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Bodies From Crashed Plane Found In Gulf

NEW ORLEANS, Monday.

Ships and planes were renewing their search in the Gulf of Mexico early today in the slim hope that survivors might be found from the crash on Saturday afternoon of a National Airlines DC6 airliner with 46 persons on board.  

Only 17 bodies were recovered from rough seas before darkness fell last night. The coastguard said there was a "remote possi- bility that one liferaft was adrift with survivors."

Three, other rafts carried by the aircraft were found empty.

The plane plunged into the Gulf at night after being batter- ed by 100 m.p.h. winds in a thunderstorm.    

The coastguard cutter, Black-   thorn, assisted by a helicopter, began picking-up the bodies as they floated to the surface from the wreckage, about 60 miles south-east of Mobile, Alabama.

One of the stewardesses was   Betty Baucom, "Miss Miami Beach" of 1950.

Also aboard were Mrs. Elenora   Kurkowska, second secretary of the Polish Embassy in Washing- ton, and Mrs. Rodman Osman, a Polish Legation worker in New

York.

Mr. Eben Putman, a Connecti- cut industrialist, and Mrs. Alfred Bergman, former wife of the late cartoonist Bille de Beck, creator of "Barney Google," also were aboard the plane.

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