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AMERICAN OFFICIAL, BRAZILIAN
HELD HOSTAGES IN BRAZIL JUNGLE
'Thrill Seekers'
Capture Pair af
Air Crash Scene
Parachutists Fly
In Rescue Attempt
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (U.R)
Brazilian Army parachutists
flew into Central Brazil to rescue
a U. S. government official and
a Brazilian Air Force major
held captive Monday by thrill
seeking "soldiers of fortune" in
the jungle where a Pan-American
Stratocruiser crashed two
weeks ago.
Two Others Feared Held
Authorities feared that two
other Americans who had gone
to the crash scene may also
be held as hostages.
Three Army planes carried
38 parachutists to the crash
scene, 930 miles north of Rio.
Authorities said- Scott Mag
ness, safety advisor to the Ameri
can Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration who headed, an official
expedition to the scene.,of the
crash in which 50 persons in
cluding 19 Americans were kill
ed, and Brazilian Air Force
Major Miranda Correa were
seized by armed members of an
unofficial expedition.
Said 'Thrill Seekers'
The captors were described
as "thrill seekers" and number
ed 30 to 35 men, according to
Charles Collar, of the U. S. Civil
Aeronautics Board who heads
the main operations base for
the official expedition.
Collar said the captors, who
parachuted to the jungle crash
scene a few days before the
official party reached it, held
the two men as hostages in an
effort to force the official party
to. carry them back to civiliza
tion by helicopter.
Held in Clearing
Collar said two other Ameri
cans, Pan American Pilot Rob
ert Wisenbaker and a Pratt &
W h i t n e y Co. representative,
Stanley Brooks, who made an
overland trek to the crash scene,
may also be held as hostages.
Collar said Magness and Cor
rea were captured at pistol point
and are being held in a clearing
about four miles from the site
of the plane crash.
Female Prison Escapee
Picked Up in Seattle
Salem (U.R) Mickey O'Brien,
female prisonc who escaped
from the Oregon state peniten
tiary Feb. 27 by calling a taxi,
was back in prison Monday aft
er she was picked up in Seattle
Saturday, according to Warden
Virgil O'Malley.
He said Mis O'Brien and At-
tilio Marastoni, whom he de
described as a parole violator,
were picked up separately in
Seattle.
BULLETINS
Washington (U.R) Priea
Stabilizer Ellis Arnall asked
America Monday to stop buy
ing potatoes if they can't get
them at ceiling print-
Washington (U.R) Prica
Stabilizer Ellis Arnall today
signed a resolution suspending
ceiling prices on raw cotton
and practically all types of
wool, synthetic and cotton tex
tiles. Washington (U.R) T h
House unexpectedly rejected a
bill to increase old age insur
ance benefits Monday after op
ponents said it would open the
door to socialised medicine.
Woman Starts
Across Atlantic in Sloop
Plymouth, England (U.R)
Blue-eyed Ann Davison sailed
the sea alone in a 23-foot sloop
Monday in an attempt to be the
first woman to cross the Atlantic
by herself.
A similar voyage three years
ago cost the life of her husband.
Cosmetics Included
Mrs. Davison loaded her sloop
here Sunday night with food,
water, and a supply of cosmetics
and perfume to keep up her
morale. Then she sailed into
the English Channel headed for
the Florida Coast.
The 38-year-old widow stowed
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 19,
Whitney Appears
Winner in County
Democratic Me
Loyd Whitney, Jacksonville,
edged out C. L. Hockersmith,
Phoenix, in a close race for the
Democratic nomination for coun
ty commisisoner in last Friday's
primary election, unofficial re
turns showed today.
But the margin of Whitney's
victory was only 70 votes, 2,454
to 2,384. It was possible though
not probable that the official
tabulation could change the re
sults enough to make Hocker
smith the winner. The official
canvass of ballots will not be
completed for several weeks.
Mistakes Possible
The unofficial tabulation of
votes was conducted by The
Mail Tribune, beginning as soon
as the polls closed Friday night.
It continued throughout Friday
night and all day Saturday, as
long as returns were available,
and began again this morning.
It is inevitable that some mis
takes were made as every effort
was brought to bear to tabulate
returns as rapidly as possible,
although Mail Tribune tabula-
tions have been remarkabaly ac
curate In the past.
