THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. . I>. i\, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 2, 1926. 7

i Norge was a lieutenant in the Nor- smalt In comparison wilh those that Col. Nobile finding It better to fly to i back on the different expeditions I i wegian navy. Emil-Horgen, and, along probably would meet an airshfp ex- Spitzbergen from Home. have taken part in, the last one | LANDING OF THE NORGE ON THE BEACH AT TELLER, ALASKA j with Riiser-Larsen and Dietrichson, pedition. The first route chosen for the ship i seems to me unbelievahle. When T L j he is eonsldered one of the best Spitsbergen and on the voyage had utilize Norway: Kings Hay, Spitzbergen. generations. ¦¦ When with the airship at a great back to Norway. Generally speaking, In had been used for And : T -7 ’ i mooring I ¦ ~1 altitude we flew over the ice on this it is these plans that are now carried Trondhjem and Kings Bay now, 30 years afterward, science and !•, ; • trip, out. only hip change made masts had to lie built, technic have made it possible in lie several times remarked look- The was plan ing down on the ice: “Down there It concerns the transport of the airship j This the first when Lieut. days to explore re, ions bigger than OF POLAR • ' ** + : Hiiser-Larsen, on of Klls- explored the same FLIGHT I 4 seems to possible to an from Kurope to Spitsbergen. Kven l»ehalf Mr. could have been in ¦' be land with i 1 • •; k: _v ; . . airplane.” looking down on we negotiations worth arid rpy self, published it at number of years before. The risk of For when before entered into meeting of some hundred yards all with the Italian government to buy the annual the Norwegian flying over ten thousands of square 4 the ice from in September year. a today no rucgednesN apparently is pinned out ttie ship that now has brought us over Aero Flub last miles In few hours is Explorer Tells of Early Fail- even before this meeting the plan ; and even floes more than 100 feet high - I the North Pole basin, we had fixed Hut greater than before to go in the ice ; was known by different persons and a ship. ! scent to disappear. j our attention on a ship of this type as with Due to the wireless the lit was with great pleasure that almost explorer today can ure in Effort to Conquer 1 havc to add that llorgen later on. ! the i,est fitted for a transpolar flight. fix the best mo- it the time we could publish the ment starting through ] when we flew at lower altitudes per- ! At that time we did not think that j '¦ same for the air. and ! |>lans we could publish the of to , fecll.v. agreed with bis comrades about j the ship should fly from Itoine to j names due the wireless he can. durim: (the of the expedition. flight, Arctic. tb" impossibility landing planes on Kings Bay. Our first plan was to buy members The the choose the route where th< I of i i members of the last one declared that the ice. And when even a trained j or hire a 14,000 ton steamer, load the : weather conditions are best. Keen j j j they would go with us except one of in a fog can flight iator can such mistakes it airship on hoard the steamer, without he continue his jav make | I i he motorists. Dietrichson resigned bearings. Before, font in i!f'd from First Page.) will lie easily that mm- I gas in the balloon, in that way jI bv radio the world i understood and | later on for private reasons. Both not get news | aviators can landing place- 1 take it up to Spitsbergen. There our : did from him after he declare : Mr. and myself regretted passed the wttlook over bigger areas -4 hours are to be found on the he. ! were to fill it gas Kllsworth had the frontier between in i intentions with and | very decision, now than he explore during | start for liarrow as soon as much his Dietrichson known and the unknown: he is" before could llip Point being a very skillful aviator and a years. 1 Same Lesson From Maul. were enabled to tell the world how his ex- I weather conditions favorable. iman we could trust on every occasion. pedition goes on Therefore when !. in 1914. stayed in j ‘ As mentioned before, the Maud car- from hour to hour. due to to buy things ried a on Aero Club Adopts Hie Plans. And after his return, modern America different for | i mh | small Curtiss machine her Trusted .Men .Make I'p Party. moving pictures, the expedition 1 planning to the : \ > • drift in the ice. There they met the i*n out return to Norway from : photography and he was. i give much impressions Arctic regions. I bought n Farman |s; me experiences as we did >n 1925 | Spit/bergen immediately | Besides Mr. Kllsworth, Lieut. can richer of we addressed j what seen airplane to me on the ! when in part of Polar basin j ! Iliisen-Larsen. Lieut. Omdal and my he has than ever before lake with board another : Hie .Norwegian A< ro t’luit and told its j But the modern explorer who Fram. having already obtained a cer- • i