Show 1 WHO S aw NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N EW YORK perhaps it is the 1 heat general it seems throughout the civilized world these days or more likely it is one of those waves of human born corn in in wealth aspiration that ellsworth picks s sometime ci m e t i m e hazardous life sweep va the world at any rate in announcing intention to return to antarctica to seek to learn some of the primal secrets hidden in the interior of the continent at the bottom of the world lincoln Lincol rl ellsworth shares ambition with admiral byrd as with british norwegian we giant french and Argen flyer explorers difference is that whereas mr Ell motives are purely scientific in other cases 1 international riter national politics in their relation to geographical claims are the incentives love of adventures manifested when yet in his teens sent ellsworth forth to explore unknown regions in different parts of the world scion of wealthy parents born in chicago in 1880 he could have ordered his career had he wished along many lines less strenuous and of fewer hazards than the one he chose and in which he has become so distinguished gui shed he came east to a crack seat of secondary learning the hill school pottstown Potts town pa and upon graduation entered columbia where he won scholastic honors in the department of civil engineering but becoming r restive se under the sedentary routine of student life he did not wait to be graduated faring forth into the wild he became an axman on the first grand trunk pacific railway survey of the transcontinental route across canada for five years he saw the virgin land of the northwest lived am among ong indians shared the hardships of pioneers in 1907 he became resident engineer of the grand trunk at prince rupert B C but his work filled though it was with hardship and adventure was not enough restlessness was in his soul and the unknown beckoned so 1909 found him in the peace river river district in northern canada prospecting for gold then the world war came and seeking action he went to france where he became an aviator long before the united states entered the strife the real turning point in his career came with his meeting with raoul amundsen in paris in 1921 1924 with the great norwegian explorer he participated in various expeditions culminating ing I 1 in 1926 with the famous flight in a dirigible over the north pole since then subsequent trips of exploration won him enhanced fame and added thrilling chapters to a gallant life of action PROFESSOR J B S HALDANE the famous british biochemist who just now offers to sit inside an air raid shelter while it is bombed from the out scientist balks side is the at nothing as only living test tube still un yet yei unscarred scarred last month he sealed himself in an airtight air tight chamber for 14 hours to learn how the victims of the thetis submarine disaster felt in the their ir last hours he once ate an ounce of ammonium chloride a day survived it and learned a lot about tetanus and saving childrens lives studying fatigue he shut himself for long per periods cods in a tight chamber the air charged with carbon dioxide tracing effects of acid on the body he ate daily three ounces of bicarbonate of soda following it with a chaser ol df hydrochloric acid diluted with water he was twice gassed in the world war with all that he a scratch on him and suffer even from indigestion husky and vigorous he doubles as guinea pig and a writer the latter pursuit greatly enhancing his fame notably with his book which was quite a sensation in this country in 1924 he experiments peri ments on his mind just as he does on his body the son of a distinguished d scottish scientist he was educated at oxford and gained increasing reputation before he was 30 he is 47 consolidated features feature Set lct |