Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1930, Page 47

D.C. UNDERSEASH | “TINES, 15 THEORY Geologist Reports on Various Submersions of District in Million Years. Six times in a million years much of the District of Columbia has been at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. ‘Such Ys the conclusion reported to the Washington Academy of Sciences by C. Wythe Cook of the United States Geological Burvey, who studied the geo- logical history of this locality from the start 'of the pleistocene era, the age of the at -glaciers, which immediately P the present. Each emergence of the site of Washington from the ocean’ left its characteristic traces. At the end of the pliocene era, just be(ur’ the glaciations, this territory stood 'high above sea level. Chesapeake Bay was a broad valley. The Potomac, ‘Cook 'reports, took a drop of about 60 feet at Little Falls down to the coastal plain and continued to the sea through 8 broad valley between gravel-capped . It was a deep, rapid river. Tides Extended to Harpers Ferry. Then came the pleistocene era, with the sea 265 feet above its present level. about Washington was sub- merged except a gravel-covered island which rose 40 feet above the water southwest of Washington. There is a flat-topped ' ridge just southeast of Balley's Crossroads, Va., which is a remnant of this ancient island, known as the Brandywine Terrace. Tides then extended up the Potomac almost to Harpers Ferry. - ‘This all changed radically when the first of the great glaciations, the Nebraskans, spread out of the north over the continent. The tidal waters . The Potomac flowed again in m imately its old channel. Then Nebraskan ice melted, releasing & vast amount of water to the sea, which arose about 215 feet above its present Jevel. The river emptied at Georgetown into'a bay about seven miles wide, with & prolongation extending eastward to Laurel. At this time was formed the Coharie terrace along the Atlantic Coast. Mount Pleasant and Meridian low Florida avenue was again under ‘water and the Sunderland terrace was , which follows the present bluff north of Florida nenue‘:etmn i LEEEEE e —of the right kind of service make it advis- able to always depend upon M. T. & S. Co. when the job is Packing, Mov- ing, ghipping nished upon re- quest. Phone Nat'! 6900 Merchants Transfer & Storage Co. MOVING—PACKING—SHIPPING 20-022 E N.W. . FOR PILES A Scientific Triumph by the Makers_of Ungenti ula a‘wl e ‘l‘:i m y relieve an pilles is offered to the public through the drug stores of Amgnu it doesn’t long for the good TWO HELD IN THEFTS Man and Wonian BSuspected of Rifling Mail Boxes. 8T. LOUIS, October 15 (®).—With the arrest of & man and & woman here Monday, police and post-office in- spectors believed they had captured a couple who obtained thousands of dol- lars by rifling apartment mail boxes in Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit and St. Louis. Post-office Inspector Kupferer said he would apply for Federal war- irants against the couple. Kupferer said the prisoners were John Waiters, 36, and a woman, 24, who said she was his wife. Kupferer, said a basketful of letters, stolen re- cently from apartment houses here, were found in a room where the couple had been staying. BODENHAMER WEDS FORMER SECRETARY Retiring Commander of Legion and | Miss Irene Richardson Marry at Brookline. By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, October 15.—O. L. Boden- hamer, retiring national commander of the American Legion, the annual convention of which was held here last week, and Miss Irene Richardson, 25, of El Dorado, Ark., were married Monday at the Brookline Baptist Church, Brookline, it became known today. An announcement of the marriage was made yesterday mother frvm’mr El Dvgdo home, but the amnouncement gave no def the bride’s Mr. and Mrs. Bodenhamer left within half an hour for New York City, but d‘dbl not disclose their ultimate desti- nation. The bride formerly was Bodenhamer’s secretary in El Dorado. P — D. C. Men Commissioned.” Four more residents of the District of Columbia have been commissioned by the War Department as members of the Reserve Corps of the Army. They are Falk Harmel, 708 Longfellow street, as a major in the Alr Corps; Thomas H. Brown, 633 Maryland avenue south- west, as captain in the Coast Artillery; William B. Edelin, 1006 Seventh street northeast, as & first lieutenant of Infantry, and Eil J. Sax, 1307 Randolph street, as a first lieutenant in the Sig- nal Corps. If the crowds keep coming for the next three days, as they have the first three days of NATIONAL WEEK, we are going to hang Washington home-furnishers certainly do know VALUES when they see them! That is why this event has been such up ‘a new record! a signal success! But the stocks are rapidly disappearing, so hurry! 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