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Ready to Use Airplane
If Ice CruSheS Ship

1.-The Amundsen expedition has two
airplanes, but only one, the metal JL,
can be used to fly to the mainland In
the event the ship is crushed by the
ice, the radius of the other being In
adequate for such long flight. 1t is
intended for use for observation and
flights Of few hours duration.
''The metal airplane was selected be-
cause it made non stop flight of twen-
ty-six hours and nineteen minutes In
the bitter cold weather Of December
29-30, 1921, and has been flown to
Northwest Canada as far rs Fort Nor
man, near the Arctic Circle.
Notifications We're made to carry
sufficient fuel to permit non stop flight
of over two thousand miles. so that
Captain Amuudsen and an aviator and
a mechanic can fly out Of any place
where they may be in the unknown
Arctic regions. The distance from any
point to the mainland in any direction
Is within two thousand miles and can
be made by this airplane II nothing m
terferes. There are n number of big
problems in this if--but Amundsen has
carefully figured out how he can solve
Woodhouse tells a story to illustrate
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that, in 19O3-06, he had forced the
northwest passage, the first to do 1t.
And in 191S-21 he forced the north
east passage, the first time it had been
done. That completed his circumnavi-
cation of the Arctic archipelago. He
has circled the Arctic ocean. He hopes
now to drift across It.
In this attempt he has no rivals or
competitors. He is not engaged in n
race. 1t is secondary whether he
crosses the North Pole. If the ice
drifts the way he thinks it does, he will
cross 1t. II not-he may try again !
But probably not. for Amundsen is get
ting along in years. And trips to the
Pole take time.
In the next few weeks he will pass
through Bering Strait, the gateway to
the Arctic, and the North will swallow
him up. After that only the radio will
keep him in touch with the world. His
course will be set for Christiania, Nor.
way-up one side of the world and
down the other-where Camilla and
Cakonita await him. Camilla and
Cakonita are two little girls from the
Arctic whom Amundsen adopted. They
are members of the Tsjuktsji tribe.
They accompanied him to New York
when he came to this country to study
and confer with scientists and make ar
rangements for his trip prior to his de-
parture. Then they returned to Nor
way. There they will await the re-
turn of their foster father and bene-
factor from the grip of the frozen
North. They fully believe he'll come
back. Still-few have ever done 1t.
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Stanch Little Ship
Home of Nine Men

!. All this contcmplates and is con-
uhgent on the survival Of the stout
itte 3OO-ton, egg shaped ship which
Amundsen will lock in the ice as the
nome of himself and associates for the
next few years. 1t is built for Use in
the Arctic. 1t is constructed to escape
tne crushing force of polar ice. 1t has
proved Its worth In the past, having
zone through the northwest passage
nut Its most severe test Is to come. 1t
%i'i be called on to resist the pressure
Vi iGebergs weighing millions Of tons,
as they shift about in the sea. And
the alrplanes which the party carries
tor Its observations must withstand the
torce OF hurricanes which move the ice
uergs about, which sometimes travel
thousands of miles and which some
authorities hold to be a part Of the
Sslc forces which cause the earth S
seat storms.
4, Ihere are chances to be taken, but
sney are all In the game. An explor-
STs lie Is not one Of ease or safety.
unet Amundsen laughs ut its hazards.
.s own life and those of his cOmpan-
.ons' he declares, are safer than that
VI chestnut street stroller.
Amundsen planned his present trip
Sweiye years ago. This was before he
orove for the South Pole and discoy-
sfed 1t December 0. 1911. Prior to
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Tells of Great Things
ErDLOrer Man Find

