Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-30

out one place where an airplane land
ing might be made. Later on we hope
to bring out geologist, Larry Gould, there
to make scientific Investigations. Some
of the rocks were brownish and others
much darker. ::
Before we reached the southernmost
peak Balchen wrote a note saying that
the gas was getting low and that per-
hapS we had better return so we re-
luctantly changed our course for Little
America.
What is beyond these peaks? We
hope to find out on another hop. On
account of the splendid visibility the
peaks were in sight.
For long time found myself fire.
quently looking back at them and
wondering as to which one of the ex-
petitions friends We would name the
group after. There are several who had
faith and befriended our expeditions
from the beginning when things were
most difficult and who had subsequently
come to our rescue every time we have
gotten in hole. John d. Rockefeller,
jr., is one of theSe-a man who with
his great power stands for progress,
steady as rock in the chaos and tur-
MOL of life. So his character and
name both reminded me of those rocky
peaks sticking their heads above the
snow. 1t occurred to me that his real
austere life is as little known generally
as those peake that man had never be-
fore looked upon. So it seemed proper
to name this group of peaks Rookie
teller Mountains"
One of the highest peaks we decided
to name after Chips" Gould, the car
penter on both of our polar expeditions.
Chips has never been known to stop
working during any of his waking hours.
Another peak we named after George
Tenant, the cook, who always cooks
on the polar expeditions. 1t was Ten
nant who wanted to subscribe his
meager pay upon our return from the
North Pole expedition to help along
the deficit.
June Receives Radio.
About the time this decision was made
June received radio from the City
of New York, saying that the Eleanor
Boiling had arrived alongside her. Here
was the biggest river of the expedition
crossed-a steel ship getting safely
through the ice of the Ross Sea alone
without losing propeller or rudder or
smashing in her sides Many is the
explorer who had been looking askance
at our attempt to get an ordinary steel
ship down to this region, and we must
confess that We have not been unmind-
full of the hazard involved, so three
cheers for Capt. Brown, who brought
her through. A few moments after
this radio was received the engine stop
ped dead. Here was another big kick
for us.
T looked over the side for landing
place and picked up one of the smoke
bombs to throw on to the snow and
give us the direction of the wind and
something to land by. We were now
going down in a spiral. Presently the
engine caught again with her pleasing
roar. 1t seemed that one of the tanks
had run dry as Balchen had turned the
cock to run the gas out of another
tank. At about 8 o'clock we reached
reached the Bay of Whales and there
was the Eleanor Boiling alongside the
City of New York, both ships up against
the barrier. Another big river crossed,
for it would have been impossible to
unload the Boiling in time If we had
to transfer the material across the
shifting bay ice.
We can now rig block and tackle
on the barrier and haul the heavily
loaded sleds up Sloping incline. This
IS ABOUT CIle only pOlnt Oh CIle DdIlleI
where there is a slope down to the
waters edge. 1t is this point that
we have been trying for days to get
alongside. The storm had blown some
of the ice out so that the ships could
buck their way up to the barrier.
This was most fortunate.
We directed our flight course toward
the Bay of Whales and there
barrier beneath us, was dog team.
knew it was Strom Braathen and
Erickson, obeying instructions to pick
out a good trail route over the bar
rier to the base that would be free
from dangerous crevaSseS.
We landed few minutes later and
found our shipmates very glad to see
us, as they had been anxious during
the flight. We Immediately took a
dog team back to the ship, where we
are now. The unloading is going mer-
rily along, but we will have to watch
every step, as the hundred yards of
thick ice that slopes from us up to
the top of the barrier may break off.
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