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Show PLANE VICTIMS' HUNT FRUITLESS Fragments of Craft Are Only Yield CRISTOBAL. Canal Zone, Aug. 4 (UP) Submarines, airplanes and surface craft today found more frag-menU frag-menU of the Pan-American-Grace Airways' liner, Santa Maria, which plunged Into the Caribbean sea 20 miles off Cristobal as they searched in vain for bodies of the plane's 14 occupants. . ', Cushions, seats and furnishings were found floating in the aea as hope virtually was given up that any of the 11 passengers and three crew members would be found alive. The fourteenth victim over whom there had been controversy between the New York and Cristobal offices of the company was identified today to-day as P. Wallace Kumle, connected with the Natomas company in Sacramento, Sac-ramento, Cal. Surface craft of the navy patrolled through the night. They found nothing noth-ing but bits of wreckage. The plane had been en route from Santiago, phile, to Cristobal, where connections were to have been made with a clipper ship bound for Miami, Fla. The plane plunged into choppy (Continued on Pare Two) (Column One! PLANE VICTIMS' JNTjpLESS (Continued from Pec Oral water! of the Caribbean almoet wlth-' wlth-' In light of Ha destination, off the Atlantic entrance to tha Panama canal. Lieutenant Crutch field Adair, navy pilot, lighted tha wreckage yesterday. Ha reported no ilgn of life, but the navy, la the faint hope that aome had eurvived, aent ub- martnes, destroyers and a mine-aweeper mine-aweeper to tha aoene. Naval officers examined bit! of wreckage, and eat! ma ted that the plana had been traveling at approximately approx-imately ISO milei an hour when it crashed. They believed It would have been impossible for anyone to survive. Those aboard the plana were: Pauengera: P. Wallace Kumle. o. Sacramento, CaL Rex Martin, aeronautical advleer of the bureau of air commerce, U. 8. O. J. Caldwell, alio of the bureau. Thomaa Wakely, of New Tork, employe of tha National City bank'a Santiago, Chile, branch. Oscar Millar, Sam Oliver and Isidro Soma, employee of the Ford Motor Export company In Guayaquil, Guaya-quil, Ecuador. Ernaat Wood, employe of the Pan-Am Pan-Am e N can-Grace Airways. Mrs. Amy Levering, wife of a " lompanjr employe. Jlmmlo and Jessie Levering, her children. Crew: Stephen Duna. pilot. Lawrence) A. Bickford, copilot, i Hernaa Hi as Cancego. its ward. Naval officer! laid the aearch by air and water would be continued con-tinued for at leait twe mori daya Fragmantary meeaagee from the urfacc craft reported tha diaccvery of additional pieces ef wreckage and mail postmarked at Buenoe Aires and La Pas. Three aubmarlnea were In the area. On reported It was towing a section of tha plane's wing, another an-other that It had picked up a pillow. A deflated rubber lifeboat also was found. Indicating passenger! had no opportunity to use Ufa preserving apparatus. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 l-The naval commandant in the Canal Zona reported to Washington today there was evidence Indicating an explosion occurred aboard the Pan-American-Grace airliner which crashed Into tha sea off Panama. The official navy dispatch said an examination of parts of the plane's wreckage towed to the Coco Sole naval base Indicated the plane struck the surface of the water at high speed and broke Into small parts. "Evidence of fire found en part of tha wreckage " the message aaid, "indicates there was an explosion In the plane at the time ef the crash.1' Tha massage added that the navy still was continuing Its aearch by airplane and surface vessels for possible survlvort Among; the) 14 persons aboard the airliner. |