UNLOADING COMPLETED

Evening Star, Issue 21637, 5 February 1934, Page 9

UNLOADING COMPLETED

THE BYRD EXPEDITION TEMPERATURE DROPPING STEADILY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, February 3.. A report from the Byrd expedition states that the difficult and dangerous work of unloading winter supplies from the Jacob Ruppert and transporting them to Little America has been virtually completed, and that as soon as the vessel loads 250 tons of coal from the Bear of Oakland the latter will start on her return trip to New Zealand for the winter. Some 450 tons of stores and scientific equipment have ben unloaded. All that remains consists of scattered odds and ends and personal gear. For the first time in a fortnight the Jacob Ruppert appears to have found stable mooring, although the bay ice is still disintegrating. The Bear of Oakland has been moored alongside the Jacob Ruppert, and will now moor against the ice to unload the remaining 75 tons of supplies she has brought. Tractors and dog teams are still busy moving supplies from relay points to the high barriers near Little America, working day and night shifts. The weather continues astonishingly calm, but the thermometer is now dropping steadily. The last three nights the shifts worked in temperatures from lOdeg to lodeg below zero, and the sky, which for days has been clear, is now constantly overcast and gloomy. Last night a number of men were slightly frostbitten.