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Show MRS CANT" FIND LOST PILOT About 500 Miles of Texas Country Fanned for Missing Aviator S.X ANTOJKfO. Texas. ih. : After fanning out 500 miles of what aviators dc-crlhc as the worst terrain in Texas between Kl Paso ami S;in Antonio, fort.t' patrol machines landed ! tonight in their border aviation fields without having found any trai of Lieutenant Alexander Pearson. Jr-. army flyei'. who had been lost since Thursday when he took the air for San Antonio. He was going over the rout" hi vw.s srheduleil to take n an attempted 24-hour flight from Pablo Beach, Fla., to San Ple.go. Cal., on Washington's birthday. The search will be, resumed tomorrow, tomor-row, every available machine at San Antonio, El Paso and border patrol I points Joining. Belief that Lieutenant Pearson fell' north of the Southern Pacific rail- ! road On H I trire ranch was expressed tonlt-hr by .Major H. C. Pratt, air servlcs officer of the eighth corps area. Today two reports on the aviator were received, one was that a machine; was seen flying over Baragosa, Texas, and the other aviator was seen over a ranch near Sanderson Thursday afternoon aft-ernoon four ami S half hours after i Lieutenant Pcaraon left CI Puro. |