Later a Coast Guard cutter repórted it had discovered a large pæ&ch of oil and a broken life preserver floating on the water off San Ciemente Island near where the missing bomber was reported to have disappeared. The oil was reported to' have resembled aeroplane crank case oil, but a check by the Navy Department disclosed that the broken lile preserver had not belonged to the lost bomber.
Naval authorities meanwhile discounted as a rumour the report that aeresident of Ventura, Calif, had seen the missing plane disappear fter crashing into the sea near that oily last Wednesday.
We are investigating all rumours," one official said, however.
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