SIGNA IS FROM MISS EARHART
PICKED UP SOON AFTER LOSS REPORTED United Proas Associntion —By Electric Telegraph Copyright SYDNEY, July 21. Radio signals which are believed to have come from Miss Earhart’s aeroplane on July 5, were picked up by the British motor ship Moorby, which reached Sydney to-day from Vancouver. A carrier wave, corresponding with that of Miss Earhart’s radio was heard for six hours and then faded out. The Moorby then was the nearest ship to the spot where Miss Earhart apparently came down. The Moorby’s radio operator spent 48 hours at his phones. He broadcast continually to Miss Earhart asking that the carrier wave be altered to a frequency which would permit the ship’s direction finder to work, but there was no response.
Tire officers in the ship expressed the opinion that Miss Earhart or Captain Noonan turned the radio on and then left it, possibly because seas were washing over the machine.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20786, 22 July 1937, Page 7
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