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CIO
1
LABOR ORGAN!
WIELDS AXE AMONG
TERRORIST LEADER
Man Charged With Headin
'Dynamite Ring' Is Removed
From Position
MARTIN REBUKES ASSITAN
Communist Party ActivitiM
Mahoning Valley Trouble*
Is Charged
(Br the Aniclilti Prase)
A CIO "puree" began Saturday
the union's axe fell on Gus Hall and
two other strike captains in the Ma
honing valley steel sector of Ohio.
John Owens, general CIO strike di
rector in Ohio, announced without
comment the removal of Hall, now In
jail under charges of heading a "dy
namite ring," as strike captain in the
Warren area.
Owens also stripped two of his
Youngstown strike lieutenants of
their authority, removing Bob Burke,
chief organiser at the Republic Steel
plant, and John Stevenson, organiser
at the main plant of the Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Co.
Communist participation In the
strike was claimed in circulars dl*
tributed through the valley Saturday
by Phil Bart, "Mahoning valley sec
retary of the Communist party."
Murray .Net Informed
Philip Murray, chairman of 8WOC
(the CIO steel affiliate which called
the strike May 37) said at Pittsburgh
he "knew nothing about" the removal
of the Ohio strike leaders.
Owens' "housecleanlng" order was
issued only a few hours after another
prominent chieftain of the CIO move
went—Homer Martin, head of the au
tomobile workers reinovM three
union organise* at Hint, Mteh., and
transferred a Detroit or|anlaef frtxn
his post. Hie action, ft explained
was "disciplinary" and followed .Mfcr
tin's Investigation of several unau
thorized strikes at General Motors
plants.
Gov. Frank Murphy deplored Com
munist activities when, at Lansing
Friday, he said that a recent "labor
holiday" in the Michigan capital "had
the characteristics of Communistic
technique."
Arrange Three Rallies
Arrangements for three strike ral
lies in Ohio and Pennsylvania and
Ohio Sunday were completed by Re
gional Director Owens. At' Johns
town, Pa., where Bethlehem Steel'*
Cambria works are, a rally of strikers
and miners from the surrounding ter
ritory will be addressed by Philip
Murray.
At Youngstown Clinton Golden,
SWOC regional director, will address
strikers. Owens himself will be the
principal speaker at a rally at Can'
ton.
It still was difficult to reach an
accurate estimate of the number of
men back at work at the plants of
the four "Little Steel" corporations
against which CIO is striking.
Republic Steel said its plants were
operating at about 71 per cent of ca
pacity, as compared* with the 77.5
which now prevails in the entire In
dustry. Its four Cleveland plants,
however, are still closed.
PROBE COMMITTEE
SIFTS TESTIMONY
Newsreel Supports Assertions
Police Clubbed Memorial
Day Marchers
Washington, July I.—OP) Senate
Investigators began Saturday to sift
a mass of conflicting testimony about
the bloody Memorial Day battle at
Chicago between police and steel
strike demonstrators.
Although Senator Thomas (Dem.,
Utah), said the evidence indicated
"extreme police brutality," neither be
nor Chairman L*FoUette (Prog.. Wis.)
indicated what further action their
civil liberties committee might take.
Committee employee said they
probably would publjsh a full report
of the shooting—in which ten strike
sympathisers were killed—and "leave
the rest to the people of Chicago."
A doaen witnesses, some of them
still convalescent, told the commit
tee four platoons of club-swinging
patrolmen unexpectedly had charged
a "peaceful demonstration" near the
Republic steel plant
A newsreel, publicly shown Friday
for the first time, supported their
testimony that police fired point
blank into the fleeing crowd and club
bed many of the demonstrators as
they lay prostrate on the grass.
ROBBERS SNATCH JEWELRT
Chicago, July I.—Two mashwl
robbers took jewelry valued at $3490
and 153 cash from Mrs. Lee Lavln,
and purses from two companions, Mrs.
Minnie Shapiro and Miss Blanche
Peldman of Detroit, Saturday.
FARGO WOMAN DIBS
Addison. N. D„ July J.—*—Mrs,
Berthold M. Schwara, 74, Pargoan
three decades, died Thursday at her
|arm home near tam.
ESTABLISHED 1873
Wife Has Baby But
Husband Snores On
Minneapolis, July !.—*)—Un
assisted and without benefit of a
physician, Mrs. Luclle Fernandes,
33, gave birth to a nine-pound
eon early Saturday. Then she
turned to her' husband, 43, who
was asleep alongside of her, awak
ened him and said: "Prlmo, look
what we've got."
