New Britain herald., 1925-06-09
|DIRIGIBLES NOT
 GOING ID ARCTIC
Wilbur Will Not Use Them for
 AmundSen Relief

Washington, June 9. R-secrs- tary Wilbur has no intention of send ing either of the dirigibles Los An gees and Shenandoah in search of the missing Amundsen Polar eKpedi- | ton.
 In announcing refusal of request by the Norwegian Aero club that one of the airships be sent to the rescue, the secretary declared "We are not going to send any wild goose chase to the Polar regions" The navy de- partment has not changed its opin- ion that such an expedition is not feasible and Mir. Wilbur pointed out yesterday that If sent 1t could not be ready to operate before the three airplanes with the MacMillan Arctic expedition could make search for AmundseR.
 Too Difficult & Flight
 Difficulties attending dirigihle flight te the pole, he believes, would be greater than those of heavier ma chimes, with the 7airship more highly susceptible to weather conditions. An added danger, he said. would lie in possible recurrence of engine trouble which forced the Los Angeles to break off her trip to Minnesota.
 The Les Angeles, which turned back Sunday at Cleveland when mo- tors connected with her water re- covery system failed, will resume her flight to Minnesota, probably tomor- row, for the Morse American centen- nial, as soon as repairs are effected the secretary announced.
 Meanwhile, another Amundsen re- lief party is reported forming in Paris. Dispatches last night related that pr. Jean Charcot, Polar explor- CT intends to leave early in July to search for the adventurers. The | lFrenchman believes that the expedi- ton is safe and is attempting to reach civilization before the Polar winter begins.
 A similar view was expressed by meterologists and airplane experts who returned to Bergen, Norway, yesterday, from Spitzbergen. where they were associated with the Amundsen party in preliminary preparations for the venture. They were confident that the expedition is safe and that it's members are hiking across the ice fields toward Cape Columbia.
 AfaoMiiIan's Plans Unless the missing party is heard from by August l, when the Mac Milan party will reach Etah in Greenland, Boston despatches say, MacMillaH may start search at that time, using two of his three naval planes, He proposes to trace Amundsen's supposed course be- tween Cape Columbia and the Pole.
 As plans for the MacMillan- New expedition move forward another angle is presented in the eventualty that its discovery Of uneXplored lands might raise a new and inter- esting point in international law. It Is possible that the fliers will find some lands on which it would not be safe 10 alight. and whether the mere sighting from aircraft, without land ing would afford a basis for national claim to such land under interna- Itional law has never been defined, it lis believed.
 This and other phscure' points of law are believed to be brought out in letter from MacMillan which has been placed before the state de- Partment, dealing with the airplane exploration activities Of the party. In this connection, Ottawa dis patches yesterday related that Can ada has sent mounted police to es- tablish control over islands claimed by the Dominion government to the north of the main land.
 One of these islands, Ellsnlere, will he flown over by the Americans en route from their ship base to the land base, and whether it will be necessary to gain Canada's peFnis- sion to do 80 is a question apparent ly not yet answered. .AYel Island, on which the American land base will be located, is understood never to have been claimed by Canada and it is supposed that permission 10 use lit will not be necessary.