Show ri I Wt q r THE 0 SALT LAKE j TEL TELEGRAM GRAM I American tv Navy avy Early Con tender r ln In R Race e to Pole by bl A Airplane lane laneI 1 I I M Map ap sows h I 1 rou routes t es 0 of f In t Commander Frank McCrary left above 1 air au race to north pole Principals I in In the race above and R ld Amundsen t right Captain S below Robert A. A Bar Bartlett Barte licit left eft be below w MaJ Major r T Tryggve r ve Gran ri right g ht I iP yf 6 Z RIA s r rI I is v t 0 I II I I J JA I A t e t cf Wf A Ar f dI r I 1 r i ii h wt I U United Hed States Soon to Compete Experts y Norway's N in Dash Over Ice ow o- o v j Fields Fields' w WASHINGTON April 20 North North Pole by airship seems seems a certainty within two years ears And America despite a far tar earlier start b by Norway now enters therace the therace race rac on an equal footing with her Scandinavian rival Americas America's flap flag first flew at the polo and she doesn't Intend to lose any honors there Steadily determinedly the navy bureau of ot aeronautics is completing ing the 1 l and 2 gigantic helium filled dirigibles With these the navy will enter a field of ot aspirants as aspirants as as- now preparing for polar airplane airplane air air- plane flights And in doing so EO America evens up the race with Norway Each nation naHon now no has t two two- entries HOW RACE STANDS As things now stands the lineup Is For 1 Norway Captain Roald Amundsen south pole discoverer with a skilled pilot and md metal all monoplane monoplane- is at Wainwright Alaska waiting to attempt a flight from Point Barrow across the poleto pole poleto to Spitzbergen Colonel Tryggve Gran Norwegian nobleman and British flyer during the war in Spitzbergen waiting to try a flight to Point Barrow over the pole v 4 For America Captain Robert Bartlett one of Peary's arys aids ids on the successful polar expedition and still sWI later with Is planning to tile take take off oft off from Cape Columbia Co Co- lumbia In rant Land and fly over the pole to Cape Si Si- Si beria U. U S. S navy Y with its 1 l and 2 entries ready for a Nome Nome to to- to Spitzbergen cruise PORTABLE MASTS PLANNED The present American navy scheme calls cans for preparatory work In In erecting portable mooring masts masta at Nome Alaska ne near r Wilde Bay West Vest Spitzbergen and at Cape Farewell Greenland This announcement nt Is made bythe bythe by bythe the bureau of ot aeronautics Rear Admiral William WilHam A. A Moffett chief of ot the bureau is convinced the flight to the pole Is wholly feasible and would be justified Justified not not merely as a demonstration of the possibilities of ot aircraft de' de development but also for sentimental reasons |