Evening star., 1954-11-15
4 Of 5 Flyers,
Aboard Ditched
Rescued
Survivors Found
In PomIico Sound:
.Murine Jet MISSING

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Marine Jet Missing
Four Washington area men
from the five-man crew of an
Anacostia Navy Reservist patrol
plane ditched in Pamlico Sound
last night were found alive today
rs miles south of Elizabeth City,
N. C.
A Navy spokesman here said
the fifth man, Seaman Appren-
tice Richard Zigmund Garlenski,
%. son of Mrs. Cecilia D. Coff-
man, 1914 S street Sc, appar-
emily went down with the plane.
A lookout man on a rescue
plane spotted orange smoke and
a green dye marker on the wa
ter shortly before Z am. 1t. r.
T. Penn, jr., the pilot. said
three of the survivors were
standing on a navigation light
in the sound, and the fourth
was in a life raft.
Paddle to Seaplane.
The water was fairly calm,
and 1t. Penn was able to make
a slow landing and taxi within
100 feet of the life raft. The
survivors then padded to the
seaplane.
Later the four survivors were
taken to the Portsmouth (Va.)
Naval Hospital.
There still was no word from
a Marine jet, missing since it was
sent in search of the Navy air
craft. The Marine plane car
ried two men from the base
at Cherry Point, N. C.
Those Rescued.
The Navy said these men were
rescued:
1t. Comdr. George Sanford
Smith, USNR, 80, of 124 Fairview
drive, Fairfax, Va, husband of
Eunice E. Smith; children, San
ford, jr., 6, known as Sandy, and
Curtis Clay, 2. Comdr. Smith is
district sales manager for SUBJ
urban Propane Gas Corp. He
suffered a broken right leg.
1t. Albert Winston Funk
houSer, Coast Guard Reserve,
Edgewater, Md, husband of Mrs.
Esther Ramel Funkhouser; sons,
Robert Andrew, 8, and George
Albert, 6. 1t. Funkhouser man.
ages a farm at Edgewater, near
Annapolis.
1t. Robert Lawton Mallonee,
80, USNR, 1923 Edgewood road,
Towson, Md, husband of Mrs.
Amelia K. Mallonee; children,
Robert L., 8, and Barbara
Lynn, z. 1t. Mallonee is en-
ployed at a Baltimore meat
packing plant. He injured his
ankle.
Airman Apprentice Dimitrius
Georgius Sotiropoulos, 81, son of
olos, 5000 Fifth street NV.
Aboard Missing Plane.
Aboard the missing search
plane, the Marine Corps said,
were:
I'd 1t. Roy o. Wilkin, %, Indio,
Calf, the pilot, and M/Sergt.
Gerald A. Moreau, 80, of Have
lock, N. c., the radar operator.
1t. Wilkin last reported his
position as 40 miles southeast of
Cape Lookout, over the Atlantic.
More than Is aircraft from the
Cherry Point Marine base were
Joined by planes from carriers
on the ocean in the search for
the jet.
Airman Sotiropoulos, an aero
nautical engineering student at
the University of Maryland, tele-
phoned his parents shortly after
8 O'Clock this morning. He told
them he was not hurt and was
feeling fine. He has been a
member Of the Naval Air Re-
serve for two years.
A graduate of the Staunton
Military Academy, he also at
tended Paul Junior High, Bright
wood and Takoma Schools here.
The Navy said the four sur
vivors from the patrol plane
were spotted by a Coast Guard
plane during a wide search of
the area this morning by air
craft, surface ships and subma-
rineS.
The Navy patrol plane had
taken of from Miami at
1877 pm. yesterday for Ana
costa. The Navy said its pilot
gave no explanation Of the
trouble when he sent his hur-
ried message about $3.50 pm.
(See RAFT, Page A-2.)