Show 90 Passengers in Perilous Position As Ice Floes Batter He Helpless Helpless' 10 less less' Vessel By UI y Associated Tresi Fres MOSCOW Dec 1 Ninety I Ninety men and women aboard a ship jammed d and battered by arctic ice for two months may have to abandon their perilous refuge and take te e to the floes of the east cast Siberian Siberian Sibe Sibe- rian nan sea lica Their acute plight was revealed revealed revealed re re- today by a wireless message message mes meso sage from the icebreaker Che- Che helpless at 62 north latitude latitude lat lat lat- west longitude Provisions and fuel are being landed on the thc ice and everything Is being made ready to leave c the ship should further pounding by bythe bythe bythe the floes loes necessitate abandon mc mont ment t. t The shi ship reported the lee ice t. l f t i l i lii f i i q w. w l' l Z r J I 1 i j l battering menace had been relieved re re- re flared ed by a change in the wind but indicated another wind shift might crush the vessel The sailed from August 10 carrying a crew of ot 51 commanded by Professor Protes sor Otto Schmidt noted arctic authority authority au au- au and a 1 party of 17 passengers gers gene Including five women and andone andone andone one child to relieve a little colon colony of scientists who had spent pent the previous winter on bleak Davidoff Davidoff David David- off island Unusually heavy Ice prevented the ship from reaching closer than several miles from Irom the Island so on September 17 the transfer of the relief patty party and supplies was beS begun n by means of ot otan an airplane carried on n board for tor torjus dust jus such an em emergency r cn rJ i I t I. I i lt t fo M r rI I I m On each return trip from the thc Island the plane brought to the ship colonists colonist to be taken home About 40 colonists were taken aboard ship be be- became Meanwhile the came helplessly locked in the ice from which her engines were un unable able to free her Another soviet icebreaker was wao dispatched to her assistance early carly in hi November from Providence bay but was driven back by fIerce storms without being able to reach the distressed vessel Embedded in ice the skin is gradually being carried toward to to- ward vard Bering straits traits Even J if it reaches the straits strait now arctic experts ex cx- here say it would be impossible im in- possible to pass through the heavy ice at this season 1 t r J r. r X |