Evening star., 1925-04-22
PICK THREE NAVY
MEN FOR FLIGHT
Mold and SorenSon of Ana
costa Station Selected to
Go With Macmillan.

From the five naval enlisted men
selected to make preliminary arrange
ments for the naval aviation section
of the Macmillan Arctic expedition
| under auspices of the National Geo
graphic Society, three today were
definitely chosen to make the trip
into the Polar regions. They are:
Chief Petty Officer Andrew c. Mold of
the Naval Air Station at Anacostia.
Aviation Chief Machnist's Mate Nels
2. Sorensen. also of the station, and
Aviation Chief Machinist's Fate Floyd
Bennett, who arrived in Washington
today from the Pacific Coast, where
he was attached to the L. S. S. Rich
mond
| The others chosen in connection
with the project, Chief Boatswains
Mate S. J. Williamson and Aviation
Chief Machinist's Mate c. l. Kessler,
both of the air station here, will assist
in putting the planes in flying shape
as they emerge from fhe factory.
The greatest problem before the
naval section Of the expedition deals
with radio communication. A definite
policy will be discussed Saturday in
"a conference between John ReinartZ,
MacMillan's radio man; Lieut.. Comdr.
Richard 4. Byrd, in command of the
aviation unit and Lieut.. II. c. Rodd,
WHO Is NOIhlDS OUT
details at the Navy Department here.
The Geographic Society last night
was informed of the first test of q
wireless apparatus designed by Rel
| nartz for use on the planes. The set
has one 201-A tube and dry batteries.
John G. Benedict of station HCIC, at
Kalamazoo, Mich, carried on con
versation with Reinartz, who was at
South Manchester, Conn, a distance
| of about SEn miles Tho rnnVerSafinn
was in Morse code.
! The Navy is laying particular
stress on communications between the
| planes in flight and the ships based
at Etab. and high-frequency appa
ratus will not serve this purpose. If
no other equipment can be arranged
for the regular sets now used on sea
planes in the service will be installed
and a transmitting set employed by
| surface vessels will be turned over TO
| the Arctic ship handling the broad
casting.
Efforts are being made by Reinartz,
regarded by the Navy as radio
| wizard, to develop a set which will
| enable personnel in the planes to
broadcast on 20 or 40 meters direct 70
the Middle West, where a specially
erected radio station will receive it
| and "Step up" the Polar voices for
ultimate consumption by the average
| radio set owner.
Comdr. Macmillan today informed
| the society that two of his crew on
| former Arctic expeditions have agreed
to make the trip beginning in June.
| They are Ralph Robinson of Merri-
| mae, Mass, the engineer officer, and
| John JayneS, former school teacher.
| The Bowdoin. recently decided upon
to accompany Scotch Dundee
| whaler about to be acquired by Mac
| MILAN, will make it's third trip into
| the Arctic. The boat was built in 1921
at East Boothbay, Me-, in 1921, and
was named after the college Macmillan
| attended. Built especially for Arctic
| work, the vessel is SS feet long, 20
feet wide and 10 feet deep. 1t is con-
structed of double white oak and has
| LOO pounds of steel plate on the bow
for ice-breaking. The engines are oil
| burners, and also will burn seal, wal
rus and whale oil. The ship has q
cruising radius of 1000 miles at s
knots and with sails erected plus the
power can make about IL knots. In
1922 the ship was frozen in off Baf-
fin Land for 274 days. and on the
trip of 1924 to Etah it was frozen
| in $50 days Macmillan, however, de-
clares the ship is ''as good as new