Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1921, Page 18

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Adelbert Cronkhite, at Lewis, Wash., October 25. 1918. The federal commissioner before whom he was arraigned accepted a plea of guilty to a charge of involuntary { manslaughter. Maj. Cronkhite. who was in com- mand of a battalion of infantry at jCamp Lewis, had marched his men from camp for pistol practice on the i{day of his death. During the noon hour, while the men were at mess, {the major walked some yards away behind a clump of bushes and began firing at an old tobacco tin as a tar- et On his fifth shot. he turned toward some soldiers idling on the ground nearby and called out, “Did you see that shot? The men turned toward him when suddenly another shot was heard and they saw Maj. Cronkhite fall. There was a bullet wound un- der his right armpit. An Army court of inquiry reported | that the officer had shot himself ac- cidentally, but upon the return of Maj. Gen. Cronkhite from France. a new investization was started. the body was exhumed and experts are said to have asserted that the wound could not have been self-inflicted. Since that time officers of the De- partment of Justice have searched the country for witnesses and the de- tention of Pothier is understood to Be regarded as only a step In the di- rection of the solution of the mystery of Maj. Cronkhite's death. Federal officers refused to discuss the case further. but it was under- stood that Pothier told them his pis- tol discharged_accidentally while he was cleaning it. Further arrests are expected, how- ever. FIGURED AS ACCIDENT. Army Records Show Witnesses Considered Major Shot Self. All witnesses before an Army board which investigated the death of Maj. Cronkhite at Camp Lewis, Washing- ton. in October. 1918, and for which Roland R. Pothier, a former sergeant, was held at Providence, R. I.. veste: day, according to Department of Jus tice officials, testified that the major died accidently by his own hand. The Army board found the death to have been due to a revolver wound accidentally self-inflicted, but a later investigation by the Department of Justice. undertaken at the request of tle family, resulted in a statement by | Pothier that while he and the major jwere at revolver practice hie (Poth- jier's) revolver was accidentally ais- charged and fatally wounded the major. Officials said other witnesses would now be examined, but declined to in- dicate whether other arrests were contemplated. —_— REVELATIONS SUPPORT DARWINIAN THERY Scientist Discovers Specimens in { Pacific Showing Evolution by Heredity. By the Ascociated Pres. NEW YORK, March 19.—Evolution- ary changes in the invertebrate an- imal life on the island of Guam and other islands in the Pacific were de- soribed here today as “dramatic” by Prof. Henry E. Crampton, curator of the department of invertebrate zool- ogy at the American Museum of Nat- ural History. “These change! said Prof. Cramp- ton, who has just returned from a scientific research tour of the South Sea Islands, southgrn China, Siam, the Malay peninsula, “Java and Australia, “ate analogous to the sudden appear- jance of Laplanders in New York city ifrom no outside source.” | He began his tour last May in the! jinterest of collecting specimens for {the museum 1o prove the Darwinian {theory of evolution by heredity rather {than by environment. He broughti iback 13.000 specimens of the lower invertebrates. The most spectacular changes in species, he said, are occurring in the snails on the Isiand of Guam and sur- rounding islands. Proof that these changes are due to hereditary tenden- cies rather than to environment, he @aid, was in the fact that new species ocour in the same environment, under the same habitat oonditions, where the same kind of food is eaten and where the same atmospherio condi- tiona prevail. “They are still snails,” he said, “but their outward appearance is totally difterent. There is nothing to indi- cate improvement or development of more intricate anatomy. However, the sofence of evolution does not co cern itself with progress or retro- gression, but simply changes due to heredity.” —_— GEORGIA GIRL MISSING. Virgil L. Albrock. Visitor Here, Disappears at Noon Yesterday. Virgil L. Albrook, sixteen vears of age, a visitor in the city from Georgia 1was reported to the police last night {as having been missing since noon yesterday. ‘The report was made by her sister, Mrs. McMillan, who lives at 1414 Massachusetts = avenue northwest, | with whom she was satopping. She is described as having light brown {eyes and being of fair complexio When she left home she was hatless, had on a one-piece lavendar dress and black shoes. _— SHAD BAKE DATE SET. Board of Trade to Feast at Chesa- peake Beach on May 21. Chesapeake Beach will be the scene this year of the annual shad bake of the Board of Trade, and May 21 the date of the event. These decisions were reached last night by the committee on arrange- | ments, which met in the Board of | Trade rooms in the Star building. | Charles F. Crane, chairman, presided, | It was decided to limit the sale of tickets to 600. Dr. Frank E. Gibson, chairman of | the subcommittee on entertainment, and Charles W. Pimper, of the sub- committee on athletics. announced that interesting programs are being prepared. A large congressional del- egation is expected to attend. —_—— BUSINESS EXPERT TO TALK ! Harry Tipper Will Address Mem- bers of Advertising Club. Harry Tipper, manager of the Aautomotive trade industries, widely I known as a lecturer and writer on | business topics, will addrcss mem- ibers of the Advertising Club of Washington at their weekly lunch- eon meeting Tuesday, 12:30 p.m, at the Raleigh Hotel. ‘The club has invited members of Ten Pounds Less Meat Per Capita in 1920 Than 1918 | people ate tem | eleven, pounds blic by 1\ | | rat war year, accord- i res 144 the Department of Ag:! The consumption of meat and lard combined last year was | and the total of calves year more tham | NEW REVOLT I NN RPORTED FRN PUEBLA Las Noticias Claims Rebels Are Led by Luis Ca- brera. EL PASO, Tex 19.