Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-15
ICE IS CLEARING
NEAR BYRD'S BASE
FIoes Going Out of Bay of
Whales Rapidly, Ex-
pIorer Reports.


Leader of the Antarctic Expedition.
Special Dispatch TO The Star and the New
York Times.
BAY OF WHALES, Antarctica, jan
uary 15-The ice is going out of the
Bay of Whales rapidly, as it did with
Amundsen, the only other explorer
who made his base here, but we have
much longer distance to carry our
supplies than he did. Our difficult
ties are greatly increased by the large
amount of scientific paraphernalia we
are taking ashore.
But since the primary object Of the
expedition is scientific. we are getting
this material to Little America at all
costs It is slow work, as we cannot
rush the elements.
We must be patient, but the spirit
Ipf the men Is so loyal and enthusiasts
ttic that we feel confident that we
can lick the unloading and transpor-
| tation difficulties ahead of us. At any
rate, we are not behind schedule, as
We allowed for the caprices OF the Ant
arctic.
| Two More Planes on the Boiling.
The departure of the Eleanor Boil
| ing (tl1e expeditions supply ship from
New Zealand has been delayed day
| or two on account of broken hosting
boom, but she will probably leave with
| in 48 hours. She is loaded down
with additional scientific equipment and
the planes Floyd Bennett and Virginia
Richard Brophy lthe expeditions
| business manager, with the Eleanor
Boiling at Dunedin) has been on the
| job up there and has been on the
go day and night for week at the
radio key talking to us about supplies
| We all have reasons to be glad for his
capacity for detail.
| Though we are 2,700 miles from New
Zealand, our radio communication is
! almost like a telephone conversation
Malcolm p. Hanson of the Navy "a radio
| engineer), Lloyd v. Gerkner OF the
Department of Commerce, Howard F
Mason, Carl v. Petersen and Lloyd K
| Grenlie from civil life tradio opera.
tors), have done extraordinary gooo
work
| Little Sleep for the Radio Men.
| We have found so much use for the
| radio between the ships and Little
! America and New Zealand and the
United States that the operators have
got very little sleep. It has reached
the point where we must let up bit
on the radio and give them rest.
I am very proud of the work which
these fellows have done. In addition
to their daily usefulness to the expe.
dition they have gathered scientific
data. and Hansen is losing sleep dur
ing these busy times assembling some
of his scientific radio instruments.
In spite of the constant daylight 6owr
here we have little difficulty communi.
eating directly with the United States
The other day, while Fred Meinholtz
chief of the New York Times radio
Office, was listening in his home ir
New York to Hansen, who was
sending from the City of New York
R. A. Hilferty, another Times radio
operator, flashed word to Hansen asking
him to tell Meinholtz to answer the
telephone, as he had left the receiver
off and could not be called. This was
done.
Hear u. S. Distinctly.
Yet up at Little America, just II
miles away, we often cannot be pickes
up, but are heard distinctly in th
United States. In other words, ou
waves jump over the areas close to us
y but behave properly at long distance.
! week ago Bergen, Norway. notified u
> that San Francisco was calling us.
, The dogs and dog team drivers ar
I getting well broken in. and it is re
markable the way some of the green
horns have learned to drive the dog:
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