a sad one but had provided valuable training. The outlay was normal for the navy. The Now York Herald-Tribune, in a leader, compares Mrs Putnam, with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, and declares that her character was like that of Colonel Lindbergh. “She will leave an impress on her times,” the paper adds. RADIO MAN’S VIGIL. LISTENING FOR LOST FLIERS. SYDNEY, July 21. Radio signals which are believed to have come from Mrs Putnam’s ’plane on July 5 were picked up by the British motor-ship Moorhv which reached Sydney to-day from Vancouver. A carrier-wave corresponding with that of Mrs Putnam’s radio was heard for six hours and then faded out. The Moorby was then the nearest ship to the spot where Mrs Putnam apparently came down. The Moorby’s radio operator spent 48 hours at his phones. He broadcast continually to Mrs Putnam, asking that the carrier-wave he altered tq a frequency which would permit the ship s direction findex* to work, but there was no response. Officers on the ship expressed the opinion that Mrs Putnam or Mv Noonan turned the radio on and then left it, possibly because the seas were washing over the ’plane.