Show YOUTH DRIFT UPON ICE CAKE IS OBJECT OF CLOSE SEARCH Little Hope Held HeM for Luckless Boy In Lake Erie AIRPLANE E IS USED Last Seen Beatin Beating Arms Trying to Keep From Freezing CLEVELAND Ohio Jan o- o By 0 Dy By The Tho Associated Press tn Prese-tn unidentified boy on a bob bobbing cake of ot Ice Ico In Lake Lak Erie Erio was the object of ot a frantic search by yes yes- res rescue cue work workers rs today Little b hope ope was wag held beld for rescue of tho tha last seen seln beating bc hi his arms against his sides tides to keep off oct the numbing cold as the floe floo upon which hp he stood floated Into the th darkness last night Throughout the night the firs tug John A Farley Fancy equipped with searchlights plowed through the tho Ice Ico searching tor for the cake o ot of Ice and a d its Ib pathetic hu human man cargo carfo Watchers along alone the shore stood beacons beacon to to guide the youth should the tho course of the floe vear toward solid sol Ice but no trace of ot him was found TRAILED Tn ALONG G SnORe SHORE Early in the tile night had trailed him along alone the tho shore as coast guardsmen and police tried In vain Tain to launch rescue boats Thin Ice gave way under the weight of ot row boats or banked floeS reached jagged heights which made launching Impossible As the tu tug was yas fitted tilted for tor the perilous galling through the Ice Ice sight of ot th the lid lad was was lost In dark darl darkness ness nee flee Coast guardsmen pointed out that the ic ice upon which th the boy stood might have bave broken up and declared that even should It drift shoreward ho he was in danger of ot be- be bc log lne crushed Dropping tempera tempera- temperatures temperatures temperatures tures added to the Il nd was vas feared that ho bo might have sUpped slipped into the Icy water after losing his lila precarious footing on on the ice AIRPLANE E USED Efforts to learn the tho Identity o of oth the youth were fruitless Police reported no on one and other agencies failed tailed to identify him The Time reason for tor him being oi the tho Ice also was unknown An experienced skater kater police decla- decla declared ed cd would hardly venture ventur far tar outon out outon outon on the Ice lc because of warm weather er Cr and two to aye of rain which melted much ct cf the ice An All airplane was added to th thc rescue forces day It cruised about the waters o ot of t shore ore for some time but the visibility was waslow waslow waslow low and nd the search was unsuccessful unsuccessful The Th pilot however con con- continued continued con continued the hunt o 0 |