In other contested races, com
plete and final though unof
ficial results confirmed the
outcomes reported Sunday bas
ed on incompleted returns.
Adds io Majority
Walter Nunley added to his
majority in the contest for the
GOP nomination for Jackson
county district attorney. The fin
al count was Nunley 6,969; Paul
W. Haviland, 4,789.
Dr. M. P. Vogel s win over
County Coroner Carlos Morris
for the Republican nomination
was 6,101 to 5,188.
County Judge J. B. Coleman
piled up a comfortable majority
over Robert L. Brantley, in the
contest for Republican nomina
tion. The count was Coleman
6 ,170; Brantley 4,880.
Former County Agent Robert
G. Fowler maintained his long
lead in the GOP nomination
raee for county assessor. . Final
results were, Fowler 6,817; W.
P. Tucker 2,4.44, and J. H. Tiz
ekker 1,561.
Complementary votes were
given to incumbent Republican
County Commissioner L. G,
Morthland, 9,125, and Republi
can County Surveyor Paul Ryn
ning, 8,893. Neither had primary
election competition.
Follows State Trend
In the vote for president on
the Republican ticket, the coun
ty followed the trend through
out the state. Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower received 9,171 vot
es, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
717; Sen. Wayne Morse 265;
Louis Schneider 10; Harold Stas
sen 151; and Gov. Earl Warren
1,209.
The highest number of Repub
lican votes in the county went
tc Secretary of State Earl Nelr
bry, who was unopposed for re
nomination. He polled 10,084
votes. i
A complete listing of how
Jackson county voters, both Re
publican and Democratic, voted
will be published tomorrow in
The Mail Tribune. The count
was one of the slowest here in
years, and one precinct did not
Lonely Trip
her perfume as carefully as she
did 20 aluminum water bottles.
"I am taking them to boost
up my morale if things get too
bad and I feel lonely, she said.
"But I've got heaps of confidence
and I'm sure I will make the
trip all right."
Spanish Coast Firit Stop
Mrs. Davison plans to touch
first at Cape Finistcrre on the
Spanish Coast, then to stop at
Madeira off the northwest coast
of Morocco. After taking on
fresh stores, she intends to head
for Antigua In the West Indies
and then for some point along
the Florida Coast,
make its returns available until
the middle of Monday morning.
Long Ballot
The extreme length of the Re
publican ballot was one of the
principle reasons. Final tabula
tion of all but contested races
was still in the process of com
pletion at press time today.
Results of write-in votes will not
be available until they are tabu
lated by the staff of the county
clerk's office, which may be sev
eral weeks. The write-in votes
may well put Democratic candi
dates in the November ballots in
several of the races where there
were no Democrats in the pri
mary election.
Portland (U.R) Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Monday
apparently had won all 18 Re
publican national convention
delegates from Oregon as com
plete and final returns begin to
come in from widely scattered
precincts.
The voting Friday gave the
retiring Atlantic pact command
er more than twice as many pop
ular votes as the total of his five
major opponents in the GOP
presidential preference contest.
Kefauver Winner
Sen. Estes Kefauver won the
12 Democratic convention dele
gates who go with the popular
vote.
Unofficial returns from 2,031
of the state's 2,269 precincts
gave: Eisenhower, 150,473 votes;
Gov. Earl Warren, 36,715; Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, 16,116; Sen.
Wayne Morse, 6,544; Harold E.
Stassen, 5,829, and William R.
Schneider, 395. The Democratic
vote: Kefauver, 127,307; Su
preme Court Justice William O.
Douglas, 23.306; and Gov. Adlai
Stevenson, 18,333.
Ike Supporters Win
The 10 GOP delegates-at-
large positions went to Eisen
hower supporters and eight Ike
supporters from the four con
gressional districts held com
fortable margins over an insur
gent slate for Sen. Robert A.
Taft. The pro-Taft delegate can
didates were entered under a
law that does not bind them to
support the popular choice.
Only undecided state race was
between Mrs. Lillian Burton and
Margaret Cawood for the post
of Democratic national commit-
teewoman. Mrs. Cawood led 53,-
815 to 51,758 with 2031 pre
cincts reporting.