Prlmo rushed to a fire station
telephone. He called police, an
ambulance and a doctor. All
three arrived a few minutes later.
They wanted to take the mother
to a hospital. She wouldn't go.
Police and ambulance retreated.
The doctor stayed and adminis
tered to mother and child. Both
were reported doing well.
RUSSIA AGREES ID
WITHDRAWPATROLS
FROM TROUBLE AREA
Japanese Foreign Office Says
Incident Is Closed, Fears
lll-Feeling
Tokyo, July 3.—*)—Russo-Japanese
war tension eased Saturday after
Soviet Russia agreed to withdraw
naval patrols from the disputed Amur
river islands between Siberia and
Manchukuo.
The foreign office announced the
Incident, growing from a clash be'
tween Russian and Japanese-Manchu
kuan forces June 30, was settled.
Actual Russian evacuation was
awaited by Japanese army leaders be
fore they would relax their vigilance,
especially since they alleged Russia
broke a previous promise to withdraw.
Want Guarantees
Some Japanese authorities still
went en to Insist Moscow must give
rence of border incidents .generally.
(On official commuplqut In Moeo«w
announced the Russian evacuation had
been ordered after the Japanese am
bassador, Mamoru.Shlgemltsu, agreed
to the withdrawal of Japanese-Man
chukuan military- cutters from the
Amur ulands.)
The Manchukuan government and
Japanese army leaders talked of
forcible measures to maintain "free
dom of navigation" on the Amur,
northeast boundary between Siberia
and Manchukuo.
45,000 DEAD SAID
TOLL OF DEFENSE
Basque Forces Abandon North
ern Spain aa Rebel Troops
Near Santander
(By the Associated Press)
Basque government forces, headed
by President Jose Antonio de Aguirre,
abandoned their last stand In north
ern Spain Saturday as Insurgent Gen
eral Francisco franco's troops push'
ed closer to Santander, 45 miles west
of conquered Bilbao.
Aguirre set the number of casual
ties in the Basque defense of Bilbao
during the three-month Insurgent of
fensive which ended June 19 at 45,00e
dead and wounded.
In Madrid, government supporters
found encouragement in what they
believed was the impending death of
the 37-natlon non-intervention sys
tem blocking shipments of arms and
men to Spain.
Madrid newspapers expressed con
fidence'Britain and France would then
sell arms and munitions to the Span
ish government.
Britain, France and Russia stood
virtually as allies against Germany
and Italy In the Spanish war crisis
as further developments on the fate
of the non-intervention plan wi
awaited.
The three nations remained firm In
their rejection of Italo-German pro
posals to the Anglo-French naval pa
trol scheme.
foth's Body to Lie in
Convert Home Sunday
The body of Philip Edward Roth,
McKende pioneer will lie In state all
day Sunday at the new Convert Fu
neral Home, 715 Roaser Ave.
Roth, who had been a resident of
the McKensle community 54 years,
died at his fftrm home early Fridsy of
heart fall one.
The body will be taken from Con
vert's Funeral Home to Sterling for
the funeral Tuesday at 3:30 p. m.
Burial will be In the Sterling ceme
tery.
Air Corps Not to Be
Established at Fort
Washington,: July 3.—/f)—No plans
have been made for establishing an
air corps at Ft. Lincoln, N. D„ to train
pilots under winter conditions, the
war department here announced.
Some winter test flights are sched
uled, officials said, but
have not yet Seen mapped out.
SUPREME COURT TO
CONSIDER TOWNLEY
CONTEMPT CHARGES
Former League Leader and Six
Others Face Illegal Prac
tice Counts
TWO LAWYERS ARE INVOLVE
Defendants Activity in Explain
ing Frazier-Lemke Bill
Caused Action
Hearing has been set for July
by the North Dakota supreme court
on contempt proceedings brought
against A C. Townley and six other
North Dakotans for alleged practice
of law without a lioense, John H. New
ton, clerk of court, said Saturday.
Upon complaint signed by C.
Murphy of Grand Forks, president of
the North Dakota Bar association, an
order was issued for the seven per'
sons to show cause why they should
not be Judged in contempt of court.
Attorneys Are Involved
Action also was filed against
Lelbert Crum and Joseph Coghlan,
Bismarck attorneys who, the com
plaint states, associated themselves
with and became partners of the sev
en men in the "unlawful, unlicensed
practice of law within the state and
received part of the fees collected by
the several parties in such unlawful
and unlicensed practice."
