European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 5. 1991 the stars and stripes a Pago 9possible clue to Earhart found flier lost in 1937 May have Washington a Amateur aircraft sleuths speculated thursday that a Metal Cabinet found on. A Remote South Pacific Island is from the plane of aviator Amelia Earhart who has been missing since 1937,. And while the investigators acknowledged that evidence linking the Cabinet directly to the Earhart plane was strictly circumstantial an Fri expert Spud he found nothing a which would disqualify this artefact As having co from the Earhart  Richard e. Gillespie executive director of the International group for historic aircraft recovery said at a news conference that the aluminium Box found on Gardner Island had been identified As a navigators Bookcase of the Type used during the Era when Earhart Sailplane  a. A. A we be got the first artefact alleged to be from the Earhart aircraft that has passed Muster of testing a Gillespie said adding that members of his group must return to the Island to gather More evidence before the theory can be proved. James e. Corby chief of the materials analysis unit at the Federal Bureau of investigation Analysed the paint on the Metal Bookcase and said it was a consist ent with the materials that were being used in 1937. Gillespie said the Type of paint and the modifications of the Box weren t consistent with military use suggesting that it came from a civilian aircraft. A floor plan of the Earhart aircraft indicates that the 14-by-9-by-9l/ Inch Box could have fit exactly against a Bulkhead under the navigators table he said. Earhart was a pioneering aviator who in 1932 became the first woman to make a Solo flight across the Atlantic. She and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared july 2, 1937, while trying to Complete an around the world flight in a two engine Lockheed 10-e  said Earhart was trying to Fly from new Guinea to Howland Island a tiny bit of land with an air strip and fuel and that she planned to navigate by the Sun until her plane was within Range of a coast guard radio signal. Crew members on the coast guard vessel anchored at Howland heard signals from Earhart but she radioed that its signals weren to Strong enough to guide her to the Island Gillespie said. Gillespie speculates that Noonan had Earhart turn 90 degrees and Fly along a specific navigation line in search of the Island. That line Gillespie said would have brought Earhart to Gardner Island then a deserted atoll called Nikuma orb. Gillespie said his group a non profit foundation known by the acronym t1g-har, searched uninhabited Gardner Island in 1989 and found 19 pieces of Metal that could have come from aircraft eighteen of the artefacts were useless he said but the aluminium Box bore a Seri Al number. The number was traced to the consolidated aircraft co. Of san Diego calif., and showed the Box was manufactured in the 1930s As a navigators map Case. A. A. A a a a Gillespie said when Earhart could have landed at Gardner the Island was uninhabited and had no fresh water. Asked How he thinks Earhart died Gillespie replied  Gillespie said records show that Navy ships and Shore radios received distress Calls from Earhart for three Days after the plane was reported missing. The signals a seemed to come from the Gardner area he said adding that the Island is on the navigation line that Earhart described in her radio signals. A Rescue plane circled Gardner on july of thirst 9, but found no Trace of. The Earhart plane. 1 Low Ever a crewman reported see my  human habitation on the Island. A a a a a. Gillespie said the Only place Earhart could have landed on Gardner is a strip of reef shelf exposed at Low tide. He said Federal a experts calculated that the tide would have been out when the plane arrived at Gardner. High tide on Gardner Puls 4 feet of water Over the Landing area which could have washed the plane Over the reef and caused it to sink into 2, x feet of water Gillespie Saith As a result by the time the area was searched the plane would no longer have been visible from the air he said. A a a a a a 3 v Yov a a the British government established a Colony on the Island in 1938, abandoning it in 1903. T Here was no record of a civilian air plane visiting the area during that. Time and Gillespie said the Box was found in a garbage dump left on the Island. The possibility that Earhart was of Gardner Gillespie said is further boosted by coast guardsmen operating a navigation station there in 1944who reported finding a. Rain collection device that in eluded a Container of the Type and size used on the Earhart plane As a fuel tank. Long rows of new priests garbed in flowing White Robes lie face Down in supplication on the carpeted floor of  the Priesthood Peters Basilica in Vatican City. Pope John Paul ii conducting the rites of ordination from the main altar of the Basilica inducted the Large group into the Catholic Priesthood on  vehicles Erez Israel apr soldiers shot and killed a palestinian bus Driver Friday after he crashed his bus into a car bearing military License plates Jilling an army of Ticer a  also slowed into a second vehicle authorities said. After the second collision the Driver got out of the vehicle shouted a Falla he Akbar a or god is great and waved a Metal bar before he was shot said police inspector Moshe Caspi. The attack occurred less than a mile from an army checkpoint that divides Israel from the occupied Gaza stir up. Palestinians identified the bus Driver As Mohammed Samir Kat Anani 30, from Gaza a. Jab Aliya refugee Camp one Center in the 3-year-old uprising against the israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Kat Anani had taken palestinians to see relatives at Askelon prison in Israel and was driving an empty bus Back to Gaza when he hit the israeli vehicles Arab reports said. A a he was v/2 Miles from the checkpoint when he swerved into the left Lane hitting a Renault with army License plates. In the car was an israeli army major and his family Caspi said on Yaeli army radio. The collision killed the major s wife an army statement said. Four others involved in the crashes were injured and treated at a Hospital the radio report said. Authorities said Kat Anani attempted to ram an oncoming car but missed. The bus then slammed into an israeli passenger car hitting it in the Side. Quot a the bus Driver got off the bus shouted a Allah  he had an Iron bar in his hand. The israeli Driver ran toward Erez to Call for help and heard shots. What we understand is that Reserve soldiers. Shot the assailant a Caspi said. A army radio reported earlier that an israeli Motorist fatally  Kat Anani. Avi Pazner a top aide to prime mint ister Yitzhak Shamir noted that the attack followed a . Security Council vote.1tearlicr Friday condemning the killings of six palestinian civilians by israeli Security forces Over the weekend. A i want to note especially that this incident comes in the Wake of another Resolution of the Security Council condemning Israel and that this Resolution Only encouraged violence and terrorism a Pazner said ,. A also on Friday assailants shot and killed Ayshe Ali sheikh eid 20, of Gaza a Rajah refugee Camp and wounded her relative 18-year-old Talaat Awad sheikh and palestinian reports said _ the two were suspected of being israeli informers the reports  army said the woman a death was being investigated by police. The slaying brought to 325 the number of palestinians slain by fellow arabs during the uprising. Most were suspected of helping Israel. In addition .792.palestini-. Ans have been killed by israeli soldiers and civilians. Fifty seven israelis Quot have also died in the violence