Death of Ames

Some two weeks ago Pilot Charles H. Ames of the U. S. Night Air Mail Service left the field at New Brunswick, N. J., and headed for Bellefonte, Pa. The noise of his plane faded to a faint jarring, then less, then nothing. That was the last that anybody heard of Pilot Ames. He never reached Bellefonte. As far as appearances went, he might have tilted off into interstellar space. A towerman on the Pennsylvania said that he had seen a plane come out of a fog bank with all its lights lit, waver for a moment, vanish again. Farmers declared that they had heard the noise of a motor above them early on the morning that Ames disappeared. Searching parties found nothing. Last week a boy, one Harry Dobson, 15, found Ames on top of a peak called Nittany Ridge, four miles east of Bellfonte. The plane lay in a tree, bottom up; the man dangled from the cockpit. He had been dead ten days. Pouches of mail lay scattered underneath. They were put on board a train.