Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1924, Page 8

STARVING CREW GVE P RUM SHP ppeal to Captain of Coast Guard Boat to Take Them in Tow. the Associated Press. NEW YORK November 1.—Four tarving saflors, who said they had een shanghaied into the Rum Row ervice, compelled a reluctant skip- er to surrender to the Coast Guard utter Gresham yesterday, the natty wo-master Dorothy M. Smart of Newfoundland and her cargo of brandy. Michael Gillan of Halifax was the skipper. His crew was Louis Cocei- ni, mate, and: Albert Edouard Birgo- master, cook, both of New York; Henry A. Gillis of Perth Amboy, N. J., and Carl Jaeger of Boston, seamen. Scouting between the rum fleet and shore, the Gresham's searchlights picked out the glimmering toplights of a craft that seemed abandoned. Her decks were deserted: her anchor chain slapped against the pitching bows; her rudder swung at the will of the waves; her masts were bare of salls. Distress Sign Displayed. A British ensign hun pside down from a lanvard—the signal of dis- tress. Under it were strung corrobo- fative signs—shirts and blankets shredded and frayed. The Gresham hailed the little two- master and four despairing sailors were arrested. They announced that they were prisoners aboard: that they had been without food and wa- ter for seven days; that their skipper vefused to put them ashore. They pleaded to- Capt. Ben Brockaway of the Gresham to heave them a line, the three-mile limit, | of the Dorothy M. Smart and feed and water her crew. Capt. Brockaway consented to tow the craft, and thus the cutter and its prize arrived at the Battery, where it | was boarded by agents of the De- partment of Justice, who seized the 20 barrels of brandy in the vessel's hold and bezan an investigation of the shanghai story. i “We shipped out of New York 24 days ago,” was Mate Coccini’s tale. i Refused to Help. , “We were told we were rigged up for the brick-carrier enterprise ing between New YVork and Cape May fhey took us out at night, in a speed- boat, and when we woke up next morning we were on the Dorothy M. | surrounded by casks of rum | Smart, and in the midst of the rum fleet.” Ordered to hoist to Halifax, the sailors countered with a demand that they be set ashore at once, they said. The skipper refused and so they drifted about for 22 days with sails furled. The anchor was lost, and a week ago the food and water ran out were run up. The sailors said they might have taken command of the craft and sailed her into port, but the skipper warned them that that would be mutiny and piracy, so they watch- ed and drifted until at last the Gresh- am came to the rescue. Capt. Gillan declared he knew noth- ing of the shanghaiing or how his crew got aboard. was that he came from Newfoundland, found the two-master on Rum Row, apparently a derelict, and took com- mand of her. S BRITISH SHIP SEIZURE UPHELD BY U. S. COURT New Orleans Judge Refuses to Set Aside Forfeiture of Crift and Rum Cargo. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, November 1.— Judge Foster in Federal District Court yesterday upheld the seizure by the Government last August of the British schooner J. B. Young and re- fused to set aside forfeiture of the craft and her cargo of 10,000 gallons of alcohol and 75 cases of whisky G. Johnson of Nas- Capt. Thaddeus sau, R. L, master of the schooner, through counsel, sought to have the forfeiture set aside and the vessel released on bond, so that the craft might proceed to Puerto Cortez, Hon- duras, for which port she had cleared out of Havana, two months ago. Judge Foster, in holding for the Government, said the question of the vessel's ownership, the fact that she carried a cargo unconsigned and other factors made it apparent that her presence in American waters was in violation of the law. It pays to read the want columns of The Star. obtained through them. Lah el Geleniifie: & ach Lght 1 for a voyage | and distress signals | All_he would tell | Hundreds of situations are | Doubts if John D. Has Enough Gas To Get to Heavgn By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 1.—John D. Rockefeller has a new joke which he enjoys telling his friends. He relates-it as follows: “I was up in the central part of the State this Summer to visit some of the spots where I spent my childhood. My car had stopped and I was looking around when an old farmer came up to the car and started to talk to me. *He didn't know who I was. We chatted together for abdut five minutes and then he asked me I was going. 'm going to heaven,' I replied, with a smile. “‘Get out, enough gas. — EVIDENCE OF MAN'S DESCENT IS PRESENTED he said. ‘vou ain’t got (Continued from First Page.) rious life forms which have been an- cestors of man. Up to the third month the brain in the unborn body is physically virtually identical with the brain of some lower forms of mammals. At the end of the third month begins the rapid development of the upper brain, the home of the | thinking processes, until a very simi- lar organ to the brain of a primate | such as a manlike ape is developed. Then comes another rapid develop- ment into the brain of a human being with which the child is born. Gilis Found in Neck. There are sometimes slits in the neck of the human embryo which cannot be considered other than gills such as are found in young fishes, Dr. Hrdlicka said. These do not indi- cate that men are descended from fishes, but that there is a possible common ancestor of fish and men somewhere in the dawn of life and | that there is a recapitulation of this | creature in the lives of the young of both species. After the cighth or tenth week of | embryonic life, he pointed out, there is u distinct projection which can be considered only as the remnant of an ancient tail. Sometimes this survives even up to birth, and Dr. Hrdlicka made known the sensational fact that there are authentic instances of the tail continuing after birth and even into adult life—actually men with tails. Sven more startling was Dr. Hrd- licka's statement that once or twice {in a lifetime a physiclan may come | across bodily peculiarities, which can | be considered only as actual reversals | of survivals from far beyond ape or | primate into a misty past, where it is impossible for scientists to follow. Men With Dox Teeth. In southern France, he said, human beings with fur dog teeth—that is, | with six incisors instead of the human | tour, are not uncommon. These are reversals to this extent to some form preceding humanity which had six in- cisors. He