The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-14
WIRELESS FROM
THE NORTH POLE
Such Is Amundsen's In
tention When He
Gets There

SEATTLE. Wash. Aug. 13.-From
tho rCmOtcat, most inaccessible spot
ON carth--the North pulc---a wire-
less message will bc flashed to the
civilized world, If the plans OF Cap
tain Road Amuudscn, diacovorcr Of
the South Polo ana famous Arctic
explorer. are carried out.
Captain Amundscus schooner
Maud. on which he hoped to drift
past the pole with the ice fluoS. vas
disabled by "A broken propeller of
Cape Scrdzc. Siberia, after nc had
spent two years in pushing around
the eastward Arctic passage from
Norway. The explorer left his vcs-
sci and her crew to await a break in
the ice and proceeded TO Nome.
later coming to Seattle on recent
ship.
The Maud has no wireless appara-
tus, but Captain Amuudscn expects
to install one when the craft Is
brought here, some time this sum
mcr, TO he repaired aud rcfittod.
Captain Amuudscn explained that
his party had been cut off from
communication with other human
beings for two years, with but one
| brcak-his trip out to Nome last
! ycar--two years Of icc-bound hori-
zoua, of bitter cold, of almost end
/ less night.
THE war was raging in its most
/ critical period when We left the
world most Of you know" he re-
/ called, "and for many months we
speculated in vain on the course of
events. 1t was in December, 1919,
more than "A year after the signing
/ OF the armisticc, that we finally
met u Russian trader who tod US
what had happened. Then ! de-
]
Captain Amundacn told the Asso-
| ciatcd Press he would spend the
next year In the United states, prob
ably most Of it around Seattle. and
would sail from this port next sum
mor He will strike back for Cape
Scrdzo, he said. trusting to meet
with better luck than the furious
Arctic storm which last year hurled
the Maud into an iCe-bauk on the
Siberian coast.
The explorer affirmed that his
voyage had tended only TO confirm
his previous theories about mag
uotic properties Of the Polar basin.
He expressed faith in his belief that
an ocean current running north
eastcrly from Cape Scrdzc would
carry him past the pole and even
tually into the Atlantic ocean.
when We reached Nome a year
ago, ana started baCk, ne StIu'
tho trouble was that an uuprcccd-
cntcd jam of ice prevented us from
pushing far enough north. We
drifted too much TO the cast--and
the currents eastward from Siberia
are extraordinary Is sort Of
/ Whirlpool whore one wanders
around in circles instead of follow
ing any course"
1T viii take three ycars-porhaps
longer" he predicted.
Captain Amundscn said that an
important part Of his equipment
consisted Of books, hundreds of
them.
u read mostly fiction" he eaih.
Under such circumstances mans
mind needs diversion. ! want somc-
thing ligh;--but not too light, It
must be plausible"
The party experienced no serious
illness tho entire trip. Nor dId the
cold cause suffering, the explorer
said, for all were wCl equipped. ON
tho torturou1 voyage from Norway
to eastern Siberia they encountered
few natives.
1T Is deaolate shore on tho
north Of siberia" no pointed out.
I'VE saw few signs ~ No, except oc-
casional polar bears. At one point
we shot 40, skinned them and used
the meat for steaks. l. We had been
trapping for skins we could have
made a small fortune"
The Maud's crow Includes DR.. II,
Y. Svcrdrup scientist, oscar
Wist!ng. G.. Olonikiu and seven ma
tivcs, They left Norway IN 1918
and remained buried IN tho leo l9
months,