George Palmer Putnam talks on the telephone with the White House asking for aid in the search effort for his missing wife, aviatrix Amelia Earhart, in Oakland, Ca., on July 2, 1937. Navy commander V.H. Ragsdale, Naval reserve, Oakland airport, stands by. Earhart disappeared during her flight over the Pacific. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart Putnam and her navigator Fred Noonan are seen shortly after their landing in Bandoeng, near Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, on June 21, 1937. It was one of the last happy landings on their attempted round-the-world flight before they disappeared on July 2, under way to Howland Island, somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, the American airwoman who is flying round the world for fun, arrived at Port Natal, Brazil on June 6, and took off on her 2,240-mile flight across the South Atlantic to Dakar, Africa. Happy picture of Amelia Earhart just before she left Port Natal, for Dakar, on June 6, 1937. (AP Photo)

George Palmer Putnam, right, bid his wife, Amelia Earhart, ??sHappy Landings as she started her 28,000-mile aerial jaunt around the globe, ???Just for fun,??? June 1, 1937, Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/MH)

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart, right, and her husband, publisher George Putnam, talk over plans for Earhart's second attempt to fly around the world. They are in a hangar where Earhart's plane Electra is being prepared for flight in Miami, Fla., May 29, 1937. (AP Photo)

Famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, pose in front of their twin-engine Lockheed Electra in Los Angeles at the end of May, 1937, prior to their flight around the world. On July 2, they began a 2,556-mile flight from New Guinea to Howland Island, a tiny coral island in the South Pacific. They never reached their destination, and the exact fate of Earhart, Noonan and the plane remains a mystery. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart and her round-the-world plane are shown after a crash as she attempted takeoff for Howland Island, March 26, 1937, Honolulu, Hawaii. Atop the plane, left to right are: Paul Mantz, technical adviser who was not board at the time, Miss Amelia Earhart and Red J. Noonan, co-navigator. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, second from left, is shown as she smilingly answered the questions of reporters about the takeoff crash at Honolulu San Francisco that ended her round-the-world flight aboard the liner Malolo, March 25, 1937, San Francisco, Calif. Beside her at left is her husband, George Palmer Putnam, who greeted her here. (AP Photo)

This is the first picture of the crash of a takeoff are that ended the round-world flight of Miss Amelia Earhart in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 25, 1937. It shows her just after she had clambered from the cockpit of her plane after the accident, with her two men navigators, Harry and Fred Noonan, just visible behind the radio look they climbed out. Note the bent propeller at the crash occurred early on the morning of March 20, and the fliers escaped injury. (AP Photo)

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart, navigator Frederick Noonan, standing behind her, and Capt. Harry Manning emerge from the Electra after it crashed on takeoff from Luke Field, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, March 20, 1937. Earhart and her crew were en route to Howard Island on their around-the-world flight. The smashed propeller and motor are visible in foreground. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart takes the $80,000 flying laboratory for a trial run over San Francisco Bay, Oakland, Ca., March 13, 1937, for her around-the-world flight. (AP Photo/Ernest King)

Amelia Earhart is shown climbing out of the cockpit after piloting her plane from Los Angeles to Oakland, Ca., on March 10, 1937. Earhart and her crew will begin their around-the-world journey from Oakland to Howland Island on March 18. (AP Photo)

American aviatrix Amelia Earhart waves from the Electra before taking off from Los Angeles, Ca., on March 10, 1937. Earhart is flying to Oakland, Ca., where she and her crew will begin their round-the-world flight to Howland Island on March 18. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, left, and Capt. Harry Manning, her navigator, check instruments in the plane she???ll use on around the world flight scheduled to start March 15, March 6, 1937, Los Angeles, Calif. Capt. Manning will accompany her across the Pacific to Australia. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart poses in this undated photo. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart Putnam and her husband George Palmer Putnam display two Kites as they stand in front of Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed Electra, on March 6, 1937, in Oakland, Calif., ten days prior to her projected flight around the world. Earhart plans to fly these kites as distress signals to aid searchers in finding her, should she be forced down during her adventure. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart checks the fuel mechanisms inside her plane in Newark, NJ on Feb. 14, 1937. (AP Photo)

Preparation of the Lockheed Electra plane, used for found-the-world flight by Amelia Earhart is shown in 1937, Oakland., Calif. (AP Photo)

Preparation of the Lockheed Electra plane, used for found-the-world flight by Amelia Earhart is shown in 1937, Oakland., Calif. (AP Photo)

Amelia Earhart, 40, stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu on the first leg of her record-setting attempt to circumnavigate the world westward along the Equator. (AP Photo)