The complaint grew out of the de
fendants' activities In connection with
explanations of the Frasler-Lemke
bill which provides for scaling down
of debt.
Defendants In the action brought
for practicing law without a' license
are besides Townley, J. E. Guldemann,
L. D. Peterson, 8. A. Paquln, Charles
Joyce, J. A, Wenstram, 4114. W.
Johnson.
Not Admitted to Bar
"For more than a year," the com
{plaint charged, "the defendants at
various times within the state had
held themselves as qualified to prac
tlce law In the state without first
having been admitted to practice by
the coi»rt or without having paid fees."
The complaint declares they gave
legal advice and counsel with refer'
ence to duties and rights and prlvil'
eges and liabilities under the law of
congress and the state of North Da
kota.
They also were claimed to have
received from persons so advised valu
able considerations in payment of such
legal services and advice.
The complaint against Crum and
Coghlan declares they have been at
torneys at law, licensed to practice In
the state, who associated themselves
together with and became partners of
several parties named in the "unlaw
ful unlicensed practice of law" with
in the state and received part of the
fees collected by the parties.
Scouts Have Barter
Day at Big Jamboree
Washington, July 2.—VP)—Friday
was "trade day" for Minnesota and
North Dakota Boy Scouts.
The boys from the Lake Agassis
council, comprising Northwestern
Minnesota and Northeastern North
Dakota, bartered neck tings, leer
chiefs' and Gopher and FUckertall
medallions, made at the University of
North Dakota, for sharks te«th from
Florida, horned toads from Texas and
petrified wood from the southwest.
The troops had a big fish luncheon
supplied by Harold Hagen, Crooks ton,
Minn. William Skeels, Bismarck, N.
D. and Harry Schumacher, Fargo, N.
D., secretaries respectively of Rep
resentatives R. T. Buckler, Crooks ton
William Lemke, Fargo, and Usher L.
Burdick.
Indians Rest After
Sun Dance Is Elided
Cannon ball, N. D., July S.-m
Wlth a night's rest and a two-days'
fast behind them, Indians who gath
ered from Montana and North and
South Dakota prepared Saturday for
the feast that will end their Sun
Dance ceremonial Sunday.
The Sun Dance Itself began Thurs
day and ended at sundown Friday
night. During the two days and one
night the dancers ate nothing. They
broke their fast Friday night, how
ever, and performed war dances and
other tribal ceremonies following the
completion of the Sun Dance.
Mapping of Farmlands
By Plane Is Planned
Fargo, N. D., July 3.—(*•)—Ordean
Olson, who will direct the aerial map
ping of farmlands in seven Eastern
North Dakota counties, said the work
would begin not later than July 1.
County agents and committeemen
from the counties gathered here Fri
day for a conference regarding the
project. Counties represented were
Cass, Grand Forks, Traill, Walsh,
Pembina, Sargent and Richard.
FAILS TO COMB CLEAN
Schuyler, Neb., July 3.—(JP)—Tom
Daniel of Schuyler said he found a
bar of soap in a five-pound catfish
itineraries he caught in a lake near here, but
[the fish still
needed
Meaning.
UNITED
STATES
°VvX
B. E. Terpening, general superin
tendent of the road, said a prelim
inary inquiry Indicated the second
section ran past an automatic stop
signal.
This Was not a mechanical failure,
as the signals were working perfect
ly," he said. "It looks more like a
man failure."
The second section rounded a long
curve and ploughed into the lounge
car of the first train as the latter was
taking on passengers. Engineer Wil
liam Schermerhorn of Milwaukee
Jammed on the airbrakes to reduce
the speed to seven or eight miles an
hour.
Two women on the observation
platform leaped to the station plat
form when they saw a collision was
inevitable. In the first section the
screams of women passengers mingled
with the sound of breaking windows.
Passengers were knocked from their
seats and luggage tumbled on them
from baggage racks.
North Dakota's Oldest Newspaper
BOUTJf AMERICA
112 PERSONS HURT
AS HOLIDAY TRAIN
SECTIONS COLLIDE
Second Unit of Limited Ploughs
Into First Unit at Station
in Ev^nston
Chicago, July 3—*•)—'"Man failure"
was ascribed Saturday as the prob
able cause of a train -wreck :n sub
urban Evanston that caused injuries
to at least 113 persons, most of whom
were bound for holiday outings in
Northern Wisconsin.
