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Show I AMUNDSEN WILL ! ATTEMPT FLIGHT Explorer Will Try to Fly Over North Pole Next Spring. SEATTLE. "Wash.. Oct. 2. (By the Associated Press. ) "Word direct from Captain Ronld Amundsen that hf and his pilot. Lieutenant O. Onidahl. will hop off from Walnrlght, Alaska, tho latter part of May or tho first of Juno to fly across the North Pols to Spitz- lrjren, wan broght to Seattle Sunday f! by K. J. Ward, government school teacher Walnrlght. j Amundsen plans. Wanl nald. to I' make tlic flight. of approxlmstoly 1700 it miles ncro the polar mdltudc.s In on! I Jump, carrying for Rubnlstcnce only a h tliermon hottle of hot and a nand-f nand-f wleh. When he left Walnrlght, Ward I aald. Amundsen anl Omdahl wer-I wer-I ml. ling their winter quarters, a cabin f on tho beach near tho school house. L They a re wHI supplied with foo.l unl If, fuel for the winter, having killed two i whales, some walrus and seal, and I having a reindeer herd of 4.000 anl-1 anl-1 mall and a coal mine nearb) ! The schooner Maud. Amundsen's r! exploration ship, according to W ard, Is j drifting northward In the Ice floo at 1 BUCfa Speed thatthe explorer was of the opinion It might cross tho pole nnd reach Spitsbergen In a year 1.j though It may take longer. The Maudi j! Is provisioned for seven years. |