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- r. * PAOIBGR. 1f«l of North “t" w ** •. la tka Arctic. Skip far Trip. A UODIRN hooM (milt t> tba Arctic deflad tba daatb-daaHac Mid of tba Polar llcfloM oad prorad am la- ▼alaaMa aid to Llaotanant Oonmandar Richard M. Byrd la kla aaccaaafal flight to tha North Polo, which ha ctrdad throa 'tlnaa In a racord breaking flight of 1JOO mllaa In 15 hoara and 80 minutas at an a range apaad of 88.75 mllaa an hoar. It wan at tba Spltabergan baaa, Klng*a Bag, wbara thla flrat modern booaa waa cooatnwtad amid tha anow and lea of tha . Arctic launadtatatjr upon xk» arrlral af Llaotanant Bjrd and hla oumpanlooa. aa n pannaaant borne and obaanratlon ata- • Tba houaa, which borlaoa of tha frigid north In mwaad rua traat to tha Igloo of tha oaklmo, waa equipped with a com Plata radio outfit that tbooe who remalaad at tba base whtln Lioutqpant Bjrrd made hla thrtlllag daah to tbo Pda in hla apaadlog Pokkar might koap m touch with thalr chief and the outalde world, which they k*X in formed aa to the prograaa aad aoccaaa of the flight It waa to thla aaam homo that ha returned after hla trip and from which aome af tha fine dea lt to tha waiting public. teMlag them through the leaee af the air that Byrd had circled the Pdn three time. a ad had returned to hie gpltebergeo hoarn In aafet/, adding ooe of the moot memorable peaee 4a tba hlatavy of Arctic exploration tepee Cane Fight* Polar North. Whan Lieutenant Byrd loft the Brooklyn Nary Terd on tha Alp Chaatier ha declared he had the beat aad meet •dantlflrally equipped expedition that erer bed started for the North Pete, ■portal plans wore mode fur the ♦'action of hla Arctic home. Boards of colot ex Insulating lumber me da from begmaoe (sugar cane fiber after all sugar ’Juices hero been extracted) ware curried along with the latent Inventions to aid In polar exploration. This building material la aery light and la filled with millions of air cella. which give It great Insulation Value end resistance to change In temperature, eefwrlally the navare cold. One odd clrru mat aura In coanectlon with ♦he use of this material la that the sugar cane of the aonth waa utillaed to fight the cold of the north t'alotax waa aelectnd Instead of lumber because testa made by the United Btatea Bureau of Htandanla and Its universal uoe In building construction all over the World, had deinonatrated that thla Insulating lumbar woald keep the quartera of the explorer* wanner and proteef their living conditions more securely than ordi nary building material. It wua only after careful Investigation by the arlentlflc men In the expedition that celotex was selected. These authorities pointed out that the protection afforded by Ita InsulatlhQ efficiency was three times ss great aa ordi nary lumber and nearly twelve times as great aa that of brick aad other masonry material. The ship Cbaptier •xlao waa lined with celotex as an ndded precaution to keqp the ship warm while the explorers used It in the .preliminary stages of the ex|>edllion. ' •In practically every other way this expedition waa Scientifically prepared than any of Ita predecee- Theoe included In vent Ions of ('omnmnder Byrd -himself. A simple sun compass conceived by Byrd and ■developed by Mr Rumatead of the National Geographic Society, superseded the complicated German device, de veloped three years ago for Amundsen. The drftt In- •dlcxtor also was Byrd's Invention. The bubble sextant »by which the navigator obtains his bearings while in flight was another one of* his Inventions. Still another arimtlc development waa a quick method of telling when one la at the North Pole. Thla has been worked oat hy O. W, Llttlelialee, the navy's hydrographic engineer Davies Locates the Polo. Byrd and others contributed to a chart of the mag netic lines (lowing toward the magnetic North Pole, which is in Rolthla Land, 1,200 miles south of the Pole. Between Bolthla Land and the Pole the compass points south Instead of north and over much of the Arctic fa la badly disturbed by the discrepancy of position be tween the geographical North Pole and the magnetic North Pole. t Thla chart of the magnetic lines, flowing to the mag- > netic North Pole, although It was far from complete, waa , -such sa to enable the navigator to tell In what direction ' the compass should point from any spot In the Arctic, knowledge, the erratic behavior of the com- with; ..moL--Wupw - . _. • pass becomes orderly and