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Show Marvel Crosson Found Dead Near Plane Wreckage Body Found In Wild Country Near Wellton Arizona; Others Suspect Tampering Tamper-ing With Planes. WELLTON Ariz Aur. 20 (UP)-Tragedy entered ihe women a air derby ot the 1929 national air races early today when the body ot Marvel Crosson, 25, one o America's best known ieminine pilots, was found near the wreckage of her plane in the wild country six miles north of here A searching party, which had spent the night beating through brush more than 10 feet high, reported the discovery ot Miss Crosson's body to the sheriffs nftW Ltncxy Apparently Hail Jumjwxl . MUs Crosson whs found about 200 feet from the spot where her craft crashed, indicating that she had jumped. Her parachute was not opened and it was believed that it either lind failed to work or that she left the ship too Ihte to permit it to otien. t The body, according to searchers, stiuck the ground with such force as tu make it almost unrecogniz-I unrecogniz-I able. Her plane was completely demolished. Miss Crosson. with eighteen other entrants in the S25.000 race from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland, Cleve-land, left San Bernardino, first overnight control of the competition, competi-tion, early yesterday morning. She passed over Calexico, California, Cali-fornia, as required and headed toward to-ward Phoenix, Ariz., second over-! over-! nr'ht stop. Ranchers near Wellton reported seeing an airplane drop - into the underbrush near the GiJa (Tiver bed and when Miss Crosson failed to reach Phoenix a search was started. The extreme wildness of the country where ehe was reported down made progress difficult. The plane and her body were ', located early today in a ravine j near the Gila river bed. I Search Is Difficult The searching parties had to batter bat-ter their way through thick underbrush under-brush of arrow weed and mesquite trees to get to the spot. The plane was so badly wrecked ns to preclude any attempt to determine de-termine the cause of its failure. It was expected, however, that authorities at San Bernardino, California, would be asked to conduct con-duct an investigation since a number num-ber of other, entrants in the derby claimed their planes were tampered tam-pered with during the stay in the California city. Thea Rasche, the .noted German aviatrix, Bobbie Trout, former holder hold-er of the women's endurance record, rec-ord, Clair Fahyrwife of the present holder of the mens solo endurance record, and Opal Kunz, New York flier, were other who had trouble yesterday and hinted at sabotage. |
