Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1937, Page 4

A—4 wa SEARGH HAY LI RADID AMATELRS Earhart Hunt Inspires Plan| for Chain to Serve in Future Emergencies. Er the Associated Press. Amelia Earhart's disappearance has resilted in an official suggestion that amateur radio stations be linked into a giant network for use in future emergencics. J. B. Beadle, head of the amateur section of the Federal Communica- tions Commission, sald yesterday a Nation-wide chain making possible communication with every spot on the globe probably could be set up by & national amateur organization. The country’s 47,500 amateurs now have a national organization—the American Radio Relay League. Beadle stid an amateur chain cculd | co-ordinate listening facilities quickly, assigning varfous groups of stations to. cover certain frequencies. The | listening could be arranged in shifts, | he added, so a 24-hour watch could | be maintained, Would Cut Chance of Error. He pointed out 1t would be possible to -check fragmentary messages re- | ceived by one amateur with those received by another, reducing the possibility of error. Literally thousands of amateurs, hunched over receiving sets hours at a time, have been listening for some signal from the Earhart plane, Beadle reported. “They are all intensely interested,” | he said, “and it would be a great thrill to any of them to pick up a| message that would aid in the search.” | Ariateurs on the West Coast, he asserted, may have a better chance of hearing Miss Earhart's radio than ships nearer her position, because radio waves often “skip” for consider- able distances from the point of | transmission. | ¢S HONG KONG MANILA 7/ fiuwmfl 15 Jrom Lae, New Guinea. Scene of New Search for Missing Flyers The far-flung hunt for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has been shifted to small islands and coral reefs south and east of Howland Island, the tiny spot of land she missed on her flight The battleship Colorado, steaming from Honolulu to waters north of the island, changed her course to head for the Windslow Bank, 100 miles east. release three catapult planes over the area. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. JULY -7, 1937. US.S. COLORADO CHANGES COURSE FLIERS MAY BE ON ISLAND OR RELF She planned to Howland Island had obtained bear- ings on final messages from the Ear- hart plane while it was in the air, indicating it either was north north- west of Howland or south southeast. Gave Position Friday. Searchers recalled that the final | decipherable report from Jthe plane while it vainly sought Howland last Friday morning mentioned “We are on the line of position 157-337. We Cause No Confusion. | Beadle expressed the view that amateur activities in the Earhm! search are causing no confusion, be- | cause the amateur stations do not! transmit on frequencies assigned to| the aviatrix. | He said most amateur stations are | built by their owners at nominal| cost, the operators borrowing and | swapping parts in many instances. | American amateurs, he added, have been in two-way communication with | every continent in the world, some- | times circling the globe by radio in & few minutes. Earhart (Continued From First Page) | dawn (about 12:30 pm. E. S. T) Within 100 miles of Howland to refuel the stanch cutter, which ried on the search virtually alone since last Friday. | Reports early today indicated good weather would be experienced throughout the day in the Howland vicinity. Officers expect the refueling and replenishing of the Itasca’s water Bupply to require about seven hours. The ships will proceed into the area east and south of Howland, the Colo- rado preceded by her fast planes, More aid from the air was expected over the week end from the giant air- craft carrier Lexington, speeding from California toward a refucling at La- haina Roads, Hawaii. where she was had car- | are now running north and south.” From this message, caught by the portable direction finder, the Itasca's officer figured the plane may be sought southeast of Howland, since search of the corresponding area to the north was fruitless. As the search locale shifted, the Navy took over its direction. Co-ardination of the search meant that the Itasco, Colorado, Lexington, three destroyers and the mine sweeper Swan would be under one command. The Swan, which can make only eight knots, was proceeding toward the Phoenix Islands, but had more than 500 miles to go. Beginning at Winslow Reef, some 175 miles east of Howland, and con- tiauing south to the northern edge of the Phoenix group, charts show the presence of reefs and islets which | might offer haven to a plane. About 180 miles southeast of How- land lies a charted sandspit, which officials said might offer an emergency landing spot. Putnam Resumes Vigil. The Colorado, veering from the area north of Howland, was to proceed toward the Winslow Bank region after contacting the Itasca. | _ Putnam again