Show FEAR AROUSED 1 BY AMUNDSEN'S j jLONG LONG SILENCE Nome Is Worried After After- Second Night of Vigil Waiting Word of Sh Ship p VARIOUS RUMORS FLOAT INTO CAMP Nothing I Is Heard From Voyagers Since Thurs Thurs- day Disaster Possible LOS ANGELES Ma 14 AP AP- AP Friends of Captain Roald Amundsen Amund sen len here among them Haakon H. H Hammer who was associated w with th Amundsen in his 1924 polar plans which failed to materialize point out that there is every possibility that the Norge is at Wainwright Alaska Amundsen's old base where he has a cache of ten tons of gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line and other supplies Hammer said there is a trading f post at Wainwright and about roof people in the settlement a 3 dent number to handle the landing of the Norge if Amundsen chose to come down there and take on supplies supplies sup sup- sup sup-J plies including gasoline SAN FRANCISCO May 14 14 r United Press Press Clouds Clouds are hanging hang hang- ing low over Nome ome Alaska and along the coast to the north according according according accord accord- ing to reports to the United States weather bureau here today Weather in the interior is clear but along peninsula course over which the airship Norge was scheduled scheduled sched ached to travel the conditions are poor with the bad weather probably probably ably due to severe storm conditions over th the ocean and Bering sea th the weather bureau reports revealed NOME Alaska May 11 14 AP Anxiety was written on the lace face of ot Nome citizens this morning at the end of ot their second night of ot uninterrupted uninterrupted vigil for tor the dirigible Norge which left with Captain Roald Amundsen and companions Kings Bay Spitsbergen v at 8 a. a m. m Tuesday eastern stand- stand t d at-d ard d Scores Scones of ol townsfolk who know Amundsen were vere constantly rea reassuring s ing ng each other that the explore was safe but rumors bustling front from frontone one end of ot the village to the other gave Indication of ot doubt Variously he was reported to have ha met disaster to have returned tp to Spitzbergen to be exploring th the Like a thunderbolt the reports seemingly from nowhere no nowhere no- no where would strike Radio operators at the government govern govern- ment station would tell the people that no news of ot the Norge had been ben S. S received Calmly then would th they y J resume their waiting only to b be v j thrown into turmoil by another dJ disturbing dis- dis t. t V rumor i FALLING BAROMETER ii A falling Calling barometer was taken to to o j Indicate a possible storm in the i 2 Arctic and speculation was rife rile whether the giant sky ship could withstand a ferocious disturbance v t tot of ot the elements such as I frequently I sweeps across the north f Nome is a mining camp which sprang into prominence in 1888 83 with discovery of gold in creeks and recognition of ot the value of ot gold bearing sand on on a I a beach In front of the town More than was taken from the district in less than two months A stampede fol followed followed fol fol- lowed people a conservative V estimate crowding every available available- f steamer from the United States to to the scene of the strike After 1902 the population dwin it j died In 1910 there were 2500 pe persons per peg l r sons Ions and toda today there are not moro more 1 Continued on page 4 |