Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1930, Page 18

0LD CONVICT SHIP 10 VISIT CAPITAL Public to View British Vessel, Success, Oldest Now Afloat. The British convict ship Success, said to be the oldest ship afloat in the world today, is to be towed to the National Capital this afternoon and will be opened to the public at the Seventh Street Wharf tomorrow, it was an- nounced here last night. The ship has been docked at Richmond, Va., during the past Winter and left there under tow Priday. The Success has s picturesque his- tory. She was built as a part of the great fleet of East India merchant vessels which carried spices, silks and incense from the East to Europe, be- fore going into service as a convict ship. She was the most famous of the fleet which carried 167,000 men, women and ‘children to imprison- ment in Australia. The ship will be here for an indefinite stay, according to her captain, D. H. Smith. It is the second visit of the vessel here during a trip around the world, during which Capt. Smith esti- mates she has been visited by more than 21,000,000 people. While here it will be open to the public daily from 10 am. to 11 pm. Lecturers and guides will accompany visitors through the ship, explaining the use of the various cells and instruments of torture used for the punishment of prisoners. The Success was built in Burma in 1790 and still carries much of her original uipment. An interesting feature is the original teakwood main- mast, bea: the mark of a pirate cannon ball in 1800. In 1802 the ship was withdrawn from the mer- chant trade and became the flagship of the British felon fleet, remaining in this grim business until 1851, when she became a permanent receiving prison ship, anchored off Melbourne, Austrglia. She was sunk in 1885. Raised five years later, she since has been touring tire world as an exhibit. GERMAN SHIP POOL WILL BE ANSWERED ‘White Star-Cunard Merger Ru- mored as Answer to Com- bine. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 19—The New ‘York Times says formation of trans- stlantic shipping pools, similar to the formed by the two big the White Star and es in such a reciprocal ar- rangement has been rumo; for some time, the newspaper says, adding that they would construct a 60,000-ton, 30- knot liner, enabling them to meet the burg-American THE SUNDAY RELIC OF ANOTHER DAY COMING The British convict ship Success, at the Seventh Street Wharf to the public daily. per, Capt. D. H. Smith, is in the inset. today for an indefinite period. The Success is as she was in the time she carried 167,000 | men, women and children to imprisonment and torture in Australia. oldest vessel afloat, which will tie up | i She will be open | Her skip- MOTORIST ESCAPES IN SMOKE SCREEN Alleged Rum-Runner Chased by Police Car Racing at 60-Mile Speed. An alleged rum-runner used a smoke screen to evade police after a three- mile chase at a speed of 60 miles an hour in the thirteenth precinet shortly after midnight. Policemen J. W. Wessells and W. T. Storm were parked in a police car at Pifth and Decatur streets, when a tour- em.. The police immediately gave chase. The police machine was gaining slight- ly as they approached Rock Creek Church road when a cloud of black smoke bil- lowed from the rear of the fugitive automobile. Forced to Drop Back. Police were forced to trail the rum- runner at a safe distance to allow the smoke to clear. The chase continued Lloyd companies. Officials say that keels are being laid for six liners to be put in the New York passenger trade. BANDIT IS RIDDLED AS HE LEAVES BANK Unidentificd Man Shot Dead as Policeman Reaches Hold-Up Scene. Press. ROBBINSDALE, Minn.,, April An unidentified bandit who hel He fell under the gunfire of Patrol- man John Bleberger of the Robbinsdale Police nt, who came running to the scene when he was notified of the -up. The bandit had started from the bank with one hand gripping a pistol and the other a bag containing the bank’s cash. He broke into a run as he reached the sidewalk, but he had ne only a few steps when he was felled by the bullets from the patrol- man’s gun, AUSTRALIANS TAKE OFF Smith and Shiers to Attempt Flight to England. SYDNEY, Australia, April 20 (Sun- day) (7).—Two . Australian. aviators, David Smith and Lieut. Shiers, took off from Wyndham at 5:15 a.m. today in an ltkm to fly from Australia to Eng- land. y will make several stops en route. The fiyers made a similar attempt at the end of March, but.were forced down in the wild country of northwestern Australia and lost for three days in the brush. ASKS CENSUS RULING LINCOLN, Nebr., April 19 (#).— Census problems are perturbing the complacency of the State executive mansion and its occupants, Gov. and Mrs. Arthur J. Weaver., Determined that his family should be enumerated at Falls City, his home, and not in Lincoln, as suggested by the district supervisor, the governor has written Washington census executives for a ruling. Three Hurt in Forced Landing. TELL CITY, Ind., April 19 (#).—Two men and & woman, flying from Syra- cuse, N, Y., to Evansville, Ind, were injured, none seriously, in making a foréed landing in their biplane near here late today. Nicholas Harris, pilot, and Byron Mitchell, owner of the ship, sus- tained numerous cuts about the head and face and were bruised. Izah Hall suffered minor bruises. Bantam in Army Hatching Pheasant_ Eggs for Colonel By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 19.— “Little Miss Muffett,” a bantam hen, is in the Army now. She never will get rich, either, be- cause she has been detailed to sit on a nest of pheasant eggs for Col. John T. Geary of Fort Win- field Scott, here. Col. Geary has a flock of pheasants which are laying but are too proud to sit. A rancher at Fair Oaks, Calif, yesterday . offered him “Little Miss Muffett.” In a few minutes an Army plane swooped down on Fair Oaks, where “Little Miss Muffett” was peacefully sitting on a nest of regulsr . The pilot her \I& back an hour she was working for the colonel’s pheasants. into Park place and around the reser- voir into Fourth street. At this point the police were forced by the smoke screen to fall far behind in order to | stay in the chase. The fugitive ma- chine was lost as Rhode Island avenue was reached. The officers reported that upon sev- eral occesions the cars were nearly wrecked. They said they could identify the driver. Take Two Cars. Prior to this chase the police con- fiscated two automobiles and 56 gallons o‘(‘ whisky in separate sections of the city. ———e KIDNAPERS GET $20,000 Racing Man Released in Chieago After Friends Pay Money. ROCKFORD, IIl, April 19 (#).