Fate Of Amelia Earhart
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IT is reported in American newspapers that a former marine lieutenant said that he had picked up information during the war which led him to believe that the noted airwoman, Amelia Earhart (Mrs. Putnam), had been taken prisoner bv the Japanese.
Amelia Earhart disappeared mysteri ously in 1937 after she left Lae (New Guinea) for Howland Island, when on a round-the-world flight. She was accom panied by a navigator. Her mother said that she was sure Amelia had been im prisoned and later killed by the Japanese.
Mr. Alvin Fitak, who served with a marine anti-aircraft unit, said in Califor nia on August 4 that he had turned his information over to the air-woman’s mother. He claimed that he had been talking to a native in the Marshall Islands who had once worked in a cargo ship ply ing between the islands and the United States and spoke English.
“He asked me what had become of the ‘white lady aviator,’ ” Mr. Fitak said. “He told me that she had been held prisoner by the Japanese and later taken from the island.” ———=== Mr. C. R. Turbet, of the Department of Agriculture, Fiji, has been transferred to the Colonial Veterinary Service, Nyasa land, East Africa.