SUPPLIES SECURE

Northern Advocate, 5 February 1934, Page 9

SUPPLIES SECURE

AT LITTLE AMERICA READINESS FOR WINTER VESSELS MOORED TOGETHER. (United Press Association—By Elects!* Telegraph.—Copyright) (Received 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, February .°.j Tlie following wireless message Ijas been received from the Byrd expedition in the Antarctic: — “The difficult and dangerous work of unloading our winter supplies from the Jacob Ruppert and transporting them to Little America has , been virtually completed, and as soon as the vessel has loaded 250 tons of coal from the Rear of Oakland she will start on the return trip to New Zealand for the winter, “To date, 450 tons of supplies and scientific equipment have been Unloaded, and all that remains on the I ship comprises odds and ends and personal gear. I “For the first time in a fortnight | the Jacob Ruppert appears to have I found a stable mooring, although the ice in the Bay of Whales is still disintegrating. The Bear of Oakland has been moored alongside her and will now unload her remaining 75 tons of supplies she brought. The tractors and dog teams arc still busy moving supplies from the relay point to high barriers near Little America. They are working day and night shifts. “The weather continues astonishingly calm, but now the thermometer is dropping steadily. On the last three nights the night shifts worked in temperature from 10 to 15 degrees below zero, and the sky, which for days was clear, now is constantly overcast and gloomy. Last night some of the men were slightly frost-bitten. ’ ’