| Summary: | Life Given For Comrade: Think Koven, Killed On Glacier, Tried To Save Carper. LIFE GIVEN FOR COMRADE Think Koven, Killed on Glacier, Tried to Save Carpe. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 17. — A belief that Theodore Koven, a member of the Allen Carpe expedition to "trap" the cosmic ray atop Mount Mc- Kinley, received the injuries from which he died in a futile attempt to save the leader of the expedition, was expressed by A. D. Lindley, Minneapolis mountaineer, in a telephone conversation from the park today. The Leik-Lindley party, after examining the area where Koven's body was found, believed Carpe fell into a crevasse in a glacier, that Koven attempted to rescue him, fell in himself, but climbed out, only to die of his injuries and exposure. Ranger Grant Pearson, who fell 40 feet while trying to carry the New Jersey man's body down the mountainside, was reported recovering and able to walk. Lindley and Erling Strom, a Norwegian climber with the Leik-Lindley party, planned to leave the park on Thursday's train and will take the next boat from the coast to Seattle. E. P. Beckwith, another member of the Carpe expedition, flown back here yesterday in a plane piloted by Jerry Jones, said he would stay here until all business connected with the cosmic ray party is wound up.
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