Show Antarctic Explorer Tells Tens Why Byrds Byrd's Proposed Flight Across So Pole Would could Ta a Most host Daring Aviation Feat l' l f I II I I v lc r ri Is i jk- jk f v v t c Courtesy G. G lontin I Ithe I Here is i. one ono of or the tho most remarkable pictures eve ever r taken It was taken at the tho south pole pol and shows the five rive members of the Scott expedition when they thy reached the pole January 18 1912 only to make the heart breaking discovery that the Norwegian party under unde C Captain Roald Amundsen Amundsen had beaten them thom by three and quarter one-quarter days They found his ten tent and a Norwegian flag Left to right standing are aro i Petty Officer Evans Evan vane Captain R. R F. F Scott Catain Catin Oates sitting Lieutenant Powers and Dr Wilson The Th film fim from whit which this picture was made mad was w. not found until 1914 Evans Oates and Scott perished on the mile trek back to their base bue A relief party fo found folind nd their bodies and the film I I Editors Editor's note For note For The Telegram I stud and NEA NEI Service Ser Milton Bronner has hall secured two vivid word pictures by Internationally famous wont antarctic explorers r of the seemingly Impossible task Commander Richard 1 E B. B Byrd rd has tas set net for or tp himself to fly across the antarctic the south po pole lato during durin summer of S t. Tin This is III the first of or the exclusive art articles The rhe third will be bo written by bred himself By MILTON LOS LONDON DOS Fob Feb 8 S-if S It Commander Richard I- I E E. Byrd u vt the tho United States nA navy succeeds In flying over the south pole ho he will be acclaimed a as the greatest explorer aviator In history Yes Yen he M will be greater than Amer Amer- America lea ica s Lindbergh i The man who made the statement nt Is ii on one of or the tho few li in explorers who aho ho fully tully realise the perils of or the south uth polar region regions He Jle IK is Herbert Horbert u tl renting a member of or Captain Hobert Scotts Scott's British expedition when It reached the bottom of QC the tho world orld In niL 1913 Lila Ilia book The ThO treat White South SOut Is s on one of the th- classics on the tho au subject t lite JIw film record of the tho expedition baa haa be been n I shown all aU over Europe and soon oon will willbe to M brou brought ht to America MOST DIFFICULT OF ALL FEATS I The Tire dl difficulties encountered In a bop hop across the the- south polo would by comparison on mak every malts ery other flying achievement s seem s-eom em simple said aid hI Commander Byrd already has two wonderful accomplishments to tobin bin hia credit LIke Ike Lindbergh Jb and Chamberlin he h. h has flown the Atlantic Ocean none In n one hop Unlike anyone else else he lie I has flown Iton an airplane over r the north pole In crossing the Atlantic ono ono I tk takes off tr under known weather conditions conditions conditions con con- and encounters only reasonably reasonably reason reason- ably high temperatures If It forced torce t I down there thero is fa a R. chance of being I picked up by a n. ate steamship 3 as ac was Miss lIa Ruth Elder EI r. r Kven E Eve a in a L flight across the tile nor north h pole dan danger er Is l lessened b by the tho presence presence pres pres- ence enco of or animal life that will provide both food and fuel In caso case of or u cl- cl dent The country Is comparatively ly flat and temperatures are highs higher r than in the antarctic regions MOUNTAINS IN SOUTH While the tho north polar region Is mainly open sea sere frozen Into an Icy waste tho antarctic Is a vast continent continent continent con con- whose whoso average a height is the tho JOe greatest on earth tarth There aro mountains mountains moun moun- towering feet Into the tho sk sky Mt It Erebus feet leet high isan Is la laan an nn active 0 Ross Rosa island from which Scott and Amundson made their successful dashes to to tho the pole is hI 1500 mile milea from tho the nearest land New land New Zealand And Ross Rosa Island is miles mites from tha polo Here lIere the actual flIght night will start Mart Luck flying skill and the elements permitting it will end at a 1 base baso at Weddell eddell sea on tire lira other side of the pole Graham Land and Weddell Weddell Wed Wed- dell sea from which unsuccessful attempts at th the south pole have lia been made Is only miles from the tho tip of or South America but it is 1780 miles from tho the pole Every EYer condition in fn the tho antarctic is most forbidding continued Pont Pont- In Ing At the approach to Ross island Is a great feat ice barrier which averages a seventy feet In height and extends for more than miles Beyond that to the Beardmore glacier gla gla- cI cier r Is miles of or ice-covered ice plateau which holch ascends s to feet abate abote sea level This vast vast plateau plateau ak alone n is as large as all ail of or France From the o to the pole Is another 00 miles It is a R. land lan 1 hero it never nc rains It Jt Is a no land where human beings never nver have 11 lived And once the ne open sea lIe is left behind there theTa M fa not a vestige of or An any sort of oC animal life Probably It Is tho the windiest place e eon on earth I have o been en in blizzards bUzzards there when tho the wind ra raged ed nt at sev seV- seventy enty nty miles an nn hour with the th mercur mercury mercury mer- mer cur cury 30 degrees below zero During DurIn explorations Iris Instruments instruments ments re registered miles mile an hour during ono one blizzard blizzard and and then themselves themselves them them- selves eh S 'S were blown awa away There is ancient ice on the continent continent con con- varying from from Irom to 1000 I feet et In tn thickness Tile The SIl glaciers that reach teach the sea produce Icebergs big 1 enough to boar bear New ew York City on I their backs I have havo seen scon bergs three twenty miles s long IonS strew Instruments Jn V s that the mean temperature of or the tho antarctic is J 11 1 degrees colder than tho north polo pole region regions and 2 21 degrees colder older in winter So that is 15 what Commander Byrd Bvrd will face faco when ho makes the at attempt olt- olt tempt late in 1925 To clear the mountains he lee will have havo to fly at an m altitude of or moro more than feet He may run into nto gales in which no noman noman man nor n flying Ing machine could L b bly bt lw ve If It h he It 4 to It probably will M be oa Oil Ja JOT Jelled JW t twill twill will wW wreck his ha plan Bren ilven Ten It U lie be ma made e a safe r tending lie Ire would wouW beIn bein be bo boIn In a vast vajK waste to with very 1 supplies on hit his own machine and n with Ith T e PO possibility of ot killing anything anything any any- thing thine n 1 food or Cue fuel I. I BYRD DYRO WILL BE FIRST If Byrd l a succeeds succeed said Mid routing he ho not oni only will have baye been boon the tho first to Co fly acre acron that barren continent t hut but ut the first to cross crose It in aD any wa way It U a would be be a flight of va vast Nt t scientific importance He lie can an chart hla his route and note the comparative of Lend LinI He may discover mountain range higher than any alQ of those we o already know It U la t the hardest goal an aviator ever fr set t for If It ac- ac th tM seemingly ml hn Impossible f feat t he will be bo a a. hero bNO of heroes hero 1 Yes oven even a greater hero than your our Colonel Lindbergh Tomorrow Tomorrow Captain Captain E. E E E. E h M. M Joy Joy veteran of three antarctic cue ex expeditions expeditions ex- ex tells more mora about bout the tho perils perils per per- ils il of the southland |