Portland (U.R) Complete
but unofficial returns from 2031
of Oregon's 2269 precincts in
Friday's primary election vot
ing showed Monday:
For national committeeman:
Republican Gard, 50,912; Jack,
22,581; Paget, 39,869, and Paine,
34,890. Democratic DcCicco,
34.514, and Sweetland, 83,885.
For national committcewom
an: Democratic Burton, 51,758,
and Cawood. 53,815,
Ellsworth Wins
For congressman in the 4th
district (418 of 483 precincts):
Republican Draper, 9,266, and
Ellsworth 35,887. Democratic
Swanson, 17,988, and Wood, 12
202.
For state treasurer (2055 pre
cincts): Republican Lynch, 64,-
524; Robinson, 58,747, and Un-
ander, 96006. Democratic
Blakeslee, 70,138, and Lambert,
92. 713.
For attorney general (2046
precincts): Republican Barry,
32.555; Lindas, 49.137; McCourt,
84.692, and Stadter, 43.480.
Delegates to the GOP national
presidential convention appear
to be decided. The leaders in all
races were supporters of Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower and his
two chief adherents in the state.
Gov. Douglas McKay and Sen.
Wayne L. Morse, ran 1-2 among
the delegates to Chicago.
McAllister. Elliott Listed
Others slated to be delegates-
at-large included Lamar Tooze,
Portland; Robert A. Elliott, Med-
ford; Mork O. Hatfield, Salem;
Gordon Orput, Portland: How
ard C. Bellon, Canby; William
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Admitted 'Brains'
Of Brink's Robbery
Refused by Police
Officials Fail To
Act on Offer
West Warwick, R.I. (U.R)
Rhode Island authorities took
dim view of the failure of the
Massachusetts police to investi
gate further a witness who said
he helped mastermind the $1,
219,000 Brink's robbery.
The witness was Alfred Gag
non, an ex-convict being held on
a robbery charge at Rhode Island
state prison. He was reported to
have told Rhode Island authori
ties that he , Boston cafe owner
Joseph F. McGuinness and Carle
ton M. O'Brien, who was slain
from ambush here Saturday,
planned the Brink's holdup.
Not Interested
Attorney General William E.
Powers offered Sunday to turn
Gagnon over to Attorney Gen
eral Francis E. Kelly of Massa
chusetts to give testimony before
a grand Jury. However, Powers
said, "thus far they do not seem
to be interested in what we have
to offer."
Powers spoke out after Boston
police questioned and released
McGuinness, also an ex-convict
who said he didn't know Gagnon
but had been acquainted with
O'Brien for 30 years. McGuin
ness apparently had been picked
up on the strength of Gagnon's
testimony to Rhode Island au
thoritles .1. '...,.;. r,-v. .. .)..
O'Brien, a nightclub operator
here with a long police record
was killed with two shotgun
blasts early Saturday, two days
after his name had been linked
with the Brink's robbery.
"We have no alternative but
to believe that the murder of
O'Brien is linked to the Brink's
affair," Powers said.
Drownings Claim
Four Over Week-End
' By United Press
At least four persons were re
ported drowning victims Mon
day in Oregon as warm summer
weather drew residents to
streams and lakes for week-end
recreation. Three of those feared
drowned were Portlanders and
the fourth was from Eugene.
Arthur Charles Todd, 33, of
Eugene, disappeared in Fern
Ridge lake near Eugene Sunday
afternoon while Frank Hay-
hurst, 10; Warren Legler, who
was in his 20's, and Wayne
Glazebrook, 18, all Portlanders,
were missing in separate acci
dents.
Soil Conservation
Subsidies Approved
Washington (U.R) The House
Monday passed and sent to the
White House a bill to extend
through 1954 the basic authority
for government subsidy pay
ments to farmers for soil conser
vation.
Although the House previous
ly has approved a $250,000,000
outlay for the purpose next year,
the basic authority for the
whole program is scheduled to
expire Dec. 31, 1952.
McAllister, Medford; Leslie M.
Scott, Portland; and Zylpha
Burns, Portland.
In the 4th district, William
E. Walsh, Coos Bay, and Lars
P. Peterson, Coos Bay, were the
winners.
The 12 Democrat delegates
included four delcgates-at-large.