Twenty-nine passengers were treat
ed at hospitals and first aid was ad
ministered to 83 on the scenc. More
than 300 others in the near capacity
load were shaken when ths second
section of the Chicago 6c Northwest
ern railway's Ashland limited crashed
into the rear of the first section at
the Davis street station Friday night.
Lost in Pacific South
Purges Ranks of Three Strike Captains\Aviatrix
AFRICA
BISMARCK, N. D., SATURDAY, JULY 3,1937 PRICE FIVE CENTS
Globe Girdlers Lost in Shark-Infested Seas
JAPAN
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
NEW GUINEA
AUSTRALIA
&
SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
Somewhere hear Howland island
on the map (center right above)
the plane (top) of Amelia Ear
hart (center left) Is believed
afloat. The famed aviatrlx missed
her destination on a flight from
New Guinea. With her Is Capt.
Fred Noonan (inset map right)
who had piloted her on a round
the-world flight that began at
Miami June 1 as shown on the
map (below).
UNLEASED HAY WILL
Industrial Commission Makes
Decision on Recommenda
tion of Governor
Hay on all unleased land owned by
the Bank of North Dakota will be
donated to farmers in the drouth area
of Western North Dakota, the state
industrial commission decided Satur
day.
Acting upon a recommendation of
Gov. William Langer, the commission
announced plans to have counties in
which hay can be cut without charge
designated b.v the heads of the State
Holiday association and Farmers'
Union.
Heads of the two farmers' organ
igations were Instructed to confer with
county commissioners in the drouth
counties so that unleased hay lands
may be utilized to the fullest extent,
The commission also urged the
board of university and school lands
to make unleased hay lands in Its pos
session available to fanners on the
same basis.
CHAUTEMPS BRINGS ACCORD
Paris, July 3.—(IP)—The Chautemps
o v e n e n o u o w n e s a n
workers in the hotel and food Indus
tries into an acclrd Saturday. The
employers agreed to renounce the
shutdown cvalled for Saturday in pro
test against the government decreed
40-hour week.
Oil Firm Seeks to
Develop New Field
Standard of California Is Spend
ing Big Sum in Wildcat
Exploration
(Editor's note:—This Is the first
•f a aeries ef six stories relative to
•U exploration work in the Neeson
valley of Western North Dakota).
By GORDON MaeGREGOR
Hofflund, N. D, July 3.—Maybe it's
Just a pot of gold at the end of a
rainbow they are seeking—
Or maybe the Standard Oil Com
pany of California will find black
gold.
One way or the other. Western
North Dakota watches Interestedly
but not enthusiastically the oil ex
ploration of this major company as its
experts probe and plumb the possi
bilities^ of the Nesson Valley anticline
here in southeastern Williams county.
Interest Is natural. It springs from
man's eternal curiosity In the eter
nal quest for riches. Lack of enthus
iasm is also natural. It springs from
a community that has been disap
pointed once in such a venture.
Spending lis Own Money
But asking few favors and spending
its own money, the Standard Oil com
pany has rapidly pushed its Investi
gation since last October when, vir
tually unnoticed, its agents began
quietly leasing acreage in the area
where oil, millions of barrels of it,
may be stored untapped in the re
cesses of Mother Earth.
In a rectangular strip of territory
roughly 10 miles wide and 30 miles
long, geologists, surveyors and busi
ness representatives are active in
mapping, pricking the earth's crust to
determine the shape of the anticline
(Continued on Page Hires).
TRIBUNE
V*
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JSTKALIA
NORTHWEST BEING
SPEEDED, NYE SAYSI
a transcontinental
The federal government knows con
ditions in our drouth sections," the
Junior senator declared, "and those
same conditions exist in eastern Mon
tana, part of South Dakota and parts
of Wyoming, through Nebraska. Kan
sas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and
i n o N e w e i o a s o s e
states are In America's drouth belt
eastbound plane
Washington.
u e y over smaller areas than lastl,. ... ..
from Bismarck to I
Denhoff World War
.Veteran Passes On|
Fargo, N. D., July 3.—(JF)—Robert I
Jaton, 46, Denhoff, N. D., World War
veteran, died Friday in a Fargo hos
pital. He leaves his father, Henry
Jaton of Emery, S. D. a brother.
Henry. Denhoff three sisters, Mix
Matilda Lltcher of Emery Mrs. Alvin
Breckle of McClusky, and Mrs.
