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Show Idaho and California Aviators, Avia-tors, Long Sought for, Buried in Beach. NOGALES, Ariz., Oct. 1. The bodies of two men, dressed in American army uniforms and with insignia of the aviation avia-tion corps in their pockets, found buried in the beach of the Bay of Los Angeles, about 300 miles south of San Diego, are believed to tte the bodies of Lieutenants Frederick B. YVaterhouse and Cecil H. Connelly, according to a report made to military authorities today by Joe Allen Richards of Chicago upon his arrival from Guaymas. Lieutenants Waterhouse and Connelly disappeared while on border patrol duty between Yuma, Ariz., and San Diego. According to Richards, the bodies were found by himself and William Rose, both Americans, when they landed on the Bay of Los Angele3 September 23 to get water, leaving the steamer Kavari for this purpose. A mound of earth and smell of decaying decay-ing flesh, Richards said, caused the search for the- bodies. The men wore coveralls over their uniforms uni-forms and in their pockets were insignia of the aviation corps and jewelry, which they took as a possible means of identification. identi-fication. Richards said the Mexican authorities au-thorities at Santa Rosalia took the jewelry jew-elry from them. Included in the jewelry, he said, were gold cuff links engraved with the initial "C." A pair of short leggings worn by one of the men bore the mark of Hanan Brothers, New York. The point where the bodies were found Is on the coast of Lower California, opposite op-posite Tiburon islands. The bodies were reburied. The shorter of the two bodies, according to Richards, had sandy hair. Identification was impossible because of decomposition. Richards's story was given to the military mili-tary authorities in a sworn statement. Lieutenants' "Wat erhouse and Connelly left Yuma, Ariz., for their border patrol flight to San Diego about noon August 20 and were scheduled to arrive at their destination that night, but never were seen again. A thorough search was made by aviators sent out from Rockwell field over the border country in which tho flyers might have fallen, but no trace of them was evnr found. Lieu ten a nt Waterhouse's home was in Weiser, Idaho, and Lieutenant Connelly lived in San Diego. |