Honolulu, July 18. Amelia Earhart, symbol of woman's
efficiency in the air, and Frederick J. Noonan, her navigator in a
flight around the world, were officially given up for dead
to-day.
There no longer seemed to naval officials any doubt but that Miss
Earhart and Noonan had drowned somewhere between new Guinea and
Howland Island after losing their way on an all-ocean hop of their
around-the-world flight.
"It is useless to continue the search," [rear Admiral Orin] Murfin
said. The search was abandoned while a move to forbid all stunt
flights was growing in Washington.
Miss Earhart . . . was one of the most colourful of the many
personalities attracted into aviation from obscure positions by the
flight of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh from New York to Paris in
1927.
WTF, they were actually searching till
now?