BYRD FLIES TO SAFETY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 621, 25 March 1929, Page 9

BYRD FLIES TO SAFETY

WELL IN SPITE OF COLD WHERE 150 M.P.H. WIND BLOWS (United Service) BY RUSSELL, OWEN Copyrighted, 1925, by the “New York Times" company and the St. Louis "PostDispatch.” All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the "New York. Times." BAY OF WHALES, March 22. Commander Richard Byrd flew back to the Bay of Whales from the mountains to-day after two days of waiting for the wind to go down. The sky cleared this morning and a cold sun was shining. The thermometer was at 22 degrees below zero. The airplane took off, and in less than three hours was back here again. Everyone was overjoyed to see the chief step out of the cabin in which he and his companions, Laurence Gould, Harold June and Malcolm Hanson, had been packed so tightly that they crowded the pilot, Dean Smith. Byrd, Gould and Hanson were surrounded by everyone in the camp, all anxious to know all about the locality where the wind blows at a velocity of 150 miles an hour. All the party were well in spite of the severe cold.