DAY DAWNS AT LAST

Northern Advocate, 22 August 1929, Page 5

DAY DAWNS AT LAST

BRIEF GLIMPSE OF THE SUN

EYED CAMP JUBILATION A VENTURE ON SKIS. (United Service.) NEW YORK, August 20. By Russell Owen. Copyrighted 1928 by the New Ycrk Times Company and the St. Louis Post Dispatcn. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to New York Times, BAY OF WHALES, Augut 20, Unfair advantage was taken of the sun today. Officially the sun is liot due back until Thursday, but it was so close to the horizon'at noon that men climbed, the radio, towers and saw it as it peeped from the top of the barrier hills. It did not quite detach’ itself from the clinging skyline, blit at least three-quarters of it, was visible. Not only that, but a seal was killed for fresh meat, making it a notable day. : A snow-shovel gang went out, marking the end of the long hibernation.

Bernt Balchen and Sverre Strom went on skis to see the conditions of the ice at the approaches to the barrier, where the southern trail winds through the pressure ice and crevasses. They found many new upheavals and crevasses, as if there had been terrific pressure there this winter. On the return home they came by way of the ice and had to make a’wide detour to get back around pressure ice which had been forced up in the last few months. The entire surface of the bay be-., tween here and the entrance has apparently changed, and is so broken that it may go out this season much further than last year, . ‘ ,