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Show Near Starvation in Jungle Crash Narrated CARACAS, Vsnssuela, May II (UP) A Capuchin priest told today to-day how ha and three others. Including In-cluding an American and a worn an, subsisted for IS days In tha Venssuelan jungle after the crash of an airplane In which they were flying to Caracas from tha Brazilian border. Frederic D. Grab, commercial attache of tha American lefation, I died ef Injuries. t Tha plana crashed April 21 when a fuel tank leak caused Its pilot. Lieutenant Jorfe Marcano, to try a "pancake" uuidinf on top of the gigantic trees. One paaaanger was killed. Three, uninjured, left to seek aid. Five Injured remained with tha plana Crab, Marcano, Father Baltaxar de Malallana, the woman, wom-an, whose name waa not given, and William Armstrong Parry, Amarican writer and geologist. While Marcano. wracked with pain, wisecracked at their plight, helping the froup lo fight off despair. de-spair. Father Matallana aaid, the passengers collected their tiny at ore of provisions a little chocolate, choco-late, some beans and two tamalea. Thla waa eked out by a email wild fruit called pomarroaa which the prieat climbed high trees to fat. Water was scarce and at ene tims the survivors spent four days without It. rather Matallana aaid Perry, tha writer, waa unconscious nine days and delirious at times afterward. after-ward. Rescuers arrived May T. Perry la In a hospital hare, expected to recover. Grab and the man killed when the plane rrashsd were burled In tha Jungle, rather Ma-, Ma-, tallana aaid. |