Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-12 | Page 8 | Army Aviators Lost in Pacific

Mils LOST IN PACIFIC Dived Through Clouds Over Hawaiian Island When Last Sighted HONOLULU, T. 11. Sept. 11 Search fcr Lieutenant R. R. Fox of New York, and Corporal H. J. Cornet, Cor-net, of Spencer. Pa., of the army aviation avi-ation corps at Luke field. In these 1st - ands who last were seen In their airplane air-plane diving Into a cloudbank over, the island of Molokal. two weeks ago,' has been abandoned. Lieutenant Fox 3 plane. aceom-1 panied by a second army airplane, I w.is on a reconnaissance flight oven Molokal when it ran Into a bank of clouds. The companion machine clr-1 cled the clouds and then looked for the missing filers, but they never were seen again. Aviators here believed that Fox either lot his sense of balance bal-ance crashed In the Molokal hills or lost his sense of direction and flow out to .j.a The machine was a land machine and would have been unable to float an length of time If It went down on the ocean, army officers said