New Britain herald., 1926-03-01
MODERN ILLUSIONS . ID VISIT ARCTICS
Six Expeditions to Head to Polar
 Seas This Summer

Dattllng through i0lnf seas Tn lbut in search Of a northwest passage 10 the Spice Islands of the east, today still stirs the blood of modern eX. plorers who seek to solve the mys. tcry Of northern seas,
 Lured by desire for adventure, hope of commercial discoveries. the unsuitable curiosity of science and even questions Of military strategy, at least six Arctic expeditions hope this summer 10 reach the North Pole or to find new lands hidden away in the fields of unknown ice. Four oth- CT purely scientific expeditions will penetrate far into the north.
 IL has become almost an interna- iional race to find this No Mans Land By land, sea and air eNpcdl- ions representing interests in Amer ica, France, Norway, Italy and Rus sia will penetrate the regions that lured countless explorers before them.
 Even now it is a trade route 10 the east that may be found, 8 land ing place for airplanes near the North Pole. or vast hidden con- tinent that may be discovered. But the ancient square rigged ship hi romance has been replaced by sci once. Airplancs. dirigibles, flying boats and motor slodge now play vital part
 Today inc expedition led by Lie tenant Commander Richard E Byrd planned to sail from New York late in March in its effort 10 blaze an air route to the pole itself, Last Satur- day the dirigible Norgos, with Nor Wegian and Italian members Of the expedition headed by Roald Amund- sen aboard made q successful test flight at Rome.
 Of the three American expeditions the first will take the air under pres ent plans is that headed by Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian e%- porer, now on it's way north. This expedition Is back by the American Geographical society, the Detroit Aviation society and the Northern American Newspaper Alliance.
 Sandy" Smith, Alaskan propec- tor, is now euleayoring 10 carry gasoline supplies across the Endicott lange to Point Barrow, Alaska, where q base camp and landing will be established. The party hopes to make it's first flights in Fokker planes in late March or early April.
 The chief purpose of the eXpedi- ton Is 10 seek an unknown land be- Iioved 10 lie north of Alaska and Si- beria. If land is discovered base will be established and a flight across the north pole 10 Spitzbergen will be attempted, Scientific investi- gation also will be made.
 Another American expedition headed by Lieutenant Leigh Wade, American round-the- world flyer, also seeks this mystery land but in addi- ton seeks to make a round trip flight to the pole. The expedition is supported hy alumni of American universities, it's personnel and equip ment being all American. Fiy" Dou- gas planes arc being built for flights which are planned for mid July.
 Lieutenant H. II. Ogden, another round world army flyer will as- sist Lieutenant Wade. Robert Ander- son Pope, engineer, who planned tho trip, believes there may still be plants and animals that are direct deSccndents of prehistoric forms in the regions to be explored this summer
 Lieutenant Wade believes that Soviet Russia is planning secret flight 10 the unoAplorod territory in hope of claiming any land that may he found. Such land, he says, would he within 4 hours flying distance of virtually every important city in the northern hemisphere.
 lieulonaut Walo hopes 10 tstah- Jish the shortest London 10 Tokyo route. II vas this that Hondrick Hudson sought "tAo shortest route 10 Cathay, Hind and Nippon."
 The Byrd expedition, backed in part by John |. Rockefeller. Jro and t,decl Ford, also seeks this un- hnoNn land.
 \ myst.rlouy motor s}cJ@n will play a prominent part in the t>p"di- rron under th" auspices of the l1rn~h na}v Apartment Tho sloIs 1r' the dr~j-,n of captrjn Otto S,or- drun. Norwegian seaman who pilot ,3 Nau~.u m thr Tram on his famouS drin past thr Nor'h Pol" locked iH polar I"". II}droplanos elrl hr uy.I 'o start from Spitzhcr- gen to thr po'c
 Eoal1 AnmIsno and Lincoln rnsv ortn. v ho made their polar at r,mpt in aDyr,au,s Inst eummcr, only 10 nr tor-.l }uwn 1n1 then miraculously rrs.u-I nlll try . dir j.iiI. this suum,r The craft Waa built under 'Ne au-plc"- of th" ltal- ism goscrnm,w which is k'"uly in- t,rcsfod in n, up. Greater geo graphic kno"IsI-" is in the aim of this c>pcNtioN nntru ia supported chiefly hv the Arc rOuh of Nor"1N. Amunlson and Ellsworth hrli"v" tho airpIaro has not l'' bc"n de- relopej sufr-rnlH for polar work,
 Another %orNv' 2'1n, llon'' nant 1liassan. hop, $ io rorrh inc pole in Gyiug boa', s'ar'uS from \o'a Zemhl9
 An rzp,iitjo@ ueaI'l ty Harrison Williams. Iarkrd ny the American Nuseuu oi %ajnral History and George Palmer pG'nam, puhIiShor will cruise tH. s"as about Greenland 10 cbtam sri nutn Ia'a
 \ party from ih" diversity Of Michigan. lsJ n" Professor William II. Hohl, vl '>plor" Gr'"ul1n1 itself \ Eu-elau e>peli'ion 10 n"st shore of No,n Iemhia i"l hy i'ro- lessor MaIoueoItcr has been an rounr.L Another Russian cN7"jt- ton will explore larEa island north Of Slhria, formerly known as s.;.t x,,r IT tr.,-I 1.rt r04.. known 9-