The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-30
LONG ARCTIC NIGHT HOLDS
 NO TERRORS FOR BOWDOIN
Crew Of Stout Little Arctic
 Vessel, IncIosed In Ice, Has Radio Concerts And Motion Pictures To Help Time Pass

Especial Radio from MacMillian's Polar Expedition, Refugee Harbor'
 Greenland, via Amateur Radio Op-
 orator Jack Barnsley, Prince Rup-
 ert, 6. C.
 ny CAPTAIN DONALD B. M'MILLAN CCOpyright, 1923, in United States and
 Great BrItian by North American
 Newspaper Alliance. All rights re-
 scrved.)
 With the coming of the big night amateur radio stations in the eastern states are being picked up by us and heard a little more distinctly The Bowdoin wireless made record for herself last night when Donald Mix. our operator, talked with anna teur station CEU in Hawaii. This distance of 5000 miles is possibly a wireless record for short wave sta tions.
 We have heard stations in England Germany, Holland, Mexico, France Norway, Italy, Japan and Spain. We receive news of the world from sta tions in oxford, England and Nauen Germany, and look forward each day to our evening paper The long artic night, so much dreaded by ex- plorers of old, and so vividly de- scribed with all it's consequences ir their narratives, has no terrors fol the crew of the Bowdoin. Our div ing conditions are vastly different and all conductive to good health ano happiness.
 The fifteen-ton auxiliary schooner Bowdoin is the smallest craft to ever attempt the passage from America tc the far north equipped with inter combustion engine, electric lights talking machines and motion pie lures, radio, an epitome of the prog ress of science since the days of the old rat infested advance of 1853, with her smoky lamps, smoky stoves damp and dark cabins and her en- feebled crew.
 i Our staunch little ship, built dowr on the Maine coast of seasoned oak is a palace compared with the eX- ploring ships of old. Frozen in the ice, carrying on her decks three snow houses, she presents. in the half light of midday. A curious sight with hel wireless antenna. Stretching to the hills ahead, her electric wires leading across the ice to the magnetic ob- servatory, where tiny lights are kept constantly burning, faithfully re. cording the fluctuations of those two great forces that we know so little about-Terrestrial magnetism and atmos pheric electricity.
 Stretched in another direction there Is another set of wires leading tc our anemometer, registering electri. cally the force of prevailing north east winds. From the very bow ot the ship, flat on the harbor ice, we have fan arrangement of wire, 2 counterpoise leading to tidal crack At night. buried as she is in snow not light is visible, striking con trast to the well-lighted cabins be. low, occupied by men playing maj i jong, cribbage, looking at motior pictures or listening to music ovel radio from home.
 We have breakfast at nine, dinner at three and supper at eight Re. tiring at midnight On WednesdaN nights we remain up until a. m. l listening for programs arranged i especially for us and broadcastet from Edgewater Beach hotel,/ Chi cago.
 Church services on Sunday night. at home are wonderfully clears, vivid in fact. that when the pasto, of one of your churches announced that offering would be taken one O. the men passed the hat
 Omaha, Neb., and Calgary, Canada are among the, best stations for radio Jack Barnsley's amateur station min, BP at Prince Rupert. BC sounds a l If he were here in the harbor ana i is ever on the job