Northwest History. Alaska. Explorers, Exploration & Discoveries.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1926
• Subjects: the United States; Roald Amundsen; Dodge; Nome; Alaska; Colonel Umberto Nobile; Norge; Teller; Norway; Oslo; the steamer Victoria; Canadian railroad; New York; sesqui-centennial exposition; Philadelphia; Canadian route; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Canada; Nobile; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91103

No Stops Through U. S.: Amundsen To Go East Through Canada To Dodge Publicity. NO STOPS THROUGH U. S. Amundsen to Go East Through Canada to Dodge Publicity. NOME, Alaska, May 2G. (/P)—Captain Roajd Amundsen, leader, and Colonel Umbert.o Nobile, first pilot, of a transpolar expedition in the dirigible Norge, which ended at Teller, Alaska, May 13 announced here today that they will proceed directly to Oslo, Norway, after leaving Nome next month. The explorers go to Seattle on the American continent, by a Canadian railroad to New Vork, where they embark for Oslo. There they plan to write a book of 100,000 words on the Amundsen said they had refused all nvitations to visit cities in the United States and had declined to attend the sesqui-centennial exposition at Philadelphia. He explained that the Canadian route across the continent would be used to avoid the public and the press.