Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1937, Page 3

* HINT COMPROMISE ON SPAN CRISS Eden Tells Commons No German Warships Now in Mediterranean. B: the Associated Press. LONDON, July 5 (™ .—Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disclosed to- day there now were no German war- ships in the Mediterranean “at all.” He spoke to the House of Commons while informed British observers were predicting a compromise on the Spanish non-intervention question, which is in a deadlock with Italy and Germany on one side and France and Great Britain on the other. Details of this predicted compro- mise went undisclosed. Eden reviewed the whole “hands off Spain” situation for the Commons members. He said Germany and Italy, by withdrawing all their hips from the four-power non-intervention patrol had left the east coast of 8pain wide open “Presently,” he added, “there are no German warships in the Mediter- ranean at all.” Cabinet Called. Prime Mi ille Chamberlain | called both the cabinet and the Ims| perial Committee of Defense into sion today to consider Britain's future policy in the war and the threat to S B R her Mediterr communications growing out of i Simultaneot A governme: British merc! warships i on the nort trying to capt board said B protect British outside the Spar Well-informed lieved the emer of the Defense Com: the question “life line of agenda. The comm: heads of the , navy and a Later the was to re detailed repo: ing out of opposition posals to late the c ty of Sa c of Sp: to ake over th war fervers cr ing her at Evidence of speech, in w fold policy fo 1. Pres Bpaniards 2. Mainte “main Mediterianean Some Brit there were Italy mig The two pow and British patrol areas charged the & in Eden's| for the empire’s | uzh the to a compromise. | ed to let French | when they vernment had | in two camps e, | backed by Sov Ttaly and C gal. nsidered faced with the situation. The a realization Italy and Ger- who have accorded full recogni= 1 allow what they term conquest | of Spain. It is understood anything but for the insurgents would come under this head. is the increasing suc- of weralissimo Francisco Franco’s troops ia the nish areas 1 lie. British capital has heavy investments in the conquered mines around 3ilbao and formerly imported one-third of their output. Franco v divert that ore now to Germany and Italy. | (Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco | Franco was reported today to have | approved verbally the resumption o(‘ iron ore shipments to Great Britain | from the Orconera properties near | Bilbao, which t insurgents have captured. Earhart (Continued From First Page.) Earhart and Noonan disappeared in her $80,000 globe-circling plane Fri- | day afternoon. | Earlier today, at 2:05 am. (Eastern | standard time), in response to in-| structions broadcast by Station KGMB here, four d eaks in a carrier wave on Miss Eart frequency were | reported to the Coast Guard by Pan- American Airway listeners. [ The broadcast instructions said: | “Earhart plane. Come in on 3.105 kilocycles. Use key or voice. Key | preferably. Put transmitter on one minute then take off and turn on four times. Follow these instructions im- mediately after this broadcast.” The four distinct breaks followed quickly, the Coast Guard said. The wave was heard in 3,105 kilocycles, one | of three wave lengths assigned to the | famous fiyer's plane. | Later Coast Guard and Army radio operators said they heard another series of mysterious dashes which they believed came from the Earhart plane in responce to a broadcast by KGU, another commercial station in Hono- | luly, and which indicated the plane | was floating in the water. The station had irstructed: on water send eight dashes. land keep silent.” Colonists on Baker Island, 40 miles south of Howland, radioed the Coast Guard that they heard a voice broad- casting: “KHAQQ (Earhart plane call letters) calling NURL” NURI is the call of the Coast Guard cutter Itasca. The Coast Guard portable station on Howland Island reported it had heard the broadcast reported by Baker Is- land, but in a much feebler way, in- dicating, they said ,the message origi- nated south of Baker. Pan-American radio station opera- tors in Honolulu took a quadrant of the first radio signals and said if the message was authentic the plane ‘was roughly in the vicinity of Gard- ner and McKean Islands in the Phoenix group, approximately 150 miles south of Howland. If the signals were a hoax they ‘were being broadcast from the coast or one of the islands in the Phoenix group, the operators estimated. Thought North of Howland. KGMB, however, attempting to get further instructions to the plane, ad- vised that: “We believe your signal | indicates your position as north of | Howland.” . The amazingly fast response to ARGMB's instructions heightened hopa! rel | | did If on These kiles, carried for use ght, ma shown. yorvo SEARCHING PLANE FORCED f ; BACK BY SNOW ANE SLEET | rean 83 p J @inoren P s A b N : 5 ~REe, A1 . T + Lae / Ny AUSTRALIA Map showing the position of the United States aircraft carrier, planes, which is steaming to search it are four destroyers. The U. Wednesday or Thursday. TO0K OF} HERE | 10PM JuLy 1 } THE EVENING o Y ~ ON Kin, ‘Ree c Il - Howland 1. ! CUTTER ITASCA * < Pago Pago S. S. Colorado, out of Honolul as distress signals by Amelia Earhart on her round-the-world Y help guide searchers to her plane. George Palmer Putnam, Amelia’s husband, is also AWALAN 15 U5 5 COLORADD fig'mm | CONTINVES HUNT | the vicinity of Howland Island for the missing flyers. With u, is expected to arrive off the island The Coast Guard cutter Itasca is continuing ils search. STAR, UNITED STATES AMATEURS AGAIN REFORT HEARING EARBART PLANE SAN FRANCISCO Y o 7 Lo auskirs 1 [ DESTROYERS AND | AIRCRAFT CARRIER A, f SANL FOR SEARCH ( Lexington, bearing 57 | —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. | that the daring woman flyer and Noonan will be rescued from their in the ocean itself. It came while radio listeners all sought anew to catch unexplained distress signals, voices and “squeals” which for two nights have buoyed hopes the missing aviators might be calling desperately for aid. One call in the series of mysterious radio signals was reported late last an amateur said he recognized Miss Earhart's voice weakly pleading for aid from a position he interpreted to land. Plane Missed Tiny Island. Miss Earhart missed this tiny mile- and-a-half-long sandspit, hardly vis- ible in the vast equatorial Pacific, as she and Noonan blazed a new air trail eastward from New Guinea, 2,570 miles away. | Nearly out of fuel and uncertain of their position, she and Noorian came down at some spot presumably near Howland, but whether they reached a coral reef or landed in shark-infested waters, no one knows. The Lexington, carrying its brood of 57 planes, accompanied by four destroyers, the Cushing, Perkins, Lam- son and Drayton, sped to the rescue under forced draught. But with a possible refuelling stop in Hawaii, it | was estimated five or six days would be needed for her to reach the How- | land area. The Lexington carries 1,899 men, including flying personnel. Officers total 169, including plane pilots. The ship has a full-load capacity of 40,000 tons, has made as high at 3415 knots for one hour, and carries 7,000 tons of fuel oil. At full speed, the motors use 2,000 tons of fuel a day. At eco- nomical speed they consume a much lower quantity. Colorado 500 Miles on Way. The battleship Colorado, pushing southward from Honolulu, was over 500 miles on its 1,500-mile journey to aid the Itasca, carrying on the search alone in the face of dwindling sup- plies of fuel for its engines and water for its crew. Aboard the Colorado were three naval planes, which officials indicated would join the search as soon as the battleship is within striking distance of the area north and east of Howland, in which the hunt is centered. In all, more than 4,000 men are aboard vessels speeding to rescue the aviatrix. Mysterious Squeal Heard. Radio operators of the Navy, Coast Guard and Pan-American Airways, alded by thousands of amateurs, sought to identify a mysterious squeal which came in Saturday night on a wave length assigned to Miss Ear- hart’s plane. When daylight flooded the Pacific the squeal disappeared. Radio station KGMB's broadcest plea to the flyers Saturday night was answered by the unexplained squeals or carrier wave on 3,105 kilocycles. Miss Earhart’s plane was equipped with two 50-watt transmitters. Miss Earhart's technical adviser, Paul Mantz, said in Burbank, Calif., the plane could have sent such signals only if it were on land, where the right motor could operate a generator neces- sary to furnish transmission power. - LAWYERS’ BRIEFS COMMERCIAL PRINTING : +ADVERTISING SERVICE BYRON S. ADAMS Mo Diaggoui i ‘Weather conditions near H{m‘land! were reported excellent by the Itasca, | | Plane, down either on a tiny atoll or which doggedly extended its scarch | despite dwindling fucl and water, | rationed out in a two-hour period | | around the Pacific and far inland | daily. The Colorado was expected to | arrive and replenish the Itasca's fuel ' and water before they reached dan- gerous levels For three days, the vessel stationed at Howland Island to aid Miss Ear- hart in her planned stopover there has coursed east and west. from the | night from Cincinnali, Ohio, where | North side as far as 200 miles in each | direction Talk of Reef Heard. The report of the Cincinnati radio | be within 57 miles of Howland Is- 8mateur, Ray Mahoney, came several { hours after the last previous myster- ious voice had been heard by radio | listeners. “The signals were weak,” said Mah- oney, “about all I could make out were the call letters of her plane, | | that apparently it had hit a reef or| | was near a reef.” 1 | He said he had heard the distress | signals at 10-minute intervals through- | out yesterday. Rebuffed Plane Crew Rests. Lieut. W. W. Harvey and seven Navy co-flyers rested here from the rigors of & futile attempt to pursue | the search in a flying boat which left here Friday night. Within 370 miles of Howland, they were forced back by a freak tropical | | storm which pelted the plane with | sleet and covered it with snow. | “It was the worst storm I ever experienced in 11 years of flying,”| said Lieut. Harvey after 24 hours in the air, during which he estimated ' they covered 2,784 miles. 