Show mans I Plans Unique Trip I i 7 tw P lR IR GiORGE su SUB VOYAGE f 1 TO rOlf POLE CONSIDERED t Would Be Less Risky Than Air Flight Noted Explorer Says NEW NEWYORK YORK March 30 30 CAP CAP- P- P Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins polar pola ex lorer announced today lie he was Ht w 1 q P PF F J orth pole poi b by submarine possibly this summer r or next Commander Danenhower technIcal expert eipert of the Submarine company who plans to navigate the craft said the sub sub- is to be used vas being eing fitted l out at the company's at Bridgeport Conn Sir HUbert said the idea of a a. submarine trip across the ArctIc sea ea had been In tile the minds of sub designers and explorers since 1899 when rhen Simon Lake advanced It and PeaTY Peary both had considered it ft he saidOn said On the face of It be said it lt seems rIskY Still as a mathematIcal Ical cal hazard I consider It no rio more even risky less so than n an plane ht over the polar seas SPECIAL EQUIPMENT Tile The submarine s would be equipped with a special diving lock through which a diver might be sent out to last blast the ship free fred ot of retainIng ic ice said It also would have ave a bar sloping up from the bow OW t to the conning tower to ease it t under an unseen iceberg and carry arry a large quantity of chemicals to 0 melt Ice Commander said the he trip would be und undertaken during dur- dur ing ng Jul July as at that time there arc spaces paces of open water between ice icel fi l through whIch the submarine could b navigated submerging only when it encountered ered a barrier of fice Ice There is need or or a trip rip across the Arctic ocean Sir Hubert lubert said to get some on page 5 0 I I SUB VOYAGE TO POLE CONSIDERED d from frOll page Pase 1 matlon mation of the depth of oC that ocean and If possible to determine if the ocean is a conical depression It If it is shaped like mee n. n basin Data concerning the direction force torce and temperature ot of Arctic Ctt rents the con conditions and aid drift of the Ice and comparative knowledge know knowl- edge of midsummer meteorological conditions also could be obtained he said lIe said he dId not expect such sucha a trip to take more than three weeks and perhaps not more than two Sir Hubert has made an an airplane flight OV over r polar regions and recently recently re- re returned from a trip of exPloration exploration ex- ex in the Antarctic in which he flew over Graham Land that It was a group ot of islands islands is- is lands and not part ot of an Antarctic continent as had been believed |