ELLSWORTH S STORY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13161, 20 January 1936, Page 5

ELLSWORTH S STORY.

SECOND EDITION

ANTARCTICAN AIR CROSSING ITS FIRST ACCOMPLISHMENT. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. XEW YORK. January 18. (By Lincoln El les worth, aboard the Discovery, by wireless to New York.) North American Newspaper Alliance, Copyright. At laSt the trans-Atlantic- flight has been accomplished, but not without some difficulty. We were forced to land four times on our way and once were held up seven days, three days of which a blizzard raged. On the previous landing we were delayed two days by bad visibility and snow--storms. Finally our fuel was exhausted and we were forced to lane about 25 miles from Little America. After four days of futile efforts to communicate with the outside world, we proceeded by sledge to Little America where we found, the radio shack in first-class condition and in which we lived comfortably until yesterday when the roar of an aeroplane let us know our lonely wait was over. Shortly alter 4.15 p.m. G.M.T. on the day we started we realised that our radio had failed, but there was nothing we could do but continue the flight. After passing the mountains of Hearst Land we flew at an altitude -)f 10,000 feet over a high plateau with isolated mountains at intervals. Then those gave way to an unbroken plateau. At 5.45 p.m. G.M.T. 1 dropped the? Stars and Stripes on Hitherto unclaimed territory. For three hours we flew over the mountains and at 9.5 p.m. ran into bad visibility. We reduced our altitude to 6400 feet and finally we were forc*?d to land. CKir position was latitude. 79.12 and longitude 104.10La ter the weather cleared and late in the afternoon of November 24. we warmed tlie engine and took /ff, but after half an hour in the air we were forced to land owing to poor visibili-

ty. Several other attempts to proceed to Little America likewise failed until December 5, when w*e took off and flew towards our objective We had almost sighted the Bay of Whales when our fuel which had sei*ved us so well finally gave out. We fixed our position, at latitude 78.45 longitude 163. 35

After four days’ working with the radio apparatus we packed our hand sledge and tramjied the few miles to Little America. Since then we have been busy correlating the data gathered on the flight. We have been most hospitably treated by Captain Hill and the officers of the Royal Research Society’s ship. Discovery. and are enjoying the oi civilisation once again.