Search Halted Near Formosa TAIPEI. Formosa (AP) A three day air and sea search was called off Sunday night with no trace found of a Chinese Nationalist flying boat lost in Formosa Strait with seven Chinese and four Americans aboard. U.S. 7th Fleet and Chinese Air Force ships and planes had combed the area 40 miles east of the offshore island of Matsu where the Formosa-bound Catalina vanished last Thursday. The four Americans were connected with the U.S. military advisory team on Matsu. They were: Maj. Robert C. Bloom of Eau Claire,Wis.; Capt. Wayne F. Pitcher, whose wife lives at San Lorenzo.Calif.; Radioman 3.C. Dwight H. Turner, whose father lives in Clarence, Mo.; Pvt. 3.C. Claude L. Baird. whose mother lives in Duff, Tenn. Source: Dominion News, Morgantown, WV, October 6, 1958