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— ee a Oe ai en i Link Hinred in Finding SF retin Of Donay’s Empty Boat | ae AVALON, Calif. April! 3—-(UP)—The nav: threw a shroud of secrecy Monday around its search for a mysterious submarine reported sighted in the vicinity whee WHETE a COTe | sn Ty vieted traitor disappeared in the Pacific ocean. ‘ eeni The modern-type submarine |iitesoat station nearby ‘Was spotted Sunday by four coast the crait. , : , | He “definitely waa not one o! leuardsmen at the point Arguelo/ours> ‘the coast guardsmen said. § : 1 Light station abou (300 miles north! The supposed underseas vessel i “lof here. Lookouts at a Coast Guard, was sighted about 150 miles north- i -- me ey (WESt Of the spot where a man be- | - Heved to be wealthy Detroit im- ; ‘porter Theodore Donay, 51, disap- a ree coca xox gq PeaTed from a rented motor beat. . Pe Se FES Donay was convicted in 1943 as SoA DET SES a 2 traitor for aiding Hans Peter oe eee eee Krug, an escaped Nazi prisoner of Sates, is Sta ne 7 oS : ge ‘after serving six and a half years r he = ; 1 in federal prison. ¥ also saw EN war. He was released last year Donay rented the boat here Sun- idey and toid boathouse attenants fe would be back in rn hour be- | . iloting it f Catalina is- . land Fnarbor. ou e una THEODORE DONAY | The boat was found floating Figures In Mystery : adrift 10 hours later in the open | Sea, EE Ee ie ie et Nee Oe eet Five hours and 20 minutes aft- bss = am Tome £ at i wi 4: jer the motorboat was found, the om ans oF <3 4'coast guardsmen reported sighting sony meas here : TRS iat * "4 jth® submarine. - ‘ Avalon police said the man? {identinfied as Donay had pur-' chmased In fast of galvanized [ chain, 10 spools of “soft soldering “A ‘wire and a pair of pliers before he let{ the harbor. , | .|. Naval intelligence officers re- | fused to talk about the reported ' . wen ts publicily to link it with Donay's . LZ TT ay 4 | disappearance. , nee inp wn SESS “at = omicide officers sted Donay [2 re, ata TS ws simply as a missing person and! ant rane uses Sans possible suicide, A Navy. airplane criss-crossed the ares methodically in search for! - the unidentified craft Sunday UN= pe Mey lg gr wrongs te bs “ ae til fog forced it to return to ital, ¢ “e - mnt af ~™ base. An officer said merely that|: . ae results were “negative.” “ 4¥ Pa adie ae oat “- Civillan wsuthorities also, aa noo ear so: .™ launched a search for Donay’s;: _ , : l body. ji se om . . twas reported. that Raval in- telligence officers were” investi Eating the possibility that some-|: one could have Isnded on the mainland from the sub, The Navy did not confirm this report however. The Los Angeles FBI office said it had not been notified officially: sbout the submarine but would!. ' . 7 investigate if there were any in- dications of sabotage similar tol: 4 the wartime incidenis when Ser-'. meee ees wpa — man saboteurs landed on the east iY Tata > rr toto Ree ce ametcis : Regt es ; ‘gfe a coast via submarine. a + . Soe oe este SEG ra ane vi * Donay was identified as ther. 72* ut tt Pa OS oars hires ihatal - 74’ Iman whe went out in the motor-|; ae . is 7 ; 7. beat by papers in a wallet he 1 | ! \ 4 ae cya Constable Kern McDavid said}; that when found, the boat’s run-|, ning lights were on byt the igni-)- tion was turned off. Donsy's ' clothes were packed in e small zippered bag. omy Ny fs