DISCUSSES CHANCESOF
AMUNDSEN T0 WINSUCCESS
ads to Fly to Polar Regions This Summer
And Believes He Will Find Explorer in
.5 Grant Land. Hale and Hearty—Scouts
g Idea Fliers Will Go to Alaska-His Theory
ommander Richard E. Byrd.
, he United States Navy. most ex-
‘ l 0! America’s trans-oceanic air
tutors. is the one man whose
yet. 0! the Amundsen night to
' orth Pole can be depended upon
.:is time to furnish a clue to the
1‘1 able whereabouts ot the Norwe-
‘ explorer. Commander Byrd
. lbs in charge of the planes on the
’o Arctic expedition this sum-
and may be called upon to res-
the missing men).
COWMNDER RICHARD E.
BYRD, U. s. N.
.. , (Copyright. 1925.)
0 Consolidated Press Associa-
tion.
(All Rights Reserved.)
ASKINGTON. ”.May 28—: would
the at all surprised to find
indsen and his party in Grant
2 . hale and hearty. living on
-.ox when MaeMillan and I fly
Grant Land this summer to es-
ll -h a base on the Polar Sea at
.i Columbia.
, i, t what has happened to
when? Certain things could
“have happened. Indeed there
3 mile misconception about what
'Norw gian explorer might have
s that it may be desirable to cm-
eom‘o of the unscientific state-
is that MT] e been published.
war/undsen. for instance. may
’I: tried for Alaska. but I don't
ve it. To do so would have been
f nthinkable risk of the lives of
shipmates. He is courageous
not foolishly reckless. In the
place. the nearest point in Alas-
: approximately eighteen hun-
miles from King's Bay, Spitz-
en. (mm which point Amund-
. hopped oft.
. e cruising radius of his planes.
ed as they were. was only six-
1'. hundred miles. and an adverse
. could cut this down by two
'hree hundred miles. 'To come
11 tlvo hundred miles from Alas-
vould be. \Ciy dungclous The
s Jammed up in such an irrrgu-
mess as to make safe landing
1 tically impossible.
l 1‘ Possibilities.
ere is one pessimc way for
l ndsen to have reached Alaska.
'ould have abandoned one plane
. e North Pole and taken all the
line from it for his otllcr plane.
' ruld have taken all his person-
aboard the one plane. There
it! then be sufficient fuel for
' thiteen hundred miles cruising
1.“ with only twelve hundred
l s to go flonl the Pole to Point
; ow, Alaska. I’elsonully. I
~ it very much that this would be
i pted.
" what arc the things that: “e"-
cc’uld limo lldppt lli d" “1‘,
base our assumptions only upon
Amundsen was likely to do.
i ,Amllndsen could have lost his
' 0, due to the unknown and rap-
hanglng variations of the com-
? around the North Pole.
One of the planes might have
forced landing because of mo-
toppage and. landing on the ice,
ed up the boat in such a way
tbepiane .was unable to rise.
was just what happened to us -
he NC-l and NC-ii in the
«Atlantic flight. It was fortu-
[that the NC-4 did not land upon
ocean and was the first plane to
. he Atlantic. Then. the sec-
.Arnundsen plane. landing upon
{See or in an open lead of water,
'. have hit an unseen hunk of ice
also cracked up so that she
not rise.
Amundsen might have landed
at he thought was the vicinity
‘e Pole to verity his supposed
on fl‘om‘ian astronomical sight
e sun. as is done at sea to fix a
position. and in landing might
cracked up his machines, so
they could not rise.
New Land!
Amundsen might have discov—
‘ new land and placed his ma-
-es in an open bay for the pur-
, f exploration and also to lo-
astronomically the latitude and
rude or the polar island. Should
e the case. he probably is still
V1 exploring virgin land. He
take his time in this case and
atter his unparalleled ad-
are with a great tale to tell.
Amundsen might have run into
at snowstorm that forced a.
g and smashed hismlachines.
might have separated the
' and taken them way ott their
- At any rate, the chances are
, 0 one that these intrepid ad-
’ rel-sore somewhere down on
polar ice within tour hundred
to: the Pole—and they are
bly struggling up to the limit
man endurance to reach land
their month's su ply of food
font. pulling their s_ dge of sup-
over the ice and taking to then
[beat when- -they reach open
r water. If they are down
Pole the nearest point or
.1.
grim Hoover
land would be either Capo Columo
hia. Grant Land or Cape Morris Jes-
sup. lillzslllnd. the two northern-
most poluts of land in the world—-
about tour hundred miles from the
Polo.
The explorers are supplied with
rifles and ammunition and could ich
on musk ex and seal should they
reach land. There would be no
chance to procure food bvcr the po-
lar sen, so they must come the dis-
tance to land before their supply of
chocolate. dried meat and coffee
gives out. Amundsen would proba-
bly set out for Great Land, as three
are several caches of food left there
by explorers.
Compass Variations.
