FUMES FROM MOTOR
Byrd Has Narrow Escape (Received 25, 10.10 a.m.) LITTLE AMERICA, June 23. In a radio conversation with the advance weather base, Rear-Admiral Byrd told of a narrow escape from carbon monoxide poisoning last Sunday. It was during a conversation with members of the expedition that he began to I'cel dizzy. He said: “Let us make this short. 1 will tell you later why.” He later explained that the motor Supplying electric power for the radio was throwing off fumes. He felt “rocky” and was forced to turn off the motor. The danger of such poisoning is a continual menace to Reui-AilmiraJ Byrd, the expedition scientists fear, and they warned him to exert the utmost care. ■ To-day marks mid-winter in the long Antarctic night, with the sun at its greatest declination. To-morrow there will a slow movement southward.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 163, 25 June 1934, Page 7
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