Martha Heltley of Goodrich.
CAB LOADINGS DP
Washington, July 3.—(IP)—The As-|
soclatlon of American Railroads ie-|
ported Saturday 773,733 cars of rev
enue freight were loaded during the I
week ending last Saturday. This was
an increase of 17,444 cars, or 3.3 per
cent, compared with the preceding
week.
RETIRED FARMER DIES
Moorhead, Minn., July 3. I
Asle Mlckelson, 89, retired farmer I
who had lived in Moorhead slnoel
1919, died Saturday. He formerly!
farmed in the vichyy of Kindred.
State, National Figures
Speak at Bar Aesociation
Meeting July 16-17
Valley City, N. 2., July 3.—/P—Na
-tlonal and state speakers will head-
year." he asserted. Illne
I have the president's assurance iflvention of the North Dakota State
the $1,500,000,000 relief appropriation
won't cover emergency needs of drouth
sufferers—other arrangements will ba
made. These people will get help and
Washington fully realises the situa
tion.
Senator Nye said M. L. Wilson, first |j*w enforcement. Open the public
assistant secretary of the department I *d.dr"i ''J11
of agriculture, former Boseman, Mont., municipal
professor, had preceded him west but|
that Wilson would be in the northwest
ern section of North Dakota wiAln a
few days to pass along recommenda
tions to his superiors. He is moving
directly into Montana first.
Nye expected to speak at Crosby a'J^nnlpet, Po£
2 p. in. Saturday and will be at Wil-I®.™' Cltir State
liston Saturday night. He will be
atfTeachers
tVl.
Bar association here July 16 and 17.
L. B. Nichols, Washington, D. C.,
first assistant to J. Edgar Hoover of
the department of Justice, will speak
on the reoent activities of the federal
government in the field of criminal
rin'
Cando Sunday, Utke Tobiasoi in
Trail county near Hatton early July
5, and later in the day at Park River.
He will go to Dickinson, Juiy «, re- Snroul
turning the same evening to take
016 flwt
The Weather
Fair tonight, Sunday
cooler tonight Mon
day fair, warmer.
Misses
Howland Islet on
Hazardous Flight
By Sea and Air Mighty Hunt Is Launched to Find
Monoplane Believed Floating Somewhere
in Shark-Infested Waters
Adverse Winds and Static Caused Speed and
Radio Troubles From Time Ship Left New
Guinea No Land for Hundreds of Miles
(By the Associated Press)
Reports that the voice of tousle-haired Amelia Earhart had
|been picked up, calling "SOS" from the mystery spot where she
is lost in mid-Pacific, buoyed hopes Saturday for her ultimate
rescue as the U. S. navy ordered a battleship into the search.
Two Los Angeles amateur radio operators as late as 7
a. m. Pacific time (9 a. m. CST) said they distinctly heard her
sound her call letters, KHAQQ, after thrice saying "SOS" some
20 minutes earlier.
At San Francisco, however, a coast guard station reported
at 11 a. m. (CST) it had received no word whatever although
radio reception was unusually good.
Earlier the Los Angeles operators, Walter McMenamy and
Carl Pierson, interpreted radio signals as placing the plane
adrift near the equator between Gilbert islands and Howland
island, the latter Miss Earhart's destination when her fuel was
exhausted more than 20 hours before.
At Washington, the navy department ordered the battleship
Colorado, with three planes aboard, to begin a search from
Honolulu, where it arrived Friday.
"I recognized Miss Earhart's voice from conversations I
have had with her, although I never heard her on the air be
fore," said Pierson concerning his 7 a. m. reception.
Walter recognized her because he maintained wireless
contact with her plane on her flight from Oakland to Hawaii
this spring.''
Their reports were added to an increasing number of
others, all believed coming from the missing plane and prompt
ing coast guardsmen to express belief Miss Earhart and her
navigator would be rescued.
The operators said that in between Miss Earhart's code
and voice signals they could hear her "carrier wave," a steady
whistle froi^ whktvher location could be.determined by means
of a radio fcoiftipaas.
As searchers took hope from their knowledge,that Miss
Earhart and her companion carried a rubber raft intended to
keep them afloat, the weather bureau at Washington reported
clouds and some wind near Howland island.
"KHAQQ" is the call of Miss Earhart's plane, last heard
from in the air Friday at 1:12 p. m. (CST), when she reported
she and her navigator, the veteran Fred Noonan, could not sight
land and were nearly out of gas.
