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BELIEVE JUNK SANK HONOLULU, Hawaii, April 24. Passengers aboard the President Coolidge said today that the ships officers have expressed the belief that the Chinese junk, in which Richard Halliburton and a crew of fourteen started a voyage from Hong Kong to San Francisco, has sunk in the Pacific, off Guam Island. Officers concluded the Tennessee author and adventurer and his crew were carried to their deaths, passengers said, following a search made by the President Coolidge of the area of the tiny crafts last reported position. Halliburtons combination Diesel-sail boat, the Sea Dragon, on March 23, radioed it was between Guam and Wake Islands, in the path of an approaching typhoon. Attempts by Navy and commercial craft to communicate with the vessel proved 1 futile.
