Evening star., 1925-04-18
MACMILLAN PARTY
PERSONNEL CHOSEN
Lieut.. Schur and BoatsWain
Reber of Navy Selected to
Go on Arctic Trip.

Final organization of the naval
aviation section OF the Macmillan
Arctic expedition. under the auspices
of the National Geographic Society
was effected today with the selection
OF Lieut.. 0unior grade) NJ. A. Schur
Naval Air Station. Pensacola, Fla, and
Chief Boatswain Earl Z. Reber, Naval
Aircraft Factory. Philadelphia, to be
pilots, and the addition of two more
mechanics, Aviation Pilot Andrew G.
Mold and Aviation Chief Machinists
Mate Nels p. Sorensen. both of the
Naval Air Station at Anacostia, u. c.
The selection of Lieut.. Schur and
Chief Boatswain Reber was made
after long discussion and study
from volunteer list of more than
40 officers and men of the Navy. They
have been ordered to report to Lieut..
Comdr. Richard Z. Byrd in command
of the naval section, at the Bureau of
Aeronautics for instruction.
Officers Are Assigned.
Lieut. Schur will be retained here to
assist Lieut.. Comdr. Byrd in working
out details of the project, while Chief
Boatswain Reber will return to the
aircraft factory at Philadelphia and
supervise the assembling of the am
phibian planes when they are received
from the manufacturer.
Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate Sor-
enSen will be ordered to McCook Field
Dayton, Ohio, Immediately. to famil-
iarize himself with the Army's amphi
bian plane now located there. With
him will go Aviation Chief Machinist
Mate Charles I. Kessler of the Naval
Air Station here, previously selected
as a mechanic. Chief Petty officer
Mold viii go to the aircraft factory in
connection with the assemblage and
test of the planes and he will be as
sisted by Aviation Chief Machinist's S
Mate Floyd Bennett, now on the west
coast. He and Chief Boatswain'S Mate
S. ]. Williamson, of the Naval Air Sta
ton here also were previously select
ed. When the expedition is ready to
leave Wiscasset, Me-, the latter part Of
June, possibly three of the mechanics
will be taken along.
Schur Veteran Pilot.
Lieut.. Schur is 81 years old, and was
born at Marshfield, Greg. He attended
the Christian Brothers Business Col
lege at Portland, Greg, and entered
the Navy from civil life in 1912, trans
ferring to naval aviation in Decem-
Der, 1916 He was officer in charge of
the aviation ground school at Dun
L
neapolis from 1918 to 1919, and since
the war his duties have included flight
instructor at the naval air station, San
Diego, Calf; pilot in the aircraft
squadrons with the battle fleet on the
Pacific coast from October, 1921. to
May, 1928, and flight instructor at the
naval air station, Pensacola, Fla,
where he has been stationed since
leaving the fleet air squadrons.
Lieut.. Schur was a member of the
team of Navy pilots in the st. Louis
air races of 1923, and flew second in
the Merchants Exchange race, pilot
ing a Navy Douglas torpedo plane at
lot miles per hour over a 200-kilo-
meter course.
In Navy IL Years.
Chief Boatswain Reber was born in
Chicago SO years ago, and attended
the high school at Oelwein, Iowa. He
has been in the Navy II years, and in
naval aviation since 1916. For seven
months in 1917 he was fight instruc-
tor at the aviation ground school at
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