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THE EVENING STAR. “’\QTTT\PTO\ DGy FRID\Y AUGUST 17, 1928. BYRD'S EXPEDITION ¥ Sets Model for Polar Parties.‘ Tons of Supplies Loaded Onto Bark. Comdr. Dyott. who is in the Brazil- an wilde ote: This is the fourth of plorer, Col stories an [nrthcoming ex- ¢ exploration into the Ant- BY JOHN L. Arsociated Prese Science Editor NEW YORK. August 17.—The best| equipped polar expedition that ever set | out for one of the uttermost ends of the rcarth has bern Assembled by | Comdr. Richard E. Byrd for his sci- entific exploration of the Antarctic COOLEY, June 10. the other June 17 of these dispatches has been published in The Star: the second appears helow RY COMDR. GEORGE M. DYOTT, Chief of Pawcett Rescune Expedition IN CAMP ON KULISEVU RIVER, Matto Grosso, Brazil. June 17.—The river on which we _are now in camp is an affuent of the Xingu. and our posi- e years of preparation for the tion it approximately 54 degrees wost first attempt t0 fly airplancs on blus- | 1315 degrees south arctica are behind him., How we got here is not much of a is all but ready for the story. Good luck has followed our 2 ancher. Tons of sup- hunt and we have picked up various to last more than two ! clues to the missing Col. Fawcett from tucked away into the wandering Indians. These clues have son. which was sched- | served us well oboken. N. J. on| At Bakari we engaged five Bakari In- he expedi- | dians of the semi-civilized kind to serve uipment. An- | as guides and to help us when we made haler. leaves | contact with their less sophisticated it & month later with the rest of | brethren in the far-off jungles the party. including the leader With five more mouths to feed. we The first leg of the journey is 8,000 | have had to increase our food supplies miles to Dunedin, New Zealand. From | and extra bullock men have had to be that port the explorers will proceed | provided for, also. —We look like a across 2300 miles of Southern ocean ! young army on the move to the Bay of W hales. on the Ross Sea | So large a band cannol travel as one fce barrier of Antarctica, where the s there is not sufficient pasturage. so permanent base will be established. It we have broken up into three groups was from 100, that Amund- We have covered some 70-odd miles sen set out on his trip to the Pole. over broken country, crossing sizable rivers and many streams that gave us Due There in December. trouble. This region is completely va- with Juck . cant with the exception of Indians T e o ‘Xpedition | “The Bakaris are an agricuitural peo- or early in January. but the time of | Ple and live on bananas and mandioca Arrival will depend upon the reception | Which they grow themselves. The Jac given to the sturdy little Samson by re a warlike tribe who hunt the south polar ice pack. Ice move- | Same and are continually on the move ments vary so much from year to year | We never know where they may tufn that it is impossible to predict sailing | UP- &nd they are a source of terror to conditions, and adventurers into these all the local people. waters can only hope for a fairly clear pos Indians. passage o » Next to Indians, jaguars are the most e e e a he | feared. ~BSnakes nd fever. which also e e e erorie Bammer. joc | take their il of the simple folk who g o e AT o taraor | cnter the wilderness. are dreaded. too e o Amtaretion’s cost. Boge | BUS the warlike Indian and the jaguar of these ice mountains, which mmhlr;"“ir",‘l e i e into the sea from the margin of the bes HILYS AP W wele o the mov Into the sea from the margin of the | early. and in the morning light we saw el o A e hurdred feet | Small plumes of smoke curling up. We s Jong and several hundred fee! | looked across & huge valley miles in ex- Seeian Sanile by that foweret| ot WS grase. it it Unee, of B85 feet Sbove the ‘Waber line. TC was| 008 (DMICREIRE the Whisr céurses (uat i tiod Bty Yere ni. traversed this unknown land. Reaching the wali of lce that i Smoke means fire, and fire is made calied the Ross Sea Barrier, the Sam-| 0, Ma0. 