SOUTHWARD BOUND

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 9

SOUTHWARD BOUND

EYED EXPEDITION

JACOB RUPPERT AT SEA

(Special to the Press Association from the Byrd Expedition.) JACOB KUPPEET (at Sea), December 14. ■ The Jacob Ruppert is making full speed on a south-easterly course, and tho 24-hour run at noon today was 240 miles. The days grow perceptibly longer and colder. It will be Thursday all day tomorrow as well as today. The energies of the crew are being directed to preparing for the impending struggle with the ice pack. You have tho feeling of a warship being cleared for action. Admiral Byrd has . issued strict orders for the conservation, of food and materials. "We are entering the ■great non-shop area of the world," he said, "and whatever is wasted or lost cannot be replaced." ' He scolded a new man who tossed a stray piece of timber overboard. "You might have to wait a hundred thousand yeai'3 for tho Antarctic to produce & piece of wood as big as that," he said. . . There was another interesting incident today. As we were steaming ahead the ship's bell set up a strident clamouring and upon, the bridge the engine-room telegraph was swung full' speed astern. The whole ship shuddered and men raised themselves in their bunks wondering when tho crash would come. Then up from the engine-room came a Homeric laugh. An inexperienced hand had struck eight bells, and the vagrant wind had carried the sound to tho bridge, where it sounded like the iceberg alarm from tho forecastle head.