Let us go back to our first “might"
that of getting oft the course. due to
the great amount of compass varia-
tion and its uncertainty in the vi-
cinity of the Polo. The magnetic
north pole lies near twelve hundred
nautical miles south of the North
Pole proper. The magnetic lines of
force which influence the compass
needle oil flow from the south mag-
netic pole to the north magnetic
pole. Therefore. there are only a
few places on the surface of; the
earth where the compass needle
points to the true North Pole. A cor-
rection of lL few degrees must be
applied to the compass needle to
make it point true not-til. A curious
thing about these magnetic lines of
force is that local conditions affect
them to some extent and. therefore.
the variation cannot mathematically
be figured out. with exactness. but
must be ,tound by actual trial with
friction of the needle might be as
much as ten dlfin‘ccs. Therefore, the
variation used by Amundsen might
have been in error and could have
caused him to miss the North Pole
unless he could take accurate ob-
SUlVflllOIIS of the sun {1011} the plane
while in (light. This is doubtful
Mnthol'lultlcnl calculations show
that Amundsen should have used a
variation of botweun ten and twenty
degrees. that is. his compass needle
was pulled by that number or de-
grees to the left of the true llorth
course. lie then had to steer by a.
compass needle pointing to fifteen
dcgrm-s instead of zero—which is
north.
The Needle.
This pulling around oi’ the mag-
llrtic noodle near the Polo varies
from zero to 180 degrees. in other
words. there is a certain point south
of the North Pole where the com—
pnss noodle instead of pointing north.
will point south. Due to the local
inflection of the variation. Amund-
scu could easily have lllissmi the
Pole by one hundred miles through
no fault lll his navigation. if he
had missed it to the southward for
example, by that distance his vuriu-
tlon would be approximately 120 dc-
grocs when he had finished his 680
miles from Spllzbelgcn.
To get the Pole then. instead of
slcnl'illg 2110 or llOlill, he would
have to sir-av 1:20 degrees by 10]”-
pass. it it happened to he cloudy.
he could not got. his position by the
sun and he would be lost.
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Tu We months the miners’
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rarely happens) suspension of work will probably follow.
1. shut-down of the mines
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srionsly regarded than though it happened 1n the Spring.
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« Miss been lute
i
, pay the
cannon toils himself: in
. exchange to rthe privilege or pub-
lishing the telegram—and the next
ay Seattle announced Amundsen's
isoovery.
“L08 ANGELEB. May 28 (APL—r
noald Anlundsen's pocket knife.
' which the explorer used to 'whittle
a marker loathe South Pole. when
he discovered that point ill .1911.
may help out the Amundsen North
Pole expedition out or the dit‘iieul-
y ties Which some Aretlo experts tear
" hairs been encountered since the
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They will have ieatured positions in tile “Razorback."
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“BEAT” or Allusws non
Suppose. then. he would make 101
Spitzilergcn from this false position.
He might miss the island and get
out over the Greenland sea with“ his
gasoline giving out. It is possible
he is now floating around in the
North Atlantic ocean. It his error
had been to the northward he might
have made some island in the Franz
Joseph Archipelago. several hundred
milrs cast or Spitsbergen and near
Russia. without enough gasoline to
get back to his base.
If anyone in the party has been
injured his companions 0: course will
stick to him. bllt their loyalty. of
course. will cut down their speed of
travel. The explorers will occasion-
ully come to open loads of water
from a few feet to hundreds of yards
across. These louds'openup con-
stantly from the movement of the
ice. but within a few hours freeze
over. When the load is‘ wide.
Amundsen will probably wait for it
to {room over. rather than trust his
party to a flimsy canvas boat.
Amundsen has. no radio on his
planes. If he had come down within
easy rescue distance of! Spitzbergen.
he would have reached there by this
lime, so he must be more than a
hundred miles away. The chances
are two to one that Amundsen is
alive.
W
Why is it that a red-headed wom-
zlu invariably lllarrics a mock man?
The answer is: She doesn’t. lie just
gets that wlu'.-l‘toanoke Times.
"calcd Nansen."
SEATTLE. May 28
none of Captain Roald Anlundsen's
discovely or the northwest passage
in 1905. was flashed to the
{10m Seattle because a telegraph
operator in Alaska lefused to .tccept
a long collect message to Irriiiot
Nansen in Norway from a gaunt.
unshaven giant who appeared in
Eagle City, it was revealed yester-
day.
Amundsen disappeared in Arctic
wastes in 1903. He reached Eagle
with ten miles below the interna-
tional boundary onthe Yukon river
on December 5. where 1191 made a
number of purchases. His appear-
ance. bearded to the eyes and benr~
in; marks at .prlvatiohs did not
awaken interest. He visited the
army, signal‘corps telegraph office
and'tlied ‘a lengthy collect message
to Fritjot Nansen. Auntie explorer,
undrdropped‘out of sight.
The operator had no autherlza- '
tior. to accept such a long. collect
lllessage and wired to-Jlls chiet in
Seattle for instructions. This signal
oiileor happened that night. to be a .
dinner guest of Erastus Brainerd,
then editor of the Pest-Intelligencer
and in recounting happeninn of the
day. lllcntioned that “a crazy man"
in Eagle City had tricd,to tile :1 long
message to "somebody in Norway
Brainerd inquired
as to the name of the sender.
' "1t was‘solnoihingllke Amnnd~
sen.” the signal olcher replied.
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Nermuinn's two planes implied oi!
irom letabereen last week.
lie-lien Ii. llamlner. former as-
sociate ct Amundsen and leader or
an expedition to tile latter'u relief
in 1923. has the knife alld says he
will sell it to the highest bidder to
swell tllo fund he is raising to ii-
nunce u seaplane expedition to
search for the missing explorer.
The knife was given him by Amund-
sen. Ilulnlnel- relates. wh'w they
were at the South Pole .und .1th
after the explorer had cut into one
side of the handle his initials and
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