-—Press dispatches from La a news- paper printed in Mexico City. received in El Pasgo today. tell of the formation of a revolution in Mexico headed by Luis Cabrera, “the man with the behind Carran: govern- and his brother, Alfonso Ca- former brera, T representative of Mexico to the United States. The dispatch said the brothers had put up 8.000,000 pesos to finance the movement, which was started in the and Ignacio Bonillas, Puebla, iountains of principally j{to lend our full moral and milita is mentioned in tches as helping to provide ney for the plot. It is reported that the rebels hofe to make Luis Cabrera president. Y NEWS I BRE Cromsed wirea were reaponsible for a fire in the automobile of Edward R. O'Leary. 2009 F street, at Massachu- setts avenue and 36th street day afternoon. The car was damaged to the amount of $450. Shed in rear of the house of Walsh Curtis, 1046 48th streat northeast, caught fire yesterday afternoon. The fire spread to the shed on the adjoin- | ing property occupied by Benjamin Savoy and did damage to both sheds to the amount of $30. Fire in sheds on the premises of Mra, Hattie Reynolds, Mre. Maggie Taylor and Richards Minor. 34 and 9341 24th street, claimed the attention of the fire department yesterday after- noon. The fire was of undetermined origin. the police reported. The dam- age to the three gheds and contents amounted to $300. The debating teama of the Baiti- more and Washington Y. M. H. A, will meet tonight at § o'clock at the local headquarters, 11th street and Penn- sylvania avenue. At a meeting of the teame laxt month in Baltimore the local team won. Mr. Justice McReynolds of the sn.l preme Court of the Un States is | to deliver an address at a meeting of the Kentucky State Society Thursday night at the Thomson School. There will be refreshments and dancing. Mount Vernon Council. N 0. U. A. M., will hold a “ladi March 28 at 8 o'clock. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TODAY. James Hugh Keeley, addiess at Sec- ular League, 3 o'clock, 1101 E street. 10, Jr, s* night™ Wanderlusters’ hikes. Morning party leaves at 9 o'clock, 12th street and New York avenue. on W. B. & A. line for McCarthy. Second party, same point. 2 o'clock, for Ardmore, where parties will meet. Buy one- way tickets and take lunch for both {rips. Mr. Thomas, leader. Bible stories free for grown-ups and children at 5 Dupont circle, Mre Estelle Howes Smith, B. S.. directing. | Tea from 4 to 6 | The George Washington l‘ni\-crnt\'l Zionist Society will meet at o p.m. in the Law School building. 1 K street northwest. A musical pro- gram has been arranged. TONIGHT. Harry Gaze will lecture on_con- structive psychology at 8:15. at Foli's. Subject: “The New Way to Health, Happiness and Success. FIND 600 TYPHUS CASES. SALONIKI, Greece. March 9.—Six hundred cases of typhus have de- veloped among Greek colonists from the Caucasus who have returned here. The reports of American investiga- tors have dieclosed shocking condi- tions which prompted the calling of a cabinet council. and the latter has promised _ immediate action. _Col. Henry A, Shaw of the American Medi- cal_Corps has arrived here with a staft of doctors and nurses. 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BALTIMORE, March 19 —“Our re- fusal to sign the Versailles treaty promptly is what produced the pres- ent armament situation. We are set- ting a bad example and wasting mil- lions on a wholly unnecessary naval program at a moment when the whoele productive power of the world shoui be turned to repairing the immea: urable waste of the war." This declaration was made by Theo- dore Marburg, former United States er to Belgium, who spoke on armament and the League of | Nations” at the round table of the Arundel Club this evening. “Di “In the firet plac d Mr. Mar- burg, “Mr. Daniels’ big-Navy program was an alternative. For him it was | either the lecague or a big Navyv—that is to say, if we had entered the ! league this country would not today | be pursuing the costly naval projeci Not until the league is strengthened by our President we expe Great Britain to lay aside her nav We must establish a sense of security if we expect to get back the monc borrowed from us by other countries Mr. Marburg also declared that it was his reluctant impression that it is the makers of munitions that do not want the league of nations. “That | is a heartless thing," he exclaimed. “to turn money into blood and tears He said further: “Had we remained | by the side of our Iuropean asso- ciates, openly determined to finish | the task so creditably begun by us— support to the execution of the pea treaty which we helped so influen- tially to shape and to which our duly | accredited representatives had put their signatures—the situation in ku- | rope would be very different from what it is toda REPUBLICANS INDORSE CHAMBERLAIN FOR POST | Ex-Senator From Oregon Favored for Shipping Board Vacancy. The appointment of former Senator George E. Chamberlain of Oregon as chairman of the United States Ship- ping Board would strike a popular | chord, according to some of the sen- ators. who are giving attention to the selection of the members of this board. Senator Chamberlain a democrat, but it has been understood he was sure of appointment to the Shipping Board by President Harding. who has| a high regard for Mr. Chamberlain's abilities. The suggestion that Mr. Chamberlain might well be named chairman of the board was made by republican senators yesterday. The war record of Senator Cham- berlain, who served as chairman of the Senate committee on military af- fairs, won him national recognition. He has the confidence of the people, and it is contended that his selection as chairman of the Shipping Board would he wise. It offers an oppor- tunity to the néw administration -to depart from partisanship in making an important appointment to govern- ment_office. 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