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Show . a IIAVY AVIATOR $.EiiTsi;iiEe.r OERVJATER Lands on Ocean Near Debris; Sees No Sign of Life CRISTOBAL, Canai Zone, Aug. 3 (UP) Little hop wag held today for the lives of 13 persons, including two children, . who were In a Pan-American-Grace airways twin-motored Sikorsky plana which became lost in a rain storm over Cristobal Cris-tobal last night and apparently crashed into the Caribbean sea, A fragment of aa enghse eeo-ttoa eeo-ttoa tha housing ef a NaspeO ma-tor ma-tor was found floating M snuea from too Colea breakwater light la tha Caribbean by a nary airplane air-plane pilot, ' - Navy salvagers later recovered U .-pieces .-pieces of mail postmarked La Pas, Bolivia, and a deflated rubber lifeboat life-boat from the area. The pilot, lieutenant C Adair, re- . , ported there was no sign of life In U vicinity of ths wreckage. Two navy destroyers steamed to the scene. Waa Flying la Bala No word bad been beard from the plane since 7:30 last night, when It reported It waa near in g Cristobal la a rainstorm after a flight from Call, Colombia, the last leg of a run from Santiago, Chile. The plane was named the Santa Maria. It was new, the latest twin motored 8-48 Sikorsky. It was de-slgnsd de-slgnsd to alight on water or land and carried emergency rations sufficient suf-ficient to feed passengers for several sev-eral days. Seventy-four planes of the United States army and navy, destroyers, tenders and submarines, participated partici-pated In the hunt which extended over the Isthmus of Panama, tha near-by Jung lea and the Caribbean sea and Paclflo ocean. The search began In earnest at dawn after several sev-eral planes dispathed last Bight found nothing. One by one airplanes returned to their bases hare and In various sections sec-tions of the Canal Zona. All reported failure. Sights Wreckage This afternoon a flash cams that Lieutenant Adair had sighted wreckage; that It waa submerged. When he returned to Coco Solo, the navy air base a few miles outside out-side of Cristobal, which Is ea the Atlantic side of the Isthmus, Adair said he had sighted only a fragment of a plane. He said it was floating 20 miles from Cristobal apparently westerly off the Cristobal breakwater, breakwa-ter, which is eight miles from shore. (Continued an Pasa Twn (Column Thrae) ' Type of Plane Which' Fell in Sea Off Canal Zone j . . T SEARCHERS FOUND WRECKAGE OF SISTER SHIF PARTLY SLbMUluiu S-3 Sikorsky amphibians can carry 18, travel 194 m. p. h. Naval Flier Sights Wreck Of Missing Plane in Ocean (Centkiued from rate Out) I fa said foe lanrtttl -on tha-svaiax and taxied to the wreckage, but saw no sign of bodies. The navy Immediately started a search of the area where the section sec-tion of the airplane was found. The destroyers Babbitt and Henderson, which had rushed through ths canal this morning from Balboa, on the Pacifie aide, steamed into action. The mine sweeper Teal also went to ths scene to conduct salvage operations op-erations if ths complete wreckage Is found. Some of ths fliers civilian and military who had participated in the search were pessimistic. Others said there was a possibility possibil-ity that those aboard had been taken off by some other rescuing craft which already had reached the fallen ship. That seemed to slender slen-der hope, however, for the ship had been missing 30 hours. NEW YORK. Aug. t Iff) Ten passengers and three crew members were aboard ths missing Pan-Ameri can-Grace airliner, John McGregor, vice prealdent of the airline,' an-nounced an-nounced late today: The passenger log, as made pub-lie pub-lie here, originally contained names of 11 passengers, including that of Sam Oliver, address unknown, but a later revised list received from Balboa omitted hie name. The revised list: Thomas Wakely, National City bank. Santiago, Chile. Rex Martin, commerce department, depart-ment, Washington. G. Q. Caldwell, commerce department depart-ment Oscar Millar. Ford Motor company. com-pany. Lima, Peru. Mrs. Amy Levering, Cristobal, wife of airways employe, and two children, Jimmy and Jessie. Ernest Wood, airways employe, Cristobal. Isidor Scuza, address unlisted. P. W. Kumle, address unlisted. The crew consisted of Stephen Dunn, pilot Cristobal; Lawrence Arnold Bickford, copilot Cristobal, and Herma Dies Canseco, steward, Lima. |