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Show ' 1 m n w,' The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, July 1, 1962. 16 A nonry v . ' Quarter Century Ago: A Voice t 4 "V ,, Then Silence . . Remember? . . . Fate, of Lady Lmdy Remains South Pacific Enigma Dr. Brittain In a newspaPaul Mantz was asked wethper Interview before his er he recalled anything about death some years ago said a secret mission. of Miss Earhart: "I wont say yes or 'no, 1 knew her in Atlanta as an he replied. extremely careful and experi"It makes a man think it enced flier. , . . Not Somewhere In the endleu etretch of the Peclfle lie the solution to the mystery of Amelia Earhart. But where? In the still depths of the freat ocean? In a Japanese grave? In a crumbling rusted wreckage laced with Jungle vines? For 23 years the world has searched, pondered and wondered. But th.r&e been no answer. Editor1 By M. A. Raiser Associated Press Writer OAKLAND, CALIF, June SO Gas is running low , . . ' been unable to reach you by we are circling but . radio cannot see you . . THESE LAST desperate words of aviatrlx Amelia Ear-hawere heard by tense listeners on tiny Howland Is-- land in the loneliest wastes of the Pacific Ocean 25 years " . ago, on July 2, 1937. And a silence. Alter that ' clueless mystery that has captivated the imaginations of thousands from that day to this. r "I KNEW THE Japanese had a mandate over certain Pacific islands and I also knew of the rumor that they were fortifying and building plane runways on these islands in defiance of treaties; I believe there was considerable basis for the idea the Japanese had crippled her plane somehow in Lae or had killed her or taken her prisoner when she reached the mandated islands area. f. ... rt k "I BELIEVE there was an understanding on the part of some U.S. government officials with Miss Earhart that she have a look. If possible, at the Japanese mandated islands." Dr. Brittains theories never were confirmed or denied. Retired Rear Adm. Kenneth M. Hoeffel, 67, of Chevy Chase, Md, gunnery officer aboard the carrier Lexington which launched 100 planes and searched a corridor 800 miles wide and 250 miles long each day, said: WAS THE END 'of Miss some eerie way to the sand pit that is Howland Island? Above waters of Pacific which hide her fate, Amelia Ear-ha-rt peers between two halves of the world she had coma DID SHE literally talk herself into disaster, jlragging B ornlnAtelilson,- - Kan., tfieTiapless Noonan with fief? Did she have a premonition of July 24, 1898, she learned to death in the far Pacific? . fly by the time she was 20. Or- - did Japanese milita" BUT IT WAS 10 years later, rists rescue the two Americans while service social doing only to take their lives later? work in Boston, that she went AH these Ideas have their along for the ride with fliers advocates. Here la the evi- William Stutz and Louis Gordon when they flew the Atdence. lantic June 17, 1928. First, who was Amelia Ear-hart-? She decided to make aviation her Career and was enhjband, the SHE WAS called Lady couraged by her Palmer late Putnam, George alLindy. She had a slender, most lanky figure, short wind--, a New York publisher whom 193L blown auburn hair and a she married in SOLOED to freckled face known the Atlantic SHE in 1932 and the Pacific from it - as... it's as easy (and copl) Honolulu to Oakland irt l93. Then she began planning the world flight her last "Why this round the world flight? her husband asked her shortly before she took IVE ALWAYS believed Miss Earhart and Noonan Associated Free Wlrephote crashed and drowned. Ive dose to circling when she and her navigator dropped out never accepted the Idea that of sight In file vicinity of Howland Island 25 years ago. she might have been captured by the Japanese and executed. 'As father landing on symi other island there just arenSt any V off In 1937. v (,$ Miss Earhart smiled. Saipan Island in the Marl-ana- s is 1,500 miles north of Lae, - Miss Earharts final hopping off place. X . "Because I want to. Pilots are always dreaming dreams. But If the flight is successful I hope It will Increase womens interest in flying. I REALIZE the danger of the world flight But I just must try. With it behind me, life will be fuller and richer. I can be content Afterward, it will be fun to grow old. But she also once said, I think probprophetically, ably Ill not live to be old. Paul Mantz, famed movie stunt flier who was her technical adviser, said he planned it that way as a safety factor because of Howland Island. f IF SHE missed Howland, OUT SIDES -P- UU DOWN WINDOW-A- THAT'S ND All she would have had enough gas to get back to Honolulu, recalled Mantz, who at 58 now operates, a flying service -- at Santa Ana, Calif. Mantz made the first leg from Oakland to Honolulu with her and navigator Noonan March 17, 1937. to enjoy the JULYT. . 