Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1928, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, BYRD PERSONNEL CAREFULLY PICKED OnIy 55 or 60 Men Chosen | Out of More Than 15,000 Applicants. is the time to install your NOW BY JOHN L. COOLEY. (Associated Press Science Editor) NEW YORK, August 23.—One of the OlL hardest tasks confronting Comdr. Richard E. Byrd when he started ac- | | five. preparations for his ontarctic ex- | pedition” was the selection of the per- |sonnel. More than 15,000 applications | for iobs of one sort of another were received, but all except a few of these | | volunteers were disappointed. Byrd | had room for only 55 or 60 men Melville has had no experience in polar waters, but has traversed many times the other.oceans of the globe. Before he was 20 he had been around the world three times. The medical officer of the expedition is Dr. Francis D. Coman of Baltimore. Dr. Coman is assistant in surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and Friday and Saturday Last Days of the RUMMAGE Shoe at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He will be physiclan, surgeon and dietician of the South Polar party. The technical staff includes Law- rence M. Gould, professor of geology at the Unlversity of Michigan; John O'Brien, civil engineer of Minneapolis; Wwilliam C. Haines, meteorologist of the Federal Weather Bureau; Ralph F. ! pumps turing new blues AUGUST 99 20y 1928. Shropshire of New York, oceanographer and hydrographer; Frank T. Davies of McGill University, physicist; Howard F. Mason of Seattle, radio engineer; L. V. Berkner of Minneapolis, radio expert in the Department of Com- merce; L. K. Granlie, assistant radio operator; Thomas B. Mulroy, expedition EW Fall shoes await Mi- lady sandals and ties. new Fea- and in stunning velvets, suedes IFall . blacks, patents. colors - browns, “Washington Belles” $4.95 engineer, and Robert A. Smith, aerial photographer. Arthur T. Walden of Wonalancet, N. H,, will have charge of the 80 dogs, some of which he trained during the last Winter on the snowy New Hamp- shire hillsides. The chief steward s Sidney Greason, formerly of the Atlanta Athletic Club. LN GENERAL OFFICES, 1518 K STREET |TED It was Greason who assembled the 140 tons of provisions and supplies that will carry the party through two years on the Antarctic continent. George W. Tennant of Manistee, Mich., will be boss of the kitchen. His helper is Albert E. Gething of New York, who has signed as assistant cook and baker. A dozen of the men have worked INCORBONATED. Y flS s THERE 1S A STORE NEAR YOU—SEE LIST AT BOTTOM OF with Byrd before, most of them on the North Pole expedition. (Copyright. 1928.) 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Balchen returned to e United States with Byrd after the orth Pole trip and was relief pilot on | America’s transatlantic flight. It Ichen who brought the big plane v to the ocean’s surface on the | ch coast after the aviators had ht in vain a landing at Le Bourget. ne is a petty officer in the Navy a pilot in the Naval Air Service tationed at Hampton Roads, but | has cbtained leave for the Antarctic | adventure. With Byrd and Baichen, he will probably be in the plane that at- | tempts to reach the South Pole nith, the last pilot chosen. is a veteran air mail fiyer. He joined that service in 1920 and was one of tife men who made the first night flight with | mail between Hadley Field, N. J., and | Chicago two vears ago | The fourth skipper of the party— | | barring Comdr. Byrd, who is also a ot as well as a navigator—is Fred- | ck C. Melville. 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