1 “We were almost forced down by the storm, which we battled for two hours before turning back.” At Tokio, the Japanese goyern- ment informed the United States today that Japanese naval and com- mercial vessels in the South Seas| would join the search for Miss Ear- hart, if they were needed. -M;rders (Continued From First Page.) we wanted her to help us. Melba | wanted to come along, too, but I told | her to stay there and I'd catch another bunny for her.” “With my hands I choked Jean- nette to death and bound her neck with a rope. I wanted to make sure she'd stay dead.” Unaware her sister and her chum had been slain only a few feet from her, Melba Everett awaited the man's return. Went Along Innocently. “She went with me without ques- tion,” the confession recited. “When I began choking her, she tried to scream. She fought. She almost got away from me. But I choked her just like 1 did the others. She struggled on the ground. She clawed at the dirt and kicked, but pretty soon she grew quiet. I knotted a rope around her neck, too.” His blue jeans stained with blood, Dyer was quoted as saying he hurried - » V::et;:nhfiii:'ds to shut out or admit | they oughtn't to smoke. out of | spect for the dead and because they 1 my husband home and changed clothes, good supper. All day Sunday, while search {0\'i the trio was intensified, Dyer waited around, offering suggestions to au<l thorities. On Monday, after four Boy Scouts found the bodies in the ravine, | Dyer was among the first to reach the scene of the crime. “I told the fellows around there re- eating a | might start a grass fire,” Dyer's al- leged confession said Had Alibi at First. Dyer was questioned early in the week, but lulied investigators’ doubts | by claiming he was busy ail Saturday afternoon in his garden. Last Friday night, however, San- | derson said, Dyer appeared suddenly at police headquarters and announced, | “I hear that you are looking for me.” | He was told no one had even men- tioned him, but detectives were im-| mediately detailed to shadow him. Dyer's first questioning was the re- sult of & story by 14-year-old Mike | Huerta, who reported to police in- stances when the crossing guard assertedly attempted to lure other children from the park. “This little Mexican youth should | share in the bulk of the reward,” Chief Oscar Campbell said. * Clinic Employe Helpea. Another claimant to the reward, which now totals $5,000, is George Ray, 25, medical clinic employe, who told Detective Sanderson that Dyer talked to him Monday, betraying a close knowledge to all the details. Mrs. Dyer, married to the crossing guard two years ago, is 24. “I believe 1s innocent—I'm not agraid,” she said. Dyer hysterically lapsed into un- consciousness at the end of the ques- tioning last night. He was treated by a physician and Fitts arranged to have him examined by psychiatrists. Doubt was cast on the alleged con- fession by Merle O. Everett, father of the slain sisters, who asserted, “Some men will confess anything under pressure, you know—especially if they're a little weak-minded. Everett insisted the girls could not have walked the 5 miles from the Inglewood Park to the ravine where they met death. WASHINGTON, D.. C.; N “AMELIA IS SAFE,” SISTER BELIEVES Mrs. Muriel Morrissey Refuses to Give Up Hope for Lost Flyer. Bs the Assoctated Press. MEDFORD, Mass., July 5.— Mrs. Muriel Morrissey, sister of Amelia Earhart, believed forced down in the Pacific Ocean on her world-girdling flight, today clung to the hope the famous aviatrix and her navigator would be found. “I just refuse to believe everything won't turn out all right,” she said as she received reports of the progress of the search for her sister and Capt. Fred Noonan, Miss Earhart's na gator. “It seems a pity that Amelia and Capt. Noonan should encounter a tropical storm so close to the end of their world journey.” Mrs. Morrissey said that when she last saw Amelia in March she “out- lined plans for the flight and told me it would be great fun.” Meanwhile, Mrs. Morrissey's 7-year- old son, David, and his 5-year-old sister, Amy, anxiously awaited a letter from Amelia. She had promised the children she would obtain post marks at all stops she made and mail the letter to them. David, in tears, pleaded with his mother to find out “why my letter might be lost,” as he had “promised to show it to all the kids.” T Gal (Continued From First Page.) IONDAY, | Whitcombe of Great Britain and Pat Mahon of Ireland | Among the Americans well up in | the running with part of the field still | to be heard from were Walter