New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1928, Page 11

QP " NEWCONTINENT 1S “THOUGHT POSSILE I1 One Exists Wilkins May Be Its Discoverer . New York, Nov. 2 M—The possi- bility of discovering a new - con- tinent—probably the last in the world—lies in the acope of the Wil- kins expedition to Antarctica. This expedition of two planes, three fiyers and a mechanic is headed for that great sector of Antarctica which no man has seen, & stretch about as long as the United States is wide, that geogra- phers have sald may be separated from Antarctica by an ice capped atrait, 80 completely unknown is most of this area that any additional knowledge whatever will go far to- ward permanent conclusions about its structure. On present maps Antarctica is shaped somewhat like a tadpole, its head toward Australia and its tail projecting far northward toward \Bouth America. From Cape Horn to this tail is less than 1,000 miles, but everywhere else an ocean about as wide as the north Atlantic, sur- rounds Antarctica, From the tail of the tadpole, down the west side, I8 the largest unknown portion of the frozen continent. It is this portion that proposes to explore, starting from the tail tip. At the far end of this strip lies Ross 8ea, base of the ‘Wilkins Byrd . Om the cast side of the tail is Weddell Sea, a great indentation in Antarctica, which, if it connects with Ross Sea, makes a separate continent of the land over which Wilking plans to fly. Geographers have assumed that this area is land, and that there is possibly a connection between the two seas named.| Wilkins himself has said he be- lieves the unknown coast is low. Slsewhers in Antarctica the known coasts ave high, 8ir Douglas Maw- son, in Problems of Polar Ressarch of the American Geographical so- ciety of New York, says: “Whether ‘the rocky basement under the polar fce dome is con- tinuously above sea level ,or whether it exists merely as & num- ber of island-like units, we are cer- tain from the nature of the sedi- ments composing those portions al- ready examined and the story un- folded in the strata, that we dealing with a convexity of conti- nental proportions, which has been at some periods above and at others below the sea. “Are the inter-island channels choked to the very bottom with glacier ice so- that the ice rides on rock bottom below sea level? Or does the water in some at least of these maintain a flow deep down under the capping ice, so that the inter-island ice caps, though very thick and of land origin, are yet afloat on sea water? “We are arrested by the fact emphasized by Nordenskjold and others, to the effect that the geolo- gy of that prolonghtion of Antarc- tica lying southward of Cape Horn is totally unlike that prevailing in the lofty land mass lying to the south of Australia. “The question that has long been before us is whether or not af arm of the sea separates East Antarctica D DRESSES NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928. from West Antarctica. Thelr want of correspondence, structurally and geologically, is favorable to the existence of such & channel. Also, arms of the oceans, represented by Weddell 8ea on one side and the Ross Bes on the other, do extend from either hemisphere into the Antarctic, unknown in just such locations as support the contention of a dividing channel. Belgians Training “Untamable” Elephants Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 3.UP— How supposedly untamable African elephants are trained by Belgian Congo officials to bécome farm serv- ants, each equivalent to a tractor “plua,” is disclobed by members of a .Harvard expedition recently re- turned from Africa. Frederick R. Wulsin of Peabody Museum led the expedition. The “plus”™n the elephant's fa- vor is that after doing a day's work equivalent to that of a tractor he gathers his feod free of cost in the forest, where it grows wild, while the gasoline “feed” of tractors is expensive in the Congo. African elephants long had a rep- utation for incurable ferocity, and the accomplishment of the Belgians iin learning how to domesticate them is new. The successful train- ing is due 'to catching the elephants young. Numbers of them have been given to settlers for farm work, The Peabody expedition was sponsored by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fund. AFRICAN SCIENCE Monrovia, Liberia, Liberian college here has inau rated a department of science, der Dr. A. B, Cole, Research will concentrate on hotany and agricul- tural chemistry, Nov. 2. ®— | LONDON VIBRATION PROBLEN STUDIED Jarring in City London, Nov. 2.—UP—Lest the old | houses of Londontown should come tumbling down, or the dwellers go frantic with nerves, engineers are working on the problem of how to keep the strects from vibrating with traffic. It is no mean problem, for the vé- hicles on the streets and under- | ground become heavier and heavier. | Recent investigations show how difficult it is to make generaliza- | tions. In one of the widest streets | there was a noticeable vibration at | the back of the houses and no \1—“ bration in front, though the source of vibration was in front. sults was the finding that the sub- | ways, instead of setting up vibra- tion, actually deaden it. 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