BYRD’S NARROW ESCAPE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 9

BYRD’S NARROW ESCAPE

CLOSE CALL FROM GAS POISONING

MID-WINTER IN FROZEN SOUTH United Press Association- By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 24, 7.10 p.m.) LITTLE AMERICA, June 23. In a radio conversation from his Advance weather base, Rear-Admiral Byrd told of a narrow escape he had had from carbon monoxide poisoning last Sunday. It was during a conversation with members of the expedition here that he began to feel dizzy. He said: “Let us make this short. I will tell you later why.” He now explained that the motor supplying the 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 the Byrd Expedition, the scientists fear, and they warned him to exert the utmost care. To-day marks mid-winter in the long Antarctic night, the sun being at its greatest declination. To-morrow it will start its slow movement southward.