Show AERONAUTS ACCIDENT drops into ocean off san pedro and loses life san pedro cal while hundreds watched his frantic efforts to control a great gas bag which was swiftly bearing him over the pacific ocean monday afternoon lester elkins an amateur aeronaut 22 years old soaped soared with the balloon to a height ot of more than thin 4 feet before he cut loose his parachute and dropped into the waters of the outer harbor to his death As the stiff wind blowing off the land carried him out to sea boatmen hastily left the inner harbor in launches to rescue him when he came down should he be unable to guide the balloon back over the land but were unable to reach the place where 1 he tell fell and his body has not been recovered |