—The Rockford Star was told tonight by what it deemed an authoritative source that Lewis E. Heitter, reputed racing book- maker, had been released in Chicago, late today, when friends paid $20,000 to men who kidnaped him a week ago Friday near Beloit, Wis. After Heitter's disappearance his business partner, “Red” Ryan, reported to police that he had received a letter in Heitter’s handwriting, sayihg he was being held for $50,000 ransom and ask- ing Ryan to “do all you can” to help him. Ryan immediately started solici- tation of funds and published an ap- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 20, HUMANITY IS WARNED AGAINST OPPOSING FORMULA OF ATURE Dr. Davenport Sees Threat to Civilization in Mutation of Filterable Virus. Man, Without Further Knowl- edge of Combating Menace, Held in Danger. Civilization destroyed and even the human race itself wiped out by & slight mutation in some strain of filterable virus was the direful possibility pre- sented to the Wi Academy of sciences Wednesday night by Dr. Charles B. Davenport, director of the dm- ment of genetics of the Carnegie - tution of Washington. Dr. Davenport, one of the world's foremost authorities on genetics, lec- tured on the mechanism of e evolution through the fixation of physi- cal characters in heredity and thus the production of new species of plants and animals. Influenza, he pointed out, was due to one of the filterable viruses—organisms 50 small that they cannot be det by any microscope, but whose existence is known, because they will pass h the walls of a porcelain tube. The same sort of organism is ble for parrot fever, which recently attacked lt’lhe staff of the Hyglenic Laboratory ere. It is characteristic of influenza, Dr. Davenport said, that its attacks vary in virulence from time to time, ranging from comparative harmless and a few victims to such a fatal epidemic as that of 1918. The most obvious lanation, he sald, is that the great er lemics are used by new species which can live under conditions that kill others, due to mutations. Now Held Almost Helpless. Against the mutations of the filter- able viruses, he , man apparent has no protection and “future muta- tions may arise in the viruses such that no human protoplasm can stand againat them and our skyscrapers* over to the bats.” N increasing intelligence can so alter the environment of harmful mutations among the insects and even among the disease-causing protozoa and bacteria that they will perish, but the minuter organisms, arising on the borderiand of the living and the non-living, for the present leave him helpless, Man'’s best chances for survival, Dr. Davenport said, are in development of increased intelligence with which to cope with forces threatenin tion. This thay be declared, in two ways—by deliberate se- lective mating or by irradiation of the human body by X-rays or radium. Selective mating, he said, seems im- possible with the present organization of society and the popular feeling against it. Recently it has been dis- covered that among lower organisms, such as fruit flies, the process of evolu- tion through the production of species is greatly speeding by irradia- tion, but, Dr. Davenport insisted, most of the flies thus produced are defectives. | PA! It is doubtful, he said, whether it would pay mankind to produce a great many defectives on the chance of getting one new hereditary type of marked intellec- tual superiority to the present race. Doubts Result of X-ray Irradiation. Dr. Davenport denied that X-ray irradiation actually produces anything new, but merely causes rearrangements DR. CHARLES B. DAVENPORT. into which they would fall anyway in the course of time. The gene, he pointed constantly tending to break down or without artificial aid such as would come from bombarding the molecules with extremely short wave radiation. Generally the breakdown means that some character essential to the organ- ism is lost and it perishes without con- tinuing the line any further. But some- times the change is such as to it ideally into the environment in which the new creature comes. . Every it thing, Dr. Davenport said, has an ost infinite capacity for mutation, or the sudden appearance of new characters that become.hereditary. There would be no uniformity in the living world if it were not for the se- lective effect of environment. All spe- cles and families, from bacteria to men, appear to be stable from generation to generation, because only those individ- uals who have the ideal combination of characters to fit the environment in which they are born can live. Most of the mutates, he pointed out, dle before they are actually born, due to the se- lective effect of the pre-birth environ- ment, so that the living creatures that come into the world are adapted to live. This explains, he said, such paradoxes of creatures living in hot springs where a man could not hold his hand, blind fishes in caves, land crabs that climb trees and lung fishes that. go for con- siderable distances over land. It has been found, he pointed out, that fishes of the same family as the cave fishes, living in open water, have a tendency to produce hlllnd‘oflwr‘l’n':. mmt‘}a\c hor- dinary struggle for existence a great handicap and the sightless ones before they have a chance to pass on the hereditary character. But when some happened to be born in the darkness of caves, where eyes were use- less, the tables were turned and they had the advantage over their seeing brothers and sisters. He described recent experiments with minute organisms who produced a fam- ily of mutants which soon perished in ordinary temperatures fit! for their rents, but survived and passed on their heat resistance character in an incubator. 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