The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-29
IS READY
| 70 FLY ACROSS POLE.
,DrNG NORSEMAN TO JUMP
npp NEXT MONTH IN HUGE
ZANE FOR ARCTIC TRIP.
pl ANE TO CARRY BIG CARGO


" TOP of Globe. Adventure Over Ice
Waste Will Be Fraught With Peril.
Signals to Be Maintained.
c,++;np forth on what is perhaps
most yenturesome and spectacular
,.+ vet known in Arctic explora-
H. Can't Ronald Amundsen, hardy
Eorse adventurer, who has spent most
Il he more than half century of life
.be frozen wastes of either the
Earth or south pole, is at Wainwright,
|sI..ka, ready for his great adventure
tbe conquest of the Polar regions
Alter f many unsuccessful attempts
solve the great mysteries of the
.,,s nnorth Amundsen plans to fly
,ro,s the pole, literally, and bring
f.rt TO the civilized world a stirring
Is ss of that great expanse as
Esfn from the air. He plans to fly
m Wainwright Alaska, to Spitz-
zsrgen north of Norway, distance
nearly 1000 miles.
4 One Of the planes which he will use
] At Wainwright, and the other is
Eboard his ship Maud, some 800 miles
lam Point Barrow and presumably
,,t north of Wrangel Island, wait
4 ID perhaps icelocked, for her intrep-
owner to descend from the skies.
he has been there, with her crew,
&nce Amundsen abandoned her last
BAR and returned to Seattle.
Has Modern Inventions.
Amundsen will leave Wainwright,
robably about June Is, in the Eliza
Hill an all-steel Larsen monoplane.
He has added capacious tank for
skua gasoline, and his instruments
b. air navigation are the last word
i invention.
bese fights, and at the most oppor-
kbpe moment to dash across the pole
iii be begun. The trip is filled with
knger. for the Arctic wastes may be
mass of broken, heaving ice, with
reat intervals of open spaces. Any
rced landing would be fraught with
kril. unless the explorers were lucky
Rough to find an unbroken field OF
Il. They will not have the added
bndicae of darkness, for the start
Hi not be made until the Arctic
sy' has set in, and this lasts for
onths
s It is estimated that the cargo the
plane will have to carry on her
BAL flight, including food, fuel, in
Flments and aviators, will total
bout three tons, two-thirds of this
#ng gasoline necessary for fight
20 hours. The speed of the Eliza
#th in favorable weather, is about
miles an hour.
A Good Navigator.
NThe chief fear expressed for
mundsen's undertaking is that the
ane might be deviated from her
purse by the magnetic pole AS a
brine navigator Amundsen rates
#gh, and he has equipped himself
Ith compasses and the latest aerial
Ventions which should enable him
steer a straight course.
3 But with all the guardian mechan-
y ns OF the airplane there is still
pole world of uncertainty. To re-
bee it still further, the Norwegian
vernment will send naval detach-
Hent to Spitzbergen to keep a sharp
took for Amundsen and maintain
variety OF signals which he cannot
A Gold Gamble"
The concensus is that Amundsen is
king cold gamble" but it is no
Rore than he has been doing for
farS, The first man to reach the
putin Pole, he is equally determined
be the first man to fly over the
cFth Pole.
Amundsen has been taking chances
years. He has endured almost ev-
kind of hardship known to Arctic
piorerS. His ships have been crush
IN the great ice jams of the north,
mas 'mushed" hundreds of miles
IN only Eskimos for companions,
has lived on blubber, and he is
No3ughly Injured to the penetrating
#ctlc cold.
Ii he comes back he will be able to
scribe that which no white man
ever before seen. He will be able
tell Just what is in that great ex-
use In the Arctic Circ1e-whether
Is a continent, a maze of islands,