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Polar, Atomic Cosmic Research Paces 1946 Exploration Upturn
Washington. The earth's polar regions became prime objectives of man's research in 1946, the National Geographic society said today in reviewing expeditions and explorations of the first postwar year.
December departure of United States navy ships with 4,000 men under Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's command marked the start of the largest expedition ever to head for Ant- $ ^{ \textcircled{2} }$
expedition ever to head for Antarctica. It highlighted the new interest in the South Polar land mass which will occupy scientists from several nations on expeditions during 1947 and 1948.
Canada, with United States army cooperation, tested new types of cold weather equipment at the edge of the Arctic circle. The United States navy tested men and equipment aboard the big carrier Midway in Greenland waters, and charted submarine performances in the flipping strait region. At the year's end, Army polar paraphernalia were being put to sub-freezing tests by task forces in the Aleutians and in Alaska.
Soviet sources announced research bases on islands in the Kara, Laptur, and East Siberian seas, and expeditions to northern areas of those seas to solve problems of oceanography and to facilitate navigation along the Soviet Northern sea route.
In the Pacific, the planned aerial and underwater explosions of atomic bombs at Bikini were undertaken by an expedition of 42,000 army, navy, and civilian representatives. Primary purpose of this Operation Crossroads, according to Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, its director, was to enable the navy to learn "how not to be on the receiving end of an atomic Pearl Harbor."
New knowledge of cosmic rays—the invisible, high-energy particles emanating from the cosmos—was the object of a series of flights of a B-29 "flying laboratory" between Canada and Peru at altitudes rang- ing from 600 km. This expedition was a project of the National Geographic society, the Army Air forces, and the Bartol Research foundation.
New expeditions and continuing research pointed up the archeological wealth of the Americas. In his eighth season of delving into southern Mexico under National Geographic society and Smithsonian institute auspices, Dr. Matthew W. Stirling found five more colossal stone heads fashioned by the peoples of the pre-Columbian era.
At Monte Alban, also in southern Mexico, Mexican scientists concluded 15 years of field work on Mixtec and Zapotec cultures which were ended by Spanish invasion. Golden masks and necklaces, carvings of stone and jade were found in tombs.
Near Huehuetenango, Guatemala, restoration work on Zaculeu, one of several known buried Mayan communities in the region, revealed a pyramidal fortress, temple, alturs, and a court for playing a religious ball game. Zaculeu was abandoned after withstanding attack in 1525 by soldiers of Hernando Cortes, whose 400-year-old casket came unexpectedly to light in 1946 from hospital walls in Mexico City.
Near the Mexican capital, a Carnegie institution group found implements and fossil remains believed to date from the close of the ice age, 15,000 years ago. In Arizona's Ventano cave, and near Berkeley, California, human bones preserved for four to 10 thousand years were found. In southern Wyoming and in Alaska, newly discovered fossil remains represent fantastic beasts believed to date back 40 to 85 million years.
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Ruins of Roman Londinium were found under Middle-Ages artifacts by delving a dozen feet beneath blitzed basements in the Ludgate hill section of London. Student volunteers excavated Roman dwellings beneath rubble in bombed South-wark and Exeter.
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French scientists studied Roman ruins bombed bare at Senlis, north of Paris. At Marseille's battered Old Port, they found fragments of Greek Mastilla of 2,500 years ago. At Montignac-sur-Vezere, they pored over crude mural art of successive cave-dwelling civilizations of 10 to 30 thousand years ago.
Massive stones that formed part of Jerusalem's north wall not long after the crucifixion were uncovered near the heart of the present city. On the Palestine coast near Tel Aviv, mound excavations revealed foundations of the Hellenes of 2,000 B.C. A building dating possibly from Canaanite days of 2,500 B.C. was discovered in desert sand near the southern end of the Sea of Galilee.
Almost a thousand disabled veterans in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma have applied to the veterans administration for new automobiles under the "autos for impuees" program.
Separate Upkeep Is Large Figure; Needs Four Girdles
Chicago. (UP)—Red-haired Mrs. Clarice Rasmussen, 26, sought separate maintenance from her husband today and insisted on a minimum of four girdles per year.
Mrs. Rasmussen, whose husband is president of the National Tea company, told Judge Leonard C. Rosier that needed $900 per month for clothing.
When the judge seemed dubious, Mrs. Rasmussen said her yearly needs were 72 pairs of nylons, 12 night gowns, 12 purses "about $60 apiece," seven $250 suits, 10 pairs of shoes, 12 slips, and four girdles
She said she needed $700 per week to support herself and her infant daughter.
Double Theft Brings Car Back To Owner
Cleveland. (UP)—An automobile reported stolen three years ago from a downtown garage was discovered in another downtown garage where it had been in dead storage since it was reported stolen.
The car was recovered when attendants at the garage where it was found noticed two wheels had been stolen and called police.
"Why, this is the car we've been looking for since 1943," police exclaimed after checking the old license plate.
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'Disabled' Veteran Tells V.A. To Keep Chec
New York. (UP)—John G. Scott, the veteran who has been trying without success to get the government to take back a pile of uncashed disability checks and quit sending him more, said today that he believed the veterans administration "has a big office to pay out dough, but they don't have a very big office to receive it."
Scott said his eyes don't bother him a bit in his civilian job as manager of the Mountain Valley Water company, although the VA says they are bad to the point where they can be classed as a disability.
"By my standards, my eyes are perfect," Scott said. "I don't need the checks."
whether he had ever been in army hospital. He had been, a had to sign a statement to that effe
He said the trouble all started when he was asked upon discharge
Then last May the unwant checks began to pour in for a disability of the right eye—a condition which Scott said he had before entered the service.
When he wrote a letter to the saying he didn't want the dispension checks the result was th they were raised from $35 to $42 month.
In desperation, Scott appealed his congressman, Rep. Frederick Coudert, Jr. He sent Coudert a pi of monthly checks totalling $344 ar asked the congressman if he could do something to get the VA to "tun off their spigot of gold."
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