Hagen, Wwith a fine 71 at Burnside; Ed Dudley and Tony Manero, with 72's on the same course; Henry Picard, with a 73 at Carnoustie, and United States Open Champion Ralph Guldahl witt & 74 at Carnoustie, | Denny Shute, American P. G. A.' champion, toured Carnoustie in even | par 71, on the strength of a last-nine | 34, Meanwhile Britain's defending | champion, Alf Padgham, had left him- self in & bad spot with a 78 over | Burnside. | Wee Bobby Cruickshank, the native- | born Scot who has been an American | Pro since shortly after the war, had | trouble with his irons all day and | posted a 6-over-par 77 at Burnside Johnny Revolta, former -United | States P. G. A. champion, took a 76 | at Carnoustie, wildness cff the tees | costing him several strokes. | Henry Cotton, champion in 1934, Britain’s best all-around shotmaker | and leading home-orec choice for the crown, hit a miserable putting streak | on the first nine, three-putting four of | the first five greens. He finished two | under par on the last seven holes at | Burnside for a 73, while Alf Perry, 1935 title winner, joined the leaders with a 72 at Carnoustie. Byron Nelson, slim ex-Texan, lost a | stroke to par on Burnside's outgoing | nine and gained one on the home half for a par 71. First-Round Scores. First-round qualifying scores: *Denotes Burnside. Max Faulkner, Great Britain, 35— | 37—72. Aubrey Boomer, France, 36—33— 69. William Laidlaw, Great Britain, 36—38—74. | Sam King, Great Britain, 38—38— 6. John Anderson, Great 38—74. Henry Picard, United States America, 37—36—73. “Walter Hagen, United States of | America, 35—36—71 *Tony Manero, United States of America, 36—36—72. *Bobby Cruickshank, United States of America, 37—40—77. *Pat Mahon, Ireland, 37—33—70. Britain, 36— of JULY 5 e 1937 PUTNAM EXHAUSTED BY ANXIOUS WAITING Husband of Lost Aviatrix Went to Bed Yesterday for First Time Since Friday. B the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif, July 5—While the aircraft carrler Lexington and four destroyers pushed toward tiny Howland Island today in the search for Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan & man slept the sleep of ex- haustion in a private home here, He was George Putnam, husband of America's ace woman flyer, down ml the Pacific. Late yesterday Putnam went to bed for the first time since his wife radioed |she was “setting down” because of a gas shortage and failure to get bear- ings. “I have a hunch,” he said, “they! are siiting somewhere on a coral | island and sending out their signals.” | Mrs. Beatrice Noonan, wife of Amelia’s navigator, still held hope | today the flying pair would be found safe. She said she was feeling better. She cellapsed Saturday. -“I believe they were sufficiently ex- | perienced,” she asserted, “to put their | plane down while some fuel was left | so they could run the radio.” No foreign vessel can touch at the DOCTOR, 102, TOMORROW, CONTINUES TO PRACTICE W. E. Thompson of Bethel, Ohio, Declared to Have Nerves of Man of 32. By the Assoclated Press. BETHEL, Ohio, July 5—Dr. Wil- liam Eberle Thompson kept ‘“office hours” as usual today, little con- cerned with plans for observing his 102d birthday anniversary, and ready, | as he has been for 77 years, “for anybody who needs me.” A native of this little village, he once made his rounds on horsebac Proud of his distinction as “the country’s oldest practicing physician,” Dr. Thompson sald that, barring ac- cident, he expected to continue his profession “for several years.” Less than a year ago, he under- went an operation for the removal of a cateract which threatened #&rad- ual blindness. A physical examinatioa then disclosed, his surgeon said, that | his nerves and arteries were “those of & man of 32" while in general physique, he was pronounced “in bet- ter shape than the average man of | 62.” His birthday anniversary 1is tomorrow. GLIDER PILOTS BEGIN | SOARING CONTESTS| By the Associated Press. island of Gnam without special per- mission from Washington. July 5—Glider the national ELMIRA, N. Y., pilots competing in | built *% A—3 soaring contests took to the air to- day for the benefit of thousands of holiday sightseers. In addition to the cross-country and altitude attempts that were planned, & program of stunting and exhibition soaring also was scheduled It was similar to the one staged yesterday when Lieut. Bronius Os- kinis of Lithuania, stunted a specially-~ acrobatic glider and Robert Ausurn of Cincinnati, Ohio, described his flight to a crowd of more than 10,000 by radiophcne from his sail plane. Taxi and truck owners in Osaka, Japan, are fighting proposed gasoline price boosts. 75 < 9, Broiled Maine Lobster Luncheon ___ Air_Conditioned. _ 1107 Conn. Ave. Auto Painting |'|a|¢y’s 2020 M ST. N.W. Let Haley's Do It Right! BEDDING—DRAPERIES —RUGS—LAMPS A LA T L FUz}“TUBE R *Gregor McIntosh, Great Britain, | 36—38—174 5—7 *Ernest Whitcombe, Great Britain, 34—36—70 Sweeney, United States, *F. E. 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