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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.
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THE DIXIE HATCHERY
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Blume Reunion.
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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.”
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Mrs.. Minnie Jones left on Wednes
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Quite a number of Barnwel people
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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. Mr. and Mrs. Frank
lin Black, of Barnwell and Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Grubbs and Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Grubbs, of Blackville ’
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Falkenstein and
little daughter have returned to
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relatives in Walterboro. Their many
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