Evening star., 1924-09-12
StaunCh Schooner Bowdoin
Returns to Labrador With
Exciting Story.
LOCKED FOR $50 DAYS
BY, MENACING BARRIERS
Positive Evidence Found That
Glaciers Are Advancing Toward
Civilization, Says Explorer.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BATTLE HARBOR, Labrador. Sep
tember l2.-Dr. Donald B. Macmillan
and his stanch little schooner Bow
dom are safe on the North American
main land by virtue of a pair Of
DUCK saws. The Bowdoin warped up
10 the hsh shed here yesterday with
out a feather knocked out of her." as
the fishermen ashore remarked. And
with the first story of ship being
sawed out Of the Arctic ice.
When. on August /, Refuge Harbor
was barred by huge ice block, with
food, fuel and supplies low, Mac
MILAN and his crew of seven men
sawed their way through the barrier
and landed here triumphantly yester-
day 1t is one of the most dramatic
stories of polar exploration ever
brought out of the North.
Locked in for $50 Days.
The Bowdoin was locked in the ice
for $50 days at latitude 1880 north
and longitude 1927 west on the north
west coast of Greenland. The Ss-foot
schooner is the smallest vessel ever
to attain this latitude and withstand
the Arctic winter. DR.. Macmillan and
all members Of the expedition are fit
and well and report gratifying sue
cess in their scientific observations
and all other objectives of the trip
They have brought back several rare
gyrfalcons, the Arctic hawk. live blue
foxes and other trophies.
DR.. Macmillan has procured positive
evidence that the glaciers are ad-
vancing. He took photographs of the
location of the glaciers on his preyi-
Gus expedition in 1908 and found old
tribesinen among the Eskimos who
were of the opinion that the ice was
creeping down. Although DR.. Mac
MILAN does not consider the evidence
sufficient to predict a return of the
ice age, he is positive that the
glaciers are returning and will prob
ably continue through long cycle OF
years.
Valuable Studies Made.
Richard Goddard, observer for the
Carnegie Institute at Washington.
made eight months continuous OBJ
servations Of terrestrial magnetism.
atmospheric electricity and related
subjects, the longest and most ex-
haustive study with the most COM
plete equipment ever used in this
latitude.
Goddard said he had no conclusions
to state at this time, as his work
was solely observations and findings,
which must be corrected with deduc
tions at Washington. He stated. how
ever, that he found the magnetic dis
turbances lessened when the sun dis
appeared and increased when the sun
came back, proving the theory of the
solar effect on terrestrial magnetism.
Donald Mix, radio operator on the
Bowdoin, had no explanation for the
strange phenomenon which caused
his radio signals to travel south
westward from Etah. to be heard
best on the Pacific Coast. He said he
got best results on a 220-meter wave
length, but could make no observa-
tions on the possible effect of the
northern lights on radio, as the lights
were mainly invisible from the ship.
Signals came through better, he
said, in the dark Winter nights than
during Summer and his inability to
work steadily with the stations of the
American Radio Relay League he at
tributes to some cause still to be ex-
planned.
Engine Worked Perfectly.
John Haynes of Somerville. Mass.
the engineer of the Bowdoin, reports
the internal combustion oii-burnins
45-horsepower engine of American
make worked perfectly during the
entire voyage.
DR.. Macmillan is we'll known
throughout this region. and his land
ing here created much more interest
and comment than did the recent ar
rival of the American world flyers.
He expects to leave Battle Harbor
Friday morning, proceeding via Sydney,
Nova Scotia, to Wiscasset, Me-, where
it Is hoped the Bowdoin will arrive by
September 90.
fCopyrisht. 1924. United States and Canada by
North American Newspaper Auiance.l