took up vigil in the San Francisco Coast Guard radio | headquarters last night as operators sought -to contact the mysterious sender of distress signals purportedly from the Earhart plane. Since Monday night the air has been clear of the unexplained “squeal” and voices, which Monday sent the Itasco on a vain dash to a position 281 miles north of Howland. expected by 8 pm. (E. S. T.) tomor- | Tow. Leaving San three destroyers, Putnam appeared cheerful and showed the benefit of rest he took at the orders of his long-time friend and physician, Dr. Harry Clay. Paul Mantz, technical adviser to Miss Earhart, flow here from Los An- 2eles to confer with Putnam and give Diego Sunday with the $10.000.000 Lex- ington w slicing the Pacific at 33 knots yesterday, a knot and a half below top speed, but a full k faster than the Atlantic record set by the yna: &nice he Could nithe earch palatial liner Normandie. | He reiterated belief the plane could 1,500-Mile Dash Ahead. | float “indefinitely.” Another dash southward of more | Mrs. Beatrice Noonan, the missing than 1500 miles lay ahead of the navigator's wife, who collapsed Sun. Lexington before she could send her | day, was sufficiently recovered yester- brood of 57 planes into an aerial day to return to the beauty shop she search. operates. Shifting of the search to the south of Howland followed suggestions from Coast Guard officials in san Fran-| KIN OF RIVAL GENERALS cisco, who conferred with Miss Ear- Darts nusbend. George Paimer Fu-| TO SEE ANTIETAM FETE Dam; a growing belief among other | searching agencies and a recheck of the last available radio messages | while the ill-fated plane was in the| Accept Bids to Battle'’s Re- ailr. ‘ Officials agreed Miss Earhart, if | Bangtment she sent any of the maze of unex- | BS thie Associated Press. plained radio distress signals which| HAGERSTOWN, Md., July 7.—De- have spurred the search, must e Scendants of both generals at the marooned on land or on a reef above battle of Antietam will be present for water, because her radio would not|the re-enactment of the battle at operate otherwise. | Sharpsburg on September 17. North of Howland there is neither | Members of the Antietam Celebra- known land nor reef for hundreds of | tion Commissicn said that Dr. George miles, but to the south and east is an | Bolling Lee, grandson of Gen. Robert area dotted With tiny isles and some | E. Lee, and Col. George B. McClellan, reefs, beginning as close as 100 miles. | son of the Union General of the same The cutter Itasca reported a port- |name, had accepted invitations to the able radio direction finder set up on | affair. Descendants of Lee and McClellan Eyestrain leads to defective vision In every activity there is danger of eyestrain. And eyestrain leads to defective vision. Avoid this danger. Have your eyes examined at the first opportunity. The registered optometrist here will be glad to give you an eye test. S0c A Week Pays for Glasses. 1004 F St. N.W. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. January, 1917, three months before | the United States entered the war. American claimants sought to prove that the German government, through agents in this country, caused the | disasters. The claims commission | twice ruled against the United States, once in 1930 and again two years later. The commission reopened the case last year, however, as a result of an| | American contention that German | witnesses and officials had misled the | | commission by “fraud, collusion and suppression” of evidence. BLACK TOM CLAIM AWARD IS DENIED German-American Group Dismisses Motion for Pay- | ment of $22,000,000. | BACKGROUND— American victims of war-time ex- plosions at Black Tom and Kings- land, N. J., have sought for years to recover damages on theory Ger- man agents, acting under authority of the Kaiser's government, fired the vast munition stores at those depots. The Black Tom blast oc- curred in July, 1916, and that at Kingsland in January, 1917. A Mized Claims Commission twice ruled against the United States, once in 1930 and again in 1932. Private Bdil.s_()ltt | As Army Bombing Plane Sideslips | i Py the Associated Press. | _ WINSTON-SALEM, N. C,, July 7— | | Pvt. J. H. Shealey, who bailed out of a Boeing bombing plane from Langley | Field, Va., vesterday, near Dobson, N. C, in Surry County, arrived in Winston-Salem early last night on a ! bus. ' Shealey said he made the parachute jump after the plane sideslipped. Ex- | cept for slight scratches on his hand | | which he said he received in the plane | before making the jump, he was un- of the United States for an award mjsu;wi i : | 2 % ealey estimate e plane was | e T g Salmants ®ho 11" | fying at 12,000 or 13000 teet when | explosions, including the disasters .ug:ldlumpem He landed in & corn- cl nd Kingsland, N. J. foece Black Tom and Kinaa by Robert H.