The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-08
WIRELESS FROM
 NORTH POLE IS
 EXPLORERS AIM
Roald Amundsen Wan-- to Be Able to Flash Mes
 sage from Pole.

SEATTLE, Aug. or TOIH tH6 lc- motest, most inaccessible spot on earth--the North Pole-a wireless message will be flashed to the civ ilized world, if the plans of Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole and famous Arctic ex plorer, are carried out.
 Captain Amundsens schooner Maud, on which he hoped to drift past the pole with the ice floes, was disabled by broken propeller off Cape Serdze, Siberia after he had spent two years in pushing around the eastward Arctic passage from Norway. The explorer left his yes sel and her crew to await a break in the ice and proceeded to Nome, later coming to Seattle on a recent ship.
 The Maud has no wireless appa- ratus. but Captain Amuedsen ex- poets to install one when the craft is brought here, some time this sum mer, to be repaired and refitted, Captain Amundsen explained that his party had been cut off from com munication with other human beings for two years. with but one break his trip out to Nome last year-two years of ice-bound horizons. of bitter cold, of almost endless night.
 To Carry Wireless
 "The war was raging in it's most critical period when we left the world most of you know" he re- called land for many months we speculated in vain on the course of events. It was in December, 1919, more than year after the signing of the armistice, that we finally met a Russian trader who told us what had happened. Then l determined we would carry wireless"
 Captain Amundsen told the Associ- ated Press he would spend the next year in the United States, probably most of it around Seattle, and would sail from this port next summer He will strike back for Cape Serdze, he said trusting to meet with better luck than the furious Arctic storm which last year hurled the Maud into an ice-bank on the Siberian coast.
 The explorer affirmed that his voyage had tended only to confirm his previous theories about magnetic properties of the Polar basin. He expressed faith in his belief that an ocean current running north easterly from Cape Serdze would carry him past the Pole and event ually into the Atlantic Ocean.
 Talks of Trip
 "When we reached Nome year ago. and started back" he said, "the trouble was that an unprecedented jam of ice prevented us from pushing far enough North We drifted too much to the East-and the currents eastward from Siberia are extraor- dinary-it is a sort of whirlpool, where one wanders around in circles instead of following any course"
 "It will take three years rs-perhaps longer" he predicted.
 Captain Amundsen said that an i'm portant part of his equipment con sisted of books. hundreds of them.
 q read mostly fiction" he said. Under such circumstances a mans mind needs diversion. I want some thing light-but not too light, it must be plausible"
 The party experienced no serious illness the entire trip. Nor did the cold cause suffering, the explorer said, for all were well equipped. On the tortuous voyage from Norway to Eastern Siberia they encountered few natives.
 | Tt is a desolate shore on the north of Siberia" he pointed out. we saw few signs of life, except occa- sional polar bears. At one point we shot 40 skinned them and used the meat for steaks. If we had been trapping for skins we could have made a small fortune"
 The Maud's crew includes Dr. H. V. Sverdrup, a scientist; Oscar Wist- | ing, c. Olonikin and seven natives They left Norway in 1918 and re-