they tried to fly. It was also difficult j | seif of the flying party on the 1925 uti- ! our new plans, ; expedition, of land party lizes all the inventions of his own tificate at* an aviator after receiving I for the small |dane to find places j administration about | several the I they go us: time has not to forget that before instruction from Norwegian military : ' j where they could start and land, and j asking It if the Aero Club again would 'declared that would with aviators. I ¦ I if before we started in 1925 we had ilso Lieut. Morgen, who last year had him for centuries others have gone undertake the managing of a polar gone us to Spitzbergen as pilot into the unknown and returned with However, the war commenced and | known what they already in 192" with i flight. As we bad hoped. I lie adminis- in reserve, Hamm, observations and knowledge he builds so many difficulties arose that we had j knew on the Maud about living eondi- tration of tiie Club and Frederik who Aero answered in the journalist the upon. The difference ex- to “postpone our expedition. nous for airplanes in Arctic ice. we affirmatively, 1925 had been of between ¦ and knowing in what a expedition. I too, great pleasure ploring In the Arctic and the Ant- last we were able to start from j should not have been so optimistic hud. *At j brilliant maimer t lie club had carried crew of the arctic before and in our time there- A'orwoy in Summer of 19IS on ; | when we started from Spitzbergen. in that several of tile the out its first task, we almost considered fore Is only an apparent one. The "board the ship Maud, rebuilt in place j j During our more than three weeks’ Maude that had just returned from the expedition as secured after this year stay ice. joined methods have changed. But today, of the Fram. which proved to be too ; stay in the polar ice we did not think her three in the j reply. A small committee was ap- the new expedition. There was the as before, the results of a new and long expedition | much about the new expedition we |I the different old for j pointed, with tlie president, Mr. ! expedition, Fapt. Oscar expeditions are upon re- through the ice. On this expedition j already had formulated before we left ’ leader of the based the Thorntnessen, Lieut. Col. Sverge and Wisting, with me ai sults of previous ones. If the modern was also my to on Above: Tile Norge, the ship in which Spitzbergen. We had more than I who had lieen it intention take j Kngineer firryn as members, and the on the expedition explorer succeeds in making new board a flying machine, but the war Amundsen Hew over the pole from enough to do with working out a South Pole and dis- j these started the preparations tit through the northeast passage in coveries he only pays the debt of went on I get no new \ Spitsbergen, settling itself on the starting place so we could get back to still and could once. When Lieut. Biiser-Larsen was Swedish meteoro modern times tjr> the generations plane. my Teller, Alaska, where it was Spitzbergen again. once hack we 1918 1921. and the Consequently comrades In itch at But not occupied elsewhere for the expedi- logist. Fenn Malmgren, and also the which have disappeared. and myself had to sail through the dismantled. rnmenced the discussion of plans. tion. lie joined Hie committee. operator on the Maude. (Copyricht. X9C6. by the New York Time, Passage on I,eft: I,lent. Oscar Omdulil, making And, with Hip experiences met on our wireless Northeast hoard the Maud The plan was formulated and it re Olinkin, to go us. How- arid St. Louis Globe-Democrat.l September. a observation while the big flight, it was most askejl with and arrived in 1921. at sextant examination the inained only to procure the money ever. the last named did not go over (To Be Continued.) being able airship was passing over the North natural thing that we should give up Seattle without to make sßHtg v. \ that was necessary and to get the Pole, but left us in Spitzbergen J "i«HK Bole Frequent cheeks and ob- the airplane, as already have men- the observations from the air of the re J area. I aitship. The Aero Club addressed the reasons that will be mentioned servations made by ('apt. Roald we de for having Cions we had passed through. I were tioned. and without hesitation Italian government, asking if it could later. After her golden locks cut Finally, Mm m Amoiidsen and the members of his upon airship. in the Winter of 1921-1922.1 cided the Imy one of its ships, constructed and During Winter the wireless ex off and adopting the Kton cut, a Lon we Maud j j crew to make certain that they actu- the went was so v hen equipped the for the «Jn Rt. x-w in Bm, Flight. designed by Col. I'mherto .Nobile, pert, Fapt. in the Norwegian Army, don miss bathing and second time, we buying ally were passing over the Bole. Plans for the 192« severely succeeded In i in j j The government answered