Show Polar Flight I Adds Knowledge NEW YORK May 15 AlP AP Roald Amu Amundsen's polar flight placed him In the ver very front rank ronk of oC the great groo t explorers ers era Already noted for tor his hH discovery cry of ot the south polo vol his exploration of ot the north magnetic pole and his circumnavigation of ot the Arctic archipelago through both the northeast northeast north north- east NUlt and northwest t passages passage the h hardy Norseman f. f latest exploit will add much to geographical l knowledge e he already has contributed contributed contrib contrib- 11 te-d te to the world At the tho hl highest het moment of ot AmundSen's Amundsen's Amund Amund- sens sen's adventurous career It is re recalled recalled recalled re- re called with Interest that his father fathers a Norwegian r sea captain and shipbuilder ship builder sent nt the bo boy Roald to the University of Christiana to be trained rained for tor tho the comparatively prosaic prosaic prosaic pro pro- existence of or a R. physician Ills wanderers wanderer's blood the heritage of ot a a. long line Une of Viking ancestors Ii ted Itself after u It years year's stud study however and Amundsen ran aWn away to sea vea shipping on a Norwegian whaler FIRST EXPERIENCE For 01 six she years he cha chase J Mob Moby Dick read and studied t about that friend of oC all seamen SM Polaris and naturally came tame to wonder land landu or 01 waters wAter beneath the north star In 1 he ho had his lila first ex experience tX cx- p as an au explorer when he shipped as 8 first officer In O Gerlach's Antarctic expedition That trip ral raised d h hU hii ambition to know more about the Arctic regions particularly larl tho the sought long northwest passage JaM e. e to which ho contributed con co- coe- coe practically all aU of oC his hi original origl- origl net nal slender IU I savings a Amundsen In 1901 lOl purchased the che Gjoa a small whaling ship and started out to navigate the northwest passage fly IDOl 1908 he h. had bad reached King William land after having saIled around the che north end nil of North orth America from east Mit to west est The Gjoa was then them frozen eron In for two years ear during which time tinte the young yg explorer rf made madea a al I nc trip trill to the magnetic north nonh nol pole and d charted the coast of ot Victoria land as a. far Car as La 62 61 dp degree north It was wm not until July Jub ItOe that the tho Ojo broke from the he grip a of the I Ice and a month later sHed pelted 11 Into lao th tM th ocean by br way war of oC Bering trait strait the first v el In the history history his his- tory of or the world to the tM pa passage PLANS CONQUEST 1 Me Ife Immediately planned a conquest conquest con eon quest of tIM the north conk pole 01 K T The Tb ship Kram nl was we fitted out and had bad gone Irone goneA A ci AAI far kr as the Madeira Islands Inlands et when whim h to he suddenly cht ct p PJ pans H and made a dash etab for tOC toe the south sooth pots pole finding It In n tI the th midst of 01 a great t I irs Ire plateau plat 10 Ob M test feet above shore M sea I level ul Ir tor days dats before fer the lb arrival rh of the tho British Antarctic part party b 4 b by bg Captain K R. t. t F. F Scott ott He H. left an ho tIM N nag flaK at aI the tho bottom torII of the earth rib on 0 De De- m 14 u. l Uti 1511 tt The Tb u. m of th three other ih r natIons nation Germany Australia AaU sl I n 1 Japan wore were also In hat thai rare race hut but tailed failed Amun Wn spent peon th three Ihre da cia days s at a. atthe atthe the th south pole pal taking hundreds hundred of or orand t and nd bArUn the Ih tor m. tr- tr With nh him were fiN five men mn i four fer sledges and n et t twi II named d the Ch south pole plateau Ut cu u Kins KIne Plateau In honor of hit hito sovereign o relm FIRST ATTEMPT Ir with nth enthusiasm after n hi his south lOuth polar dM Amundsen n I planned several la hi the tit polar J regions His Il first serious i attempt at t tempt to achieve the north pole however was not until 1918 nine nino years vears after Admiral Robert flobert Eleary E. E Peary leary had planted the Stars and Stripes there He lie left lert Oslo In the steamer Maude I intending to steam team as far as ns the tho Ice would permit him and then to drift p past pt t Ute the north pole hoping to obtain valuable knowledge of te the polar currents current Two years jears la later er ho established winter quarters far up on the coast of ot Asia J but hut in an accident to the Maude the n next year cau caused ed him to abandon the quest and go to Seat Seat- tIe tle Wash ash He spent silent the next four tour years Yf In unsuccessful effort to reach the north pole b by airplane In 19 1922 he salted n again front from Seattle but an nn Impenetrable Ice pack prevented the Maude from getting tar far farenough enough for airplanes to be of ot use USA In HI 1924 4 he ordered three airplanes airplanes air air- planes In Italy but hut hl his various ex expeditions ox- ox had so 0 dr drained his resources re sources that he va waif una unable hie to In pay for tor them and went Into bankruptcy bank He lit was assisted financially financial l. l ly by Lincoln r Ellsworth an American Amer Amer- lean ican who agreed to join him In an nn airplane dash to the pole Last year r N their party left Spitzbergen In two wo flying boats bo for tr the north pole They were gone Ron eight twenty dA days the party rt returned In one after having ln landed lAnde odd GO-odd mn miles from Crom the north pole and losing lossing los los- sing ing one machine Only through ex ox- ox r efforts effort were they the able ahle to tn return to civilisation civilization with theother the te teother other oth Amundsen to Is a A. big blond Norse oremAn ore man with t eyes He lie I. I only M 4 years jears rR old having been born horn at Norway or Jul July IS 16 11 He ne has hAil been face fe to face with d death th many times but hl his hili Indomitable courage has hu always a pulled him through to Co safety S |