The Archive · 1939

U.S. Navy Planes Grounded at San

Diego as Investigation Begins Cause of Crashes of Scouting Craft and U.S.$500,000 Bomber Being Studied; Two Fliers Killed San Diego, Apr. 11.

Approximately fifty Navy scouting and bombing planes were grounded at the San Diego naval base today until an official board of investigation determines whether a structural failure was responsible for the crash of a scouting craft near Del Mar yesterday.

Both of the occupants of the ill-fated plane were killed.

In the meanwhile, reports of a ash near Dayton, Ohio, also were studied. A U.S.$500000 bomber crashed near Dayton and was destroyed by flames, but its crew of three army fliers escaped with minor injuries.

Two of the men are from March Field, California. All of them escaped from the giant bomber before it burst into flames. The cause of the crash was not determined immediate-

'y. but. witnesses said that the pilot was apparently making a forced landing—Uxited Press, China further antagonized Japan be cause otherwise Japan might conquer China more quickly. He said he believed the United States should sell China anything required to continue the war and should lend funds to any warring nation that the United States wanted to, regardless of the reaction in the aggressor nations.

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