Jack Bain, Portland; Walter J.
Pearson, Portland; Terry D.
Schrunk, Portland, and Monroe
Sweetland, Milwaukie.
Dodd, Eppi Laading
Leading for the eight other
Democratic seats included: 4th
district Walter H. Dodd, Eu
gene; Dave Epps, Sweet Home.
Margaret Cawood, Portland,
drew slowly but not decisively
ahead of Mrs. Lillian M. Burton,
also a Portlandcr, today in their
race for Oregon's democratic
national committeewoman.
With slightly more than 200
out of 2269 precincts to be tabu
lated, results from Friday'a pri
mary election showed:
Cawood 60,740, Burton 58,997.
TEXAS PORT SAVED IN BIG OIL FIRE-Firefighters attempt to move in close as more than 1000
firemen and volunteers battle this multi-million-dollar refinery tank farm fire which threatened the
port of Corpus Christi, Tex. The blaze raged out of control for 17 hours. The fire was so hot it blistered
firemen's faces if they approached within 100 feet.
Extension of Rural
Electrification
Planned by Firms
An agreement for extension of
electrical service to rural areas
of Jackson and Josephine coun
ties was announced today in a
joint statement issued by the recently-organized
Twin Counties
Electric Cooperative, Inc., and
the California Oregon Power
company.
The service extension was "de
veloped at a conference between
the two organizations, the an
nouncement said, and "will
serve most, and possibly all, of
the applicants for membership in
the cooperative without any
charge for bringing in the lines
except for some sparsely settled
areas, in which a nominal charge
may be necessary.
Making Survey
Copco engineers are now mak
ing a preliminary survey, and
work will proceed as rapidly as
facilities will -permit, the state
ment added;
Officers and directors of the
cooperative said that the exten
sion of service to the rural areas
"will fulfill the aims and goals
of the cooperative getting elec
tricity to as many people as pos
sible, as quickly and economic
ally as possible."
The siatement added that ap
plicants for membership in the
cooperative may apply to the
power company for service, and
their applications for service do
not prevent them from granting
Copco rights of way for power
lines.
Assistance Asked
For Fire-Hit Family
A call went out this morning
from the Jackson County Red
Cross office for contributions to
replace furniture of a burned out
Evans Creek World War II dis
abled veteran and his family
whose home was completely de
stroyed by fire May 15.
The family is that of Clarence
Kaparoff, 32, who spent five
years in the army and has a wife
and three children. Of the chil
dren, Jimmy, 10 years, is now in
the Portland Shrine hospital for
his fourth operation and another
daughter, Pam, 4, is also not
well. Mr. and Mrs. Kaparoff also
have another daughter 20
months old.
Kaparoff is presently em
ployed in Glendale. The com
munity of Rogue River is having
a utensil shower, according to
Mrs. Enid Rankin of the county
Red Cross, and the community is
also going to rebuild the house
from donated lumber.
Mrs. Rankin pointed out that
the national Red Cross does not
pay for one-family disasters, but
tnat some emergency help Is
available. Anyone desiring to
contribute any items of furni
ture such as a baby crib, double
bed, and the like may call Med
ford 2-4405. A pickup from
Rogue River will be in Medford
on Wednesday to take the rlnna.
I tions to the kaparoff home site.
Nationwide Oil Strike
Seen Rapidly Ending
Denver (U.R) The 10.000
striking employes of the Sin
clair Oil Company voted to re
turn to work Monday and It ap
peared that the nationwide oil
strike was fast coming to an end.
At the same time it was an
nounced that about 4.000 other
workers also cither had returned
to work or would do so shortly.
The Sinclair negotiations were
considered the crucial test which
would determine the end or con
tinuation of the strike.
Joy Brands
Negotiators
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R)
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, in his
final week as head of the United
Nations truce delegation, called
Communist negotiators "out and
out" liars Monday.
Lashes at Red Stand '
Joy lashed out at the Commu
nists for their ambiguous stand
on the screening of war prison
ers while Supreme UN Comman
der Gen. Mark W. Clark was an
nouncing in Tokyo that the ad
miral would be relieved next
School District
Election Tomorrow
On Budget Excess
An election to give school dis
trict No. 49 auhtority to exceed
the six per cent limitation on
budget increases will be held to
morrow, voters of the district
were reminded today by School
Superintendent E. H. Hedrick.
