Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-23
Swedish Pilot BUSHES Prep
arationS After Success in
Dropping Supplies.
AMUNDSEN RADIO HEARD,
RUSSIAN BOAT BELIEVES
Search for Explorer Missing Five
Days Pressed by Italian and
Swedish Aviators.
BY the Associated Press.


Dispatches to the Associated
Press report the Russian ice break
er Maligin as having heard radio
messages believed to have come
from the plane of Roald Amundsen.
missing in the Arctic. The Italian
aviator. Maj. Penzo. took off today
from SpitZberger to search for
Amundsen and Swedish seaplane
also searching for him found no
trace of the explorer. Montreal
wireless operators reported having
picked up a message saying Mobile
and party were aboard a rescue
boat.
BY the Associated Press.
KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen. June %
Definite plans TO take Gen. Umbertt
Mobile and his five stranded compan-
ions from their ice camp off Northeast
Land by airplane were made today,
The Swedish rescue expedition which
has established a base at Virgo Bay
in North Spitzbergen, dropped addi-
tional supplies for the Mobile group
last night and today was going ahead
with plan to make a landing and to
take the men of.
viii Land on Ice.
Capt. Tornberg. leader OF the Swed-
ish expedition, informed Comdr. Ro-
magma of the base ship Citta ID Mnano
that he proposed to make LANDING
on the ice and asked that Gen. Mobile
- 1f I,fC ou n he Y1Ypn1rpT
to take of.
The Swedish plane, powerful tri-
motored Junkers, located Mobile at $3.50
pm. last night and was successful In
dropping additional supplies and arms.
The Swedish plane then explored the
coast in the neighborhood Of Cape
Leigh Smith without finding any trace
of the group of three men headed by
DR.. Finn Malmgren. which left the
Mobile party May 80 In an effort to
reach land by foot and has since been
missing.
The Swedish pilot also has been ask
ed to search for the seven men who
drifted off In the bag OF the diriginle
Italia on May IS, and have since dis-
appeared.
Virgo Bay, where the Swedish ex-
,eoition has established q base, Is near
Maadalena Bay, in Northwestern Spitz-
bergen. and is much nearer the stranded
Mobile group than the base at Kings
Bay which the Italian flyers, Majs
Maddalena and Penzo, have been using
Anxiety increased today for ROAD
Amundsen and five men lost fiye days
in the Arctic seeking INDICATED groups
Of Mobiles expedition.
win Center on Amundsen.
Efforts hitherto directed toward res
cue and relief for Mobile and the five
men with him on the ice north OF
Spitzbergen today were concentrated on
Amundsen's party, which set out Mon
day from Tromsoe. Norway, for Kings
Bay. With additional provisioning OF
Gen. Mobile and his party their posi-
ton is regarded as relatively secure.
Since Amundsen, Lieut.. Lief Dietrich
sen, Rene Guilbaud and three French
naval airmen left Tromsoe, save for
few reported radio signals at the start
of the flight, there has been not sim
gle thing to indicate where they have
gone, what has happened TO them, or
even that they still are alive.
One straw has been broken which
some had clutched in their belief that
there had been no mishap to Amund-
sen. The government steamer Svalbard
visited Advent Bay, south OF here,
where some insisted he had gone TO
make an independent base, but 1t could
find no trace OF him.
A sealing vessel. also. which arrived
from Tromsoe and followed the route
which the Amundsen plane should have
taken, reported no trace OF the myers
either.
Pet Dog Is Safe.
Yesterday Capt. PenZo made two at
tempts TO land on the ice, once drop
ping his plane to within l6 feet OF the
surface, but finally abandoned his ef-
forts as too hazardous.
Upon their return the aviators re-
ported seventh member of the group
Ultima. the little terrier dog mascot
of the dirigible--was alive and appar-
emily well
or the e-breakers aiding in the res
cue attempts a Russian ship, the Ma
ligin. was reported east of South Cape.
Northeast Land, and seemed likeliest TO
reach the group first. The Maligin,
however. was having It's troubles with
ice, too, and its progress today was
none too sure.
A third phase of the rescue work, the
Of the north coast of Northeast
Land by four Alpine Ice experts for the
missing group OF three Italians. has
failed. The Alpinists returned to the
Braganza without having found a trace
OF them