The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-27
BY GEORGE HARVEY

Vienna, Nov. 2T-WP1-The plan. actually was perched on . crevass All around the ship you could polk, a stick through the snow crust int. great chasm.
 On Tuesday there was a gapan, crevass about % yards from the tai of the ship. At 6 A. M. Wednesday there was a great crack-and | opened up another 2S yards to within IS yards of the ship.
 Probably someone win go up thers one day and the whole ship viii bg gone.
 Two CATS practiced precision bombing with supplies and three A-26 planes ouzzed us taking uhoto- graphs. The vibration of their mo- tors caused Q snow slide of about 500 tons over to the right of us. The vibrations filled the valley and everything was just shaking.
 We were afraid Of more anow slides-and I tried to write the word finish in the snow. I got as far as 1ini" and was exhausted. But I fig ured that was the French word for 1t and that they would catch on. The planes stopped, but someone later reported that I had written the word fine"
 That afternoon Csaturday) we spotted two skiers and we all went crazy. I kissed the first one I got to. Then came e lot more. We fed 30 of them liquor until the liquor ran out. Then they came in multitudes and mulfitudes.
 I'm from Iron Mountain, Michigan. I did some ski jumping there. That's why I was sort of natural for this thing.
 I missed my plane at Pisa Monday morning. They said there was a VIP (Very important person. flight leav- ing. however, and that I could get aboard. And that's how I happened to get on Capt. CRaiphD Tate's plane at the last minute.
 We were flying smoothly when suddenly there were two great downs and ups. Then we crashed. was the only one who had not fastened the safety belt. And Alice McAGahou (li years oldD and I were the only ones not injured.
 I broke open the back door. Mrs. lRalph Snayely stepped out and fell into six feet of snow-so I pulled her back in.
 All the rest were in the forward part, all scrambled up. I asked who was hurt and Sergeant (Wayne) Poison didn't speak. His leg was broken above the knee set it. I had two years of pre-med training in Michigan.
 Capt. Tate was bleeding pro- fusely from the head and I tried to cut the hair around the wound with cuticle scissors. and then a knife. I finally succeeded with 6 razor.
 I treated all the passengers for shock and pus a pressure bandage on It. drving) Mathews fingers. (Brig-Gen. Loyal MD Haynes was bleeding through the nose. Colonel (William) McMahon's back appar- ently was injured.
 Being a petroleum man. on We'd nesday dug oil from the engine with my hands and mixed it with gas from fuel. We burned it in the icebox trays.
 In the afternoon started up the mountain to see if possibly there was civilization on the other side. My foot fell through a hole in the snow and I was so scared I crawled all the way back to the plane on my hands and knees.
 At 4:i5 Wednesday I spotted one plane and fired flares-but it was 10 miles away.
 It took all day Thursday to make i've gallons of water from snow. At 1900 q P. M.) Mathews and I decided to try ana go down for help We had the women braid a 40-foot rope from the paraehutes.
 We walked for more than an hour when I fell into Q mole. If 1t hadn't been for the rope I would have