Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14
VETERANS SERVE
WITH BYRD PARTY
Or. Gould, Geological Leader,
Has Made Name as Arctic
Explorer.
ny RUSSELL OWEN.
~ wireless to the New YORK Times and
The star,

~ wireless TO the New YORK Times and
The star.
LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, Oc-
t0Ner DIR. Laurence z. Gould, Sec
ond in command, geologist and geog-
rapher of the Byrd Expedition and
leader Of the geological party, was born
on August az. 1895, at Lacota. Mich.
After leaving high school he taught
village school at Boca Baton, Fla, Tor
two wears and in 1916 entered the Uni
versity of Michigan. When the United
states entered the World War he en-
listed in the ambulance service and
srAnt a wear of his two years service
overseas. serving with the Italian army
and with the A. E. F. in Saint M1hiel
and Meuse Areonne offensives and was
with the Army of Occupation in Ger
He returned to the university in
sentember, 1919, and was graduated
naSSnufa cum lauda in 1921. Later ne
t0ok his degree Of master of arts ana
doctor Of science. He was an instruc-
tar in eeolosy at Michigan from 1921
10 1925. when he became professor OF
economic geology.
GOuld's Work in the Arctic.
His major field work includes the
r,aappina and study of the La Sal
Maintains. Utah; geologist and pho
t08rapher as we'll as assistant director
Of the first University OF Greenland
Expedition in 1926 and geographer ana
assistant director Of the Putnam Banln
Island Expedition in 1927.
On the putnam expedition he mapped
an UNEMPLOYED ford and two lakes IN
upper Labrador, portions Of Mil 1slano
Chorkbak Inlet. the largest ford on
thA south side of Baffin Island, and 2oO
miles of the west coast of Baff1n Island.
which were unknown and unexplored.
Ne Is 4 member Of Phi Beta Kappa,
sigma XII the Michigan Academy OF
Science, a Fellow Of the American
cseoeraphic Society. the American AS
socistior for the Advancement OF Sci
efsee and the Royal Geographic Society.
oBrien on Holland Tunnel Job.
John 8. oBrien, the surveyor on the
party was born at Duluth, Mimi; on
srHaol he went to the University OF
Minnesota for q year and q half. He
rervAd in the mounted section OF the
Minnesota National Guard on the Mex
team border in 1916 and in the air serv-
ice of the A. E. F. for ID months our
During vacations while in high school
he worked on railroad construction ana
mining surveys IN Northern Mlnnesosa,
CAnAQa ana LIlC INOShy 4sAObAA
MAS assistant shift engineer and In
snector on the Holland Tunnel in New
York. He played scholastic and pro
fessior1al foot ball and rowed with the
Duluth Boat Club in 1876.
George A. Thorne, who will also DO
nIrveying in the mountains, was born
ct Winnetka, H., on December 70, 1911.
He went to high school and then 70
Shefneld Scientific School at Yale Uni.
versity, from which he was graduated
Then for two years he attended the
Thorne spent q year skiing in Nor.
way. working in lumber camps ana
learning to Az ct Asburn Field, Chi
cago. He had his own plane and put
In about 400 hours in the air before
joining the Byrd Expedition.
Petersen Trained Wireless Mal.
Carl o. Petersen, one Of the radio
star Of the expedition, was born on
july "a, 1897, in Bore, Norway and
after being graduated from schools In
his home town and oslo went to the
United States to study there during
1914 ana 1s10. He took up wireless
telegrAphy in 1917 and as wireless oper-
ator In the Societe Anonyri1e de Tele-
graphic Sans Fill, Bruxelles, and later
In the Norwegian Marconi Co. served
all over the world. He was also chief
wireless operator on the Norwegian
American Line and Norwegian South
American Line passenger ships. Part
Of this time he was in the war zone.
Petersen's experiences in the polar
regions began when he was manager
of the Kings Bay radio station at
Spitsbergen In 1921 and 1922, where he
also assisted In meteorological observa-
lions In connection with Amundsen's
proposed flight from Point Barrow to
Kings Bay. In 1923 he was manager
Of the Halten radio in Norway.
For q season in 1923-24 he was oper-
ator on the Norwegian whaler Solstreif
at the South Shetlands In Antarctica.
He tried to join Comdr. Byrds North
Pole expedition and was accepted, but
arrived too late in New York.
He returned to the United States in
1926 and worked for Chicago radio