Henry Woodhouse. president of the
Aerial League OF America, friend Of
Amundsen and one of the organizers
Of his present polar expedition, says
concerning the venture:
mo one has ever drifted with the
Arctic ice across the top of the world !!
"Whic it is known that the Arctic
ice drifts, there are no data available
regarding the speed and exact direction
of drift. The Amundsen expedition on
the Maud may be carried by the drift
ing ice from point north Of Bering
Strait, In the vicinity Of Wrangell
Island. across the North POk to the
Greenland Sea. but no one may antici.
pate exactly when the drift will be and
how long it will take. On one of the
maps he marked for me the approxt-
mate distance he expects will be COW
cred each year, but that Is to be
secret.
Captain Amundsen anticipates that
it will require at least four years TO
drift across the top of the world, and
the expedition is equipped for seven
years. While the ship is drifting there
will be made scientific observations and
sOundings and airplanes will be used to
conduct surveys and take aerial photo
graphs of the Arctic area about which
nothing is known today.
at Is Il revolutionizing expedition IN
many ways--revolutiOnizin the most
ancient branch Of scence-eXplOration
Only one seventh of the earth's surface
has been accurately mapped, and two
thirds have been mapped only from
rough sketches, and the remainder has
not been surveyed at all
"Our present knowledge of the earth,
its form, size. the confguration of its
surface features, their measurements
and representations on maps as we see
them today is the result of many CEN
turtles of strenuous endeavor and con-
quest over obstacles. Yet, at the pres
ent time. only one seventh of the earth's
land surface has thus far been accu-
rately mapped, and 1t would take at
least two hundred years to complete
the task-with the usual methods.
aircraft will make it possible to do
in twenty years what would require
two hundred years with the usual
methods.
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Amundsen's Skill in lice
Ranked Next to Pearu's

'ShaCketon In 1909 reached a point
so near the South Pole that we have
known pretty accurately the conditions
at that extreme point, so that the part
of Amundsen's narrative dealing with
the Pole itself. while highly entertain
ing, is not so important or novel az
1t would otherwise have been.
"Amundscn owes his success to his
very carefully prepared equipment, to
his splendid dogs and his skill in ham
ding them, and TO many years Of ex-
snow of the far North. Next to Peary
he is the most experienced traveller ON
ice in the world"
The following notes from his cable
to the New York Times illustrate tns
minute care with which every detail was
anticipated:
washing was luxury never in
duIged in on the journey, nor was there
any shaving: but, as the beard has to
be kept short, to prevent ice accumu-
lating from ones breath. n beard cut
ting machine which we had taken along
proved invaluable. Another article
taken was n tooth extractor, and this
also proved valuable, for one man had
a tooth which became SO bad that it
was absolutely essential that 1t should
be pulled out, and this could hardly
have been done without a proper In
strument.
For food we relied entirely on PEN.
mican, biscuits, chocolates, powdered
milk, and, of course, dog meat. Tho
dogs were fed on pemmican.
I'm my opinion we had the best and
most satisfying provisions possible. in
fact, from the beginning to the end OF
the journey We never felt an und,Is
craving for something t0 eat or'.anv
feeling of not having had suGIcjeut
',-.'g
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pete arrangements for cooperative
work between the department and his
expedition in terrestrial magnetism and
atmospheric electricity. During his
Northeast Passage (191S-21j the
Amundsen expedition made IA series OF
! mighty valuable magnetic observations
at more than fifty points. While in
rnLs country he a so paid a visit to the
non magnetic ship Carnegie, and dis
cIlsSed with group Of scientists his
pans TO obtain scientific data relating
10 geography, oceanography. meteorol-
| oSS, gravity, terrestrial magnetism and
atmospheric electricity.
Dr. Sverdrup, his chief scientific as
S!stant,. associated himself with the
'arhegle Institution last October to
complete the reduction and publiCa ton
Oh the magnetic observations obtained
IN tiie earlier Arctic expeditions.
;, Although the expenses of the expe-
dltlons are paid by the Norwegian Gov
erhment, it is generally acknowledged
that American scientists and support
ers have contributed in important meas
ure to the success of the expeditions.
Dr, Sverdrup intends to devote his
time particularly to investigations of
the physical condition of the Arctic
sea. On account of the connection be-
tween the Polar Sea and the Northern
Atlantic, it Is of far reaching impor-
tance to determine the temperature, cur
rents, salt per cent and other conditions
OF the Polar basin, and the facilities for
scientific observations along this line
should be most excellent, in SO far as
the vessel drifts with the ice over the
iolar Sea In its entire length. Other
Investigations planned include the mag
netic observations to be carried on in
cooperation with the Carnegie Institu-
tion, and collection of geological ma
terial and meteorological observations.
The latter will be Of special Importance.
DIR. Sverdrup voiced great en-
thusiasm for the spirit Of helpfulness
and good will demonstrated by this and
other scientific institutions in Wash
ington. The Department of Terrestrial
Magnetism has placed at the disposal OF
the expedition instruments for air.
electrical observations, electrical ther-
mometers for determining the tempera-
ture of the ice and other valuable scien-
titic tools. Important services have |
likewise been rendered by the United !
States Weather Bureau, the Smith
sonian Institution the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey and others, |
For his previc!,s explorations Cap
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Omdal, !. Fullerton and Sergeant N.
Dahl, aviators and radio operators, and
Cakot, a native.
Amundsen's first scheme was to enter
the ice east of the New Siberian Is
lands. If this had succeeded, it would
have taken the party across the Pole
in the course of three years. But had
1t been unsuccessful, he held, then he
dared not try again. In entering the
ice at Wrangell Island he figures on
four, perhaps five, years, with greater
chance Of success.
The wireless radius from the Maud
Is 2OOO miles. The Stavanger wireless
station will be able to reach him the
whole Of his absence, II nothing goes
wrong. Amundsen will send weather
reports. which will be transmitted by
way of Washington to Christiania. On
part Of his trip, at least, he will be In
touch by wireless with stations in
While in New York In March Cap
tain Amundsen said of the radio:
1--WE cannot ignore the possible BEN
efits of the radio telephone on this trip.
Advances in radio have been so great
in the last few years, particularly in
the field Of wireless telephony, that 1t
is probable that voice from the silent
North may call out each day to tell
the known world what lies locked with
in the ice of the polar seas
A powerful radio telephone set bought
in this country Is linked up on the
Maud with the 200 mile Marconi wire
less set carried by the vessel.
The monOplane which he carries Is
equipped with wheels, pontoons and
skis for landing and taking off on
land, water or snow. The machine it.
self weighs about 2400 pounds, has a
thirty-foot wing spread and is capable
Of carrying 5000 pounds, or one ana
one quarter times its own weight.
III feel this is going to be the crown
ing achievement of my life," he said
recently. '"The north polar basin Is
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Didn't KnOIU Airships
Had Crossed Atlantic