Another message signed with the plane's call letters and
seeking radio contact was picked up in the South Seas earlier
Savs Washington Fully Knows!by the New Zealand warship Achilles, the San Francisco coast
... I guard reported.
of Situation Existing in I Miss Earhart was generally believed to have come down in
Areas of 10 States shark-infested waters within a radius of 100 miles northwest
of Howland .island after having overshot the tiny target on a
Stepping from
air line plane early Saturday Senator
Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota de'
clared drouth relief In northwestern
sections of the state was being
pedited" In the same manner as parts
of nine other states In the nation's
dry belt.
|2,570-mile hop from Lae, New Guinea.
IG-MAN TO ADDRESS
STATE LAW GROUP
A he*vy smoke
eve'
Other speakers will be Charles D.
Hamel, Washington, D. C., specialist
on federal taxation A. M. Christian
son, chief Justice of the North Dakota
supreme court R. B. Graham, K. C.
pre5klent of the VaUey Clty 5Ute
president
college.
Besides the regular business pro
gram, golf, luncheons and a dance
have been arranged by the Barnes
T' 8Pr°U''
Score Get Ducking as
Footbridge Collapses
Valley City, N. D., July 3.—£•)—A
score of people were spilled into the
Sheyenne river when a foot-bridge
collapsed at Chautauqua park here
Friday afternoon.
An entertainment feature of the
Methodist institute, water sports were
being watched by a large crowd from
the bank and cable bridge when the
accident occurred.
Except for a ducking in several feet
of water, all were brought to shore
by life guards and onlookers without
a mishap.
CUPPER OFF TO ENGLAND
Port Washington, N. V., July 3.—
(IP)—The flying boat Pan-American
CUpper III left the harbor here at
S-35 a. m. (CST) Saturday on the
first leg of an experimental flight to
England.
JAPANESE FLIERS KILLED
Tokyo, July 3.—0h-'Two naval
plane pilots were killed Saturday
when a plane crashed into a residence
is Azumiagun, Aichll Prefecture.
belched from the
funnels of the cutter Itasca, visible
for nine miles from Its Howland island
anchorage, as It ploughed forward
on a smooth sea in quest of the 180,000
Earhart "flying laboratory."
Hunt By Sea and Air
While the cutter hunted by sea
the woman who started a world flight
"Just for fun," a navy flying boat
sped over the 1,500-mile distance from
Honolulu.
to
FORMER FORX BOY IS
STATIONED ON ISLAND
Grand Forks N. D., July 3.—^—
Richard B. Black, former Grand
Forks boy and a graduate of the
University of North Dakota, Is in
charge of the United States gov
ernment station at Howland Island.
Since the United States took
possession of the island two years
ago It has been used as a station
for making meteorological observa
tions. Control of the Island was
transferred to the interior depart
ment in May and Black was placed
in charge of constructing runways
for a 8outh Pacific air base.
Black was a member of the Byrd
expedition to the Antarctic in 1933.
He left Grand Porks in 1936, and
was sent from Hawaii to Howland
island.
The navy minesweeper Swan Joined
the hunt from a position halfway
between Honolulu and Howland,
where it had been stationed to give
any passible aid to Miss Earhart on
the next leg of her flight
The flying boat itself undertook a
hazardous night flight to Join the
search. Carrying a crew of eight, it
took off from Pearl harbor and
headed directly for the dot of land
which the veteran aviatrlx and her
navigator missed.
Lieut. W. W. Harvey, piloting the
plane, was expected to reach the
searching area In about 13 hours.
Itasca Seem Waters
ThrotQSiout the night, the Itasca,
stationed at Howland originally to
assist the aviatrlx and Noonan.
scoured the waters within a 100-mile
radius of the island, watching for
distress flares.
At Los Angeles, Mrs. E. 8. Earhart.
her stepmother, said resolutely: "I am
sure Amelia will come through."
Paul Mantz, technical adviser te
the aviatrlx who twice crossed the
Atlantic, said in Bur bank, Calif., the
plane's six gas tanks would give it
buoyancy to stay afloat "Indefinitely."
George Palmer Putnam, husband
of the missing flier, was In constant
communication with coast guard
headquarters at San Francisco. He
expressed belief his wif? and her
companion would be found safe.
Plane Had Uf ebeat
The plane had a two-man rubber
lifeboat, life belts, flares, a signs?
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