Show CRAFT CRAB PROCEEDS AFTER AfUR VOYA TO POLE Second Airship to Fly lly FlyOver FlyOver Over Top of World Heads Toward Nome DUPLICATES FEAT OF BYRD I II I Ellsworth Celebrates His Birthday by Participating pat pat- ing in Achievement OSLO Norway May 12 United The Press ress The Amundsen Ellsworth Nobile polar dirigible Norge Norg Is pro- pro excellently according to reports re- re ports orts received here this at afternoon These reports said the dirigible possibly pos pos- pos pos- os- os sibly would land tOnight at Nome Alaska YORK NEW May 12 AP The AP-The The airship Norge second aircraft In history to fly over the north pole was vas on Its way to a a. landing field i at Nome Alaska today the forty forty- forty I fifty birthday of Lincoln Ellsworth Ellworth New York on one of the expeditions expedition's leaders The great balloon duplicated within three days the feat of the three airplane Miss Josephine Jose Jose- phine Ford commanded commanded- by Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Commander Richard E. E Byrd with the difference that Commander Comman Comman- der Byrd returned to Kings bay Spitzbergen In a mile 1600 nonstop ru light flight ht while the Norge continued a mile 2750 journey toward Nome KEEP ADVISED Roald Amundsen commander of ot the he third expedition to reach the north pole and the first human beIng being beng be- be Ing ng to reach the south pole wired yesterday to Ralph Lomen Norwegian gian glan consul at Nome to have men ready to lower the dirigible He said he would keep Mr 1 Lomen ad advised advised advised ad- ad of progress by radio and the consul had four anchors known as d dead ad men placed In ih readiness to h hold ld the ship down The Norge left lert Spitzbergen Spitsbergen at 10 a a. a m. m Norwegian time or 4 a a. a. a m. m eastern standard time timeS Tuesday and arid sailed over the pole with seventeen members of Its crew at 1 a. a m. m to to- to day Norwegian time or 7 o'clock last ast night eastern standard time The news news reached the New York Times and St. St Louis Globe Demo crat by radio in the first message ever received from the north pole The papers gave out the news at a. a m. m eastern standard time today SAW NORGE OFF Commander Byrd saw the Norge off oft but remained at Kings bay to prepare in the words of Lieutenant of-Lieutenant Alton N. N Parker of his party to InvestIgate Investigate In every foot of 01 real estate near the pole for Uncle Sam Twenty-five Twenty men have now seen the north pole pole six six in the Peary ex- ex expedition expedition Commander Byrd and his his ils pilot Floyd Bennett and seventeen seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen on the norge The Norge reached the pole in fifteen hours from Kings bay Commander Byrd fifteen hours and thirty I ml minutes utes to go to the pole and back to Kings bay in hi his hIli airplane and Peary Peart using dog sleds took eight months for the trip to the pole and back to civilization The Norge traveled at approximately approximately fifty miles an hour and it was estimated d that if she kept this pace she would reach Point Barrow en route to Nome at 10 o'clock to tonight tonight tonight to- to night eastern standard time Canadian explorer now living in New York expressed delight today that Byrd and Ellsworth and Amundsen were realizing a n. prophecy of his made three years ago that airships and dirigibles flying over the top of the world would open the shortest and I most practicable routes I en en the I eastern and western hemispheres The Norge is in feet long was Inflated with cubic meters of hydrogen at Kings bay and loaded with of or benzine for fuel Its Its' best speed Is two sixty miles an hour It was it b In 1923 1023 by the State Airship factory at Rome as the N N-l for the Italian air service and originally had a a. luxurious luxurious luxurious ous special cabin for the king of 01 Italy It carried the Italian flag at Its stern beside that of Norway on onUs Its Us trip from Rome Home to Pulham England England England En En- gland Oslo Norway Leningrad Russia Spitzbergen and thence to the tho pole Italy in the words of 01 the Rome dItalia dHalla awaited news from the final hop with religious calm with which one awaits the divine crowning of or all aU human endeavors The Tho Norge orge a a. ship with a metal keel Is described as a a. blimp with a a. backbone The metal keel Continued on l page lage age 7 AMUNDSEN CRAFT PROCEEDS AFTER VOY VOYAGE AGE TO POLE Continued from page Paea 1 runs Funs from stem to stern and on n It II itis is an Inch eighteen runway called cabin a cat walk The control was as slung under the keel Just forward forward for tor- ward of or The vessel has three motors and is steered by a l wheel like an any other ship Sun compasses like Byrds Byrd's in the control cabin were used to check against tho the magnetic compasses which aTe ale apt to be misleading so to near the magnetic pole The ship was equipped with a sled tents an another another and other essentials for a possible forced landing Amundsen who Is one ot of Norway's Norway's Norway's Nor Nor- Nor Nor- ways way's national heroes was beaten benten to the pole by Robert E. E Peary lie He set act out for the south pole by dog dogsled dogsled dogsled sled reaching it December 14 14 1911 beating four rival expeditions from as many countries His nephew Lieutenant Gustav AmUndsen of th Norwegian navy is a helmsman 01 ot of the the the- Norge Norse Roald RoaM Amundsen last first attempt to reach yea year n made ade the the he north pole by airplane but failed Called Ellsworth met Amundsen In 1924 when he paid for three airplanes airplanes airplanes air air- planes Amundsen had ordered In Italy taly He aC accompanied the Norwegian Norwegian Norwegian gian on his polar dash duh last year and was vas made second In command of ot the Norge expedition LOST TIME The ship lost eleven hours by the mere act of passing over the pole That is 18 is on approaching the pole it was 1 a. a m. m today Norwegian time aboard ship and a a. mom moment nt later It was 2 p p. p m. m yesterday The mile 2750 route was In the theand theland theland land and of the midnight sun making It Ita Ita ita a da daylight lIght trip throughout After p passing the pole the Norge r which started with enough fuel tor for miles h headed for an unexplored i area estimated at square miles third one-third as large as continental continental continental conti conti- United States and the last unvisited by man Explorers of the past believe they have found evidences evi dences of ot land In this area This last geographical mystery of the globe stretches from north of Alaska to the pole It is practically the last lure left to explorers explorers to de determine determine de- de termine whether r there Is in it anything anything anything any any- thing but ice-gnarled ice rock and barren barren barren bar bar- ren waste such as fringe the polar s sea a in which it u lies s. s FIVE JUMPS Tho The trip from Rome from Rome to Nome which began April 10 was was laid out in five jumps tot totaling miles The first was from Rome to Pulham Pulham Pulham Pul- Pul ham England 1400 miles miteS then to Oslo Norway thence to near Leningrad thence to Kings bay 1400 thence to Nome 2750 miles From Kings bay to the pole pOlo Is miles from th the pole to Point Barrow 1250 thence to Nome The men on the Norge who saw the north pole are Ellsworth Amundsen Commander Command r Umberto the pilot who built the Norge Lieutenant Hjalmar Larsen Lieutenant Emil Horgan Captain Oscar Lieutenant Oscar Gustav Amundsen a nephew of the commander Frederick Frederick Frederick Fred Fred- erick Ramm Commander Birger Lund Gottwald Natale Natal Ce lon FrIthjof Storm Johnson Fenn Malmgren Vincento Pomella and Sergeants Ettor Arduino Attillo and |