Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1922 — Page 9

AMUNDSEN TO TRY TRIP TO TOP OF WORLD I Proposes to Drift With Ice Pack for Five Years in Ship. ‘ONLY STOP AT' POLE’ March IT.—The most daring PEfage ever conceived by man. comparane only to the first voyage of Columbus or the imagined voyages of the characters of Jules Verne, the novelist, will start from this port early in June. Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the .south Pole, will set sail, in his JSW-foot ship, the Maud, to go over the top of the world. The North Pole will be the only stopping place on the voyage. Two airplanes will be used to reach the Pole if. while going over the top of the world, the Maud should drift in a current within Uj mg distance. Otherwise it is possible that no effort will be made to reach the Pole. The voyage of exploration will be made under the flag of the Kingdom of Norway. Lands first seen on the journey will be claimed for Haakon VII. king of Norway, who is helping to finance the expedition. GOES TO MAKE A KKANGEMENTS. Amundsen recently went to New York to make final arrangements for the expediticn. M.-anwhile H. H. Hammer, l'is personal representative In the United .Vales, is here fitting the Maud for a seven-year journey. He said: ' Amundsen is going to try to determine just how much tru.h :here is in *hs theory that there is an ocean current which goc-s over the top of the world £-h;ps wrecked in the North Pacific Ocean have been foimd on the other side of the world, in the Atlantic Ocean. This has led to the bplief that the whole ice-pack fioats in this current and that a ship stuck in the ice will be carried over the •n os the world and out of the ice on o other side.” Amundsen belieTes that he can go over the top of the world by getting Into the Ice Jam and drifting with the current. MAUD NEARLY HEADY POR TIIE TRIP. His little ship, the Maud, built especially for him In Norway, in nearing readiness for the trip. Great quantities of hard bread are aboard and, strangely enough, some of the bread he took with him to the South Pole. This bread must be moistened and softened before it can be eaten. Thousands of cans of meat, hundreds of cans of fruits, Jams. Jellies, candles, flour —enough to last seven years—are aboard the Maud. Scientific In.-truments, which will help l.im determine new air currents and new lands, are being installed. Two airplanes from England are being made ready. MAY TAKE FIVE YEARS. Amundsen says that the trip will take from three to five years. Although the object of his voyage may carry him far from the North Pole he is really unxious to reach the pole. ”lt will be a great thing to have reached both the North Pole and the South Pole,” he told Hammer, his closest associate. RIGHT AT HOME AT NORTH POl-E. Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, is no strauger to the Far North, lie spent over a year in the vicinity of magnetic North Pole. He. accordftkg to Hammer, was the first man to voyage ot discovery which has fired the mind of man since America was discovered. but which never was even partially successful until Amundsen succeeded. L.itly in June the Matid will sail from Seattle, with teu men aboard. Captain Oscar Wistlng, personal friend of the

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explorer, will 'take command. Captain Wistlng has been with Amundsen on many Journeys. Amundsen, of "course, will be in supreme command. Dr. H. U. Sver drup, eminent scientist, and a representative of the Norwegian government, will be aboard. The other seven men will not only be sailors, tried In dangerous seas, but scientists with the spirit of exploration as well. It must, indeed, be a hardy sailor who will ship on the Maud —for a voyage of five years, perhaps intd eternity. MAUD WILL HEAD NORTH. The Maud will head north to the Arctic. Where the broken shores of the eternal Ice-pack wage an unending battle with the scarcely warmer waters of the Arctic seas, the Maud will nose in, find a safe place, if possible, among the great chunks which mark the outer edge of the solid pack, and there wait to be carried “over the top.” When the ship has entered the pack the propeller will be lifted. The ship has been especially designed to permit this, so that, once on the other side, the Journey to a port may be made under power If necessary. If the ice-paek, as vast as a continent, is carried by a current, as Amundsen believes. It is possible that the ship will safely drift across the Polar Basin, over the top of the world from the Pacific to the Atlantic. No one can tell where the Maud, if she “goes over the top,” will emerge from the ice pack. Perhaps—this is Hammer's guess—over at Siberia or Russia. NOTHING TO DO BUT HANG AROUND. Once in the pack there will be little to do but take observations and drift. New lands may be discovered and claimed. Vast mineral deposits, so valuable that the cost of bringing them to civilization will not be too great, may be found. The auxiliary oil engine of the Maud will be silent, but the frigid stillness of the undisturbed Arctic will be blasted by the mighty roar of two airplanes, which will be assAnbled on the ice once the ship is safely iu the pack. Should the ioe-paek carry the Maud within flying distance of the North role the two airplanes will make a little side trip to the Pole. No one knows how long such a Journey will take. Amundsen believes that It takes the Ice-paek from three to five years to cross the Polar Basin from the Pacific to the Atlantic. In all the twenty five years that Amundsen has been exploring the most remote parts of the globe he has never before conceived such a journey. Five AH! EPSOM SALTS NOW LIKE LEMONADE Epsom Salts made Tasteless with Fruit Derivative Saits i sSMk II \ w i m>: = ® o*^o j :[> —: °®o® 0 Tasteless | | c S | ° j; j •|j i I Enjoy all the splendid physlc-actiou on the bowels of a dose of epsom salt* without the awful taste and nausea. A few cents buys a handy package of ‘•Epsonade Salts.” the wonderful discovery of the American Epsom Association. Even children gladly take It. Drug tores.—Advertisement.

