THE BYRD PARTY
• 3 DEAD OF ANTARCTIC NIGHT LEADER'S NARROW ESCAPE. FUMES FROM MOTOR.
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(Received June 24, 7.35 p.m.) LITTLE AMERICA, June 23. In a radio conversation from the advance weather base, Rear-Admiral Byrd. told of a, narrow escape 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 has now explained that the motor supplying electric piower for the radio was throwing off fumes and he felt "rocky" and was forced to turn off the motor. The danger of such • poisoning is a, continual menace to the Byrd expedition, scientists fear, and they have warned him to exert the utmost care. To-day marks mid-winter in the long Antarctic night and the sun, at its greatest declination to-morrow, will begin its slow movement southward.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 5
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157THE BYRD PARTY Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 5
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