Evening star., 1953-06-21
Funerals Planned
For Four Victims on
Plane Found in RiyeI

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Of water at the mouth Of the
Choptank River.
The plane had plunged into
the water off Cooks Point IL
miles northwest of Cambridge
Md, where the Choptank chan
mel widens into Chesapeake Bay
The fourth victim, Miss Sara
Mitchell. 23-year-old congress
sional secretary, was found
Thursday about a quarter of a
mile from where a diver located
the plane at 10 am. yesterday.
The three whose bodies were
recovered yesterday were the pi-
lot. George Ackerman. %. son
Of Leon Alderman, Washington
real estate dealer; George Yost.
%. q salesman in the Alderman
firm. and Miss Romaine San
ders, 10. daughter of a Washing
ton automobile official. Miss
Mitchell was young Ackerman's S
f1iancee.
Lone Radio Contact.
The quartet had boarded the
plane at National Airport for
the flight to Maryland's Eastern
Shore. The only report there
after came when the pilot ra-
diced the Salisbury airport seek
ing weather information.
Planes searched a wide area
for the missing craft. On Thurs
day. Miss Mitchell's body was
found. On Friday, Capt. John
Larrimore's boat, the Elsie B.,
dragged up the right wing of the
missing Navion. It's Civil Aero
nautics Administration number
was still legible.
Baltimore Diver Samuel l.
Abrahams dived from a fishing
boat and first brought up the
body Of Miss Sanders. The next
identified through papers in his
billfold, was Mr.. Yost. Mr.
Ackerman's body was the last tc
be recovered.
Thrown Through Canopy.
The three bodies were still ir
the fuselage section. Apparently
the crash threw Miss Mitchell
through the canopy, but the
others were pinned inside.
Mr.. Abrahams told the Coast
Guard the wreckage was toe
scattered to bring up. The Civil
Aeronautics Board repeatedly
wants the instrument panel OF
the craft for its investigation.
Two Coast Guard vessels. three
tidewater fisheries boats and
several smaller craft were on
the scene.
The bodies were taken to 9
funeral home at st. Michael's
Md. They will be removed to-
day-Mr. Ackerman's body to the
Hines Funeral Home, the bodies
Of Miss Sanders and Mr.. Yost tc
Robert Humphreys Funeral
Home ! Ia Bethesda. and Miss
Mitchell's body to the Haywood
Funeral Home at Standardsville
Va.
Funeral services for Miss
Sanders will be held at $3.50 pm
tomorrow at Pumphrey's with
burial in Fort Lincoln Cemetery
Mr.. Yost's funeral services will
be held at $3.50 pm. Tuesday
at Humphreys.
The families expressed graft
tude last night for the work OF
the Civil Air Patrol, the Ali
Rescue Service of the Air Force
the Coast Guard and the many
fishermen who participated In
the week-long search.
Served in Marine Corps.
Mr.. Alderman served in the
Marine Corps as a ground crew.
man at El Toro, Calf, before
his discharge a year ago.
As manager Of his fathers
real estate development. Ocean
Beach, Mr.. Ackerman had flown
the Washington Salisbury route
many times. Salisbury is the
closest airield to the beach de-
velopment.
In 1850 Mr.. Ackerman sue
ceeded in crash Handing a plane
in the Choptank River, on the
Eastern Shore, and escaped un-
hurt. The scene of the 1850
crash-landing was within q mile
Of the spot where the wreckage
was found yesterday.
A graduate of Western High
School and Montgomery Junior
College, he was a football tackle
in college and later in the Ma
rines.
Salesman for Alderman Firm.
Mr.. Yost, q salesman for the
Ocean Beach development, had
just finished his junior year in
business administration at Mary
land University, where he was a
member Of the Air Force ROTC.
A third-generation Washing
tonian. he was the son Of Mr..