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But this time It would be 2,556 miles over water and no turning back if gasoline - ran low. -, From Howland, they would fly to Honolulu, then to Oak --their -- world flight land would end In glorious triumph. - AFTER MISS Earhart took off from Lae, squalls and electrical storms were reported across her flight path, Now, flying at 1,000 feet, she spoke .to Howland Island -tie miiSt be on you "but cannot see you."V What had gone wrong? "MISS EARHART waa due recalled retired Vice A dm. Donald B. Beary of Coro- nado, Calif., who was executive officer of the searching battle, ship Colorado. i "It la my guess that Miss Earhart ran out of fuel, crashed and drowned." Aboard the Colorado as i civilian guest was the late Dr. M. L. Brittain, then president of Georgia Institute of Tech- nology Georgia Tech. - () CANDIDATES MUST be between the ages of 21 and 31 who years, though have completed their Junior year of college also may take the examination. 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He said he had testimony from 19 reputable Saipanese and Caroline Islanders that a white man and white woman were flown to Saipan Island sometime in 1937 or early 1938, that they answered the descriptions of Noonan and Miss Earhart, and that Japanese military police Interrogated them as spies. "THE STORY IS Goemer said, that after much questioning they were imprisoned and the woman died of dysentery at some later date, and the man was beheaded a day or so after her deaths Goemer dived in Saipan Harbor and recovered a generator from a plant But it was Japanese. - 10-da- y low-win- g Dutch Guiana, Natal, Brazil; St Louis, French Senegal .. . . over the Jungles and deserts of Africa to Khartoum, to Massawa, across the Red Sea and Arabia to India. Finally, they reached Lae, New Guinea. - 5U YOUR air-se- a e THEIR PROGRESS was reported from faraway places ENJOY COOL COMFORT HOW! P- 7 -- th Fedders about San Francisco. We were on Howland to service her plane when she arrived. It was quite a sunshiny day. The next hop was 1,532 She was flying right Into miles over water to Howland. the rising sun. She might BUT THEY didnt get close not have seen Howland at alL to Howland that time As the "The Coast Guard - cutter plane roared down the Hono- Itasca began putting out a big lulu runway March 20, 1937, cloud of black smoke to help a tire blew and tha plane her see the island. cracked up. Miss Earhart and Noonan, "WE STARTED picking her 44 and a recent .bridegroom, up quite clearly on our radio. But the difficulty waa that she escaped Injury. in using her voice persisted THE PLANE, a Lockheed when we needed Morse dots 10 monoplane that and dashes to triangulate her cost $80,000 and had a top position. speed of 205 miles an hour, "I think' she Just went Into new start the drink." was repaired for a , , from Oakland, which she ret was of as her SCRAP NO wreckage lucky city. garded She and Noonan took off ever found, despite one of the again May 20, 1937. This time they flew In the opposite direction, eastward, to benefit from prevailing tailwinds. 2,400-mil- Wlrephote searches ever am. that morning, greatest said Dr. David J. Zaugg, 54, made by the UJ5. Navy. now medical officer of the "The weather was bright and merchant marine hospital in clear during the search,' In flight took 15 hours, 5lVj minutes. Jets now fly It in four hours, 45 minutes. . The No leparate part Associated ?--i last stopovers before disappearing, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan appear happy In Java. On one of her s nf Fred Goemer, 36, a Navy veteran 'and radio newsman (KCBS) at San Francisco, believes Miss Earhart and Noonan came down safely and were taken to Saipan by the Japanese - 1 Her global flight was originally charted westward from Oakland. PUlt ar-ha- rt fate. Earharts life skein snarled in ... "Maybe she landed and dis was bo long ago. Maybe shes still appeared. Dr. Zaugg said hed never alive. heard of any such mission. Mantz said: A memorial Amelia was built on light "ALL THE planes gas tanks Howland Island. were tied into a massive vent During World War H tha which I had installed. All she shot the top off tha Japanese had to do was to pull a lever It has never lighthouse. lonely and' all the tanks would have been restored. been sealed for flotation. The plane could have floated One a year a Coast Guard cutter visits Howland, a U.S. indefinitely. AMELIA EARHART. had trust territory. Last March crewmen from all the survival equipment neccutter Buttonwood painted the included rubber a essary. It foundation the ' lighthouse life raft, two-wa- y radiophone, white as a marker for day navivoice transmitter, radio direcgational bearings, tion finder. On the foundation is a plaqua "I dont know why, but at inscribed simply: the last minute she left some EARHART AMELIA a She behind. left equipment 1937 hand generator and some other THE JAPANESE, whose ships aided in the- - search for Miss Earhart and Noonan, denied any knowledge of their DID AMERICAS most famous woman flier and her able navigator, Fred J. Noo- nan, lose their way and blunder to their deaths In the sea? Did Noonan make a navigational error of more than 90 degrees and fly northwest toward Saipan Island? . Was she on a secret espionage mission for the United States government? things I cant remember Just what. "TIE SPECULATED about what happened to her, natural ly. Perhaps she didnt have enough gas to find Howland. OGDEN , 1JI1 Wash. Et IX OPEN MON. AFRL'TIL 8 PJA.1 Bivd. ' 7 |