Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1937, Page 6

A—6 WOMAN'T0 STUDY PACIFIC'S FLOOR Oceanographer Leaves D. C. to Discover Secret of Earth’s Past. Just what is at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean? That is the question Dr. Stina Gripenberg, noted Finnish oceanog- rapher, is asking today as she speeds towards San Diego, Calif,, to study the little known sediments which form a thin covering on the bottom of . the Pacific from 15,000 feet on down. Dr. Gripenberg left Washington yes- terday afternoon after a week's stay | as guest of the Legation of Finland and of Dr. Parker Trask of the | Geological Survey. These deep ocean silts long have been a source of much speculation among geologists and many extraor- dinary things have been discovered about them. 0dd Discoveries Made. For instance, in certain areas the entire ocean floor is covered with nothing more or less than the ear | bones of whales and in other places with sharks’ teeth. Elsewhere meteor fragments, which have fallen into the ocean for hundreds of millions of years, line the bottom, or ooze is of the microscopic shells None, as far as science knows, has been uplifted above the water ce as have the sands and clays of the continental masses. Discovery of the exact composition of some of | the less known of these um.’n,\\l!)l!“ materials may throw considerable | light on the earth's past Dr. Gripenberg, who took her Ph D. on a thesis about Baltic Sea sedi- ments at the Marine Research In- stitute in Helsingfors, is the second scientist to be awarded an interna- tional fellowship by the American As- sociation of University Women. One is appointed each year. She is to study samples—some taken specially for her by e United States Coast e Arctic Ocean during the Summer the Scripps Instituie of | Oceanogr: v, Lajolle, Calif “I am deeply grat. to the Ameri- ean Association of Universi Wom- en for enabling me to ca on my work in this country,” said as the waited for the train to pull out yesterday at the Union Station. First Big Ocean Study. *“This is the first time I've had an opportunity to study real oceanic rediments. You see, our Baltic sedi- ments are derived from land and | carried to the water as are those of | all shallow seas,” added the tall blond | Finn in her soft accent The particular red clays Dr. Gripen- berg is to study are not organic as | are those mentioned above. As far as is known, they are formed by the in- | teraction of sea water with the ocean | floor and may have remained in place | since earliest geologic time. As a rule they are extremely thin, As very little loose mineral material | is present in the deep ocean | Samples have been taken by means of a container on the end of a long wire and have been obtained in some cases from depths as great as 30,000 | feet. BRIEF FREEDOM FETED BY GERMAN VILLAGE Bchwenten Declares Itself Inde- pendent State to Evade Polish Armies. To commemorate the brief time it was one of the free states of Europe, the German village of Schwenten, | near the frontier of Poland, has been celebrating | In speech and song was related how for 218 days it waved its flag of independence when, just after the armstice Poland was still capturing | many villages. Records in Berlin show that to evade the Poles, Schwen- ten declared itself an independent state of Europe, electing the village pastor president, the chairman of the parish council minister of the in- terior and the forester minister of war. The new state’s army consisted of 110 men with shotguns and two ma- chine guns. The Polish invaders rec- ognized the new state of 1,000 people and eventually the commission ap- pointed to fix the German-Polish fron- | tier permitted it to unite with Ger- many. Vacation Over BENNYS MEET AFTER CROSS- COUNTRY SEPARATION, Mary Livingstone greeting her husband, Jack Benny, ra- dio comedian, at their home in Hollywood upon his arrival in the film capital, after a two-month vacation tour of Europe. The Bennys made the tour together but Mary trav- eled by train across the Con- tinent while the comedian fol- lowed by motor. —Wide World Photo. HOME OWNERSHP URGED BY EXPERT British Authority Declares ! Beautiful Houses Cheaper Than Tenements. Bs the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 30.—John W. Laing, British housing expert, says good homes could be provided for 85 | per cent of the people in this country | without Government subsidy, if— 1. “People realized the national value of home ownership. 2. “Good-class builders or well- | formed companies undertook house- building on a large scale. | 3. “The Government assisted, if necessary, in the matter of land loans.” udying housing in told the New York Building and the Committee for Eco- nomic and Social Progress at a joint luncheon: | “Beautiful homes and gardens cost only two-thirds as much as tenement homes, and the man who is housed in the tenement is not nearly such a good national asset as the man with a sep- | arate home and garden.” | He said the Government could help | the private builder in two ways: “By purchase of land, by negotiation or compulsion, in large areas, at the cheapest price, and selling it to build- ers at cost for the erection of suit- able houses.” and “by making, where | necessary, loans to permit house pur- chase, at the lowest possible rate of interest.” | Lewis H. Brown, chairman of the luncheon, said general interest in housing is increased due to recent en- actment of the Wagner housing bill “An attempt by government to pro- vide low-rent housing for a great ma- jority of the people is impossible and tends toward a socialism which has | no place in America,” Brown said, but | the eradication of slums should be “a field of public housing assistance.” He said he believed the Wagner housing bill was “not entirely sound’ in some of its provisions, and will have to be amended. Stewart McDonald, Federal housing administrator, told the building con- gress that mortgage insurance is now helping approximately 2,500 families a week to finance their homes. MALLORY HATS Te ° G Street at Eleventh District 4400, STORE for MEN Headquarters for MALLORY HATS THE EVENING INC. F STREET a¢r 9th N.W. THE STORE FOR MEN F STREET at 9¢th N. W, THE STORE FOR MEN S TAR, WASHINGTON, Thr your head . 3 2 D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1937. 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