80 we knew that indians son will be at journey's end. Her ‘.tre s '“ :’l"ms p k;cl (;" ;‘r" passenzers, equipment and supplies will | Je M€, acrose tracke in Che S be transferred to the top of the ice cliff | Sround, Watke O BEmeR T and when the Antarctic night descends | et ) - e . Ehe will steam back to civilization to | Shusy have been 30 or 40 persons in & Seaft the time for her rebuy the fol | _Aftr s few moments one of our Jowing season, | The icc might CTih Bakari Indians turned and said in an e i ugh the expressionlese voice, “Jayapos!” T - of the expedition expects | Al the bullock men and camaradas | tht the smbitious program Iaid out| Sared ¢ that much “I'l;e&d"“"‘%‘ for Byrd and his men can be accom- | need of traveling I s i Pilsing fn' T fhan nearly two years, | nsiead of tawiing in smal groups | Thers mav be a still further delay In Currotiogeene 0 " * body, keeping a | Bl o T i St Touy, e din stcinter e ey SRt i ity o e | oo sexecious plople. Thay st know | o o {helr propensity e el e e T et Teiny | Leir enemy and bresking their en- care to make it snuz, comfortable and | CTiC 1°FS Men All Want Arms. homelike for the long stay. Then the | aviators. scientists, radio men and other | It has been quite a task keeping all apecialists will sot about their tasks in | the men together. They all want arms. order that all branchies of the scien-| Even our cook, who is one of the biack- | tific work—the expedition is being un-, est of the black, begs me each day to @ertaken primerily in the interests of | give him a rifle. Acience—can start without delay. It~ “What could I do if anything hap- will be necessarv to take full advan- pened?” he asks. “I travel across this tage of the short -Aniarctic Summer. miserable wilderness unarmed. with | which brings long days. if not high! only a dirty knife in my belt. Still, if | temperature, to the big white land. . | you d”!m:llu:imd if T am killed, well and | - Bases | good, I wi lo as you wish. But can't | One of -'t-;»uflrsf ‘l:bnn T R el e B ’{“" laying down of a series of sub bases S v eat is not fit for buzzards.” along the line of the flight which Comar_Byrd ‘plans_to_atiempt _from I A O to say. the barrier to the South These | have instilled a little more assurance mipply depots will be established At | into the hearts of our followers. _Jerry intervals of 100 miles over a 400-mlle Martin. assistant wireless operator, is stretch. or half the distance from the|a bit nervous about the Indians. The main camp to the geographical bottom | rest of us are philosophical. of the world. They are intended as| we have kept & curve more or less emergency caches, fo serve the polar| 7o degrees east of north for the last fivers with food and spare equipment in | five days. On the third day we reached the event that bad weather or other | o ‘river to which the Indian scouts had unforeseen contingencies force the big followed Col. Fawcett's trail. This was P%ifluf. down on its flight over the high | where Pawcett had camped on May 29 plateau. | 3 Dog teams will be used in placing these havens, and aiso for establish- | ing scientific stations at various points | on the ice barrier and in King Ed-| ward VII Land. where the expedition's scientists plan to do most of their work Although Comdr. Byrd emphasizes that the serial voyage to the Pole| will be only a part of the work hn has planned, it is the most hazardous | 25 well as the most spectacular of his| projects. The southernmost spot on | the giobe lies at an altitude of more | than 10000 feet, nearly at the top of the great south polar plateau The piane chosen for this trip must be able to carry a heavy load in men. fuel and equipment through rarefied air Whether the leader and the two men whom he plans to take aith him on| dash can la ship at the | is problemas, Even if they| should do so without mishap, the task of taking off again would probably be greater Not the ast dangerous part of the polar hop will be the stretch between fhe last base and the Pole itself. for | s forced landing in this zone might | prove serious. Were the plane to de- scend snd were tne aviators unable o coax her off the ground. they would | have io tramp back (o the base or wait | where thev had landed until assistance. | oned by the plane’s radio, ar- EXCURSlON SHENANDOAH CAVERNS Sunday, Aug. 19, 1928 consisting of Unian % folded CLEAN, wash! Each machine, little touching up. ircned for 10c a parier car and )00 5. m. Train conches. leaves RETURNING Jaaves Shenandosh Caverns, & ROUND TRIP FARE " p.m. Phone Miss White for Special Requests For tickets see Ticket Agent Street KW Unien Mation ik Siation. Southern Railway System Cures Malaris and quickly relieves Bil. | Headaches and Dizzisess due Constipstion. Aids in and 15 highly es | copious water inusness. 