Show SHIPS SNIPS MENACED BY HEAVY SEAS By Associated Six vessels were in distress Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- da day with the possibility that one of ot them had gone to the bottom after its crew was rescued and an airplane was reported to have crashed InU Inflames in inflames U flames into the sea Four of the ships were trapped b by bya a gale in the notoriously stormy Bay Bayor of or Biscay and two by shoal off the coast of Japan The plane unidentified unidentified fied lied was said to have plunged plunged to destruction destruction destruction de de- de- de in the Dutch West Vest Indies An oyster sloop went vent aground in a gale off olf Delaware The ton British steamship Catherine Radcliffe was the biggest victim It struck a reef a mile and anda a half halt off olf Basso Bosso peninsula ou outside ide Tokio bay late frida Friday Hurr Hurry to Aid Fishing boats bolts and larger craft Including Including In In- eluding a Japanese destroyer hurried hurried hur hur- ned ried to answer its cry Lying in dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- position Need immediate assistance as as- The en entire Ure crew was vas taken of off and landed at a fishing village with the exception of the captain and anda a wireless operator who remained aboard when it was decided the thc ship was in no immediate danger The Catherine Radcliffe which was built In 1925 and owned by the Clarissa Claris Claris- sa Sn Radcliffe S. S S S. Co was described as leakin leaking badly in a message intercepted intercepted inter inter- in London No clues were found during the night to the identity of the plane reported reported re rc- re- re ported lost near the Island of or Saba miles south of St St. Thomas Fears that it t might have been a Pan Ameri Ican can air liner bearing James Roose velt eldest son on o of the president proved groundless the Roosevelt ship landing anding safely at St. St Johns for the Ute night May 11 Be De British Plane A dispatch from irom St. St Thomas in the Virgin islands suggested that the lost plane ilane might have been from a squadron squad squadron ron of 25 British warships maneuvering maneuvering maneuver- maneuver ing ng in St. St Kitts roadstead The ton 1744 a British steamer became the fourth victim of he the storm in the Bay of Biscay when its ts steering gear broke The last report report report re re- re- re port was that it was sending out rockets rock rock- ets its which had been sighted by the French Trench salvage tug Abeille No 22 The British naval sloop also was going coing to its aid Meanwhile the thc tug forged toward oward the Caterina Madre lost ost its propeller off the northwest tip of Spain and the S S. S S. S Galea Gaca a Spanish vessel continued its journey journey jour jour- ney with the rescued crew of the Taide The which said it had lost a man overboard Fr Friday ja r re reported reported re- re ported no further trouble Italian Freighter Shipping men assumed the Taide had iad gone lo to the bottom It was an Italian freighter as are the Caterina Madre and Inside bay ba- bathe the American freighter Elizabeth ElIzabcth Kellogg remained aground but her crew had been beers cleared of the suspicion th that t they deliberately deliberately de de- de- de grounded the vessel to spy on Japanese fortresses Both the Elizabeth Kellogg and the grounded British vessel are under charter to the Japanese Mitsui l company A boat which put out in the teeth of a mile 45 wind was re reported to have lave saved three men from the thc oyster sloop aground off Bowers Beach Coast guard craft put out from both the Delaware and New Jersey sides of Delaware bay in a race to the scene I Life Ends LJ 1 1 1 t f gj k t i Z f T- T i ii t J f t J 4 t tt i r f O t i I 0 i J 5 II i v rg t y jit j r v Charles II Hampton Rampton |