BYRD EXPEDITION
ANNIVERSARY HOLIDAY. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] MONTREAL, May 10. A message from Little America states: The members of the Byrd expedition to-day declared a holiday in commemoration of the eighth anniversary of Admiral Byrd’s North Pole flight. Now Byrd is isolated 123 miles southward, but he participated in the ceremonies, by radio communication. After breakfast, the mess hall was cleared, and a microphone was set up, and, with Doctor Charles Morgan, the expedition's geophysicist, at their wheezy collapsible organ, the men sang “Anchors A-Weigh,” the song of Byrd’s school, the American Navy Academy at Annapolis, and other favourites. Then each man passed before the microphone, and gave his name, and voiced greetings to Byrd. There were present three members of “The Seventy-eight’’ who have accompanied Admiral Byrd to that parallel both north and south, namely. Haines, the second in command; Commander Noville, and Mr E. J. Demas, who is in charge of the tractors.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 May 1934, Page 7
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