years in the solitary stillness of the Icepack, which fits the top of the world like a glistening nightcap! “Perhaps seven years,” says Amundsen, with a smile which brings to his eyes a gleam like that which must have glistened in the eyes of Lief the Lucky and his Norsemen when they first set foot on the New England Coatt, long before Columbus; was born. All the men who go on this Journey know there is the possibility that they may never return. But, Hammer says, there will be no trouble getting a crew. Too many, indeed, want to go. Amundsen is fifty years old. Since boyhood he has been engaged In explorations. He comes from hardy Norwegian stock, but, according to Hammer, his Immediate ancestors were not explorers. Signs That One Is Growing Old HUNTINGTON, W. Va., March 17. When did you first notice that you were growing old ? A reporter here set out to learn the answer from different Huntington people. with some interesting results. Here are some of the answers: When I noticed the first gray hair. When I met my son for the first time walking with a girl. When a girl friend told me she was in love with some other man. When I lost my first tooth. When I lost my breath while going up hill. When a mother asked me to see her young daughter hone. When the presence of many people began to bore me. When I began to find more pleasure in staying home than in going, out in the evening.

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KING AND QUEEN OF BRITONS RIDE COACH OF GOLD Parliament Opening Is in Striking Contrast to Our Congress. LONDON, March 17,—The opening of the House of Parliament and the opening of the Congress of tae United States are as different as the spring meeting of the Dorcas Society and the grand processional of Barntim & Bailey's Circus. The Congress of the United States in Us opening session Is like an elderly ladies’ sewing circle compared to the brilliant performance put on in London when King George and his Queen drive down through Whitehall to oped Parliament. The King and Queen are not whirled down to the House of Parliament In a shining, glistening motor. No, Indeed 1 The King and the Queen drive down to Parliament in state, es corted by mounted lifeguards, in glaring crimson coats, seated In a glorious coach of gold, which, mounted on high springs, sways from side to side, causing the Queen to suffer from coachsickness, rumor says. The streets are lined with bearskln-helmeted guards, and bands toot on every corner. Tbe quick motor ride which the President of the United States makes from the White House to the Capitol at the opening of Congress Is a mere Journey of no importance, compared to the royal procession of the King and Queen. TAME BY COMPARISON. The entrance into the House of Representatives which Is made by the President of tbe United States is tame com pared to the regal entrance which King

George makes into the House ot Lords. The President enters amid cheers and tand-clapping, then the bored Legislators fit down, and yawn and await his speech frith ennui or enthusiasm—lt depends upon their party affiliations. When King George enters the House of Lords it is an occasion of pomp, ceremony and circumstance. The King, unlike the President, who is garbed in rather ordinary business clothes, is arrayed like Solomon in all his glory, with ermine robes and costly gowns, and wearing his crown with dignity and decorum, and the wearing of. the crown roust be quite a trick. The reception which the King receives' is one of greatest respect and dignity. There is an air of suspense until his clear voice SLOAN’S EASES PAIN RELIEVES THE ACHE TORMENTING, agonizing: rheumatic aches are quickly relieved by Sloan’s Liniment. Apply it freely and enjoy a comforting sense of warmth. Itfenetrateswilhoutrubbing. i Good also for sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, over-exerted muscles, stiff joints, external aches and pains, back* aches, strains and sprains. Don’t let pain lay you op. Keep Sloan’s Liniment handy and at tha first sign of an ache or pain, use it, for it certainly does produce results. At all druggists—3sc, 70c, $1.40. SloatfS I Liniment

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