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Show BYRD RELIEF PARTYHALTED LITTLE AMERICA, ANT ARCTIC, July 25 (U.pi Heavy snows and temperatures of 71 degrees, below zero blocked the southward progress of a tractor party sent ' out to relieve Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who for four months has been isolated isolat-ed in a little meteorological hut 123 miles from the Ross ice barrier. bar-rier. The difficulties of the relief party, which has gone without sleep for 34 hours, and the fact that the markers along the trait were covered by snow and could not be seen caused considerable speculation as to the outcome of the venture. Byrd, who last week reported his arm was injured, had ordered the relief expedition to take every precaution but, if possible, to relieve re-lieve him so that he could return from his lonely hut toi the expedition's ex-pedition's base here. Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, commanding the relief re-lief party, reported that they had fought their way to the so-called 50-mile .depot but were no longer able to pick up the flags marking mark-ing the southward trail. They had covered 135 miles in order to make 50 miles direct line and were not quite half way to the Byrd hut. |