when will It be flown?" he asked.
As woodhouse tells what followed |:
Don't you know It was crossed four
times--once by our navy's flying boats;
once non stop flight. by the British
aviators. Alcock and Brown, and twice
by the British ,dirigible, the R-34?'
without stop-across the Allan.
tic?" he loked at me incredulously.
told him the details Of these four
epochal flights. IIe was. amazed.
without stop?' he kept repeating.
Then he proceeded to explain how 1t
happened that he did not know about
these three year. old achievements.
81 was at Cape Chelyuskin when It
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happened. I have been In the United
States six months since my return from
making the northeast passage and have
been so busy with my next expedition
that l have not been able to find out
what has happened.
To friends, afterward, Amundsen re-
piled when asked what he would use
the radio for:
"We are not going to appear to be
simple minded ignoramuses any more"
"What If the ship is crushed?"
"Then we will be again primitive ex-
plorers cut off from the civilized
world" Amundsen told friends. I'VE
may tell the world before the radio
plant sinks with the ship. The air.
plane may take three of us back to
civilization. We would get up an aerial
expedition to rescue the others. Moth
ing else could get to them
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BRATE CREW SAILS FROM
SETTLE UPON CROW.NING
t TRIP OF EXPLORERS LIFE
MAN N>ho Discovered South Pole H>iU|
Climax 80 Years of Battling Wth
Elements at Earth's End by Journey
to Uncover Mysteries of. A,ctic Sea
by AIrplane Flights

WHEN Captain Roa Amundsen sail from Seattle this month
wv embarked the romantic adventure
the world has
He gone Ave years. possibly longer It his
an ship the ice drift the Of the world If
lucky land Norwayand be home. He will the Pole
n route
Of the intrepid living explorer Of polar
explorer whose contributions the knowledge
Of conditions promise extent and
Importance of all his fellows who have before
the South Pole holding medals first forcing the
between the Atlantic and the Pacific and later the
northeast has his life laughs at his pers
and hazards. S all in the days work with him.
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WILL CHIT WITH REST OF N1OR
WHILE DRIFTING. OR FLYING OVER NORT1

the sacrifices an explorer makes in
losing" himself in the unknown for
periods OF several years. They were
'seeing" New York and talking of va
rious things, when Woodhouse asked :
"What did you think when you
heard the Atlantic had been downT'
What did you say?' Amundsen
asked, puzzled. @
The question was repeated, but
Amundsen professed not to understand
it.
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Amupdsen Doesn't Hope
to COLOnize the Pole