It is once again a useful Inatru- * ment. A third type of compass used was a device of Infinite -sensitiveness—a revolving electrical coll, which la ad- /’justed to a given relatlou with the magnetism of the •Mtfth. This, the son compass, and the magnetic com- psaa were each used to correct the other. , lieutenant Byrd la hla flight used a Quirk method of —when he was actually jit the Pole. This was tbs out by Mr. Littlehalss, the U. a ,*Navy hydrographic engineer. It shows the sun’s pool- '(ton from the North Pole at every hour of the day and ‘every day of the year. When the flyer lg near tbs Pole be can, by ascertaining the exact position of tbs sun, tbit he is neahibe Pole. Plies 3,000 miss Over Are Re. „ The expedition, hacked by such men sa John D. rockefeller, Jr„ and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, had three Praia objects. m Auto WrAk.^. Mr, Jaa. H. Lancafter, of Bern well and Baltimora, Md^ was painfully iif- jured Tn an automobile v accident at Blackville Tuesday night. Mr. Lan- capter waa rectirning to Barnwell states that he was blinded by the lights oi another car and stenred his machine into one of row of syca more trait in thb center of the high way nqar the Blackville cemetery. . The shock and unexpectedness of | collision threw the Bkmwell man for ward against the steering wheel, bruising his chest and catting his forehead. His right knee was injured and he also suffered a cut on his left leg. Mr. Lancaster was gjLy£n im mediate medical '-attention and later was brought to Barnwell. It is un derstood that^his car was damaged to . some extent. R8»AY. AUGUST 5TH, BABY CHICKS FOR SALK emxxuwsawwA Purebred White Leghorn Baby Chicks, English strain* $8.71 -per hundred, post pai* Aneonas, the Sheppard atrai Seat laydrs, $11 per hundred Rhode Island Beds, beat for meat, $11 per hundred. • Plymouth Rocks, $12 por .hundred. I i\ll good < healthy strong pure- ty-ed chicks gViananteedi, We- pay postage charges and guar antee live delivery: If any deed, flake a statement from your Post Master. ' ^ v THE DIXIE HATCHERY Liberty, S. C. ra -y: Blume Reunion. 0 1— To prove that air navi gallon In the Arctic la feaa- . Ible and that freight and mes senger travel over tha top of the world la certain to come. 2— To hunt tor new land In the unexplored areas of the Arctic. 3— To conquer the North Pole from the air as a sport ing adventura and as a dem onstration of what a plane can do—not a geographical Study, aa the Pole was bagged for all time by Admiral Peary. Probably no one knows more about Arctic flying than Commander Byrd. From the Greenland base of the MacMillan ex pedition at Etata last year he flew 8.000 miles owrr the Arctic, studying the be- 1 havlor of oil. motors, compasses, snd other navigation Instruments at great altitudes over the Polkr sea. With him this time Commander Byrd took a noted fuel expert, who Is Flying Commander (1. O. Noble, as It requires great skill snd pains to prevent the freeslng of lubricating oil and stiffened action of the motors. If forced to work on the plane In the open at great altitudes with the thermometer at 00 to TO below aero. The point* which favored the month of May were that the Arctic fog had not begun tu rUe end heavy snows still covered the land and afforded many good landing plares. A factor of safety pointed oat by Commander Byrd In connection with the use of tbo Fokker machine Is that It carries a reaerve engine It has three engines. With, a light load one la expected to be safllrient to maintain tbo plane hi flight. With a normal load, two engines wifi do the work. If two engines break down at ooe time, when the plaoe 1* o°t t°<> heavily loaded. It may fly with the of one engine. The Fokker machlrtb haa a wing- id of altgbtly asore than 04 fast. It la said to he a marvel of airship roost ruction. Tbo other airplane—the Curtis Oriole—waa to have been used chiefly In finding landing fields so that If the filer* found their m^Jg landing place covered with a fog they might go elsewhere. The (’bantier was eqalpt>ed with a powerful radte trans mitter to send hack'the news of the expedition The Fokker also Is equlpiwd with a receiving and trans mitting set. Commander Byrd not only kept the world Informed of the progress of the expedition, but received through the Chantter weather warnings to guide him In his (light. Hew Expedition Wes Equipped. Forty five hundred pounds of whole l»eef were hM'lflded In the ration* of the