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PLANES TO REVEAL
SECRETS OF ARCTIC
Amundsen Hopes to Chart North
Pole With Aircraft.
EXPEDITION is ELABORATE
Members Will Talk Daily to Washng
ton by Radio From Roof OF the
WorId"-Plan Five-Year Voyage.

New York, March 29.--As fascinat
ing aS tale by Jules Verne was the
plan for aerial exploration of the root
of the world." Sketched in full for the
fist time 10y Captain Roald Amund-
sen. diScOverer of the South roe.
Arriving from Norway on the Sta
vargerfjurd, the explorer plunged al
once into the work of organizing tie
expedition. which sails June L froip
Seattle to drift across the North
Polc-an expedition which AmundSeh
expects will revolutionize polar eXplh
ratinn and provide Il short cut 10 in
valuable scientific knowledge.
The eXpeditfOn which sails this time
fer the North Pole. will not he like
those which have preceded it, accord,
Ing TO it's leader. Its vision will not
be confined to a few miles on either
side of the ship. but from the, air 1t
will be able to take in at a glance
objects 200 miles away.
1t will not be for years cut off frCnI
touch with the ,utside world, leaving
friends and relatives 70 wonder if tile
Northland had smashed in its icy fiSi
the hardy adventurers who encr0acll,
ed on its Businesses. Instead, il WHl
talk by radio, four times a day, wifi
Washington. and when it returns III
three or five years it will know what
the civilized world has been dOi92
during its absence.
1t will not have spent years chaSt
ing merely Il narrow strip, but Will
the aid of aviation will be able j.
chart 100000 square miles, sket9l
ing the currents of the air as well AS
those of the sea. For centuries Sci3n.
t;Sts have believed that currents pl
the North Pole have been reSpOnsial ale
for climatic phenomena in the part sof
the world in which civilized man lives
and AmundSen> hopes to accomplish
with his airplaneS in Il tive-year Wy
age What would take forty years, nil
lions of dollars and many lives if 0Hly
q ship and dog sledS were employed
1t is upon his airplaneS-twO in
numher-that AmundSen pins his CHIEF
hopes, ami it was upon one of then
that he focused his attention as s0or
as he stepped ashore.
Hardly had he landed then ne hast
ened to a conference with John NJ
Larsen, Il governor OF the -AeronautfCa
Chamber Of Commerce of America
After luncheon came the announce
ment that the larger of the two plan6
selected by the explorer would be th'
all-metal Larsen monOplane, which, OF
December %, flying ove.' Mineola, l.
l.. in zero weather, established tht
worlds record for continuous fiyin;
of 26 hours 10 minutes 81 seconds.
The planes, Captain Amundsen eX
planned, was being supplied by Larsel
at his own expense, and the cOntribu
tion which the airplane manufacture
would make to the expedition wOult
represent about 100000. The plan
has been thoroughly renovated.
Test flights i'll be made from Cen
trail Park, Long Island.
Amundsen is confident that tn
monOplane-the eyes of his veSSe
Maude-will be able to do its wOr
we'll permitting great SallieS to eithe
side Of the vessel, and sending war;
ings of ice fields and dangerous cul
rents that should be avoided.
AmndSen said he would take te
men with him when he sets out 70
| Nome, to drift to SpitZenbergen, wit
food sufficient for seven years.