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Show y UTTt AMERICA ANTARCTICA NX 40 '': ,: SUNLIGHT! mmmmmmmmm ipiliBllKBiliiill I Loading gasoline on sledges for a tractor trip at Little America one I shall have an interesting story to tell you and we shall have made a new contribution to the exploration explora-tion science. We were towing Raw-son Raw-son on a sledge. He communicated with June in the driver's seat by means of two lights on the dash. Even for such a short trip we had to carry complete trail equipment of food, fuel, stoves, cookers, radio machines and so on because of the', possibility of being caught In one j of the blinding blizzards which descend des-cend without warning and make travel impossible. After reaching TITTLE AMERICA, ANTARCTI-1 ANTARCTI-1 CA, Aug. 27 (via Mackay Radio) Ra-dio) : My, my, what a lot of news this week! The blessed sun has returned, re-turned, Admiral Byrd is recovering rapidly, I've had my first tractor trip in the Antarctic gloom and don't like it, and I have developed Ja new game parachute skiing. jSome thrill, but only for those tent ion suicide! More about that next time. Right on schedule, the sun re-i re-i turned to us on August 22 and we had a grand celebration over it with turkey and mince pie. Although the temperature was 60 below zero, a big group of us went out on skiis to the top of a ridge on the Barrier, a mile from here, to give Old Sol a welcome. Gradually, just before noon, a pale grey light spread over everything, changing to a pink and yellow spot down by the horizon. And then, sure enough, up came a little corner of the sun itself the first time we had gazed upon it for more than four months. Now, even.' rlay, the sun will pay us a lonter and longer visit and finally remain jWith us 21 hours a day. What a difference dif-ference that is going to make iii our Jives! Fifty-six men penned into a few little huts surrounded by darkless, dark-less, snow and howling winds can rertainly i et on each other's nerves. J could write a book about that. When Dr. I'oulter and his tractor the Pressure Ridge we disregarded any possible trail and navigated by compass. We passed towering ridges of ice and detoured around impossible hummocks. II was weird and inspiring in the half light. Thei rough uneven surface looked gloomy and forbidding. We could glimpse the trail left by the other party, weaving in and out. retracing retrac-ing and sometimes even circling. It was evident they had been in diili-: diili-: cullies several times and had wandered wan-dered for miles trying t through. We kept a sharp lookout for ere vasses and narrowly avoided vv eral. In the Pressure Kid-'- are areas of ice that have sunk to ;iter level and olher areas ihtk'-iiIiii huge, grotesque fonna I inns "i nvj CO feet high. I'.y :avi:-ai ion we m e!e S mites irr one hour over IV .'ac1' terrain and under the same cond)-Moms cond)-Moms thai required 12 hours lor the other frae'nr c-:ped;i ion. On J new mo'hod of rnvi ,:ii n- ptov. ) highly sucreful and I'il t' ll you : all about it later. It v.-as n.y !n ' experience on Hi" A ;.-'!) '' .'. in Hie da : I: n ess and it i t,j-.. .;. ! I shall i'.: -::il,.-i ail my !:! K:-,- k j I ly. I don't l:l;e ii. ),. ) a -- a - o-; I ! si -mt lef-liiic o! d:i;;g-: a :e .-, ;U, I. it is tift !!-. f'.P. v. !,- - da ' 1 - - I ui more i e;: ; I ai'i- t , hp a j i heavy flat ' h :cl; b!a r ,: :,e , -ha' to lr:ir you do.wi oppi ' '.-".-ey. ; Nov.- i 1 1 -i f the sin, is h re I am gO;:.L' tn J,;ive V. O'.de; f Hi.h;--; to I tell Hi- club me-,.he;s in h-s- I V.ee.;y : !'g;i YnU kliOA, there j I r.o charge for m-mb'-i hip j;, this I tb;b. All v'i'i ha.e to do to get a membership f!,:tl f:,.,. I'O x 27'i i.-.'h -.vo;!.;,-,g map of Aril arc'iea is to ,-e;.d me a chariy ad '!-'' ?'), s'a :.;. -I c:,wi,;,i at th' American headquarters. Addrevs Ar J :h:r Alj'-i", Jr., President, Llttlt i America Aviation and l.xploration J Club. Hotel I.f-xiniton, vh S'reet J and Lexington Avenue. New York J N. Y. - party arrived at Admiral Pyrd's hut I jast week one of their first messages mes-sages to us said, "Please have trail clearly marked in crevassed ar"a if-tween Little America and Harrier and through Pressure Kid:-e." It r.vas in tills area that the tractor j'-arty became lost, narrowly e-rap-i d falllii'r into a crevasse and the Hedge wilh 1 )u0 pounds ol equip-(Tient equip-(Tient uas s-.vallov.er up fij that it ton!; Hie tractor crew five hours to jget it out. Immediately upon re- eipt of the message Harold I. June, ,of Uarien. Conn.. Ih-rnard Si-.inner. i( Winlhrep. Me., K.-um-th H:i son. 'fit Cl.icavo. and I were n-d'-r'-d to get into irail clothes ami lake i),e reserve tractor out there lor the ,rurpose of marking the trad I'hrousrh this terrible area. We left at 11:30 a. m.. foilo-rinL-the faintly visible trail left by I)r. I'oul'er and his crew. Ila-vson had d'-vised a new method of navigation r.f a tractor and we were all anxious to try out this idr-a because navigating navigat-ing from the driver's seat had prov 'ed too difficult and dangerous If this new method proves as successful success-ful in future trips as it did on Una |