Has Amelia Earhart's anti-freckle cream jar been discovered?

FoxNews.com ^ | May 31, 2012 | Rossella Lorenzi

[Hunton Peck]

A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.

Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years ago.

When reassembled,‭ the glass fragments ‬make up a nearly complete jar identical in shape to the ones used by Dr.‭ ‬C.‭ ‬H Berry's Freckle Ointment. The ointment was marketed in the early‭ ‬20th century as a concoction guaranteed to make freckles fade.

Summary

A small cosmetic jar found on a remote island in the Pacific offers new clues in the Amelia Earhart mystery.

The artifact could have been a jar of Dr. Berry's Freckle Ointment, a concoction once used to fade freckles.

It's well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them.

"It's well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them," Joe Cerniglia, the TIGHAR researcher who spotted the freckle ointment as a possible match, told Discovery News.

The jar fragments were found together with other artifacts during TIGHAR's nine archaeological expeditions to the tiny coral atoll believed to be Earhart's final resting place.

Analysis of the recovered artifacts will be presented at a three-day conference in Arlington, Va. A new study of post loss radio signals and the latest forensic analysis of a photograph believed to show the landing gear of Earhart's aircraft on Nikumaroro reef three months after her disappearance, will be also discussed.

Beginning on June 1st, the symposium will highlight TIGHAR's high-tech search next July to find pieces of Earhart's Lockheed Electra aircraft.

The pilot mysteriously vanished while flying over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 during a record...

[NormsRevenge]

Amelia Earhart

One of the great mysteries of all time..

right up there with

What ever happened to..

Bill Clinton’s Most XXXcellent Legacy?

Obama’s college thesis and records?

[GreyFriar]

Don’t you know that Amelia and Fred were taken to a planet in the Delta Quadrant where she was found by Capt. Janeway on the USS Voyager?

And this discovery may just jar the dust off other stories in the Tighar closet.

[treetopsandroofs]

They were part of “The 37’s” exhibit.

[treetopsandroofs]

The first time an Intrepid-class ship was landed on a planet, thanks to roue Tom Paris.

[zot]

I still think TIGHAR is working the wrong island.

[GreyFriar]

Yes. And I”m still intrigued by Fred Goerner’s 1966 book “The Search For Ameila Earhart” that has her dying after being imprisoned on a Japanese controlled island. I think it was Saipan’
http://www.ameliaearhartbook.com/new_page_9.htm

And there is also this letter to Goerner:

Dear Mr. Goerner:

Please pardon my delay answering your letter of June. I have been in the hospital and have not been too well since my return.
In writing to you, I did not realize that you wanted to quote my remarks about Miss Earhart, and I would rather that you would not.
General Tommy Watson who commanded the 2nd Marine Division during the assault on Saipan and stayed on that island after the fall of Okinawa, on one of my seven visits of inspection of his division told me that
Miss Earhart met her death on Saipan. That is the total knowledge I have of this incident.
Having known General Watson many years, I naturally accepted this information as being correct. General Watson, I am sorry to say, died some years ago and therefore cannot be contacted.
I am sorry if my remarks mislead you but I cannot add anything more to this report
Most sincerely,

/s/ A.A. Vandergrift
General USMC (Ret

http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/earhart/article.asp?id=816

[scrabblehack]

Apparently the jar was discovered back in 1940:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18718_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-that-have-totally-been-solved.html

[GreyFriar]

Thank you for both tidbits. And they found the planet by picking up gasoline on their sensors. And didn’t they take the pickup on board for Tom to rebuild?

[treetopsandroofs]

Yes, they found the Ford pickup floating in space. Tom was able to start it.

It was a pretty good episode, liked the series conclusion shows the best.

[wally_bert]

Must have been low on water so the block and heads wouldn’t have cracked. Good viscoity oil too way back when apparently.

[GreyFriar]

There are some interesting FAQs regarding flight times and fuel consumption here: http://www.ameliaearhartbook.com/new_page_6.htm

This is the site of a lady who has researched Earhart and does not believe TIGHAR and its Gardner Island theory.

[posterchild]

Interesting. I’ve never met a woman with too many freckles.

[zot]

Thanks for your posts # 7 and 12. I will explore those links.

[scrabblehack]

The Cracked story links to: http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-resting-place.html — I hadn’t noticed that before.

With the site
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
I calculated the distance between Howland Island and Gardner Island to be 653.1 km or 352 nautical miles.

Now some of the comments on the discovery.com page have her with 26 miles of fuel left at Howland; others have her with 1 hr 5 minutes of fuel. If I understand your link correctly
the 1 hr 5 min would be 119 nm at average wind and 141 nm at no wind — not enough to make it to Gardner.

However your site makes it sound like there might have been as much as 4 hr of fuel left? If so that would be 440 nm at average wind, with Gardner Island well within range.

But this page from your site makes the Cracked claim very dubious:
http://www.ameliaearhartbook.com/new_page_14.htm

[GreyFriar]

Please note that “your site” is only “mine” in that I posted the link. I found it using google and found the discussion about the flight times and fuel ranges interesting based upon my discussions with an aviator friend who was also interested in where she could have reached on her fuel load and weather conditions and a couple of “what if” factors that we thought up. I’ve long though that Fred Goerner’s theory and research makes a lot of sense.