Byrd crew of forty-seven fliers, seamen snd technicians Also four hundred pounds of pemmlcan (meat fats and raisins), huge quantities of boron, dried milk, erbewurst (pea soup) aad other sup plies In proportion were carried along. Cod liver oil was Included for Its healthful properties. Herbert Griggs, who had charge of provisioning Peary's expedition In his fsni6iis dash to the Pole, worked out the rations for the Byrd explorers. Two pounds per man per day was the allowance to tuke care of all emergencies. No amount of clothing la really sufficient when flying 1,000 or more feet in the air In the Polar regions, but every possible precaution was taken by Commander Byrd against exposure. The men were equipped with the warmest and lightest of reindeer suits and with fur parkas, a gurment that reaches to the knees and bus a hood coveting the head. Plenty of goggles were found to be an absolute necessity to protect them against the glare of the snow. In spite of all the precautions the undertaking was full of unseen danger. None of this equipment would be' of the slightest avail against some unexpected and un precedented situation which might arise. There la always the danger of snowhllndness, exhaustion, freezing, some mishap to the engine. Lieutenant Byrd and hla com panions. however, were particularly fortunate In escaping with practically no HI effects except the exhaustion due to aueh a perilous trip. —, , Pick Up Ice Pile!. The ship Chnntler’s first stop was at Tromao, Norway, where an Ice skipper wa's taken > on to pilot the Chantler and Its crew through the Ice-filled waters around Spits bergen to King's Bay, where preparations for the first flight to the Pole wer^'ntade. The planes, the instruments and the various oil mixtures used in connection with the airship tests, were carefully examined and tested. Lieu tenant Byrd’s original plana called for six flights as follows: 1— A 400-mile flight irom £plubergen to Peary Land j to unload oil, provisions and equipment at a place that looks promising for a landing. 2— A 400-mile flight back to Spitsbergen. 8—A second 400-mtle flight from Spitzbergen to Peary Land base with further food, fuel and equipment. 4— An 880-mlle flight to and around the Pole and bac$ to the Peary base. 5— An 800-mlle round trip flight to the northwest over unexplored areas In search of new lands. d—A 400-mile flight from the Peary Land base back to Spitsbergen. It waa his plan In his second flight to attempt to dis cover new land, but when be received the report of the flight of-^mundsen In his dirigible. In which It waa stated that the Norge had failed to find any trace of new land. Lieutenant Byrd decided to abandoo further flights and the trip over land on sleds be had planned In his •aerch for new land in unexplored areas. Now he has decided t« try to accomplish by airship at the South* Pole what he did at the North. Aa he left the Spits bergen base be stated that he would have jxst as well an equipped exi*edltlon for hla southern flight aa ha had in hla recant adventure la the North. Blackville, August 3.—Mr. W. P. Blume, of ?the Blackville section cele- !§ brated his 66th birthday Saturday, Si July 31st, this being the fourth event to be observed in this manner. About ;*« 125 relatives and friends were pres- enk and thoroughly enjoyed the oc casion. At 1:30 o’clock, a most boun tiful dinner was spread. The guests were entertained with various amuse ments during the, day. In taking their departure, everyone wished Mr. Blume “many more happy birthdays.” DRAUGHON’S BUSINESS COLLEGE ColtunbiiL South Carolina B RECOGNIZED BY THE NATION’S BEST BUSINESS MEN AND BUSINESSES A DRAUGHON’S diploma is your assurance that your ability will be recognized and your services sought. Tuition in this wide known business college *s no more expensive than in the unrecognized schools. Prospective students owe it to themselves to write for information. ! / Miss Essie Livingston friends in Barnwell. v is visiting Mrs.. Minnie Jones left on Wednes day for Columbia, Sumter and other points. Quite a number of Barnwel people went down to Hampton Wednesday to attend tjhe campaign meeting. Mrs. Perry A. Price has returned from a visit to Sumter.' Hkr mother, and sister, Mrs. Spann, and Mibs Rosalee Spann, returned with her. Among those enjoying camp life at Beaufort last week were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Black. 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