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SITTING ON TOP. Three Soviet explorers (top) landed their plane, staked their country’s
'•’’g and set up a weather station at the North Pole. Left to right: 1. D. Papanin, Prof. O. J. Schmidt,
expedition leader, and M. V. Vodopyanov, pilot. Below is the polar plane.
Explorer Comment
On North Pole
Station
Explorer Says Group at Pole
Deserve the Congratulations
of Entire World
GAVE ADVICE TO RUSSIANS
Stefansson Expects Scientists
Will Drag Base Back to Goal
As Ice Steadily Shifts
BOSTON, (AP)—Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd recently praised
the flight of Russian scientists
and airmen to the North Pole as
a “subperb undertaking”, but pre
dieted they would ‘have to move
their base periodically in the di
rection of Alaska."
Arctic and Antarctic explorer,
he has followed closely the So
viet government’s plans for the
flight and has at times ben con
sulted by Russian airmen.
‘This is a siuperb undertaking”,
he said, “and those connected
with it deserve the congratula
tions of the world. I have had a
small amount of communication
with the Soviet government re
garding these flights and have
kept up, as far as possible, with
their activities, and when I saw
how very thoroughly the govern
ment was preparing this expedi
tion I felt certain of its success.
“On my flight to the Pole I
found there were a few places on
some of the ice floes where a
plane could land with skiis in the
Spring and I so informed Russia.
It is my guess that the group that
landed at the Pole will drift over
toward Spitzbergen or Greenland
and in order to stay at the pole
they will have to move their base
periodically in the direction of
Alaska.
“I think they will run some haz
ards in the Summer from the ice
floes breaking up but they are
probably so well equipped they
will be able to transfer their mat
erial to floes that have not brok
en up.
“Of course, we don’t know so
much about the drift of the Polar
Sea and one could not predict in
what direction the ice floes will
m ive. Bu; before the bummer is
ov:-r they are almost certain to
move a considerable distance.
“With a fleet of planes within
striking distance, I think the per
sonnel could be rescued in case
greatest risk to the marooned par
of trouble. Summer, the time of
tv, would be also the time of
greatest risk to fliers on account
of the poor visibility.” .
Stefansson Praises Flight
VilhjaLmur Stefansson, Arctic
explorer, yesterday praised the
Russian flight to the North Pole,
but said it did not surprise him.
“The announcement that Prof
essor Schmidt had arrived with a
party at the Worth Pole to spend
at least a ^ear in that vicinity
r*• '’icnt:study cl ci n°t snr*
prise anyone who understands
Arctic conditions anc! who has
studied the general exploratory
and aviation programs of the So
viet Union", he said.
“No doubt there is a plan that
when the drift has reached a cer
tain point on the European side
the equipment will he packed on
sleds and hauled back to the
Pole. However, it would be prac
tically as valuable to remain on
the same floe as it drifts toward
is meeting with the Gulf Stream.”
He said that while there was
considerable movement of ice in
I Weather Bureau
Forecaster Now
Enroute North
'Bv The Associated Press.
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 20, — To
help with weather forecasting for
the Arctic seardh, Clayton F. Van
Thullenar, district forecaster from
Salt Lake City, is on his way to
Alaska.
He is to augment the federal
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th-' vicinity of the Pole it was
si igc .-it and not accompanied by
a^ much crushing and tumbling
nb u; ol floes as wou d be the
ca-c !: „rer land. He said the gen
eral direction of movement “is
app rently away from Alaska
and toward Island.”
In praising Professor Schmidt.
Mr S'.efansson said the Soviet
leadership “has fallen into par
ticular.y able hands.” He said the
Explorers Club here recognized
this several months ago, when
Professor Schmidt was voted an
honorary membership in this or
ganization.
Telegraphic Briefs
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 21—Authori
ties of the Shanghai battle-fring
ed International Settlement, de
cided to empty the Ward Road
jail, which is believed to be the
world’s largest prison, and free
seven thousand inmates. For 3
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days the jail has been in the mid
dle of tihe battlefield northeast of
Shanghai and the Settlement au
thorities they would be no longer
re p.insible for the inmates. They
w.l] be freed at the rate of five
.hundred to one thousand daily,:
beginning today, and be taken to
the western borders’ of the Set
tlement to await any fate which
may come to them.
The inmates of this jail include
murders, kidnappers, narcotic
dealers and drug addicts, nearly
all of which are Chinese.
Three American prisoners were
rescued early Friday in fighting,
when a shell struck the building
wound.ng or killing ninety pris
oners. ;
NANKING, August 21—Chinese
National government said it “de
plored" the shell explosion which
killed on American seaman and
injured 17, however, the spokes
man said, it was to be doubted
that the shell came from a Chin
ese gun.
Nelson T. Johnson', U. S. Am
bassador.said he contemplated no
official action.
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before congress two years, pro
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ment supervision. The project is
expected to be ready and placed
in operation by December.
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