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Show MAIL PILOT : THOUGHT DEAD Search Continues For Neher and Schaller, But Hope Is Very Slight SAX FRANCISCO. April 5 (UP) On water, laud and. in the air, search was continued today for Edward Ed-ward A. Neher. coast air mail pilot a'nd his passenger, Albert Schaller, an official of the Pacific air transport trans-port company.- With more, than -IS hours elapsed since the plane was due to land at Crissy Field here en its routine flight north with the mail, no definite defin-ite clue as to the fate of the craft and the two men in it had been secured. se-cured. May He Dead In Bay-As Bay-As search of airplane squadrons and possees failed to reveal any trace of the lost plajie, the .comic tion deepened that the two men must, have plunged to their death in San Francisco bay early Sunday morning, while trying to penetrate 'a light fog and reach Crissy Field. This belief, was strengthened by Ihe report that the plane was heard flying low over the cast bay section, with the engine missing and the craft apparently having difficulty keeping in the air. With this possibility in mind, coast guard cutters and police boats patrolled the bay today seeking some bit of wreckage floating on the surface .which would reveal definitely defin-itely the fate of the missing airmen. air-men. - :A huge army amphibian plane sldmnied the surface of the bay in flights a few feet above the water, observers peering down in an effort to laeale the airplane at the bottom of the bay, if that is where it is. |