Evening star. [volume], September 05, 1947, Page B-12, Image 41

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Ronne Group Begins
1,200-Mile Triplo
Map Antarctic Area
By Comdr. Finn Ronne
North American Newspaper Alliance
RONNE EXPEDITION BASE,
Marguerite Bay, Antarctic, Sept.
1— (Delayed)—Our main southern
trail party left this morning. Just
after dawn they headed across the
frozen waters of Marguerite Bay to
start a 1,200-mile journey into un
known areas which will keep them
on the trail for 100 days.
Four men and two dog teams
comprised the party. It was under
the direction of our geologist, Dr.
Robert L. Nichols, head of the geol
ogy department at Tufts College,
Medford, Mass., and also head of
the Geological Society of America
The other two Americans in the
party are Robert Dodson, our assis
tant geologist and surveyor, and
Arthur Owen, a Boy Scout from
Texas who will act as dog driver and
radio man.
A British observer, Lt. Kevin
Walton, of the Royal Navy, made
the trip as a representative member
of the British group here. This
is part of a joint co-operation plan
agreed on by our expedition and
Base E of the British Falkland
Islands Dependency. Nelson Mc
Clary, a biologist and ex-navy offi
cer who is a member of our ex
pedition, will accompany a British
trail party scheduled to leave in
about three weeks.
To txpiore Area.
Dr. Nichols’ party will go south
and east into unexplored territory
to locate and "fix” definite ground
control points to which we can
later orient the horizon-to-horizon
photographs we will take from the
air. The group will also undertake
scientific studies in geology, mete
orology, glaciology and topographi
cal surveying. The party will be
alerted at times of aerial flight and
will stand by as a rescue group if
need arises.
Those departing today will be
followed in five days by a tractor
party which will attempt to trace
their tracks. The dog party will go
south across Marguerite Bay toward
King George VI Sound. At the
junction where the bay ice meets
the higher shelf ice of the sound,
the men will tary to find an ap
proach to the higher level. "Hie
tractor group, by now close behind
the dog teams, will use the same
approach to the high level and, once
on top, the two groups will merge.
They will then proceed farther
south in King George VI Sound un
til, at the southeast corner, they es
tablish an advanced base. This will
serve as a refueling site for the
twin-engine Beechcraft and the
Norseman plane which will be used
for aerial survey work. Studies of
terrestial magnetism and meteorol
ogy will also be carried out there.
Sledge Trip Planned.
From this base the sledge party
will press out eastward into the un
known, heading for Mount Tricorn,
200 miles across the rugged un
mapped terrain of the Palmer
peninsula. Nothing is known of the
land in the area, nor of the heights
to which the men must ascend for
a. successful crossing. This will be
the hardest struggle of the whole:
1,200-mile trip.
When the men reach the shore cf;
the Weddell Sea, they will head
south along the coastline for 20
days.
While they are in this area, and
while we are in touch with them
by radio, I will make several long
survey flights over their route and
try to explore and map this stretch
of unknown coastline on the An
arctic continent. We will have
trimetrogon cameras in the plane.
One of the main purposes of the
sledge trip and the plane flights—
in fact, of our whole trip to Antarc
tica—is to investigate the interest
ing possibility that Antarctica isj
two continents. This will be true;
if we can prove there is a water!
link—under the ice—between the
Ross and Weddell Seas.
Two Areas Possible.
Such a link, by dividing the land
mass of Antarctica virtually through!
the middle, would mean that there
are two large land areas here.
Tliis morning's party carried 2,
200 pounds of supplies, enough for
37 days’ subsistence on the trail.
Further rations will be dropped to
them by plane.
The 13 huskies of the American
dog team pulled two sledges, ar
ranged in single file. Lt. Walton,
the British observer, furnished his
own team of 11 Labrador huskies.
They pulled a single sledge.
As the two teams headed out
across the ice, past the planes se
cured near the shore and into a
newly fallen 10-inch snow, a bright
ray of sunshine broke through the
clouds and outlined them against
the stark whiteness of the area.
We considered it a good omen.
U. S. Exports Decline
Again During July
By the Associated Press
United States exports declined
during July for the second consecu
tive month after a long and steady
postwar rise, the Census Bureau re
ported today.
The bureau said July exports were
valued at $1,151,000,000, a drop of
7 per cent from the June total of
$1,241,700,000, and 19 per cent below
the postwar high of $1,421,800,000
in May.
This decline accentuated the re
ports of mounting crisis in Europe
over a shortage of dollars to con
tinue buying United States goods
needed to spur the work of recovery
from war devastation.
Meanwhile, United States imports
also declined slightly in July, drop
ping to $449,900,000 from $466,000,000
in June.
Commercial exports (all foreign
shipments except those under lena
lease, UNRRA or other aid pro
grams from the United States de
clined to $1,124,500,000 in July from
$1,201,600,000 in June.
Exports under the UNRRA pro
gram wer eoff from $39,800,000 in
June to $25,300,000 in July, but lend
lease exports'* increased from $300,
000 in June to $1,200,000 in July.
