The Washington Post
January 25, 1930

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Sd he ee ee ee ee tee ann ne —— Se * — * ee ab ** — — ee ae 2B xk - ie i sy Se J ™y, mee * Sr te ‘Weather — Fair and are today; tomor- . fair and colder. Cae gt nad — High- : —— est, 33; lowest, 11. 5 — Details on page 15. aera Seas SEEN! FOSTOFFICE. WASHINGTON. D. C. AWAITING GALL TOASSIST BYRD Ready to Do Everything in Power for Rescue if _ Life Is Periled. — LITTLE ALARM FELT AS YET BY JAHNCKE Norwegian Whaling Ships «, in Region Prepared to Render Aid. BRITISH ALSO HAVE VESSEL STANDING BY Experts Hope That {ce Will! - Break Vp in Time to. Allow Passage. (Associated Press.) The Navy is ready to do everything in its power to effect a rescue of the Byrd expedition should fives of the Personnel be imperiled. Passage of a ship through the ice- strewn seas to the explorer’s encamp- ment would depend largely on day- to-day conditions, and Weather Bur- @au experts are unable to make any prediction concerning these. Capt. Clarence 8. Kempff, the Navy hydrographer, said yesterday that the antarctic winter would begin on March 21, and that then new ice would be forming to make passage more difficult. If any of the four whaling vessels now in the region _ went to Byrd's assistance, he added. their succéss in reaching him would depend on winds and. ocean currents. Whaling Ships Best. “Elements controlling the drift of the ice are as difficult to calculate as movement of the stock market,” Kempff'said. “If there is an early faji, with erratic temperatures and 4f the ice were not ‘jammed, but otherwise they would have difficulty.” Weather Bureau experts said that discussion of day-to-day changes con- trolling movement of the ice must be “pure speculation.” Weather Reports Lacking. “No reports whatever are received from observation points that would assist in forecasting antarctic Weather,” they added, “and although we can judge from indirect reports that conditions this year are unusual, we have no accurate picture of usuai conditions with whith to relate the fragments of information we get.”’ The nearest Navy vessel is 8,000 miles from the Byrd party. Acting Becretary Jahncke said yesterday we would “do everything in our power” to meet an emergency, but that from indirect reports he believed the ex- pedition is how subject only to delay in getting out. Oslo, Norway, Jan. 24 (A.P.).—Nor- wegian whaling ships in the Antarctic are ready to aid the expedition of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, locked in by ice packs In the Ross Sea, but the Norwegian Whalers Association Believes that the barrier will break up as usual and permit Admiral] Byrd's supply ships to get through. Norway Ready to Aid. The Norwegian government today informed the American Government, in reply to a request for aid from the United States Minister, that it would do all it could to assist Admiral Byrd. ‘The Government approached the Whalers Association, which promised that if Admiral Byrd were short of provisions a whaling factory ship would be sent to the rescue. Whalers familiar with conditions in 4 the Antarctic believe that there is atill time for the ice to break up, several large whaling factory. ships Continued on Page 7, Column 3. Quinn Dismissed, Lowman Asserts Former Dry Administrator Headed Enforcement Unit Here. (Associated Press.) John J. Quinn, former deputy pro- | Rev. Charles presiding bishop of the Episcopal | Chutch in America, Iay dangerously | ill after a heart attack at his home| tonight. J— For some time it has been known | ‘}and~has been in the ministry 41 Bishop Anderson m After Heart A ttack | Episcopal Church Head’s - Condition Is Called © Chicago, Jan. 24 (AP.) —The most Palmerston Anderson, the elderly primate’s heart was not strong. Friends suggested the burden of duties undertaken by Bishop Anderson after his election as head of his church last November might have proved too great a strain. He returned from an Eastern trip last week apparently in good health. Tuesday he attended a conference of the Chicago Episcopal Diocesan Coun- cil and complained of illness. His physician ordered him to bed. Today his condition became more serious. ' sis AS, & aa oe Rea +33 — Fit ” o> —— NEWS ff Washington — | and the - 2 ve meg t4 — — - A