BYRD EXPEDITION
FORMER FLIGHT CELEBRATED By Russell Owen, copyrighted 1928. by New York Times Company and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved through world wireless to New York Times. Received Mav 12 10 p.m. BAY OF WHALES, May 10. Yesterday was a gfreat day in camp. We celebrated the (’ommander’s flight to the North Pole with a turk.-y dinner and formed a 78 club. Members are those of Byrd expeditions who have been north and south of Irufude 78, for both King’s Bay and Little America are inside those northern and southern limits. The insignia of the club was drawn by Bernt Balrhen, and is a circle with the number 78 in the centre, a ’plane on one side, a polar bear at the top, And a penguin at the bottom.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 112, 13 May 1929, Page 8
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