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Show ggp smi rat asiK mmim FEAR PILD HAS BET DEATH Airplanes, Telephone Telegraph, Wireles Utilized in Effort t Locate Lieut. Pearso: EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 12.-Army 12.-Army planet from every fti tion in Texas, New Mexico an Arizona left Ft BJiu at daw today to search for Lieutenar Alexander Pearaon Jr, who haa bee missing- sines he left hers Thursda st 10 s. ra. Wlrelees snd telephor, messages have been aent to all ata tlons and poetmaaters along the rout between Kl Paso and Houston, a dm Jance of 100 miles. In an effort to lc cattheTntsln; Tltot. who eiuecle to Isnd at Houston lata Thursday. A new crankshaft was fitted I Pearson'a machine at Columbus, N. M ninety miles west of here, on Tuesda snd officers at Fort Bliss expresse the fesr thst bearings may hsvs ru hot snd caused a sudden and possihl disastrous landing at some remot place In the sparsely . settled countr of west Texaa. - At o'clock thla morning the avtat" had been missing '44 hours and offi ears are of tha opinion thst, had h landed unhurt, even in the most re mote part of the Big Bend terrtton Lieutenant Peareon would have fc tows to walk to the nearest teissrn i ststlon snd wlrs news of his locatU'1 Lieutenant Pearson, when he ! here, was en route to Pablo Beacl Kla, from which point he was to mak a transcontinental flight to Han Diem Cal, in an effort to estsbllsh a recor for the flight from the Atlantic to th Pacific. Before leaving here he ex pressed tha opinion the flight ooul be made In leaa than twenty-fou houra. |