Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28
SOVIET SHIP IS SET
FOR TRIP IN ARCTIC
icebreaker MaIigin viii Sail
in July to Hunt AmundSen
and Meet Graf Yep.
BY RALPH w. BARNES.

BY RALPH w. bAhNES.
~ Gable to The Star.
MOSCOW. June 27-The Soviet Rus
sian icebreaker Maligin, scheduled to
sail from Archangel the end of the sec
ond week of July, will send out parties
to comb the islands of Franz Joseph
Land in the hope that some trace may
yet be found there of AmundSen and
his companion in his air attempt to
bring aid to the crew of the Inflated
dirigible Italia and of the six men of
the dirigible's crew who were separated
from their companions and are still
missing.
The decision to include the search
for the missing men in the objects of
the Maligin's expedition followed the
receipt of information from New York
that Antony Fiala, the explorer, be-
1ieves Amundsen and his companion
may have made their way to Rudolf
Island, one of the northernmoSt Islands
of the Franz Joseph archipelago, after
coming down the ice. Meanwhile rep
reSentativeS in Berlin of the Maligin'S
expedition have been comforting with
Capt. Eckener with the object Of per-
fecting arrangements for the meeting
of the icebreaker and the Graf Zeppe-
lin during the dirigible's forthcoming
Arctic flight.
Food Stores on Island.
Fiala is reported to have said that
before AmundSen last left New York
he, Fiala told him that at the end of
his 1903 expedition he left under shell
ter large stores of food on Rudolf Island
and that AmundSen displayed keen in
terest. The Norwegian explorer, ac-
cording to Fiala'S reported statement,
would have been likely to attempt to
reach the food stores on the island if
he found himself on the ice within
striking distance. Rudolf Island has
been visited once or twice since the
Italia expedition, but a systematic
search of the area has not been made.
Prof. U. V. Vie, tho Russian eX-
plorer who is head of the Mahgin party
under the auspices of the Archangel
Institute of Arctic Studies, has lnQl-
Gated he will direct the efforts of his
party to such thorough search, but
that he does not believe there is any
hope of finding Amund3en alive. He
does believe, however, that there is
hope of finding traces OF that section
of the Italia expedition which is still
missing. The Maligin, sister Ship of
the famous KraSsin, is an iIebreakcr
OF 1920 tons, with a length of 243
feet and carries a crew of ~ men.
ran 10 MeSF % Yep.
Kckener suggests tI1 at all posi-
bic the meeting of the ~. pelin and the
icebreaker should take place on the
eastern coast of Nova zembla. where
Arctic fogs are less likely to be ex-
perienced than in the vicinity of Franz
Joseph Land. 1t is thought possible
that Prof. Vie and others may be able
to pay the Zeppelin visit by climb
ing the rope ladder from the deck of
the ioebreaker.
In any case. mail will be exchanged.
and the Soviet government is issuing
special tWo-rouble stamp which all
mail carried by the Maligin to trans
ference to the Zeppelin will carry. The
design shows a polar bear crouciled on
a cake of ice watching the dirigible
lowering above an icebreaker.
Besides Prof. Vices scientific party
the Maligin will carry a number of pas
sengers interested in polar bear hunt
ing