that it Birger F.ottwaldt, engaged to join the sunburned that she was jh liy York Time* have alreadv pointed out some of two airplanes for the ne*v expedition j Copyright. ltt’.’ti. the New I I I would sell the ship to the Aero Club expedition as leader of the wireless placed under a doctor's care. him] M Louis G lohf- HetniM-rat advantages of the airships for - -a big Junker machine, and a snvtli j tlie | w itli pleasure. service on In the agreement polar exploring over greater board. Curtiss machine- and with these two distances. Imring a stay in Koine some weeks ! with the Italian government it was airship has a very big flying plaq.es on boat'd the rvfaud started fn- | was greatest and most An ] after our return from Spitzbergen. j besides Fol. Nobile, who j And that ttie range, its lifting capacity I fixed that the, North in the .Summer of 1922. | important observation we ptade on is also much jLieut. Kiiser-Larsen and my self, on should pilot the ship, five Italian than an airplane, and one of i j our examination flight, that , on polar greater I behalf of the Aero Club, bought i; at motorists and riggers should go with Announcement Fails With I‘lanes in 1923. the reasons that we did not in 19251 ice. there are no landing places for 'a very low price, including the ns. but they were designated for the Tn Bering was an airship was it is more Hffait the expedition j flying machines. utilize that changes that had to be done to fit it first time the day before we left Spltz- & expensive an airplane. Art air- Hughes Co., divided. The Maud, under command This observation was not only valu- than for a transpolar flight according to be rgen. ' Inc. ship expedition costs much more we in ship was - mi *hc quey. 1 nere-l during kri start v And here we have the explanation that for centuries had intrigued ] ; 1f,ro j,, irni-at several details rather expedition tin- Fa flier Star! Would Have Reen Reiter. of why the aviators on our and 'he * 0 - ; . j,’s»uiplx in order people shall ] Scientists explorers--!' that not landing places the transpolar flight this My readers mil remember that the j did find where ice isted continents or island- in im- ] dei stand the experts had told tlteie were. many. Ala-' a and Suits ] i-e-'f. the expedition that took Norge Kings Bay on mense area between j For started from ! i Outside the belt of drift ice no aviator bergen—as I been when. i?i ITM4.j| pI-ii-p year in May and June made had last May 11. Despite the fact that thisj haii looked down on pack ice before I took the first step to have the ques jj flight in this month possible, and I the ’.ear we ten days than | our expedition of 1025. Probably we tlons answered. , members of the last year s ex- started earlier iad the filing i should not have been so optimistic if In spite of all. went on xvith my • understand that ’he in 1 ft2s. we had, as it will be under- I ii >ed ition Iwe had had reports front aviators efforts to organize the expedition and boat expedition was only a prepara-] stood from a. later section of this up to transpolar flight. about the ice conditions. made my ntind carry it out . ; tjim to th" I have very I of the reasons, narrative, serious troubles dttr j Dangerous Alight After my return to Norway 1 at last i to vpe.ik about some I Plains to On. met men me in but ing the flight from .Spitsbergen to j two of the who assisted for the first time the thnrt The great plains experts spoke carrying plan should Alaska, on last part of , the tn my out and toward glorious history of aviation it because the were dangerous gratitude, polar flight we typical about very for land- whom I forever shall feel j• be flown a longer distance in the the flew in arctic snow I cum- weather, fog ing. They were covered, but namely, the two lieutenants in the ,-f gions. 1922. when had Summer with and pro- I j] since under the snow there were great ice Norwegian Navy, lxit lx of them being : the organization of a polar portionately high temperature. If it i mewed floe* that made it impossible to land of navy ing corps, tin- to realize possible to start only a few members the fix Ji flight. I had understood that had been on running serious skillful, courageous Hjalmer enterprise I to ifc a days before, it might have been that them without aviators. ; snob an bad risk of smashing the bottom the Dietrichson. large enough to th' flight would have taken pftwe tin of . and Leif 1 too.