The Nome nugget., 1941-08-06

liiS Ohi"SISlty oI SOiOSne (Ger- many) awarded her the Ph.D. summa cum laude, after a single years residence.
 "She was born in Brooklyn. N. Y, and studied for her pre- liminary degrees at New York University, Mount Holyoke, liar yard and the University of Wis consin. After working as re- porter and free lance writer, she was awarded the Yardley Found aticn Fellowship given by the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs at the recommend ation of the Guggenheim Founda ton.
 "Traveling thousands of miles through Europe, Asia and the United States, she reported the rapid changes in regions into whose amazing boomtoWns, gold mines and prison colonies she was the first and only foreign woman to penetrate.
 First Correspondent To Fly
 In Soviet Arctic
 'She holds a position unique in journalism. She was the first for eign correspondent to fly through the Soviet Arctic; the first for eign correspondent to send de- tailed reports aboard of what was taking place; the only for eign correspondent to participate in the conquest of the historic Northeast Passage, which will link Europe, Asia and America across the top of the globe. Her stories were sydicated through out the world. and were read by millions in the leading news papers of the United States and Canada.
 After two. extensive flights through the Arctic, she set about writing the story of this adven- ture. It was material that could have been made into a routine travel book such as the country has been deluged with in past years, but it was not. It was a complete and understanding study of new life, in fact of a new world. It was the story of the twentieth century, of mans creative use of his new tools, ra- dio and airplanes, science and in dustrial technique, in opening an unknown part of the world.
 Though written with the sus- pense and human interest of a novel, it had all the thoroughness of a student gifted with a bril- liant mind and lively sense of humor. That T Went to the Soviet Arctic" is being widely read and widely enjoyed for it's literary style and personal adven ture is a surprise to no one who knows Ruth Gruber.
 Ruth Gruber is alive, bril- liant, charming. Seldom has the world produced a woman who has packed so much into a few years. She is a person to meet and hear because she knows the part that human being must play in many sections of the world she knows what they want-how they live-what they have accom- plished and what they can ac- complish in changing world.
 Young, eager, enthusiastic, Ruth Gruber has tramped, sail ed and flown around the world talked to people behind Europe's shuttered windoWs-lived in Arc tic reindeer-skin tents and polar radio stations travelled through America to interview the men and women striving to hold and to improve our rich heritage of democracy. She scooped the news paper world by getting inside the vast and impenetrable Soviet Arctic, and on the basis of her findings there, stirred public op- inion to the need for developing our own Arctic Empire-Alaska is now being swiftly fortified into one of the greatest military and naval defense bases of our country. AS a candid journalist and keen student, she ranges the world not only to understand it's politics ad it's new pattern of life hut the men and wonoen who