exhibited a human arm bone on which had grown a hooklike bone | process more than 2 inches long, and | compared it with a similar bone of a hyena, on which the process con- stituted a complete bridge. Now this process in certain of the lower ani- mals serves to protect an artery and nerve. In the primates it became useless and disappeared through a great many generations. Now it is reappearing again in civilized white men. Occasionally it is found in a monkey or an anthropoid ape, but it exists in 1 per cent of all white men and has been found in 5 per cent of white insane. This: is perhaps the most remarkable instance on record of a reversal. There is one human bone on exhibit, Dr. Hrdlicka sald, where the process forms an absolute arch—the same as in the hyea. He pointed to the appendix as the survival in man of an organ which has lost its usefulness and become a dangerous overload, although even as close to man as the monkeys it serves a very definite and useful purpose. Evidence Under Microncope. Dr. Hrdlicka presented the bulk of microscopic evidence of the relation of man to mammal. The blood is composed of three components, the red and white corpuscles and the liquid part, or the plasma. Counting corpuscles and considering their shape and size in the blood of man and anthropoid, he said, it would be very difficult to tell a cubic centime- ter of human blood from the same amount of chimpanzee blood. Then he considered the independent body cells, four or five thousand of which laid side by side would not constitute any appreciable distance. In each of these cells are peculiar black lines known as chromozones which have a whole life history of their own. Now, Dr. Hrdlicka said, investigation has shown that the bod- ily aimilarity of man and mammal ex- tends so far as the actual number {and shape of chromozones in individ- ual cells. 3 All the finer bodily processes, such as metabolism or asstmilation of ac- Costs Less Than You Think T an addition of from $200 to $300, houses ranging in prices uj to $30,000, can be fittegl throughout with “Thin Polished Plate” Glass. And there is no added cost for extras as is the case when quarter-inch Plate Glass is used. 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Instincts are present in ed, pointing to the example of a man who has lost his power to supress the manifestations of these through mental disease or intemperate use of drugs or liguor. In such a man, he sald, non-human, animallike mani- testations are common and expected. Both animals end man, he pointed out, share the power of assoclation of {deas. Thus an animal often shows remarkable capacity for assoclating the ideas of reward and punishment with some particular act. Phemomena of Thought. ‘The phenomena of thought Hrdlicka said, apparently presented another problem until analyzed, when animals were shown to possess it. For the most part unable to think in s, lower animals are able, never- theless, to think in images. This is { proven, he said. by the fact that they dream and without some degree of thought dreams are impossible. Not speech itself, but only or- ganized speech is peculiar to man, he said. Many animals, he claimed. convey definite meanings by making definite sounds—sometimes even com- pound sounds. Occasionally these are developed to a stage where they can be understood by humans—thus some masters might be able to in- torpret correctly what a dog was trying to say in barks toned in a definite, unmistakable and continu- ous manner. He told of the experience of a triend who spent years studying the chimpansees in Africa. This friend informed him, he said, that he had definitely made up his mind that chimpanzees could not conduct an organized conversation among them- selves, but that they did have seven or eight distinct, compound sounds, each of which had a very definite meaning. Dr. Hrdlicka then mentioned the following attributes of the human mind as generally considered not rep- resented among the lower animals: Ambition, ideals, Inspiration, or- ganized speech, reasoning power and imagination. Yet, he said, every one of these occurs somewhere in the an- imal world, particularly in such crea. tures as dogs or horses, which often Z e 2 T T e e T e 00000000 LIGHTING EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE (Conducting the Homelighting Essay Contest for School Children.) man as well as In animals, he claim- | .|and which here Is beinz presented as —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS. VES, HE KNOWS THE DAYS ARE GETTING PEERS INTO MYRTLE ROOM, MUTTERS SHORTER BUT THAT ISN'T IT - FAMLY'S JUST PLAIN CARELESS - IT'S PROBABLY A BLAZE OF LIGHTS UPSTAIRS RIGHT Now éfi; RECTIRIES HIS ERROR AND. IS ABOUT WILBERT CALLS HEY WHAT'S HE DO- GOING TO TAKE - A BATH ALMOST IMMEDIATELY COMES A CRASH ISNIT ANY SENSE IN KEEPING AS AUNT ELLIE WHO'S PUTTING THE WASH PLAINING THAT THESE BILLS WILL DRIVE AWAY, TUMBLES INTO THE CLOTHES BASK- ET. AFTER SWITCHING ON PORCH LIGHT BY MISTAKE , RESTORES LIGHT TO UPPER HALL display a touching degree of mobility in self-sacrifice. Dr. Hrdlicka spoke briefly of the development of the earliest forms of life on earth, as traced in the rocks, and sald that the history of the formation of the world through- evo- lution might be seen today in the contraction of occasional new stars— great masses of exceedingly thin: gasses—into more solid bodies in which all the known elements can be traced. Will Consider Skeletons. Next Friday he will consider the pres- | ent state of knowledge of the actual | descent and development of man from the carliest pre-human skeletons which have been discovered in the New World. He has made a recent inspection of the | skeletons and the sites where they were discovered and is in possesion of a considerable body of new evidence which goes far beyond that possessed by Dar- win and his immediate followers when | they stated their theory of the descent | of man. | Dr. Hrdlicka's purpose in presenting the evidence just as it stands today is in | no sense controversiai, but merely to give the educated public all the data avallable from the standpoint of evolu- tionists. In theological and other con- troversies over the origin and descent of man there have been loose statements on both sides, due largely to lack of in- formation on the knowledge which has been added to the sum total since the formulation of the evolutionary theory a whole perhaps Tor the first time in this | country. 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