There is slight possibility that the
expedition will point the way to utili-
zation of the Arctic or to the intro
duction of civilization into those re-
gions, as Captain Amundsen views it.
He is convinced that habitability Of re-
gions above the eightieth parallel is
doubtful, and above the eighty fifth
parallel impossible. No less an author
ity than Nansen. when he drifted across
no evidence Of life above the eighty fifth
parallel. Below that Captain Amund-
sen thinks there might be a possibility
of inhabitation to limited degree,
but his own observations in the North
compel him to agree with Nansen that
conditions above that are too severe
for human beings to live there.
AS to resources, such as coal and
minerals, there might be quantities TN.
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One Native to Go With
Eight White Explorers

Captain Amundsen is in command.
The personnel of the expedition is:
Oscar Visiting, master; ii. U. .Sver-
drop, scientist; G. Olonkin, engineer {;
n. Syvertsen, engineer; Lieutenant
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touched and undiscovered in the Far
North, but the conditions naturally
preclude their development, in his opin-
ion. The shifting character of the ice,
he holds, would make it impossible TO
operate even in territory which Is
occasionally accessible. This condition
convinces him that regions which might
be habitable one year would not be
found so consistently.
At Nome, Alaska, the Maud will
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NOW, 10 cap tHlTty wars cAReiio
ence in the Arctic and Antarctic
regions, Amundsen has started
north again. This. time he goes as
the scientist rather than the ex-
plorer. He will chart ocean and wind
currents rather than coast lines.
And he will have, to aid him and
relieve the tedium of the trip, the
benefit of scientific inventions and
discoveries not available to his
predecessors.
Will Get Radio Concerts
While in Frozen North
From the depths of the silent
Arctic, Amundsen will keep in touch
with civilization by radio. His ship
Is equipped with a powerful wireless
set and radio telephone equipment.
He will send daily weather reports
from the day he starts until the day
his journey ends. And he will listen,
at the top Of the world, for cheering
messages from the worlds most
powerful radio stations, and for the
news of the day
And while the ship slowly drifts
across the polar sea, Amundsen and
his party of eight will gather i'm
portant meteorological data, take
scientific observations and soundings,
and record the rise Of the tides and
the movement Of ocean currents. His
field of operations will be the endless
white waste where life cannot nor
mally exist. AS the ice pack moves,
airplanes operating from the deck of
the Maud will be used for observa-
tions.
Only limited group Of scientists are
familiar with all Of Amundsen's hopes.
But 1t can be said that II all goes well
and his theories work out, the farmer
In Kansas and the vineyardist in France
may benefit from his venture. The in
huence of air and ocean currents on
climate has only been suggested by the
studies Of these subjects to date.
Amundsen, when he returns to civiliza-
tion. may be able to tell the world Of
science where. when, how and why
storms originate; how the ocean flows,
and how the flow Of the polar cur
rents-air and water alke-affects the
affairs Of the earth. 1t is from these
studies. and the plans for conducting
them, that the project derives its i'm
portance. Beside what Amundsen may
discover on his present trip with re-
stpect to the workings of physical laws,
the mere discovery Of either the North
or South Pole would pale into insig-
nihcance except as a tribute to hhman
hardihood and courage.
=, When he comes out OF the North
three or five years hence he hopes to
nave explicit and comprehensive data
on the dead calms of the polar night,
me aurora borealis, magnetic storms,
the origin and course of hurricanes
and the affinity of the seas. This
knowledge, linked with that already
available on similar subjects, will prove
or disprove theories that have long been
source of controversy and study, as
wei as prove Of the utmost practical
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tain Amundsen has been feted, dec
grated and honored in many ways. !hs
Hubbard Medal was bestowed on him
By the National Geographic Society In
and the definite relocation Of the Mag
netic Pole. The society also bestowed
q special gold medal in 1913 for his
Antarctic achievement resulting In the
attainment Of the South Pole.
When word was flashed that he had
discovered the South Pole the National
Geographic Magazine, official publ
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Amundsen attributed the accident to an
overheated motor, which forced him to
descend after he had reached an alti-
tude of 5000 feet. In making the land
ing the plane turned over.
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cation Of the National Geographic So
ciety. said concerning his exploit:
"Many geographers had feared that
Amundsen would yield to the tempta~
ton of following. for a considerable
part Of the way to the South Pole the
route, previously discovered and opened
by Shackleton, but his account shows
that he was not satisfied to do this,
and in consequence he has made dis
coveries and surveys that are entirely
new.
The whole distance traversed by
him-approximately 700 miles from his
base, where he moored his ship to Ice
front--to the pole itself appears to
have been across previously untraversed
and unknown ice and land. He has de-
fined the Eastern and Southern boun-
daries of the Great Ice Barrier, that
vast plain Of floating ice which flows
nent. and whose Western boundary
had been defined previously by Shackle-
ton. This enormous glacial ice plain is
one of the wonders of the world. It Is
a solid mass of ice. floating for the most
part, approximately 500 to 1900 feet
thick. and covering an area of about
100. 900 square miles, or considerably
larger than New York. Massachusetts.
New Hampshire and Vermont COM
bined.
'Amundsen found travelling across
the barrier comparatively easy. He
marched 3S2 geographical miles due
confronted by the high mountains. Here
he was so fortunate as to find glacier
route up to the inland plateau easier
than the Beardmore Glacier, which was
used by Shackleton to ascend to the
inland plateau three years before.
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Conferred in America
With Noted Scientists

