Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1932, Page 42

GREEHLAND RO BARETROPI PAS Arctic lce Covers Remains of Luxuriant Forests, Scientist Says. Greenland, now covered with an enor- mous depth of eternal ice, was a lux- uriant forest 50,000,000 years ago. This is shown by the plant fossils in the rocks, Dr. Albert Charles Seward, professor of botany at Cambridge Uni-{ versity, England, said in a Smithson- ian Institution lecture here Wednesday night. Breadfruit trees and other plants now confined to the tropics ap- parently grew there in abundance. What brought about the transforma- tion Dr. Steward said, is as much a mys- try as ever. The most probable expla- | nation, he said, is that the position of | the great Arctic land mass itself has! changed. Through the ages it may have drifted into its present position | from some place further removed from | the North Pole. Changes in such phe-| nomena as the circulation of ocean cur- | rents may have brought about some changes in the climate of the Arctic region itself. Climate Has Changed. Finding of fossil plants whose nearest living relatives are found only in re- stricted regions of the tropics, Dr. Se- ward says, does not indicate that Greenland was necessarily a tropical | land, although the climate must once have been more hospitable to plant life. The plants themselves may have changed, he pointed cut. and they may onc> have been able to endure much colder extremes than at present Only a narrow strip around the! Greenland coast, he said, now is suffi- ciently free of ice to supply any vege- tation and the highest tree reaches only about 3 feet. Only one month, July, is entirely free of killing frosts. Even allowing for great changes in the constitution of the plants themselves, he pointed out, they hardly could have reached their Juxuriant growths in such & climate. The great carboniferous period on geological time, when the present coal beds were laid down, was described by Dr. Seward as a golden age of plants, when enormous forests covered most of the earth made up of great trees whose nearest present-day relatives, the club mosses and ground pmes, are tiny plants. Forests Unable to Live. ‘The records of the rocks, he said, do not clear up what happened, but something so changed the face of the earth that the forests could not main- tain themselves. The next geological | period shows a much poorer and scan- tier plant life. The change is believed to have been due to upheavals of the! earth’s crust which resulted in notable | changes of climate and moisture. The change did not proceed, however, at an equal rate the world over. The great carboniferous forests, he said, were entirely flowerless and the origin of flowering plants, which bear their seeds protected m a capsule or fruit, has been a difficult problem for students of plant evomrion. Fossils recently found indicate the beginning of such plants in the Jurassic period, which followed the transition from the carboniferous. The fossil record, he said, indicates that plant life on land began in the Devonian period, about 350,000,000 years ago. 2,000 MORO HEADSMEN OPPOSE INDEPENDENCE Becretary Hurley Considers Sub- mitting Petitions to Congress, Shielding Names. Secretary of War Hurley announced yesterday that petitions opposing Philip- pine independence and signed by 2,000 “‘datus” or headsmen of the Moro tribes have been transmitted to the Bureau of Insular Affairs. j Mr. Hurley is considering the advisa- bility of submitting the petitions to Congress, where legislation for Philip- pine independence is pending. He ex- plained he was “fearful of the con- sequences” if the names of those who signed the petitions are made public. 1t is possible, he said, that he would forward the text of the petitions to Congress and offer to submit the names of the signatories only in executive ses- sion, wit hthe agreement that they be not_divulged. Publicity given the names at this time, owing to the intense feeling in the Philippines over the question of inde- | pendence, might result in retaliation by | Christian Filipnios against the Moro signers, who are of the Mohamaden faith, it was feared at the War De- artment. The Moros are in the danao and Sulu archipelagoes. e HURLEY DENIES DESIRE FOR REPUBLICAN POST Refuses Oklahoma Friends' Bup- port to Displace W. G. Skelly as Committeeman. Secretary of War Hurley declared yes- terday that “under no circumstances” is he a candidate for the position of Re- publican national committeeman from Oklahoma, his home State Mr. Hurley received advices from friends in Oklahoma that they were quietly campafgning for him to succeed William G. Skelly, Tulsa ofl man, who is the present committeeman. “Mr. Skelly is an old friend of mine and I am going to support him,” the War Secretery said in explaining he is not a candidate himself. Rights for the manufacture abroad of American planes and engines are being granted How One Woman Lost 47 Lbs. of Fat In3 Months and ; “I have been taking Kruschen Salts || for nearly 3 months. I have continued | taking one teaspoonful in warm water every morning. I then weighed 217 pounds, was always bothered with pains || in my back and lower part of abdomen || and sides. “Now I am glad to say I am a well || woman, feel much stronger, years young- er and my weight is 170 pounds. 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