STILL NO TRACE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19374, 12 July 1937, Page 13

STILL NO TRACE

SEARCH FOR LOST FLYERS

’PLANES HANDICAPPED SIGNALS NOT RELIEVED NE WSPA l>E R CONTROVERSY (Klee. Tel. Copyright—-United Press Assn.) (Reed. Julv 10, 2.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 0. A message from Honolulu states that the Colorado's planes returned from another search for Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam and Captain F. J. Noonan, but nothing was discovered. The weather was cloudy and wind squalls reduced the visibility and heightened the difficulty under which the flyers were operating.

The search to-day was extended southward from Winslow to Corondelet Island.

Another radio amateur at Eureka, California, reported that he heard both Mrs. Putnam’s code and a male voice on 3110 kilocycles, which is one of Mrs. Putnam’s frequencies. The coastguard authorities, however, declared that they did not believe that it was authentic.

With hope for the flyers at the lowest ebb, and the newspapers printing increasingly less news- concerning the search, comment continues to be still reserved. Some journals, however, have begun to devote extensive space to letters from readers on the subject. The New York World-Telegram printed a quarter page entitled “Views on the Earhart Disaster.” One woman writes that the flight was a personal affair, and the £50,000 daily cost for the search for her could have saved many lives. Another woman writes that she admires Mrs. Putnam tremendously, but her past extraordinary flights made no scientific contribution, and were done only to please herself.