Before departing ror the North he
spent eight months in the United States
preparing for the trip: He made sew.
cral trips TO Philadelphia. On Jar-
uary 16 last he visited the Department
of Terrestrial Magnetism Of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, 60 COM
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o Waddell Sea.
, 1922-06-28
HAD LIQUOR STILL in JAIL
Discovered After Prisoners Got Drunk
and Engaged In Free-forAll
Fight.

Wichita Falls, Tex--When Cass
Tarver, a county jailer, was called
to quell a free-for-all fight among the
prisoners in the Jail the other night he
discovered that the belligerents were
drunk. For a time 1t was a mystery
to him and other officers as to where
the liquor that had produced the In
t%oxication had been obtained.
A thorough search of the cells and
corridors revealed in an obscure cor
ner a homemade still. 1t showed
sign and construction, but at the same
time 1t was of such simple material
as to make its total cost less than 81.
The biggest thing about the still
was two one-gallon ans which had
contained ~disinfectants and had been
~carelessly left In the Jail. Connecting
the two cans was copper coil only
eighteen inches long.
The prisoners conserved portions Of
potatoes served at their meals, bits Of
corr bread, canned corn and anything
else from which alcohol could be pro-
duced, and this mixture made a mash
which was placed in N of the cans.
The alcoholic vapor was condensed
and finally run through an old sock.
partly filled with charcoal. The char
coal was secretly made in the jail
by the prisoners from bits of wood
which they managed to get hold of
there. An old stove was used to heat
the mash.
, 1922-06-28

Zadock Sheffield what they wanted to
Go about Starlight. Rattlesnake
Charlie Dix got the floor in u split
second.
IF it please you worship" said he,
81 aim TO marry this gal"
81 object" shouted Attorney Tops.
He was overruled.
Plug Hat Shank got under the wire
first On the next heat. There amt
lone of us married on this jury" he
said. whats to prevent her from
choosing any one of us?"
The question was put up to Star
light from the bench. DO you want
to marry one of these jurors" asked
the court, "or be sent back to the
reservation"
'Me?" said Starlight. "Me go in
heap big movies"
"Jury dismissed" said the court
81 object" shouted Attorney Tops.
who's going to pay the costs of this
case?"
Gentlemen of the jury" said the
court, "all In favor of Attorney Tops
paying the costs in this case will say
Aye"
There were IL "Ayes." Gold Tooth
Nellie voted mo" 1t was carried.