SECOND ATTEMPT
TO REACH BYRD AT HIS BASE
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LITTLE AMERICA, August 5
...The tractor party, including Poultcr and Waite, radio operator, - and Dcmas, it hie idlrivor, on 'Saturday 'began -a second attempt to reach Byrd’s advance vTlje, fractqr {; is three runrier-slVdgeS' astern, r' fMwithr':d10ad of 374 gallons., of will 'be distributek^yaiii^ngi'.the’f•varioits,'' depots along • the fbr- mtei oblthb fretum tripij^f tie'll 1 iti’i.:f&‘ • The party-icarried':two; month's’ *?*"•. tions. Because most of the l trail flags are buried undo* snow, Poultet intends to resort strictly to navigation. Communication with Byrd was lost on July 20, and'finally restored on. July 27, when he wirelessed laying the receiver functjoua&g.: He was advised Hthat a attempt? wag being made- to return to > him, Byrd jreplied/ that he would . keep a, light burning, on the’top, of liis roof , and also fly a kite carrying a light.•-v;. The temperature was. 13 below when the tractor'staidbd; compared below when b previous The sky is but rxlfeatness forecasted. L y ~ < .• /. ,vl
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1934, Page 5
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167SECOND ATTEMPT Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1934, Page 5
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