Home from the Snow

William J. Ziedlik, a radiothusiast of East Grand Forks, Minn., picked from the ether a radio message. It had come 2,000 miles from the Schooner Bowdoin in which Capt. Donald B. MacMillan was exploring the Arctic within 650 miles of the North Pole. Said the message:

"We are. safe, homeward bound, with all on board well. Our little 88-foot schooner, which has been frozen in the ice for 320 days, eleven degrees from the North Pole, has poked her way down the coast of Greenland almost on schedule. We should reach Labrador in a few days and Wiscasset, Me., by Sept. 15. . . .

"We are now at the end of the long light period and are beginning to see stars at night. Donald Mix, our radio operator, is now operating nightly from midnight to 3 a. m. eastern standard time, on 175 metres. So you may expect full details of our trip soon by radio. .

"We crossed Smith Sound to Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Island, with dog team three times. There we landed the National Geographic Society's memorial tablet in commemoration of 'Starvation Camp', the site of the disaster of the ill-fated Greely Arctic Expedition of 1881. All in all, we covered 2,000 miles with dog team."

Donald M. MacMillan, 49, Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College, is experiencing his ninth polar expedition. He was on Peary's Expedition (1908-09) when the latter discovered the North Pole. For two years he did ethnological work among the Esquimaux. He has been the leader of the Crocker Land Expedition (1913-17) and the Baffin Land Expedition (1920-22).