Show CREW w HEARD ARO PLANE HIT HITS WAlEK S f PORTLAND ND Me Jan an 3 S CAP AP- AP fyi that l Mrs rs Frances Wilson Wilson WilsOn Wil Wil- son son Grayson's missing piano The Dawn and its Us four lour passengers rs fame came came down not far from the tip of or Capo ape Cod accumulated today I-A I K A schooners schooner's c crew ew here swore they heard the hum of Df t f a planes plane's motors rt grid and d a a. muffled splash as it crashed I Into to the Atlantic on the night of Friday December 23 I Their Their- story substantiated that told old ld earlier by a radio operator aboard aDoard the steamer Oakey L. L Alexander Alex Alex- ander when that ship docked here j e operator Jerome Jerome- Knowles said Said ald that at the same hour as his ship lp was wa passing passin Cape Cap Cod he ard a message presumably from h he plane requesting radio bearings bear bear- ings gs' gs from the Chattam station of the he Radio Corporation of America A. A few minuteS minute later came the words chords plane down he said LATEST EVIDENCE The latest evidence that tragedy overtook the plane on its flight rom New York to Harbor Grace F. F occurred just as it put outto out to fo o sea camo from the master and andrew crew rew of the Nova S schooner Rose ose Ann The schooner was eighteen miles northwest of Nauset Beach lightA light A gale w was was s blowing occasional of snow obscured the view and ind heavy seas were were crashing over ho tho deck Captain R. R V. V Comeau re- re ted la-ted Off tho the Windward rail ot of the aboard heard schooners schooner's bow those sounds which th the Captain said he ho was vas vas certain came camo from airplane motors Then the droning dronin Increased in- in creased only to to end abruptly and ando to o be followed almost immedi immediately telY y a heavy splash SEA ROUGH Only a staunch vessel could have ived in the tho sea that was running the captain said The schooner icard about The Dawn by its radio ut jut had no transmitting apparatus The story of Comeau and his crew remained untold during the five days that the schooner put in at at Salem Mass to ride out the storm The stories of the schooners schooner's crew were told the same day a as that of Mrs rs Halen Haten Cummings of ot East ast Orans Orleans Or Or- leans eans ans Mass on Cape Cod She aid said that The Dawn passed over o ier house housend and nd headed over the ocean It seemed to her that there was ps has engine trouble and aud there were indications of a a. snow or sleet storm t se sea I |