The bureau said the July figures
did not include $3,000,000 worth of
shipments made during the month
under the Greek-Turkish aid pro
gram.
2 Army Men Say Gascoigne
Struck Private at PW Camp
By the Associated Press
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 6.—A
Navy court-martial board trying Lt.
(j. g.) Richard Gascoigne of Lorain,
Ohio, on charges of mistreating fel
low prisoners in Japan was told yes
terday by two Army sergeants that
Gascoigne struck an Army private
without any apparent provocation.
Both Sergt. James C. Stacey, 26,
of Hot Springs, Ark., and T/Sergt.
Donald E. Ker, 35, of Los Angeles,
testified they saw Gascoigne strike
and knock down Army Pvt. Ernest
Victor Arnaud at Camp 17, Omuta,
Kyushu, Japan.
Kenneth W. Luton, 29, an Army
sergeant, testified that he had once
seen Gascoigne, who at the time
was an enlisted storekeeper, and an
other American (not Pvt. Arnaud)
in a fist-fight at the camp.
This testimony was preceded by
a statement by Maj. Achille C. Tis
dale of Fort Benning, Ga., that
Gascoigne was “generally steady
and cool in wartime, constantly in
the face of the enemy.”
Maj. Tisdale, who was in command
of the prisoners at the camp, de
voted much of his testimony to
conditions under which the men
lived. These conditions, he said,
forced the men to steal from hunger
and general want.
Gascoigne is charged in one of
four specifications with reporting
Army Corpl. James B. Wilson to the
Japanese for stealing salt from a
warehouse, “thereby exposing Wilson
to unreasonable, cruel, brutal and
inhumane punishment.”
Wave Officer Here Gets
Dean's Post at Illinois U.
By th« Associated Press
CHAMPAIGN, 111., Sept. 5—Lt.
Comdr. Miriam A. Shelden of the
WAVES, row stationed in Wash
ington, has been appointed dean of
women at the University of Illinois,
the university announced yesterday.
Comdr. -Shelden now is working
on plans for the enlistment of
women in the regular Navy.
A graduate of Russell Sage Col
lege and New York University, Miss
Shelden taught at Berea (Ky.) Col
lege and at the University of North
Carolina Women’s College. She also
was dean of women at Berea. Her
home is at Millbrook, N. Y.
She replaces Mrs. Leah F. Tre
lease, who requested return to full
time teaching.
Rare New York Serum
Flown to London Zoo
By the Awociated Press
LONDON, Sept. 5.—A rare serum
is being rushed by air from
laboratories in New York to protect
animals in the London zoo from
a spread of cat distemper.
Two sick lions have been
isolated, and there was fear that
the disease might be communicated
to leopards and tigers. Among the
beasts to be treated with the
serum are the 4-month-old cubs
of which Winston Churchill's
lion Rota is father.
The disease is believed to have
been brought into the zoo by house
hold cats.
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Sabath Says Britons
Should Sell Holdings
By the Associated Press
Representative Sabath, Democrat
of Illinois said today that if the Brit
ish need gold their “lords and finan
ciers” should sell "the billions of dol
lars worth of gilt-edge securities
they still hold in the United States.’
The 81-year-old dean of the House
said the British also might “dispose
of some of the interests they have
in the German cartel industries.”
Mr. Sabath described suggestions
for a special session of Congress to
deal with the developing European
economic crisis as “the outcome of
the plans of the propagandists for
the British and Wall Street car
telists.”
He said a proposal by British For
j eign Minister Bevin that the United
! States divide its gold stocks with
j European nations was “a part of that
j propaganda chorus.”
| Undersecretary of State Robert
! Lovett expressed belief at a news
j conference Wednesday that the.Eu
; ropean situation may demand Amer
j ican action before the start of 1948.
Mr. Sabath declared "the vast ma
jority of the people and the govern
iments of Europe themselves are de
pending and relying on America and
not trying to help themselves in
any way.”
John Kieran Married
To Miss Margaret Ford
By th« Associated press
BROOKLINE, Mass., Sept. 5.
Miss Margaret Ford of Brookline
Boston Herald feature writer, and
John Kieran, author and “Informa
tion Please” expert, were married
today in St. Aidan's Catholic Church
The ceremony was performed bj
the bride’s brother, the Rev. John
C. Ford, S. J.
Miss Anne Ford, the bride's sister
and John Kieran, jr., a Harvard
Law School student, were the only
attendants.
Mrs. Kieran Is the daughter of
Mrs. Joanna Cuthbert Ford and the
late Michael J. Ford.
The couple will live in New York.
Mr. Kieran's first wife died five
years ago.
Trusty Gone as News
On Parole Arrives
Ky the Associated Press
IONIA, Mich., Sept. 5.—A 19
vear-old trusty, serving a one-to
1 four year larceny term at the Michi
| gan State Reformatory here, walked
'away yesterday just as prison offi
cials were trying to open the door
for him by means of parole.
Jacob Hoffman’s absence was dis
covered by a guard seeking to in
form him that preliminary steps had
been taken to make him eligible
for parqle in November.
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