| The bombing plane, attached to the Banynge. the American agent. It was | 96th Squadron, was on an instruc- opposed by Dr. Richard Paulig. third | tional flight. Shealey was in the arm- | secretary of the German Embassy and | Ament control apartment under the’ agent of the German government. | D0se of the ship when it sideslipped. | The American motion was based | He Was one of a crew of eight. upon an agreement entered into last| Shealey said -he bailed out through Summer at Munich by agents of both | 1 emergency ‘door. After he had governments, including Bonynge, but | left the plane he said he saw the pilot not Dr. Paulig. | regain control and the ship leveled off. | The latter refused to sign the pact | = = = for compromise of the $50.000,000 in | claims. Today he opposed granting of the American motion on the | ground the agreement was not valid | without his signature. | Recesses Until Tomorrow. | | After listening to arguments the | German and American commissioners ‘and Supreme Court Justice Owen J. - Roberts, the umpire, retired for a half | hour before deciding to dismiss the | American proposal. 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B the Associated Press, DETROIT, July 7.—Walter Reuther testified today he was “slugged on the back of the head” and “pushed and kicked” down a concrete stairway when United Automobile Workers or- ganizers went to the Ford Motor Co.’s Dearborn plant May 26 to distribute union literature. Reuther, president of the U. A. W. A. West Side local, was the first union member to tell his story of the riot before a National Labor Relations Board hearing on a corplaint charg- ing the Ford company with unfair labor practices, He took the stand after the union abandoned plans for a second visit this morning to Ford's big River Rouge factory. SLOA Union leaders charge their assailants were Ford service department em- ployes who police the plant. Harry H. Bennett, company personnel director, has denied service men took part in the fight. Eight or nine Ford employes named yesterday in assault warrants in con- nection with the May 26 fight were arraigned today before Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy, who conducted & one-man grand jury investigation of the riot. Their examination was scheduled for next Wednesday. Bond for six men was set at $500 each, while the others were released on their own recognizance. At the National Labor Relations : Board hearing, John T. Lindsay, trial examiner, objected to questions of Louis J. Colombo, sr., Ford attorney, about alleged lawlessness on the part | of the United Automobile Workers’ Association and the Committee for Industrial Organization. Unionists Are Absent. Members of the United Automobile Workers failed to appear at the gates of the Ford Motor Co. between 6 and 7 a.m. today to distribute union litera- ture to workers changing shifts. Frank Blake, U. A. W. A organizer, sald Richard T. Frankensteer, union organizational director, notified him | the scheduled visit to the Dearborn | statement would be issued later, Oscar G. Olander, commisisoner of State police, several mounted ‘police- men and motor cycle officers were at | the plant. F. B. A. Intervention Barred, ‘The Ford Brotherhood of America, an independent union, was denied per- mission today to intervene in the Na- tional Labor Relations Board's hear- ing on the complaint against Ford. The complaint charged the F. B. A. so- licited members during working hours with the permission and support of the Ford management. Representatives of the P. B. A. dis- | tributed lterature without interfer- ence this morning at gates of the Ford plant. A handbill stated one of the union’s purposes was “to stop out- | siders from interforing with or dic- | tating to us as to wages and working | conditions.” Held on Pickpocket Charge. Albert Miller, alias Mallow, was ordered held for the grand jury in| $1,000 bond on a pickpocket charge by | Judge Edward M. Curran in Police Court today. Miller was arrested after George O. Rowe, 2525 M street, com- plained that his pocket had been ! picked while he was attending the Boy | plant had been Scout Jamboree. NEWSPAPER MAN DIES J. C. E. Dorman Collapses at. Desk in New York. NEW YORK, July 7 (#).—John Cecil E. Dorman, 37, newspaper man and magazine writer, died here today. He collapsed yesterday at his desk in the New York City News Association. Dorman was a native of Cedar Springs, Mich. He was educated at Cedar Springs, served in the Army during the war at Baltimore and Hampton Roads, Va., and after the war became a reporter on the Grard Rapids, Mich,, Press. Later he was on the staff of the Baltimore Sun and in 1928 he joined the staft of the New York Times. —_—— . Marion Ross, Cartoonist. Dies. OAKLAND, Calif, July 7 (#)— Marion T. Ross, 56, cartoonist and in- terior decorator, died last night of heart disease. As “Penny” Ross he drew the comic strip “Mama’s Angel Child” for 18 Years. He came to California from Chicago in 1926. 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