Evening star., 1925-10-04
DARK HALTS HUNT
FOR AIR MAIL PILOT.
1000 Students and 16!
Planes Will Scour Mountains
/ Today for Lost Flyer.
By the Associated Press.

by the AsSoclatd Prees.
BELLEFONTE, Pa. October g.
More than Il thousand persons and
l airplanes joined in the search to-
DAY for Charles H. Ames, missing
mail plane pilot but when darkness
fell over the Allegheny Mountains to-
night no trace of him had been
found.
The flyer was bound from New
York for Chicago. when he failed TO
land at the aviation field just east
uf this city Thursday night No
communication has been had from
him.
General Supt Egge of the Air Mail
Service is here directing the search.
The territory for so miles east of
Bellefonte has been covered and the
ground west of Bellefonte as far as
Clarion now is being combed.
Passed Field, Is Belief.
The flyer was last heard from at
Harleton, about 20 miles east of Belle
fonte. His passage was reported by
telephone by the watchman. at the
emergency field there to the Belle
1onte field at II :3o pm. When Ames
left the East the weather was good,
hur it was CLOSING in" in The words
"f Supt. Egse as he approached Belle
fonte. II was thought likely that as
the weather grew hazy Ames flew
higher and missed the Bellefonte field.
This theory, coupled with a report
that a plane was heard late Thurs
dav night near Clarion, Pa, so to 60
miles west of Bellefonte on the regu-
lar course to Cleveland. caused the
IN rNIa
from Cleveland to that vicinity to-
day. An intensive search will be
made west of here tomorrow.
Sixteen Planes to Search.
Four planes from the Army, six
from the Air Mail Service and one
commercial flyer searched the ground
east of here today, while hundreds of
persons tramped over roads and
through the thickly wooded areas.
Tomorrow the IL planes will be
joined by five more from the Air Mail
Service, as no flying Is done on Sun
days except over one route. Pennsyl-
vania State College near here has
offered 1000 students to assist in the
search and the offer has been accept
ed by Mr. Egge. A delegation of
students from the Bellefonte Academy
was also among the SearCherS today.
Ames is about 81 years old and
single. He is a World War veteran
and has been in the Air Mail Service
for several years. Supt. Egge said
he believed his home is in Cleveland.
SEARCH TO BE THOROUGH.
Postmaster General Orders No Ex.
pense Spared to Find Ames.
Orders were given yesterday by
Postmaster General New to spare no
expense in the search for the missing
New YorkChicago overnight air mail
plane and its pilot. Charles II. Ames.
which disappeared Thursday night
near Bellefonte.
The Army Air Service has ordered
three Army planes, each with pilot
and observer, to report at the air mail
field at Bellefonte and assist in the
search.
Post office officials here believe
Ames fell in some isolated mountain
district and Supt. Egge of the Air
Mail Service has been ordered to
Bellefonte to direct the search.
Cleveland Sends Two Planes.
CLEVELAND, Ohio. October C4p.
Two airplanes We're dispatched from
the Cleveland air mail field today for
Clarion, Pa, to search for Charles H.
Ames of Cleveland, missing air mail
flyer. A report came to Supt. j. Z.
Whitebeck of the local field that an
airplane had been heard near Clarion
early Friday, shortly after Ames dis
appeared5 en- route from New York to
the Cleveland field.