The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-06-28

Arctic immediately upon the arrival af ~ &sss
Lieutenant Byrd and his companions nc
permanent home and observation sta
ZION Tor the explorers. The house which ~
rose up on the horizon of the fried nortb t. -
.ae % .e lgioo OF the eskimo, equ,ped with a
- iauio outht that those who remained NJ tbo hos
WINE Lieutenant Byrd made his tbrifno dab - o eI
Poie In his speeding Fokker might lsoon - ~ - the
eiei ana the outside world which they kent In
io,eu as 10 the progress and success of the dipbt
IL was to this same home that he rat,rnod . :,
HAZARDOUS trip and from which some of tba erst us
sages were sent to the waiting public toIln +i
through the lanes of the air that Byrd had cfrcod th
poie tlfee tunes and had returned to his spitzber
nome IN safety adding of the most memorials zen
10 the history of Arctic exploration 80 poses
Sugar Cane Fights Polar North
0i,e Lieutenant Byrd left the Brooklyn Navy
the snip Chaner he declared had the best and most
seehtlhcaly equipped expedition that ever had started
Tor the North Pole Special plans were made for the
erection OF MS Arctic home Boards of celotex insulating
lumber made from bagasse (sugar cane fiber after all
sugar juices have been extracted) were carried along
with the latest inventions to aid in polar EXPLORATION
Ihs building material is very light and is filled with
millions OF air cells which give it great insulation value
ana resistance to change in temperature especially the
severe cold One odd circumstance in connection with
the use OF this material is that the sugar cane of the
south was utilized to fight the cold of the north
Ceotex was selected instead of lumber because tests
made by the United States Bureau of Standards and
Its universal use in building construction all over the
world had demonstrated that this insulating lumber
would keep the quarters of the explorers warmer and
protect their living conditions more securely than ordi
nary building material.
was only after careful investigation by the scientific
men in the expedition that ceotex was selected These
authorities pointed out that the protection afforded nv
Its insulation efficiency three times as great as ordi
mary lumber and nearly twelve times great as that
OF prck and other masonry material The ship Chantier
also was lined with ceotex an added precaution 70
Keep the ship warm while the explorers used if in tba
preliminary stages of the expedition
In practically every other way this expedition was
more scientifically prepared than any of its predeces
included Of Conn
himself simple sun compass conceived bv Ryrd and
aeVeloped by Mr. Bumsead of the National Geographic
Society," superseded the complicated German device de
yeloped three years ago for Amundsen The drift in
dicator also was Byrds invention The bubble servant
by which the navigator obtains his bearings while in
flight was another one of his Inventions Still another
scientific development quick method of teling whom
one is at the North Pole. This has been workad ont
by o. W. lAttlehales, the navys photographic engineer
Device Locates the Pole
Byrd and others contributed to chart of the mag
netic lines flowing toward the magnetic North Pole
which is in Boltna Land 1900 miles south of the Pole
Between Boltha Land and the Pole the campass points
south instead of north and over much of the Arctic
it is badly disturbed by the discrepancy of position be-
tween the geographical North Pole and the magnetic
North Pole
This chart OF the magnetic lines, flowing to the mag
netlc North Pole although 1t far from complete was
such as to enable the navigator to tell in what direction
the compass should point from any SPOT in the Arctic
With this knowledge the cratic behavior of the COM
pass becomes orderly and is again useful instru
ment
third type of compass used a device of infinite
senstveness-a revolving electrical coil, which is ad-
1usted to given relation with the magnetism of the
earth. This, the sun compass and the magnetic com
pass each used to the other
Lieutenant Byrd in his flight used quick method Of
telling when he was actually at the Pole This was tho
invention worked out by Mr.. Littehales the II
Navy photographic engineer It shows the SUMS nosi
ton from Tie North Pole every hour of the dav and
every day of the When the flyer is near he pole
he can by ascerainng the exact position Of the sun
prove that lie is the Pole
Flies 5000 Miles Over Arctic
Inc expedition backed by such men as John n
hockefeller Jr and Theodore Roosevelt Jr had three
main objects " W ee