BYRD'S LONELY POST
PLEA FOE EETUEX
BACKER'S RADIO APPEAL 1
NEW YOBK, April 6.
Mr. Jacob Ruppert, one of the prin> cipal backers of the Antarctic Expedition, after a discussion of conditions with Commander Gjerfcsen, radioed Admiral Byrd urging him to abandon! his plan to occupy the advance post through the winter night.
"I am very much worried about youi; personal safety and earnestly urgs your return to the base," he said.
The first question Mr. Buppert asked Commander Gjertsen was: "Why is. Byrd going down there all by hinn self?" . :
The commander responded: "I don't; know, but the hut would have been a, tight fit for two men." He explained that it had been the original plan to have two men to undertake the obser* vations, but the delay caused by diffi« cultics in landing supplies had mad* this impossible.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 9
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