Transport: Lost Earhart

"SOS KHAQQ! SOS KHAQ^! SOS KHAQQ!"

When these spoken signals came weakly to a powerful amateur radio set near Los Angeles one morning last week there was great excitement. Declared Operator Walter McMenamy: "It was Miss Earhart all right! I know her voice very well!"

Set on making a round-the-world flight, the world's No. 1 aviatrix cracked up in Hawaii in her first try three months ago. With her Lockheed Electro, patched up, she took off in the opposite direction June 1 with Fred Noonan, onetime ace navigator for Pan American Airways,* flew leisurely...

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