The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-22
five NATIONS
IN SEARCH FOR
| ARCTIC CREWS
Two Giant Planes Ready to
/ Hunt Seven Lost in
h Italia Crash.
AMUNDSEN IN SILENCE
Radio Batteries Will Be
Dropped to Mobile; Pleads
( for Early Rescue.
9MUNDSEN IN SILENCE
Bv United Press

By United Press
KINGS BAY, Spitsbergen, June
R2.-Two giant Italian seaplaneS
were prepared today to take off
momentarily on the first real search
for the seven men of the dirigible
italia, missing without trace now
For just four weeks.
! Major Unberto Maddalena, who
found General Mobile and his
party of five men Wednesday, was
in command of one plane.
The other was commanded by
Major Pierluigi Penzo.
Each plane was fuelled with
gasoline sufficient for a flight Of
from twenty to thirty hours.
The aviators planned to pass
Mobiles camp off Foyn Island and
drop radio batteries, for which
Mobile appealed urgently.
From there the planes were to
cruise out from Cape Leigh Smith
over the ice floes between Splits =
bergen and Franz Josef Land.
Five nations joined today in a
great relief move to rescue the score
of men trapped in the. Arctic.
Five Nations in Rescue
Sixteen of these men, members OF
the crew of the dirigible Italia, have
been lost in the great ice-bound
wilderness since May 25, when their
Ciirigible crashed. Six have been To-
Gated and are known alive, 1nclud-
ing General Umberto Mobile.
The remainder, headed by Road
Amundsen, have been missing since
} Monday when they started by air.
plane on rescue expedition to save
\ Mobile.
Nations aiding in this great rescue
move are Norway, Italy, Russia
France and Sweden.
Hope of early rescue of General
Mobile was replaced by anxiety
again today when Mobile wirelessed
through the supply ship Citta Di
Milano here an appeal to the 1tal-
ian government to rush airplanes
containing runners for landing on
the ice.
ut is impossible for us to march
to land" he added.
It had been thought that Mobile
and the four uninjured men with
him could march to land to meet
the Russian icebreaker Krassin at
Foyn Island, and that the fifth
man, Chief Engineer Cecioni, whose
leg is broken, could be taken OF by
a small plane.
Hours of silence today increased
fears for the Anundsen party which
set out from Tronsoe Monday to lily
to the rescue of Mobile and has not
been heard of since.
Seven men were aboard the Italia
after it had crashed deposited nine
of it's crew an dthen flew to the
eastward. These seven men have
never been heard from.
Three of the party who were
landed with Mobile started walking
across the ice towards Cape North
No word has been heard from them.
Three dog sleigh teams have been
sent out from the steamer Braganza
to search for them.
No Word of Missing
Amundsen, Lieutenant Dietrichson
and Commandant Guilbaud, with a
crew, started from Tromsoe in a
French seaplane Monday to search
for the lost Mobile party. They were
expected to maintain radio commu-
nication with either the Kings Bay
station or the Bear Island station.
They did not communicate with
either station. They did not appear
at Kings Bay as they had been ex-
pected to do.
Various relief expeditions now un'
der way or ordered.
Ship-Steamer Braganza at NORTH
Pole; Steamer Citta Di Milano al
Kings Bay; French Cruiser Stras-
bourg and destroyer quentin Roose-
y welt ordered to proceed north; Nor
wegian Fishing supervision vesse
Michael Sars and Norwegian cruiS'
er Tordenskjold ordered into relic!
Eservice: Russian ice breaker Kras-
sin which will leave Bergen Sattlr'
day; Russian ice breaker Mahgir
now in the arctic waters.
Airplane-Norwegia small planes
piloted from Briganza by Capt. H
Riiser-Larsen and Lieutenant Luet'
zow-Holm; italian seaplanes pilotec
by Major Maddalena and Majol
Penzo; Swedish plane, Upland
Italian seaplane ordered from Ma
rina Di Pisa; one hydroplane a
) lea,t aboard the ice breaker Kras
sin; one hydroplsne aboard TIN
Torlenskjold.
Dog Teams-Three dog team
have been embarked from &he Bra
ganza to start searching for thre'
men who walked away from tn
Mobile party,