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Show WEATHER PREVENTS AMUNDSEN'S FLIGHT NOME, Alaska. July 31. rty the Associate. press) Heavy Ice was the I cause of the transfer of Captain Am- t tindsen Arctic explorer, from his ship. 1 Maud, to the schooner Holmes, report-ed report-ed in meagre radio advices last night, j according to a further message. Bad weather was the cause of tho post-, ponement of Amundsen's proposed air-plane air-plane flight across the pole from Point Barrow until next year, the adlccs I said. Lh utenant E G Fullcrton. who was to have piloted the airplane on this flight, Is expected to return to tho states, said the message. The Maud Will proceed to point Hope on the Arc- 1 tic ocean, north of Seward Peninsula,, The Holmes will go to Point Barrow. ( |