-bine not unlv or damaging the to nw- do- weather also on | flying boat wheels Striving to Excel f„.q sufficient have Die hotter conditions And, i-. . #: Planned I’isa Spitzbergen Flight. from •onj an airplane. as mentioned r ¦ lorv running oxer all the distance the American side of the North I’ole. before, bit. ma ! the leads were so crooked that p. Energetic interest, So ii*i-gon to Ataska, tbe - But because of various circuit! j and xxith keen 1 lifting | flying boats big as those we used had expedition io tie of so great ca- stances in Kings Bay we had to let they xvent in for the and i bine bud ! not room enough for landing on it could carry so mwb the Norge stay in Gatschma. outside them. a question of competition with w orked hard during the Winter of j that j Our landing on the. expedition last ISN'T gnu organize ; fuel exert in case of head winds Leningrad, where it had arrived on 1923- to it. At last in the that year took place on only of T * be able to reach land. And April 15. longer than we originally had I the lead Spring of 19’.4 it seamed as if xve ; xvf should I am size we saw on our flight from us. We don t measure our efforts by should succeed. graduallv as I worked out nty plans, thought, which will he mentioned my com- Spitsbergen to ST degrees 45 minutes We had ordered flying boats made ; first alone, later on with later on. i prac- meteorolog- north latitude, and this will he proof IT ve important anybody We by Doniel Wallin of Pisa, and our in- rades. wh" know more about Besides Ihe good enough wbat else is doing. got t did myself, and the on the exami- of the non-existevnoe of tention was t<> fly these planes from 1 tical firing than I ical observations made landing tear, we usual (daces on the polar ice. fnir base the ! questions arose, I understood nation flight last discovered Pisa to Spitzbergen. for different several .Mr. Lllsvvorth as well as myself idea of a duty to its patrons Pole flight was to lie Virgo that although there exist also things of technical importance, so our own store's Harbor] powerful is convinced that it was only the on the Danish island in the northwest- j types of flying machines i] we had forever to give up the plan I distance from : skillfulness of the aviators. Riiser- ern nart of Spitzbergen, from xvhence enough to i over the of going front Spitsbergen to Alaska —and its mission to tbe community it j e'”ti Larsen t the Swede. Andre, started in D»97 with j Spitzbergen to Alaska awl longet i in a flying machine. and Diet richson. that saved to the. expedition. When we passed over bis balloon and from , distances, xxe alxxatys had face the As I have told, our intention last / free xvhere also ¦ this big lead my plane, piloted is only by our the American. Wellman, some years] possibility ot loot or and other Iron year was only to explore and examine first serves —and that idea gauged range flying tun Ivy Riiser Larsen, had so later, tried to reach the North Pole hies, the fixing of flying conditions on the European side | consumed ? than t ' much fuel that he xxith an airship. chines will nlxvays be shorter , jhf the North Pole. But in spite of considered it most ! j prudent to go down to low altitude capacity and opportunities. P.ut before, in Northern Norway. that of an airship various circumstances that compelled j 1 1 i : to look for a la tiding place we embarked on the ship should be ; Changed. ! us to give up the transpolar flight in before that |Ha ns of Ihe Flight our flight. were just our mothership in Virgo Harbor I got ] ; 1025. T found it rather difficult to do i continued We. on point of going higher again, our surprising message xve again Therefore, when, during the Winter so. on I even the the that I And later heard that examination the landing bad to postpone expedition. xxe formulated the plans in : the. Norwegian Aero Club thought it for places the AM i of 1921 23. having given a negative result, Really, there is where genuine service the money xvas spent, we could not j detail. I soon understood that 1 had to possible that we should try the traps- when get in suddenly one of our two engines stop- more, and the flying Itoats xvere j gix'e tin niv original plan to covet ; polar flight with the flying boats. i ped. anLincoln Ellsworth, came to me four weeks of work xxe were ready to one day when 1 was just on the point start. of giving up the possibility of being In the last year at this time a very To a little the best store is our am- able to accomplish my part of the important link in the organization of be agreement with the Norwegian Aero the expedition was the embracing Flub and without condition he offered weather service which it xvas neces- bition—and the aim of our endeavor. me a sum of money great enough to sary to established so that xve could assure the expedition. Indeed, the choose the best day for starting. As pecuniary support he so generously well as the expedition itself, this im- gave the expedition was very valuable portant auxiliary service xvas made in a critical moment during the prep- possible by one of the most wonderful tration, but neverthless,-his personal inventions of the last generation—- * j* O Work both before the start and during wireless telegraph. With us went to ' #ve dramatic weeks in the ice was of Spitzbergen two Norwegian meteorol- greater importance. operator NEW •