Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1937, Page 7

NAVY CONCLUDES | EARHART SEARCH Four Vessels Sail for Home After Scouring 250,000 Miles of Ocean. By the Associated Press HONOLULU, July 19.—The mystery of Amelia Earhart lay locked‘in the silent watery wastes of the vast Pacific today. Four naval vessels and the 1,500 weary men who sought her and her navigator 16 days gave them up for dead and sailed for home. More thar 0.000 square miles of equatorial ocean, reefs and islands were scoured by ship and plane in an almost hopeles: arch for the tousle- haired aviatrix and her companion, Capt. Frederi J. Noonan, who dropped from sight July 2. Dropped on 2.530-Mile Hop. Somewhere near the dot which is Howland Island, Miss Earhart and Noonan dropped from the skies in their fuelless land plane on a 2,570- mile flight from L: New Guinea, to the mid-Pacific ispit The 39-yvear-old woman flyer, known the world over for her aviation ex- ploits, was ¢ ng the earth “just for | fun,” she s t also to blaze pos- gible new commercial routes The great naval hunt, which began | & few minutes after the pair were | overdue at Howland, was called off | late vesterday when Navy authorities | decided they had exhausted every possibility of ever finding the missing | fiyers. Last Rescue Hope Lost. The closing order crushed the last hope of rescue held by ge Palmer Putnam, motion picture executive hus- band of Miss Earhart, who obtained | leave from his duties to further her | world-flight plans, “1 am deeply appreciative of what | the Navy has done,” the grief-stricken | husband declared in Los Angeles. | “That is all I can say.” For several days after Miss Earhart | disappeared, Putnam Kept ceaseless | vigil at Coast G io head- quarters, confident army of | searchers would find his wife and Noonan As the d assed without word of success he returned to Los Angeles. Lexington Among Last. ‘The al ft carrier Lexington, with its brood of 63 fighting planes and three des ers, were the ast searching ves: t week the doughty Coast the minesweeper port after sear ousands of miles by air and sea Beginning with the search by the Ttasca and Swa stationed in the vicinity of How aid in the uble, and culmi 1 of the Le ton, attained magnit never before seen. By alr and sea, the search extended for a radius of between 300 and 600 miles around Howland, 1,500 miles eouth of here. Bolstered by what some officials thought might be radin distress signals from Miss FEarhart's *fiying laboratory,” the search made an ever widening circle around the tiny island. All possible land havens were covered, but Friday the Navy concluded the flyers had not landed on any of them. Search Continued Yesterday. The Lexington continued sending planes out Saturday and Sunday, how- ever. The Lexington will return to San Diego. Despite the magnitude of the search, not a single casualty was reported. ‘The cost of the search was not esti- mated, but unofficially was set at sev- eral hundred thousand dollars. Planes from the Lexington flew more than 70,000 miles and fuel cos's for the Colorado and Lexington prob- ably ran in the tens of thousands of dollars, The search was disheartening from the beginning, due to lack of definite nformation as to the position of Miss Earhart’s plarie when it flashed its Jast message, at 3:14 pm. (E. S. T.) July 2: “We are in the position of 157-337. * * * We are now runmng north and south.” The fiyer reported gasoline was running low and she could see no land.” Numerous radio messages received in all points in the Pacific sometimes bolstered the hopes of the searchers. but apparently none was authentic. Earl Free to Wed Film Star. LONDON, July 19 (#)—The Count- ess of Jersey'’s divorce decree from the ninth Earl of Jersey was made absolute today, leaving the earl free to marry Virginta Cherrill, former wife of Cary Grant, American screen star. It was learned the earl plans to marry Miss Cherrill within a few weeks, The Cost of Calamity. 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Gant of the Uni- versity of Illinois College of Medl- cine, quickly removes all smoke, odors and everything but the forceful lan- guage of the players, by straining the air through activated carbon, an improved form of charcoal. In perfecting it Dr. Gant and H. D. Shaw of the Pullman Co. of Chicago, first froze the odors coming from a sleeping and club car on an overnight trip and then, by chemical analysis, determined .the precise amounts of smells of nicotine, alcohol, food and perspiration present. ions. Sy THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JULY 19, 1937. STORES CLOSED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON LABORSHORTAGE PLAGLES FRMERS Harvest Crew Shorthanded With Pay Highest Since 1930. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 19.—A new head- ache—labor shortage—plagued the American farmer today as he swung into the most bountiful harvest in sev- eral years. 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Works Progress Administration pay rolls in 13 States showed a decline after officials announced men would be per- mitted to quit jobs on projects to work in the Midwest harvests. The men, if still in need, officials said, will be re- employed within 90 days. In 1,171 counties of the 13 States in W. P. A’s Midwestern region, records for June 30 showed 287 had less than 100 men and 106 counties less than 50 on W. P. A rolls. Regional officials of W. P. A. said they understood “many men are taking | work on farms during the harvest sea- son.” But they attributed part of the reduction to a cut in appropriations and projects. In Minnesota, Gov. Elmer A. Benson asked Robert Fech- ner, national Civillan Conservation | Coips director, to permit C. C. 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Packed in con- venient carrsing o7, not fine cartons, § See Our Fine Selection of BRIGGS COLD CUTS Summertime is cold-cut time and we carry a complete selection of the various cuts in all markets. Briggs cold cuts are all made under U. S. Government inspection, Luxury or Veal Loaf - %™ 10c Va. Style Baked Ham * » 20¢ Pep Luncheon Loaf - «» 12¢ Briggs Liverwurst ik ¢ 10c¢ Briggs Tongue Loaf “ ™ 18¢ U.S. Graded Bologna ™ 30c¢ NORFOLK SPOTS _ _ . §e Veal Cutlets - _ - _ » 43¢ Loin Veal Chops - - » 39¢ Rib Veal Chops - - ™ 31¢ Shidr. Veal Chops ™ 25¢ Shidr. Veal Roast » 20c Stfd. Veal Breast » 25¢ Chipped Beef - “ ™ 12¢ Cooked Ham - % ™ 15¢ Prices quoted are effective until close o f business 1 P. M. Wednesday, July 21.