1o temporary eliminating Tosins teemed for producing pracustions in conspicuous places—we cool-looking, All are ready use except fancy pieces. wrapped separately and placed inside vour Everything-Ir mum Bundle, $1.25. cmmmm—— 5 2717108 fOr EVEry Home and Eequt ’VARIOUS CLUES TO COL. FAWCETT| BY RESCUE EXPEDITION UND IS BESI EOUIPPED Javapos Indians. Mc;st Feax;ed of Brazi]i:\nf Tribes. Force Searchers to Ksep Sharp | Lookout When Traveling. T 1925, and lost his horse. hence we called | this place “Dead Horse Camp.” From this point onward we saw marks of knives and occasionally axes on tree trunks. But they seemed to be of two periods. one about three years old and the others more recent. perhaps two vears old or less 1t was an Indian path we followed The jungle animals also had availed themselves of it. especially tapirs, which are in the habit of making pronounced tralls of their own Trouble Crossing Rivers. Some of our river crossings were very tedious. involving much labor. The bullocks and mules ali had to be un- loaded. We would then carry the car- goes and the animals would swim or ford rocky river beds unencumbered by pack saddles and heavy boxes This is an extraordinary country Cattle might graze here in the rainy season, but in the dry periods they would get thin, So far the weather all that we could wish. There is an enormous difference between the heat of the day and the chill at night. Ninet degrees and more is registered during the day. At night 53 degrees is often recorded Now we are at a_lower elevation in a big valley. Far off on either horizon rise two escarpments of long hills, per- fectly fiat, as if sliced off with a knife We reached the banks of this river the K u. on the sixth day after aving Bakari Post. In a few days we know where we are going and what our plans will be. Now I can oniy announce our arrival here, safe and sound. our bullock drivers hasten back to- morrow, having no wish to linger in | this inhospitable land any longer than | necessary They have worked well, and we are grateful to them for their good services Radio in Use. Our camp is in a dense belt of forest lining the banks of the river. The radio is up and just getting on the air. | We hear many stations working in dif- ' ferent parts of the globe. France. | Africa and remote parts of South Amer- | ica are talking with each other. - We | chat with a man in London, E. G.— | 5 H S. He has just spoken, saying | that he can hear our feebie chirp from | the jungles of Brazil Then we hear other strange signals A few days back we heard the operator with the MacMillan Arctic expedition He was speaking to New York. He told his friend to wait a moment. as | a couple of Eskimos had come on board and he wantsd to go and look them over. Our chief wireless man, Rill Demelio felt like butting in and saying that v had a crowd of Indians around our station and would be glad of a littie | snow and ice from the Arctic Circle to keep us coo Radio iz certainly a marvelous ac- complishment, and it is reassuring to | be in contact with the outside world as we are. I only hope that the damage | done to the apparatus by fractious bul- | locks will not put our set out of com- mission. We have not seen much game so far— | a_few deer. and that is all Evn fl:h Avoid Repair Bills Automotive Entmoen Will Tell You the most important part automobile or truck is the ssion and rear axle gears. 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My companions find 3 o'c a bad time to Be Held at Macfarland Community Center. 1t the day, but the quicker we| zot o with our work the sooner we There are an infinite number of | things to be done. and night fs the only | time T have to sit down to think and | write up my notes. It is pitch dark and hardly a sound is audible, only the chirp of A few insects. The river flows along noiselessly close at hand, and a few stars picce the canopy of trees Twenty-six men slung in hammocks between the trees sleep soundly. S0 with nothing to disturb my thoughts can send this humid report Luck certainiy has favored us in bringinz us upon Fawcstt's tracks so quickly con 1 North The last miniature aircraft meet h('-; fore the District of Columbia finals will | be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Mac- | farland Community Center. All con- | testants entered In the local tournament | are invited to attend | Paul Edward Garber, assisted by two | Washington aircraft experts, will act as judge. 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