Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1929, Page 20

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1929, SOUTHPOLE NEWS NETHOD DESERBED Story Carried by Air Waves 9,372 Miles as Réporter Writes It. BY R. L. DUFFUS, Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 13.—It is 3 o'clock in the afternoon of a fine Ant- arctic Summer day on the edge of the great ice barrier, 9,373.28 miles from Times Square as the radio wave flies, and 2400 miles from Dunedin, New Zealand. The whaler City of New York lies anchored to the ice. A dog team. is being loaded. From the direction of the ship’s wardroom may be heard the sound of a typewriter—the first typewriter, no doubt, that ever etched its clatter on the silence at this lonesomest of all harbors. Russell Owen, who, as news- paper men put it, is “covering” the South Pole and its adjacent territories, is at work on his daily story. But long-distance reporting, even from the far side of the Antarctic sea of ice, is no longer a matter of months and years. Owen’s story may be in the hands of the copyreaders sooner than that of the police headquarters reporter, who at the same moment may be telling a rewrite man over the telephone the | details of the latest murder. Some of | Owen's dispatch will probably be in type before he has finished the last para- graph. As he concludes his story, the sentence with which he began may al- ready be on the linotype in cities in| every quarter of the United States, and possibly in cities as remote as Buenos Aires, Tokio, London and Paris. Across the Seasons to New York. At the New York end of the wire- less circuit an operator sits with receiv- ers to his ears, taking the words as fast as the operator «on the City of New York—the gods of static permit- | ting—can send them. All this takes a litle less than one- twentieth of a second. Five minutes more and the first sheet of the dispatch has been received, mimeographed and | — handed to the waiting copy boys and telegraph operators. Written in the mid- dle of the afternoon, it is received al- most simultaneously all over the world, all the way from 3 o'clock the same morning to 3 o'clock the next morning —a puzzle in Greenwich time. One has to say “almost” simultaneously, for even the New Zealanders have to wait until the story has come to New York and then been sent back, over a route more than 16,000 miles long. How does an Antarctic reporter cover his assignment? The best way to find out is to ask Owen. The radio operator gets the City of New York and puts the question. It does not ‘take him much longer than it would to ask Owen directly. Finally the operator on the City of New York breaks through the interference and Owen begins to chat. Supplies for a Long Siege. ‘We can picture him bent over his portable typewriter, with a fat pile of copy paper at his side. “Getting news on an Antarctic ex- pedition,” he explains, “merely demands going somewhere. No matter where one goes, there is news. This country is strange and fantastic. Life is so differ- ent from anything conceived at home that everything is new by contrast. And every day something exciting happens, even though one never knows exactly where it will occur. “The base is eight miles inland, and to get there one must go over a dog trail—ride most of the way in and all the way out. But most of the news from the interior comes forth every day, for the reporter must not remain long away from shiY and radio. “The difficulty is to_get news but to keep up with it. There may be an airplane flight, a trip in a boat such as the one when we met the kill- er whales. Or possibly in midst of a serene midnight a storm will come out of the south and a threatening obscuri- ty close down around us. “Getting the news from day to day is not half so difficult as finding a place of quiet in which to write it. “News is written under every sort importance of the records that must be written, on the spot, renders it imperative that no failure of hand or pen shall intervene. It is with grateful appreciation that we acknowledge the tribute paid to the time tried dependability of Waterman’s pen service, in the seletion by the members of the Byrd Expedition of Waterman’s as the pen to have the honor of writing the records that will live through the ages. And not only is each member of the expedi- tionpersonally equipped with a Waterman's, but ‘Waterman’s Blue Black is the official ink. By‘a special formula we have manufactured a non- f,tnfng ink to meet the rigid exactions of the frigid South Pole. Becsuse Watermsan's No. 7 Is. in seven diffe of pen poins, each of disturbing condition, to which one must adapt one’s self good-naturedly or not be able to work. One of the penalties of Antarctic exploration is that quarters are so crowded that men cannot get out of each other's way. And when a story is written one must consign it to the vagaries of short-wave {fx:m and hope that it gets through in o While the work of shifting the sup- plies from the City of New York to Little America, the permanent base on the Ross Ice Barrier—is going on, the ship is the headquarters and source of news. Later on Owen will probably ddb his writing in the main building at Little America, where Comdr. Byrd's office, the radio room and the confer- ence room will be under one roof —and probably, also, before another Spring comes, under a considerable weight of snow. While the party remains on the ship the news will come from Owen’s per- sonal observations, from the reports of the dog-team drivers, fleld parties and airplane pilots and from the constant exchange of messages by portable ra- dics. The expedition carries, all told, 22 radio transmitters and 34 receivers. In the working season there will be five operators on duty at the ship or on shore. In addition, every member of every party going afleld, on foot, by dog-team or by airplane, will be able to send and receive simple messages. In the past few weeks there has not been half an hour at a time when the position of every member of the expe- dition who was away from ship or base was not exactly known. The Citysof New York has been the clearing house for information. Exploration From the Air. The most thrilling moments of the expedition will come when attempts are made to explore the great white conti- nent from l?c air, and particularly when the flight to the Pole is under- taken. 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