The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-27
Prominent People
 on Lost Yacht
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Snedden, 28, an instructor of the School of Education of New York University, and Mrs Snedden;
 Robert ,Mendenhall, 29, of the Statistical Bureau of Columbia Uni versity, a brother of Paul Menden- hall and Mrs Snedden;
 Florence Mendenhall, 28, his wife; a Theatre Guild actress;
 Miss Doris Dewey, 29, psychia- trist attached to the Girls Service League; and
 Mark Coyne, 28, an instructor at the Riverdale Country School.
 In addition, Robert Johnson. 30, a radio and night club entertainer. also was reported to have been aboard the craft by his family. ', Mrs Snedden's body was found floating in the sound late yesterday off Collender's Point, about a mile from Darien, Conn, by William F.. Allen of Stamford, Conn, who was fishing. He brought it to shore and turned 1t over to Darien police. The body was clad in white pull-over sweater and blue dungarees such as are used by sailors.
 The 35-foot auxiliary sloop Sea Fox had not been heard from since it put out from here Saturday, ana finding of Mrs Snedden's body im- mediately gave rise to the fear that her husbands. craft had either fonndered in the sound or had been blown to sea by 40-mile-an-hour wind which blew across the sound all day Sunday and yesterday.
 An indication that those aboard had warning of approaching disas- ter was seen in the fact that 8 life preserver had been securely fastened around the body Of Mrs 'Snedden.
 This spurred, searchers into re- newed effort today to find the craft in the belief the remainder of the part had escaped disaster by putting trailed after the Sea Fox. Police and coast guardsmen. said today the other guests may be adrift on the sound, if the dory succeeded in weathering the high wind. Weather over the sound was reported com paratively quiet yesterday.
 Members of the party worked on the motor for several hours,. accord- ing to Dr Pegram, and managed, af- ter some difficulty, to ket it running again. He said he believed they put out either late Saturday or: early Sunday for the weekend cruise. He was not inclined to accept the theory that the Sea Fox had foundered. He described her as an exceptionally seaworthy craft. It had a small
 The craft was reported to police as missing shortly before Mrs Sned- den's body was found, and a police plane took off from North Beach to make a search of the sound. The police plane was augmented by two crafts from the Farmingdale Air port, six coast guard patrol boats Tel v.A nd V.nnd0n. Conn, bases and several small CIVIL ian vessels, they reported no success in locating the craft at late hour.
 Friends of the missing persons held hope that the vessel was still afloat. The fact that the missing dory has not been found bolstered their hopes. They pointed out that if the Sea Fox had capsized the small craft probably would have gone adrift.
 Mrs Snedden was known profess was a consulting psychiatrist at Bel lcvue hospital. Snedden's father, David Snedden, is a former state ed- ucation. commissioner of Massachu- setts, and is now professor of educa- tion at Teachers College. Columbia University.
 Search among the small islands off Norwalk, Darien and Stamford, where the body of Mrs Ethelwyn Marcia Snedden. clad in seaman's togs and wearing life Spreserver. was discovered by a fisherman late yesterday. yielded two life preserv- CTS, a water-soaked woman's coat and the tank of an oil stove.
 A coast guard patrol boat picked up the oil stove tank. according to Al.s eafr srf h to the theory whcih boatmen said was the only one which could ex- plain so complete a disappearance of a 35-foot auxiliary sloop in these waters-that ar explosion had blown a hole in the boats sides, causing it to drop to the bottom almost in- stantly