The poll will be in the Girls'
gymnasium of the Medford high
school, and will be open from
2 to 8 p.m.
The election is necessary, it
was explained, because the dis
trict's tax base, set many years
ago, is no longer adequate to
support the schools, which have
expanded greatly due to the
rapid increase in population.
When the constitutional limita
tion, which provides that a bud
get may be increased no more
than six per cent, must be ex
ceeded, it requires a vote of the
people to authorize the excess.
Total $1,26$, 196
The total amount of the bud
get for 1952-53, including operat
ing expenses, payments on bonds
and interest, and all other costs,
is $1,265,196.09. Against this
sum are state, county and other
receipts, amounting to $557,607.
58, leaving $707,588.51 to be
raised by lax. The amount in ex
cess of the 6 per cent limitation
is $321,237.45.
Members of the citizens' com
mittee, who are acting with the
school board In the preparation
of the budget are Eugene Thorn
dike, James F. Campbell, Wil
liam A. Barker, Mark Golcly and
John P. Moffat. Members of the
school board are Evelyn Nye,
Frank C. Bash, Eva Hamilton, E.
Ronald Rice and C. Edward
Branchfield.
Any registered voter who has
resided within the school dis
trict six months is eligible to
vote.
Koje Investigation
Ended; Kept Secret
Tokyo (U.R) Secret findings
of a U. S. Army board which
made an on-the-spot investiga
tlon of the Koje Island prisoner
of war revolt were handed up to
Gen. Mark W, Clark's Supreme
Headquarters Monday.
At stake in the investigation
were the future Army careers of
two American generals Brig
Gen. Francis T. Dodd, the camp
commandant who was kidnaped
and held hostage for four days
by Communist prisoners, and
Brig. Gen. Charles F. Colson
who obtained Dodd's release by
granting embarrassing Commu
nist demands. Clark already has
repudiated Colson 8 concessions
Weather
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cloudy throurh Tnenriav with
nowrri moitly In mount. ni
In afternoons.
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Commie
as Liars
Friday as chief truce delegate
The announcement had been
expected ever since the Navy De
partment disclosed that Joy
would leave his concurrent post
of commander in chief of Naval
forces in the Far East to become
superintendent of the U.S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis June 9
The admiral will turn his truce
assignment over to Maj. Gen
William K. Harrison Jr., and his
Naval command over to Vice
Adm. C. Robert Biscoe, comman
der of the U.S. 7th fleet.
Relief Requested
A UN spokesman said "Joy re
quested that he be relieved when
the Communists refused the fi
nal" Allied offer for ending the
war.
Joy told newsmen after Mon
day's truce session in Panmun
jom that the Communists have
switched their line on screening
prisoners only because it did not
turn out the way they hoped
Portland Mayoralty
Runoff in November
Portland (U.R) City Com
missioner Fred L. Peterson
edged incumbent Dorothy Mc
Cullough Lee by 3,269 votes
in their race for Portland's may
orship, but their contest will
have to be decided in a runoff
In iNovember because Peterson
lacked a majority in the seven
candidate field.
Complete returns from all 628
precincts in Friday's municipal
election showed Monday that
Peterson polled 80,474 votes to
57,205 for Mrs. Lee, only woman
mayor of a major American city.
Other final counts In the may
oralty race showed Lew Wallace
29,837, J. E. Jake Bennett 8,389,
Maurice Wlllinger 1,252, Rue V.
Kerley 1,097 and Arnold Lillie
942.
Bloodmobile Visits
Ashland Wednesday
Ashland The Red Cross
bloodmobile will be in Ashland
May 21, from 1 to 6 p.m., at the
Elks club, according to the Jack
son County Red Cross office.
Mrs. Lesion Huntley, blood
chairman, said that the Elks are
planning for 40 or more donors
in an effort to secure the 1,300
pints they have pledged by July
1. So far, the club has secured
600 pints, Mrs. Huntley pointed
out.
The bloodmobile unit will be
in Medford June 18 with a tenta
tive goal set for 300 pints, Mrs.
Huntley added.
