Evening star., 1925-04-11
MACMILLAN HOPES
TO MAP NEW LAND
important Radio Research
Also Planned in Arctic-Ar-
rangements Shaping Up.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April f1.-Navy plans for
Co-Operat tion in the ninth expedition
into the Arctic zone of Donald B.
Macmillan next June have been COM
pleted, except for selection of the
entire personnel. according to Eugene
F. Mcdonald. jr., of Chicago, president
of the National Association of Broad
casters, who returned yesterday from
Washington, where he represented
Macmillan. The explorer is due here
today for n conference with Mr.
Mcdonald.
The expedition will leave Boston,
Mr.. Mcdonald said. and base at Etah
with an advance plane base at sthe
northern tip of Axel Heiberg land, or,
if the ice permits, even farther, to
increase the range of the planes, by
use of which it is hoped to do in
days more than previously has been
accomplished in months of arduous
toll.
VIII Map New Land.
Each of the airplanes will be equip
ped with map-making cameras and
through their aid it is expected that
new lands will be put on world maps
and much OF the vast unknown area
between the Arctic circle and the
Radio history will also be made.
according to Mr.. Mcdonald, who is
positive that radio reports would be
sent back daily on a wave length of
20 meters for general dissemination
by the United States Navy and the
National Geographic Society, under
the auspices of which the expedition
will operate.
Fabulous" sums were offered for
exclusive news from the expedition,
said Mr.. Mcdonald. but, acting for
Macmillan. he agreed with Secretary
of the Navy Wilbur and Rear Ad-
miral W. A. Moffett, chief of naval
aeronautics, that because the expedi-
tion was assuming such proportions
it would not be fair to confinc the
news to any exclusive agency. In
stead, the news would be transmitted
to the Navy and Geographic Society
for publication without charge and
without favoritism.
Broadcast From Chicago.
He also hopes to demonstrate that
the voice can be transmitted from the
frozen North, despite the "a hours of
daylight which will prevail there at
the time, and in that event reports
from the expedition, and possibly
Eskimo songs. will be transmitted
to his radio station, WJAZ, on a
wave length of 90 meters, stepped up
to. the usual radio sting wave
length, and sent abroad from Chicago.
That the 20-meter wave length will
work from the Arctic was assured
by a demonstration last Sunday. when
two-way contact was established by
his laboratory here with Birmingham,
England.
MacMiIlan's stanch little craft, the
Bowdoin. which has borne him into
the northland on his other eXpedi-
tions, will not be used this time. In
stead a larger boat, not yet selected,
will be employed because of the nu
merous personnel and vast equipment.
Variety i'm Transmitters.
Radio transmitters of 20, 40, 80 and
$50 meters will be taken north, with
the 20-meter set to be used exclusive
1y after the expedition enters the
area of-perpetual day. The 40 and 80
meter transmItters will be used dur
ing the night in this latitude.
The 180-meter transmitter will be
taken along to prove that ii cannot
be depended upon for transmitting
in the daylight. A studio for talking
to Macmillan on 20 meters will be
rugged atop the new Straus Building
here, nearly 500 feet above the street
level, said Mcdonald. If voice trans
mission fails wireless code will be
used.
All amateurs of the United States
Will be called upon to cooperate in
getting messages from the expedi-
tion.
The capacity of the airplanes to be
used in the expedition will permit
of three men and $50 pounds of
equipment being carried in each.
The plane personnel will be a pilot
mechanician rigger, a navigator and
a photographer.
Sixteen in Expedition.
Including the Navy personnel of 6
under Commander r. f. Byrd, the
expedition will number 16. MacMil-
Ian himself is a professor of anthro-
pology at Bowdoin University, and
also an expert in tidal observation.
Others in the scientific group as
signed by the National Geographic
Society will be a. meterologist, an ex-
pert in terrestrial magnetism, a
geologist and an ornithologist. The
ships crew will number 25.
The ornithologist will be taken
along because Macmillan hopes to
find far to the west of any known
land the nesting places of certain
Arctic birds he has observed without
ever finding their homes. In addition
it also is expected that new animal
life also may be found.
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