FRANTIC MESSAGE
3.15 P.M. EDITION
CALL FROM THE FLIERS, GREAT DANGER FEARED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received July 6, 1.20 pm. HONOLULU, July 5. The cutter Itasca raced northward to-day over the Pacific toward a point 281 miles north of Howland Island after intercepting portions of a message from Mrs Putnam at 1.30 p.m., indicating that the ’plane is adrift or on a reef at that point. Fragments of the message received read: “Two hundred and eighty-one miles north of Howland Island call Khagg beyond north don’t hold with us much longer above water shut off.” The message is interpreted by the Itasca t to mean that Mrs Putnam and Mr Noonan were endangered and could not hold out much longer.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 6 July 1937, Page 8
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122FRANTIC MESSAGE Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 6 July 1937, Page 8
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