Rescuers Attempt To Reach
Chasm Holding Student
Kelso, Wash. U.R) Rescue
teams of expert mounlainccrs
struggled up snow-clad Mount
St. Helens to reach an Icy
chasm Monday into which a 23-year-old
student plunged after a
snowy ridge gave way beneath
him.
Art Jessett, the son of a Seat
tle minister and a student at
the, University of Washington
was believed seriously injured,
perhaps dead.
Falls Through Snow Bridge .
Jessett fell through a "snow
bridge" at the 8,000-fot level
while he was descending the
snowy southwest Washington
peak with three companions
Sunday afternoon.
"We were coming down In
single file and Art was about
300 feet behind," said Bruce
Raby, one of the party. "Sud
denly we realized he was gone,
we retraced our steps and
found a hole in the snow bridge
over the crevasse.
"Jessett called 'I'm slipping'
Operators Called
o Union Meeting
o Determine Caus
No Other Course
Told by President
San Francisco (U.R) Offic
ials of the AFL Motor Coach
Employees union caled a meet-
ng of local drivers Monday to
ind out why they rejected a pro
posed contract that would have
ended an 11-week strike against
Pacific Greyhound Lines.
The settlement lost out be
cause the unions three main
divisions voted 104 to 85 against
it.
Meeting Scheduled
The over-all vote was 1,300
to 450 in favor of settlement. A
few ballots had yet to be count
ed, but they will not affect the
general result, a union official
said.
Al Baker, president of the
union, scheduled a meeting for
8 p.m. with the local drivers,
who handle the San Francisco
commuter runs. He said the
union had no other course but
to reject the settlement.
Musi Stick to Policy
"We have to stick to this pol
icy so that the company will not
be able to play off one part of
the union against another and
make concessions to the major
ity at the expense of the minor
ity." He said he hopes to hear from
the local drivers "what it is they
don't like about the settlement
and what action they want me to
take in the negotiations."
"It's my guess that Grey
hounds attempt to sell the Marin
county commuter franchise
while the strike was gong on
precipitated this vote by the lo
cal drivers."
Demo Convention
Deadlock Expected
Washington U.R) Sen. A. S.
Mike Monroney said Monday
that a convention deadlock over
the Democratic presidential
nomination' "now ' lokr inevit
able." The Oklahoma Democrat, who
has been quietly pushing House
Speaker Sam Rayburn for the
nomination since last fall, told
a reporter he thinks Rayburn
has a good and growing chance
to emerge from the expected
dead lock as a compromise
nominee.
Other friends of Rayburn are
convinced that the 70-year-old
Texan is available for the nom
ination in case of a stalemate
but that he will not consent to
be an active candidate.
SCHOOL ENTERED
Jackson grade school was
broken into some time over the
week-end, according to Medford
city police, with "nothing known
to be missing," but a complete
check was not being made until
today. The building was entered
through the boiler room, police
said, and all rooms were "ran
sacked " In the kitchen nine
cartons of Ice cream were brok
en and scattered over the floor
leaving the melted ice cream,
police noted. The police are
checking several suspects.
BASEBALL
NATIONAL!
Pittsburgh 0 7 1
New York 4 8 0
Pollet, Friend 3, and Gara
giolai Maglia and Westrum.
americanI
Boston 3 7 1
Detroit 2 10 0
Henry, Kinder 7, Parnall 9.
and Wilber; Houtteman, Whits
9, and Batta, Ginsberg, 8.
and fell out of sight. He landed
on a ledge about 35 feet down.
He called to us that he thought
his arm was broken, but he said
he couldn't tell for sure because
he was pinned down. We
couldn't go after him because he
had the only rope."
Raby, most experienced climb
er of the group, skiied down the
slope to telephone for help. Ford
Oliphant, Chehalls, another
member of the party, contacted
six other mountain climbers.
Body Heat Melts lea
"They dug their axes into the
ice and attached their rope,"
Oliphane said. "I climbed down
quite a way and found a ledge.
It must have been the place
where Jessett first landed and
called to us. But the heat from
his body must have melted the
ice so he couldn't hold on, then
he fell to the bottom.
"I heart a couple of groans
which sounded like they cam
from about 30 feet below me,
but then it was quiet."