Evening star. [volume], May 21, 1940, Page A-15, Image 15

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C. C. C. School Ship Docks
For Maritime Day Here
SEAMAN GREETS SCIENTIST—Lt. Comdr. Charles Etzweiler
(left), commanding officer of the American Seaman, chats with
Dr. C. S. Piggot, Carnegie Institution scientist, who will leave
with the training ship Friday to attempt to raise samples of the
ocean bottom for laboratory experiments. The American Sea
man is in Washington for national maritime day tomorrow.
—Star Staff Photo.
A trim, spotless refoimed freighter
lay at anchor in the Navy Yard to
day awaiting her part in ceremonies
tomorrow marking National Mari
time Day.
She is the 10,500-ton American
Seaman, the Nation's first training
ship for unlicensed seamen and an
efficient example of Uncle Sam's ex
pansion of the merchant marine
program.
Manned by 320 apprentice seamen,
all selected from the Civilian Con
servation Corps throughout the
United States, the American Seaman
will remain at the Navy Yard until
Friday, when she will depart for St.
Petersburg. Fla., preparatory to a
cruise to the Azores and the Madeira
Islands.
On its departure the ship will be
equipped for an additional task, for
aboard will be Dr. C. S. Piggot,
Carnegia Institution scientist, who
plans to experiment with deep sea
test borings from the deck of the
American Seaman.
Ocean Floor to Be Examined.
Dr. Piggot's equipment, including
more than 32,000 feet of cable, was
being loaded aboard the ship today.
He hopes to bring bacs specimens of
the ocean floor, showing strata for
mations and rate of deposit.
Part of the experiment will consist
Of shooting metal tubes in the bottom
of the ocean at varying depths, with
the view of examining their contents
•t the geophysical laboratories in
Washington. The tubes and the
■pecial gun used to fire them into
the sea bottom will be lowered from
the decks of the American Seaman
by cables.
The scientist hopes the experi
ment will prove of vast significance
In determining the composition of
the ocean floor at little explored
depths.
The record depth reached by
sounding equipment in the Atlantic
Is 5,200 fathoms, but Dr. Piggot does
not plan any definite attempt to
break this record. He is principally
Interested in procuring for laboratory
tests specimens of ocean floor com
position.
150 Aboard “Grass Green.”
The present training program of
the American Seaman has been in
progress for six months. However,
150 members of the ciew were taken
on little more than a week ago in
New York. They were described by
officers as “grass green," but the
former C. C. C.ers who have gone
through the first half of the course
are given an “A-l” rating by the
commanding officer, Lt. Comdr.
Charles Etzweiler of the United
States Coast Guard.
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20 per cent of those who started
the course had dropped out, prin
cipally because of their decision that
“the sea is not for me,” but progress
of those who have remained was
described as “remarkable.”
The apprentices are free to quit
the training course whenever they
desire, Comdr. Etzweiler said, em
phasizing the project is "strictly
non-military.”
“They are enrolled, not enlisted,”
he said. “When they finish the
coui0k they are prepared for mer
chant ship duty as seamen, cooks
—r —
or firemen. What’* more, they are
completing, in a.year training which
formerly meant years and years of
apprentice duty on regular commer
cial vessels."
Wage Is $21 a Month.
The young seamen are paid $21
a month for their first three months
aboard the 'American Seaman, in
addition to $100 worth of clothing
given them at the outset of the
training course. After the three
month period. 10 per cent at the
top of the class are given rating
as second-class seamen with the
pay of $36 per month. All the
apprentices receive $36 after nine
months of duty.
The officer personnel consist of
four commissioned officers and four
warrant officers of the Coast Guard,
six Ihwnsed Maritime Service offi
cers, a doctor and a dentist.
Fostering the American Seaman
are the Coast Guard and the Mari
time Commission. Officials of both
these agencies, together with special
official guests will be the only visi
tors to inspect the ship during the
National Maritime Day exercises
tomorrow due to the recent regula
tlons prohibiting the general public
from visiting the Navy Yard.
The American Seaman was to be
Joined at the Navy Yard dock at
S o’clock this afternoon by the
Nantucket, Massachusetts State
training ship, which also will be
on hand for ceremonies tomorrow.
Among those scheduled to apeak
on a special program to tfte place
on the deck of the American Sea*
man at 1:30 pm. are Commissioner
Max 0*Rell Truitt of the Maritime
Commission; Senator Bailey, chair*,
man of the Senate Commerce Com*
mittee; Representative Bland, chair
man of the House Merchant Marine
and Fisheries Committee, and
Comdr. W, N. Derby of the Coast
Guard, chief of the United States
Maritime Service. The Navy Band
will play, and part of the program
will be broadcast over a coast-to
coast network of the National
Broadcasting Co. Lifeboat races
among members of the American
Seaman’s crew will take place at 3
o’clock.
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CHICAGO, May 31.—Fred Snlte,
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who has lived in respirators for four
years, and his wife expect a child
next September.
The “Boiler Kid” made the an
nouncement himself in a mimeo
graphed paper received by several
hundred friends yesterday. The last
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“And so you see God continues to
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