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Show ter, 25, assistant to Miss Clover.) said that they were going along for the thrill, as well as to study flora in those parts of the Grand Canyon that are inaccessible except ex-cept from the river. An experienced river jruide. Norman D. Nevills, was in charge of the party. In addition to Nevills Ne-vills and the women, members of the group were Dr. Eugene Atkinson, Atkin-son, University of Michigan zoologist; zoo-logist; Don Harrib, member of the U. S. geological survey, and W. C. Gibson, San Francisco artist. ar-tist. The ultimate destination of the party is tsoulder dam, Nev., which Nevills had said would require about 40 days to reach. FEAR FELT FOR RIVER EXPEDITION LEE'S FERRY, Ariz., July 6 (U.R) Two U. S. geological survey employes, concerned about the safety of six scientists scien-tists overdue on a cruise down the Colorado river, went on a 24-hour watch schedule today to-day in the hope that they might learn the fate of members v,,i ovnpHitinn. One of the men will be on duty day and night. They will keep their eyes on the waters rushing down the flood-swollen Colorado, taking every precaution to make certain that no clue shall escape their attention. To Watch Kiver ! If one of the three small boats in which the six two women and four men are traveling-, has been wrecked on the jagged rocks or in the swift rapids of the river, the men will summon aid and begin as minute a search as is possible in the rocky canyons of the Colorado. . - Even if the scientists have survived sur-vived the rapids and rocks and flood waters, their food provisions must be getting low. They had planned to reach Lee's Ferry by July 4. A. J. Hansen and F. S. Anderson, Ander-son, the geological survey workers, work-ers, are the only residents of Lee's Ferry. They had been- requested to keep a close watch for members mem-bers of the scientific expedition. No Wreckage Seen "We have seen no wreckage yet, how-ever, which indicates that the boats have not been lost,'" Hansen Han-sen said. The Colorado has been conquered conquer-ed by other expeditionary parties, but never when it was running at flood stage as it is now. A woman never has been a member of a successful group. Yesterday a transcnntinetal and Western airliner, traveling eastward east-ward from Los Angeles, flew up and down the gorges of the Color rado, but members of the crew reported re-ported nothing to indicate that the party was safe or had fallen prey to the river. The Colorado was moving at a rate of 69,000 second feet, its highest mark in 10 years. Left On June 20 It was on June 20 that members of the party left Green River. Utah, 300 miles upstream, and set out to master the Colorado. Elzada Clover, 40, University of Michigan botanist, and Lois Jot- |