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Penguins caught for American museums and kept in a wire pen at Little America. These are emperors, the big variety, weighing from 60 to 70 pounds. They can wield a heavy blow with their powerful flippers, and their captors Harold June sits behind this grotesque mask. Made like a base ball mask, it was his own invention and gave maxi- mum protection against the biting wind. The last moments of an Antarctic beard. Harold June having his luxuriant whiskers clipped by Dean Smith, fellow pilot on the expedition. A remarkable view of the fantastic formations of pressure ice in the Bay of Whales. THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHING George Tennant, the expedition cook, with These one of the captured Adelaide penguins. are the smaller variety of penguins. Clair Alexander saved this topknot of hair to balance his beard. ,’;‘ Bernt Balchen (left) and Sverre Strom boxing in the snow-walled nasium. Boxing was the favorite form of Winter exercise, although often only light exercise could be taken, lungs. as the severe cold air hurt the Paul Sipple, the Boy Sco: hardly a boy when the expeqd ed home. 'He had grown s in the year on the barrier ai 200 pounds. Jack O’Brien, humorist of the cai whose biting Irish wit lightened ma an hour of the long Antarctic Wintej Listening to a radio broadcast from th¢ civilization, yet the magic of radio brought 4